This is the strangest photo I've ever seen of Tom Cruise. Did he send a double to get the award? Was it too risky? Is it one of those mask things from Mission Impossible? Is he running out of Thetans?
So many questions.
this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2024
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It's Xenu himself
Yeah, he managed to stay looking young for a long time, but it looks like it all hit him at once recently, plus it looks extra weird because of the plastic surgery.
The perils of plastic surgery.
Perils of aging and plastic surgery. He is 63.
Temu Tom
Older Tom Cruise would still have a face that moves. The weirdness is mostly plastic surgery. Or the refusal to age.
Hollywood has a long history of being a propaganda arm of the US military, government, and intelligence agencies.
Ah, yes
And videogames too... At least that was one of the History Channel documentaries said the other day I was zapping (This reads really old, I swear this wasn't 10 years ago or something).
America's Army anyone? Seriously seemed like a cool game, never got into it.
I know this is a 2 minutes of hate thread, but Richard Dean Anderson got the same for his work on the TV show Stargate SG-1, which I thought was pretty cool.
I'm not Amercian, or Canadian, so I don't really understand the feelings towards military, but if I was an actor and they gave me a cool lapel pin I'd be pretty happy.
It's basically the government thanking them for making propaganda
It is known that SG-1 had an impact on USAF enlistments. The show got a good deal on access to military assets for filming, but they weren't under duress to change the show at the behest of the USAF. The deal was that an adviser would give them notes, and they chose to adhere to the notes or not. I think as the show got more futuristic they had less of a deal with them.
Historically, the government has gotten a lot of use out of highly brainwashed religious folk when promoting various evils.
The old Top Gun movie was likewise used for recruitment. I'm pretty sure they actually got sponsored by the military to a ridiculous degree for this express purpose.
Every military movie, or movie that has military assets in the movie gets them for cheap (if not free}. The movie just has be get cleared as okay from the military. Don't want to send the wrong message. It makes pro-military movies easier to make than something a bit more critical.
I have no problem with this. We have the Blue Angels and people (not from here) bitch about the expense and waste. Turns out, they're a better recruiting tool than paying for advertising, by a huge margin.
Military recruiting is somewhat like a business. They have to pay to get their message out. And as long as all the soldiers and gear have to be kept moving about, why not use them for marketing?
And like a business vying for top-tier customers, the military is always looking for top talent. Not top-tier? Then we have plenty of other jobs for them.
The first Transformers Movie got green-lit in large part because of the involvement of the US military. Same with the GI Joe films.
Like its predecessors, the latest "Transformers" movie uses hundreds of military members from all the services and from throughout the country to make the film feel more realistic.
"I enjoyed being able to walk on the set and there are a hundred real soldiers as opposed to walking on and it's a hundred actors from Orange County or LA in fatigues," said Megan Fox, the film's female lead actor. "It was just an overall pleasant experience, and I have an immense amount of respect for the Soldiers and for our troops."
That realism extends to military equipment as jet fighters roar from the deck of an aircraft carrier to the recoiling sounds of M1-A1 Abrams tanks firing 120mm rounds at their deceptive and, at times, overpowering foes.
"What [the military] bring to it is obviously a sense of reality. But for us what is most interesting about it is our interaction with them," Mr. di Bonaventura said. "Because you actually get to see these people who have made a life choice and the honesty of that choice comes through each and every time you meet these guys. So, for us, that's the really exciting thing. We get to hang out at the base and see the joy they get out of being a part of us, and you also see us get affected by their level of commitment."
This latest "Transformers" film shows an extreme example of what the military does in everyday life.
what happened to his nose?
Cocaine
I thought Tom Cruise was ALREADY the official bird of the USA
Absolutely! That's why everyone gives him the bird salute when they see him.
Wow he really looks like Tucker Carlson in that picture. Made me double take.
I'm glad I'm not the only one.
Regime whore spotted
Is that Checo Perez?
Not cool, Cruise is still employable.
Possibly faster as well.