In ‘Digger,’ Tom Cruise puts up a middle finger to his daughter Suri

[Karen#1]

TONY ORTEGA
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On Friday, we posted a review of Tom Cruise’s new film Digger written by our friend, longtime film critic Luke Y. Thompson. That was how we learned that reviewers had been asked to keep some big surprises in the movie from audiences.

We knew from the movie’s trailer that Cruise was playing Digger Rockwell, some kind of major industrialist, that his business had caused some kind of major environmental threat, and that the US president, played by John Goodman, was somehow involved.

Beyond that setup, if there was some major twist involved, we decided we wanted to find out what it was by watching the movie rather than by finding out some other way, and so on Friday we went for a fairly late showing, 9 pm, at our local cineplex here in suburban New York City.

We don’t know if it was the lateness of the hour, but we were a little surprised that on opening night, there were only five other souls in the massive IMAX theater we had chosen.

Forewarned by early press that critics were wildly divided about the film, we decided just to take Digger on its own terms and do our best to enjoy it. And we did. It’s wildly creative, the big twist really did surprise us — and initially put us off — but as it progressed it really worked, we thought.

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In ‘Digger,’ Tom Cruise puts up a middle finger to his daughter Suri

On Friday, we posted a review of Tom Cruise’s new film Digger written by our friend, longtime film critic Luke Y.

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[I M Dex]

From what I see, Tom Cruise is living a very unhappy, anxiety-ridden pretentious life. He cannot maintain a lasting intimate relationship, he always triggers and defaults into a forced, militant "I'm into something too important at too high a level to have to open myself to my feelings, or yours", he's a stress generator. I feel bad for Suri, but I think she's surrounded by company there to compensate for what her father is too dissociated to provide. Tom's way of being doesn't allow for intimate, comforting connection. He is being what Miscavige enticed him into wanting to be and believing he is. A shallow facade, for all his talent and accomplishment. What a sad waste of being alive.

 

[HelluvaHoax!]

From what I see, Tom Cruise is living a very unhappy, anxiety-ridden pretentious life. He cannot maintain a lasting intimate relationship, he always triggers and defaults into a forced, militant "I'm into something too important at too high a level to have to open myself to my feelings, or yours", he's a stress generator. I feel bad for Suri, but I think she's surrounded by company there to compensate for what her father is too dissociated to provide. Tom's way of being doesn't allow for intimate, comforting connection. He is being what Miscavige enticed him into wanting to be and believing he is. A shallow facade, for all his talent and accomplishment. What a sad waste of being alive.

Over the past 24 months an intrepid journalist undertook a risky project of SURVEYING Tom Cruise's 19 previous girlfriends or wives and asking them:

WHAT SITUATION IS THE MAIN REASON YOUR RELATIONSHIP
WITH MR CRUISE ENDED UP CRASHING AND BREAKING UP?
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Survey Results (top 3 reasons):

#3: The admin requirements were overwhelming, especially having to send 3 CSWs up lines to Tom every day to get his written approval for the breakfast, lunch and dinner menus I was required to cook.​

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#2: Every time we made love Tom would make sure the sound system would blast Ron singing "Thank You For Listening". Because he could only climax during the part when Ron's voice hit that super-low basso profundo part on the word "fantasize".​

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[ mercifully cued to the exact moment ]

#1: Exhaustion due to sleep deprivation, because every night i would keep waking up because of rolling over on Tom's clipboard and sharp demo kit pieces in the bed.​

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[I M Dex]

Over the past 24 months an intrepid journalist undertook a risky project of SURVEYING Tom Cruise's 19 previous girlfriends or wives and asking them:

WHAT SITUATION IS THE MAIN REASON YOUR RELATIONSHIP
WITH MR CRUISE ENDED UP CRASHING AND BREAKING UP?
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That sounds like quite an undertaking, considering that 16 of them are in the witness protection program.