Pet Rock: The Pop Culture Blog

Happy birthday, Tommy!

That's right, folks, it is Tom Cruise's birthday today. Quite the fortuitous discovery seeing how this is still Tom Cruise Week here at Pet Rock. Wish we could say we knew it all along, but that would be a bigger lie than "Lions for Lambs" was a great movie.

But before we light up Tommy Boy in YouTube Friday, we'll support the cause with a look at his top 5 movies in our opinion.

5) All the Right Moves

Can high school football player Tom Cruise escape the tough coach and the steel mill and land a college scholarship? Seeing how this movie was made before 1992, you know he can.

4) Born on the Fourth of July

Good movie, great mustache!

3) Risky Business

The quintessential coming of age movie for dudes, this movie just gets better with time. And Rebecca De Mornay never looked better!

2) A Few Good Men

Do we really need to ask if you ordered the code red or can han handle the truth?

1) Top Gun

That's right, a naval aviator. We were inverted. She's lost that loving feeling. I feel the need, the need for speed. You're three-quarters of a mile out, call the ball, Maverick.

OK, we'll stop now. It has been 22 years and "Top Gun" is still among the best guy movies ever.

-- Mark LaMonica