Tom Cruise is a weird guy and I don't support his whole cult activity, but this was cool of him. He was like "we used real planes and real speed, for the fans" and that's awesome. If a guy as crazy as him can have this attitude, WTF is everyone else in Hollywood's excuse? Refreshing to have a creator actually be grateful for their fans.
@@lopentare8934 The scene where Maverick is proving to them that the mission can be done and they're all looking on at the screen with awe and wonder. It was perfect.
I also really liked the female pilot Phoenix. She came off as authentic, confident, and had strong leadership qualities without being arrogant(something recent Hollywood writers struggle with their female characters).
Wasnt that just awesome? I cant remember the name of the actress now, shes hot af. Bu the point was, there was no sexist joke, no lame "its a woman shes gonna get us killed" or such crap. She was and is there for the Mission, in the Fighter Weapons School. And as in reality, nobody makes such stupid statements. Everyone is judged on the field and on the field alone. Only there are questions asked (in the debriefing room actually), and only there are answered. BTW did i mentioned how fucking hot Phoenix is?
When Maverick reprimanded her and asked her what she was going to say to her dead teammate's family if she caused his death, she accepted it. Not unlike Hangman, who was super cocky and had to have his ego checked. Audiences appreciate these qualities in characters. And yeah, she is lovely 😍
My thoughts exactly. She didn't act like a Capt. Marvel and can do everything. She had weakness and the movie didn't refrain from showing it. Glad the Navy greenlit this movie. They were short on pilots, now they have a 500% increase in recruits. This movie made it feel that anyone and any ethnicity can join the Navy without being woke like the Army recruit videos. It was so bad that they had to pull it. The military is stretched thin now because it went woke. There's no honor anymore when they don't operate as one, but as individuals. Stats already show that conservative households are the ones most likely to join the military, but they're reforming the military to ease up on standards, so you got pissed off leftist that don't even want to fight in wars, but is in the military for a scholarship.
There was some sexist banter but that's just part of working in the highly competitive fields of combat arms. That competitive spirit is what drives everyone to be better than they were the day before. This movie did a pretty fair job of capturing that. Yes, other jobs can be highly competitive, but none of them come even close to the competitive nature of combat MOS's.
I loved Tom’s message in the beginning of the film. Basically “We made this for you, we hope you enjoy it! Thanks for seeing it in a theater!” It was really heart warming
@@samcad-ho3ze he said some pretty ignorant shit about psychiatry like 15 years ago. Who cares? Everyone is capable of having a wrong opinion, doesn’t make them bad people. Just means they need further research
I think what made this movie even better than the original was that the original movie focused more on the recuitment ad for Navy side, where as this movie actually told a story between Maverick and Rooster AND it still functions as a Navy recruitment ad.
Pheonix was a great character, the writers didnt focus on the fact that she was female and didnt make an entire shitty arc about her having to overcome "discrimination", She was just a pilot and she was badass, thats it.
I feared the same thing. When the first trailer came out, there was a scene in the classroom, where the camera has her in sharp focus, and the male pilots are in soft focus. I thought, there's the stunning and brave GuRhL BoSs. She's gonna show the boys how it's done. I am very glad to admit I was wrong.
@@bearpoop720 is it because the first one didn’t have a bunch of fat, gay, black women flying while they protest racism through clunky dialogue and is a CGI nightmare? Or in other words, a present day marvel movie?
When the credits rolled and the text "For Tony Scott" appeared, that put a smile on my face. This was a team that sought to remain true to the source material and honor the legacy of the former director who directed it. If only Disney showed Star Wars the same respect.
This movie makes you realise how CGI has ruined the blockbuster genre. Over past few years have found myself getting bored and checking my watch halfway through films, but in Top Gun everything was so real and intense, it is a cliche but I was literally on the edge of my seat in the cinema.
100%.. Call me stupid BUT before seeing this movie i actually didn't realise why i prefer 80s and 90s movies so much more than the horseshit of today. And im 33. It is literally because movies these days are probably 90% an animated movie with very little Real effects.
@@mattpatt199 Practical effects are expensive, and in the "olden days" they used them in harmony with the storytelling , to achieve a maximum of emotional impact. The best example is Jaws, where they could not use the animatronic shark as often as they wanted, so they used the mystery to create suspense, and used the animatronic shark only where there was no other choice. And the movie came out much better for it. Same with Jurassic Park, where they used both animatronics and CGI, but if you watch carefully, the focus is on the characters and their reaction more than on the dinosaurs. Then CGI became cheap, so they overused it. Everything is over the top, you have hundreds of cars exploding, things fly all over the place. More explosions, more stuff flying around, 100 cuts in one scene, the camera is shaking around, to blur the image so you can't see the lack of details on the CGI work. It's a lot of stuff happening on screen without any emotional impact, which cheapen the whole experience. Now, watch any CGI fest and compare it with Fury Road, where all cars are real and every explosion, every car crash has a much greater impact, because it is tied to the story. That's what also part of what made Edge of Tomorrow so good, because they chose to use a lot of practical effects, instead of going for the cheap CGI route for everything. And because the scenes in modern action movies are filmed with green screen, they have to compensate the light in post production, to take all the green hue away. So every scene has that awkward lightning thing going on. They started moving away from green screen with digital sets, like they use on The Mandalorian, so the light looks better, to re-create the "old blockbuster" look : th-cam.com/video/Ufp8weYYDE8/w-d-xo.html
Phoenix was a good way to write an action girl. She's a bit cocky, but she's not insufferable, and when she freezes up when Maverick asks her what she would say at Bob's funeral to his widow, and she has absolutely no response. She is humbled without cruelty, and she learns.
I was thinking the same! She's how you write in a strong female character without making her unrealistic or insufferable. There are a lot of damn good female fighter pilots and they deserve recognition but not worship like typical Hollywood would do.
The take away about her character is she's incredibly competent, but not perfect. Super believable and someone you can empathize with as an audience. Her gender isn't really even a thing in the movie.
The casting in this film was spot on and the practical effects are solid. This movie will be one of the reasons new directors avoid CGI whenever possible.
Hoolywood has spent 20 years starving out anyone with an ounce of practical effects experience nothing but cgi artist nerds left alive, where they found the crew to make this one we shall never know (defintely wasnt the church of scientology breaking the laws of physics and reality to help their saviour make a bette movie)
What is it with you fools and constantly belittling cgi as if it's a contagious plague? It doesn't matter if special effects are done by models or computers, everything on screen is all fake, an illusion.
Any comments on the soundtrack? That was a real strength of the original and I'm hoping there's some equally badass/uplifting tracks in this one. Or did they re-use the original songs like Danger Zone and Mighty Wings?
I was really suprised how there was little to none politics in this movie. I mean the young pilots were diversed but it wasn't really in your face like in most movies nowdays. And the prominent female pilot wasn't mary sue that is good at everything with zero flaws.
It was so refreshing.. "diversity" doesn't have to be in your face. it's been in movies for literally decades at this point. you don't have to mention someone's race, sex or ethnicity, just let the actor play a damn character, THAT'S how you do diversity
This movie was like stepping back in time, and remembering when movies were just pure entertainment, emotion and a visual spectacle. Really enjoyed this film.
This move is the food equivalent of finally being able to eat a hearty, well-cooked meal after years of soggy soy-turkey sandwiches. It's something we all needed, and damn was it enjoyable!
TopGun Maverick was always going to be Tom Cruise’s legacy so we should have known he wouldn’t accept anything less than perfection but I was absolutely floored by how shockingly good this movie is.
Tom Cruise not shi**ing on his legacy: 25% Tom Cruise wanting to do his own stunts: 25% Keeping the plot simple: 20% NOT BENDING THE KNEE TO THE MESSAGE: 20% The US Navy wanting to give this the thumbs up for recruitment: 10% AWESOME FILM: 100% "I feel the need...the need for speed!"
He's the star, but unusually he used his star power for good, as you get the feeling he was never going to accept a film that didn't keep him as the number 1 actor, and didn't stay true to the film that made him.
I appreciated the professional relationship between Phoenix and Bob. He has an awkward persona compared to other bravado pilots but he's in Top Gun for a reason. Phoenix knows this and doesn't berate her partner, but treats him as an equal. His quiet but efficient accuracy as a WSO match Phoenix's piloting skills and they make a good team.
Saw the movie today (shame on me), they will not screen it starting tomorrow, and the room was half full.... i thought i will be the only one in the room but nope! Awesome movie!
Sends a clear message to all the Hollywood idiots who have been fucking us over and destroying franchises for the last 15 years with CGI shit and fucking moronic writing. Given these reviews, I'll pay for a real copy and support the film.
