Reeves Weidemann

And in exchange for doing that, David was allowed to participate in, as they put it in Hollywood, some of the big franchises that Paramount has.

What's done is done.

And some of those movies were great, big blockbusters.

A lot of them, David, you know, didn't have a ton to do with.

And then eventually he, he eventually started kind of trying to make movies on his own.

Some of them were based on kind of original ideas that he and others had.

And then he also had this longstanding goal of making a Terminator movie.

Terminator and Terminator 2 were two of the movies he loved as a kid.

If both the Barons are dead,

And he made a version of the movie Terminator Genisys.

I've been waiting for you.

Also not great.

And so he had this kind of mixed track record of making these big action movies.

Generally, the ones with Tom Cruise were pretty good.

Generally, the ones without Tom Cruise, based on kind of original ideas, not so good.

And then he makes...

a really good movie with Tom Cruise.

Inarguably, sort of one of the best, maybe the best critical and commercial film of, you know, the last few decades, Top Gun Maverick.

Come on, kid, you can do it.

Don't think.