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June 4, 2025 11 mins
What’s your all-time favorite Tom Cruise movie—and does it even crack the top 10?
In this wildly entertaining episode of The Ben and Skin Show, the crew dives headfirst into a chaotic blend of movie rankings, brewery updates, and one of the most hilariously off-the-rails closing lines in show history.Join Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray as they:
  • 🍺 Hype up a massive weekend at Rollertown Beerworks—featuring crawfish, comedy, and craft beer.
  • 🎬 Debate the definitive ranking of Tom Cruise’s filmography, courtesy of Business Insider. From Risky Business to Edge of Tomorrow, Rain Man to Tropic Thunder, no Cruise classic is safe from scrutiny.
  • 🎥 Drop hot takes like:
“Risky Business is a million miles above the teen sex comedies of the ‘80s.”
“Eyes Wide Shut? Number 13? That’s generous.”
“Vanilla Sky? Out.”
“Any movie with an eye patch? That’s a good-ass movie.”Key Themes & Moments:
  • 🎭 Nostalgia vs. modern Cruise: Top Gun Maverick vs. Born on the Fourth of July
  • 🍿 Underrated gems and overrated flops
  • 🦞 Rollertown’s crawfish boil and comedy night preview
  • 🎤 Christina’s music handoff and KT’s unforgettable sign-off
This episode is a rollercoaster of pop culture, personal stories, and pure comedic chemistry. Whether you're a cinephile, a beer lover, or just here for the chaos, this one’s a must-listen.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle. Thank
you for hanging out with us today. Now this segment
or at her is brought to you by roller Town
beer Works. That is the brewery up there in Salina, Texas.
It Ben and I are partners in and man, we
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Going to be a big weekend at roller Town beer Works.
But right now it's time or this this thing's big.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
After one of the biggest heaters we've seen in a
long time, Ben Rogers took some vacation and then returned
to the show yesterday, hanging out with Tom Cruise and
then going into strolling Choctaw at the bike jack table,
then a day a BFD, then he went to the Islands.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
I thought he dominated BFD two. I had him right
ahead of Marilyn Manson.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
So this is one of those articles that was out about,
you know, Tom Cruise before the big Mission, Impossible, the
Last Reckoning, the final reckoning, you know, Memorial Day movie.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
I've been sitting on this until Ben got back. Didn't
do well? What are you in? Didn't? It did fine.
It's really it was no Lilo and Stitch. That's fine, dude,
It's really good. It's really good.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
It's exactly why you want to go to a big
movie theater. How much would did you see the box
office numbers?

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Non? Would you have guessed Memorial Day weekend? I don't know.
I don't really have a good perspective. It ended up
being I think eighty six million domestically, and like Leelo
and Stitch was what one thirty or something Yeah, something
like that. Yeah, which shot me. I thought for sure,
MISSI Impossible was one hundred million, no doubt about it.
And he's done a great job promoting it. Yes, everywhere.

(02:13):
It surprised me that it is and it's really good. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
So, Business Insider ranked the best Tom Cruise movies all
well forty five of them.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Is what they cut it off at weirdly really, so,
do we have any guisses? Did you say this is
business inside her? Yes? My favorite probably is Risky Business.
Let's start there. What's your favorite Tom Cruise movie?

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Two, I've got three that are all together. Risky Business
is one of the single best movies of the eighties.
Often just kind of lumped in with the teen sex
comedies of the eighties. It is a million miles above that.
It's an amazing, insightful satire of reaganomics and eighties consumerism.

(03:00):
That's amazing. Magnolia is fantastic. It's just longer than my
description of Risky Business. And finally, I also love Collateral.
I think that movie is badass. What's your favorite Tom
Cruise movie?

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Ben?

