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♪ just take those old records off the shelf ♪ "risky business" really was everybody's intro to tom cruise. of course, it wasn't just the underwear and the dancing, but that certainly helped. >> are you ready for me? >> "risky business" really surprises people. they think it's a teen sex comedy because it literally is about a guy that opens a brothel in his parents' house. but it's actually an incredibly dark film about capitalism and about selling out. >> for someone with that limited a resume, to be able to walk in and actually make the complexity of the movie work, his all-american boy...

Movie goes to hell. and it sounds like an interesting idea. i have to say for me, it did not work and it doesn't work for two reasons. the first one is that for the first part of it when it is a comedy with irritating poshos, i did not find them funny and i did not believe in them. and the second part of it, when it becomes the kind of apocalypse movie in which it is dealing with a lot of very dark material, it didn't feel earned. it felt like because i don't believe in these characters and because you are still doing the knockabout comedy stuff, none of this is earned. now, that said, i know ...

Is it's got this kind of cumulative effect, these incidental scenes, none of which appear to be about very much all add up to something which feels kind of profound. it's a lovely performance byjoaquin phoenix and of course and you think very recently he was winning awards forjoker, which was a very big performance! yes! 0h, frightened me to death! yeah! but this is kind of like completely the other way. yes. everything very, very low—key, everything feels very, very naturalistic. lovely use of music. there's an original score by aaron and bryce dessner. and then they've got things like the ...

"what would we do in that circumstance?" so it starts out like a christmas movie, but it's the christmas movie goes to hell. and it sounds like an interesting idea. i have to say for me, it did not work and it doesn't work for two reasons. the first one is that for the first part of it when it is a comedy with irritating poshos, i did not find them funny and i did not believe in them. and the second part of it, when it becomes the kind of apocalypse movie in which it is dealing with a lot of very dark material, it didn't feel earned. it felt like because i don't believe in these characters and...

They're talking about everything, but they're talking about nothing. and the weird thing about the film is it's got this kind of cumulative effect, these incidental scenes, none of which appear to be about very much all add up to something which feels kind of profound. it's a lovely performance byjoaquin phoenix and of course and you think very recently he was winning awards forjoker, which was a very big performance! yes! 0h, frightened me to death! yeah! but this is kind of like completely the other way. yes. everything very, very low—key, everything feels very, very naturalistic. lovely u...