Originally published at: No one is surprised the US Navy did not let Tom Cruise fly a F/A-18 regardless of Bruckheimer's assurances of competency | Boing Boing
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In the original Top Gun, they put actors in the backseats of F-14’s. None of the footage was usable due to actors vomiting and dealing with dealing with real life G-forces.
So of course they don’t want to be cleaning up Cruise barf off their nice F/A-18 seats.
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Bruckheimer being an expert in military aircraft, you know. /s
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Just sign this waiver and put up a $100million damage deposit. Will you be using your card’s insurance?
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Bruckheimer can be all about supporting Tom’s ego while letting the darn government be the one to tell Tom no.
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He’s a pilot with a hell of a lot of hours in tricky airplanes (the P-51 can kill you dead in a hurry), but this seems a wise decision by the Navy. I don’t recall if it was here somewhere on the Reddits, but someone said they were themselves a pilot and was at some party with Tom Cruise and so went to talk him about his P-51. Apparently Tom Cruise talked about it so enthusiastically and so long that eventually this guy excused himself from the conversation.
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A joke:
Do you know how to tell you’re talking to a pilot? They’ll tell you.
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It’s the unfortunate consequence to have a deep and singular passion that no one else cares about.
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Aw, c’mon, Navy! He’s a 7th Level Thetan! They can pick shit like this up in seconds!
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My Son was in LA for business and was invited to an early screening. His review was it was sad when people got up and left, plus the time line is a blaring idiotic. Hard pass.
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Looks like the production rental houses need to get on the ball and acquire an F/A-18 on the double. /s
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I feel that the best Top Gun film yet was “Hot Shots”. The plot alone made more sense than Top Gun.
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Cantstandya’s wife!
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Given how much the Top Gun movies work as military propaganda, I’m kind of surprised. I guess the potential bad PR of Tom Cruise flying an FA-18 into the ground was a powerful disincentive…
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Heard on The Tonight Show many years ago: Burt Reynolds talking about a celebrity waiting to be brought on the show that night: “He’s great guy. I know because he told me.”
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Makes sense, he’s no Gary Numan
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There is behind the scenes footage available (released by the studio!) for this new film that shows actors doing exactly that in their training prep for shooting the new movie.
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High-G Cruise-n-Barf!
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Tom Cruise could absolutely fly one of those just fine. It is kinda a disappointment. Say what you will of the dude, he is still good at that stuff.
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I’d like to see him run through a full sequence of preflight checks, complete startup of all avionics, engine start, takeoff, landing, IFR etc. Anyone can wiggle the HOTAS once they’re at altitude and call it flying.
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