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Risky Business just not Top Gun Maverick, Top Gun Mavericks.
In the mix like, I thought it was a phenomenal movie.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
I love how they made that.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
They tied it into the nostalgia of the first one
and got emotional with it. I thought they followed some
of the same recipes with this latest mission. Impossible to
Christina favorite Tom Cruise.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Movie, Edge of Tomorrow. I had to look it up.
Edge of Tomorrow for sure, but also his role in
Tropic Thunder at the end. Oh yeah, dude, that counts.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Rumors that they're gonna make a whole movie of that
with that character, Wes Grossman.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Less, I'm holding out on Edging Tomorrow. I'm not. I'm
not gonna get to that. I will say i'd never
seen Tropic Thunder, and the other day I saw about
fifty minutes of it. Oh in the middle, because I
know I probably caught it fifteen minutes in. Okay, you
almost saw the whole thing. I saw about fifty minutes
of it, and by the time I fell asleep, Zoo

(04:13):
Lander was like being drug by by the You need
to watch it from the beginning. That's not a good
movie to jump in on either. Okay, I mean you
didn't get to simple Jack. They kept referring back to
it and I've actually seen it from the beginning. I've
actually seen and I realized that's why the guy the
drug dealers loved him was because they worshiped simple Jack. Yeah,
and I mean I saw, I saw a good chunk

(04:35):
of it. My favorite are Days of Thunder and rain Man. Oh,
Rainman's great. Good, Rainman's great.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
So what do you guys think, business Insider, they're beg
on business? What do you guys think they might have?

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Are they basing it on ticket sales and stuff? No,
just their favorite Oh, get some entertainment content out there.
They put the original top Gun number one. That's incorrect.
In fact, I can tell you though, where the original
top gun. I guess the original top Gun ran numbers.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
I was gonna say, okay, okay, okay, So well, yeah,
we'll get a good idea as to what their taste
is like depending on where they put some of these,
like where they put Magnolia number one, Magnolia number one, yep,
number three. Okay, so they're gonna have eyes wide shut
in the top five, probably Chat thirteen. Let me just say,

(05:24):
as someone who pretty much loves most Kubrick stuff, it's
not one of his best, but it's it's interesting.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Okay. Are they going to have I think the Color
of Money in the top five?

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Good, Yes, they will have that in the top number two. Yeah,
it's good. I think they have Collateral number one, number fourteen,
rain Man number one, rain Man number six, so many movies.
Maybe maybe they see risky business the right way and
put it number one, number ten, Toss Gun Maverick number one,

(06:01):
number twelve, one of the one of the Mission impossibles. Yeah,
not on the list, really, not a single None of
the eight made the list.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
No. I don't know if they left it off or
what's going on there, but I typed it in and
the search function and I can't see it.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
They probably left the Jack Reacher stuff out too, then,
so think about that now. It's don't don't panic. It's
just it's a long article. Know that I'm panning.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Number forty is Mission Impossible too? Mission Impossible three twenty seven.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Oh, I see, it's such a long list. Yeah, it's
just a lot of on the fly. Interview with a vampire.
Ooh good, one good one Ben number eight, Jerry Maguire,
Oh I bet that's number one, number five, The Firm nineteen,
A few good men. Oh, that's number one. Four it
I thought you already said for it. Born on the

(06:51):
fourth of July. Number one. They were born on the
fourth of July nineteen eighty, was it? Man? I think
in general, Oliver Stone makes me want to just die.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
You just did get the top five there and six,
Top seven Edge of Tomorrow, Christine. Oh, okay, so Minority
Report nine is the original Mission Impossible?

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Okay? Minority Report is that him? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (07:16):
It's where he uses all they come out with this technology.
They can arrest someone if they think they're going to
eventually commit a crime.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
It's like Philip K. Dick does George orwell.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Ah days it's under eleven. Minority Report twenty four, yep,
twenty four. You know one of his movies that I
did not enjoy. Please don't tell him. I said this
Rock of a Vanilla Sky.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Vanilla Sky he gets in a car wreck or something?

