anyone else find it refreshing that Tom Cruise's character was an asshole?
I don't know about you, but I thought it was great how they made Tom Cruise's character a legitimate prick at the start of the film. We've seen the whole absentee father archetype done a thousand times by now, but I like how for once, we actually see why Miranda Otto would have wanted to divorce this guy. He's selfish, immature, uncaring, uneducated, lazy, and just an all-around bad dad. Far too often with these movies, we only hear about the protagonist's flaws, while never actually witnessing it ourselves (The Lost World: Jurassic Park, which incidentally was also made by Spielberg and Koepp, is a perfect example of this).
But of course, as the film goes on, he becomes more sympathetic. It's a shame though, that the rest of his family are almost completely unlikable the whole way through.
Anyone with me on this?