Tom Cruise is least talented actor in the history of film.

[devilgrrl]

prove me wrong.

[MrCoffee]

1. ok

[devilgrrl]

2. Pauly Shore is an idiot but still a better actor than Cruise

:popcorn:

[MrCoffee]

4. i don't know which statement is more clearly the product of a deranged mind

Pauly Shore is an idiot but still a better actor than Cruise

or

Blade Runner is a terrible movie - Dino Boy



i'm seriously torn.

[Debi]

3. Easy

Ugh...I'll try again...

[billyskank]

24. Debi!

:loveya:

:hi:

[Debi]

27. Anything for you billyskank!

:hug:

[billyskank]

28. I want to say something to you.

You're always so nice to me. But often I fail to respond. I'm sorry. I noticed I did it and then started to feel really bad about it. But I did't see you in the Lounge any more.

:hug:

[Debi]

29. That is very sweet of you!

For that last six months or so I was trolling around GD-P trying to defend the Iowa Caucuses (like getting a root-canal every day w/out Novocaine!)

Now I'm back and happy to be in The Lounge.

And very happy to see you :hi:

[Hand]

43. Yike!

Now that's overkill. I'd have settled for a simple



:scared:

[edbermac]

5. Don't like him offscreen but he has done some good films.

Risky Business, Born on the 4th of July, A Few Good Men, Minority Report.

The shit-eating-grin-I'm-TOM-CRUISE films like Top Gun can be annoying.

[Pendrench]

9. I though he was pretty good in Rain Man, too. n/t

[devilgrrl]

12. I think there's at least 50 other actors in town who can do those roles just as well

for a lot cheaper.

:popcorn:

[Bake]

18. But isn't that the same character he played in all those films?

Just askin'.

Bake

[laconicsax]

6. How about

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0641944/

edit: better picture

[bif]

7. He was good in Rain Man

[gmoney]

31. Shaq was in Rain Man?

...that might rock, actually.

[LynneSin]

8. I have to disagree - the man may be a brainwashed idiot

But I watched "Magnolia" again the other night and he was robbed of an Oscar

[Throd]

10. Keanu

[unpossibles]

17. agreed, although he does play a good burnout and/or surfer. nt

[Blue_Tires]

11. Ice Cube (and a host of rappers turned actors) is historically awful...

and i know people here don't like Cruise, but he is still above average for the rest of the hollywood pack...if you can't appreciate his performances in Born on the Fourth of July, Magnolia, Collateral, and Lions for Lambs (badly written but wonderfully cast and acted), i don't know what else to say..

hell, even All the Right Moves deserves mention...

[Glorfindel]

13. It's just possible that there might have been others...

[Perry Logan]

14. I dunno. He did Rainman. He does film after film with Steven Spielberg.

[bif]

15. No, that would be Ben Affleck

Followed by Robert Mitchum

[mitchum]

39. If it didn't take so much effort, I would come over there and knock you around a bit....

but baby I just don't care
:)

Truthfully, Mitchum did appear in A LOT of garbage, but he was always aware when it was garbage. Consequently, he would, by his own admission, pretty much sleepwalk through those movies.
But when he had good material to work with, no one could touch him.

[bif]

41. the only thing I ever saw him in where he was actually acting

Was "The Friend's of Eddie Coyle"

[mitchum]

45. But part of his genius, as Roger Ebert pointed out...

was that it was hard to catch Mitchum "acting" and being all...i dunno...thespian-like.

Mitchum was stellar in:
"Night Of the Hunter"
"Out of the Past"
"Cape Fear" (DeNiro's own later attempt at the same role is just a cartoonish bug-eyed psycho cliche)

and there are little transcendent momemts in many of his other films

[crim son]

16. I thought he was fantastic in Born on the Fourth of July

but that was a long time ago.