@@littleflower787 do you realize how much work Cgi takes. Have some respect man maybe that’s why studios don’t care cause every fan complains and whines like you
I'm a 41 year old man and I took my son, 9, to watch Top Gun Maverick. Same age I was when I watched the original. I have to say that this movie brought many tears to my eyes, I was actually overwhelmed by its awesomeness and it reassured me that the woke haven't won. Maybe they will in the end, Sir, BUT NOT TODAY. Go watch it everyone.
Woke is just a generation looking for a fight where their is none. When they get older and become the people they despise the next generation will act in a way they hate and the cycle continues.
same here, brought my 17 year old son (probably the last film I will take him to sob sob) , tear in the eye, genuine laugh out loud moments. it had it all
Same for me dude, saw it a couple of days ago, it was incredible, I then watched Avengers Endgame for the first time yesterday, it was absolute shit, woke ass trash with the most politically correct, shoehorned message that one could imagine
The mission had HUGE star wars trench run vibes, the canyon, the 3 meter target, Rooster even took the shot without a computer! All that was missing was Maverick saying "Great shot that was one in a million" and Goose saying, "The force will be with you, always"
@@Nekarion "Lock S-foils in attack position..." Also, "Honest Trailers" pointed out that Han Solo does have an analogue in Hangman, the "insufferable jerk who is also a badass and comes in at the last moment to save their lives"!
The sensitivity they showed with Val Kilmer's disability...they still made those moments powerful, and the words he actually spoke conveyed something. And Jennifer Connelly...man, she's still freaking gorgeous no matter how old she gets.
@@L16htW4rr10r yes, his voice is actually like that. Unfortunately in 2017, Val Kilmer battled throat cancer. And after treatments and surgeries, he's lost most of his physical ability to speak due to the tracheotomy he had to have.
I love how despite that he doesn’t have much time left, Iceman still plays a huge role for the Navy in what he can do, even vouching for Maverick whenever he still being the same old dude every single time. Sheesh considering Maverick’s record, you would think he would’ve been fired by now. But if it wasn’t for Iceman, they probably would have just been following under Cyclone and Warlock’s command.
The very definition of escapism. At no point in this film was I ever thinking of anything except what was on the screen. Something I haven't experienced in decades while watching a movie. Masterful storytelling and movie making.
Finally, a movie sequel not obsessing over having to include “the message” and instead focusing on actual quality content. Usually, the nuttiest actors are the best ones, and Tom Cruise proves that.
This was the first "movie" I've seen in a while. It wasn't a Disney movie, it was a Marvel or Star Wars movie. They all feel inspired by each other or not trying. Maverick was just a damn good movie that felt it needed to prove itself, and it did so in spades.
Dont wanna be a Downer, but really, if i see such movis, i cant help but remembr the very-ancient times of 'Literally-right-now', where US-Military is kinda a big, evil Force of Evil, screwing-over Haiti and Cuba so hard, Documentarys are made about it and Fox-News goes on Record to say EVERYTHINGS FINE; PINKY PROMISE.
Imagine my shock that a movie that avoids woke politics, a focus on diversity and inclusion and preachy messages, and instead focuses on fun, action, being entertaining, and respecting both the audience and the story that came before it, would turn out to be a massive smash hit gaining reviews not seen for a sequel since Paddington 2 five years ago. Fancy that.
But it drips with militaristic, nationalist politics. So... it isn't really telling a story, rather it is propagandizing for an ideology. How is that better?
I’m not sure if you actually watched the movie, but it very much didn’t stay away from diversity. His students were basically a Noah’s Ark of races and ethnicities. The movie was fantastic, but you really need to be honest about what the movie was.
This movie is the first time in recent memory that I've actually genuinely felt something while at the movies. Between the nostalgia, the adrenaline, the highs and lows I can't remember a time I've been more engaged in a movie. And to see it in theaters with the sound of the jet engines shaking the seats was a truly visceral experience and I can't wait to see it again!
They kept the Cringe factor to a minimum and delivered a good movie. I liked that they had a definite mission and a deadline this time Only the Jennifer Connoly character as really bad she seemed like just a dick receptacle.
Top Gun Maverick also feels like a long awaited sequel that was actually worthy of coming out. It didn’t screw up the continuity like Independence Day Resurgence and didn’t copy the story of the original beat for beat like Mary Poppins Returns. Maverick expanded the original and gave us a stellar and satisfying spectacle
When friends and family text me saying "I bought TGM 5 days ago and have watched it 9 times." Is all you need to know it's the best movie in the last 10 years probably.
This movie was absolutely incredible. As Hangman says in the film: “this is your savior speaking” applies to Tom Cruise saving modern cinema over the past couple years. Finally a great movie
It makes me sad to think how great it would have been to have Luke given this treatment. Older, wiser, slightly more bitter and nuanced but not a pathetic loser who failed at absolutely everything and just gave up. Fucks sake it's hard to even type this 😣
One of the most impressive things about this movie is how it dealt with the nostalgia part. Usually with this kind of sequels they milk it like there's no tomorrow, relying on it for the sake and success of the movie. But with Top Gun: Maverick it's different. It only gives you what the story needs to and delivers it in a classy, emotional and well dosed way. What a movie!
The nostalgia baiting is just as strong as any other sequel- what's different is this movie respects the first movie. Maverick is an awesome hero and they don't deconstruct that to pass the torch. If this movie was made by the usual suspects Maverick would've been incompetent and shown up by the new pilots at every turn.
My Dad loved Top Gun. To him, it was the coolest movie ever made and that adoration for the film rubbed off on me and sparked my interest in aviation. I was teary eyed throughout the whole movie because Top Gun: Maverick was the perfect sequel anyone could've asked for to happen, especially with how they handled the characters. I was almost balling my eyes out when Val Kilmer came on screen because there was no way Tom Cruise would've done this movie without his Wingman and I'm so happy he got to be a part of it given all the health issues he has. My Dad would've loved this movie if he was here today and I appreciate everyone involved in this movie making sure it came out the way it did.
Dont wanna be a Downer, but really, if i see such movis, i cant help but remembr the very-ancient times of 'Literally-right-now', where US-Military is kinda a big, evil Force, screwing-over Haiti and Cuba so hard, Documentarys are made about it and Fox-News goes on Record to say EVERYTHINGS FINE; PINKY PROMISE.
@@leechrec Val being in the film was actually one of Tom's requirements before agreeing to making another Top Gun movie. Something to think about, Tom announced Top Gun Maverick in 2017, the same year Val revealed that he had throat cancer.
I watched this movie with my dad last night. He also loved the original. My dad is not really a movie guy, but he was so happy during the whole movie and talked about it for hours after. Truly filled with joy lol. Im sure your dad would have been the same way.
WW84 had a production budget of 230 million $ .... and the CGI looks like dogshite. Seriously, there are several scenes where you can see the green screen.
@@Bartman954 - Yep, and the crew ended up shooting 800 hours worth of aerial footage, so that's roughly $8.8M for aerial action scenes that look far more visceral, intense, and exciting. Money definitely well spent.
Maverick’s attitude is summed up when he said to the generals ‘I never expected an invitation after what happened’ but the general says ‘they are called orders Maverick.’
Finally someone who knows how to make a sequel. Giving the fans EXACTLY what they wanted and the new moviegoers a taste of old school practical effects, undying tropes of comradery, guilt and a worthy pass of the torch. And probably the very last time someone is going to go balls to the wall to give the public an unforgettable experience. Maverick and Tom Cruise are both the last of their kind.
@@nelisezpasce thankfully only one movie and hasn’t been a part of it since. Christopher McQuarrie (who was also a writer for Top Gun maverick) rebooted and saved the Mission Impossible franchise
This movie reminded me that the term "feel good movie" actually derives from movies making you feel good after seeing them. I've never seen Top Gun, but I decided not to catch up before seeing this one to see if it could win me over without nostalgia... It did in spades. I'm fat and 40 and I still want to apply for the academy after seeing this movie.
That’s an awesome way to put it. Usually , the “feel good movie of the year” is some chick flick rom com , right? This is like the feel good movie for blokes.
Wow, 40 and never seen TopGun? When I consider it, I can absolutely see how possible that would be. I'm 46, so was in the prime time "albeit younger part" demo for the original movie. Can't remember exactly how old I was, and am too lazy to open another tab to see lol, but I, to this day, am completely obsessed with fighter jets, and keep up closely with what's new, because of the original movie. But man, how awesome it would be, to be able to watch this movie for the first time, at an age where you can appreciate what came before, and yet, not be influenced AT ALL by what came before, and then get to go enjoy the original, and have all the callbacks, and easter eggs pop out at you. I've not seen it yet, I will, before it leaves theaters, hopefully, but I'm happy to know how good it's going to be when I can go see it.
