If you saw any of the Tom Cruise-starring Mission Impossible movies then you know just how brazenly reckless Tom Cruise can be when it comes to performing his own stunts. Cruise went as far as firing his own insurance company so he could perform some of the stunts he executed in the franchise. Having spoken to a few stuntmen, it's all about the rush. Once you start doing it, it's very hard to stop. Much props to Cruise, I don't think anyone else in Hollywood goes to the extremes Cruise does in trying to make his action scenes look as genuinely realistic as possible.
Read more'First Man': Do Millennials Actually Care About the Moon Landing?
I'm sorry folks, I just can't get on-board the "First Man" train, not for particularly political reasons, such as what Richard Brody and Armond White seem to be doing, no, I believe Chazelle's film was rather stilted, impenetrable if you will -- it didn't help that I couldn't care less about the moon landing in the first place.
Yes, the film is about a huge, earth-shaking event, one which I wasn't alive to bear witness to or understand the importance of, but, truth be told, what did government exactly accomplish by going to the moon? Stealing American's precious tax-paying dollars?