AFT supplies what weapons.? Those are DOD weapons genius aka the Army. Where do you guys get these nonsense theories from . If you took a second to use your brain and think about who would have had these weapons readily available just lying around, and , where the word black operation exists, this wouldnt require critical thinking! Oh, yes, thats the ATF , because they are so good at running black operations and intelligence in other countries and they have a budget bigger than most countries GDP. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Some things shouldn't require a degree to figure out and common sense should prevail . This was an operation between the Army and its best friend the cia
Dea fbi and atf arent "in in it". Individuals from dea fbi and atf break the law all the time. Aggregating to american agencies abrogates responsibility of the corrupt individual humans.
10 yrs ago, I fit 12 doors in my 2007 CTS Caddy. Pulled the back seat down and loaded them in. The volunteers at the Re-Store couldn't believe it. Barry Seal wasn't kidding about trunk space.
70's caddies could fit a whole orchestra in the trunk. THE definition of "Land Barge". All that while powered by a choked down 200hp chevy big block 454 getting single digit mpg's lol. "It'll pass anything but a gas station"
In real life if you're cuffed and surrounded by cops and someone walks into the room and you suddenly stand up the cops will tackle you and beat the shit out of you.
Free speech: Re: Et toi Nicole Kidman? this movie has such 80s vibes: She really has the 80s look and hair perm thing had quite a overdone fake country accent; but this was a interesting acting choice for Cruise as always: he picks unique interesting characters
@@sbonamo Oh no doubt GB needed someone who was compromised with sex scandals and drug addiction someone with lots of skeletons in their closet someone in a backwoods state that could be manipulated!!!
@@HittokiriBattousai17 Tom Cruise has been a pilot for years, long before this film was ever made. Did you forget the guy was the star of not one, but two Top Gun movies? I mean, sure, he didn't actually fly the fighter jets in those films, but he became a pilot around the time of the first film.
He's put out a lot of good movies over the years, such as "The Last Samurai", "Collateral" and "Maverick". Even if you don't find them "great", the "MI" movies are always entertaining too.
yeah, people forget that once the guy put a foot into that kind of trouble, he don't have any option anymore, he was fucked the moment he walked into the cartel apartment in the 1st part of the movie, not like he could simple say "no, don't want to do it" and survive.
Same with the military. Stand around most days until you have a training exercise. Then you go to the field for 2 to 3 weeks in a row with no weekends, come back enjoy a shower and sleep in your bed and pray you get the weekend off. Then a war breaks out and you blow up. But for the most part the job is easy lol
When he says “it’s the governor, it’s your governor” that made me laugh 😂😂 that was a lowkey and subtle flex right there and no one caught on to it. So discreet.
Those were some wild times. I use to do seismic exploration for the big oil companies back then. We flew into a handful of countries in central America & south America. There were all kinds of people & groups floating around in different places. Vets from Vietnam were running around training and teaching the "contras". You never knew Who you might be talking too in a bar. There were "John Deere, tractor salesmen running around selling "farming equipment". Exciting times. We once boarded a non-stop flight from Bogata to Houston. Half way through the flight, we were told to buckle up our seat belts and prepare for a unscheduled non emergency landing. We were warned it would be a steep approach and that we would only be on the ground for 20 minutes and that no one was getting off. We had landed in Managua Nicaragua. The airport was surrounded by APC & tanks with infantry positions laid in. A line of limousine pulled onto the runway next to the plane. The door to the plane was opened and a man stepped into the plane. He had a Panama hat on and a nice tropical shirt with a safari vest. Nothing else. He showed his ID to the stewardess and she motioned him into the plane. The seat next to me was empty. He sat there. He was a "tractor salesman". When I asked him why in the hell had we landed here, and what the hell was going on? He told me that the Nicaraguan government was falling apart. The people in the limos were the ministers of finance, agriculture, health, government etc etc. They were getting out! They were taking lots of money out with them. He said it was a real circus! He asked if I was former military, I said yes. He asked if I would share a drink with him as he did not like to drink alone and he surely needed a drink. He had a good size alligator hide covered hip flask in his vest. He got up and talked to the stewardess. We soon had glasses with ice and a couple of cokes. We toasted fallen governments & absent comrades. He said it was a historic occasion. We were laughing as the plane took off. I think that was in October or November of 1978. Crazy times.
The point when the ATF, DEA, Cops, then walks in the FBI, did anyone else’s get anchorman 2 vibes when all the other news stations turned up for a fight? 🤣
Those two teenagers who were found dead by the railroad tracks actually witnessed the drugs being dropped by the airplanes. It wasn't in the movie, but they were killed because of what they saw.
