Movies Do you prefer Tom Cruise film career from 1981 to 2002 or 2003 to 2023?

[Takes Two To Tango]

Tom Cruise has had a 42 year film career so far. Do you prefer the first half of his career or the second half?

First half of his career is more drama driven genre films, while his second half is more action driven genre films.

1981-2002:

Taps
The Outsiders
Risky Business
Top Gun
The Color of Money
Rain Man
Born of the Fourth July
Days of Thunder
A Few Good Men
Interview With the Vampire
Mission: Impossible
Jerry Maguire
Eyes Wide Shut
Magnolia
Vanilla Sky
Minority Report

2003-2023:

The Last Samurai
Collateral
War of the Worlds
Mission: Impossible III
Tropic Thunder
Valkyrie
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol
Jack Reacher
Oblivion
Edge of Tomorrow
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation
American Made
Mission: Impossible - Fall Out
Top Gun: Maverick
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

 

[GoodBadHBK]

His 3 best films imo are risky business rain man and MI

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

His 3 best films imo are risky business rain man and MI

Interesting I think his best films are.

A Few Good Men
Interview With the Vampire
Minority Report

 

[Sweater of AV]

1981 to 2002 by the widest of margins. Lol at voting for 2003 to 2023.

 

[revoltub]

81 to 2002 Cruise is a tough run to beat.

 

[Madmick]

Bro, you left Far and Away, All the Right Moves, Legend, Cocktail, and The Firm off the 81-02 list.

 

[Plutoburn]

I just wanted to say I think Edge of Tomorrow is a very underrated film. And it's probably my favourite Tom Cruise movie that I've rewatched the most times.

 

[ufcfan4]

He’s kept a really high standard of films through multiple decades which is impressive in and of itself. Some of his 80s/90s stuff is great so I’d probably pick that era if only because I think it includes his best movies or at least the ones I’m most partial to.

But 2002 onward is very solid. His collaborations with Spielberg, the MI films really hitting their stride, collateral, tropic thunder, edge of tomorrow, Maverick. I just wish he’d move away from the purely action hero stuff he’s primarily done in the past decade and do some more varied roles. Top Gun: Maverick may have been a step in the right direction because even though it’s an action movie, it was outside of the Ethan Hunt spy action film mold.

 

[Ima5starman]

Bro, you left Far and Away, All the Right Moves, Legend, Cocktail, and The Firm off the 81-02 list.

Some classics missing

 

[Madmick]

Some classics missing

One of my favorite romances of all time. In a lot of ways it's an extinct subgenre because of how our culture has changed. It was all about how a man would repress and sublimate his sexual desire into achievement out of sexual frustration. Now, everybody fucks someone he or she met in the first two minutes, so the storylines are impossible.

 

[GoodBadHBK]

Interesting I think his best films are.

A Few Good Men
Interview With the Vampire
Minority Report

Revoltub watches tom cruise movies with the sound off


If you know what I mean

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

Bro, you left Far and Away, All the Right Moves, Legend, Cocktail, and The Firm off the 81-02 list.

I know, I purposely did that.

 

[Madmick]

I know, I purposely did that.

 

[Prex32]

you forgot the firm
top movie

 

[volodya]

You should really ad The Firm to this list TS.

 

[aerius]

I just wanted to say I think Edge of Tomorrow is a very underrated film. And it's probably my favourite Tom Cruise movie that I've rewatched the most times.

Risky Business, Tropic Thunder, and Edge of Tomorrow are the ones I've watched the most times. Hard to say which one's my favourite, probably a tie between the first 2 for me.

 

[Pittie Petey]

All The Right Moves should also be included in his early career listings, that was a good movie, he played a high school quarterback

 

[tank666]

Always loved Cocktail. 81-02 wins

 

[revoltub]

One of my favorite romances of all time. In a lot of ways it's an extinct subgenre because of how our culture has changed. It was all about how a man would repress and sublimate his sexual desire into achievement out of sexual frustration. Now, everybody fucks someone he or she met in the first two minutes, so the storylines are impossible.

One of the most underrated films ever imo

 

[IDGETKTFO]

Where is Rock of Ages? One of my favorite TC movies.