May 27, 2025 • 35 mins
ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at the Weekend Box Office AND the #Oscar4TomCruise “Top 45 Tom Cruise Movies of All Time” according to Business Insider - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Later with Mo Kelly Live Everywhere in the iHeartRadio app
on this Memorial Day evening. And we've talked every single
week about the state of Hollywood, the movie theater portion
of the industry, and how they need to have movies
which are hits that are going to get people not
only in the seats once, but return visits that they'll
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be able to keep their doors open throughout the week,
not just on Friday, Saturday, Sunday hoping to sell out theaters.
That's why the summer box office season is so very important.
If a theater's going to do well at all, it's
going to be during the summer. They need big titles,
they need big returns. And this weekend was one of
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the best ever, I mean ever ever. You have two
Juggernaut movies this weekend. Coming in at number one is
Lelo and Stitch. It made three one hundred and forty
one million dollars this Memorial A weekend. It's opening weekend.
I don't know what a budget was, but they made
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all their money back in this first weekend, three one
hundred and forty one million, seven hundred thousand dollars. In fact,
they pulled in more than one hundred million on its
first night of Friday. Mission Impossible, the Final Reckoning. We're
going to talk about this a lot for the rest
of the hour. I will tell you that came in second.
Not too shabby. It did two hundred and four million,
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two hundred and four million, four a franchise which has
always done well, but never done that well. And usually
you have like a sliding scale where the deeper you
get into a franchise you get usually diminishing returns. And
to finish with such a financial flourish, I got a
lot of thoughts on that one, but we'll come back
to it in just a moment.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Then you have movies.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Which were overperforming and still continue to overperform. Coming in
at number three is Final Destination. Bloodlines brought in another
nineteen million this week and in your third week. That's
saying something. And it's already brought in one hundred and
eighty seven million dollars world wide. And here's something else
which is notable about this movie. It's a horror movie,
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but it's balanced. It's not like if you look at
a lot of horror movies, Traditionally, they get much more
support domestically than they do internationally.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
This movie is very well balanced.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Ninety four million domestically, ninety two million internationally for one
hundred and eighty six million worldwide, which means it is
appreciated all around the world and still overperforming. I'm sorry,
real quick, you said Leilo on Sis brought in how.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Much three hundred and forty one million worldwide.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Dang off of one hundred million budgets. Well, I don't
think this meant much on marketing and promotion, because I
don't remember seeing a lot of promotion for it. You
would think something that's really important as far as movie
priorities would be advertised during the NBA playoffs or something
like that.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
If you have a lot of eyeballs watching.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I think I can count on one hand how many
times I seem to preview for that. I'm thinking it's
mostly word of mouth and that's something else. I mean,
that's really really and I'm not a lie. Low and
Stitch fan didn't care for the animated version. I hear
that this live action version is kind of beat for beat,
and there are some original stars from people from the
original movie. Who are in the live action one. I
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just don't have any desire to see it. I'm not
the intended audience, and I'm okay with that. Not all
great news, but still semi good news. Coming in at
number four is Thunderbolts. And when I say it's not
all great news, financially, it's still trending behind Captain America
Brave New World. For all the supposed review issues with
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Captain America Brave New World. Because Thunderbolts was very well
received by critics, it's not doing as well financially as
Captain America Brave New World. Thunderbolts came in number four
this week with another nine million, and it's not bad.
It's nothing to shake a stick at, but it still
falls behind what Marvel was hoping for it. It's brought
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in three hundred and fifty five million worldwide. Oh yeah,
and Captain America, I know it's like four hundred and
fifteen million something like that worldwide. Yeah, they said Thunderbolts
is going to need to break four hundred and fifty.
It's not going to get there. But you can see
how a lot of media can shape perception. If I
were to tell you that both Thunderbolts and Captain America
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Brave New World were going to be released within a
couple months of each other, which you think would do
better even after release. Post release, the buzz around Thunderbolts
was better than Captain America Brave New World. But as
far as fans support hasn't panned out that way. Hasn't
played that the way Captain America Brave neew World. And
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I didn't dislike Thunderbolts, I just didn't love it. Captain
America Braveview World was making more money from mar than Thunderbolts.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Is number five.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
In its six week in theaters is Centers brought in
another eight point six million. Not only did you have
an unexpected hit, you had an unexpected hit which is
hanging around even longer in theaters. It's brought in three
hundred and thirty nine million dollars worldwide. Nobody saw that coming,
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absolutely nobody. Number six was the last rodeo. Number seven
was Friendship in his first third week. Have no idea
what that is. Number eight is a Minecraft movie, another
movie I think overperformed. I don't think people expected to
do more than nine hundred million. It brought in two
point one million this week total of nine hundred and
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forty million worldwide. Number nine was The Accountant Too, in
its fifth week. I don't think people thought that was
going to hang around in theaters for five weeks. It
is just short of the Oh no, it just did
cross one hundred million dollar mark, more than I think
they thought they were going to get out of that movie.
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And there's your top ten Top ten coming in at
number ten is Hurry Up Tomorrow. Have no idea what
that is Lionsgate film. Oh, that's supposed to be one
of those. It's like a new take on the future. Okay, yeah,
all right, have no idea. But when we come back,
we're going to get into the top twenty Tom Cruise
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movies of all time. And I wonder if Mark Ronner
will disagree with all of the movies chosen for the
Top twenty.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I'm not a hater. I like Tom Cruise. No, I
do too.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I'm saying, as far as which movies this list valued.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
More than others or less than others, I plan to
disagree with you on general principle if that satisfies anyone.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Okay, And I've seen now the Final Reckoning, the Final
Mission impossible movie, and I have thoughts on that I'll
give probably in the final segment, but we'll be talking
about Tom Cruise for most of the rest of the way,
so I'll probably slip some remarks in there. And I'm
a huge Tom Cruise fan. Yes, Tom Cruise number four oscar.
He deserves an oscar in an acting category, because after
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you see Final Reckoning, you'll see how much acting he
does in the midst of stunts, not like some cutaway
where he's done acting and now he's doing a stunt,
no facial expressions, delivering dialogue in the midst of these stunts,
absolutely amazing.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
If he's just acting like he's not crapping his pants
in stark terror hanging off an airplane, that's probably enough.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I'll tell you this much.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
For the first time, his character of Ethan hunt to
Me showed that he thought that he was actually going
to buy it. He was actually on the precipice of
death in the sense of there was a in the
terms of this character, there was a self realization that
this is too big for me.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I don't want to give away the movie.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Okay, well we're gonna disagree, so it doesn't matter a right,
So why is you just going Are you just starting
with a disagreement?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Now? I know?
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I was like, can you at least wait till wet it?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
There? Geez, hit it, Stefan, you're listening to Later with
Moe Kelly on Demand from KFI AM six forty with
Mo Kelly on six.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
You know I'm in the mood to argue with Mark Ronner.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Before the break, I said, we're going to talk about
the top twenty Tom Cruise movies. But the list actually
has forty five, and I got time tonight, so I
feel like arguing with Mark a little bit longer. So
let's do all forty five. Go down the list, let's
hear him, and this is Business Insider, so take it
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for what it's worth. Coming in at number forty five
of the top movies of Tom Cruise All Time Rock
of Ages, I was bad. I didn't even see that.
