Is Tom Cruise The Biggest Movie Star of All Time?

[Halge]

He is. Mark Wahlberg literally has greater range.

 

[Mondo Freaks]

Jackie Chan

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

Definitely on the Mt. Rushmore of leading men.

 

[WaylonMercy5150]

He is. Mark Wahlberg literally has greater range.

Not trying to be a dick but being honest, Tom Cruise's best acting performances in my opinion are:
1. Magnolia
2. Risky Business
3. Tropic Thunder
lol

 

[WaylonMercy5150]

Definitely on the Mt. Rushmore of leading men.

Who else?

 

[Cheese]

Samuel Jackson is. He has created more franchises than anyone else.

Jurassic Park
Star Wars
Die Hard
Avengers
XXX
Incredibles

And has great Classics like Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction.

 

[WaylonMercy5150]

Samuel Jackson is. He has created more franchises than anyone else.

Jurassic Park
Star Wars
Die Hard
Avengers
XXX


And has great Classics like Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction.

What do you mean by created?

 

[bosox32]

Wahlburg has two notes.

Boston or Non Boston

 

[bosox32]

What do you mean by created?

You didn’t know Sam Jackson wrote and directed all of those?

 

[WaylonMercy5150]

Wahlburg has two notes.

Boston or Non Boston

You have to see Tom in Far and Away. Lad does an amazing Irish accent.

 

[bosox32]

Samuel Jackson is. He has created more franchises than anyone else.

Jurassic Park
Star Wars
Die Hard
Avengers
XXX
Incredibles

And has great Classics like Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction.

Easy to appear in all of these films when you only have 2-3 scenes each. They drag out Stan Lee’s corpse for every Marvel film but his name isn’t on the marquee.

 

[JayPettryMMA]

Harrison Ford, in terms of legacy, franchises, and general lovability. And he's second only to Sam Jackson, who has some cameo appearances attributing to his mega gross numbers (like he was in the post-credit scene for Iron Man for like 60 seconds and it still attaches that box office to it).

 

[jimbob27]

I think he's the greatest as far as directors and producers are concerned, but not so much for audience members. Despite being a lunatic scientologist he's got a reputation for being the ultimate professional within the industry, which is one of the reasons he's always in so many films.

I guess it depends how you want to define biggest movie star. He's on the lists for highest earning, but then so are people like Eddie Murphy and the guy who played the gay golden robot in star-wars.

If you want other people, John Wayne and Clint Eastwood are pretty hard to top. Not on the high earners list, but then we're not basing it off anything measurable. Obviously Arnold as well.

He's was better known for his music and most of his movies were shit, but there's no movie star with a bigger name than Elvis Presley.

 

[Cheese]

What do you mean by created?

I mean made everyone of them what they are. the only reason Anyone watches Any of those movies is to see him.

 

[MikeMcMann]

Uhh...Tom is ahead although not by much.

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?view=Actor&id=tomhanks.htm
Tom Hanks

Average: $95,951,778


https://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?id=tomcruise.htm
Tom Cruise

Average: $98,962,022

Doesn't Sam Jackson lead all by total Gross?

 

[Cheese]

Easy to appear in all of these films when you only have 2-3 scenes each. They drag out Stan Lee’s corpse for every Marvel film but his name isn’t on the marquee.

Nick Fury is the glue that has held ALL the marvel films together. There is no interesting story to tell without him.

 

[WaylonMercy5150]

You didn’t know Sam Jackson wrote and directed all of those?

 

[Cheese]

Doesn't Sam Jackson lead all by total Gross?

No. I think Ford beats him out with the newest star wars movie.

 

[WaylonMercy5150]

I mean made everyone of them what they are. the only reason Anyone watches Any of those movies is to see him.

 

[strongstylekarate]

He can get any chicks he wants, regardless of his height.

People don't call him a Top Gun for nothing.