@@ricktompson9453 American Made 2017 starting Tom Cruise as Barry Seal a TWA pilot, is recruited by the CIA to provide reconnaissance on the burgeoning communist threat in Central America and soon finds himself in charge of one of the biggest covert CIA operations in the history of the United States. The operation spawns the birth of the Medellin cartel and almost brings down the Reagan White House.
Two films now Tom tells Law enforcement hes going to be walking away and they do not believe him. Honestly, Hollywood could make a few more of him doing the same thing and i would NEVER get tired of seeing it ^.^
@@zimvader25 95 percent true--cia was bringing in the drugs to mena,bringing guns down--at least 15 books written with all the details-who cares,it is their game,they can play it how they want
@@zimvader25 OK, can we agree that the part about the CIA during the Reagan administration helping to fund the Contras "war" against the Sandinistas' by allowing them to traffick in cocaine was true?
@@iwaswrongabouteveryhthing You don't know anything about accents, just keep playing your computer games and watching your cheap remakes of our movies, thanks.
My Grandfather was asked to oversee that airport during the time these events were happening. Sadly, he passed recently so I can't ask for clarification, and I don't recall his title exactly. It has been some time since he told me the story (mid 90's?), so my recollection will be a bit vague, but... He was doing some type of comptroller work for Mena when asked to oversee the airport by a judge. Damned if I recall why it was a judge asking him, but I'm fairly sure it was due to how small Mena was (still is) and most folks were dual hat members of local government and community. Anyways, he asked why, since they had someone in charge of the airport. He was simply told, "Watch and tell me what you think." He then recalled to me that he had answered a few calls over the last few months for voluntary fire dept when they needed to access the fire roads through some of the mountains on his property and it had been due to reports of transponders going dead suddenly over that portion of his property. This event had happened several times and always in the same area. Once he was required to oversee the airport, he would be informed directly about the transponder incident instead of finding out second hand via the fire department and was required to verify comings and goings of craft at the airport during that time frame. He went to the airport only 2 times, attempting to see what was going on and saw a small plane with several men around it, but would be stopped by someone local that he knew (that worked at one of the businesses/shops that were housed there) and told that it was under control, and it was just a malfunction. He said he was required to verify the aircraft but was physically and forcefully denied anywhere near the area. For some reason he waited until the second time this happened and reported back to the judge that he had no desire to continue the job and that something did not feel right about it. Stating that he was not sure what was going on, but he was positive that it was something that would get him hurt or worse. The judge said he understood and thanked him, telling him it was fine and he was not expected to put any more time into it. it was... I think he said a few weeks later? When Barry Seal was arrested. He told me that that was the only time he ever felt unsafe in Mena, and he couldn't explain why, until news of the arrest. He never gave any specific details about what transpired that made him feel so uneasy. Just that he was positive he was lucky to be around to recount the story.
The ultimate 'They Need Ya Until They Don't' movie. Seal gets in with the government who gets him wrapped up with the Colombians and of course, this gets him killed. Everything coming crashing down around him and yeah, getting a call from Governor Clinton right as Seal's on the hook...even Seal knew what was coming. Knew he was walking out of there a free man and they thought he was just talking...until he walked out of there. This ended up being a lot better than I anticipated. Much like any drug movie, there's always the one idiot relative who ends up being a problem that has to be dealt with. The Colombians had the right idea for dealing with him.
He was offered federal witness protection but he would lose access to all his money and a bunch of other rules he didn’t want to follow so he declined. He ended up on probation which made his movements predictable. Colombians got him in the end.
@@RainbowManification then the Judge put him in a 1/2 way house. He new the Columbians were going to get Barry there. they killed him in the parking lot.
@@RainbowManification I didn't know too much about the Barry Seal before watching this movie, but I thought he was some sort of informant who got screwed over by the CIA. Turns out he was just as crooked/dirty as any of them, and greed is what got him into the trouble he got into.
Except for JB and crash landing in the neighborhood, it is pretty accurate. I found the receipts for the planes he bought from the government in the archives and a lot more elements. There were a few other guys before Barry, but not with the balls Barry had.
I enjoy every movie ive seen with Mr. Cruise in it. Even his portrayal of Jack Reacher was really good even though some out theredidnt like it. 1 thing i want to add, Morgan Freeman has said that doing a film with Tom Cruise is something he's never gotten the opportunity to do and would really love to. Mr. Freeman is in the top 2 list of my favorite actors!! Please, Tom, give him a call.
Right as I reading that comment, I was THINKING to myself, “that can’t be right. Two veteran actors who have been on the scene for DECADES and somehow HAVEN’T appeared in a single movie together?” And then right as I read the reply saying “Oblivion,” I was thinking it at the same time. That was a kinda cool and INTERESTING movie, in my opinion.