@@publicprofilename4273 I'm 44. I was 8 when it came out in 85 and my parents let me see it in the theater with them (they covered my eyes for the love scenes, no joke). Top Gun was probably the most iconic blockbuster of my pre-teen life. For the next year or two after seeing it all the kids were riding their bmx's, huffy's, and schwinn's around the neighborhood pretending to be all the different pilot characters. I did see the new one a week or two ago. I just can't let the first one go, it was just too epic in my childhood. The cast was conspicuously diverse and I didn't get much patriotism, but I'll have to watch it again; maybe I wanted it to be woke so I could hate it. Instead, I definitely enjoyed it, a lot. My eyes may or may not have leaked a bit during a couple scenes. Other than Maverick, the characters weren't larger than life like the first one, but that's probably just my bias. You say you're obsessed with fighter jets. Ever heard of DCS? If not, give it a look -- hands down the most realistic, immersive, and complex combat flight simulator you can buy, and they've got all the jets you could possibly want, meticulously modeled.
@@keyser456 Did you have the bomber jacket, and aviaters? lol I damn sure did. Painted my bike up like Mavrick's too lol. Got the big F14 model kit, had it hanging from my ceiling til my first girlfriend was coming over lmao! I was 10 when it came out then. I'm 46 now.
Saw this last night and knew immediately that a Drinker Recommends was on its way. Was a damn good movie, haven't had that much fun in the theatre in years
Just watched this movie for the first time tonight. Is it any wonder that it’s been such a massive hit? Modern audiences have been subjected to the cynical BS that Hollywood insists on shoving down our throats, so when you have a movie with actual character arcs that makes you feel good after watching it…it’s as if you’ve drank from a freshwater spring for the first time in ages. Well done gents 👍🏽
literally everyone? really? not one single person, huh? then I am your one, I refuse to watch this purely on principle, and no I am not missing out on anything. the original was a perfect story, and ended with no further story needed.
@@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658 Nah, that'll never happen. Too much "toxic masculinity" and "inequality" in those kinds of movies for modern audiences.
It makes you weep at the lost opportunity. In fairness though the original series cast is a bit older and they don't take care of themselves the way Tom Cruise does.
Imagine it: A Star Wars sequel where we, through the viewpoint in a new generation of characters, got to go along on an adventure with Han, Luke, and Leia....
@@exhaustguy "the lost opportunity" might be the key phrase. Hollywood can make as many bad movies as they like, but some things simply cannot be remade later to a better result.
About half way through the movie, I was thinking, the reviews were probably overhyped and nostalgic but the final act of the movie blew my socks off. From the moment Maverick does the test run to the end of the film, was just pure, unadulterated, edge-of-your-seat joy. The escape was so over the top, far-fetched but forgivable because of how awesome it was.
Fun Fact, What Maverick and Rooster did has been attempted 2 times in Movies based on 3 real attempts by shot down airmen to get onto an enemy airfield and steel an aircraft to escape during WWII. First attempt had an escaped Luftwaffe POW (shot down during the Battle of Britain) got on to an RAF airfield and tried to steal a Hurricane. He actually was in the Cockpit trying to start it when he was recaptured. The film was called "The One that Got Away" and the German in it later escaped in Canada and got to the USA before they declared war and got back to Germany. The other movie is the Great Escape. In that film two British Airmen steal a Me-108 Trainer after getting out of Stalag Luft III. They managed to take off, but crash after running out of fuel. That part of the film was based on two escapes, One British and One German. The British one had two guys get out of Stalag Luft III in an escape before the big one, they got on to the airfield and into the cockpit of the Me-108 but couldn't work put how to start it and were caught. The German one had two Luftwaffe pilots escape from a British POW camp, get on to an RAF Airfield and into the cockpits of a Mile Magister Trainer, which they were able to start and take off in. They flew from Yorkshire to Norfolk with the plan to fly to Holland, but ran low on fuel and landed in a field with the hope of getting some fuel to finish the trip, then they got recaptured. The one thing Maverick would have nailed in his memory is how to start a Tomcat and fly it.
@@mikedown1250 Most movies are cliched in some way or another. Hard to stay original when theres been literally 1000s of films made in the last 100 years, especially a sequel no less.
she was a good character! she was co-operative and caring of her comrades. I think her being female was only mentioned like once by the cocky pilot Hangman, who was supposed to be a jerk
You know, you should realise how much more problem the message thing is causing, like just seeing her you expected her to be bad. Even though she was just a great fucking character.
Yeah, the whole movie actually measures up to all of those woke films in diversity, but it's not aggressively virtue signaling, it just has good characters. It even passes the Bechdel Test
@@sqwalnoc It's mentioned a few times actually, but all in hazing/good fun. These alpha groups always attack each other where they are weak. Hangman tests her resolves by poking fun at her gender and she ignores him because her excellence puts her above such petty insults. It comes across as very genuine to me.
Tom Cruise is the right type of crazy in Hollyweird, he wants real stunts no agenda and shockingly a good movie. Who would of thought someone could make a sequel that's actually good in 2022!
I've just watched this movie a couple of minutes ago. It was the best movie I've seen this year. I laughed, i smiled, i was worried, i was hyped, i clapped. So many emotions, so much suspens. No sex scenes ✅️ No openly ghey characters ✅️ No weirdos 🌈 just strong willed, talented, good looking people ✅️ Fantastic role play ✅️ Pure action ✅️ Excellent visuals✅️ Terrific Audio ✅️ And i loved the credit showing the actors, their stage name and their real name. It was a good throwback touch. I basically went back to 25 years ago when my mom used to take to the movies after school, waiting for my dad to get off work and pick us up. I will definitely watch it again.
I love what they did with Iceman. In the original, he was consistent, by the book aviator that chastised Maverick for rule breaking. Perfect person to go up the ranks to become a fleet commander. I had no idea Val Kilmer had throat cancer. I thought that was just part of the movie. I loved the movie. It was great!
The original Top Gun is a good movie once you realize that Goose and Ice are basically the actual protagonists and Maverick is actually the out of control lunatic that Ice accuses him of being. Note that Rooster is much closer to being the Iceman equivalent here (cautious, team player) vs. Hangman's cocky douche that feels more like the modern Maverick updating.
@@DemoSonicScreamer1 And yet that out of control lunatic was the one they needed to succeed. Not only to teach but to why the job done. Because if he wasn’t, he would have never been able to prove that the mission was possible. And following the book, would have gotten everyone killed.
I walked out of this movie and could have walked straight back into another screening! Can’t remember the last time a movie made me feel like that, but it certainly wasn’t anything made by Disney in the last 10 years that’s fir sure!
I took my brother and our 60+ year old mom to see this movie and it was a blast. Respect for it's past while absolutely being it's own thing, respect for it's protagonist, every character is allowed to be human and not some walking diversity ad, race or gender is never mentioned and never matters in anything (except the romance between maverick and penny), had me tearing up in certain scenes and on the edge of my seat for others, wasn't a CGI overload shitshow. Tom Cruise and everyone involved deserve a medal for proving that movies can indeed be something fantastic even today.
As a 21 year old, who saw Top Gun 1 a few years back, this film took me by surprise. Perhaps it’s due to my young age or inexperience with cinema, but it’s so rare for me to watch a movie and then feel like I ate a hearty meal with my family and friends, happy and content. Top Gun Maverick managed to prove itself to be a phenomenal sequel that improved on its predecessor, but also, as Drinker described it, made me feeling better afterwards. To me, it’s such a rare feeling these days. What an incredible movie.
Agreed. Theres so many cinical, woke, anti humanity anti masculinity anti America movies these days that it's impossible to come home from the movie theater without feeling anxious and depressed. Top Gun gave me the same feeling I used to get from movies that actually celebrated heroes and humanity and even got me to feel good after bat shit crazy Tom cruise introduced the movie and said they all made it for the fans. I believed him. They worked really hard on this film and I felt honored to watch it show on screen - this film is a class act and I hope to God it starts a trend. No more edgy woke anti love anti American disney bs.
A movie where the hero didn't HAVE TO die and wasn't sacrificed for the next hero. Instead they elevated the hero to a mentor role and left it open for new heroes to step in if they wanted. That was a point of contention for me for a lot of films *Star Wars,Batman*, so I'm glad to see a film that decided to go into a more natural direction.
It was a pleasant surprise. I was fully prepared for them to have Maverick go the way of the clichéd "sacrifice at the end to give others a chance to live" route. The fact that they didn't made the movie ten times better and injected some much needed life back into the theaters that's been missing the last several years.
Unless it’s all a “death dream” after the unsurvivable Mach 10 crash? Would explain the nostalgic callbacks. But 99% of the audience wouldn’t accept it. So, it is what it is.
I have never been so happy coming out a theater. Absolutely loved it. Cruise is a genius and this movie is a real miracle. I'm so glad this thing happened!
