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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why now? He's been making B-grade action films to fund scientology for years now.[/quote]
What is an A-grade action film? I loved Collateral and would not consider it a B movie, but everybody has an opinion. [/quote]
Collateral came out 21 years ago.[/quote]
Okay, I'm older. Loved it, but like another font said, "Edge of Tomorrow" was also great, or even "American Made". I guess you consider that B movie status as well. It is not. Neither were blockbusters, but enough people thought they were good movies. American Made put a spotlight on how easy drugs were allowed into our country with the help of the Alphabet Agencies. [/quote]
I’m not the B grade PP but it’s been obvious for years - maybe ever since/because of? the couch jumping dust up? - that Cruise has relegated himself to playing only the lead in stunt heavy action movies and doesn’t stretch himself as an actor AT ALL. As opposed to the 90s/early 2000s when he was in Jerry Maguire, Eyes Wide Shut, Vanilla Sky, Magnolia, the aforementioned Collateral, etc. etc. [/quote]

But he doesn’t just star in MI movies or Top Gun or whatever—he produces, he works with the stunt coordinators and choreographers, I’m surprised he hasn’t positioned himself for some type of director credit. From concept to script writing to figuring out how to work the stunts, to hand-picking actresses like Rebecca Furgeson, he’s not just an actor who shows up on set. He made those movies. [/quote]
PP here and I agree, and posted upthread that the honorary Oscar is a way for Hollywood to thank him for these movies which are some of the few that are putting butts in theater seats over the last few years. But his trajectory is pretty much the opposite of other aging heartthrobs who generally take more interesting roles in quieter movies with great scripts and/or acclaimed directors as they get older. It’s like the Academy decided that he’s never going to actually act again so they need to give one to him this way.[/quote]

Or maybe they’re recognizing him for understanding that we are in a new age of movies, where people are more discerning about what they will actually go see in a theater. MI movies are theater movies; so is Top Gun. He understands that streaming services and COVID changed the landscape. This is not to say he won’t act in more consequential roles again, I just think he was very focused on getting people back to theaters.

Recently, I saw “Now You You Don’t,” the third in the Now You See Me franchise, in the theater. It is a theater movies; it is an experience and a treat for the eyes. Later that weekend, I streamed “Anniversary” with Diane Lane at home (it had a brief run in the theater, but for me, it wasn’t worth the price of a ticket). I bought the movie from Apple for less than the price of one theater admission, and I’ve already watched it twice and will watch it again, because it is so good and so complex. Cruise gets the difference between theater movies and “anywhere” movies, and I think he’s been right in making films that get people excited to go back to the cinema. [/quote]

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