Can’t make this shit up, unbelievable this ever happened, and Tom Cruise absolutely owned the role. Half way into the movie I thought it was an autobiography by the actual guy (obviously not with us any longer, but still.) Awesome movie. 👍 I love him mentioning the altitude of the dirt runway, Tom is a pilot and this line probably came out of his insistence - not something a writer would throw in there unless they were a pilot themselves. It’s definitely not about the space!
"I'm gonna walk out of here and there's nothing you can do about it" "Wait, what?. Say that again?" "I'm gonna walk out of-" ~gunshot~ ~body hits the floor~ "Hmm...guess you were wrong, huh?"
@@phildavenport4150 scientology is about as a much of a "religion" as atheism is a religion. Both require the faith into the unknown that can never be proven. But generally, the atheist religion has the most arrogant and smug backers in modern times.
Loved this film! Great plot….because you couldn’t have made this up! Great visuals in the flying scenes and loaded with, sometimes menacing, humour. I always think that’s it’s a shame that he was hung out to dry at the end.
@CoffeewithJesusTalk missed it by one chief. GHWB was VP and "former head" of the CIA. Everyone wanted to blame Reagan but he was up to his eyeballs in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Bush was the one poisoning and backstabbing America.
Because he was working with the Reagan/Bush Administrations’ anti-Sandanista scheme helping the Contras. It’s why Clinton was “allowed” to become president; he played ball with the Republicans.
@@jordangibson695 It was one of those "unintended consequences" deals. But it really had nothing to do with Clinton's actions while he was Arkansas' Governor. Why do you think his state was one of the main hubs for these deliveries?! He was receiving his laundered cuts!
Assets are always liquidated when their roles are finished. If you remember I told you many times you're a huge responsibility and and a dangerous one. And that I'm glad you're all all scared to put up on me. It's always a blessing in disguise. AMDG 🙏💜💖👁️💞🎉♥️💕💕💕💕
@ricktompson9453 > WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE MOVIE? "American Made". You know - like where it literally says right in the title "American Made Best Scenes"? And in the info where it says "Movie Title: American Made"? Seriously - what's wrong with you?
Rewatch this, and pay attention ONLY to the camera work. In every single shot, Tom’s character is ALWAYS framed as either the same height as the tallest person in the frame, or the tallest person. These guys when they were sitting and looking up, they were looking up at nothing. Tom is so sensitive.
Hi everyone! What grade (out of 10) would you give this video?
zero, a little runt playing a man, zero, wish there was a lower number
9
Definitely 10.
0/10 for putting a copyright clip on your channel.
9.2
“I’m gonna walk out of here and there’s nothing you can do about it.” That’s more than most people in Scientology can say…
😂😂😂
💥
You don't know know the half of it.
@@balisaani Tell us all about it.
Are you the jew assigned to anti-scientology propaganda?
“State Police! What the fuck are yall doing in my county!”
Best line outta all of them 😂
For some reason it reminds me of the movie Porkys.
When the Cops show up and says "This heres a mans county.....go on,get the fvck OUT"
Gave me Anchorman melee vibes 😊
Reminds me of that one mission in GTA V
Nothing beats Vacation 2015 lol at the four corners.
Of course, if it's the state police it ought to be "what are you doing in my state." If it's "what are you doing in my county," it's the Sheriff.
CIA brings it in, DEA deals it, ATF supplies the weapons...the Federal government is the biggest branch of the Cartels.
AFT supplies what weapons.? Those are DOD weapons genius aka the Army. Where do you guys get these nonsense theories from . If you took a second to use your brain and think about who would have had these weapons readily available just lying around, and , where the word black operation exists, this wouldnt require critical thinking!
Oh, yes, thats the ATF , because they are so good at running black operations and intelligence in other countries and they have a budget bigger than most countries GDP. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Some things shouldn't require a degree to figure out and common sense should prevail . This was an operation between the Army and its best friend the cia
They don’t like truth Reverend
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Wow man, like the government is super corrupt mannnn
Y'all don't like it here y'all can leave
@@Big_Boy_1996 did I say something to hurt your feelings ?
You know what I love most about this movie? It totally pretends DEA, FBI, & ATF weren't in on the corruption.
They were all doing different corruption.
Back then probably not, all those federal agencies were trying to get a bigger budget from the government
@@natedowns5 Why do you think the CIA was running drugs? Off-book operations don't pay for themselves.
To be fair, they probably didn’t realize that they’re fighting a war on drugs and they’re their own worst enemy.
Dea fbi and atf arent "in in it". Individuals from dea fbi and atf break the law all the time. Aggregating to american agencies abrogates responsibility of the corrupt individual humans.
