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1. 

   According to his church:
   “The video was Cruise’s acceptance speech after he was awarded the religion’s “Freedom Medal.” It was shown to 5,000 church parishioners and guests.”
   And it was never meant to be public or promotional in any way…

   Either way…this guys a nutjob.

   Posted by Mike on January 16th, 2008
2. 

   Agreed. Even if this was for the church members, it’s still creepy as hell. What surprises me most about it is that in a recent film I saw for a religion class they were talking to a woman who had previously been involved in Scientology (the film dates back to the early 90’s) and she used the car crash analogy too. Further suggests that there’s some weird brainwashing/programming type thing going on too.

   Creepy. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to watch Top Gun the same way again.

   Posted by Marina on January 16th, 2008
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   That is pretty creepy that the same analogy would show up like that. I’m sure Scientology uses severe brainwashing techniques though, otherwise how could they possibly make adults believe in this nonsense?

   Posted by Henrik on January 16th, 2008
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   Am I the only one getting the vibe that the Tom Cruise video isn’t actually a legit video in the sense that it was produced by Scientologists for Scientologists so much as it’s someone who has gone ahead and edited a bunch of clips together to create a faux recruitment video? The ending of it just screams satire at me, especially considering the voiceover is done in a Movie Trailer Guy type voice. I don’t know, I’m having trouble taking it seriously. I mean, the stuff coming out of Cruise’s mouth is relatively alarming, but the whole thing just seems so fake to me.

   Posted by Liz on January 16th, 2008
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   It is funny that as an actor and person that makes movies things to be seen. Cruise doesn’t like spectators.

   Posted by Ian on January 17th, 2008
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   loved the down fall of hd dvd video What movie was that taken from?also there where some pretty funny die hard movies, The day after die hard was good and so was the music video “die die die hard as we can.” good stuff added that one to my favorites.

   Posted by paulie on January 17th, 2008
7. 

   The clip was from “Der Utergang” (2004) A movie worth watching if you can.

   Posted by Roy on January 17th, 2008
8. 

   ….if you can find it.

   Posted by Roy on January 17th, 2008
9. 

   I don’t think Tom Cruise is any different than anyone who is very passionate about their religion. I’m not a supporter of scientology and honestly, I don’t quite understand it that much, but Tom Cruise doesn’t seem all that wacko to me.

   Seriously, there are some pretty insane things about all religions and he believes in his just like others believe in theirs. He was also just given a huge honour. I was expecting something more out of this video for it to appear in this column.

   At most Tom Cruise is just a weird guy….but so are Jay and Sean and all of the rest of the people in Filmjunk’s Death Proof parody.

   Posted by Greg on January 17th, 2008
10. 

    more Tom Cruise footage released:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly-hTPNRlWU

    Posted by Goon on January 17th, 2008

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