It was bad.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Oh that's the one where he's a rock star. Yeah, yeah,
I missed that one altogether. That's okay, I won't want
to miss it.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
It's bad. Everyone did.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
At number forty four Endless Love, I forgot he was
actually in that. It is based on well they used
the song Diana Ross, Lina Richie, and it's yeah, it's
he's not even like the star of it.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
He just gets a brief.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
That's not that's not going down in the annuals of
Tom Cruise.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Yeah, it's not. I wouldn't even call it a Tom Cruise.
He's just in it. Number forty three Jack Reacher, Never
Go Back.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I liked it. It's okay, but it's okay.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Like I said Friday, we've all kind of disavout it
now that we've got well perfect reaches.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
What I'm saying, I mean, if not for the Amazon Reacher,
the Tom Cruise Reachers are good and and I wasn't
familiar with the character from the books, so I didn't
know about him prior. But when they did it on Amazon,
I started getting familiar. And I said, oh, that's why
people didn't like Tom Cruise is Reacher.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
But the films and they came out.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I thought, both of the Reacher films are good, watchable, Yeah, watchable, watchable.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I mean if you're not judging against the source material
as far as how he's described and everything. It doesn't
get in a way. Coming in at number forty two
of the top Tom Cruise movies. Oh, this should be
a number sixty eight. The Mummy, the twenty seventeen terrible.
It was worse than terrible. I will fight you on
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that one. It's way beyond terrible. I feel like we're
almost agreeing on this one, which is boring. But I
didn't watch it when it came out because it looked
so terrible, and I didn't I didn't have a venue
to review it, and.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I just thought life's too short for this.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
It it cratered the whole possibility of the universal Monster verse.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
It absolutely did. And they had big plans for that.
Wasn't that was supposed to be the beginning of it? Yes, yeah,
And he turned what was supposed to be a horror
film into like an action adventure and it was just
ungodly bad. I watched it actually, not not too long ago,
and it's rough going.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
But all of them are bad.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Because the Jacqueline Hide that they did that was a
spin off from that.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
That was the second one that was bad. That was
very bad.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
I saw that was it was It was the the.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Uh the dude who played better?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I am dB that mother, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Man, the guy he's he's fat now he was he played. No, no,
he was zeus In in the thor Crow. No no, no,
not not Russell Crowe and uh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
He did a separate j Hyde movie.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
Yeah, because he was he was in that Mummy film.
He was in the film as as a doctor Jekylin.
Then in the end of the film that was this
whole thing. He he got the power to turn into
his monster self, and then they did a whole film
with that.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
This is that uh what do you call that syndrome
where people think something exists and it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Oh the man, No, no, no, we'll find it. I
think you're in saying number forty one losing it. I
saw it. I don't remember it. Number forty Mission Impossible
two two wasn't very good. I mean you just watched
all of them in a row, just.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Watch all of them.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
It seemed like kind of a color by Numbers sequel.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Was it too that John wo one Yes, which is
disappointing because John wu is a movie god and he
turned in something that just felt like a paycheck to me,
complete with his obligatory dove release scene.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Number thirty nine, the first Jack Reacher I was in
twenty twelve. Yeah, okay. Number thirty eight. I know I'm
going to be the minority in this one. I really
liked this movie. It did not stick the landing, which
is part of it, but I really liked it visually.
It was gorgeous. Oblivion. Oblivion was great Obli Freeman.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Yeah, especially especially if you don't know what the films
that when it gets to the ends, you're.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Like, oh, snap, the big, bigveil is great.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
It didn't stick the landing.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
And if you don't know, Earth is under attack by
these aliens which all look like this astronaut from Earth,
and they explained why that happens later on. But these
are clones, and then the clone keeps falling in love
with the same person. It's like, I didn't quite buy
the idea that the clone would you know, they would
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fall in love with the same person because it's not
the same person, because just they just have the same DNA.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Long story short, it didn't stick the landing, but I
like the movie. I really did. Number thirty seven Lions
for Lambs, Never saw it.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Isn't that a spy movie?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Don't know?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Not very memorable. Number thirty six Far and Away with
Nicole Kidman that was like a big deal when it
came out, just because it had a couple of a
listers and it was a big romance epic at the time.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I believe they were weren't they married, Yes, they were married.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Oh, they were married. But I barely remember a thing
about it. That they play Irish immigrants seeking a fortune
in America. Outside the lush photography. According to this, there
isn't much to enjoy about the movie. I didn't Ron
Howard direct that don't know, didn't see it, don't care.
Number thirty five. I think they should be just a
little bit higher Vanilla Sky. Yes, oh we agree on that.
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I hate to admit it, but we do it so funny.
I'll ever heard his terrible things about it. No, I
did not dis liked I actually liked the movie. Okay,
I never saw it. Never saw Number thirty four American Maid.
Didn't see it. I heard that was really good. Oh
that is not bad. That's the one where he plays
the uh drug smuggling pilot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's not
bad at all. Number thirty three, ooh ooh, the last Samurai.
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I have so many problems with this movie. Well, Cruise,
it's not Tom cruise.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
You can't get enough of a white guy going to
that middle Japan and showing everybody how things are done.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Yeah, that that alone to me, that's the same or
is Avatar? Is everything at all stems from Tarzan?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
And no, I think the recent Showgun was kind of
a corrective to that.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah, yeah, number thirty two. Valkyrie, Oh that wasn't bad.
That deserves to be higher. Yeah, all right, like Valkyrie
number thirty one, I personally would put this higher, but
I understand why most people didn't like it.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
War of the Worlds, that's that low.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
That was yeah, going on thirty one, Come on, this
is no no what I.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Liked about this movie.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
And also Steven Spielberg, he went in a different direction
from the alien invasions where they're destroying all the iconic
landmarks and monuments, and he told it from the story
of one guy who's just trying to save his family
and in a real situation. You don't know what's going
on around you don't know what's happening in Europe, you
don't know what's happening in other major cities.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
And did you know that one of our former hosts,
that Kfi is in.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
This movie who do you know Sam Walters? Yes, yeah,
Lisam Walter is in this movie. She plays the She
plays the bar tener. See if you could pull up
the clip at the at the Fairy because in the movie,
and Lisa and Walter did tell me, if you don't know,
she used to be a host akfi. Now she's starring
on Avid Elementary. She told me that in the original
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cut of the movie, she's having an affair with Tom
Cruise's character.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
She makes it.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
That makes sense, and it makes more sense when you
know that she works as a bar as a bartender,
and so when she shows up at the Fairy, they
acknowledge each other. But they're kind of cool because because
the kids are basically like, well, how do y'all know
each other?
