Cruise: being an actor is just like serving in Afghanistan
I have never been able to watch a Tom Cruise movie. No, I haven’t even seen “Top Gun”. I just can’t stand to look at the fool. The one time I did watch one all the way through was when he did that Jack Reacher movie – I never wanted to punch a movie character in the face as much a I wanted to punch Tom Cruise’ Jack Reacher.
But anyway, Scott sends us a link to the New York Daily News which reports that Tom Cruise claims that his job, whatever that is, is just as tough as being a soldier in Afghanistan;
To Tom Cruise, being away from his daughter while shooting a big-budget action movie “feels like” serving in Afghanistan.
The “Top Gun” actor was responding to a lawyer’s question comparing the extended time away from his Suri while filming a movie to a soldier’s tour in Afghanistan, according to legal papers obtained by the Daily News.
“That’s what it feels like,” Cruise responded during the deposition stemming from his $50 million lawsuit accusing Life & Style and In Touch magazines of defaming him in 2012 cover stories claiming he abandoned his daughter.
Yeah, it must be tough having to take a private jet home every weekend and, you know, having people shoot guns at you that don’t have bullets in them. He went on to compare his chosen career to being an Olympic athlete.
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Yeah, I checked the byline for that NY Daily News article and as I expected, it was written by two women. No men in sight anywhere. Any time someone dingbat reporter refers to ‘Top Gun’ and doesn’t include Val Kilmer at his hunkiest, it’s someone with prolonged post-pubescent relapse syndrome, suffering from fake memories of that movie.
I need some brain bleach now.
Yeah, it’s a total bitch getting paid 20 million dollars, having your own trailer, posse, etc. while memorizing lines to say when the camera rolls. Of course, I could understand the stress of having another blowhard (director) yell at you because you stood 2 feet in the wrong direction.
When has that pampered, snotnosed little prissy-bitchboy candyass unicorn fart-sniffing metrosexual even held a real locked and loaded firearm, let alone faced off against IED’s, RPG’s, and ambushes in some shit-stinking third world hellhole? Most Hollywierd actors are self-obsessed shit-for-brains, and Tom Snooze’s rant proves it!! He’ll, I’m 46, he can “Ruck Up” alongside me, and I’d be surprised if he even made it more than a couple of miles. He’s a Scientologist, maybe he got abducted by a flying saucer, and the aliens aboard anal probed him so hard, it gave him brain damage!!
What the fraxck is a ‘lightning twat’?
Proud, you have to have a brain if you’re going to get brain damage.
The South Park bit always gets me. ROTFLMAOASTC!
(Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off And Scaring The Cat)
Pussy-assed mf.
Yesterday Hanoi Jane and today the Couch Jumper. I would have been divorced long ago but for the fact that we have multiple TVs. Me: “Why are you watching that asshole!”
People I can’t watch AT ALL:
Mapother, Fonda, Sarandon, Glover, Redford, Clooney, Sheen (x 2), Asner, Baldwin, Steisand, and Sean Penn. Hell, I’m just getting warmed up. As you can guess, I don’t see many movies.
I’ll watch Eastwood and Christopher Walken all day long and nearly any movie made before 1950.
2/17 AirCav, DITTO, and I’ll add O’Donut, Sarandon, Goldbrick,…. I don’t watch many modern day movies anymore, either!
Risky Business!
Wow, Tom Cruise is SOOO hardcore! Just ask him! He can fly an F-14 in a dogfight (with somebody else actually flying the plane while he rides in the backseat, and the editor cutting out the footage of him barfing on the camera), he can win a samurai katana duel (by stepping out of the shot and being replaced by a taller Japanese stuntman), he can bang Rebecca De Mornay in her prime (also taller Japanese stuntman), can make humanly impossible jumps to avoid certain death by explosion (as long as the CGI crew animates it correctly), make incredibly accurate shots with two guns at once (because you never miss when your prop gun’s blanks are tied to the gunshot squibs and fake blood packs under the other guy’s shirt), and take on five guys at once hand-to-hand and hand them their asses (as long as they know their part of the choreographed fight scene well enough). And strangely enough, he always seems to get typecast as a hateful midget–I can’t imagine why. You ever hear what happened when they were making “The Last Samurai?” Cruise was all excited because the movie was being made in Japan, so he’d finally be at least slightly taller than at least some of the other cast & crew members. He flew to Japan and discovered, to his dismay, that even in Japan he was still the shortest motherfucker in sight! Cruise was an asswipe doucheslick before he joined scientology. The “religion” amplified it way beyond normal human limits. Plus, I had to stop fantasizing about Olga Kurylenko when I heard she was the love interest in “Oblivion!” For that alone cruise should get a severe assbeating (from now on, I will stop capitalizing the turdburglar’s name as a proper noun)! Seriously, I can’t fantasize about her anymore knowing she was in a scene with the toxic little shit! And now the 4-foot tall (in platform shoes) walking yeast infection wants to go fishing for pity? Yeah, asshole, your acting gig is just like Afghanistan. ‘Cause every rifleman has a private luxury airplane to… Read more »
I don’t pay to go to the movies, pay per view, or even rentals. I wait till my public library gets them, then I go and check them out.
