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3 days ago
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Tom Cruise gets into Guinness for doing thing only Tom Cruise would want to do
Let's be clear, from the jump: The publishers of the Guinness World Records have made it fairly obvious, over the years, that they're pretty comfortable accommodating movie studios who want to tout a broken record when promoting a film. Do something impressive from a technical point of view—like the pyrotechnics surrounding some of the Bond films, to pick an example that got the nod in recent years—and the record book makers will be perfectly happy to say, 'Yup, that's a record.' So, on the one hand, is it a little silly for Paramount to make a big deal out of the fact that Tom Cruise broke the world record for most times jumping out of a plane and setting his own parachute on fire while making Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning? Sure. But also: Man did jump out of a plane with a burning parachute an (apparently) record 16 times. You can watch and count 'em yourself, if so inclined: The promotional team for the movie released a video of the stunt to YouTube today, showing Cruise talking through it with his team as they carefully douse his parachute in fuel for the 16 different attempts. Cruise's 'I do my own stunts' thing is easy to laugh off, given what a self-mythologizing detail of his whole persona it can be. But it's hard to watch the guy get flipped around in the air, god knows how high up, with nothing but a burnt-to-cinders parachute holding him up, and not think, 'Okay, that's probably worthy of a couple of lines in a book somewhere.' Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning is currently in theaters; spoilers for the above video, but Cruise did not in fact burn up, hit the ground, and then die while in the process of making it. More from A.V. Club Murderbot plays another game of "great scene, cringe scene" A teary Top Chef finds our final four in Milan Samuel L. Jackson might grab a Tulsa King spin-off
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31-03-2025
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Chet Hanks dragged his dad into a Forrest Gump parody music video
Do you get credit for taking much longer to do something crappy that everyone was kind of expecting you to do immediately? This philosophical brainteaser tickles our noggins today courtesy of musician Chet Hanks, who has finally cashed in his 'Did you know my dad is Tom Hanks?' tokens in bulk, releasing a music video this weekend in which he recreates famous moments from Forrest Gump while his father sits on a bench near him, looking some mixture of uncomfortable and proud. Hanks (known to the deep lore divers as Chet Haze) released the video as part of his group Something Out West, which, we are picking up from context clues, is now a country band. (Hanks has had a long, illustrious wander through the White Boy Summer world of rap, pop, and other genres over the years. Also the worlds of vaccine denial and at least one allegation of domestic violence. There are many worlds, in the universe of Chet Hanks.) The song in question, titled 'You Better Run,' would be generically inoffensive, if not for the fact that its video is absolutely stuffed with Forrest Gump references, with the younger Hanks—setting up an implicit charisma comparison that we would not subject ourselves to in a million years—in the place of his father. Who then pops up halfway through, in a bit of a reveal, mugging for the camera in ways that look like they're trying to short circuit the natural instinct to say 'Does Tom Hanks really love his son this much?' We'll be honest: This is one of those things where we're sharing it at least in part to spread around the pain; having viewed the video a few times ourselves, we now need it to exist in other people's memories, too. More from A.V. Club The White Lotus is talking about unchecked aggression here, dude The Gemstones set a parent trap in a masterful vacation episode The Who's Roger Daltry says he's going blind
