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Tom Cruise found his niche with action & sci-fi so still anticipating to see what he will push himself to do next.

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Viggo Mortensen is always intense so will be interested to see what he does with cirque du freak body-horror director David Cronenberg.

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ANY documentary about the infinitely enigmatic David Bowie will be fascinating.

Plus, Ethan Coen should do Jerry Lee Lewis well if it’s along the lines of O Brother, Where Art Though (2000). (Still curious as to why brother Joel decided to split.) On the other side, hope Baz Luhrmann doesn’t camp up Elvis too much.

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Crimes of the Future looks fascinating and has such a stellar cast! I love a good body horror flick. And Top Gun will be pure popcorn entertainment goodness.

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Gotta promote that unrealistic new ego trip for Cruise, and satisfy all those armchair generals who are pissed about the Afghanistan disaster, huh?

Instead of joining the service they'll be 'rah-rah' -ing Tom Cruise watching a movie that isn't realistic to start with. But don't tell them that. They never had the guts for the real thing anyway. Yippy-yi-yay, chumps.

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Is Hollywood now so bereft of ideas that they have to resurrect Top Gun from almost 40 years ago? Please tell me a 60 year old Maverick is not still piloting fighter jets!

Look to the Japanese and Koreans for the original movies these days.

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Fighto!Today  03:49 pm JST

Is Hollywood now so bereft of ideas that they have to resurrect Top Gun from almost 40 years ago? Please tell me a 60 year old Maverick is not still piloting fighter jets!

It's like I said before. To be a pilot you must fit certain physical standards and nobody does that for over 30 years. In fact nobody even has a military career that long. I'm a military veteran, that's how I know.

Yes, Hollywood IS bereft of ideas bigtime, badly. The original film was unrealistic and predictable in itself but that didn't bother me. But too many Americans have taken it to be gospel and ever since Desert Storm 24/7 became entertainment for the armchair general cheerleaders, the uses of the terms 'war' and 'warrior' have been cheapened by ballcap-wearing cretins - 'war on drugs', 'culture wars', even 'prayer warrior' and it makes me very disgusted.

And every true war America has had since Desert Storm - from Somalia to now has been reduced to cheapened evening news sensations and commercial rackets. I'm not like the other side - the pacifists who hate 'war toys' and all that. That's not me either.

But the ones who never served, the ones who never outgrew such sediments, the ones who never matured beyond the 80s are going to dig this unoriginal unrealistic unnecessary piece of junk. After all, Tom has to pay child support to Suri, and he wants to reup his tarnished image. So all the above mentioned uninitiated people I mentioned will get their kicks on the sequel to the film from eighty-six. And we will all know what and who they are.

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