Remember when Mel Gibson was a respected Hollywood movie star and mega hunk? But then he went all crazy, built a church on his own property, said a bunch of anti-Semitic shit, was a huge pervy drunk, and made that AWFUL Bible porn movie, “The Passion of the Christ?” And all of that kind of ruined his career. I mean, what has he really done sense? Luckily for Tom Cruise, he’s no Mel Gibson.
In the past 10 years, Tom Cruise has definitely lost almost all of his hunk status due to weird, couch-jumping behaviour and intense relationship with Hollywood’s own Heaven’s Gate: Scientology. Yet somehow, he’s still getting these big budget film roles. Up next: a reboot of the Brendan Frasier masterpiece, “The Mummy.”
Let me just start by saying that through my intensive Googling I have not discovered if this is a continuation of the story of “The Mummy” movies, or if it’s an unnecessary and too-soon remake of the original. All I know for sure is that my stepmom is either going to be super pissed or super excited about this because “The Mummy” is legit her favourite movie.
When I found out they were making this new “The Mummy” movie with some kind of big budget (over $100 million), I was like “Who the fuck gave Tom Cruise a big budget action movie?” to which my husband reminded me: Everyone. Tom Cruise still does a big budget action movie like every single year, and they’re actually usually really well reviewed regardless of the fact that all of Hollywood’s non-Scientologists know he has such a boner for science fiction writer/apparent religious icon L. Ron Hubbard that he isn’t even allowed to see his daughter with Stepford-Wife-in-reverse Katie Holmes.
His last two big actions movies, “Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation” (2015) and “Edge of Tomorrow” (2014) got fucking 93% and 90% on Rotten Tomatoes respectively. They also made hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office. So I guess the real question here is: Why the fuck am I so surprised that Tom Cruise keeps being cast in big budget films?
I don’t even know anymore…
Go see “The Mummy”. Fuck it. It’ll probably be better than the Brendan Fraiser one, it’ll probably get like a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and go on to make like $600 million, because apparently I’m the only person in the world who is confused as to how Tom Cruise is still a movie star.
Lacey Sheridan says
Well, yes, I guess you are. Tom Cruise never stopped being a movie star. Yes, he went through a stupid phase about 11 years ago, but there’s been no repeat.
Everyone else has moved on, and are just enjoying his films. You might want to wake up from your long nap and rejoin us.
Len says
Cruise’s box office drawing power has definitely diminished in recent years, but yes, he’s still a movie star.
Just not as big of one as he once was.
RJ says
My guess is the answer to your question is that you are blinded by your own religious prejudice and bigotry as to why an obviously successful actor/person continues to be successful which is how things should be whatever their religion unless of course people out of prejudice make an effort to oppress them.
Bob Carpenter says
Maybe because he knows how to act you Nimrod.