If you've ever been a bartender, you've heard of Tom Cruise's "Cocktail." You've probably even seen it. Since it's release 34 years ago, the film has become something of a bartender's rite of passage. It's also so much darker than you'd ever think the movie where Tom Cruise flips bottles at a TGIF's would be.
For our second installment in our Rotten retrospective on Cruise, we're looking back at 1988's "Cocktail" as well as his 1990 re-teaming with "Top Gun" director Tony Scott for the racing drama "Days of Thunder." Both movies were "high concept" studio films designed to further boost Cruise's celebrity, and both represented critical low points for the actor who would go on to star in the Oscar Best Picture winner the same year as "Cocktail."
We're joined by actor Morgan Maher to talk real life service horror stories, while Kourtney dishes out some hot takes on catering. Is "Cocktail" a companion piece to Cruise's "Risky Business" in its dark depiction of Reagan-era individualism and consumerism? Why doesn't the movie want to acknowledge that the all-star bartenders are flipping bottles at a TGIF's??? What war was Cruise's young aspirational bartender fighting in? Has Cruise ever replicated the on-screen chemistry he has with future (and now ex) wife Nicole Kidman? Is "Days of Thunder" the movie that officially broke Don Simpson (or was it all the cocaine, collagen, and fat injected into his dick?) Was "Days of Thunder" propaganda for the tourism board in Glendale? And most importantly... Does "Cocktail" deserve its podcast record low of 7%?!
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