He may have freaked us all out when he went manic on Oprah’s couch, and when he went all Wristslap McSmug on Matt Lauer, and when some Scientology videos leaked, and two dozen other times recently, but I have to give this much to Tom Cruise:
He still looks good. Forget thetans and auditing — THIS is what Scientology should be using to recruit people: “Come on board, and you’ll be eternally 35.” Done. Take my money. There’s a seat for me at a bingo parlor somewhere humid in forty years and I want to look GOOD in my muumuu.
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Comments (82):
Seriously! I wish more people went to his surgeon. He looks great, too good to think he hasn’t had anything done (or is that just me being jealous of someone who has only aged about 5 years over the last 15?).
Yes, I think Tommy boy here has been “freshened up” a bit. I liked him a bit better with the long hair he had a few months ago. But, the Scientology baggage he carries around with him makes him completely double NOT sexy. (I could be talked into a discrete tryst, though. Call me, Tom!)
He’s a little too Madam Tussaud’s for my taste in this picture.
At least he made a little bit of an effort at this event. For the other photo calls for this flick he’s looked like he stopped by on the way to the grocery store.
In terms of how he’s looking, my loathing of him has now gotten to the point where I can’t be objective. (The fact that he’s playing Jack Reacher is so wrong that it killed the last of the tolerance that I had left for him.)
Yes LoriK. Yes.
Team LoriK
H8 LOATHE DESPISE
YES YES YES.
LoriK: Right on!
Yes! I couldn’t agree more. I don’t care if he miraculously got taller and suddenly looked like Val Kilmer circa the Iceman years (um, yummy….) I would still find him repulsive.
Nooooooooooooo!!!!!
Are you kidding me?!? – I must have had my head in the sand, I totally didn’t even realize. Crap.
I recently forced my 14yo daughter to watch Top Gun so she could understand why we all fell in love with Tom Cruise in the first place. This is what Tom Cruise is supposed to look like. If only he could regain his sanity (sigh).
Yes! And compared to how Val “Iceman” Kilmer and Anthony “Goose” Edwards have aged (normally), he really looks amazing here.
Agreed! He used to be my crush back then, now he’s just ick.
SIGN ME UP, DUDES!
He is looking very, very pretty these days, isn’t he? The styling here is absolutely by the book — I mean, it’s a how-to guide for actors on the red carpet, and we should expect to see easily a dozen different guys wearing this exact combination of shiny shoes, jeans, suit coat, sweater, and shirt, all in colors that complement their eyes, all in the next few weeks. Nothing like navy blue to evoke an aura of sanity and professionalism…
Too bad it’s so freaking boring.
I must be the only person alive who has never found Tom Cruise attractive.
Nope–I’m in that club.
*high fives*
I’m right there with you. I grew especially disenchanted with him because of his (in my opinion) awful portrayal of Lestat de Lioncourt in Interview with The Vampire.
Noire – that was a travesty, wasn’t it?!! Lestat is a Bowie – or at least Julian Sands
Fug Ugh – YES!!!! Either of those choices would have been vastly superior.
I have been a charter member of that club for 20+ years. Something about that professional secrecy of his (not to mention the squinty eyes) just leaves me cold.
@Melanie, you are so not alone…
Bucky Beaver? No thanks. He does look amazingly good in this picture, so mad props to his plastic surgeon, but my heart has never, and will never, go pitter-pat over him. In fact, were he standing next to a hunk like, say, Christopher Meloni, I wouldn’t even notice Cruise was in the room.
Count me in that club as well. He never really floated my boat and then when we went bonkers and let the scientology run free my “meh” turned into revulsion. The only think I can watch him in now is Jerry Maguire, and even then it’s only to lust after Cuba Gooding.
We are sure that this isn’t a wax replica, aren’t we? He looks a little too perfect.
I HATE HATE HATE him, but even I am objective enough to say 1) he looks best with his hair like this and not in some long shaggy wannabe Josh Halloway/Sawyer look 2) he is looking “healthy and rested” lately which may or may not have involved a doctor’s help
I hear he is absolutely delightful in person, always taking time to sign autograph and such. Like my pal who sells Amway and listens to Glen Beck, if I ignore the side of him that’s whack-a-doodle and just avoid certain topics, we can get along just fine.
That always goes a long way with me — like, if someone THAT famous and THAT easily able to blockade himself from fans actually goes out of his way to appreciate them.
Don’t blame scientology for his looks, blame plastic surgery. And a very well done job at that. He looks just like he always has, proof of a good job.
Yep, he looks great. But, he had work done. It is really great work though.
I have to say he does look really good here. FAR,FAR, FAR better than Brad Pitt ever does.
Pitt has always seemed to fight his beauty a little bit. I think his natural aging worked for him in Tree of Life, and it’s only going to lead to more interesting roles for him as it progresses.
Just wish he’d cut that hair more often, though. (And wash it.)
Also, his optician seems to hate him. Fuggggly glasses!
