# "This is Tom Cruise's finest performance." **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 22, 2005, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-tom-cruises-finest-performance/332209 "2005-11-22T05:25:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![John\_F](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@John\_F](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_F)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2005, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-tom-cruises-finest-performance/332209/21 "2005-11-26T16:50:31Z")
> [@PeterWiggen](#): > > “Respect the cock!” > > Nuff said. \*"I want you to go to your white, your white books. That’s what I want you to go to. Go to 23 in your white books. “How to fake like you are a nice and caring person.” \* 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2005, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-tom-cruises-finest-performance/332209/22 "2005-11-26T18:58:52Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > I think the couch episode was his finest performance. Well, that and convincing everyone he was a normal, healthy, heterosexual male. Is there reason to believe he’s not heterosexual? I’m just curious after the _South Park_ episode and now this comment. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2005, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-tom-cruises-finest-performance/332209/23 "2005-11-26T19:19:29Z")
> [@Oslo Ostragoth](#): > > WTF? In case you missed the ads, _ **The War of the Worlds** _ DVD is out, and this quote is read in the ad. I have not seen the movie, and don’t plan to, but I thought the SDMB consensus was that he sucked. > > Do I remember wrong, or is this ad kinda like most ads, i.e. BS. I liked the movie, though I found certain things rather annoying, like things that just seemed rather fakey(My favorite is that a plane crashes into the house he’s in. The next morning, there’s a debris scattetered everywhere, but the minivan, sitting right in the middle of the debris field, is completely untouched. No, it wasn’t in the the garage) and the little girl made me want to feed her to the martians. It was quite scary though. Tom Cruise, to tell you the truth, to me it always seems like he always plays the same character. If you asked me to name a movie where I liked his acting, I couldn’t tell you. He seems more like a placeholder then anything else. He’ll do, but I don’t derive any great pleasure from watching him on screen. Though in WotW he had a great part for him, a rather clueless character who also happens to be good looking. It’s hard not to play yourself well. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2005, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-tom-cruises-finest-performance/332209/24 "2005-11-26T19:35:21Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > Tom Cruise, to tell you the truth, to me it always seems like he always plays the same character. In the 80’s he was always the “Cocky young \_\_\_\_\_\_\_” in his movies. ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2005, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-tom-cruises-finest-performance/332209/25 "2005-11-26T20:11:38Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > In the 80’s he was always the “Cocky young \_\_\_\_\_\_\_” in his movies. Now he’s the “slightly older cocky \_\_\_\_\_” and frankly, no more talented. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2005, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-tom-cruises-finest-performance/332209/26 "2005-11-26T20:54:35Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Is there reason to believe he’s not heterosexual? I’m just curious after the _South Park_ episode and now this comment. C’mon, you can’t tell me you haven’t heard the rumors. Basically, like every other actor in Hollywood, in his early days, someone started a rumor that he was gay. Which, like I said, who HASN’T been rumored to be gay? But Tom freaks out and starts sueing anyone who even hinted as such. Then his first wife, Mimi Rodgers, said she left him because he basically refused to sleep with her, wanted to be a monk and wished to “keep his instrument pure”. Add to his bizarre behavior with Katie Holmes, and I don’t know, there’s gotta be SOMETHING going on. Maybe he’s not gay, but he definitely doesn’t strike me as the most sexually secure individual. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-tom-cruises-finest-performance/332209.md?page=1)