Tom Cruise - A little squirt!

Pigman II · 20-06-2005 01:47PM #1

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 · 20-06-2005 01:52PM

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

Chad ghostal · 20-06-2005 02:04PM

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 · 20-06-2005 02:06PM

Who was the guy that did it?

Mossy Monk · 20-06-2005 02:07PM

Sky News said Channel 4 have apologised for it

Binomate · 20-06-2005 02:08PM

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

20-06-2005 02:09PM

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

Mr E · 20-06-2005 02:16PM

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

madmorphy · 20-06-2005 02:18PM

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

Binomate · 20-06-2005 02:20PM

I wonder how Noel Gallagher would have reacted.

MooShop · 20-06-2005 04:02PM

Binomate wrote:

I wonder how Noel Gallagher would have reacted.

ya that would have been funny

BaZmO* · 20-06-2005 04:15PM

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 · 20-06-2005 04:21PM

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 · 20-06-2005 04:51PM

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 · 20-06-2005 05:18PM

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 · 20-06-2005 05:29PM

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 · 20-06-2005 05:32PM

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 · 20-06-2005 05:59PM

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 · 20-06-2005 06:13PM

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

TerrorFirmer · 20-06-2005 06:38PM

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 · 20-06-2005 06:41PM

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 · 20-06-2005 06:44PM

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 · 20-06-2005 06:48PM

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 · 20-06-2005 06:51PM

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 · 20-06-2005 06:56PM

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 · 20-06-2005 07:34PM

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 · 20-06-2005 08:01PM

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 · 20-06-2005 08:08PM

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/ · 20-06-2005 08:30PM

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 · 20-06-2005 09:34PM

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/ · 20-06-2005 10:16PM

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.

Tom Cruise - A little squirt!

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