Tom Cruise Launches New Website Sans Blog

Posted on May 5, 2008

Can you think of anything crazier than launching a new website in 2008 without a blog? Leave it to Tom Cruise's web team to do just that. Last week the people that work for Tom Cruise (scientologists and hollywood pr experts) were busy buying up Google Adwords across the Internet to promote his new website at TomCruise.com. Some of the Google ads being used to promtoe the upcoming website say "Get the real scoop from Tom Cruise. Stay Tuned For Official Site Launch"

Tom Cruise is clearly looking for an image makeover with this new website and the recent appearance with Oprah. The new website, which launched today, contains photos, biography, filmography as well as trailers from 27 Tom Cruise films. The site celebrates Tom Cruise's twenty-five years in the movie business.

The sad thing about this exciting new website is there isn't a blog which would have made the website much more interesting. Instead, there is a "Message From Tom" section which is similar to what other stars like Britney Spears have on their websites. The message was created in Flash. Tom Cruise's message basically says that he really enjoys making movies and he hopes to bring us yet more excellent movies. It would have been useful if bloggers could have linked people directly to this message but they can't because Tom Cruise's webmasters think Flash is more important than function.