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.
The perils of plastic surgery.
Perils of aging and plastic surgery. He is 63.
Older Tom Cruise would still have a face that moves. The weirdness is mostly plastic surgery. Or the refusal to age.
Temu Tom
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.
Big budget movies apply digital makeup to their geriatric cast. It’s an open secret in the CGI world. It’s like the de-aging tech but toned down.
It’s interesting to be old enough to experience the trajectory of celebrity looks. This photo made me think of Kurt Russell.
Gonna bet CGI for his recent films and a army of Scientologists who shut down bad photos of him also helped.
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).
Yeah Activison hires people from the CIA. Couple of executives are former CIA execs. Many of the stories in CoD are bending the truth in the US military’s favor.
ArmA was a military sim for the military before they turned it into a game, and it’s still one of the more popular ones.
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.
Historically, the government has gotten a lot of use out of highly brainwashed religious folk when promoting various evils.
The Scientology military recruiter is a literal national hero now.
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
Regardless of our military flaws and excessive brainwashing of recruits, awarding any kind of actor the highest honor from our armed forces immediately and irrevocably destroys the integrity of that medal for any other recipients future or past. It’s a sad disgrace, and I actually really enjoyed the movie.
