return2ozmaTom Cruise gets a top U.S Navy honor for boosting the military with his screen roles
I'll be on 
solsangraalalso the army made a video game to boost recruitment
potoooooooo ✅️Historically, the government has gotten a lot of use out of highly brainwashed religious folk when promoting various evils.
Ex NummisThe 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.
NotyouEvery 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 then something a bit more critical.
UnderpantsWeevilThe first Transformers Movie got green-lit in large part because of the involvement of the US military. Same with the GI Joe films.
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.
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I thought Tom Cruise was ALREADY the official bird of the USA
Absolutely! That’s why everyone gives him the bird salute when they see him.
Wow he really looks like Tucker Carlson in that picture. Made me double take.
I’m glad I’m not the only one.
Daddy’s home
Hollywood has a long history of being a propaganda arm of the US military, government, and intelligence agencies.
Ah, yes
kratoz29And 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).
America’s Army anyone? Seriously seemed like a cool game, never got into it.
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.
SkunkWorkzYeah 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.
Is that Checo Perez?
Not cool, Cruise is still employable.
Possibly faster as well.
what happened to his nose?
Cocaine
It makes your nose wide?
circuitfarmerThis 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.
roofuskitThe 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.
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.
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 Xenu himself
I was wondering why Jason Bateman was in the pic
CouldbealeotardI 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.
InfynisIt’s basically the government thanking them for making propaganda
It is known that SG-1 had an impact on USAF enlistments. The show got a good deal on access to military assets for filming, but they weren’t under duress to change the show at the behest of the USAF. The deal was that an adviser would give them notes, and they chose to adhere to the notes or not. I think as the show got more futuristic they had less of a deal with them.
I love SG1 but going back and watching it I cringe a lot; it’s so sexist. Even mildly homophobic.
How is it sexist? Samantha Carter is one if the great depictions of women in sci fi.
Also I don’t remember any homophobia. The topic of sex or orientation was rarely brought up on the show. In the 19 seasons and 3 movies of the franchise there is exactly one sex scene, and fans were upset that the show did it at all.
There are a shitload of scenes where people are hitting on Samantha Carter in a professional work setting or treating her poorly because of her sex. They treat women like shit. The episode they go back in time and alternate O’Neill insinuates Daniel is gay but they can’t acknowledge that gay people exist.
I’ll agree on the Vala stuff, and I never liked that character.
Outside of that, I think you are definitely picking and choosing what you are paying attention to to support your agenda. O’Neill 100% flirts with Carter, and both Teal’c and Jackson get the muscles out plenty of times. Jackson is naked showing off the gymwork several times. Any time where women are treated like crap is pro-feminism because the women successfully stand up for themselves. This is the show that began with Carter dressing down a room full of Airmen for being sexist, and several times over the course of the show male characters stand up for female characters or give them the room to perform as equals. The main sexual content in the franchise is in SGU, which includes gay relationships.
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.
geneva_convenienceThe Scientology military recruiter is a literal national hero now.