Tom Cruise - A little squirt!

Pigman II

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1510531,00.html

I don't know! Yer average TV audience must be reaching a new low when you have waterpistol celebs to get ratings. Didn't like TC much before this but I'm impressed he reacted as he did. The smartalec who sprayed him just came off like a complete fool when Cruise brought him to task.

Sleepy

That's what you get in a culture as dumbed down as ours.

Chad ghostal

The "prankster" should be ashamed for being associated with such a lame joke..

Link to a video..

http://www.tampabays10.com/video/player.aspx?aid=18920&sid=15047&bw=hi

BizzyC

Who was the guy that did it?

Mossy Monk

Sky News said Channel 4 have apologised for it

Binomate

I saw this on Sky News. Tom Cruise handled it realy well.The water bandit was an asshole.

D

I think Cruise acted as well as he could in the situation.

Mr E

Tom definitely came off best in the exchange. The squirter was made to look like a total asshole.

madmorphy

Very dignifed i though,aul john prescott or russell crowe would have levelled him with a box.

Binomate

I wonder how Noel Gallagher would have reacted.

MooShop

Binomate wrote:

I wonder how Noel Gallagher would have reacted.

ya that would have been funny

BaZmO*

When I first heard about this I thought to myself, "Good, it's about time somebody brought this publicity seeking short arsé down to earth!!"

But having seen the clip, they guy who done it was well out of order. The fact that he was interviewing him for a bit and then squirted him was just pointless. If he was going to do it he should of just done it straight away. I thought TC came across quite dignified considering he could've been a real diva about the whole thing. However, he's still an attention seeking media whóre!!!

B.

tabatha

i think it was terrible considering tom cruise is a great person for doing the red carpet thing. he loves to talk to his fans on the carpet and even talks to them on mobiles! they said he invented the long walk on the carpet. this just ruins it for the fans but he did handle it so well.

WhiteWashMan

i agree. tom cruise always says hello to fans and spends time talking to people whenever he is in that situation.

squirting water in someones face is not a joke or a prank, and doing it to a celeb can be very bad for you bank balance.

sounds almost as unamusing as dennis pennis

JackKelly

wtf? It wouldn't have been funny even if he did have a laugh about it. Squirting people in the face with water is pretty crap comedy. Well done to TC though.

segadreamcast

WhiteWashMan wrote:

i agree. tom cruise always says hello to fans and spends time talking to people whenever he is in that situation.

squirting water in someones face is not a joke or a prank, and doing it to a celeb can be very bad for you bank balance.

sounds almost as unamusing as dennis pennis

What? Dennis Pennis was brilliant! This, this was just crap.

Flukey

I watched the clip and Tom Cruise did react well. I just happened to be watching Risky Business earlier, one of his early movies, and I really enjoyed it.

projectmayhem

WhiteWashMan wrote:

i agree. tom cruise always says hello to fans and spends time talking to people whenever he is in that situation.

squirting water in someones face is not a joke or a prank, and doing it to a celeb can be very bad for you bank balance.

sounds almost as unamusing as dennis pennis

ah now, dennis pennis was great entertainment

the_syco

Hmmm... me hopes the next person the guy shoots box's him.

TerrorFirmer

That is funny....fair play to Cruise though, he kept the whole thing dignified and really made the prankster look stupid.

Great stuff.

Eve e

projectmayhem wrote:

ah now, dennis pennis was great entertainment

Yeah, I always liked Pennis, I remember in one show he was walking along the red carpet when a Hollywood moron spots Pennis with his camera crew in tow, sensing his 15 minutes of fame were nearly up, he walks right up to them virtually blocking the path.

Pennis: Hey man can you us a favour?
Cheesy Hollywood cleb eyeing the camera:Sure what’s that?
Pennis: Can you get outta the way?

netwhizkid

Yeah Cruise kept his cool and the reporter looked like a donkey, remember a few yrs back when British Labour MP John Prescott got egged and threw a few punches at his "attacker" that was funny pity Cruise didn't react like that, that would have made great "reality tv". I bet if it was Russel Crowe he'd have reacted differently !