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Yeah, and her and even her insistence on trying to
help out.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
And take that makes sense. Oh yep.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
That deserves to be higher because that's Steven Spielberg remaking
the classic from nineteen what fifty three. I guess just
letting himself loose in the sandbox of something he saw
when he was young. I think that movie deserves much
better than it got them. Look, I know he's gonna
do one more. UFO slash Alien movie. It's in its
under tight raps. I'm gonna see it no matter what
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it is.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
He just has me at Steven Spielberg Alien's big Close
Encounters War of the World does not matter. I'm gonna
watch it absolutely. Number thirty wasn't bad. Night and Day,
kind of formulaic, not too memorable. Didn't get through it.
Number twenty nine I think is one of Tom Cruise's
better acting roles.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Let me see if you can guess this one.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Mark Ronner, Timothy Hutton, Oh, Magnolia, No taps nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Would they take over this military school? I saw that
when I was a kid. Yeah, but it's like prehistoric
Tom Cruise before he became Tom.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
He's a supporting actor, his nice story.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Sorry. Number twenty eight, I thought it was garbage cocktail.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Sorry sorry, it spawned a whole new generation of fancy
cocktail coyoti.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Oh yeah, Number twenty seven, they're wrong. Mission Impossible three?
That was I still think it's the best one. What
this is where we argue? Go ahead, let's start the argument.
Isn't that the one JJ Abrams direction. Yes, Yes, it's terrible.
It sucks. He doesn't like JJ Abrams, though I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
If he'd take his name off of it, he would
have been fine.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Philip Seymour Hoffman is the best villain of all the
Mission Impossible movies. Oh, there's no question he's He makes
everything he's in better.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Uh. In fact, he would have been good in this
new one because I thought is sign Morales didn't really
get a whole lot to do.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
But that third movie, I thought it was a stinker.
If they didn't kill him in Mission Impossible three, I
didn't like how they killed him by having a truck
run him over. He would have been back for the finale.
Probably he would have been woven in somehow. He's just
a spoiler alert. He was a terrific actor. But the
people didn't see that one. Sorry, yeah, I mean he died.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
He was two thousand and six, twenty years old.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
But he was a phenomenal villain, cold calculating. It's like
he wasn't bothered by the things that that Ethan. He
was just like, you know how this is gonna go right.
I'm going to kill you in a terrible way. And
he meant it. But he didn't have to get all
just I top over the top.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
He was just like this is tell me your name,
tell me I'm gonna I'm gonna get your girlfriend. I
wanna find someone that you care about, and then I'm
gonna kill them in front of you, and then I'm
gonna kill you. If only he was the whole movie.
When we come back, we have the top twenty six
Tom Cruise movies of all time, according to Business Insider.
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We thought we were only gonna do the top twenty,
but I said, damn it, why not, Let's do the
top forty five more.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
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in the middle of this Business Insider list the top
forty five movies of Tom Cruise, and it's movies that
he start in, movies that he's had bit parts in,
he had a co starring rule.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I don't agree with much.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Of this list, and I don't agree with Mark Ronner
about his thoughts about Tom Cruise. You're gonna agree with
me about collateral that better be up high. Business Insider
doesn't make great okay, coming in at number twenty six,
in other words, better than every Tom Cruise movie we've
seen so far, according to Business Insider the Outsiders, No, no,
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a little bit of a head scratcher there. Yeah, number
twenty five Mission Impossible Rogue Nation. Which number is that
four or five? Fourth one? That's a fourth one? Okay, okay,
that's when they started getting better.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
All right.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I'm not gonna argue with him because I like to
totality this series, so I really thought Mission Impossible three
should have been ranked higher, but.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
You're prone to hyperbole. Is for the one where he's
swinging on the building in the Middle East Khalif? Yes, yes,
that one made me clinch right up. Yeah, your fist
right clinch, your fists closer to the center of the
body mask.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
This is why I don't like this list right here,
coming in at number twenty four. Minority report, this has
to be higher. Yeah, oh yeah, that was incredible. Top ten,
easily easy for him. I mean, we agree.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
I hate when we agree, but it has to be
up almost top five. Yeah, what a bunch of hacks.
Are you sure this isn't a variety list?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
No, person maybe got fired from variety now they work
for business inside wallet Hub touche. Number twenty three, Mission
Impossible Fallout. Yeah, I like the movie, but it's not
better than Minority Report. Number five. Is that number five?
It's number five?
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Okay, that's the one with Henry Cavill where he reloads
his arms in the bathroom twice.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
That's a terrific movie. That's tons of fun. There's tons
of fun, but it's not the best Tom Cruise movie. Right, No, Right,
Number twenty two, Tropic Thunder moving on number twenty one,
all the right moves. I have to watch it again
because that movie is forty two years old.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Is that the one where he's a football player in
high school? Yeah, yeah, I don't care about that.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yeah, number twenty kidding, Mission Impossible, Ghost Protocol. I like
Ghost Protocol. Yeah, I like all the Mission Impossible movie.
I like Ghost Protocol.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Number nineteen.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I still think this movie should have been higher just
on acting performance.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
The firm opposite Gene Hackman.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
I haven't seen that in so long that you probably
have a fresher recollection.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I do, because pulling clips for a name of that
movie called classic is so like, well, let me just
go ahead and rewatch the movie altogether.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Yeah, did it seem like Cruise was kind of outmatched
by Hackman.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Of course he was, because this gene freaking Hackney. Yeah, okay,
and it was you know, it was much early, is
early in Tom Cruise's crew. I was like, yeah, Number eighteen,
Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning, Part one, Recency Bias. Number seventeen,
Top Gun. I know, I just pissed off a lot
of KFI listeners right there. There's a lot. So every
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movie I tell you about right now is quote unquote
better than the Top Gun, all right, According to Business Insider,
Number sixteen Legend, I love Legend. I've never seen it. Legend.
Legend is very dark there, you haven't seen it. No
one is the Legend of me.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Just you dog, just you.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Legend is really good, really good. Number fifteen, Mission Impossible,
The Final Reckoning. I need more time with it because
I would be suffering from recency bias. But it's from
the stunts alone.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
It's got to be top ten consideration.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
After I thought about it over the weekend, it made
me think of those insane old like Harold Lloyd clips
where do you know what I'm talking about, These old
silent black and white things where he does the most
preposterous stunts imaginable, and you think he's gonna die.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
No, I'm not familiar.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Look up Harold Lloyd and see look at stuff on YouTube.
It'll blow your mind. It'll make you think of this movie.
Number fourteen.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
This should have been top five, and I'll fight anybody
for it. Michael Mann Collateral, Yeah, that deserves to be higher.
He's a good bad guy. He's a good bad guy.
But this required that movie required more of him as
an actor.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Yeah, than a lot of other stuff. Number Are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I had a pastoral that one? Why it's Michael Mann. Yeah,
I just passed on. That's the one with him. Jamie
Foxx Yeah, Jada pickotts Man, Yeah, I definitely passed on
that one. I was like, nope, Wow, she hate America
and movies seriously. Number thirteen. This movie's too high. I
liked it, and I know it's too high. Eyes wide
shut Stanley Koobrick. Yes, but it's the movie itself. It's
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not a classic. I didn't say that one.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
I didn't like it when it came out. But Kubrick
deserves the benefit of the doubt because he's smarter than
all of us, and there are things that we don't
get that he's done until we're old enough to appreciate it. Maybe,
Like you know, a lot of people didn't like Barry
Lyndon when that came out. But at this point, if
somebody says they think Barry Linden is boring, I'll never
take anything they say seriously.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Number twelve. This movie is better than Top Gun. According
to Business Insider, Top Gun Maverick, that's better than the original. Right,
No it is not.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
No, No, it's the Star Wars.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
It's not better original, But I love Top Gun Maverick.
