Page 8 | Sir Tom Cruise 🙄

GeorgianaM · 2025-05-08T17:29:47+00:00

Tom Cruise is getting a Knighthood for services to the film industry! I don’t think I’ve seen him in anything for 20/30 years! Why are we rewarding a man who earns millions just for pretending to be someone else and speaking the words that someone else has written and who is instructed where to stand, sit, walk and move around? A man who has not seen his daughter since she was 7 years old nearly 12 years ago!

Lampzade · 08/05/2025 18:56

Growsomeballswoman · 08/05/2025 18:30

Crikey, that will piss off David Beckham 😂

Ha ha

SALaw · 08/05/2025 18:55

Growsomeballswoman · 08/05/2025 18:30

Crikey, that will piss off David Beckham 😂

They’re good pals? He was at David’s birthday the other day.

JoyousEagle · 08/05/2025 18:55

It would be an honorary knighthood, which Americans can get.

But I think you need to make it clear that this hasn’t actually been announced. It’s just speculation.

SALaw · 08/05/2025 18:55

@GeorgianaM but you know he’s made lots of films in that time, right?! It isn’t just about if Georgiana M has watched the films?

Rightsraptor · 08/05/2025 18:55

Bloody ridiculous.

It'll be honorary only, as he's American.

Tagyoureit · 08/05/2025 18:55

You do realise that 30 years takes you back to 1995??? Have you had your eyes closed since then?

Im not a huge fan of his but at least get your facts right

1996
Mission: Impossible
1996
Jerry Maguire
1998
Mission: Impossible II
1999
Eyes Wide Shut
2002
Minority Report
2003
The Last Samurai
2004
Collateral
2005
War of the Worlds
2006
Mission: Impossible III
2008
Valkyrie
2010
Knight & Day
2011
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
2012
Jack Reacher
2012
Rock of Ages
2013
Oblivion
2014
Edge of Tomorrow
2015
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
2016
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
2017
The Mummy
2017
American Made
2018
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
2022
Top Gun: Maverick
2023
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

TomatoSandwiches · 08/05/2025 18:54

tripleginandtonic · 08/05/2025 18:51

Tom Cruise was huge in the film industry. Being a shit father doesn't come into it

And being a shit father ( that we are assuming, we have no insight to his personal relationships) is in no way considerable to being a paedophile or necrophiliac.

Arlanymor · 08/05/2025 18:53

Theunamedcat · 08/05/2025 18:49

I thought it was

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You can’t revoke a knighthood from a dead person. Evidence: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/oct/09/jimmy-savile-knighthood

You can annul them from living people as happened to Robert Mugabe, Benito Mussolini and Nicolae Ceaucescu. Told you it was a cronyism system!

Cruise’s is likely to be an honorary knighthood for those still asking if it’s people as non-citizen of the UK.

Jimmy Savile cannot be stripped of knighthood, say officials

David Cameron raises prospect of presenter losing honour, but Cabinet Office says people cease to hold title after they die. By Lisa O'Carroll

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/oct/09/jimmy-savile-knighthood

tripleginandtonic · 08/05/2025 18:51

Tom Cruise was huge in the film industry. Being a shit father doesn't come into it

LuckysDadsHat · 08/05/2025 18:51

The only link I can find on this is the Daily Mail

https://archive.ph/kUB7a

And it's all supposition of his team has been sounded out blah blah blah.

ForRealCat · 08/05/2025 18:51

I like the fella. Bit batshit, but I like my stars quirky. He doesn’t seem to take himself too seriously anymore and whilst his movies aren’t my cup of tea he keeps plenty of people in work. Film crews, artists, actors, surgeons…

TomatoSandwiches · 08/05/2025 18:49

blubbyblub · 08/05/2025 18:46

Their personal behaviours are relevant. Jimmy Saville for example. Did loads for charity. Still think it should be taken away posthumously

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I sincerely hope you are not accusing Tom Cruise of committing offenses as serious as Jimmy Saville was... if so you need to talk to the police.