Regards netwhizkid

TerrorFirmer

netwhizkid wrote:

Yeah Cruise kept his cool and the reporter looked like a donkey, remember a few yrs back when British Labour MP John Prescott got egged and threw a few punches at his "attacker" that was funny pity Cruise didn't react like that, that would have made great "reality tv". I bet if it was Russel Crowe he'd have reacted differently !

Regards netwhizkid

as someone else said imagine how Noel Gallagher woulda reacted lmfao that would be a classic

DublinWriter

It kind of makes me like TC about 2% more now, bringing his total celeb rating to 2%.

But remember, he's still a Scientologist!

cregser

DublinWriter wrote:

It kind of makes me like TC about 2% more now, bringing his total celeb rating to 2%.

Mission Impossible 3 should bring things back into balance :rolleyes:

I think Tom would have taken it better had he not spent the last few minutes in interview with him. The least the guy could have done was ask a question Tom could never get right and spray him as punishment. I think he was nervous or something.

weemcd

Eve e wrote:

Yeah, I always liked Pennis, I remember in one show he was walking along the red carpet when a Hollywood moron spots Pennis with his camera crew in tow, sensing his 15 minutes of fame were nearly up, he walks right up to them virtually blocking the path.

Pennis: Hey man can you us a favour?
Cheesy Hollywood cleb eyeing the camera:Sure what’s that?
Pennis: Can you get outta the way?

To Demi Moore:
‘If it was non-gratuitous and tasteful ... would you ever consider keeping your clothes on in a movie?’ < not sure if these were the exact words

Canis Lupus

As far as "pranks" go this was pretty pointless and so not funny, I'm not sure what the makers were thinking when they cam up with this idea... I cringed a little at his use of the word "jerk" tho. It's seriously such a bad slag even tho he was probably watching his language.

Binomate

I'm sure he'd have wanted to have used a stronger insult but he was in front of the worlds media. It would have generated a lot of bad media and a lot of bad press which isn't exactly what you need at the premier of a film.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Canis Lupus wrote:

I'm not sure what the makers were thinking when they cam up with this idea...

Yeah I was just talking to someone about that earlier... I wonder what their pitch to C4 was like... "ok, so like we find celebs, and squirt them with water... and watch them freak out... whatd'ya think?" :rolleyes:
Fair play to Tom, he handled it great IMO... "No, don't run away." - brilliant.
Made the water squirting man look like a completely ignorant arse, and rightly so.

I wonder will they still be able to use that footage though?
Would TC have to sign a release for them to use it?
It's already been all over the news, I wonder how that effects it.
And since the guys were arrested for it, isn't it now footage of a crime?

It's a pitty they didn't show the Sharon Ozbourne incident they also mentioned.

Wertz

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

Yeah I was just talking to someone about that earlier... I wonder what their pitch to C4 was like... "ok, so like we find celebs, and squirt them with water... and watch them freak out... whatd'ya think?" :rolleyes:

I take it you haven't seen the likes of Banzai then...
No doubt it was some lame attempt at copying that type of format...any channel that can host BB for 6 years will stoop to any level for "entertainment".

Now real entertainment would've been squirting Mr Cruise with a highly corrosive substance...

DonkeyStyle \o/

Wertz wrote:

I take it you haven't seen the likes of Banzai then...

I have indeed... at least what I remember of it before my eyes glazed over and I blacked out.
Really what I was wondering about was how big a pair of balls does one need to go into a network execs office and pitch such a concept.
It all seems so Bowfinger, having celebs make the show popular, while the people behind it are idiots with boring ideas.

Wertz

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

I have indeed... at least what I remember of it before my eyes glazed over and I blacked out.
Really what I was wondering about was how big a pair of balls does one need to go into a network execs office and pitch such a concept.
It all seems so Bowfinger, having celebs make the show popular, while the people behind it are idiots with boring ideas.