10 yrs ago, I fit 12 doors in my 2007 CTS Caddy. Pulled the back seat down and loaded them in. The volunteers at the Re-Store couldn't believe it. Barry Seal wasn't kidding about trunk space.
wait.... i thought he meant Volkswagen Caddy's
70's caddies could fit a whole orchestra in the trunk. THE definition of "Land Barge". All that while powered by a choked down 200hp chevy big block 454 getting single digit mpg's lol. "It'll pass anything but a gas station"
@@frostbite1991 The sad days of fake "smog control"... I consider it a crime to accept anything less than 1HP/cube... and that's normally-aspirated.
We got 20 people into to an old 1970 Caddy at the north point drive in. That drive in movie theater charge admission by the carload.
lol ha ha ha. They should have taken the Caddies 🤣🤣🤣
I like how polite he is when the AG walks in the room. Stands up for her.
Southern boy manners.
In real life if you're cuffed and surrounded by cops and someone walks into the room and you suddenly stand up the cops will tackle you and beat the shit out of you.
@@CoachJohnMcGuirkNowadays yes. Maybe not back then yet...
#brave She was a troon all along, but he accepted "her".
Free speech: Re: Et toi Nicole Kidman? this movie has such 80s vibes: She really has the 80s look and hair perm thing had quite a overdone fake country accent; but this was a interesting acting choice for Cruise as always: he picks unique interesting characters
Her look when Clinton is on the line is classic.
Because she just knew that call was for him.... 😂
Ol bill is thoroughly involved!!!
@@alexanderleslie4226 Half as much as GB. ;-)
@@sbonamo Oh no doubt GB needed someone who was compromised with sex scandals and drug addiction someone with lots of skeletons in their closet someone in a backwoods state that could be manipulated!!!
@@alexanderleslie4226 Bill Clinton, FORMER US PRESIDENT Bill Clinton.... was Arkansas' Governor? 😰
His crazy ass makes some good movies.
He flew that take off scene himself
Great artist are, often, eccentric personalities
He flew it?!!!
@@elainemarieneis355 I think he made himself a pilot for this movie
That's because he's a pilot
@@HittokiriBattousai17 Tom Cruise has been a pilot for years, long before this film was ever made. Did you forget the guy was the star of not one, but two Top Gun movies? I mean, sure, he didn't actually fly the fighter jets in those films, but he became a pilot around the time of the first film.
Best Tom Cruise movie I've seen in many years. The pressure his character is under in this film made my palms sweaty trough the whole ordeal.
I so agree. I'm not really a Cruise fan but this was excellent.
This and Tropic Thunder are the best movies he ever did. Top Gun Maverick is nr. 3.
He's put out a lot of good movies over the years, such as "The Last Samurai", "Collateral" and "Maverick". Even if you don't find them "great", the "MI" movies are always entertaining too.
yeah, people forget that once the guy put a foot into that kind of trouble, he don't have any option anymore, he was fucked the moment he walked into the cartel apartment in the 1st part of the movie, not like he could simple say "no, don't want to do it" and survive.
The introduction of the wife's brother also dramatically increased my blood pressure.
Very accurate showing the DEA, FBI, ATF, State Police just hanging around the hallway doing nothing wasting tax dollars.
Same with the military. Stand around most days until you have a training exercise. Then you go to the field for 2 to 3 weeks in a row with no weekends, come back enjoy a shower and sleep in your bed and pray you get the weekend off. Then a war breaks out and you blow up. But for the most part the job is easy lol
You were a POG no doubt in my mind@@nathanramsey7429
dunt be stewpeed
@@dvaunt3516 They pissed me off by wasting tax dollars and then crying about how hard their job is.
Showing off like idiots in the 21st century.
“Under the desk? WTF are you talking about, Bill?”
That sucks
She got hers.😊
“You want me to put on what? A blue dress?….ok, I’ll be over in a few, now where’s my beret?”
Bill, why is this dress sticky?
Close but no cigar
Till he wasn't useful to our corrupt government anymore
That's what you think huh
@@brianwalters4549 That would be the way it has always been!
Every major government in the world has done stuff like this
Yeah it’s a good thing they drained that swamp🤭🤭🤭
After this, he should have ran to a non-extradituon country and never return.
When he says “it’s the governor, it’s your governor” that made me laugh 😂😂 that was a lowkey and subtle flex right there and no one caught on to it. So discreet.
Nothing discreet about it. They are rubbing it in our face.
Incorrect
I did!
Oliver Norton couldn’t
Those were some wild times.
I use to do seismic exploration for the big oil companies back then.
We flew into a handful of countries in central America & south America.
There were all kinds of people & groups floating around in different places. Vets from Vietnam were running around training and teaching the "contras". You never knew Who you might be talking too in a bar. There were "John Deere, tractor salesmen running around selling "farming equipment". Exciting times. We once boarded a non-stop flight from Bogata to Houston. Half way through the flight, we were told to buckle up our seat belts and prepare for a unscheduled non emergency landing. We were warned it would be a steep approach and that we would only be on the ground for 20 minutes and that no one was getting off. We had landed in Managua Nicaragua. The airport was surrounded by APC & tanks with infantry positions laid in.
