Cocktail (1988)

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Wikidata Q1105359, film, IMDb tt0094889, TMDB 7520: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Tom Cruise as actor (The Color of Money with Chris Ryan); 4 more episodes agree.

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Who talked about it

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check — Patreon

The Big Picture

The Rewatchables

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

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Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Tom Cruise: 3 lines programming ×1 career ×1 theme ×1

  1. theme (movie-star persona): Tom Cruise → Cocktail. Cruise in Top Gun, Cocktail, and this film plays with no wink or self-awareness, unlike later movie stars.
    “In all 3 of those movies that you just mentioned, cocktail, Top Gun, and this movie. There's no self-awareness.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Top Gun: 3 lines unmapped ×2 theme ×1

  1. unmapped (Cruise sing-along): Top Gun → Cocktail. In the best Tom Cruise singing-along category, Top Gun, Cocktail, Risky Business, Jerry Maguire and this film compete; Top Gun wins as camp and 80s.
    “Top Gun probably wins because it's a whole scene and it's Anthony Edwards and It's out of control, campy”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:16:00 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

The Color of Money: 2 lines career ×1 people ×1

  1. people (supporting actor overlap): The Color of Money → Cocktail. A bar actor here is Cruise's uncle from Cocktail, supporting the theory Cruise pulls his supporting players from film to film.
    “Just that Cruz is kind of grabbing all of his supporting figures over the years.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:53:27 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

All the Right Moves: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career trail): Cocktail → All the Right Moves. Cruise's early film at number five leads to a riff on Cocktail's drama-minded reshoots.
    “And then at some point they were just like, we got to make it a fucking Tom Cruise movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 1:48:04 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Bruce A. Young: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (best that guy): Bruce A. Young → Cocktail. Competing 'that guy' nominees: Bruce Young (Moselle/Jackie), Cruise's Cocktail uncle, and Paul Herman, who wins.
    “Bruce A. Young. This is a candidate for best that guy.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:53:32 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Edge of Tomorrow: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Edge of Tomorrow → Cocktail. Unlike Cocktail or The Color of Money, Cruise's character does not have all the moves; he has to learn them.
    “It's not cocktail, it's not color money.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:20:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Rain Man: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career balancing): Rain Man → Cocktail. Cruise balanced fluffy Cocktail with a big director and bigger actor in Rain Man; he reportedly steals Rain Man from Hoffman.
    “He, in my opinion, he steals Rayman out from Hoffman.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 1:33:32 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Roger Donaldson: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Roger Donaldson → Cocktail. Donaldson also directed Cocktail.
    “We've done he also did cocktail.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:53:24 · Bill Simmons (0.30 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (5)

  1. career (Tom Cruise career): Cocktail → The Color of Money. Cruise should do a Color of Money legacy sequel instead of Days of Thunder or more racing movies.
    “Do fucking color of money with a Kaylee Spainey or some shit.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Last Temptation of Christ with Jamelle Bouie · 2:07:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career balancing): Rain Man → Cocktail. Cruise balanced fluffy Cocktail with a big director and bigger actor in Rain Man; he reportedly steals Rain Man from Hoffman.
    “He, in my opinion, he steals Rayman out from Hoffman.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 1:33:32 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. career (career trail): Cocktail → All the Right Moves. Cruise's early film at number five leads to a riff on Cocktail's drama-minded reshoots.
    “And then at some point they were just like, we got to make it a fucking Tom Cruise movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 1:48:04 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Tom Cruise → Cocktail. Cruise in Cocktail is a throwing-everything-into-a-part-that-isn't-great example, as with Pacino in Scent of a Woman and Two for the Money.
    “Like, cruise and cocktail is another one.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:28:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Roger Donaldson → Cocktail. Donaldson also directed Cocktail.
    “We've done he also did cocktail.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:53:24 · Bill Simmons (0.30 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Edge of Tomorrow → Cocktail. Unlike Cocktail or The Color of Money, Cruise's character does not have all the moves; he has to learn them.
    “It's not cocktail, it's not color money.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:20:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (supporting actor overlap): The Color of Money → Cocktail. A bar actor here is Cruise's uncle from Cocktail, supporting the theory Cruise pulls his supporting players from film to film.
    “Just that Cruz is kind of grabbing all of his supporting figures over the years.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:53:27 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

programming (2)

  1. programming (programming): Tom Cruise → Cocktail. With the public-figure Cruise, the pick has to be Cocktail.
    “If it's the cruise, the public figure cruise that we know, it's got to be cocktails.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:57:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. programming (programming): Cocktail → Cocktail. Cogwin's law from Cocktail becomes a Life Lesson category; the Cocktail pod was a fun one.
    “He points out, we had so much fun with the laws.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:21:22 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

theme (2)

  1. theme (Cruise persona template): Cocktail → Top Gun. The Cruise movie-star template begins in Top Gun and cocktail: a guy who is the best at something and is doubted before proving everyone wrong.
    “Tom Cruise movies are primarily about a guy who is the fucking best at something.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 2:17:00 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. theme (movie-star persona): Tom Cruise → Cocktail. Cruise in Top Gun, Cocktail, and this film plays with no wink or self-awareness, unlike later movie stars.
    “In all 3 of those movies that you just mentioned, cocktail, Top Gun, and this movie. There's no self-awareness.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (Cruise sing-along): Top Gun → Cocktail. In the best Tom Cruise singing-along category, Top Gun, Cocktail, Risky Business, Jerry Maguire and this film compete; Top Gun wins as camp and 80s.
    “Top Gun probably wins because it's a whole scene and it's Anthony Edwards and It's out of control, campy”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:16:00 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (duplicate role): Top Gun → Cocktail. Cocktail is questioned as duplicative of Top Gun: the cocky guy brought down a notch.
    “do you think that there is anything in the in cocktail that can't be gotten from Top Gun?”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:54:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (best that guy): Bruce A. Young → Cocktail. Competing 'that guy' nominees: Bruce Young (Moselle/Jackie), Cruise's Cocktail uncle, and Paul Herman, who wins.
    “Bruce A. Young. This is a candidate for best that guy.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:53:32 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Cocktail: Griffin's verdict: the stupidest movie Tom Cruise ever made, a film about a bartender who does 'the crazy thing'.
    “I mean, the stupidest movie he ever made.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Last Temptation of Christ with Jamelle Bouie · 2:06:00 · Jamelle Bouie (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Cocktail: Cocktail was reshot from a darker Bright Lights Big City-style script into a Tom Cruise romance, with Bryan Brown playing it like a drama.
    “That movie is bizarre.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 1:47:10 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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