It's a ripoff of an old movie called The six
three three Squadron. Hey, okay, Mark, Okay, keep going.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Number eleven.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
See this was when I could throw this list out
the fricking window. The eleventh best Tom Cruise movie, Days
of Thunder The Race Car went right. I didn't watch it.
It's not boring.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
It's a fine movie.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
I think I liked Robert Duvall's performance more so than
Tom Cruises.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
It was a formula movie about formula race and I
saw that at a drive in and I was busy
getting drunk.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Actually, Number ten risky business, I'll allow it. Number nine
the Original Mission impossible. Didn't like it. It's not top ten,
it's not not of top Tom Cruisis movies, the franchise, Yeah,
but not that one in particular. No, it was Finding Itself.
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Number eight, pissing me off again interview with the Vampire.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
No, I don't think that is quite possibly hated Tom
Cruise hatoke about that movie.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
They were parody and satirized it all the time. Number seven,
And there's an argument to be made for this. If
it was marketed better, I might fully agree with it.
Edge of Tomorrow. Edge of Tomorrow is really good. It
was pretty good. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Yeah, I hate time loop movies, but that one was
bad because they didn't give you a chance to be
annoyed with it.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
It was just boom. It was quick. Number six.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Raymond, Raymond, Raymond Man, Raymond spider Man. We're having dinner
with the Rainmans this evening. I will allow it, but
I think it's that'man right right. You can say it's
a Tom Cruise movie, but he's not the driving force. No.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Number five. Jerry maguire, disagree, just because everyone knows Jerry McGwire,
none of you complete me, none of you.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Number four.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I agree with this we can quibble ware, but yes,
it's on the top five list. A few good men,
Oh yes, yes, of course. Now I only know that
one thing I don't know. Oh, there are a bunch
of scenes where Tom Cruise he's doing like a Jack
Nicholson impression. He he uses his true acting range in
that movie. I only know that you can't handle the truth. Well,
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that courtroom scene is iconic, but the rest to the movie,
he gives a great performance. Number three Magnolia, Sure, yep, Okay,
what's that Paul Thomas Anderson. He plays a pickup artist. Okay,
check it out.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Some talk. Number two The Color of Money.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
No, I never saw that because I didn't see the
original with Paul Newman.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Paul Newman.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I'm just saying, it's just never mind, it's it's not
And Number one, I understand why people would choose it.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
It's not my choice. Born on the fourth of July.
Well that really sounds perfunctory.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, like they didn't want to sounds like pandering. Yeah,
like they did.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I don't want it. I can't.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
I can't see myself raining and lower. I mean, is
that anyone's favorite movie?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
That's the thing. It was a pretty good movie. But yeah,
but not one.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Not one.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Not when you don't have Minority Report in the top ten,
Not when you don't have Collateral in the top ten.
I mean, there's there are too many other Tom Cruise
movies which deserve top ten recognition, and he has some
bs in the top ten. I mean, and he needs
to get an oscar this year, this year, this year,
absolutely absolutely final, final reckoning that makes the case. Let's
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get out of here, Mark Runner. We didn't argue as
much as I think we could have regarding this list.
I feel kind of short changed. Look collateral one to
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Wala needs to see it if he calls himself a
Tom Cruise fan. He needs to just grin and Barrett too.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
It should have been higher on the list.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
I'm kind of curious what he found so off putting
about Collateral.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
You have to speak for himself.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
That's just nothing I wanted. I didn't want to see it.
It just remember when it came to theaters, I'm like,
I'm not gonna go and see Jamie Fox and angry
Tom Cruise getting in his cab or something like that.
He's not angry someone Tom because someone is angry and
he's like.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Take me where I want to go? What is this?
Speaker 3 (31:27):
He's really not angry. That's not his character in the movie.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I think I get it. What's again? I think he's met,
like Jimmie Fox took his girl or something like that.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
I don't know Jamie Fox like that. Jamie Fox doesn't.
He doesn't bother me. Look, seriously, it just didn't. It
looked like a non interesting movie, a movie that was
gonna make me say I don't want to watch this.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
He thought it was going to be like a driving
mister Cruise. Maybe that's it.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
It could be, you know.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
I was.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Like, that's kind of direct. Yeah, you might be right.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
It could be could that could be what made me say,
hell do I'm not watching this?
Speaker 2 (32:02):
But it's actually a really good movie and something I
wanted to be able to follow up on later.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
You can't.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
I don't want to give away how the movie ends,
but I still would have liked to have revisited that
storyline somehow, some way later on.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
It's not a bad Michael Mann movie if you love
his stuff. It's not his very best, but there is
a scene where Tom Cruise goes to liquidate somebody in
a crowded nightclub and great, yeah, you watch it for
that alone.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
And Tom Cruise gives a I wouldn't say an understated performance,
but he gives some nuance to his character. It's a
very dark movie. It only happens over the course of
one night. It's simple in his conception. I just thought
it was well done. He plays against type and it's not.
It's not a real one note bad guys. There's a
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reason that you want to see the whole two hours
with him, Jamie Fox. It's two hours, yeah, but they
explain what is happening and why and how these characters
have come together.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
There's a reason for everything.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Yeah, and he is a ruthless professional, but he's he's
not a total stinker.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
And you know who's in it as well, kind of
a bit part Mark Ruffalo. He plays a police detective
and you don't even recognize him because he has facial hair.
I mean, he just looks really different. But it's Mark Ruffalo. Yep,
that's your homework. Twalla, here you go. I'm saying there
are other people in this movie that you might appreciate.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
It has nothing. Look, I appreciate Tom Cruise. I appreciate
Jamie Fox. There are some movies that I'm just kno,
gonna watch Eyes Wide Shut.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Just watch that one for the nudity.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
There's a bunch of Tom Cruise. I don't watch Tom
Cruise in non action films. Every film that I've seen
him in is an action film. I don't watch any
thing that has to do with him trying. I'm not
tore No, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Wait, Lateral is an action film. It really is?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
It does it?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Does?
Speaker 2 (34:03):
It is a boring fest? No?
Speaker 3 (34:08):
No, no, it's an action film.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Yes, I was. I was looking at the cast on
Vanilla's Guy. It's it's got a great cast. I switched
I have to watch that again. Yeah, that's about drugs now.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
I don't want to give it away.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Yeah no, no, no, no, I mean I'm not going.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
To watch it, so it doesn't know.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
That. I promise you I'm not looking that up. It's
worth watching. You should watch it.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
I don't get high on gummies.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Good sir.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
How did that says? That's a different you have to
be high gummies to watch Vanilla Scott. That's not true
at all. Okay, it's time to get out of here.