@@spellbindingcrashed Cruise has put his life and body on the line countless times for roles just to keep sacred things that are mostly CGI today. There's no other Top Hollywood actors doing anything close to what Cruise has done. So trying to discredit Cruise sounds like a bunch of Projecting babble
This was a perfect film. It was pure, an old-fashioned movie in the best way imaginable. I loved the refreshingly reverential treatment of the source material, how it not only honored the original characters, but gave them more dimension and development until you felt that you understood and liked the characters even more by the ending. There were stakes, there was emotional gravitas all throughout, a complicated relationship conflict thread woven through the movie that culminated in a cathartic payoff. Everyone behaved consistent with their character, everything was even and objective, everything made sense, and you cared every step of the way. There were no obnoxiously gratuitous, sledgehammeringly force-fed identity, gender, and race politics. It was simply a strong narrative all its own built upon an iconic legacy that it somehow transcended in a true feat of filmmaking. The movie was absolutely phenomenal.
Totally agree. Just saw it for the 2nd time today and loved every second of it, all over again. Exciting and well-drawn plot, excellent acting, pathos, reflectiveness, maturity, fleshed out characters and narrative, wonderful soundtrack, magnificent call-outs to the original, handled with total class….and the most amazing aerial scenes ever. This is one of the greatest action movies ever filmed and it was a total pleasure to watch from start to finish. Cruise is a legend.
Honestly the secret of the 80's and 90's was always unapologetic liking of a thing, instead of this shit attitude internet culture instilled in us where unironically liking things was bad and you have to mock anything you make. 80's and 90's didn't give a fuck if you thought they were cringe, that was a you problem. I miss that energy.its good to see it start coming back.
The thing about being genuine is that it's a vulnerable position to place yourself in. If you say "Haha, look at how stupid and ironic everything is!", you're dissuading people (deliberately or subconsciously) from weighing your story on its merits. It's literally the b-movie mindset. If you present honest joy or, worse, ask people to take you seriously, you lose that shield. It really shows that modern writers know that their work is trash.
@@GutsofEclipse But you also can get so much more, if people start out thinking you don't like or really believe in what you're doing, why should they? You've just lowered a ceiling on yourself, and let's be fair, we'll still shit on an "Ironic" movie just as much as a sincere one.
To be honest I think even then they knew that cringe and cheesy moments were that: they just didn't care. It's like the guy in the club who's rat-arsed and dances like a frog in a blender: he knows he can't dance for shit, but he's too delirious and hopped up on the hype and the atmosphere that it doesn't matter, and people can respect that. In any case, I'm glad it's returning too. I still like deconstruction and questioning things, but films like this work as amazing palate cleansers and are needed now more than ever.
What makes this film even better is that it actually uses diversity in a manner that benefits the film. A lot of scenes in the movie are shot in the cockpit of the aircraft. The backgrounds are all the same and the pilots heads/faces are almost completely covered. Using actors with different skin colors can help you identify who your looking at when the movie is making quick cuts between the actors when their flying. They also had characters wear things like glasses to help the audience be able to quickly identify characters during quick cuts.
I love how there were characters of all races, all genders and they were all fleshed out, human, had subtlety and bombast, different abilities and traits. No one of any particular race was written to outshine the other for diversity or woke political agenda pushing. Not something you see often with the toilet paper writing of today's day and age. They were a team and I loved it.
This is a very good point on the proper use of diversity. First time I watched the first Top Gun, there were some scenes where I had to audibly ask myself who a character was. That's because most of them were very generic and similar looking. I didn't have this problem in Maverick.
"The end is inevitable,your kind is heading towards extinction" "Maybe so sir,but not today" This dialogue pretty sums this movie and Cruise in current state of affairs and the direction hollywood is taking,proper passionate movie star making a movie that didn't gave an f about message or promoted wokeness or capatilized brands,just an honest to god action movie for you to enjoy and forget about the world,i haven't enjoyed a movie this much in theaters in a very long time and i am gald to see its sucess,but there is no denying such actors and movies are a dying breed.
Only for now, there's a bit of a resurgence going on under the hood. Things like this, the northman, Reacher, Terminal List, etc, I think some of the movie and TV industry is slowly waking up to the fact that good show= more money, forced, unwanted message = lost money. As much as the message has taken over everything, businessmen are ultimately businessmen(even the dumbasses that caused this mess) and are going to gravitate toward the money.
Agreed on all points. Wanted to add that this movie is "diversity" and "representation" done right. Many of the young pilots are minorities of some kind or another, but crucially that is never the point. The movie does not draw attention to this, it is presented neither as an obstacle nor a strength, it just...doesn't...matter. There is no "message" there, other than I'd say an implicit message that no "message" is needed nor wanted.
I totally agree and this is one of the things I appreciated most about the film.. how everyone was treated as a kickass fighter pilot, there was no singling out or special treatment, kinda how it is supposed to be. If Hollywood just followed this guideline we wouldn't be divided over 'woke-ism', we would all just be cinema fans.
This is the way it should be done. I would also point to "The Expanse" which even ticks off a lot of the modern checkboxes with alternate sexuality and all that, but it's not done for show, or to score points, it's just part of the story, and since the story is good and the actors are good, it doesn't matter.
@@PhaTs00p and risk a branch or twig scraping your corneas? Ever had that happen? I have while riding a bicycle as a kid. I’d imagine it’s the same thing while running.
I'm sure the only reason this movie didn't end up being woke junk, just like every other movie today, was because of Tom Cruise. He takes his craft very seriously and I'm sure he had great input in all aspects of the film.
If there was any wokeness at all, it would have to be Maverick choosing the Hispanic girl and the black guy for the mission over the clearly better white guy.
@@grahamjackmacpherson6501 I mean ..... Maverick himself went through character development. I was actually surprised where they reveal that he did some bad decisions in the past with Rooster, and the weight of guilt he feels. I also liked Rooster and his plot, with him trying his best to prove to both his family and himself that he's worthy. Sorry but just because they didn't make the Maverick into another "old Luke Skywalker" doesn't mean it's bad.
@@gamemediafan1714 aside from Maverick and a little bit of Rooster, there was virtually no character development for any of the many other characters. Virtually the entire squad of young pilots were given nothing to say or do apart from Hangman. Jennifer Connelly was given nothing to do except be a forced love interest because God forbid we can't have Tom Cruise without a love interest. And when did I ever mention Luke Skywalker haha? You're reaching a bit too far with that comparison.
I reacted the exact same way Drinker did: Honors the original without deconstructionist bs, great characters, REAL action, and such pallet cleanser from the usual CGI superhero stuff we've been getting.
@@robert7622 No, you're right about that, but the reason I said you're comparing apples and oranges is because T2 couldn't have been made without CGI, whereas, Top Gun Maverick could. For what it's worth, I agree with you about T2 being a great sequel. Not sure if it's the best, but definitely in the top 3 for sci-fi.
As a fatherless child with my mother, Top Gun was one of those movies we watched atleast once a month for the majority of my childhood. Words can't describe my relief while watching this review. Cheers mate!
Tom Cruise became synonymous with action star, but people tend to forget he absolutely crushes in serious dramatic roles, like in Rain Man, Color of Money, Jerry Maguire.
@@riccardo1796 It’s not much crazier than the stuff in the books for Abrahamic followers, and that’s all super normalized (and shouldn’t be). But people are complex and identify religiously for a variety of different reasons. Me, I think it’s all garbage, but my rule is if you can be cool then I can be cool. And if we only enjoyed or benefited from content from people who we have to agree with on everything, we’d barely ever get into anything.
Two things here: Firstly, Cruise asked for and was refused permission to fly his own stunts in a Navy F/A 18. Yes, really. Apparently the Navy is a bit nervous about handing a multi-million dollar fighter jet over to an actor for real. Also, the P51 Mustang in this movie is Tom Cruises' personal P51 "Kiss Me Kate" , and he does indeed fly it.
And I was going to boycott it because they had removed the Taiwanese flag from Maverick's jacket in the trailer, but alas it was returned it in the movie thank god, I bet they'll rub it out for the Chinese release..
@@fcukgogle9213 The Taiwanese flag is the same flag as the nationalist Chinese regime that got defeated in their civil war. It's like how some get mad about flags and symbols from a certain German regime from the 1930's & 40's.
Asking to fly a Navy fighter jet just to perform your own stunts is his "ego writing checks his body cant cash." I wouldnt turn one over to him either.
“Well f**k that!” - This. THIS. I’m so glad the creators of the film said it too, flushed the woke BS down the toilet and went out and made a fun arse movie. No need to kill the main character, no need to insult the audience. Just pure escapism, which is the whole purpose of going to the movies.
Just saw it and man… I can’t get over how good this movie was! I was entertained, emotional and hyped throughout! Best movie I’ve seen in 10 years maybe 20…
The casting really was one of the movies today that FINALLY cast to the environment of the film. No skinny feminine males to bring in inclusivity, no dudes in a wheelchair to represent their community. But people who actually look like they’ve been training in the military, glad to also see them use some actors who aren’t all house hold name for the pilots but actors who really fit the role.
