“Top Gun 2” Is the Tom Cruise Midlife Crisis Movie We Deserve
Tell me it isn't SO!!!!
(And they won't even need to use that FaceApp to make him look old)
Tell me it isn't SO!!!!
(And they won't even need to use that FaceApp to make him look old)
When you think of leads in incredible film runs, your mind might go to Al Pacino from Panic in Needle Park in 1971 all the way to 1999’s Any Given Sunday, with the Godfather films (not counting the third), Dog Day Afternoon, Scarface and more hits than misses in between. Or Harrison Ford in the late-’70s when he was Han Solo and Indiana Jones, and still managed to find time to shape our idea of a dystopian future with Blade Runner. Or Humphrey Bogart’s late-’40s noir run, Robert De Niro’s three-decade run with Martin Scorsese, Denzel Washington from the ’90s well into the aughts, Meryl Streep’s entire career… and so on.
The point is, there are misses and gaps in all of those resumes. Nobody is perfect. For every Serpico or Scent of a Woman you get a Dick Tracy. Films that might not make sense in the middle of incredible runs or just downright suck. (The 1990 live-action version of the famous comic detective that Pacino played in doesn’t suck, it’s just weird.)
For well over a decade, from the early ’80s into the new millennium, Tom Cruise had one of those runs. Start with 1983’s Risky Business, work your way through The Color of Money and Rain Man, and end up at 1999’s Magnolia, and you get one of the more impressive little runs in movie history. He might not have a Goodfellas or Training Day in there, but there’s at least one Cruise film in that span that resonates with just about everybody. The biggest difference between Cruise and those other people is that, for the most part, they all stage late-career comebacks. (De Niro is TBD. Let’s see how he is in The Irishman.) Cruise pretty much did it all in the ’80s and ’90s, and has sort of been on auto-pilot since......
The point is, there are misses and gaps in all of those resumes. Nobody is perfect. For every Serpico or Scent of a Woman you get a Dick Tracy. Films that might not make sense in the middle of incredible runs or just downright suck. (The 1990 live-action version of the famous comic detective that Pacino played in doesn’t suck, it’s just weird.)
For well over a decade, from the early ’80s into the new millennium, Tom Cruise had one of those runs. Start with 1983’s Risky Business, work your way through The Color of Money and Rain Man, and end up at 1999’s Magnolia, and you get one of the more impressive little runs in movie history. He might not have a Goodfellas or Training Day in there, but there’s at least one Cruise film in that span that resonates with just about everybody. The biggest difference between Cruise and those other people is that, for the most part, they all stage late-career comebacks. (De Niro is TBD. Let’s see how he is in The Irishman.) Cruise pretty much did it all in the ’80s and ’90s, and has sort of been on auto-pilot since......
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