A line of limousine pulled onto the runway next to the plane.
The door to the plane was opened and a man stepped into the plane. He had a Panama hat on and a nice tropical shirt with a safari vest. Nothing else. He showed his ID to the stewardess and she motioned him into the plane. The seat next to me was empty. He sat there. He was a "tractor salesman". When I asked him why in the hell had we landed here, and what the hell was going on? He told me that the Nicaraguan government was falling apart. The people in the limos were the ministers of finance, agriculture, health, government etc etc.
They were getting out! They were taking lots of money out with them.
He said it was a real circus!
He asked if I was former military, I said yes. He asked if I would share a drink with him as he did not like to drink alone and he surely needed a drink.
He had a good size alligator hide covered hip flask in his vest. He got up and talked to the stewardess. We soon had glasses with ice and a couple of cokes. We toasted fallen governments & absent comrades. He said it was a historic occasion. We were laughing as the plane took off. I think that was in October or November of 1978.
Crazy times.
u should write a book about that...
No clue how much of that is true, but it's a hell of a story.
goddamn this is one of the best comments i've ever seen on youtube
That was a long time ago man, must be awesome having lived such a time and knowing now, God bless you
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The point when the ATF, DEA, Cops, then walks in the FBI, did anyone else’s get anchorman 2 vibes when all the other news stations turned up for a fight? 🤣
Was that in anchorman 2? I thought it was in the 1st movie.🤔
Except this is actually based off a true story. The Government did nothing to this guy just to keep an eye on whats going on.
What movie is this?
@@Tobinski1620 Reacher
No touching of the hair!
Arkansas. 😊.. they never cease to amaze w/them beautiful accent..
He was from Shreveport, Louisiana, and he didn't look anything like Tom Cruise.
I think he was referring to the lady in Arkansas government.
That "accent" is quickly evaporating in favor a new accent. Hombre.
08:42 = "You boys should've taken those Caddies!"" 😂
Hahaha 🤣 True
Yeah that's what he said, you're correct
best line
Yes, we know, he said that. What you on about, boi
Tbh the moment I heard that call, I would've taken the Caddy and a six pack for the trip. 😂
Tom Cruise is a great actor, I've always enjoyed many of his interviews. Very watchable.
Nice comment,
Now go collect your paycheck
@@WhyKnot-lr1kk A little tip. Don't believe everything you read on the internet. Sarcasme is always there hiding in plain sight...
That accent... She can rip the bark right off me too.
And those legs
with her tiny teeths
Those two teenagers who were found dead by the railroad tracks actually witnessed the drugs being dropped by the airplanes. It wasn't in the movie, but they were killed because of what they saw.
They're rarely ever mentioned. Still burns me up.
Yes! I watched wendigoons video about that incident. Freaking crazy
No, they passed out from smoking too much weed... conveniently on the RR tracks.
@lifestream4191 yea, I know thats exactly what my friend that's borderline retarded told me. The government loves jurors like that lol
This @@lifestream4191
fyi he worked as an Informant for the DEA
ty
What was the name of the movie.
@@ricktompson9453 American Made 2017 starting Tom Cruise as Barry Seal a TWA pilot, is recruited by the CIA to provide reconnaissance on the burgeoning communist threat in Central America and soon finds himself in charge of one of the biggest covert CIA operations in the history of the United States. The operation spawns the birth of the Medellin cartel and almost brings down the Reagan White House.
@@ricktompson9453American Made
He worked for the cartel 1st
A truly underrated movie.
@@az0970449 The name is American Made.
Wanted to know to.
Sort of speak.
@@az0970449 "American Made"
@@az0970449In case you haven’t found out yet, the name of the film is American Made.
American Made
Two films now Tom tells Law enforcement hes going to be walking away and they do not believe him. Honestly, Hollywood could make a few more of him doing the same thing and i would NEVER get tired of seeing it ^.^
This is probably one of my favorites from the past decade. Tom really got in his bag with this one
“Got in his bag “?
What???
Lmao IYKYK
An incredible movie, made even more incredible by the fact it’s true story.
Lol a fraction of a percentage of this is true. The rest is pure fiction, champ.
wellllll, ish anyway. There is a LOT of inspiration shall we say.
@@zimvader25 95 percent true--cia was bringing in the drugs to mena,bringing guns down--at least 15 books written with all the details-who cares,it is their game,they can play it how they want
Bill Clinton called, and the man was free to go 😂😂😂
@@zimvader25 OK, can we agree that the part about the CIA during the Reagan administration helping to fund the Contras "war" against the Sandinistas' by allowing them to traffick in cocaine was true?
