I feel that if there were ever an arguement against freedom of speech, Tom Cruise is it. The man should have to apply for a permit everytime he wants to open his mouth in public. I don't care if he talks in the privacy of his own home (he can wear a little house arrest bracelet so that we're sure he's there), but I wish that the rest of us would never have to be subjected to the idiocy streaming from his lips again.
I used to like Tom Cruise. Never in the "he's so hot" way that most of my peers did, but in the benign "eh, he was pretty good in Top Gun. I don't mind looking at him in Minority Report" way. Now he's this nut case wandering around the streets spewing his opinions about the field of psychology and Ritalin to the world, not to mention whining and pressing charges over being squirted with water (and then dropping them). And I love it when he talks about Ritalin being a street drug like that's some excuse not to take it. Oxycottin and Vicodin are street drugs, too, but I wouldn't be without them after major surgery, and neither would he if he were being honest with himself.
Here's what I hate: People who go off their meds, start acting crazy, and then act like everybody else is going to hell because they want to stay on their meds and be normal. Some people need medicine and psychology to function, and I hardly think Tom Cruise (who has degree in what, exactly?) should be sitting around judging what other people need.
I have been looking forward to War of the Worlds since I first saw that they were going to make it into a movie, and now I don't think I can go at all. I hate listening to Tom Cruise talk, so paying money to go listen to Tom Cruise talk seems a bit silly.
If Tom Cruise is an example of just what the Church of Scientology can do for me, then I plan to run screaming in the opposite direction.
Posted by LoWriter at June 27, 2005 08:38 AMhe's been surrounded by fame since the early 80's.... you'd think he'd learn how to keep a cool head by now. or at least get the facts. i'm annoyed by celebrity spokespeople who are obviously talking b/c a PR person told them what to say, but at least they have a researched script in front of them.
the church of scientology is pretty effed up to begin with (and i'm a rather tolerant person) and adding celebrity and beauty to the mess probably wont help. Lo, i wont go to War of the Worlds with you. how's that?
Posted by: Dr. Gonzo at June 27, 2005 10:31 AMOn the other hand, he's been surrounded by fame since the early 80's. I would think that twenty some years of constant adoration might just lead you to believe that you are at least a god if not God and therefore you can say and do things that no one else can. Some of Tom's god-buddies would include Prince and definitely Michael jackson.
Also Tom Cruise is short, and he really wishes he wasn't.
Posted by: schdav at June 27, 2005 01:08 PMTom Cruise and Eminem now apparently have the same motto:
"We're off our meds, out of our minds and now we're wanting yours...
LET US IN!"
Or something like that...
I googled scientology, and you can find out a fair amount... very anti-materialist... I can see how it would appeal to movie stars like Travolta and Cruise... they have to find some way to reconcile the crushing guilt and hipocracy inherent in being insanely, incomprehensibly wealthy... and having the nuts to then accuse others of being insensitive to the plight of the urban poor...
"OH! Alas the sorrow of those ritalin addicted po'folk! BTW... pay no mind to my private jet... I am but a spiritual entity... decended from aliens..."
Freaks.
Posted by: Mardou at June 28, 2005 12:49 PMNot to mention that Tom Cruise was pretty mean to Matt Lauer (a respectable interviewer)on national television. Lo, I was worried about seeing war of the worlds because of my recent Cruise aversion, too, but it's a good movie--I even forgot I was supposed to dislike Cruise while I was watching. I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy it. And in the end, maybe we should be sympathtic with good 'ol Tom anyway--he's probably depressed about his divorce with Kidman and now he's on some weird rebound engagement to Katie Holmes. That's just weird.
Posted by: J at July 2, 2005 11:00 AMMatt Lauer is a respectable interviewer? You were "worried" about seeing a motion picture? (War of the Worlds) Kidman and Cruise got divorced in 2001. It is 2005. And you think he is on a rebound?
What are you talking about?
Posted by: Anon at July 6, 2005 09:45 PM