A grand, unified theory of Tom Cruise movies
You came into the office a few weeks ago and proclaimed: “I watched ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ on a plane — and it wasn’t bad!” You seemed surprised. That got me thinking: Tom Cruise has been making movies for over three decades. He’s one of our most enduring — and marketable — movie stars ever. If Cruise is on the level of John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart or Clint Eastwood — at least in terms of the sheer career longevity — why don’t we think of him with that level of cultural importance?
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