In both movies Tom Cruise plays a smartass womanizer who meets a good woman, falls in love, tries to turn his life around, then screws up and loses the woman, then his best friend dies, then he straightens up his act for good and wins his love back. Just my thoughts.
"I like your nurse's uniform,guy."
"These are O.R. scrubs."
"O.R. they?"
Plus they're both super gay movies, more so Top Gun with the volleyball scene & showers, and chomping.
Get busy livin..... or die tryin - Morgan Freeman, "The Shawshank Redemption"
LOL! I thought i was the only one who made all that connections!!!.....
Prostitute: What the *beep* are you doing?
Johnny: I'm gonna kill a bunch of people.
I always thought of Days of Thunder as the unofficial Top Gun sequel, but yes, there are definitely parallels here.
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shareA LITTLE derivative? check this out...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vmg9e785lo
Cocktail is actually a trilogy of Tom Cruise movies of being "the best in the world".They are Top Gun,Cocktail and Days Of Thunder.
shareYou might as well include The Color Of Money in that list.
shareWell basically Tom Cruise is America's favorite "hot shot." Let's recap:
Top Gun: Tom Cruise plays a hot shot pilot who does death defying stunts, makes wise cracks and gets the girl.
Cocktail: Tom Cruise plays a hot shot bartender who throws drinks around, hams it up on the mike, makes wise cracks and gets the girl.
Days of Thunder: Tom Cruise plays a hot shot race car driver who does death defying stunts, makes wisecracks and gets the girl.
The Color of Money: Tom Cruise plays a hot shot pool player who shows off by flipping his pool stick around like a baton, makes wise cracks and gets the girl.
Did I leave out any?
Oh yeah,Tom Cruise starts off like an average high school kid, but then turns into a hot shot pimp who makes wisecracks and gets the girl. Risky Business.
I've heard that theory before, but I don't really see it. I think that the only reason that people make that connection is that they both star Tom Cruise and were released around the same time. If they had different lead actors and/or were released farther a part, I don't think that anybody would make that comparison. Really, Cocktail is more of a derivative of every other relationship movie.
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