Posted on 09/29/2017 9:44:00 AM PDT by rktman
In real life, Barry Seal was a TWA pilot fired in 1972 after being charged with smuggling plastic explosives into Mexico.
In the movie, Barry Seal is a too-cool-for-school iconoclast who quits TWA, just up and walks away from a passenger plane on the tarmac, because he speaks for the everyman who can no longer stand the rote boredom and suffocating conformity of corporate life.
In real life, Barry Seal flew tons of cocaine into America for various drug lords, including Pablo Escobar. It was only after he was busted that he began working for the DEA as an informant.
In the movie, Barry Seal is recruited by the CIA. Then, on America’s behalf, he has an awesome time photographing communist guerillas in South and Central America, smuggling illegal guns to Ronald Reagan’s secret Contra army, and even smuggling the Contras themselves into Arkansas so they can be trained and equipped to destroy the communist scourge. Oh, and he works for Pablo Escobar.
In real life, Barry Seal was an overweight slob who buried his fellow Americans in the poison of drugs; who did not care enough about his family to even enter the witness protection program.
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Not on my list of “want to see” movies. My boyfriend isn’t a Tom Cruise fan either so I doubt he’ll want to see it.
I’m sure they left out his Operation 40 activities and had Bush Sr’s phone number in his wallet when he got mowed down.
Has he quit Scientology yet?
Barry seal? LOL! Oh you meant tommy boy. Not that I’m aware of but it’s possible that ‘that’ was the cause for Katie and Nicole to bail. Guess they didn’t want to sign a billion year contract with rlh and the seaorg. ;-)
I won’t be seeing this and sending my money to Scientology and their sick leader David Miscavige.
could be his lowest opening ever, he’s not doing press for it...citing complications from his injury on Mission Impossible 6
A guy that worked for me had to accompany some site advance people on one of his movies. He said they were angry about something and continually referred to him as, “f’ing midget.”
LOL! You must have been watching Leah too. Funny thing is, in one pic, Tom towers over mis-cabbage. It is an interesting series but like with most anything on tv, several pounds of salt needs to be on standby.
Ruh Roh! I think the appropriate terminology today is “F’ing little person.” ;0
“It was only after he was busted that he began working for the DEA as an informant.”
Oh sure, he just installed all those spy cameras in his plane by himself.
Leah has a great show but it just reinforces things I already thought about Scientology.
Yeah, but that story doesn't fill theaters.
And to think, that’s Hollywood.
I know right?
Think I will pass on this one after all.
We’ve had L’il Marco, Crooked Hillary, and Lying Ted...now we have Phony Tom!
Won’t be pissing away any of my money on his crap!
why not have a fictional name? The rest of the flick is fiction
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