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queso1 said:

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Think I've seen them all except for cocktail, collateral, that flick with Cameron Diaz, Willow,Taps

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He's in Willow? I thought that was Val Kilmer and Cruise was in the similar Legend. Haven't seen either since I was a kid though, so I could be wrong.

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Yeah, it's Val Kilmer who was in Willow; Cruise was in Legend, released in '85 and made by Ridley Scott (and that's all I remember about it).

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Legend is the best Tom Cruise movie. Literally all downhill from there.

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You can tell no one has seen this film because it either rates as best or worst film of his career. There is no middle ground.

Love Legend, but wouldn't put it at the top. Just going through the list, though, he's been in so many fantastic movies that you get a dozen different answers to the best ones and it's really hard to argue with any of them. Just an impressive career

I think if I had to rate them:

Best: Minority Report
Worst: The Mummy
Underrated: Collateral and The Outsiders

Best: Edge of Tomorrow - freaking love that movie... i could put 10 other movies here as he is that good
Worst: The Mummy
Underrated: Valkyrie, Last Samurai
Overrated: Vanilla Sky

Am I one of the few that actually liked Far and Away?!? Was about to put it in my Cruise top 5.

Most iconic: Top Gun
(where it really started for him...this movie is Tom Cruise)

Best: The Last Samurai
(unique story, not a typical 'Tom Cruise' role...to me it really shows his acting chops)

Underrated: Days of Thunder
(He and Robert Duvall have a fun chemistry in this one)

Worst: Lions for Lambs

You're absolutely right! I've always confused these two and have never seen either.

Gigem314 said:

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Most iconic: Top Gun
(where it really started for him...this movie is Tom Cruise)

Best: The Last Samurai
(unique story, not a typical 'Tom Cruise' role...to me it really shows his acting chops)

Underrated: Days of Thunder
(He and Robert Duvall have a fun chemistry in this one)

Worst: Lions for Lambs

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You mean Dances with Samurai?

I guess it was more original than Days of Top Gun

To me there is a difference between the best movies with Tom Cruise in it, and the best performance by Tom Cruise in a movie.

I think the best movies with Tom Cruise in it are:
Jerry Maguire
A Few Good Men
Edge of Tomorrow

While the best Tom Cruise performances are:
Jerry Maguire (I think he should have an Academy Award for this one)
Collateral
Tropic Thunder

(I haven't seen Magnolia or a bunch of others people are mentioning here)

The Debt said:

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Ocean Of Funk said:

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Legend is the best Tom Cruise movie. Literally all downhill from there.

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You can tell no one has seen this film because it either rates as best or worst film of his career. There is no middle ground.

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Let's be honest, though - Tim Curry was the best part of that movie.

Carlo4 said:

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Seriously... check this list out (earliest to latest)....

Endless Love 1981
Taps 1981
The Outsiders 1983
Losin' It 1983
Risky Business 1983
All the Right Moves 1983
Legend 1985
Top Gun 1986
The Color of Money 1986
Cocktail 1988
Rain Man 1988
Born on the 4th of July 1989
Days of Thunder 1990
Far and Away 1992
A Few Good Mean 1992
The Firm 1993
Interview with the Vampire 1994
Mission: Impossible 1996 (dang it's 25 years old!)
Jerry Maguire 1996
Eyes Wide Shut 1999
Aimee Mann: Save me 1999 - WTF is this one?
Magnolia 1999
MI2 2000
Vanilla Sky 2001
Minority Report 2002
Austin Powers Goldmember 2002
Last Samurai 2003
Collateral 2004
War of the Worlds 2005
MI 3 2006
Lions for Lambs 2007
Tropic Thunder 2008
Valkyrie 2008
Knight and Day 2010
MIGP 2011
Rock of Ages 2012
Jack Reacher 2012
Oblivion 2013
Edge of Tomorrow 2014
MI-RN 2015
Jack Reach sequel - 2016
The Mummy 2017
American Made 2017
MI Fallout 2018


Sequels planned - Top Gun, MI, and Edge of Tomorrow

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Weird to think that Minority Report is around the middle of his career time-wise. It felt like he had been around forever even then.

Book snobs keeping The Firm from getting any love?

Its my favorite Cruise movie.

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MuckRaker96 said:

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Bruce Almighty said:

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Overrated: Top Gun

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There is empirical evidence that shows if everyone had simultaneously watched Top Gun back in March, it would have vaporized the coronavirus with the sheer power of awesomeness.

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When planes aren't in the air, that is one of the most cringy movies ever made. I'm almost embarrassed to watch some of the scenes in that movie.

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Nevertheless, when the planes are in the air...thermonuclear awesomeness.

Speaking of Edge of Tomorrow, I wonder if they can work the sequel to basically have the first film have not happened.

Control of time is the super weapon of the aliens, and killing an alpha resets the day 24 hours (ish, exact time never revealed). No one else is aware the day has been reset except the alpha (Cruise) and we assume and are told the omega.

So what if when Cruise kills the omega, it doesn't end the war but rather resets the day, but for a longer period, like 1 year. The aliens figure they can adapt to the battlefield within one day when the alphas are challenged, but maybe having the omega threatened demands a bigger reset.

If they go this direction, now the happy ending we see at the end of the movie is just an illusion. The war hasn't even started yet, but Cruise still has the memory of all that happened. So the aliens re-attack with a new plan and Cruise and Blount have to find a way to regain the power/find someone else who has killed an alpha and merged with them.

And yes, Edge of Tomorrow is his best film.

Great

Mission Impossible 3-6
Edge of Tomorrow
Minority Report
A Few Good Men
The Firm
Top Gun
Valkyrie
All The Right Moves
Risky Business
Tropic Thunder
Jack Reacher
Taps
Rain Man

Good

Eyes Wide Shut
The Color of Money
The Last Samurai
Collateral
Jerry Maguire
Oblivion
Mission Impossible 1&2
Born on the 4th of July

Meh
Vanilla Sky
Magnolia
Cocktail
War of the Worlds
Days of Thunder
Interview with the Vampire
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Rock of Ages
The Outsiders

Terrible
Far and Away
Knight and Day
The Mummy

Underrated: Color of Money

Knight & Day is supremely underrated.

jeffk said:

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Knight & Day is supremely underrated.

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I've seen people say that but I disliked it quite a bit the only time I saw it. To be fair I might need to see it again but I definitely left the theater underwhelmed.

Best: So many to pick, but Mission Impossible: Fallout is just one of the best action films of the last 20 years and so rewatchable
Worst: I genuinely don't know how they got paid to release The Mummy
Underrated: Edge of Tomorrow in a landslide