"Top Gun: Maverick" hits theaters this weekend. And as usual, there is a Tom Cruise running scene. That presents an important question, though: Is he actually good at running?
“But would Cruise be better suited for sprints or slightly longer races? Smith Gilbert thinks Cruise would be great at the 800 meters or even the mile because she thinks he could sustain his top-end speed. But Joyner-Kersee thinks Cruise could be a good 100-meter runner, and she says he looks like he might be in the 12-second range right now. "That's really fast for people who don't train to race," she says.”
“But would Cruise be better suited for sprints or slightly longer races? Smith Gilbert thinks Cruise would be great at the 800 meters or even the mile because she thinks he could sustain his top-end speed. But Joyner-Kersee thinks Cruise could be a good 100-meter runner, and she says he looks like he might be in the 12-second range right now. "That's really fast for people who don't train to race," she says.”
59 year old Tom Cruise running a 100 in 12 seconds is about as likely as Sha'Carri Richardson running 10.3 .
Wow I am so happy that ESPN finally decided to do a "running" story on their website... and it's about freaking Tom Cruise's ability to sprint in movies. How about literally one single article about the up-and-coming generation of US talent?? I guarantee that they could write a fascinating article about any single one of the amazing crop of high school runners we have—for instance, Gary Martin, or the NP park boys, or Erriyon Knighton, or Natalie Cook, or Cade Flatt, or, heck, ALL of them—that would have broad appeal to sports fans. Just throw in something about the 2028 olympics in LA and gold medals and blah blah blah and non-track fans would perk up their ears. And that's just one example. There are so many fascinating articles that could be written, yet they write an inane, banal article about a non-runner's ability to "run". What a joke.
Film trick: Speed up the playback just enough to make him look faster, but not so fast you can tell the playback speed has been turned up. Like everything else in movies: Fake.