Pitt has always struck me as a guy who rebels against his attractiveness – much like Johnny Depp who’s always covering his up with Tim Burton wackitude. But I also respect both of them much more for trying to show that they are something other than a pretty face. Pretty faces age. Pretty faces need lots of freaky surgery to maintain. Pretty faces with lots of surgery start to look really freaky by the time the face is into its 50′s and 60′s.
Very well done plastic surgery! Kudos! Should save a ton of time on the creation of the actual wax figure.
Meh, he’s a total nutter but hot damn I love ALL his movies. Can’t help it.
Who cares about Tom Cruise?
Where are the pictures of Simon Pegg?!
SECONDED. Shrimpy little Scientology nutjub? No thanks. Though based on his outfit alone he does look rather dapper.
Ridiculously smart, charming, hilarious, strangely attractive British Ginger? Yes. Yes yes yes yes yes.
me thinks he is sucking the happy life out of his young wife and daughter, they seem mostly miserable.. disheveled and depressed.
I hate myself for thinking he looks totally terrific here. Tom, oh, Tom. By all accounts you are an intelligent, thoughtful, caring, and kind human being. Why, WHY, the nut job religion?!?
Tom Cruise is playing Jack Reacher??!! OMG, that’s even worse casting than Julia Roberts in the Ocean’s movies or Rosie O’D as Betty Rubble. I envisioned a younger Sean Connery type in this role. Robert DeNiro maybe?
Anyway, he may be a nutjob, but I wish more male celebs would appear looking this neat and tidy. Idiot who appears in bare feet, are you listening?
I’ve always liked Tom Cruise and think he is and always has been one of the best-looking men on earth — and a ridiculously underrated actor. And I always did dig the short guys. It’s just too bad that after 25 years of professional, give-nothing-away discretion, the dude decided for some reason to start talking (sigh).
But I completely agree: He’s so wrong for Reacher that he’s the anti-Reacher. For someone who has generally been pretty smart about picking projects, I have no idea what possessed Cruise to think he could do this. Perhaps the worst casting choice since Russell Crowe played Jack Aubrey (shudder).
Would you be my friend? I gnashed my teeth in agony when I heard R. Crowe had been cast as Lucky Jack. I’m a serious Age of Sail geek and that was just wrong.
I disagree.
Rosie O’D was in fact a perfect Betty. Yes she was HEAVIER than the animated one, but she had the character down to a science. I loved her in that movie – she and Perkins were perfectly cast, Goodman/Moranis were actually kinda predictable and boring and really coasted on their reps.
I had no idea who Reacher was until this, but the idea of Cruise as a 6’5″ 250lb giant makes me laugh. Hard.
Cruises best role was in The Outsiders, playing a screwball.
The surgeon is. a. genius. This almost brings me back to the time a gazillion years ago when my husband and I were watching Letterman and TC came on and flashed his 100,000 watt smile and I grinned and my husband became instantly jealous. ALMOST.
God, yes, that smile. Say what you will about his beliefs or behavior, there’s a reason he’s been on so many ladies’ “top 5″, and it begins and ends with how damn pretty he looks smiling.
In his case, the looking good just makes me think about how ridiculously wack one’s priorities have to be to be devoting THAT amount of time and money to trying to look 35.
I have a crush on your comment.
I want to know how he managed to keep Katie? Is there really a contract?? Inquiring minds…I also feel like you don’t even need a surgeon when you are a celebrity…a good dermatologist and a cosmetic dentist ought to do it. That, and piles of cash for the clothes and other necessities…
What are you talking about? He looks like Mister Rogers.
You, my dear, are hilarious.
Oh dear. As hard as I’m trying to fight it, I actually do find him very, very attractive here. I couldn’t stand him after the couch jumping/Brooke Shields mess, but methinks I see a bit of the old “Mission Impossible” (first movie) here. Oh dear.
He still makes my skin crawl clear across the room. WISH Val Kilmer would see this surgeon and restore The Face.
Anyway, style-wise, doesn’t TC pretty much wear this same outfit to every event? I always have fun trying to spot the lifts in his shoes.
My eyes always go right to his shoes, too!!
I saw Val Kilmer in a cameo on SNL and he was really playing it up: the aging, the rep for being just this side of nuts. He was funny as hell.
Come back, Val. Don’t change a thing; just come back.
Wish we got SNL in Oz – if only for that! Off to youtube I go
Yay for looking your best! I am tired of handsome actors making themselves look horrible with bad hair or clothes or whatever (FIX IT BRAD PITT!) I used to have such the crush on Tom, but that went away when he became the crazy. And it stayed away when he started LOOKING crazy. This look won’t bring my crush back, but I am very pleased that he is presenting himself so well.
I think everyone’s hater attitude toward him is based on a lot of bad press. People have weird religions, people say stuff they should keep to themselves, but when you’re famous, it gets exaggerated and printed over and over. Katie and Suri look perfectly happy to me. This man has made some pretty fantastic movies, and manages to keep himself looking fantastic (seriously, Brad Pitt, take a lesson, you two used to be comparable).
