Gone Fisching for Entertainment: Tom Cruise’s new movie does not perform at box office

Well, I'm familiar with the PR and the...

the news that's circulating about it, but I have not seen it.

And I'll be honest with you, I'm going to reserve my opinion until I see it.

I don't think Tom Cruise can really make a movie that's that bad, that doesn't have some sort of underlying meaning, if you will.

I've

never seen it.

You're right on the money, John, you're right on the money.

Uh, I, I saw it on Friday and, uh, I don't want to give anything away.

I think people should go into it without looking on social media, without reading reviews.

I think it's really important for this film.

But, um, what I did want to talk about today was, you know, Tom Cruise's name is normally synonymous with blockbuster openings, but you know, this one is kind of dug itself a major hole.

Uh, For those that don't know, Digger is an R-rated dark comedy from Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu.

He's famously the director of Birdman and The Revenant.

And in the film, Tom Cruise is almost unrecognizable.

He plays Digger Rockwell.

He's a powerful oil tycoon whose company causes an ecological catastrophe.

And then he tries to convince the world that he's the only person that can save it.

And so that's basically the... gist of the movie.

I don't want to talk any more about it, but I will say his co-star Riz Ahmed is really, really good in the film.

It's got John Goodman, character actor Michael Stuhlbarg, and Jesse Plemons.

And I think it's worth seeing, and I'll tell you just a few reasons why it's an interesting story.

So this is Tom Cruise's first original non-franchise movie since american made in 2017 and he's been doing mission impossible and top gun uh and this was sort of i think his way of reminding audiences you know i could still disappear into a strange transformative character um instead of playing a conventional action here and i'm sure that's sort of the vibe you got from the trailers right

Oh, absolutely.

Yeah.

But it didn't give too much away, but it whet my appetite, if you will.

Well, I'm familiar with the PR and the...

the news that's circulating about it, but I have not seen it.

And I'll be honest with you, I'm going to reserve my opinion until I see it.

I don't think Tom Cruise can really make a movie that's that bad, that doesn't have some sort of underlying meaning, if you will.

I've

never seen it.

You're right on the money, John, you're right on the money.

Uh, I, I saw it on Friday and, uh, I don't want to give anything away.

I think people should go into it without looking on social media, without reading reviews.

I think it's really important for this film.

But, um, what I did want to talk about today was, you know, Tom Cruise's name is normally synonymous with blockbuster openings, but you know, this one is kind of dug itself a major hole.

Uh, For those that don't know, Digger is an R-rated dark comedy from Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu.

He's famously the director of Birdman and The Revenant.

And in the film, Tom Cruise is almost unrecognizable.

He plays Digger Rockwell.

He's a powerful oil tycoon whose company causes an ecological catastrophe.

And then he tries to convince the world that he's the only person that can save it.

And so that's basically the... gist of the movie.

I don't want to talk any more about it, but I will say his co-star Riz Ahmed is really, really good in the film.

It's got John Goodman, character actor Michael Stuhlbarg, and Jesse Plemons.

And I think it's worth seeing, and I'll tell you just a few reasons why it's an interesting story.

So this is Tom Cruise's first original non-franchise movie since american made in 2017 and he's been doing mission impossible and top gun uh and this was sort of i think his way of reminding audiences you know i could still disappear into a strange transformative character um instead of playing a conventional action here and i'm sure that's sort of the vibe you got from the trailers right

Oh, absolutely.

Yeah.

But it didn't give too much away, but it whet my appetite, if you will.