Comments on: Weird Web Wednesdays: Tom Cruise Is My Master

By: Goon

Goon — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:36:30 +0000

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

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:36:38 +0000

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.

By: Roy

Roy — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:19:50 +0000

….if you can find it.

By: Roy

Roy — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:18:15 +0000

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

By: paulie

paulie — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:13:28 +0000

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.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:06:00 +0000

It is funny that as an actor and person that makes movies things to be seen. Cruise doesn’t like spectators.

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:14:22 +0000

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.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:59:39 +0000

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?

By: Marina

Marina — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:49:55 +0000

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.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:53:31 +0000

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.