It's time for a Coast to Coast am with George Norrie.
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on this Memorial Day evening. And we've talked every single
week about the state of Hollywood, the movie theater portion
of the industry, and how they need to have movies
which are hits that are going to get people not
only in the seats once, but return visits that they'll
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be able to keep their doors open throughout the week,
not just on Friday, Saturday, Sunday hoping to sell out theaters.
That's why the summer box office season is so very important.
If a theater's going to do well at all, it's
going to be during the summer. They need big titles,
they need big returns. And this weekend was one of
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the best ever, I mean ever ever. You have two
Juggernaut movies this weekend. Coming in at number one is
Lelo and Stitch. It made three one hundred and forty
one million dollars this Memorial A weekend. It's opening weekend.
I don't know what a budget was, but they made
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all their money back in this first weekend, three one
hundred and forty one million, seven hundred thousand dollars. In fact,
they pulled in more than one hundred million on its
first night of Friday. Mission Impossible, the Final Reckoning. We're
going to talk about this a lot for the rest
of the hour. I will tell you that came in second.
Not too shabby. It did two hundred and four million,
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two hundred and four million, four a franchise which has
always done well, but never done that well. And usually
you have like a sliding scale where the deeper you
get into a franchise you get usually diminishing returns. And
to finish with such a financial flourish, I got a
lot of thoughts on that one, but we'll come back
to it in just a moment.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Then you have movies.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Which were overperforming and still continue to overperform. Coming in
at number three is Final Destination. Bloodlines brought in another
nineteen million this week and in your third week. That's
saying something. And it's already brought in one hundred and
eighty seven million dollars world wide. And here's something else
which is notable about this movie. It's a horror movie,
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but it's balanced. It's not like if you look at
a lot of horror movies, Traditionally, they get much more
support domestically than they do internationally.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
This movie is very well balanced.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Ninety four million domestically, ninety two million internationally for one
hundred and eighty six million worldwide, which means it is
appreciated all around the world and still overperforming. I'm sorry,
real quick, you said Leilo on Sis brought in how.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Much three hundred and forty one million worldwide.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Dang off of one hundred million budgets. Well, I don't
think this meant much on marketing and promotion, because I
don't remember seeing a lot of promotion for it. You
would think something that's really important as far as movie
priorities would be advertised during the NBA playoffs or something
like that.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
If you have a lot of eyeballs watching.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I think I can count on one hand how many
times I seem to preview for that. I'm thinking it's
mostly word of mouth and that's something else. I mean,
that's really really and I'm not a lie. Low and
Stitch fan didn't care for the animated version. I hear
that this live action version is kind of beat for beat,
and there are some original stars from people from the
original movie. Who are in the live action one. I
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just don't have any desire to see it. I'm not
the intended audience, and I'm okay with that. Not all
great news, but still semi good news. Coming in at
number four is Thunderbolts. And when I say it's not
all great news, financially, it's still trending behind Captain America
Brave New World. For all the supposed review issues with
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Captain America Brave New World. Because Thunderbolts was very well
received by critics, it's not doing as well financially as
Captain America Brave New World. Thunderbolts came in number four
this week with another nine million, and it's not bad.
It's nothing to shake a stick at, but it still
falls behind what Marvel was hoping for it. It's brought
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in three hundred and fifty five million worldwide. Oh yeah,
and Captain America, I know it's like four hundred and
fifteen million something like that worldwide. Yeah, they said Thunderbolts
is going to need to break four hundred and fifty.
It's not going to get there. But you can see
how a lot of media can shape perception. If I
were to tell you that both Thunderbolts and Captain America
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Brave New World were going to be released within a
couple months of each other, which you think would do
better even after release. Post release, the buzz around Thunderbolts
was better than Captain America Brave New World. But as
far as fans support hasn't panned out that way. Hasn't
played that the way Captain America Brave neew World. And
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I didn't dislike Thunderbolts, I just didn't love it. Captain
America Braveview World was making more money from mar than Thunderbolts.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Is number five.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
In its six week in theaters is Centers brought in
another eight point six million. Not only did you have
an unexpected hit, you had an unexpected hit which is
hanging around even longer in theaters. It's brought in three
hundred and thirty nine million dollars worldwide. Nobody saw that coming,
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absolutely nobody. Number six was the last rodeo. Number seven
was Friendship in his first third week. Have no idea
what that is. Number eight is a Minecraft movie, another
movie I think overperformed. I don't think people expected to
do more than nine hundred million. It brought in two
point one million this week total of nine hundred and
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forty million worldwide. Number nine was The Accountant Too, in
its fifth week. I don't think people thought that was
going to hang around in theaters for five weeks. It
is just short of the Oh no, it just did
cross one hundred million dollar mark, more than I think
they thought they were going to get out of that movie.
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And there's your top ten Top ten coming in at
number ten is Hurry Up Tomorrow. Have no idea what
that is Lionsgate film. Oh, that's supposed to be one
of those. It's like a new take on the future. Okay, yeah,
all right, have no idea. But when we come back,
we're going to get into the top twenty Tom Cruise
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movies of all time. And I wonder if Mark Ronner
will disagree with all of the movies chosen for the
Top twenty.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I'm not a hater. I like Tom Cruise. No, I
do too.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I'm saying, as far as which movies this list valued.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
More than others or less than others, I plan to
disagree with you on general principle if that satisfies anyone.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Okay, And I've seen now the Final Reckoning, the Final
Mission impossible movie, and I have thoughts on that I'll
give probably in the final segment, but we'll be talking
about Tom Cruise for most of the rest of the way,
so I'll probably slip some remarks in there. And I'm
a huge Tom Cruise fan. Yes, Tom Cruise number four oscar.
He deserves an oscar in an acting category, because after
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you see Final Reckoning, you'll see how much acting he
does in the midst of stunts, not like some cutaway
where he's done acting and now he's doing a stunt,
no facial expressions, delivering dialogue in the midst of these stunts,
absolutely amazing.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
If he's just acting like he's not crapping his pants
in stark terror hanging off an airplane, that's probably enough.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I'll tell you this much.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
For the first time, his character of Ethan hunt to
Me showed that he thought that he was actually going
to buy it. He was actually on the precipice of
death in the sense of there was a in the
terms of this character, there was a self realization that
this is too big for me.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I don't want to give away the movie.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Okay, well we're gonna disagree, so it doesn't matter a right,
So why is you just going Are you just starting
with a disagreement?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Now? I know?
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I was like, can you at least wait till wet it?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
There? Geez, hit it, Stefan, you're listening to Later with
Moe Kelly on Demand from KFI AM six forty with
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Speaker 3 (08:18):
You know I'm in the mood to argue with Mark Ronner.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Before the break, I said, we're going to talk about
the top twenty Tom Cruise movies. But the list actually
has forty five, and I got time tonight, so I
feel like arguing with Mark a little bit longer. So
let's do all forty five. Go down the list, let's
hear him, and this is Business Insider, so take it
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for what it's worth. Coming in at number forty five
of the top movies of Tom Cruise All Time Rock
of Ages, I was bad. I didn't even see that.
