The Internet Has A Lot To Say About The Way Tom Cruise Eats Popcorn In The Movie Theater

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Tom Cruise is simply a full snack...er.

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It's been astir 30 years since hunky heartthrob Ethan Hunt (Tom) dangled from a ceiling successful the archetypal Mission: Impossible movie based connected the 1966 TV series.

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The legendary starring antheral who's go a household sanction from the '80s and beyond is backmost successful Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning. Truth beryllium told, my jaw is connected the level due to the fact that the enactment sequences look much unsafe than ever before.

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But, to my surprise, doing death-defying stunts successful your precocious 50s/early 60s successful 1 of the highest-grossing and long-running bid of each clip is not wherefore Tommy is going viral.

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Eight movies of Tom's unbelievable stunts —jumping from helicopters, moving from explosions, leaping from gangly buildings, dangling from much helicopters — and THE BIGGEST STUNT GOING VIRAL IS HIM EATING POPCORN!

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In a video posted by idiosyncratic @seifwtf connected X, Tom went successful connected a popcorn bucket, aggressively flinging pieces into his rima astatine the BFI IMAX Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) screening.

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Tom besides received a BFI Fellowship astatine the BFI Chair's Dinner, but each folks wanted to speech astir was this azygous infinitesimal of him eating a container of popcorn.

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People had hilarious reactions to Tom's high-octane eating popcorn-eating technique.

One idiosyncratic said, "this is however my dada eats popcorn."

Profile icon of Cherise Johnson with a verified check, tweet says "this is however  my dada  eats popcorn."

This idiosyncratic suggested that "someone manus him heavier popcorn," and possibly that would help.

 "Can idiosyncratic    manus  him heavier popcorn."

I can't judge idiosyncratic compared him to a Nep-Enut from Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.

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This idiosyncratic said, "I person got to alteration the mode I devour popcorn."

 "I person  got to alteration  the mode   I devour   popcorn."

Someone other said Tom is "Just leaving upland of popcorn connected the level successful his wake," and I'm funny if this is true.

 "Just leaving mountains of popcorn connected  the level  successful  his wake," with a crying laughing emoji

I emotion the mode this idiosyncratic incorporated Mission: Impossible lore into their joke. "Your mission, should you take to judge it, is to get it successful your mouth, not connected the floor," they wrote.

 "Your mission, should you take  to judge  it, is to get   it successful  your mouth, not connected  the floor."

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Tom adjacent addressed his popcorn-eating habits connected The Pat McAfee Show with Darius Butler connected May 21. "I've ne'er seen anyone devour popcorn similar this," Darius said. "Are you really eating popcorn oregon are you afloat of crap close here, TC? I've got to know."

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"Man, I'm eating popcorn," Tom said, laughing. "They cognize erstwhile I'm going to these movies that I'm watching, I'm eating popcorn."

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Tom Cruise is superior astir cinema and the movie theatre experience; his popcorn practices are conscionable an constituent of that dedication. You retrieve this 2023 promotional video for Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning?

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In different viral video shared connected X, Tom was urging a instrumentality to "go get immoderate more" popcorn since helium ate it each earlier the movie began.

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One idiosyncratic asked, "If you've not finished your popcorn earlier the movie starts person you been been to the cinema?"

Tweet asks if not finishing popcorn earlier  a movie   starts means you've ne'er  been to the cinema

Someone other suggested, "This dude tin ne'er spell to the movies again. Just embarrassing," aft being called retired by Tom.

 "This dude tin  ne'er  spell  to the movies again. Just embarrassing."

Tom should marque an ASMR transmission wherever helium eats antithetic types of popcorn successful antithetic movie theaters. Based connected the internet's reactions, it would bash numbers.

 “I consciousness   the need…” “The need…” “…for popcorn!”

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