I like to watch movies, but damned if I could name 90% of those acting in them today, and to this day “Gone With The Wind” is still the highest grossing film of all time. Hell, George Lucas and James Cameron come up short with their best films(Star Wars, Titanic, Avatar).
As for Tom Cruise, and his comparison to serving in combat just goes to prove how detached these spoiled sob’s are from the real world.
Who?
Tom who? Sorry not tracking on this.
Sounds like Tommy has sand in his mangina… primadonna pussy boy
Ok HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA.
Hollyweird… and Tom Cruise…stuck on fucking STOOPID.
Tom does suck ballz, no doubt but for real crazy google val kilmer new york viet nam. That s-bird thinks he has more feel for what it was like to be in Viet Nam than a grunt. The crazy is strong in that one. Old search and rescue lore: during the filming of Top Gun Cruise was in the water with a dummy. Redundant but i digress. It got waterlogged and he got tired and started drowning. A Navy SAR crewman replaced the Coastie in the bird and rescued Tommy boy. Put him on the motor whaleboat. He sulked the whole time and stalked off when they docked with nary a thank you. If true it speaks volumes.
Douchetarded…
Good grief. This one is way too easy. Ragging on Tom Cruise for being a knucklehead is sort of like beating up on Kermit the Frog for being green.
@20 The difference is that Kermit had actually made a meaningful contribution to American culture and isn’t a douche. Of course his contributions are today largely forgotten and generally shit on by the likes of Spongebob.
Just another way our society has lost sight of what combat realy is. We have idiot athletes that always talk about “going to war” on the field and commentators are just as bad. War is war nothing else is.
This scuttlefu@k would not last a mid watch with me or any snipes I ever steamed with. Within an hour he would looking for an excuse to leave hell and return to the world above the waterline!
Just a little Vet’s weekend fantasy here:
Say we gut him, stuff him with pages from a Hubbert book, roast him like the pig he is and feed him to the rabid dogs of Detroit.
Just sayin’.
*AHEM* AAAASSSSSHOOOOOOLLLLLEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! That is all.
Not sure he’s worth the time it would take to gut, scale, stuff and roast him.
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Moose and sqvirrel FTW.
Jack reacher did a decent job of making MPs look tough. Before that movie I thought all they did was write tickets on camp victory for not wearing your helmet and provide entertainment by getting wooped by the infantry guys every weekend. (Why does every infantry unity have mp barracks right next to thwm? Its like they want us to beat on them) I wanted to punch every person involved in making that movie when he dropped that line about an mp is the same as a civilian cop but every suspect is a trained killer. I hate tom cruise with a passion, only reason I could stomach watching top gun was that val kilmer is a bad ass and was the star of the greatest movie ever made, TTombstone.who cares about wyatt earp, Doc holliday was the star of that story.
Jake Tapper got to the bottom of this, and Twitchy reported it. Tom Cruise is still a douche, but he didn’t say what TMZ said he said
http://twitchy.com/2013/11/09/jake-tapper-clarifies-tom-cruises-remarks-vets-upset-should-see-more-of-the-deposition/
Yes, I’m female, and I actually liked some of Tom Cruise’s movies, but he’s never done anything for me. My kind of guy is more like Tom Selleck, a real man, with hair on his chest.
That said, Cruise’s worst movie ever was the remake of War of the Worlds. He played the wimpiest, most worthless father a movie has ever seen (maybe he was playing himself?). I wanted him to get it throughout the entire movie. I hated it.
The analogy to TC and Afghanistan is the basis for the story idea for ‘Days of Thunder’, which is about some smart ass kid who watched auto racing on TV and thinks he can drive just as well as seasoned pros.
LaLaLand and its smearporters have vivid imaginations and will take anything and evreything out of context when it suits, them, meets their needs, and also for them amusement.
I can’t take this kind of crap seriously, and tc is a so-so actor at best. I’ll take Gary Sinise or Mark Harmon any time over that nitwit.
Sorry, Anonymous was me. Cleared my browser. I always forget.
so he didnt compare being on a movie set to being in afgan, he said “thats what it feels like, it is brutal” umm yeah he was kinda being a douche and made the comparison. even if someone else made it first, he agreed with it
AFT FTW!!
Jump up and down on your couch.
Remember, the entire Jack reacher series is written by a Brit journalist with zero military experience whio makes no apologies for his inaccuracies. He essentially says “yes, it has factual inaccuracies. Notice it is listed as fiction, not fact or documentary. You know what fiction means?”
Cruise, on the other hand, seemingly has no idea what is fact and what is fiction.