It was bad.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Oh that's the one where he's a rock star. Yeah, yeah,
I missed that one altogether. That's okay, I won't want
to miss it.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
It's bad. Everyone did.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
At number forty four Endless Love, I forgot he was
actually in that. It is based on well they used
the song Diana Ross, Lina Richie, and it's yeah, it's
he's not even like the star of it.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
He just gets a brief.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
That's not that's not going down in the annuals of
Tom Cruise.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Yeah, it's not. I wouldn't even call it a Tom Cruise.
He's just in it. Number forty three Jack Reacher, Never
Go Back.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I liked it. It's okay, but it's okay.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Like I said Friday, we've all kind of disavout it
now that we've got well perfect reaches.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
What I'm saying, I mean, if not for the Amazon Reacher,
the Tom Cruise Reachers are good and and I wasn't
familiar with the character from the books, so I didn't
know about him prior. But when they did it on Amazon,
I started getting familiar. And I said, oh, that's why
people didn't like Tom Cruise is Reacher.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
But the films and they came out.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I thought, both of the Reacher films are good, watchable, Yeah, watchable, watchable.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I mean if you're not judging against the source material
as far as how he's described and everything. It doesn't
get in a way. Coming in at number forty two
of the top Tom Cruise movies. Oh, this should be
a number sixty eight. The Mummy, the twenty seventeen terrible.
It was worse than terrible. I will fight you on
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that one. It's way beyond terrible. I feel like we're
almost agreeing on this one, which is boring. But I
didn't watch it when it came out because it looked
so terrible, and I didn't I didn't have a venue
to review it, and.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I just thought life's too short for this.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
It it cratered the whole possibility of the universal Monster verse.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
It absolutely did. And they had big plans for that.
Wasn't that was supposed to be the beginning of it? Yes, yeah,
And he turned what was supposed to be a horror
film into like an action adventure and it was just
ungodly bad. I watched it actually, not not too long ago,
and it's rough going.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
But all of them are bad.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Because the Jacqueline Hide that they did that was a
spin off from that.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
That was the second one that was bad. That was
very bad.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
I saw that was it was It was the the.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Uh the dude who played better?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I am dB that mother, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Man, the guy he's he's fat now he was he played. No, no,
he was zeus In in the thor Crow. No no, no,
not not Russell Crowe and uh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
He did a separate j Hyde movie.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
Yeah, because he was he was in that Mummy film.
He was in the film as as a doctor Jekylin.
Then in the end of the film that was this
whole thing. He he got the power to turn into
his monster self, and then they did a whole film
with that.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
This is that uh what do you call that syndrome
where people think something exists and it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Oh the man, No, no, no, we'll find it. I
think you're in saying number forty one losing it. I
saw it. I don't remember it. Number forty Mission Impossible
two two wasn't very good. I mean you just watched
all of them in a row, just.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Watch all of them.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
It seemed like kind of a color by Numbers sequel.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Was it too that John wo one Yes, which is
disappointing because John wu is a movie god and he
turned in something that just felt like a paycheck to me,
complete with his obligatory dove release scene.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Number thirty nine, the first Jack Reacher I was in
twenty twelve. Yeah, okay. Number thirty eight. I know I'm
going to be the minority in this one. I really
liked this movie. It did not stick the landing, which
is part of it, but I really liked it visually.
It was gorgeous. Oblivion. Oblivion was great Obli Freeman.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Yeah, especially especially if you don't know what the films
that when it gets to the ends, you're.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Like, oh, snap, the big, bigveil is great.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
It didn't stick the landing.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
And if you don't know, Earth is under attack by
these aliens which all look like this astronaut from Earth,
and they explained why that happens later on. But these
are clones, and then the clone keeps falling in love
with the same person. It's like, I didn't quite buy
the idea that the clone would you know, they would
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fall in love with the same person because it's not
the same person, because just they just have the same DNA.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Long story short, it didn't stick the landing, but I
like the movie. I really did. Number thirty seven Lions
for Lambs, Never saw it.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Isn't that a spy movie?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Don't know?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Not very memorable. Number thirty six Far and Away with
Nicole Kidman that was like a big deal when it
came out, just because it had a couple of a
listers and it was a big romance epic at the time.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I believe they were weren't they married, Yes, they were married.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Oh, they were married. But I barely remember a thing
about it. That they play Irish immigrants seeking a fortune
in America. Outside the lush photography. According to this, there
isn't much to enjoy about the movie. I didn't Ron
Howard direct that don't know, didn't see it, don't care.
Number thirty five. I think they should be just a
little bit higher Vanilla Sky. Yes, oh we agree on that.
(14:20):
I hate to admit it, but we do it so funny.
I'll ever heard his terrible things about it. No, I
did not dis liked I actually liked the movie. Okay,
I never saw it. Never saw Number thirty four American Maid.
Didn't see it. I heard that was really good. Oh
that is not bad. That's the one where he plays
the uh drug smuggling pilot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's not
bad at all. Number thirty three, ooh ooh, the last Samurai.
(14:45):
I have so many problems with this movie. Well, Cruise,
it's not Tom cruise.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
You can't get enough of a white guy going to
that middle Japan and showing everybody how things are done.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Yeah, that that alone to me, that's the same or
is Avatar? Is everything at all stems from Tarzan?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
And no, I think the recent Showgun was kind of
a corrective to that.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah, yeah, number thirty two. Valkyrie, Oh that wasn't bad.
That deserves to be higher. Yeah, all right, like Valkyrie
number thirty one, I personally would put this higher, but
I understand why most people didn't like it.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
War of the Worlds, that's that low.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
That was yeah, going on thirty one, Come on, this
is no no what I.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Liked about this movie.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
And also Steven Spielberg, he went in a different direction
from the alien invasions where they're destroying all the iconic
landmarks and monuments, and he told it from the story
of one guy who's just trying to save his family
and in a real situation. You don't know what's going
on around you don't know what's happening in Europe, you
don't know what's happening in other major cities.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
And did you know that one of our former hosts,
that Kfi is in.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
This movie who do you know Sam Walters? Yes, yeah,
Lisam Walter is in this movie. She plays the She
plays the bar tener. See if you could pull up
the clip at the at the Fairy because in the movie,
and Lisa and Walter did tell me, if you don't know,
she used to be a host akfi. Now she's starring
on Avid Elementary. She told me that in the original
(16:20):
cut of the movie, she's having an affair with Tom
Cruise's character.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
She makes it.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
That makes sense, and it makes more sense when you
know that she works as a bar as a bartender,
and so when she shows up at the Fairy, they
acknowledge each other. But they're kind of cool because because
the kids are basically like, well, how do y'all know
each other?
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Yeah, and her and even her insistence on trying to
help out.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
And take that makes sense. Oh yep.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
That deserves to be higher because that's Steven Spielberg remaking
the classic from nineteen what fifty three. I guess just
letting himself loose in the sandbox of something he saw
when he was young. I think that movie deserves much
better than it got them. Look, I know he's gonna
do one more. UFO slash Alien movie. It's in its
under tight raps. I'm gonna see it no matter what
(17:09):
it is.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
He just has me at Steven Spielberg Alien's big Close
Encounters War of the World does not matter. I'm gonna
watch it absolutely. Number thirty wasn't bad. Night and Day,
kind of formulaic, not too memorable. Didn't get through it.
