I was just watching three Tom Cruise movies and was just thinking about how Will Smith might have played the same parts differently--thoughts?

Collateral, Minority Report, and War of the Worlds

I was just watching three Will Smith movies and was just thinking about how Tom Cruise might have played the same parts differently - thoughts?

Made in America, Bad Boys, Ali

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Originally posted by seanflynn:
I was just watching three Will Smith movies and was just thinking about how Tom Cruise might have played the same parts differently - thoughts?

Made in America, Bad Boys, Ali

I think Tom Cruise and Nia Long would have made a cute couple, but it would have pretty much sucked the wind out of the scandal of her parents' interracial romance.

Cruise would have been convincing in Ali yelling
I am the Greatest

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Originally posted by seanflynn:
Cruise would have been convincing in Ali yelling
I am the Greatest

Sean, that's so great!

You made a Funny! LOL!!

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Originally posted by seanflynn:
Cruise would have been convincing in Ali yelling
I am the Greatest

While jumping on a couch?

Now pay attention, class!

This is your brain.

This is your brain on drugs.

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Originally posted by downchasboy:
I was just watching three Tom Cruise movies and was just thinking about how Will Smith might have played the same parts differently--thoughts?

And this is your brain after you watch three Tom Cruise movies in a row.

Let that be a warning to you, dears.

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Originally posted by Your English teacher:
Now pay attention, class!

This is your brain.

This is your brain on drugs.

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Originally posted by downchasboy:
I was just watching three Tom Cruise movies and was just thinking about how Will Smith might have played the same parts differently--thoughts?

And this is your brain after you watch three Tom Cruise movies in a row.

Let that be a warning to you, dears.

I am not advocating the use of illegal narcotics, but is there any other way a person could watch three Tom Cruise movies in a row, short of a lobotomy?

Risky Business, The Color of Money, Jerry Maguire, all good or better films, a good day's movie viewing.

And of course Top Gun is the gayest movie ever made.

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Originally posted by seanflynn:
Risky Business, The Color of Money, Jerry Maguire, all good or better films, a good day's movie viewing.

And of course Top Gun is the gayest movie ever made.

Meh.

Also, I don't think "gayest" should be used as a pejorative.

I can think of hundreds of feature films that are "gayer" than Top Gun—and in a good way.

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Originally posted by Pucifer:

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Originally posted by seanflynn:
Risky Business, The Color of Money, Jerry Maguire, all good or better films, a good day's movie viewing.

And of course Top Gun is the gayest movie ever made.

Meh.

Also, I don't think "gayest" should be used as a pejorative.

I can think of hundreds of feature films that are "gayer" than Top Gun—and in a good way.

I don't think he means "gayest" as a pejorative. He means it is literally. Think back to the volleyball game with the camera lingering over glistening male bodies. Or the various locker room scenes for more glistening bodies. Even the dialogue is full of lines about "covering people's tail" and so on. It may not be the gayest film ever... but it is up there.

I actually think that the gayest movies ever involve actual gay characters.

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Originally posted by MysteriousRent:
I actually think that the gayest movies ever involve actual gay characters.

If only life and the cinema were that clear and simple.

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Originally posted by MysteriousRent:
I actually think that the gayest movies ever involve actual gay characters.

Well, Milk is better than Doubt or Mamma Mia to be sure.

As for Tom Cruise's "gayest" movie (gee, I hope I don't get sued for even saying this), I would have to go with Interview with the Vampire, all that unrequited longing for Brad Pitt...

Top Gun is totally gay fetishistic -- the uniforms, the volleyball, the jet to jet midair fuel docking, Kelly McGinnis as butch as can be, the locker room scenes. It's totally about man on man love, "top" gun, ****pits, Giorgio Morodor songs - it doesn't get any gayer.

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Originally posted by seanflynn:
Top Gun is totally gay fetishistic -- the uniforms, the volleyball, the jet to jet midair fuel docking, Kelly McGinnis as butch as can be, the locker room scenes. It's totally about man on man love, "top" gun, ****pits, Giorgio Morodor songs - it doesn't get any gayer.

My ex loved this movie, which should give you some insight into why he's my ex...

I will admit, Top Gun's symbology is hard to ignore.

One of the two screenwriters (they were a long-time team) Jim Cash died in 2000, and there were strong rumors, though not confirmed, that he died of AIDS. (Not that everyone who dies of AIDs is gay or that gay screenwriters only write gay scripts).

to answer the original question after the funny Top Gun posts...(it must be terribly annoying to create a thread and nobody answers it)

Smith clearly would've been an equally appropiate choice for War of the Worlds....the other two....no way.....I just read the EW review for Han**** on magazines I got late in the year, and it's true what they say, Smith will never play bad guy....so Collateral is out...he would've never pulled that one off....And Minority Report is not for his niche, which he clearly cares about far more than Cruise does and the role is not for him either...Not to defend the trainwreck that Cruise can be, but he's a much (MUCH) better actor than Smith, he never would've pulled off Collateral or Minority Report.......which along with Maguire are some of Cruise's best....

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Originally posted by seanflynn:
Risky Business, The Color of Money, Jerry Maguire, all good or better films, a good day's movie viewing.

And of course Top Gun is the gayest movie ever made.

Jerry Maguire is easily my favorite role of Cruise's, followed closely by his "tame the [women parts" sex therapist in Magnolia.