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b_b · 3842 days ago · link · · parent · post: How YouTube and Internet Journalism Destroyed Tom Cruise, Our Last Real Movie Star
I have to disagree with you all. I think Cruise is a brilliant actor. He's the kind of dude that makes movies. Jerry Maguire, and Magnolia, for example, are movies worth watching to watch him. A Few Good Men is a great movie, and he fills the perfect role for himself there. Top Gun, cheesy as it is, is one of my favorite 80s movies. Certainly Meriadoc is correct that he essentially plays an idealized version of masculinity most of the time (and I think they kind of played with that idea to an extreme in Magnolia), but he does it so well that it works a lot of the time. (Also, Jack Reacher was awesome because of the surprise appearance of Werner Herzog as the villain.)