When FBI arrived, the look on their faces was like someone just pissed in their beer😂
That State Attorney General was a damn good Actress!!!
What happened? Did she quit or die?
ripping off the accent from Jodie foster
Eh, way overcooked accent.
@@iwaswrongabouteveryhthing You don't know anything about accents, just keep playing your computer games and watching your cheap remakes of our movies, thanks.
@lanthanumlanthanium6373 I'm not 100% sure what you're talking about but have a great day internet friend🤙
I like how he is so respectful with the lady/state attorney general, and always stands up.
Corruption: the one thing that can bring our two political parties together.
Damn 😂😂 the 2 parties together and it's a carnival
I used to sell aircraft products to the Mena airport mid 80’s. It was wild
Its just a busyness
If you dont sell then someone else does it anyway..its Real World out there ;)
My Grandfather was asked to oversee that airport during the time these events were happening. Sadly, he passed recently so I can't ask for clarification, and I don't recall his title exactly. It has been some time since he told me the story (mid 90's?), so my recollection will be a bit vague, but... He was doing some type of comptroller work for Mena when asked to oversee the airport by a judge. Damned if I recall why it was a judge asking him, but I'm fairly sure it was due to how small Mena was (still is) and most folks were dual hat members of local government and community. Anyways, he asked why, since they had someone in charge of the airport. He was simply told, "Watch and tell me what you think." He then recalled to me that he had answered a few calls over the last few months for voluntary fire dept when they needed to access the fire roads through some of the mountains on his property and it had been due to reports of transponders going dead suddenly over that portion of his property. This event had happened several times and always in the same area. Once he was required to oversee the airport, he would be informed directly about the transponder incident instead of finding out second hand via the fire department and was required to verify comings and goings of craft at the airport during that time frame. He went to the airport only 2 times, attempting to see what was going on and saw a small plane with several men around it, but would be stopped by someone local that he knew (that worked at one of the businesses/shops that were housed there) and told that it was under control, and it was just a malfunction. He said he was required to verify the aircraft but was physically and forcefully denied anywhere near the area. For some reason he waited until the second time this happened and reported back to the judge that he had no desire to continue the job and that something did not feel right about it. Stating that he was not sure what was going on, but he was positive that it was something that would get him hurt or worse. The judge said he understood and thanked him, telling him it was fine and he was not expected to put any more time into it. it was... I think he said a few weeks later? When Barry Seal was arrested. He told me that that was the only time he ever felt unsafe in Mena, and he couldn't explain why, until news of the arrest. He never gave any specific details about what transpired that made him feel so uneasy. Just that he was positive he was lucky to be around to recount the story.
@@Ty13erDurden Wow that's insane. That was really a crazy time to be alive then. Thank you for your story sir
The ultimate 'They Need Ya Until They Don't' movie. Seal gets in with the government who gets him wrapped up with the Colombians and of course, this gets him killed. Everything coming crashing down around him and yeah, getting a call from Governor Clinton right as Seal's on the hook...even Seal knew what was coming. Knew he was walking out of there a free man and they thought he was just talking...until he walked out of there.
This ended up being a lot better than I anticipated. Much like any drug movie, there's always the one idiot relative who ends up being a problem that has to be dealt with. The Colombians had the right idea for dealing with him.
He was offered federal witness protection but he would lose access to all his money and a bunch of other rules he didn’t want to follow so he declined. He ended up on probation which made his movements predictable. Colombians got him in the end.
Also in reality his brother in law wasn’t an idiot as portrayed in the movie.
@@RainbowManification then the Judge put him in a 1/2 way house. He new the Columbians were going to get Barry there. they killed him in the parking lot.
great comment sir....this movie is so interesting and got some accuracy in front of that hard reality......barry knew too much!
@@RainbowManification I didn't know too much about the Barry Seal before watching this movie, but I thought he was some sort of informant who got screwed over by the CIA. Turns out he was just as crooked/dirty as any of them, and greed is what got him into the trouble he got into.
Friends in high places serve friends in low places...........from time to time.
And sometimes those friends in low places makes an urgent call to their attorney General.
That was so ffffing funny, especialy the little AG woman, "I'm gonna rip the bark off you boy".
I like how even though he knows the outcome, how polite he is to everyone.
These guys don't like it when you act nervous, he shouldve just told them the runway is not long enough and needs extending straight up
"Don't believe me? Here, sit next to me, for a test-flight."
Had a lot of dealings with the cartel have you?
@@Cyba_IT IKR... seems to be a subject matter expert.
“No, Bill, he doesn’t know anything about Whitewater.”
1:30 "They said i should get rid of you" 💀.... What a great motivation to take off the airplane....😬
Except he still didn’t give in. He made it clear it was going to be done his way by refusing to overload the plane.
