Rotten Tomatoes has launched a new investigative journalism department, addressing the questions most pertinent to society in these dark and troubled times. For example: do Tom Cruise movies get better the more he runs in them?
Everybody knows the answer is yes, but that does not make the ‘science’ articulating this any less excellent.
In what we can only imagine took a disturbing amount of time and resources, the popular movie aggregation website published a ‘Tomatometer deep dive‘. They crunched the numbers and came up with the following finding: “More running = more money and more Freshness.”
Rotten Tomatoes claims that Cruise has ran more than 24,000 feet on screen throughout his 37 year movie career. The film in which he has ran the most is Mission: Impossible III (3212 feet) followed by Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (3066 feet) and War of the Worlds (1752 feet).
“The older Tom gets, the farther he runs,” journalist and Tom Cruise aficionado Mark Hofmeyer concluded. The article populating this pioneering study separates the actor’s body of work into four categories.
There’s When Tom Doesn’t Run At All (booo!), When Tom Takes a Short Sprint (a little better), When Tom Goes Middle-Distance (getting there) and When Tom Goes Full Tom (booya!).
Guess which category contains the best Tom Cruise movies? That’s right: When Tom Goes Full Tom. This category includes classics such as The Firm, Minority Report, War of the Worlds, Edge of Tomorrow and three of the Mission: Impossible movies.
Head on over to Rotten Tomatoes to read the full article because…science!