[no name no slogan]

19. Two words: KEVIN COSTNER

He makes "wooden" sound alive

[youthere]

25. Costner, Nicholas Cage, and Bill Paxton..the trifecta of wooden actors...

If they were in a movie together it would literally be the "sleeper" hit of the season.

[Faygo Kid]

47. Yep, Kevin Costner gets my vote.

His "inspirational" speech in Robin Hood is still the single worst scene of "acting" I can recall.

[kwassa]

20. He might be insane, but he isn't the very worst actor.

He is bad, though.

Costner.

Pauly Shore.

Ice T.

Demi Moore.

and many more, but the brain is dead right now.

[NewJeffCT]

21. Chuck Norris, Jean Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal, David Hasselhoff

to name a few

[devilgrrl]

22. What academy award nominated films have those individuals been in?

What I'm basically saying is that there is a plethora of talented actors - why him?

Sean Penn, Nicholas Cage, Brad Pitt, Heath Ledger, Ralph Fiennes, etc... Everyone one of those men could played parts that Cruise did better. Tom Cruise's career is undeserved. Period.

[NewJeffCT]

48. That wasn't your question, though

you asked to be proven wrong that Cruise is the worst actor in history. You didn't qualify it as the person being in Oscar-nominated movies

[devilgrrl]

49. And the mentioned aren't actors - they're action stars!

GIT! :nuke:

Tom Cruise SUCKS!

[NewJeffCT]

51. I'm not disagreeing with you that he sucks

But, I'm guessing that Van Damme, Segal, etc are all members of SAG - the Screen Actor's Guild - and not the SASG, the Screen Action Stars' Guild.

Personally, I think Cruise does a good job playing the same role over & over again.

[Westegg]

23. "Magnolia." If only because he's...

...channeling his own insanity. Credit must be paid to director P.T. Anderson, who understood how well Cruise fit the mold of T.J. Mackey and then had the balls to GET HIM TO PLAY THE ROLE.

[ghostsofgiants]

30. He was really good in Eyes Wide Shut and Vanilla Sky as well.

[gmoney]

32. Cruise fit the role of a womanizer?

Maybe he is a good actor.

[Westegg]

46. The character was all bluster and B.S....

...There was no evidence that TJ Mackey would know what to do with a real woman if he was naked and vulnerable before one. On the contrary...

[Orsino]

26. He's okay, I guess.

But twenty-million-a-picture good? I don't see it.

I'm guessing it's 'cause he's hot, mostly.

[SacredCow]

33. Easily in the top 5....

but I find DiCaprio much less talented.

[Fox Mulder]

34. Jim Carrey

[RoadRage]

35. Two Words: Dude.. Keanu Reeves (SP?)

I think he wins this contest, doesn't he?

[MrMickeysMom]

52. Oh, yeah... that's right.

really, really bad...

[porphyrian]

36. He was good in Legend and Born on the Fourth of July.

And if you think he's the worst, you haven't watched a made-for-SciFi movie yet.

[trof]

37. Johhny Weismuller

[MrMickeysMom]

38. Hey, can I do that with iMovie?

I'd change the person he's doing on the staircase from Rebecca D'Monay to Kevin Bacon.. :7

[mitchum]

40. He was very good in "Magnolia" and the much earlier "All The Right Moves"...

but not so much in anything else

[cynatnite]

42. No, Patrick Swayze had a nice ass, but was a horrible actor n/t

[Rabrrrrrr]

44. I disagree - worse actors exist. But he is clearly the suckiest of the million dollar popular actors

How that guy ever got to do another movie after All the Right Moves escapes me entirely. He clearly proved his utter incompetence to act or do anything other than play a wooden ignorant self-absorbed pile of shit, which his blind shithouse luck good performance in Risky Business temporarily dissipated, in that movie.

[liberal1973]

50. Bruce Willis

Arnold Schwarzenegger, John Wayne, and Ronald Reagan.

[Xipe Totec]

53. Two words

Nicolas Cage