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Yeah Risky Business has a bizarre, singular mood, circa otm
― flappy bird, Sunday, 19 July 2020 04:43 (three years ago) link
DeMornay might be more crucial to the mood of Risky Business than Cruise. The viewer can believe they have more of a grasp on her personality than Cruise's character does, but only by a couple of degrees.
― bat ain't Thad (sic), Sunday, 19 July 2020 05:29 (three years ago) link
You're right, and iirc Cruise's friends are total losers/cowards like him(at first)... I only saw this a few years ago as well and while I knew it was more than the living room scene (which was its reputation according to VH1's I Love the 80s), I was frankly astonished when I saw "MUSIC BY TANGERINE DREAM" in the opening credits. In my mind, Risky Business and Thief are films happening simultaneously in the same city.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 19 July 2020 05:49 (three years ago) link
"Risky Business" is where he "becomes" Tom Cruise in lots of different ways, but especially how the naive character starts out at the mercy of De Mornay but seemingly ends up ruthlessly cold-blooded (lesson learned, capitalism!). But yeah, because DeMornay is so crucial she lends her character a real ambiguity, especially in the alternate (director's preferred) ending:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KnW9_viA7Q
Gah, that movie is so good.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 July 2020 13:33 (three years ago) link
one year passes...
Was flipping around on hotel tv and saw Cruise with Cameron Diaz. I thought, wait, what movie is this? Turns out to be something called Knight and Day. What the hell is that?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 02:27 (two years ago) link
ten months pass...
I thought he was really good in the new "Top Gun," charming, dramatic, funny, vulnerable, pretty versatile in the role of "Tom Cruise, movie star."
On the way to the theatre my wife told me one of her co-workers is his ... first cousin, once-removed? Cruise's first cousin is the co-worker's mother, whatever that makes her. So everyone was, of course, curious. Have you met him? What's he like? She said the only time she met him was at his mother's funeral, but that for years, every year they would get a pile of Scientology books and pamphlets from him, which they promptly threw out. This went on for several years, but at some point the Scientology stuff stopped coming and he started sending a coconut cake instead.
Apparently this is a Cruise trademark:
It is a White Chocolate Coconut Bundt Cake from Doan's Bakery that Tom Cruise sends as a gift to all his famous friends at Christmas. The cake is a moist coconut bundt cake with chunks of sweet white chocolate topped with a rich cream cheese frosting and toasted coconut flakes.
Sounds good!
Incidentally, at the box office my wife asked the ticket seller for two to "Mission Impossible." The ticket seller just looked back blankly, and my wife doubled down. "Two for 'Mission Impossible,' please." And the ticket seller kept staring, frozen. "Um, 'Top Gun,'" I told my wife, and she turned red, and the seller and everyone just cracked up. Tomato/potato.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 June 2022 12:58 (one year ago) link
Mentioned in the other thread, but the last half hour of this was Mission Impossible
― Vinnie, Friday, 10 June 2022 23:48 (one year ago) link
one month passes...