Whether Tom acts the 'good, bad or the ugly' he nails every character to the 'tee' ... "10"👏
This is a great movie. It’s amazingly accurate to the real life story.
no, its not.
Except for JB and crash landing in the neighborhood, it is pretty accurate. I found the receipts for the planes he bought from the government in the archives and a lot more elements. There were a few other guys before Barry, but not with the balls Barry had.
Not even close.
literally what america is built on.
Corruption 😂
yep, that's real life Jeffrey Epsteen
Literally what fucks the world over: corruption.
@@thinkingthinking3020 Trump's best bud.
I enjoy every movie ive seen with Mr. Cruise in it. Even his portrayal of Jack Reacher was really good even though some out theredidnt like it.
1 thing i want to add, Morgan Freeman has said that doing a film with Tom Cruise is something he's never gotten the opportunity to do and would really love to. Mr. Freeman is in the top 2 list of my favorite actors!! Please, Tom, give him a call.
I would say his reacher movies were good movies. But they just weren’t reacher.
They were both in oblivion
you haven't seen oblivion? that stars tom cruise and has morgan freeman in it. 11years ago.
Right as I reading that comment, I was THINKING to myself, “that can’t be right. Two veteran actors who have been on the scene for DECADES and somehow HAVEN’T appeared in a single movie together?”
And then right as I read the reply saying “Oblivion,” I was thinking it at the same time. That was a kinda cool and INTERESTING movie, in my opinion.
the sad part is that this is a true-ish story.
Very much so. The Clintonista cartel was big in cocaine and moved it through from the deliveries at the Mena airport.
What part is supposed to be sad Seriously
The part where we have dirty politicians.
Well @@cokesquirrel, It's 1 day since you wrote your comment and today, it's uncertain whether you will be able to read a reply.
That's sad.
It was the basis of Iran-Contra and should have gotten Regan and Bush impeached or locked up instead they got to walk away, that's the sad bit.
One of the most underrated movies imo.
LOL! Love the Ma’Am!
It is my understanding the Brian Dennehy played Gov Clinton but his part was cut out.
Great actor.
It figures all those agencies would get set up outside without running into each other so as to ensure everybody looks properly surprised.
Generally they just run in, very likely they all had safe houses im the area then left before each and happens to run in
I just cant stop everytime in getting a good ass laugh everytime i see that scene where all the law enforcement shows up from each their agency.
One of the most underrated movies with Tommy boy.
Only person interested was the brother 😂😂😂😂😂
Sheeeeeeiiitttttt I’ll take a caddy
Man they dropped those charges faster than Bill Clinton's pants in the Oval office.
Can’t make this shit up, unbelievable this ever happened, and Tom Cruise absolutely owned the role. Half way into the movie I thought it was an autobiography by the actual guy (obviously not with us any longer, but still.) Awesome movie. 👍
I love him mentioning the altitude of the dirt runway, Tom is a pilot and this line probably came out of his insistence - not something a writer would throw in there unless they were a pilot themselves. It’s definitely not about the space!
I still haven’t gotten to see the whole movie. It’s not available anywhere but everything I see about it. I find interesting.
It's on Amazon for $4 to stream, or $6 for the DVD
I have to admit that Americans know how to make movies
And you are American, right?
@@phildavenport4150 eheheh not, im African
Come on, 9 movies out of ten suck.
I'm beginning to think Bill actually did inhale.
The point of the story is that Bill was taking orders from the White House.
yeap and licked until ( le huele el Mico a pescado) which means it stunk like rotten fish
@@kevinyuni 🤣🤣🤣
"I'm gonna walk out of here and there's nothing you can do about it"
"Wait, what?. Say that again?"
"I'm gonna walk out of-"
~gunshot~
~body hits the floor~
"Hmm...guess you were wrong, huh?"
That's the most gangster thing I've ever seen. Imagine being in that situation and knowing you're protected from up on high by the prince of darkness.
One of his best roles.
When Tom Cruise doesn't seem like Tom Cruise.
Seems like the same role he does in 90% of his movies to me....
Bill told her to "sack his cook, and hold is calls"
🤣great play on words, love it !!
Great movie, great actor. Always entertaining.
And a great source of funds for his "religious" minders.
@@phildavenport4150 scientology is about as a much of a "religion" as atheism is a religion. Both require the faith into the unknown that can never be proven. But generally, the atheist religion has the most arrogant and smug backers in modern times.
Then the FBI walks in and they all collectively sigh like "Not this shit, again."
1:20 pablo escobar says: tell him if he wan to I fly the plane for him jajjajajajajajja
Tom Cruise has made some of the best movies out there. From the "Cocktail" to the Top Gun Maverick.
Slick Willy strikes again. 😎
7:40 Damn Bill again? You’re an animal.🥰
Yeap ask monica..not a drop wasted.
