Things:

  1. Wow, the smoking! You expect that in shows set in 1950, but shows set in the ’80s? I think we forget how common it was in our lifetimes.

  2. Man, it is a SLOW PACED, quiet movie. If this is what counted as a Bruckheimer action movie back then, we have really evolved. Like, this is seriously a perfect median between 2001 and Transformers, pacing-wise.

  3. OMG the Tom Cruise/Kelly Wosserface “romance” is super super super super super super super super creepy. Like, it’s bad enough that he gets a bunch of Navy buddies to surround and trap her while he karaokes a song on first meeting. But then after she blows him off HE FOLLOWS HER TO THE WOMEN’S BATHROOM AND SUGGESTS HAVING SEX ON THE COUNTER. What the fuck, dude! Any actual human being in the situation she was in would have been terrified for her life, but of course this is all “movie cute” so yeah.

  4. Anthony Edwards, did you REALLY think that was a good mustache? Really?

  5. I know this is supposed to have been seen as Navy propaganda, but it comes across to me as a super-critical look at military spending. BASICALLY they spend like a trillion dollars on shit, and kill people in training, and the only actual outcome of it is that they killed five Russians in some stupid “unconfirmed incident” of zero strategic import.