The Combine Interview puts Tom Cruise in new light

Rather than crank out another Tom Cruise gag (we've got plenty of them, we assure you) we'll opt to mention how well-made and creepy the short film actually is, and how Valve should really already have Tom Hall on the payroll. Take a look after the jump and see if you don't agree.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Smoke_Dawg_187 @ Sep 3rd 2008 1:10PM
That was really well done. Very creative.
Mr.ESC @ Sep 3rd 2008 1:10PM
Sweet.
Yes I so want a Combine costume.
Hickeroar @ Sep 3rd 2008 1:11PM
Wow. How creepy is THIS? I don't think I'll ever look at cruise the same way again.
syrik zero @ Sep 3rd 2008 1:24PM
That was awesome! I've been having an urge for the past few weeks to go back and play through Half-Life 2 and the 2 episodes again
Jerk Face @ Sep 3rd 2008 6:56PM
Me too! I often forget that HL2 is one of the best games ever made. I need to go back through it again.
Zertoss @ Sep 3rd 2008 1:26PM
The hilarious thing about this is that the creepy Combine video is just as creepy as the Tom Cruise video it's parodying.
steve @ Sep 3rd 2008 7:11PM
I thought this video was great, until I saw your avatar. I gotta know, where are these coming from..
Immortal Technique PSN: johnnynumber5 @ Sep 3rd 2008 1:27PM
Very well done.
Bravo!
Shmil @ Sep 3rd 2008 1:27PM
Scie[n]tology
Zertoss @ Sep 3rd 2008 1:31PM
Scientolgoy
Ed Andersen @ Sep 3rd 2008 1:30PM
Er
NukeAssault @ Sep 3rd 2008 3:37PM
No its Ed. Dont you know your own name?
iamkaptaink @ Sep 3rd 2008 9:00PM
it seems like instead of actually coming up with clever jokes joystiq usually just writes sometime like-
"Rather than crank out another Tom Cruise gag (we've got plenty of them, we assure you)"
you got plenty of tom cruise gags joystiq? let's hear em!
Justin McElroy @ Sep 3rd 2008 2:40PM
Is that what we "usually" do? Weird, I've never noticed.
iamkaptaink @ Sep 4th 2008 11:58PM
i'm probably wrong...it just seems like a growing trend
i think it's awesome that you guys take the time to read and respond to reader comments...
sorry if my first comment came off a bit harsh
Marty @ Sep 3rd 2008 2:04PM
Oh good... because I want to think about the world's real problems with religion every time I play Half-Life 2. Thanks, asshole.
FOXHOUND @ Sep 3rd 2008 2:07PM
Xenu! XD
Immortal Technique PSN: johnnynumber5 @ Sep 3rd 2008 2:47PM
Anon
Tidy Cog @ Sep 3rd 2008 5:37PM
Art, along with most worthwhile entertainment, is commentary on, or at least riffs off, some real world event or situation on some level, right? Part of HL2's success (for me at least) is because of the story's sci-fi take on the authoritarian regimes we see all around us nowerdays.
I expect the Half Life 2 writers would be disappointed if the story didn't make you think just a little tiny bit about the shitstorm of religious and political fundamentalism that our own world is swept up in right now. The fact that Cruises wacko-space-cult speech expresses the combine mindset so neatly is no accident. With minor modification, it could also be applied to a Cheney mind fart or a Nazi rally and still stir the loin cloths of any apes who care to listen (no offence meant to genuine apes who I assume do not keep a woodie spare for the thought of authoritarian regimes).
It's almost a shame it needs some bright spark film creator to clearly link the two before people start to cotton on. It was a bloody good film though, so I’ll forgive him.
343 Guilty Fart @ Sep 3rd 2008 2:05PM
While extremely well done (Valve really should hire this guy), it's a shame that they had to alter some of Cruise's original speech in order for it to work. It would have been great if it had just been taken verbatim.
Obie @ Sep 3rd 2008 4:07PM
There were only small changes, and they fit very well.
ronald.raygun @ Sep 3rd 2008 2:13PM
wow that was great, i'd much prefer a half-life movie over a halo movie.
journeyman @ Sep 3rd 2008 11:03PM
NO, NO, A THOUSAND TIMES NO.
For the simple fact that for a HL movie to work it would require putting words in Gordon Freeman's mouth, entirely fucking up one of the core defining features and interesting points of Half-Life. Just... just don't suggest something like that again please.
Ihavepants @ Sep 6th 2008 3:29AM
The world of Half-Life is much more interesting than Gordan Freeman, a movie wouldn't need him in it.
[.sm0ke.] @ Sep 3rd 2008 2:18PM
That was pretty great :D
Duke @ Sep 3rd 2008 2:19PM
Actually very haunting. I am impressed. (Cruise is batshit crazy, but here it almost made sense to hear such madness coming from the combine.)
rTwelve [xbl:chilblane] @ Sep 3rd 2008 2:27PM
now i can stop thinking tom cruise was awesome after seeing tropic thunder.
what a relief
Misfit Toy @ Sep 3rd 2008 2:28PM
CRE-EPY...
LuckyEMS @ Sep 3rd 2008 2:29PM
need...episode 3
Bango Shank @ Sep 3rd 2008 2:48PM
Scary thing is: a Scientologist would look at the Half Life 2 story and think: "That's feasible"
Ed @ Sep 3rd 2008 3:11PM
this is f'n brilliant
Conor @ Sep 3rd 2008 4:44PM
Very good.
Are you sure they were anonymous?
They gave their names at the end haha.
Rabidkeebler @ Sep 3rd 2008 5:36PM
I think I'm ready to convert to Combinetology. ALL HAIL OUR GREAT OVERLORD THE MIGHTY HEADCRAB!
Faar @ Sep 3rd 2008 6:58PM
Holy freakin crap, that was incredible.
I know it's been repeated a dozen times already, but it's precisely the word I was thinking while watching this vid: CREEPY!
And, Tom Cruise's a nutcase. These people need to be stopped. Scientology is not a religion, it's an insidious cult, and a scam.
popozao @ Sep 3rd 2008 7:26PM
S cientology is a creeeeeeepy cult; beware free thinkers...