@Stovepipe Downtube but not in an unrealistic way. One out of the bunch of pilots was a woman, and not 80% of them. The girl even looked like she could be a navy, so that was fine. And the rest were just well trained dudes flying fighter jets: doesn't seem too diverse to mr
Fucking amazing. You gotta love when they actually have RESPECT for the old characters and actually care for the story. I have to admit that while I was watching Maverick kick ass (which was basically the entire movie) in utter joy, I was also asking myself, WHY couldn't they do this with Luke Skywalker? Maverick gets to shine, new characters get to shine, not even a hint of The Message. This may be the movie of the year.
Funny thing is, Maverick got punked a couple times in the film (outside the cockpit) and it was done in a way that added to the character arc, instead of just taking a dump on a character.
Agreed on all points. Compare Rey bitching that Luke is a quitter vs when Phoenix sees Mav making the run in the stolen F-18 and just smiles and says 'oh yeah'.
I felt this movie was great because I have never seen the original, yet I was immediately drawn in by the characters, and they managed to fill in the back-story without slowing down the pace and without excessive exposition. But I would have Tomahawked the S/A missiles, and launched a low-level F-35 strike on the airfield (if there weren't enough Tomahawks to go around).
A modern sequel of an iconic 80's movie that doesn't suck, respects its fans and iconic characters, and doesn't try to push THE MESSAGE or THE RULES? Am I in the right universe?
Just thinking how this could have gone off the rails if it was a Disney woketacular. Tom Cruise's Maverick would be a broken man, haunted by PTSD and his past, called back to Top Gun but unable to do the job. The strong diverse wahmen pilot Phoenix would be a better pilot than he ever was, "the bestest evar", and she would be the one to mentor Maverick back from the depths of despair. The fact that all the ingredients were present and then they DIDN'T go there makes it even more special.
I was not only surprised to love this movie, I had to get corrective surgery on my jaw to fix the position it got stuck in. It's been so long since we had a movie that made you want the heroes to succeed leaving you on the edge of your seat. Maverick doing the test run and completing it well below the limit was one of the most exciting scenes in a movie since 1917. I think we would all love more movies like this instead of the shit we've been getting from other studios.
We finally have a sequel from a beloved film that gives us everything we wanted! Let's support it! Send a message to Hollywood, this is the kind of cinema experience we want, not activism disguised as movies
Precisely! And even for Top Gun times change. In 1986 there wouldn't have been a female pilot, but that's ok. She was just part of the team, not some misunderstood genius there to upstage Maverick... That's how you include diversity. Organically not forcefully.
Blade Runner 2049 was pretty devoid of activism, and I can only speak for myself but it gave me everything I wanted, which surprised me because I was expecting to hate it. 🤷♂️
Actually making a sequel to a movie from the 80s and somehow retaining the original spirit is a massive achievement by itself, but actually improving on it in some ways is insane. Great Job Tom you Scientology weirdo
I don’t know…. Cruise is kind of a lunatic and not really in the charming way. I can respect his acting skills. Fully marks for that. But as a human being… nah.
@In your mom's guts uh, you mean a movie with character development, some action, and lots of explosions? Yeah it's a good summer blockbuster action movie
Watched this at a Drive-in where I was forced to watch Love and Thunder prior to. I'm honestly glad for that, because it really made me appreciate Top Gun even more.
When the Drinker starts with "Fuck Yes!", you know it's going to be a thing to behold. And point made - where we would normally nitpick at small inconsistencies, the film is that good that they are accepted and forgiven with no effort. Lessons for the 'modern hollywood'.
I hear ya when I heard the original theme come on, I was a kid again. Then bam they hit you with danger zone! I didn't think they would do it and they did, it was awesome!
The last time any action movie pushed the limits of filmmaking like this was like Mad Max: Fury Road or Mission Impossible: Fallout. What a blast this was in IMAX
@@idhcustomtoys I don't see how it's woke trash, considering Furiosa never belittled Max, nor did the writers make Max weaker than her so she could be elevated. Top it all off with the fact that Immortan Joe had multiple wives that he raped regularly, and were all damsels in distress, which is something woke Hollywood would rather die than put into their movies. Again, I don't see how Max Max is woke.
I watched this film with my mum last night and we both loved it. It was truly so immersive, the air scenes were ridiculously impressive, and I couldn't care less that the plot was simplistic in nature; the band of characters worked, and I agree that this film excels on a 'passing the torch' type of plot without feeling disrespectful to those who came before. I also liked how it was easy to follow for those who hadn't seen the first film, like my mum and I, but you could easily catch up and didn't feel like you were missing anything. My heart was racing during the third act and wouldn't stop soaring once the ending commenced - what a perfectly cheesy happy ending it was. I felt sad getting out of my seat and wanted to do it all over again. Easily the best film of 2022 for me.
I've seen this movie in theater three times. Scheduled visits to local museums featuring these engineering marvels. And had wishful thoughts of an aviation related career change. This is what movies are meant to do. Friggin inspire the pants off the audience with real world hope, motivation, and amazing visuals.
I watched it last week. I’m not big into Aviation (my brother is and I’ve flown a lot with him so I have a decent perspective on it) I wouldn’t join the military in its current state with its current neutered state and crappy leadership. Yet this movie made me think, ‘Serving my country as a fighter pilot would be damn awesome.’ It Was absolutely inspiring.
I saw this film in IMAX. A perfect 10 out of 10. And I'm not a diehard fan of Cruise. I saw Top Gun as a kid. (I'm an 80s baby.) I thought that it was just okay. I was more into cartoons and video games. 🎮 🕹 Top Gun made Tom Cruise in Hollywood. But, Top Gun: Maverick has made him a legend. This movie is easily the best film of 2022.
#TopGunMaverick does everything a great sequel should do: - Give the audience something new - Identify what worked before and build upon it - Change the stakes - Play with expectations - Add new memorable characters Please go see it at an IMAX theater near you!!
I’m amazed Tom Cruise hasn’t broken his back carrying the entire action-blockbuster genre on his own
He got the shoulders lol.
it's crazy, twenty-ten years ago I would have guessed it would be will Smith.
That's the power of being willing to do as many stunts as you can and using as many practical effect as possible!
him and Keanu
@@Fadaar well yes but matrix4
I also respect Tom Cruise for thanking his audience before the movie - what a class act that was.
That actually surprised me.
when that came on I thought he was gonna tell us to spay or neuter our cats
Tom Cruise is a weird guy and I don't support his whole cult activity, but this was cool of him. He was like "we used real planes and real speed, for the fans" and that's awesome. If a guy as crazy as him can have this attitude, WTF is everyone else in Hollywood's excuse? Refreshing to have a creator actually be grateful for their fans.
They used to do that in some of the old movies. ISTR Lights Out in 2016 had something similar.
@@DavidSmith-mt7tb everyone is too scared to do something different. That’s why you get a lot of mediocre movies coming from Hollywood
It was so weird seeing a legacy character be treated with such respect.
Lol
Ptsd from the mcu phase 4 😂😂
@@lopentare8934 The scene where Maverick is proving to them that the mission can be done and they're all looking on at the screen with awe and wonder. It was perfect.
@@spenser9908 That was a truly epic scene, in fact all of the scenes were epic
It pretty much felt like stealing the forbidden fruit!
Let's go away now....with it!
I also really liked the female pilot Phoenix. She came off as authentic, confident, and had strong leadership qualities without being arrogant(something recent Hollywood writers struggle with their female characters).
Wasnt that just awesome? I cant remember the name of the actress now, shes hot af. Bu the point was, there was no sexist joke, no lame "its a woman shes gonna get us killed" or such crap. She was and is there for the Mission, in the Fighter Weapons School. And as in reality, nobody makes such stupid statements. Everyone is judged on the field and on the field alone. Only there are questions asked (in the debriefing room actually), and only there are answered.
BTW did i mentioned how fucking hot Phoenix is?
When Maverick reprimanded her and asked her what she was going to say to her dead teammate's family if she caused his death, she accepted it. Not unlike Hangman, who was super cocky and had to have his ego checked. Audiences appreciate these qualities in characters. And yeah, she is lovely 😍
@@egooidios5061 Actually in the film Hangman does make a sexist pun at one point, aimed at her.
My thoughts exactly. She didn't act like a Capt. Marvel and can do everything. She had weakness and the movie didn't refrain from showing it. Glad the Navy greenlit this movie. They were short on pilots, now they have a 500% increase in recruits. This movie made it feel that anyone and any ethnicity can join the Navy without being woke like the Army recruit videos. It was so bad that they had to pull it. The military is stretched thin now because it went woke. There's no honor anymore when they don't operate as one, but as individuals. Stats already show that conservative households are the ones most likely to join the military, but they're reforming the military to ease up on standards, so you got pissed off leftist that don't even want to fight in wars, but is in the military for a scholarship.