I agree with Kris M. I don’t hate him even as his foibles precede him wherever he goes. His movies, mostly, are entertaining, as he never phones in a performance. He does look great here, too.
He’s had very, very subtle work done, but yeah, he looks good. A bit like a wax figure in this photo, but good.
And as someone whose family has had dealings with Mr. Cruise and his family, he is a genuinely nice and caring man. I think he just doesn’t know how he comes across sometimes. The extreme Scientology control freak stuff is disturbing, too, but it’s probably only a coping mechanism.
No, he’s absolutely terrifying. You need to read some of that scientology stuff. It’s only a “coping mechanism” if you don’t use it to brainwash your minions.
Agree.
I know a couple of former Scientologists who’ve been told they were “suppressive” (first step on the road to what is the equivalent of excommunication). What they’ve told me of being inside sounds like a combination of mean-kids clique and Ponzi scheme.
Inside, Cruise here is referred to as a “Thetan”. This literally means that it’s pretty much his world; we’re all just living in it.
You’d think a Thetan would have been able to score one or two hit movies in the past five years, right?
I’m neutral about him. He never did much for me (quite possibly because my father has more than passing resemblance to him, so there’s that factor has always kept any attraction at bay), but I have to admit he’s aged well. If he’s had work done, he’s had it done right. He still looks like himself.
I do like the blend of the casual bottoms with the dapper jacket, though. Very chic without trying too hard.
No…too much water under the Scientology cruise ship.
(Pun not intended.
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But hilarious anyway!
Thanks.
Are you guys on crack? Look at that tailoring! These pants are 4 inches too long! The rest of it? cbf.
I think Tom Cruise has well and truly lost his sex symbol status, and nobody has a crush on him any more, except David Miscaviage and that crazy midwestern mom who keeps turning up on Oprah. But he does polish up well, and he certainly appears almost normal here! Are we sure it’s not hologram?
He might look okay here, but he’s still under dressed for the occasion. Perhaps it’s because he seems always to have something to prove, with his long stream of macho man hero movies. As an actor, he’s got no range: in his wardrobe, if he doesn’t appear as though he’s ready to chop wood, build a shed, or watch you bring the groceries in, he also has no range.
So he looks youthful: a youthful guy with masculinity issues and the wardrobe of a dock worker, (this photo is the “I dressed up, Mommy!) version. If it were “youthful” he were after, he’d know a great suit removes decades of age from your appearance. So I’m guessing he needs me to think he sure is a tough guy.
you nailed it ChaCha. All of that and the phone-it-in performances and I just can’t take him seriously. Besides, I know that he takes himself seriously enough for all of us.
He’s had something done, but I can’t put my finger on exactly what. And that’s as it should be. Whoever his surgeon is, he’s a GENIUS and more celebs should seek him out. But that’s unlikely since he’s probably signed some super-secret Scientology contract and is afraid of the Xenu Mafia.
That being said, I don’t get all the hate for Tom. I’ve never thought of him as hot, but he certainly is attractive. He looks really good here and while he may not always make art, he does make good movies. What more can you ask for?
I was never a huge Tom fan (in the Top Gun days, I liked Val Kilmer), but I never hated him either — and he does seem kinda crazy about some things, but at least he’s a wholesome kinda crazy, with kids and wife and relatively normal life [vs. Charlie Sheen, two goddesses, tiger's blood crazy]. I think he looks really good here — like the hair, he does look young but in a good way, and the outfit is a good dressy-casual mix.
And I have no idea who Jack Reacher is and whether or not he is miscast.
Jack Reacher is a character in a series of books by Lee Child. In the books he’s described as being 6’5″ tall and about 250 pounds. He’s also rather laconic and uses his physicality to get out of situations. Cruise is a good actor, but he can’t act 6’5″.
Am having trouble with the degree of pro-plastic surgery I’m reading here. Is it really such a tragedy seeing celebrities age??
Louise, it’s not “yay, he’s been to a plastic surgeon”, it’s more “another star goes to the plastic surgeon, but at least he doesn’t look like he’s been stuck in a wind tunnel for 2 weeks or like he’s turning into a freaky cat”. So I think it’s just appreciation for the fact that the plastic surgery has actually been tastefully and subtly done, as opposed to the slopy eyes, trout lips or mismatched cheeks you often see.
Far too conservative for me but at least he’s go his hair right.
I saw a preview for that rock star movie he’s in, and he is Totally Smoking Hot in it, for the first time in like ever. Yowza. Doesn’t quite do it for me here, but I am now officially waiting for that other movie to come out.
Hello? He got a hair cut! You should compare today to the past five years. Thank god for whomever is new hairdresser is! his career should give him a bonus!!
Ok that’s hot. I generally don’t like him, but thank God he brought back the original Tom Cruise we all swooned over in the 80s and early 90s. There is still hope for the world! Ah this is like an early Christmas present.
@Jasmine Shrimpy little Scientology nutjub?
Haha, I laughed so much at this.
But, I feel like the world has turned on Tom just like they turned on Lindsay, and I’m ready to give him a chance again. He looks great here.