"The Gringo that always delivers"...🤣🤣🤣🤣👍
This movie is a classic, must see!!!
Best scene from this movie!!!
4:25 the blue coca cola shirt... lol
Governor Clinton: "Barry, it's Bill. I'm gonna get those feds to release you so you can fly me to Jeffery's island this weekend, ok."
@7:20 Bill Clinton was on the line? 😂
Yup.
When that movie came across the board, I was surprise by it. Such a great movie.
The Ma’am line was cool.
Not a huge Tom Cruise fan but this is a great movie.
What's the name
@@Curiousclips77
'American Made'. I love Tom Cruise and this movie!
I'm not a fan of Tom Cruise the person but as an actor. He's just about the best we have right now.
What is the name of this movie
@@AlexMarshall-w6s American Made
Loved that line
Loved this film! Great plot….because you couldn’t have made this up! Great visuals in the flying scenes and loaded with, sometimes menacing, humour. I always think that’s it’s a shame that he was hung out to dry at the end.
I love how it's implied taking off heavy from a short runway has anything to do with being a skilled pilot lol. All to do with the plane.
Good ol corrupt Bill
Don’t forget Reagan was in the whitehouse.
@CoffeewithJesusTalk missed it by one chief. GHWB was VP and "former head" of the CIA. Everyone wanted to blame Reagan but he was up to his eyeballs in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Bush was the one poisoning and backstabbing America.
His cousin GHWB made sure that Willie J kept his nose full.
My barber that I had in Mena picked up Ollie North hitchhiking into town from the Mena airport one day.
7:41 "What do you need Bill?" "You want to do what with a cigar!?!"
Great Truth spotting there. I did not hear the Governor Clinton part. Much appreciation
I’m sorry Bill, I don’t think three cigars are going to fit up there.
The greatest line from British comedian Jasper Carrot "Har-Monica; mouth organ!"
"China Don, you wanna grab me where ?!?" LOL
Biden would have given her a choice. Either let him go or take a shower with my daughter and me. You decide.
All this was swept under the carpet when Slick Willy ran for POTUS.
Because he was working with the Reagan/Bush Administrations’ anti-Sandanista scheme helping the Contras. It’s why Clinton was “allowed” to become president; he played ball with the Republicans.
You do know that this was a Reagan deal, right?
@@jordangibson695 It was one of those "unintended consequences" deals. But it really had nothing to do with Clinton's actions while he was Arkansas' Governor. Why do you think his state was one of the main hubs for these deliveries?! He was receiving his laundered cuts!
@@jordangibson695 Was likely a George Bush Senior thing mostly and Clinton did all that and worse.
@@jordangibson695you know bill worked for the CIA infiltrating youth groups in colleges? And he is the reason they were flying out of Arkansas.
Assets are always liquidated when their roles are finished.
If you remember I told you many times you're a huge responsibility and and a dangerous one. And that I'm glad you're all all scared to put up on me. It's always a blessing in disguise.
AMDG 🙏💜💖👁️💞🎉♥️💕💕💕💕
Tom Cruise makes so many bangers
oh no you guys didn't took the caddys with all the trunk space hahaha
Barry seal was the man.😂😂
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE MOVIE?
American Made
@ricktompson9453
> WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE MOVIE?
"American Made".
You know - like where it literally says right in the title "American Made Best Scenes"?
And in the info where it says "Movie Title: American Made"?
Seriously - what's wrong with you?
Ok it’s official I’m rewatching this movie
She is sooo good!! who is she?
Hey Guys help me understand, which force in the US has more power, CIA, FBI, DEA, ATF, STATE POLICE & Secret Service ???
Rewatch this, and pay attention ONLY to the camera work. In every single shot, Tom’s character is ALWAYS framed as either the same height as the tallest person in the frame, or the tallest person. These guys when they were sitting and looking up, they were looking up at nothing. Tom is so sensitive.
Jealous much 😂😂😂
Dude it cuts to a far shit often with a taller dude standing behind him go outside
…and the king of all agencies…CIA!!! 😂
CIA is not law enforcement, they do not arrest or apprehend.. all they do is collect intelligence. FBI is king.
People think this is fake but living in Arkansas all my life, it is legit.
Uncle Bill calls in to release him.
Epic...🥂 !
This is the movie about how the CIA was importing cocaine for the crack epidemic. Remember the Iran Contra scandal? Here it is.
Based on a true story. Very loosely based on a true story. Like really loose.
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
@@darrennicholls1966 And Hollywood never did.
like your mom looooose or normal loose?
What movie is this
American Made
When sheriff showed up had me rollin 😂
Tom Cruise, always delivered
Kinda makes you sick. We have met the enemy and we are sleeping in the same bed.
6:06 reminds me of that episode in south park