The Benefits of being in Tropic Thunder

I enjoyed Tropic Thunder very much. And the film community has been a little split on the merits of the film. Either way a lot has been said about Tom Cruises performance. Everyone can some what agree that he was very funny in the film and I agree with that myself. However I keep hearing that this performance could possible save his career that has been spiraling downwards.

Honestly I like a lot of Tom Cruise films, I think he's a lot of fun to what on film. I didn't really enjoy MI:3 but Minority Report and War of the Worlds were a lot of fun. His career has been going downwards not because of the quality of his films but because of his belief in his religion Scientology. The arguement against Scientology is another article but due to his involvement with that religion he has been forcing it onto other people and personally attacking everyone that disagreed with him.

When you go around calling everyone an idiot and that they should convert to your way of thinking its going to rub people the wrong way. No one really wants to work with him, he literally got fired from an entire studio and is only making films out of the studio that he owns. Not to mention he is firing people that has worked for him for decades.

Public opinion is not being kind to Tom Cruise and with what he stands for and represents I am not kind to him either. Right now he is standing for everything I disagree with in our society. But does this film save him. No way in hell. He has a lot more to prove, Tropic Thunder is only a stepping stone showing everyone that he doesn't take himself to seriously. Right now Tom Cruise is a dick and needs to grow up. All Tropic Thunder has done is show us that maybe he's trying to redeem himself. Time will only tell.