Theunamedcat · 08/05/2025 18:49

blubbyblub · 08/05/2025 18:46

Their personal behaviours are relevant. Jimmy Saville for example. Did loads for charity. Still think it should be taken away posthumously

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I thought it was

Arlanymor · 08/05/2025 18:47

Doggielove2 · 08/05/2025 18:46

Oh I love that and it’s so true!!!

gonna use that and think of your mumn

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Excellent!

DrummingMousWife · 08/05/2025 18:46

Gavin Williams got a knighthood - so it’s clearly a free for all .

Doggielove2 · 08/05/2025 18:46

Arlanymor · 08/05/2025 18:36

He can get knighted but because he’s not a member of the Commonwealth he can’t call himself Sir, as far as I understand.

Can’t get too excited about it as it’s a daft antiquated system used and abused by the croneyism of politicians in the main. I remember asking my mum what OBE meant once and she said: “Other bugger’s efforts” so that rather set my course for life in terms of the so-called honours system…

Oh I love that and it’s so true!!!

gonna use that and think of your mumn

blubbyblub · 08/05/2025 18:46

TomatoSandwiches · 08/05/2025 18:32

He is getting it for his services to the film industry, his projects have increased production in the UK in the last 2 decades at least. I don't think he is undeserving of being acknowledged.

His status as a father is an entirely separate issue.

Their personal behaviours are relevant. Jimmy Saville for example. Did loads for charity. Still think it should be taken away posthumously

noblegiraffe · 08/05/2025 18:44

Tom Cruise is an amazing promoter of the film industry and has brought loads of jobs to the UK by making films here.

He hasn't been knighted though.

SnoozingFox · 08/05/2025 18:41

2024onwardsandup · 08/05/2025 18:32

How can he get a knighthood if he’s American?

He can't.

pinkyredrose · 08/05/2025 18:41

2024onwardsandup · 08/05/2025 18:32

How can he get a knighthood if he’s American?

My thoughts exactly.

HoskinsChoice · 08/05/2025 18:40

Panamacatinahat · 08/05/2025 18:30

You’ve no idea whether he’s seen his daughter unless you’re privvy to everything that went on with him and Katie Holmes.

I hadn't heard this anywhere other than in the OP's post so I googled it. The only media reporting it as fact is... the Daily Mail. So the OP does know everything about Cruise' relationship with his daughter because she's outed herself as a Daily Mail reader and everything you read in there is definitely true.

Game0fCrones · 08/05/2025 18:40

Squirrelsnut · 08/05/2025 18:34

To be fair, I've seen him in LOADS of films in the last 10 years - probably because I have teenage boys..
the many Mission Impossibles, Top Gun 2, Live, Die, Repeat, Reacher etc.
He's an astonishing stuntman in his own right and funds and produces many films.
I cannot fathom his ludicrous religion but within his industry, he is exceptional and has been for decades.

This.

He's so much more than an actor.

YoshiIsCute · 08/05/2025 18:37

He’s been in at least 15 films in the last 20 years… how can you not have seen or at least heard of all the Mission Impossible films, Top Gun 2, Jack Reacher?

and I agree with everything @TomatoSandwiches said

Arlanymor · 08/05/2025 18:36

He can get knighted but because he’s not a member of the Commonwealth he can’t call himself Sir, as far as I understand.

Can’t get too excited about it as it’s a daft antiquated system used and abused by the croneyism of politicians in the main. I remember asking my mum what OBE meant once and she said: “Other bugger’s efforts” so that rather set my course for life in terms of the so-called honours system…

Jobsworth7 · 08/05/2025 18:36

Squirrelsnut · 08/05/2025 18:34

To be fair, I've seen him in LOADS of films in the last 10 years - probably because I have teenage boys..
the many Mission Impossibles, Top Gun 2, Live, Die, Repeat, Reacher etc.
He's an astonishing stuntman in his own right and funds and produces many films.
I cannot fathom his ludicrous religion but within his industry, he is exceptional and has been for decades.

Absolutely. He starred in and produced the top grossing film of 2022 - Top Gun Maverick made something like $1.5bn. the final Mission Impossible film is going to do numbers.