![]() ![]() One of the fun ones I liked was the only F-14 ace that's existed. An actual former F-14 pilot, some interesting videos he's had. The Super Hornet will never equal the beauty of the Tomcat in my eyes, but damn the flight scenes in Maverick were great. That said, the flight scenes in Top Gun: Maverick are far better than what we ever had in the original. I had the pleasure of working on carrier flight decks and seeing the last few years of the Tomcat in service. Seeing what's happened with a lot of stuff I used to like get butchered, I was deeply worried for Top Gun: Maverick.Īlso for me: The F-14 is a beautiful aircraft, very sexy looking jet. The other thing is the original Top Gun is so full of 1980s tropes that I wondered how it would translate to a decent sequel in 2022. ![]() I've watched with great and immense displeasure what has been happening to both Star Trek and Star Wars for a long time, and how badly they've been mangled. It's how Hollywood has handled sequels, particularly old franchises / old movies for over a decade. He hasn't had that until this movie several decades into his acting career.īox Office: ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Cruising to $150 Million Memorial Day I also have to stress how deeply concerned I was for this movie leading into release. ![]() I would have thought some other big movies he has had in the 80s and 90s would have gotten him the $100+ million opening. It's also amusingly Tom Cruise's biggest release. The movie somehow paid it's dues and respects to the original, aviation in general, while also forging ahead. So I was very happy to see that Top Gun: Maverick was great. The original Top Gun was also about as 1980s as you can get. It makes me think of Tom Hanks' greyhound, which had a very subdued release due to COVID. I think Tom was apprehensive about releasing it back then because of the state of movie-going at the time. I remember it was slated to come out in 2020 but COVID hit Hollywood pretty hard and it got pushed back. I had apprehension about a sequel for a movie almost 40 years past the original which came out in 1986. ![]()
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