I suppose, but I'm thinking in context. Not to defend the nut or anything, but was Cruise's behavior really that 'outrageous'?
He jumped up on a couch, he blathered about psychiatry when he is no expert himself...what else?
Is this kind of attitude/behavior on the same par as getting stoned and waking up in a strange child's bed (Robert Downey, Jr.), getting busted picking up whores(Hugh Grant/Eddie Murphy), actually being a nut, wandering the countryside waiting to be picked up by aliens (Anne Heche), beating girlfriends/wives (Tom Sizemore/Jonathan Rhys-Myers, etc), lying to the grand jury (Lil Kim), shoplifting $1000s (Winona Ryder), running over a little kid in her car (Rebecca Gayhart)?
You are right, you know, and not wanting to sound two faced, i too, thought the same thing, when i added my bit of "nasty to tom" two cents worth a few days ago....
Maybe the fact is
we just dont like the guy, maybe he is so presumptuous that everything he does is so correct, that we dont like that about him, and we were glad that in a moment of weakness (or however you like to describe it), he jumped on a couch and made a complete fool of himself, and so damaged his self rightious, always right, always in control image.
I must admit i have not seen many of his movies, because he is starring in a moive, doesnt necessarily want me to run out and see it....i did like him in "A Few Good Men", but was completely outshone by Keiffer Sutherland and Jack Nicholson.
As an Australian I was among the throng that were secretly amoured that he married one of ours (Nicole), and came out here regularly to visit, and adopted us as his second him, as we adopted him as our favourite "son in law"....but once they split, he wasnt our favourite anymore.
Yes, the fact is, I just dont like him.....but then again, I only know of him, what i read in newspapers and magazines, and i should be intelligent enough not to take too much notice of them....maybe we are all a little unfair....but im sure Tom probably doesnt care one iotta what we think anyway.