He has also moonlighted as a travel and entertainment writer for Instinct, Bello Mag, HuffPost, ScreenPicks, and Hotter in Hollywood for which he was the Executive Editor during its 9-year run. He has worked at the world-renowned Carsey-Werner and Anonymous Content while freelancing as a treatment writer for award-winning directors. Hiko has worked in TV and commercial production ever since he left his native New York in the early aughts. and obsesses over pop songs months before everyone else does. ![]() Hiko Mitsuzuka is a self-proclaimed pop culture connoisseur who resides in L.A. And while I love Tom Cruise's dedication to his craft and producing the best possible product (the latest Mission: Impossibles are some of the best action films of the last two decades), I don't love the square-jawed dialogue and character traits cut-and-pasted from an early 90s direct-to-video flick. I appreciate the practical effects and death-defying stunts (the "old-fashioned" moviemaking), but I didn't appreciate the Lady Gaga power ballad that felt slapped on and unnecessary. I get the nostalgia, but I didn't get how a woman as gorgeous as Jennifer Connelly would own a dive bar and have no other character traits but Supportive & Single. So my apologies if I felt nothing while watching Maverick. They inspired me to deliver a sharp insult like a cutthroat Bette Midler. Those films taught me the word "bogus." They made me want to dance in a parade in the middle of Chicago they made me want to visit Chicago. My preferred film collection from the years 1986 to 1989 included Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Dirty Dancing, Adventures in Babysitting, Big Business, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, and Friday the 13th Parts VI-VIII. Sure, it was constantly on TV, but despite That Volleyball Scene, this 10-year-old had no interest in fighter jets and the rust-colored cinematography of Jeffrey L. I wasn't blown away by Top Gun: Maverick like the millions of Americans who gobbled it up like relish-loaded hot dogs on the Fourth of July.Įven as a child of the 80s, the original film always eluded me.
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