Is Tom Cruise the last American movie star?

For the next four weeks, we'll be diving headfirst into the Rotten filmography of the man that has spent the better part of his career daring God to strike him down. Today, we're kicking things off with the movie that helped catapult him into the A-list and changed blockbuster filmmaking forever: Tony Scott's high-octane bromance, "Top Gun."

Cinematographer Jake Ures joins us to unpack the homoerotic tension and Cold War-era propaganda of the film, while praising the massively influential work Scott and D.P. Jeffrey Kimball did in the 80s. We also discuss legacy sequels, the magic of the "Top Gun: Maverick," the underrated Anthony Edwards, Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson's golden era, and of course, the unstoppable force that is Tom Cruise.