Oh, I hear you Lone Star. And I agree with you to a certain extent. By the way, I've told you this before, but thank you once again for your attendance at the Rathbun hearings. I very much enjoyed your postings about your attendance. I found your recent post about not being recognized to be quite interesting. Means you can go back in the future?. With a different baseball cap, perhaps?
Yes, everyone here had to have felt some disappointment that $cientology didn't come tumbling down the day after the Going Clear documentary was broadcast. Oh, would that it happened that way!
But it is the cumulative effect that is happening. Okay, Tom Cruise's movie still did okay this summer. But it didn't do as well as those in the past, did it? Maybe the Going Clear effect had nothing to do with that. Maybe Tom is just getting old(er) like the rest of us and so are his "fans". I think it's a "tic toc" situation for Tom. I have grandchildren between the ages of 11-18. None seems to be a fan of Tom Cruise. I've actually casually questioned each one in the context of which movies they liked and if they wanted to go see the latest Mission Impossible movie. Nobody was interested in seeing it.
Tom is out there having face lifts and botox treatments that are making him look like a chipmunk. He has three ex-wives and a youngest child from whom he is obviously estranged. (Sounds kind of Hubbardish to me.) And he is stuck in the nightmare of being a $cientologist.
I actually do not equate the success or lack of success of Tom Cruise's movies to be an indication of the condition of the Cherch of $cientology. But what I do see is that the media is no longer afraid of them. And that is HUGE!
Tom Cruise is undoubtedly an extremely wealthy man. I would not trade lives with him for even one minute!
P.S. Plus he nigh onto ruined the Jack Reacher character for me.