I’m at boycott fatigue, so I don’t boycott Cruise. However, aside from the Mission Impossible movies, he hasn’t been in any movies in over a decade that I’ve been interested to see. I probably would have seen War of the Worlds if the reviews hadn’t been so awful. I’ll probably watch the dvd one day.
I’ve seen Risky Business too many times to want to see it again. Like every person who went to high school in the late 1980s, I’ve seen** Top Gun** at least 50 times. Outside of Born on the 4th of July, I can’t think of any other Cruise films I’m likely to watch.
Cruise’s character, who was a real person, was not a member of the SS, refused to join the Nazi Party, and became implacably opposed to Hitler quite early in the war in large part due to its mistreatment of innocent people. He also remained a practising Catholic, ironically enough, long after that had fallen out of fashion with the Nazis.
Scientology is a dangerous organisation that Tom Cruise is the de facto public face of. He may not push his agendas on screen, but her certainly does on set. It was one of the major reasons behind his falling out with Spielberg.
I urge all you sci-fi junkies to see Minority Report. This is one of my all time favorite Cruise films.
Yes, Cruise may be a nut, but so are many other celebrities. That doesn’t mean that they can’t still be entertaining. I despise George Bush, but I’ll watch a montage of his verbal slip-ups because they are funny.
Many of you sound like the people who boycotted the French in the opening stages of the war. Freedom fries, Freedom toast, or Freedom onion soup, anyone?
I immensely dislike Pacman Jones, but will I watch a football game he’s playing in? Sure. Same with Ron Artest in basketball. The hate for Tom Cruise as a person may be warranted, but to boycott his movies that you would otherwise enjoy is ridiculous.
I have no dog in this fight. I don’t care a whit for Cruise, but I don’t boycott his movies either. But can you not see how a person of conscience might not be willing to put even a penny in the pocket of someone whose views they find repugnant?
The examples you give (Jones, Artest) are not analogous to this situation because as I understand it, athletes do not get back-end paychecks for their games. Movie stars like Tom Cruise usually (again, as I understand it) negotiate their compensation to include a percentage of the actual box office their films produce.
True, but if I attend a game, a majority of the revenue is going back into players’ contracts. The analogy is far from perfect, but fans account for much of what players make. More revenue = larger, pricier paychecks for players.
Also, I doubt these people would even borrow a Cruise movie from a friend or buy a used copy off of eBay, which wouldn’t put money in his pocket.
I’ve never been too impressed by TC, but his blathering about psychiatry just pissed me off to no end. Having said that, I did finally sit thru all of “The Last Samurai” and quite liked it, as the only movie he’d been in that I really liked was “Legend,” which was a LOOONG time ago.
How does Scientology hurt you? Anyone with a lick of sense wouldn’t share its views. I don’t see Scientology commercials on TV or ads in the newspapers or magazines that I read. In fact, the only time I would come across Scientology is if I’d be actively seeking it out.
According to Cruise, “psychiatry is a form of pseudoscience” and there is no such thing as a chemical imbalance. If you feel the need to boycott Cruise’s films in an attempt retard the spread of Scientology, I think you should be more worried about the ignorant masses that are taking their life lessons from him and his “religion.”
EDIT: And I hardly doubt Scientology is lacking funds as it is.
I was so disappointed when I read about Nancy Cartwright donating huge sums to the S. cult. But while I do sometimes watch “The Simpsons” show in reruns with my daughter, I never spend any money on any Simpsons related stuff, because of that Scientology connection.
Previously, Hi,Neighbor asked “How does Scientology hurt you?” Well, its campaign against psychiatry probably doesn’t hurt well-balanced sane people. But it probably does hurt people that would benefit from psychiatric drugs and who by the nature of their illness might be likely to fall for the Scientology crap.
I too boycott lots of different media because of the relation of the actors or performers to Scientology and it’s killing me because one of the actors on my new favorite show Sons of Anarchy is a Scieno too. I may have to waffle a bit on the hopes that he just gets killed off.
I don’t boycott Cruise, but he’s not usually in movies I’m interested in (I did see The Last Samurai, and Jerry Maguire, but I think that’s it for the past decade) and I don’t think much of him as a person. Aside from all the Scientology business, whenever I see him on talk shows I always feel bad for Nicole Kidman and especially their kids. Divorce is hard enough for children without seeing their dad jumping on Oprah’s couch to express how happy he is to have a new, younger girlfriend/wife. All the hooplah surrounding baby Suri can’t have made them feel good either. I know that Cruise’s family issues are none of my business and for all I know he’s a great father, but I always think that if he really cared about his older kids he’d behave differently.