Number twenty nine I think is one of Tom Cruise's
better acting roles.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Let me see if you can guess this one.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Mark Ronner, Timothy Hutton, Oh, Magnolia, No taps nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Would they take over this military school? I saw that
when I was a kid. Yeah, but it's like prehistoric
Tom Cruise before he became Tom.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
He's a supporting actor, his nice story.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Sorry. Number twenty eight, I thought it was garbage cocktail.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Sorry sorry, it spawned a whole new generation of fancy
cocktail coyoti.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Oh yeah, Number twenty seven, they're wrong. Mission Impossible three?
That was I still think it's the best one. What
this is where we argue? Go ahead, let's start the argument.
Isn't that the one JJ Abrams direction. Yes, Yes, it's terrible.
It sucks. He doesn't like JJ Abrams, though I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
If he'd take his name off of it, he would
have been fine.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Philip Seymour Hoffman is the best villain of all the
Mission Impossible movies. Oh, there's no question he's He makes
everything he's in better.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Uh. In fact, he would have been good in this
new one because I thought is sign Morales didn't really
get a whole lot to do.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
But that third movie, I thought it was a stinker.
If they didn't kill him in Mission Impossible three, I
didn't like how they killed him by having a truck
run him over. He would have been back for the finale.
Probably he would have been woven in somehow. He's just
a spoiler alert. He was a terrific actor. But the
people didn't see that one. Sorry, yeah, I mean he died.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
He was two thousand and six, twenty years old.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
But he was a phenomenal villain, cold calculating. It's like
he wasn't bothered by the things that that Ethan. He
was just like, you know how this is gonna go right.
I'm going to kill you in a terrible way. And
he meant it. But he didn't have to get all
just I top over the top.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
He was just like this is tell me your name,
tell me I'm gonna I'm gonna get your girlfriend. I
wanna find someone that you care about, and then I'm
gonna kill them in front of you, and then I'm
gonna kill you. If only he was the whole movie.
When we come back, we have the top twenty six
Tom Cruise movies of all time, according to Business Insider.
(19:42):
We thought we were only gonna do the top twenty,
but I said, damn it, why not, Let's do the
top forty five more.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
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in the middle of this Business Insider list the top
forty five movies of Tom Cruise, and it's movies that
he start in, movies that he's had bit parts in,
he had a co starring rule.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I don't agree with much.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Of this list, and I don't agree with Mark Ronner
about his thoughts about Tom Cruise. You're gonna agree with
me about collateral that better be up high. Business Insider
doesn't make great okay, coming in at number twenty six,
in other words, better than every Tom Cruise movie we've
seen so far, according to Business Insider the Outsiders, No, no,
(20:41):
a little bit of a head scratcher there. Yeah, number
twenty five Mission Impossible Rogue Nation. Which number is that
four or five? Fourth one? That's a fourth one? Okay, okay,
that's when they started getting better.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
All right.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I'm not gonna argue with him because I like to
totality this series, so I really thought Mission Impossible three
should have been ranked higher, but.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
You're prone to hyperbole. Is for the one where he's
swinging on the building in the Middle East Khalif? Yes, yes,
that one made me clinch right up. Yeah, your fist
right clinch, your fists closer to the center of the
body mask.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
This is why I don't like this list right here,
coming in at number twenty four. Minority report, this has
to be higher. Yeah, oh yeah, that was incredible. Top ten,
easily easy for him. I mean, we agree.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
I hate when we agree, but it has to be
up almost top five. Yeah, what a bunch of hacks.
Are you sure this isn't a variety list?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
No, person maybe got fired from variety now they work
for business inside wallet Hub touche. Number twenty three, Mission
Impossible Fallout. Yeah, I like the movie, but it's not
better than Minority Report. Number five. Is that number five?
It's number five?
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Okay, that's the one with Henry Cavill where he reloads
his arms in the bathroom twice.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
That's a terrific movie. That's tons of fun. There's tons
of fun, but it's not the best Tom Cruise movie. Right, No, Right,
Number twenty two, Tropic Thunder moving on number twenty one,
all the right moves. I have to watch it again
because that movie is forty two years old.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Is that the one where he's a football player in
high school? Yeah, yeah, I don't care about that.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yeah, number twenty kidding, Mission Impossible, Ghost Protocol. I like
Ghost Protocol. Yeah, I like all the Mission Impossible movie.
I like Ghost Protocol.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Number nineteen.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I still think this movie should have been higher just
on acting performance.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
The firm opposite Gene Hackman.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
I haven't seen that in so long that you probably
have a fresher recollection.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I do, because pulling clips for a name of that
movie called classic is so like, well, let me just
go ahead and rewatch the movie altogether.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Yeah, did it seem like Cruise was kind of outmatched
by Hackman.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Of course he was, because this gene freaking Hackney. Yeah, okay,
and it was you know, it was much early, is
early in Tom Cruise's crew. I was like, yeah, Number eighteen,
Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning, Part one, Recency Bias. Number seventeen,
Top Gun. I know, I just pissed off a lot
of KFI listeners right there. There's a lot. So every
(23:13):
movie I tell you about right now is quote unquote
better than the Top Gun, all right, According to Business Insider,
Number sixteen Legend, I love Legend. I've never seen it. Legend.
Legend is very dark there, you haven't seen it. No
one is the Legend of me.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Just you dog, just you.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Legend is really good, really good. Number fifteen, Mission Impossible,
The Final Reckoning. I need more time with it because
I would be suffering from recency bias. But it's from
the stunts alone.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
It's got to be top ten consideration.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
After I thought about it over the weekend, it made
me think of those insane old like Harold Lloyd clips
where do you know what I'm talking about, These old
silent black and white things where he does the most
preposterous stunts imaginable, and you think he's gonna die.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
No, I'm not familiar.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Look up Harold Lloyd and see look at stuff on YouTube.
It'll blow your mind. It'll make you think of this movie.
Number fourteen.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
This should have been top five, and I'll fight anybody
for it. Michael Mann Collateral, Yeah, that deserves to be higher.
He's a good bad guy. He's a good bad guy.
But this required that movie required more of him as
an actor.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Yeah, than a lot of other stuff. Number Are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I had a pastoral that one? Why it's Michael Mann. Yeah,
I just passed on. That's the one with him. Jamie
Foxx Yeah, Jada pickotts Man, Yeah, I definitely passed on
that one. I was like, nope, Wow, she hate America
and movies seriously. Number thirteen. This movie's too high. I
liked it, and I know it's too high. Eyes wide
shut Stanley Koobrick. Yes, but it's the movie itself. It's
(24:57):
not a classic. I didn't say that one.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
I didn't like it when it came out. But Kubrick
deserves the benefit of the doubt because he's smarter than
all of us, and there are things that we don't
get that he's done until we're old enough to appreciate it. Maybe,
Like you know, a lot of people didn't like Barry
Lyndon when that came out. But at this point, if
somebody says they think Barry Linden is boring, I'll never
take anything they say seriously.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Number twelve. This movie is better than Top Gun. According
to Business Insider, Top Gun Maverick, that's better than the original. Right,
No it is not.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
No, No, it's the Star Wars.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
It's not better original, But I love Top Gun Maverick.
