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Kim Hollis: I'm hard-pressed to pick anyone other than Cruise. Are there actors I like better (as people and whom I just enjoy watching in general)? Certainly. But I effectively grew up with Cruise. He was doing high school movies when I was in high school, and when I think back on it, I don't believe there's another actor with so many films that I've seen in theaters. I think Risky Business was my first R-rated movie in a theater, and I remember the exact location where I saw it.

Choosing a favorite is awfully hard, as I have different reasons for liking different movies. The aforementioned Risky Business isn't honestly one of his best in quality, but I have an affection for its weird Tangerine Dream score and the final line ("Looks like University of Illinois!"). Jerry Maguire is an absolute delight. I've probably re-watched The Firm and Interview With the Vampire more than any of his other movies. With all that said, I do expect that over time my answer would be Edge of Tomorrow.

Kim Hollis: Vacation, the new reboot for the franchise that has Rusty Griswold as the head of the family, earned just $14.7 million from Friday-to-Sunday and $21 million since debuting on Wednesday. What do you think of this result?

Jason Barney: Vacation is going to end up being a dud, sorta. Summer comedies can perform well at times, but the overall cost of this one, close to $30 million, is interesting considering the opening weekend. It started where it needed to, high in the top 10, and numbers against the budget are pretty good but….

I wonder if the opening weekend will be the peak of the film. Reviews are unkind and I would expect the drops to be pretty significant in the next couple of weeks. This weekend brings four wide releases, so Vacation will get lost in the shuffle pretty quickly.

Ben Gruchow: On the one hand, I'm sort of surprised that the opening is this high...not so much because the movie got a negative critical reception, but because the buzz leading up to release declined/flatlined considerably. I was seeing a three-day landing somewhere around $12 million and the five-day around $17-18.

On the other hand, it's not like the original Vacation got much love critically when it was released, either, and exit polling indicated that the age bracket under 35 responded a good deal more favorably to the movie than the crowd over 35; adding to this, Dumb and Dumber To was released last year with a multi-decade gap between films and the return of two original stars (Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo technically return with this movie), and it managed a $36 million opening. That can't really be used as a comparison figure here because of the Wednesday opening; if we use past Wednesday openings for poorly-reviewed comedies, we're looking at the three-day opening representing somewhere between 22 and 30 percent of the final gross, which would put Vacation somewhere around $50-$65 million for a total domestic gross. I choose to think it'll fall in the low end of that range because I still believe humanity is inherently good because of the audience and review score, but even that's likely enough to justify a sequel with a similar budget.

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