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Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt - Interview with the Vampire (1994) (lemmy.world)
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[–] [S] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Tom Cruise is really good at playing bad people

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    As to that, were you around when he did Collateral? He'd never played a bad guy (outside Lestat). Everyone shit bricks at that performance, and it may be his best to my mind. Who would have thought Cruise could play a sociopath so well?! :) Come to think of it, that's TWO excellent performances as a sociopath.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 day ago

    I saw it in the cinema when it came out! My first Michael Mann movie. It was a lot of fun because people cheered anytime Cruise killed somebody.

    It's not like Cruise never played sociopaths before that. Even when he's a good guy he's kinda fucked up. Look at Top Gun - Maverick is extremely narcissist with shades of OCD peppered in. Jerry Maguire - even more narcissism. Mission Impossible movies depict a whole kaleidoscope of psychopathic behaviors in Ethan Hunt.

    He also played a piece of shit narcissist in Magnolia and for a time it was hailed as his best role. The same year he did scumbag doofus husband in Eyes Wide Shut. He have thoroughly shades of gray faux righterous control freak in The Firm. A couple of years ago he played drug smuggler Barry Seal and it was a feast because he adds the whole loveable rogue shtick to a borderline personality. Yeah, and Digger has him playing literal Hugo Drax megalomaniac. If anything, Cruise would've been at home in Megalopolis.

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