Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle has a trenchant joke that encapsulates the fundamental arrogance of so much American war cinema: βAmerican foreign policy is horrendous 'cause not only will America come to your country and kill all your people, but what's worse, I think, is that they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.β Doug Liman's American Made, a rollicking comedy based on the drug-smuggling, gun-running, contra-funding exploits of C.I.A.-backed pilot Barry Seal (Tom Cruise), represents a discomfiting corollary: Not only will America attempt to destabilize your country with insidious covert ops, they'll come back decades later and make a movie about how much fucking fun it was.
https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/american-made
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 September 2017 16:10 (six years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jul/05/the-top-20-tom-cruise-movies-ranked
'War of the Worlds' below 'Cocktail' and 'Days of Thunder' is certainly an interesting take.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 6 July 2018 14:01 (six years ago) link
8. Minority Report (2002)Cruise and Spielberg should, by rights, be as natural a combination as bread and butter, and yet Minority Report is the only truly satisfying movie they have made together.
The only one out of...two
― omar little, Friday, 6 July 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
this is genuinely the greatest scene ever committed to film pic.twitter.com/VZXRJctPcc— velma π (@maggotmagick) June 23, 2022
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 23 June 2022 17:34 (two years ago) link