There was some sexist banter but that's just part of working in the highly competitive fields of combat arms. That competitive spirit is what drives everyone to be better than they were the day before. This movie did a pretty fair job of capturing that.
Yes, other jobs can be highly competitive, but none of them come even close to the competitive nature of combat MOS's.
I loved Tom’s message in the beginning of the film. Basically “We made this for you, we hope you enjoy it! Thanks for seeing it in a theater!” It was really heart warming
I don’t get all the Tom hate. I think he’s great.
@@samcad-ho3ze he said some pretty ignorant shit about psychiatry like 15 years ago. Who cares? Everyone is capable of having a wrong opinion, doesn’t make them bad people. Just means they need further research
as Movie revenue continues to go down over time, it was much needed.
@@BraeburnTV He also said he was going to eat placenta then backed out of it after the backlash...
I saw that and I knew the movie was gonna be good. It was really classy.
This movie did the unthinkable. It improved on the original and is justifiable in it’s existence. Tony Scott would be so happy.
*youtube link*
Finally it’s here
*clickbait*
Finally it's there!
I think what made this movie even better than the original was that the original movie focused more on the recuitment ad for Navy side, where as this movie actually told a story between Maverick and Rooster AND it still functions as a Navy recruitment ad.
If he weren’t sacrificed
It improved on the original because the original was massively overrated. TopGun2 is still a great movie; but the original never was great....
The enthusiasm in the delivery alone tells yah Drinker adored this 🥳
Yeah, he sounds more like he just snorted cocaine than downed a bottle of Jack. Always a good sign for a movie.
You shall too MauLer, you shall too enjoy this
Absolutely. One of the reasons I want to watch that movie now :D
Sadly it's become all too rare to hear him that excited when talking about something other than alcohol or Tatiana.
It was as if he was gushing like a little school girl..nah..I'll go away now
Pheonix was a great character, the writers didnt focus on the fact that she was female and didnt make an entire shitty arc about her having to overcome "discrimination", She was just a pilot and she was badass, thats it.
noticed this too...good comment
I feared the same thing. When the first trailer came out, there was a scene in the classroom, where the camera has her in sharp focus, and the male pilots are in soft focus. I thought, there's the stunning and brave GuRhL BoSs. She's gonna show the boys how it's done. I am very glad to admit I was wrong.
Exactly ! They nailed her character with no woke bs. this movie was phenomenal
@@och70 it would never happen on a cruise production bro 👍
Or sexual assault... Obviously they are serious topics that maybe should be addressed but not everyone needs to go through it
It’s pretty rare that a sequel can be better than the original. Top Gun: Maverick really delivers.
Paramount not only just made Maverick better than the original Top Gun, but they also made Sonic 2 WAY BETTER than its original
not like the original was that good in the first place
@@bearpoop720 you can't be serious. Lol
@@bearpoop720 is it because the first one didn’t have a bunch of fat, gay, black women flying while they protest racism through clunky dialogue and is a CGI nightmare? Or in other words, a present day marvel movie?
Beats out T2: Judgement Day for as as best sequel movie for mine
Top Gun. That was miracle #1
Top Gun Maverick.
That was miracle #2.
👊😎
S-tier comment.
"Now break the box office and come home."
@@ndrew3779 YESSSS!✊
this comment is miracle #3
When the credits rolled and the text "For Tony Scott" appeared, that put a smile on my face. This was a team that sought to remain true to the source material and honor the legacy of the former director who directed it. If only Disney showed Star Wars the same respect.
@David Nash or CBS and star trek. Too many to count and name :(
That word respect. Boy I sure love that. It is sorely missing from society in every way possible.
@@kyubii972 WB…everything DC.
Or Vivendi and the Terminator franchise.
Or Paramount and Halo.
We want these movies man .. please more. No political agenda, no lecturing just pure entertainment and high stakes..
Exactly, you hit the nail on the head! We’re so sick of Hollywood sacrificing good storytelling in favor of *THE MESSAGE*
The weird thing is that this is straight up US military propaganda and it feels much less like propaganda than the usual stuff Hollywood shits out.
@Kevin De Bruyne Most?
@@Thrawn23.I think that's subjective
You wish... we all do
This movie makes you realise how CGI has ruined the blockbuster genre. Over past few years have found myself getting bored and checking my watch halfway through films, but in Top Gun everything was so real and intense, it is a cliche but I was literally on the edge of my seat in the cinema.
Practical effects also made a huge difference in Fury Road.
100%..
Call me stupid BUT before seeing this movie i actually didn't realise why i prefer 80s and 90s movies so much more than the horseshit of today. And im 33.
It is literally because movies these days are probably 90% an animated movie with very little Real effects.
@@mattpatt199 Practical effects are expensive, and in the "olden days" they used them in harmony with the storytelling , to achieve a maximum of emotional impact.
The best example is Jaws, where they could not use the animatronic shark as often as they wanted, so they used the mystery to create suspense, and used the animatronic shark only where there was no other choice. And the movie came out much better for it.
Same with Jurassic Park, where they used both animatronics and CGI, but if you watch carefully, the focus is on the characters and their reaction more than on the dinosaurs.
Then CGI became cheap, so they overused it. Everything is over the top, you have hundreds of cars exploding, things fly all over the place.
More explosions, more stuff flying around, 100 cuts in one scene, the camera is shaking around, to blur the image so you can't see the lack of details on the CGI work.
It's a lot of stuff happening on screen without any emotional impact, which cheapen the whole experience.
Now, watch any CGI fest and compare it with Fury Road, where all cars are real and every explosion, every car crash has a much greater impact, because it is tied to the story.
That's what also part of what made Edge of Tomorrow so good, because they chose to use a lot of practical effects, instead of going for the cheap CGI route for everything.
And because the scenes in modern action movies are filmed with green screen, they have to compensate the light in post production, to take all the green hue away. So every scene has that awkward lightning thing going on.
They started moving away from green screen with digital sets, like they use on The Mandalorian, so the light looks better, to re-create the "old blockbuster" look : th-cam.com/video/Ufp8weYYDE8/w-d-xo.html
@@scratchy996 spot on mate and so well said with those examples too. Fury road was incredible too!
cgi is fine, the problem is the oversaturation of boring run of the mill superhero movies...
Phoenix was a good way to write an action girl. She's a bit cocky, but she's not insufferable, and when she freezes up when Maverick asks her what she would say at Bob's funeral to his widow, and she has absolutely no response. She is humbled without cruelty, and she learns.
I was thinking the same! She's how you write in a strong female character without making her unrealistic or insufferable.
There are a lot of damn good female fighter pilots and they deserve recognition but not worship like typical Hollywood would do.
Ya, I liked her a lot! The actress they got was perfect. No complaints. (chef's kiss)
Maybe in a perfect world. But in reality, SOME men may be wisened by the experience maverick went through. A WOMAN however, unlikely.
@@hebedabber2770 Your experience with women is not most women...
The take away about her character is she's incredibly competent, but not perfect. Super believable and someone you can empathize with as an audience. Her gender isn't really even a thing in the movie.
The casting in this film was spot on and the practical effects are solid. This movie will be one of the reasons new directors avoid CGI whenever possible.
Hoolywood has spent 20 years starving out anyone with an ounce of practical effects experience
nothing but cgi artist nerds left alive, where they found the crew to make this one we shall never know (defintely wasnt the church of scientology breaking the laws of physics and reality to help their saviour make a bette movie)
What are you doing here?
What is it with you fools and constantly belittling cgi as if it's a contagious plague? It doesn't matter if special effects are done by models or computers, everything on screen is all fake, an illusion.
Any comments on the soundtrack? That was a real strength of the original and I'm hoping there's some equally badass/uplifting tracks in this one. Or did they re-use the original songs like Danger Zone and Mighty Wings?
it works when you want to make something feel as if it was not real
I was really suprised how there was little to none politics in this movie. I mean the young pilots were diversed but it wasn't really in your face like in most movies nowdays. And the prominent female pilot wasn't mary sue that is good at everything with zero flaws.
Like Princess Leia, or Sarah Conner, or Ripley. Strong women who were leads/co-leads, drove the plot and weren't perfect...
Agreed. Also liked that they didn’t mention where or who the enemy was (although it was implied)
That would have been so cliche
It was so refreshing.. "diversity" doesn't have to be in your face. it's been in movies for literally decades at this point. you don't have to mention someone's race, sex or ethnicity, just let the actor play a damn character, THAT'S how you do diversity
She was good,. but she wasn't "the bestest evaaaarrr".,..
Yeah it wasn’t forced at all. Didn’t feel like it had a diversity agenda
This movie was like stepping back in time, and remembering when movies were just pure entertainment, emotion and a visual spectacle. Really enjoyed this film.
When did movies stop being entertainment, emotion, and visual spectacle?