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Right? Is that Pedro Alamovadar in that the guy's name.
It was when he was married to the homegirl that
does the sucker Fish. I thought he was married to
the other lady in the movie. Is oh, in the
movie he's married to her?

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yeah. She had to talk very very strong accent, Yeah,
very strong Cruz but a Cruse and it is I
think Pedro. Is that how she got the Cruse last
name or did she already have? That was at Cruz?
You know who she's married to, Harvey ar Bardem. Okay,
So tie back to the sucker Fish movie. Yes, it's

(08:16):
all County together. The counselor Where did they put the
counselor on? There? I don't see it on the list?
Interesting oblivion? Why it should it have been on the list? No, No,
he's not in it. What are we met? Are we missing? Tail?
American Maid thirty eight? What about all the Right Moves? Yeah,
that's good. There's a lot happening here. Hold on you,
hold on, don't don't.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Number twelve we told you was Topgo Maverick thirteen, Eyes
by You at fourteen, Colladal fifteen, Final Reckoning, There you go?

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Where did they put taps?

Speaker 2 (08:45):
What about the nineteen eighty five movie Legend Never Saw
number sixteen?

Speaker 3 (08:49):
Wait, Legend with Will Smith, Tim Curry, Tim Curry from
the Little Shop a Whore or No? Uh oh yeah,
Legend Rocky Horror Pictures Show.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, he appears to be holding a fox or something
in this one. Yeah, this looks bad. What about terrible?
Did they put taps on there?

Speaker 2 (09:11):
Don't see it, but I could miss it. There's a
lot of mission impossibles. They have trumpet thunder at twenty two?

Speaker 1 (09:18):
What about Losing It? I love that movie? Eighteen rtten.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
I should have started the back Outsiders twenty six, okay,
Contail twenty eight, Hell yeah, Young Guns Taps twenty nine.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Twenty Taps is better than that, dude. I actually got
to rewatch of that in the last eight nine years
and it Yeah, I did too.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
Night and Days thirty that's him on a motorcycle with
Cameron Diaz out War of.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
The World's thirty one. Forgot about that one, Yeah, I
forgot about that. Not bad Valkyrie thirty two. He's got
an eyepatch. Yeah, he's got an ipatch. Got in any
any main character as an eyepatch. That's a good ass movie.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
But the Last Samurai thirty three, Yeah, don't We're getting
to some of his bad stuff here. Yeah, Yerkan made
thirty four pretty good twenty seventeen movie.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
Oh wait, that was when Mike Findley was one of
the executive producers on Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Okay eighty five. On Rotten Tomatoes, Far and Away number
thirty six. Nicole Kidman was in this. Oh that's yeah,
that's some like roll around in the Fields.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Movie eighteen nineties. Ron Howard directed Lying for Lambs number
thirty seven.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
I don't remember.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
Ummmm, that reminds me of that Brazilian steakhouse Ben went to.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Ben Jack reachert number thirty nine. Yeah, Losing It number
forty one.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
Shelley long co Dude, I really want to watch Risky
Business again now.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
Oh The Mummy forty two because he came back and
did the Mummy like when he didn't need to be remade.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
I thought that had the movie. I thought that had
the guy that gained all that weight for Whale. Brendon Frasier.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yeah, good special effects, Brook Shields and James Spader out
Endless Love. Wait, Tom Cruise was an Endless Love YEP
number forty four. There he goes lasting Rock of Ages.
All right's let's end the show YEP. I'll never forget
the time that KT went to a Brazilian steakhouse. Tom
Cruise was there.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
He got a chance to look him dead in the eye,
and he said, after being a good girl for so long,
I'm in my slutty era and Tom Cruise had his
way with Tizzle. Uh, Christina is going to stick around
and play some music right here on the Eagle. Here
are you going, well, I'm gonna get my sock back.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
Dude.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
You all had enough fun in games, a great summer.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
Let's co
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