{"id":1138,"date":"2008-01-14T23:49:16","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T03:49:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-09T07:54:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T11:54:29","slug":"rock-crimes-tom-cruise-s-rock-n-roll-dan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-crimes-tom-cruise-s-rock-n-roll-dan\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise\u2019s Rock \u2018n Roll Dance Scenes in Hollywood Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s tougher than it seems to make a common, bad song eternally annoying. Try it sometime. It only seems easy because <strong>Tom Cruise<\/strong> has managed this feat in countless Hollywood films.<\/p>\n<p>In charging Tom Cruise with <strong>Rock Crimes<\/strong> for permanently <strong>defiling<\/strong> more downtrodden songs than any actor in history, we&#8217;re not passing judgment on his films, his beliefs, or his personal life. We won&#8217;t even poke fun at all the ditches in which his leading ladies have had to stand while sidling up to him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/frankenslade\/couch.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">There&#8217;s gonna be no dancing<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Likewise, we&#8217;re not going to pass judgment on the songs themselves. At least one of these songs is actually of <strong>high caliber<\/strong>. Although Cruise typically preyed on weaker material, he was capable of bringing down classier numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a song that sucks in what&#8217;s actually a good film. This song is so bad and emblematic of its time that it would be remembered as a <strong>stone-cold turd<\/strong> without Cruise&#8217;s involvement. However, his pool-cue moves denigrate this song beyond all hopes of simply being forgotten among a brothel full of Clapton&#8217;s &#8217;80s skanks.<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l-4n-G4HVDs?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<!--nextpage--><br \/>\nIn this film Cruise also <strong>soiled<\/strong> the dignity of a song that had long withstood its sordid subject matter not to mention the sordid life of the song&#8217;s author.<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gAswUwNMe6w?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As a kid, I always got a kick out of the simple joys of this &#8217;60s dance number, but then I watched <em>Cocktail<\/em> and began wondering if I&#8217;d blanked out some <strong>horrible events<\/strong> from my youth.<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5YbjzztYbUo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>First-time offender and Cruise partner in crime <strong>Bryan Brown<\/strong> was let off the hook following his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oqS0OnUVJno\" title=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oqS0OnUVJno\">touching words at Billy Thorpe&#8217;s memorial service<\/a>. Hell, I had no idea Billy Thorpe died. More importantly, I had no idea he had a career Down Under prior to &#8220;Children of the Sun&#8221;. Check this out! <strong>2000 Man<\/strong>, please don&#8217;t tell me you don&#8217;t feel like knocking down a few and joining me in kicking some ass after watching this clip!<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7sSDrDQ0VEU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>OK, back to the trial at hand&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<!--nextpage--><br \/>\nI know you&#8217;ve been dreading this piece of <strong>evidence<\/strong>:<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CBliYIyKfs0?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I never liked this song to begin with, but by the time Cruise was done with it, he&#8217;d not only left <strong>&#8220;Old Time Rock &#8216;n Roll&#8221;<\/strong> in a heap but dragged the entire <strong>Seger<\/strong> catalog down with it. Think about it, the <strong>Patron Saint of Rock &#8216;n Roll Mediocrity<\/strong>&#8216;s well-deserved title would not have to be justified in the Halls of Rock  had it not suffered the shame of Cruise&#8217;s tighty-whitey dance!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll let other organizations pass judgment on the rest of Cruise&#8217;s body of work, but in rock &#8216;n roll terms his work has been <strong>criminal<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<nav class=\"page-links\"><strong>Pages:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-crimes-tom-cruise-s-rock-n-roll-dan\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">1<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-crimes-tom-cruise-s-rock-n-roll-dan\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">2<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-crimes-tom-cruise-s-rock-n-roll-dan\/3\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">3<\/span><\/a><\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s tougher than it seems to make a common, bad song eternally annoying. Try it sometime. It only seems easy because Tom Cruise has managed this feat in countless Hollywood films. In charging Tom Cruise with Rock Crimes for permanently defiling more downtrodden songs than any actor in history, we&#8217;re not passing judgment on his <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-crimes-tom-cruise-s-rock-n-roll-dan\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342,20],"tags":[178],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}