@@Floowood Disney
@@DozyF Disney is pure emotion and visual spectacle at the expense of sensible story.
@Joe Thune Makes sense. All the dinosaurs identify as non-binary. So by like taking a step back in time, we mean before “The Message.”
@Joe Thune Nah. You’re just obsessed about politics and it’s ruining your enjoyment of life. I actually feel sorry for people like you.
This move is the food equivalent of finally being able to eat a hearty, well-cooked meal after years of soggy soy-turkey sandwiches. It's something we all needed, and damn was it enjoyable!
So true 😂
We’ll said
You mean TOFU sandwich. 🤣🤣🤣
perfect analogy!!!
@Charlie Beckwith What? You don't want to live in a pod and eat the bugs? :)
TopGun Maverick was always going to be Tom Cruise’s legacy so we should have known he wouldn’t accept anything less than perfection but I was absolutely floored by how shockingly good this movie is.
Tom Cruise not shi**ing on his legacy: 25%
Tom Cruise wanting to do his own stunts: 25%
Keeping the plot simple: 20%
NOT BENDING THE KNEE TO THE MESSAGE: 20%
The US Navy wanting to give this the thumbs up for recruitment: 10%
AWESOME FILM: 100% "I feel the need...the need for speed!"
I want to see it again asap. I watched in awe at times.
Best jet fighter footage in any movie really.
He's the star, but unusually he used his star power for good, as you get the feeling he was never going to accept a film that didn't keep him as the number 1 actor, and didn't stay true to the film that made him.
Since Tom was One of the Producers, He dosen't want a Fictional Character he played get Ruined.
I appreciated the professional relationship between Phoenix and Bob. He has an awkward persona compared to other bravado pilots but he's in Top Gun for a reason. Phoenix knows this and doesn't berate her partner, but treats him as an equal. His quiet but efficient accuracy as a WSO match Phoenix's piloting skills and they make a good team.
As a man who works at a movie theater, I can tell you that this movie is STILL going strong!
I live in Korea and it's been out for 2 months now and the movie theaters are still full. This movie is by far the best of the year imo
Saw the movie today (shame on me), they will not screen it starting tomorrow, and the room was half full.... i thought i will be the only one in the room but nope! Awesome movie!
@황의건 iraq too lmao
@@dragonmaster3207 Saudi Arabia too. The theater i went too yesterday was still half full.
Just left
Sends a clear message to all the Hollywood idiots who have been fucking us over and destroying franchises for the last 15 years with CGI shit and fucking moronic writing. Given these reviews, I'll pay for a real copy and support the film.
I was just thinking the same thing when I got out of the theater. This film is a day 1 purchase on blu-ray
I read this in the CD's voice. Ha! You're definitely feeling his angst. It WAS a great film.
I hate CGI. I dont go to movies anymore because of it. Maybe someone in Hollywood would read these posts and realize what we like!
@@littleflower787 do you realize how much work Cgi takes. Have some respect man maybe that’s why studios don’t care cause every fan complains and whines like you
You do realize this movie is woke trash, right?
I'm a 41 year old man and I took my son, 9, to watch Top Gun Maverick. Same age I was when I watched the original.
I have to say that this movie brought many tears to my eyes, I was actually overwhelmed by its awesomeness and it reassured me that the woke haven't won.
Maybe they will in the end, Sir, BUT NOT TODAY.
Go watch it everyone.
Woke is just a generation looking for a fight where their is none. When they get older and become the people they despise the next generation will act in a way they hate and the cycle continues.
Just finished watchting it, and your post brought me tears
same here, brought my 17 year old son (probably the last film I will take him to sob sob) , tear in the eye, genuine laugh out loud moments. it had it all
Same for me dude, saw it a couple of days ago, it was incredible, I then watched Avengers Endgame for the first time yesterday, it was absolute shit, woke ass trash with the most politically correct, shoehorned message that one could imagine
The woke haven‘t won. Amen to that.
The mission had HUGE star wars trench run vibes, the canyon, the 3 meter target, Rooster even took the shot without a computer! All that was missing was Maverick saying "Great shot that was one in a million" and Goose saying, "The force will be with you, always"
Now, when we watch ANH, as Luke is zooming down the trench, we'll figure he's saying in his heart, "Talk to me, Ben."
you forgot the vehicle that can switch it's wing formation :D
I was getting late ‘90s arcade flight game vibes
It’s Ace Combat without being titled Ace Combat
@@Nekarion "Lock S-foils in attack position..."
Also, "Honest Trailers" pointed out that Han Solo does have an analogue in Hangman, the "insufferable jerk who is also a badass and comes in at the last moment to save their lives"!
...and I have absolutely no problem with it. It's okay to borrow form George Lucas every now and then
The sensitivity they showed with Val Kilmer's disability...they still made those moments powerful, and the words he actually spoke conveyed something. And Jennifer Connelly...man, she's still freaking gorgeous no matter how old she gets.
This !
I loved that he says a line that cements the fact that disability or no, he will always be Iceman.
Val and Tom were great in that scene.
I almost cried when I watched that. I don't know if his voice is actually hoarse like that or he made it up, but it was emotional regardless
@@L16htW4rr10r yes, his voice is actually like that. Unfortunately in 2017, Val Kilmer battled throat cancer. And after treatments and surgeries, he's lost most of his physical ability to speak due to the tracheotomy he had to have.
I love how despite that he doesn’t have much time left, Iceman still plays a huge role for the Navy in what he can do, even vouching for Maverick whenever he still being the same old dude every single time. Sheesh considering Maverick’s record, you would think he would’ve been fired by now. But if it wasn’t for Iceman, they probably would have just been following under Cyclone and Warlock’s command.
The very definition of escapism. At no point in this film was I ever thinking of anything except what was on the screen. Something I haven't experienced in decades while watching a movie. Masterful storytelling and movie making.
Spot on. Just like 90's action movies used to.
Saw it today, exactly my experience, never thought about the outside world once.
My thoughts exactly.
It was an extremely political message film, just like the woke stuff I’m sure you bemoan. The only difference is that you like the message.
@@Jay-hj5cb I'll ask, how exactly?
Finally, a movie sequel not obsessing over having to include “the message” and instead focusing on actual quality content. Usually, the nuttiest actors are the best ones, and Tom Cruise proves that.
They had to make the new top gun team as diverse as possible
Tom Cruise is a crazy Scientologist and Jackie Chan is a Communist, doesn’t matter because they will always be my favorite 2 action stars
@@Will-ie3xb I know. That was a big win.
🤓🤓🤓🤓 OMG NO MORE THE MESSAGE
@@ekkoekko4610 nah the message ain’t going no where 😘
This was the first "movie" I've seen in a while. It wasn't a Disney movie, it was a Marvel or Star Wars movie. They all feel inspired by each other or not trying. Maverick was just a damn good movie that felt it needed to prove itself, and it did so in spades.
Dont wanna be a Downer, but really, if i see such movis, i cant help
but remembr the very-ancient times of 'Literally-right-now', where US-Military is kinda a big, evil Force of Evil, screwing-over Haiti and Cuba so hard, Documentarys are made about it and Fox-News goes on Record to say EVERYTHINGS FINE; PINKY PROMISE.
Imagine my shock that a movie that avoids woke politics, a focus on diversity and inclusion and preachy messages, and instead focuses on fun, action, being entertaining, and respecting both the audience and the story that came before it, would turn out to be a massive smash hit gaining reviews not seen for a sequel since Paddington 2 five years ago. Fancy that.
Based Paddington enjoyer.
Ummm...It's gay porn dude. Sorry.
But it drips with militaristic, nationalist politics. So... it isn't really telling a story, rather it is propagandizing for an ideology. How is that better?
I’m not sure if you actually watched the movie, but it very much didn’t stay away from diversity.
His students were basically a Noah’s Ark of races and ethnicities.
The movie was fantastic, but you really need to be honest about what the movie was.
It does have a more diverse cast than the first movie --- sorry if that bursts your right wing white nationalist worldview
This movie is the first time in recent memory that I've actually genuinely felt something while at the movies. Between the nostalgia, the adrenaline, the highs and lows I can't remember a time I've been more engaged in a movie. And to see it in theaters with the sound of the jet engines shaking the seats was a truly visceral experience and I can't wait to see it again!
Well said. I totally agree
They kept the Cringe factor to a minimum and delivered a good movie. I liked that they had a definite mission and a deadline this time
Only the Jennifer Connoly character as really bad she seemed like just a dick receptacle.
So true
so true.
Top Gun Maverick also feels like a long awaited sequel that was actually worthy of coming out. It didn’t screw up the continuity like Independence Day Resurgence and didn’t copy the story of the original beat for beat like Mary Poppins Returns. Maverick expanded the original and gave us a stellar and satisfying spectacle
My wife made me go. I was dreading another awful sequel.