I really think that this show's basis was styled on the "Happy Slapping" bullsh*t craze that is apparently sweeping the UK lately...seems a certain brand of idiot, armed with nothing more then their £500 video mobile and a disregard for society is the target audience.
Obviously a show like the one this stunt was pulled for, would attempt to appeal to that mindset...C4 execs are notoriously up for it when it comes to putting sh*te on the telly, especially if it's "new" and "now" and for the "youth" :rolleyes:
Shaking hands with celebrities for as long as possible = kinda funny
Dousing them in mineral water = Meh

besty

the interviewer looked like such a twat...well done tom-dealt with it really well. to even compare that to dennis pennis is an insult to the ginger bandit

Rew

Sounds like the new show will get thw can over this anyway. TBH alot of these shows have been going down the tubes for a while. Trigger Happy TV spent most of its time picking on old people and foreigners, easy targets and not very funny.

Sparky

Yeah tom handled it perfectly, he made a great point to the prankster, that he gives his time to give an interview and this is what he gets,

Well done to tom.

rymus

To echo the point made by many so far, I thought Tom Cruise came off very well in this piss poor attempt at humour. He could have gone down the screaming, shouting and having the guy dragged off road but instead he chose to be dignified and expose the half assed prankster for the utter waste of genetic material that he is.

I've come away with more respect for Tom Cruise while still reassured that Channel4 are below the bottom of the barrel.

Naos

Another reason why I think highly of Tom Cruise as a person.
He could have been a diva about it, but instead asked politely..

Fair play to him.. Max respect.

Agent Orange

Eve e wrote:

Yeah, I always liked Pennis, I remember in one show he was walking along the red carpet when a Hollywood moron spots Pennis with his camera crew in tow, sensing his 15 minutes of fame were nearly up, he walks right up to them virtually blocking the path.

Pennis: Hey man can you us a favour?
Cheesy Hollywood cleb eyeing the camera:Sure what’s that?
Pennis: Can you get outta the way?

Er, that was Jeremy Irons.

Rew

Pitty he's a big scientologist freak... (Tom Cruise that is, not Irons)

mad m

Cant believe how Tom Cruise played it so cool.It was not humour.But as Dennis Pennis goes he was funny.

I remember him saying to Whoopi Goldberg "hey Whoopi,Dennis pennis of channel four,did you know you are so famous in the Uk that they named a cushion after you"

bounty

Yea, behind that nice guy front, is a scientology idiot

mp3guy

Man, that prankster was so bitchwhipped. It looks as if he's beginning to cry at the end, when he gets escorted away, if you watch his expression

Scratch Acid

mp3guy wrote:

Man, that prankster was so bitchwhipped. It looks as if he's beginning to cry at the end, when he gets escorted away, if you watch his expression

I think he was snickering to himself, actually.

rymus

Scratch Acid wrote:

I think he was snickering to himself, actually.

Yeah, cos idiots of that calibre never realise the moment they're beat

Nukem

Think the guy from Channel 4 was a dick. He never thought the thing through at all. Hats off to Tom Cruise i would have been over that barrier after the guy. Thought he handled very well and was very calm but it and as they say any publicity is good publicity.

Nukem

Eve e

Agent Orange wrote:

Er, that was Jeremy Irons.

You might be right,(thought it was a Seagal/Brosnan type) but I'm going an a memory of nearly 9 years ago.
I should stay in more watch more DVD's/Videos.Just to be sure no will pick me up on details when I'm on the net. :rolleyes:

Sparky

is'nt your man who played dennis pennis, now in the film, Its all gone Pete tong?

Im pretty sure he is.

mad m

Sparky_S wrote:

is'nt your man who played dennis pennis, now in the film, Its all gone Pete tong?

Im pretty sure he is.

Yeah you are right....lollypop for your good self...

Beekay

I hope TC doesn't sue him or whatever.

kenmc

Why is everyone on Cruises side for this!?!? bloody hell it was only a bit of water, not paint or acid or anything. It's as old as the "smell my flower" trick that's been around for eons. If Cruise can't see the funny side of this he's got no sense of humour whatsoever. And he's talking about bring assault charges!?!? WTF? Does he charge mother nature with assault when he gets wet if it rains? What if someone drives through a puddle when he's walking down the road.
He needs to get over himself and laugh it off.

Draupnir

I like Tom Cruise, smart, decent man. Not full of shìte like most celebrities.

Anybody else not able to get that video to work?