Allow me to be clear about a couple things. Like many haggard and knowing pop culture commentators, I no longer like Tom Cruise. Unless I am on a plane flight to re-routed to hell, I will never watch Knight and Day. I haven’t seen a Tom Cruise movie in the theater since Collateral six years ago, and I haven’t liked Cameron Diaz in a film since maybe — MAYBE – Any Given Sunday in 1999.
That said, Diaz and Cruise’s joint appearance on “Top Gear” this past weekend (see video below) was excellent. When they go through the show’s famous Reasonably-Priced Car Lap in a Kia Cee’d, Diaz swears a blue streak during her turn at the wheel, and Cruise takes his final turn on two wheels (pictured above). And when host Jeremy Clarkson reveals their times on the leader board with an exasperated “You Americans!”… well, it no longer matters that they’re boring film stars in a boring film; they’re MY boring film stars, because they kicked Limey ass! WOOOOO! U-S-A! U-S-A!
UPDATE to previous UPDATES: Video should work now.
In case that video gets pulled, here’s the clip of the two-wheel turn:
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“This video contains content from BBC Worldwide, who has blocked it on copyright grounds.”
You Brits!
Dammit! I’ll see if I can find it elsewhere.
Theyre just mad that we kicked their asses in dubya dubya two so they wont let us watch their vidyas.
These two work, for now.
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You do realise that because Top Gear has a new car they started a new leaderboard right?
They only have about 8 names up there so Cruise will be knocked off soon. Probably by Jay Kay or Simon Cowell.
@Smegga: Yeah, but I bet they’ll do it on four wheels like a bunch of pussies.
Smegga, Peter Jones was in the top 10 on the old list, an only behind the leader by a hair more than a second. Ton Cruise beat him by 1.7 seconds in the new car.
/Woohoo wikipedia.
Also, when did this whole BBC America airing new episodes instead of “new” episodes that were 4 seasons old start? I’ve been streaming it online like a peasant since I thought BBCA only played reruns. I probably still will since the US version is about 20 minutes shorter.
@Ochocinco: BBCA is still showing reruns as “new”. They’re on season 5 right now, and these clips are from the BBC airing.
From a wizard at the top of the board to an elf.
Erswi’s Son needs a history lesson.
You can take the actor out of his role as Cole Trickle, but you can’t take the inner-Cole Trickle out of the actor.
@Matt – That corner where Cruise nearly went over? It’s called Gambon Corner after the British actor Michael Gambon scraped his door along the ground.
Granted he was very slow but still….
@Ocho – Yeah, you and Wikipedia have defeated me. Again.
look how many times tom cruise touches cameroon diaz through out the clip.
Damn you for beating me to the Days of Thunder reference Enrico.
There’s nothing he can’t do in a reasonably-priced car.
“I probably still will since the US version is about 20 minutes shorter.”
that’ll be all the anti-yank comments they take out of the show. 20 mins sounds about right.
oh and tune in next week when clarkson reveals that the times were a fix.
Two things first lets face any Brit that has watched laps around that circuit as many times as me realise that the lines were all wrong and there is no way in hell that that time is accurate. Proven by Clarkson’s parched lips firmly stuck to Tom Cruise’s buttocks saying how perfect it was. Any one else and it he would of been annihilating them on there poor driving style. It was however excruciatingly funny watch Clarkson role in his own hatred of how much he had to kiss arse very hard for someone who is a bit of an arrogant tit.
Lets face it while they were plugging there dismal new movie there was undoubtedly a contract clause for the BBC that said out very new bum chum tom must come first else he will never be on our channel again oh kissy kissy.
The second thing is just more of a dig Scientology really personally I cant wait for this magic space craft to come and take these idiots of the planet. The religion is based on a joke and I’m not saying this through a hatred of its principles but because the guy who rote the book that its based on admit it. He wrote it as Fiction not matter how much money you give them there is no highest level there is no space ship there is no point fools.
Chris,
Please finish 6th grade English class before trying to write again.
Thanks,
The Internet
yeatdog, it was a pop culture reference, not a statement of historical fact. You fail.
I was disgusting to see Cruise promoted like that.
s/disgusting/disgusted/
Top Gear is entertainment and not sports and every timed challenge that appears on it, is faked or certainly could be open to being faked. Do you really believe all those ridiculous races between man and machine or machine and machine are not subject to massive safety regulations and the subject of many staged shots. So it must be that if the BBC were requested to make Cruise and Diaz 1st and 2nd, they would for entertainment reasons be compelled to comply. Lest we not forget that these two characters were promoting an action movie as action stars and then they are being measured as action stars. How would it look for our action heroes to come second to the carrot top child wizard, not even the main star. Everything in the lives of these people is faked to create an image and so it would be for my personal favourite programme, what a shame. Furthermore, let’s face it the popularity of the show in the USA would benefit from such activity. So whilst I guess the time could be correct (ha), I personally believe that it is not possible for me to give it any credibility.
erswi’s son – just so you know, we were both on the same side in “dubya dubya two” and we brits held off the german’s for four years ON OUR OWN before you guys decided to do the right thing. You’ve been trying to claim all the glory ever since and it pisses us off! Unless of course, your post was made ironically as a comment on the stereotypical ignorance and buffoon-like characteristics of your fellow countrymen! In which case i apologise.
@ geofarm hey we still remember 1812, you stupid loser Brit!