Born on The 4th of July || Roger Ebert Review (1989)

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@matthewalexanderlemma8000 4 жыл бұрын

Tom Cruise really should have won Best Actor for this performance.

@deckofcards87 4 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately in 1990 Tom was up against Daniel Day Lewis for My Left Foot, which was one of the most real portrayals ever put on screen. None of the other nominations stood a chance. Still Tom definitely deserved it and also deserved an Oscar for Magnolia which time he was definitely snubbed.

@matthewalexanderlemma8000 4 жыл бұрын

@@deckofcards87 In terms of Oscar campaigning, Daniel Day-Lewis had Harvey Weinstein on his side, as "My Left Foot" was a Miramax production.

@evelynverdejo6926 3 жыл бұрын

@@deckofcards87 let's not forget Jerry Maguire

@jameswilliams-zr8co Жыл бұрын

tom got so robbed

@AbdiqalisMohamud010 Жыл бұрын

Cruise would have won any other year. Just had to be up against Daniel Day Lewis playing a similar handicapped character

@ricardocantoral7672 4 жыл бұрын

I usually don't care for Tom Cruise but I tip my hat to this performance.

@itschriscash 3 жыл бұрын

Everyone who was anyone was in this film...and I was lucky enough to be an extra in a few scenes. Surrounded by such talent was an amazing experience for me.

@Sophie_kent 4 жыл бұрын

Oliver Stone made a great film.

@freedomandwhathaveyou4062 2 жыл бұрын

Politicians apologizing that's a good one 2022 and they are blaming us for everything more than ever the same people in power for 50 years

@ruthlessaggressionguy2033 2 жыл бұрын

The reason this film is brilliant is because of How different cruises performance is when compared to any of his other roles. In this film, you forget at times that you are watching Tom cruise, it feels like you are actually watching Ron kovic.

@jojo4shosho Жыл бұрын

I felt the same way. I forgot that i was watching Thee Tom Cruise. He did amazing in this film.

@sharoncurtis5820 3 жыл бұрын

I'm not big on the action hero movies that he's been doing but he is my favorite actor. I grew up watching his movies since Risky Business but this one was one of my absolute fave Tom Cruise movies.

@marsspacex6065 2 жыл бұрын

The USA didn’t invade Vietnam we helped south Vietnam from invasion from communists the us had a treaty with them

@mrfloxin 4 жыл бұрын

Tom Cruise hasn't age bit in that interview. He looks the same back then and even today. I know Tom is around sixty years old. He looks like he 30 years old now! I like to know what his secret for staying young looking after all years later. I to try it myself someday soon.

@nikosvault 4 жыл бұрын

The 50's Kennedy era? Come on Tom.

@ricardocantoral7672 4 жыл бұрын

I groaned when I heard that.

@dvg4536 3 жыл бұрын

well to be fair, often it is said the 50s really lasted up through 1963 or 1964, in terms of the mood, fashions, social and family conventions and the country's foreign policy preoccupations. If you look at early 60's music compared to the music that was popular by the end of the decade, your talking about a transition from Rat Pack, Miles Davis etc to Led Zeppelin, Hendrix etc. In terms of films, you went from like The Alamo, The Apartment, undeniably edgier than classic films of the 40s, but still in line with production codes, in Black and White--by the end of the decade you'd get Midnight Cowboy, The Wild Bunch actually popular in mainstream circles while being far, far more explicit than anything people would have imagined in 1960-1962. Indeed the influence of Kennedy's assassination, the Civil Rights act and the accompanying Great Society project, the Vietnam war, the introduction of LSD and also the pill into wide swathes of youth culture, the mass marketing to the very large, dominant baby boomer generation, the simultaneous baby bust, importation of Indian spirituality, culture made popular by The Beatles that would have substantial influence over the nascent New Age movement, as Rachel Carlson's Silent Spring had on the growing environmental movement, revolutionary movements like the Black Panthers, the first instances of early computers, modeling revolutionizing the professional classes work habits and many other factors which really took hold in the middle 60s were responsible for creating most of what we culturally identify as signifying the 60s. Yet another fold of complexity to understand is that our picture of the 50s as lacking in conflict, crisis and change and being a static, Norman Rockwell esque era of good feelings obviously glosses over a great deal of turmoil caused by major technological changes, trends in education of all Americans that made the workplace more and more complicated, the threat of the nuclear war hung over peoples heads daily, many of the Civil Rights movement's most tumultuous and iconic moments happen during this decade as precursor to the movements unqualified successes in the 60s, tension over the role of women in business as women in the 40s had stepped into much more independent roles only to see the necessity draw back after the end of WWII in the intellectual world, particularly in the field of Philosophy's lack of ability to deal with the Holocaust intellectually and the subsequent breakdown of worldviews consistent with centuries, perhaps millenia, of bedrock principles of Western thought from Descartes to Aristotle that would pave the way for the movement (moment) we call Postmodernism --symbolized in epochal philosophic works like Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein, or in the theater, literary world two transitional Modernist -> Postmodern works Waiting for Godot and Lolita which retrospectively show a transgressive bridge away from the previously assumed primacy of morality, rationality and catharsis in artistic expression--also can think of someone like Jackson Pollock here representing the same thing. I would say in general, besides the 1970s which actually, oddly, may have seemed to start after the end of 1968, at least the first couple years of most decades, to me at least, seem consistent with the styles, moods of the previous ones. 2010s may be another exception, but for me 2000 up through Sept 10th 2001 felt like a continuation of the 90s, while 1990 up through Dec 24 1991 when the Soviet Union was finally kaput, felt like a hangover of the 80s. 1980 very much felt felt like a hangover of the 70s.

@HugoSoup57 4 жыл бұрын

This movie isn’t as good as Platoon, but it’s still a great movie. And even though I usually don’t care for Tom Cruise, he had an undoubtedly great performance here. If you actually think about it, Cruise has been in some really good stuff.