It's a ripoff of an old movie called The six
three three Squadron. Hey, okay, Mark, Okay, keep going.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Number eleven.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
See this was when I could throw this list out
the fricking window. The eleventh best Tom Cruise movie, Days
of Thunder The Race Car went right. I didn't watch it.
It's not boring.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
It's a fine movie.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
I think I liked Robert Duvall's performance more so than
Tom Cruises.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
It was a formula movie about formula race and I
saw that at a drive in and I was busy
getting drunk.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Actually, Number ten risky business, I'll allow it. Number nine
the Original Mission impossible. Didn't like it. It's not top ten,
it's not not of top Tom Cruisis movies, the franchise, Yeah,
but not that one in particular. No, it was Finding Itself.
(26:27):
Number eight, pissing me off again interview with the Vampire.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
No, I don't think that is quite possibly hated Tom
Cruise hatoke about that movie.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
They were parody and satirized it all the time. Number seven,
And there's an argument to be made for this. If
it was marketed better, I might fully agree with it.
Edge of Tomorrow. Edge of Tomorrow is really good. It
was pretty good. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Yeah, I hate time loop movies, but that one was
bad because they didn't give you a chance to be
annoyed with it.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
It was just boom. It was quick. Number six.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Raymond, Raymond, Raymond Man, Raymond spider Man. We're having dinner
with the Rainmans this evening. I will allow it, but
I think it's that'man right right. You can say it's
a Tom Cruise movie, but he's not the driving force. No.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Number five. Jerry maguire, disagree, just because everyone knows Jerry McGwire,
none of you complete me, none of you.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Number four.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I agree with this we can quibble ware, but yes,
it's on the top five list. A few good men,
Oh yes, yes, of course. Now I only know that
one thing I don't know. Oh, there are a bunch
of scenes where Tom Cruise he's doing like a Jack
Nicholson impression. He he uses his true acting range in
that movie. I only know that you can't handle the truth. Well,
(27:58):
that courtroom scene is iconic, but the rest to the movie,
he gives a great performance. Number three Magnolia, Sure, yep, Okay,
what's that Paul Thomas Anderson. He plays a pickup artist. Okay,
check it out.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Some talk. Number two The Color of Money.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
No, I never saw that because I didn't see the
original with Paul Newman.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Paul Newman.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I'm just saying, it's just never mind, it's it's not
And Number one, I understand why people would choose it.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
It's not my choice. Born on the fourth of July.
Well that really sounds perfunctory.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, like they didn't want to sounds like pandering. Yeah,
like they did.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I don't want it. I can't.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
I can't see myself raining and lower. I mean, is
that anyone's favorite movie?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
That's the thing. It was a pretty good movie. But yeah,
but not one.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Not one.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Not when you don't have Minority Report in the top ten,
Not when you don't have Collateral in the top ten.
I mean, there's there are too many other Tom Cruise
movies which deserve top ten recognition, and he has some
bs in the top ten. I mean, and he needs
to get an oscar this year, this year, this year,
absolutely absolutely final, final reckoning that makes the case. Let's
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get out of here, Mark Runner. We didn't argue as
much as I think we could have regarding this list.
I feel kind of short changed. Look collateral one to
(30:56):
Wala needs to see it if he calls himself a
Tom Cruise fan. He needs to just grin and Barrett too.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
It should have been higher on the list.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
I'm kind of curious what he found so off putting
about Collateral.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
You have to speak for himself.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
That's just nothing I wanted. I didn't want to see it.
It just remember when it came to theaters, I'm like,
I'm not gonna go and see Jamie Fox and angry
Tom Cruise getting in his cab or something like that.
He's not angry someone Tom because someone is angry and
he's like.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Take me where I want to go? What is this?
Speaker 3 (31:27):
He's really not angry. That's not his character in the movie.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I think I get it. What's again? I think he's met,
like Jimmie Fox took his girl or something like that.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
I don't know Jamie Fox like that. Jamie Fox doesn't.
He doesn't bother me. Look, seriously, it just didn't. It
looked like a non interesting movie, a movie that was
gonna make me say I don't want to watch this.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
He thought it was going to be like a driving
mister Cruise. Maybe that's it.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
It could be, you know.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
I was.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Like, that's kind of direct. Yeah, you might be right.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
It could be could that could be what made me say,
hell do I'm not watching this?
Speaker 2 (32:02):
But it's actually a really good movie and something I
wanted to be able to follow up on later.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
You can't.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
I don't want to give away how the movie ends,
but I still would have liked to have revisited that
storyline somehow, some way later on.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
It's not a bad Michael Mann movie if you love
his stuff. It's not his very best, but there is
a scene where Tom Cruise goes to liquidate somebody in
a crowded nightclub and great, yeah, you watch it for
that alone.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
And Tom Cruise gives a I wouldn't say an understated performance,
but he gives some nuance to his character. It's a
very dark movie. It only happens over the course of
one night. It's simple in his conception. I just thought
it was well done. He plays against type and it's not.
It's not a real one note bad guys. There's a
(32:56):
reason that you want to see the whole two hours
with him, Jamie Fox. It's two hours, yeah, but they
explain what is happening and why and how these characters
have come together.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
There's a reason for everything.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Yeah, and he is a ruthless professional, but he's he's
not a total stinker.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
And you know who's in it as well, kind of
a bit part Mark Ruffalo. He plays a police detective
and you don't even recognize him because he has facial hair.
I mean, he just looks really different. But it's Mark Ruffalo. Yep,
that's your homework. Twalla, here you go. I'm saying there
are other people in this movie that you might appreciate.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
It has nothing. Look, I appreciate Tom Cruise. I appreciate
Jamie Fox. There are some movies that I'm just kno,
gonna watch Eyes Wide Shut.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Just watch that one for the nudity.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
There's a bunch of Tom Cruise. I don't watch Tom
Cruise in non action films. Every film that I've seen
him in is an action film. I don't watch any
thing that has to do with him trying. I'm not
tore No, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Wait, Lateral is an action film. It really is?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
It does it?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Does?
Speaker 2 (34:03):
It is a boring fest? No?
Speaker 3 (34:08):
No, no, it's an action film.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Yes, I was. I was looking at the cast on
Vanilla's Guy. It's it's got a great cast. I switched
I have to watch that again. Yeah, that's about drugs now.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
I don't want to give it away.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Yeah no, no, no, no, I mean I'm not going.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
To watch it, so it doesn't know.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
That. I promise you I'm not looking that up. It's
worth watching. You should watch it.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
I don't get high on gummies.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Good sir.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
How did that says? That's a different you have to
be high gummies to watch Vanilla Scott. That's not true
at all. Okay, it's time to get out of here.
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