I only saw TOP GUN MAVERICK once so perhaps my memory deceives, but isn't there a part where he's trying to impress his girlfriend and they go sailing and he's terrible and dorky?
Fair point that the MISSION IMPOSSIBLE films don't do this to Cruise. Instead they inflict it on Simon Pegg.
I don't remember that scene, so they may have done that once, but I remember a lot of scenes where they played the cool moment straight (like maverick literally throwing the textbook in the trash and then proceeding to kick everyone's ass at simulation dogfights)
In fairness on the last point, top gun Maverick (and I think Tom cruise movies in general) avoid this, so it's not universal even now.
I only saw TOP GUN MAVERICK once so perhaps my memory deceives, but isn't there a part where he's trying to impress his girlfriend and they go sailing and he's terrible and dorky?
Fair point that the MISSION IMPOSSIBLE films don't do this to Cruise. Instead they inflict it on Simon Pegg.
I don't remember that scene, so they may have done that once, but I remember a lot of scenes where they played the cool moment straight (like maverick literally throwing the textbook in the trash and then proceeding to kick everyone's ass at simulation dogfights)