Except that Tom Cruise is a tool.
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THIS!!! 100 times THIS!
The movie should have been all about Rooster, Goose’s son. But it turned into a TC vanity project. Uggggh.
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For someone to share LKs obsession with MHG is to me highly suspicious and telling.
It’s suspicious as it seems that MHG has committed no act or tort that is wrong or illegal. She just didn’t like LK. That’s it.
MHG did NOTHING WRONG.
She may have wronged others, but she didn’t wrong LK. And certainly nothing to warrant the venom displayed.
It’s highly bizarre.
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100% agree.
Did MHG get some sort of cease and desist order to prevent LK from talking about her on social media anymore? It seems like she must have, because Lollypop went radio silent about her after a certain point.
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I wish I could have gotten over my COVID fears to see in in the theater. Just stunning. And the fact that they all trained and filmed in the aircraft is super impressive!!!
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Couldn’t agree more. But aside from one or two odd moments, he was super effective as an actor in this role. IRL, he creeps me out infinitely.
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If/when JK is deposed, will Barisone and SGF’s attorneys be allowed to question him about the ex parte email to the judge, his motive, why he didn’t know better, etc…?
ETA Could they bring it up in front of a jury?
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Eh, worked for me!
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I’ll admit, as I have personal ties to naval aviators… it was hard to watch the movie. I picked it apart. The aviation scenes were cool. The plot was ugggh. The first one was much better 
And I was annoyed that they replaced Charlie from the first one.
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Most of the time, I can ignore an actor’s foibles if they do a good job in a role, and I think that applied in this case.
There are a few that I just choose not to see, because they are over the line for me in real life. You can only overlook so much.
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Fair! And I assumed that might be why. I found it stunning. And I agree that Rooster was the emotional heart of the movie. Technically, it was rather a blunt instrument using him as they did… but it worked.
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Absolutely agree! As someone whose career has been almost entirely in this industry, I think the time of reckoning is long overdue. There are people whose movies I won’t watch for the same reason - in front of, and behind, the camera.
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Personally, I don’t think there’s really a point to waste deposition time on that. I’d rather ask him about videos, and Finish The Bastard, and recordings and those contracts LK boasted that her dad had negotiated.
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In deposition, sure, if it was intended to elicit information about a relevant matter. Probably not likely that anyone will bother with it.
It’s more likely to be brought up on the contempt motion than it is at trial. It doesn’t go to issues at trial, really.
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@trubandloki is right, you are very gracious.
I, personally, am getting flashbacks to the time in 1L torts class where a student got up in front of class (we had to present on aspects of a tort) and said: “think of duty as a stool with three legs.”
I still laugh when I think of it!
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I’m not LK or JK, OK?
Let’s go back to the way the 48 Hours episode framed the mess: MB had two women fighting for control of his attention. LK was one of them. But there was a second woman.
In any drama, whether fiction or real life, the drama arises from tension. If you had MHG demanding MBs attention, and no LK, there’s no tension. If LK is a client and MHG as girlfriend and assistant trainer and protege does not resent MB spending x hours per week training LK, there’s no tension.
Think of the tension as literally the tension in a rope created by two people pulling at each end. There is only tension if someone is at the other end of the rope.
I’m only saying that MHG is inescapably a central player in the drama in that the tension that created the drama was tension created by two women, not one, warring for MBs time and attention. Just like 48 Hours said.
Is MHG responsible for what happened on Aug 7? I’m not saying that. I’m saying that if you insist on looking at the ultimate cause and not just the proximate cause of LKs injuries by saying “LK drive him insane”, then logically you should also look at other acts of commission or omission further back in the chain, like the fact that none of MBs considerable support system intervened to get him help. But I don’t think either LKs actions or MHGs actions (or inactions) can sensibly be called the proximate cause of her injuries. That’s my point.
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Thank you @ekat and @lazaret. I wondered, because that kind of underhandedness might influence a jury.
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I’m right there with you, but I guess Tom Cruise is on my “do not view” list.
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I’ve never liked Tom Cruise because he looks just like my ex-brother in law, who was a bad apple.
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I never saw anything long term with Charlie in the first one. She was too ambitious to move up and be promoted. And I didn’t see that much chemistry.
While I agree Cruise is a bit of a nut job with the whole Scientology cult, he is a good actor and I thought this film was by far the best of the two. I’ve watched it more than once, and it is better every time. It was about maturity and redemption, and I liked the familiarity of the long time, on and off again love with Penny.
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