Next thing I knew, I was cheering in the cinema. This movie is truly awesome.
Same same same 😎🤘
you've got a great wife! :)
When friends and family text me saying "I bought TGM 5 days ago and have watched it 9 times." Is all you need to know it's the best movie in the last 10 years probably.
Mission impossible Fall Out
@@holydeath6197 Fallout is a damn good actionmovie, but I thought the story was lacking a bit.
This movie was absolutely incredible. As Hangman says in the film: “this is your savior speaking” applies to Tom Cruise saving modern cinema over the past couple years. Finally a great movie
“Help me Tom Cruise!!!” - Ricky Bobby
@@lexeeschell1288 this line aged better than we ever could have imagined
So..... suddenly forgot about The Mummy (2017) huh? Or the blandness that was Oblivion (2013)?
@@gamemediafan1714 You know 2013 was almost a decade ago, right?
@@gamemediafan1714 Obvlivion was actually pretty great though.
Maverick is the Luke Skywalker we deserved.
It makes me sad to think how great it would have been to have Luke given this treatment. Older, wiser, slightly more bitter and nuanced but not a pathetic loser who failed at absolutely everything and just gave up. Fucks sake it's hard to even type this 😣
And the Picard we wanted
Fuck yeah!
REAL AF
@Garbage Ilearsi you must be the ones who enjoyed marvel phase 4. Thor 4 is a cinematic masterpiece isn't it
One of the most impressive things about this movie is how it dealt with the nostalgia part. Usually with this kind of sequels they milk it like there's no tomorrow, relying on it for the sake and success of the movie. But with Top Gun: Maverick it's different. It only gives you what the story needs to and delivers it in a classy, emotional and well dosed way. What a movie!
+ They learned from Cobra Kai it seems. That is the model to do things based on a past franchise.
Nostalgia is used just to show it's the same world. Not to throw on your face. And that was so assuring and good.
I hope Mav' retired with the rank of Admiral.
They fit the f 14 in the perfect way
The nostalgia baiting is just as strong as any other sequel- what's different is this movie respects the first movie. Maverick is an awesome hero and they don't deconstruct that to pass the torch. If this movie was made by the usual suspects Maverick would've been incompetent and shown up by the new pilots at every turn.
This movie was simply PERFECT. Thank you Tom, you truly are the last great action star.
My Dad loved Top Gun. To him, it was the coolest movie ever made and that adoration for the film rubbed off on me and sparked my interest in aviation.
I was teary eyed throughout the whole movie because Top Gun: Maverick was the perfect sequel anyone could've asked for to happen, especially with how they handled the characters. I was almost balling my eyes out when Val Kilmer came on screen because there was no way Tom Cruise would've done this movie without his Wingman and I'm so happy he got to be a part of it given all the health issues he has.
My Dad would've loved this movie if he was here today and I appreciate everyone involved in this movie making sure it came out the way it did.
Dont wanna be a Downer, but really, if i see such movis, i cant help
but remembr the very-ancient times of 'Literally-right-now', where US-Military is kinda a big, evil Force, screwing-over Haiti and Cuba so hard, Documentarys are made about it and Fox-News goes on Record to say EVERYTHINGS FINE; PINKY PROMISE.
That scene with Val was epic. I like how Tom showed his acting skills and so did Val even without talking. Veterans, pros, legends.
@@leechrec Val being in the film was actually one of Tom's requirements before agreeing to making another Top Gun movie. Something to think about, Tom announced Top Gun Maverick in 2017, the same year Val revealed that he had throat cancer.
I watched this movie with my dad last night. He also loved the original. My dad is not really a movie guy, but he was so happy during the whole movie and talked about it for hours after. Truly filled with joy lol. Im sure your dad would have been the same way.
May your Dad rest in peace
The scene between Maverick and Iceman was worth the ticket price on its own. Brilliant film. Go see it
You can be his wingman anytime!! in fact, you can have my slot too!
Absolutely.
I'm glad they didn't do a CG double or deep-fake to make him 'normal' again, I like that they embraced his real-life disease.
"You have to let it go!"
@@dhruveshpatel1109 be careful letting it go. you could get someone pregnant.
The crazy thing is that the practical effects for Top Gun were probably cheaper than the CGI films, even with fighter jets! LOL.
Yeah, budget of "Turning red" was 175 000 000 (I'm curious, why?), while budget of TGM was 170 000 000.
That been said, it reportedly cost $11k per hour for jet fighter use
WW84 had a production budget of 230 million $ .... and the CGI looks like dogshite.
Seriously, there are several scenes where you can see the green screen.
@@Bartman954 - Yep, and the crew ended up shooting 800 hours worth of aerial footage, so that's roughly $8.8M for aerial action scenes that look far more visceral, intense, and exciting. Money definitely well spent.
@@leadlefthand Well said.
Maverick’s attitude is summed up when he said to the generals ‘I never expected an invitation after what happened’ but the general says ‘they are called orders Maverick.’
Finally someone who knows how to make a sequel. Giving the fans EXACTLY what they wanted and the new moviegoers a taste of old school practical effects, undying tropes of comradery, guilt and a worthy pass of the torch. And probably the very last time someone is going to go balls to the wall to give the public an unforgettable experience. Maverick and Tom Cruise are both the last of their kind.
Mission impossible not finished yet. Last Two movies going to be big finale and farewell to most consistent action series of 21 century.
Bladerunner 2049
@@salomaonplanetsaturn6038 JJ already touched that "series"
@@nelisezpasce thankfully only one movie and hasn’t been a part of it since. Christopher McQuarrie (who was also a writer for Top Gun maverick) rebooted and saved the Mission Impossible franchise
@@tombardsley3081 He’s basically the only guy Cruise will work with these days.
This movie reminded me that the term "feel good movie" actually derives from movies making you feel good after seeing them. I've never seen Top Gun, but I decided not to catch up before seeing this one to see if it could win me over without nostalgia... It did in spades. I'm fat and 40 and I still want to apply for the academy after seeing this movie.
That’s an awesome way to put it. Usually , the “feel good movie of the year” is some chick flick rom com , right?
This is like the feel good movie for blokes.
Wow, 40 and never seen TopGun? When I consider it, I can absolutely see how possible that would be. I'm 46, so was in the prime time "albeit younger part" demo for the original movie. Can't remember exactly how old I was, and am too lazy to open another tab to see lol, but I, to this day, am completely obsessed with fighter jets, and keep up closely with what's new, because of the original movie. But man, how awesome it would be, to be able to watch this movie for the first time, at an age where you can appreciate what came before, and yet, not be influenced AT ALL by what came before, and then get to go enjoy the original, and have all the callbacks, and easter eggs pop out at you. I've not seen it yet, I will, before it leaves theaters, hopefully, but I'm happy to know how good it's going to be when I can go see it.
@@publicprofilename4273 I'm 44. I was 8 when it came out in 85 and my parents let me see it in the theater with them (they covered my eyes for the love scenes, no joke). Top Gun was probably the most iconic blockbuster of my pre-teen life. For the next year or two after seeing it all the kids were riding their bmx's, huffy's, and schwinn's around the neighborhood pretending to be all the different pilot characters. I did see the new one a week or two ago. I just can't let the first one go, it was just too epic in my childhood. The cast was conspicuously diverse and I didn't get much patriotism, but I'll have to watch it again; maybe I wanted it to be woke so I could hate it. Instead, I definitely enjoyed it, a lot. My eyes may or may not have leaked a bit during a couple scenes. Other than Maverick, the characters weren't larger than life like the first one, but that's probably just my bias. You say you're obsessed with fighter jets. Ever heard of DCS? If not, give it a look -- hands down the most realistic, immersive, and complex combat flight simulator you can buy, and they've got all the jets you could possibly want, meticulously modeled.
@@keyser456 Did you have the bomber jacket, and aviaters? lol I damn sure did. Painted my bike up like Mavrick's too lol. Got the big F14 model kit, had it hanging from my ceiling til my first girlfriend was coming over lmao! I was 10 when it came out then. I'm 46 now.
I haven’t seen a single frame of the original and I fucking loved this masterpiece as well.
Saw this last night and knew immediately that a Drinker Recommends was on its way. Was a damn good movie, haven't had that much fun in the theatre in years
Indeed, it was well worth the wait, and I'm glad that Drinker recommended it!
Me too I was thinking the same thing
same loved it
I saw it last night as well. Was absolutely a thrilling fun exciting ride. Enjoyed the hell out of it
I'm glad he left the spoilers out. I'm going tonight.
Just watched this movie for the first time tonight. Is it any wonder that it’s been such a massive hit? Modern audiences have been subjected to the cynical BS that Hollywood insists on shoving down our throats, so when you have a movie with actual character arcs that makes you feel good after watching it…it’s as if you’ve drank from a freshwater spring for the first time in ages.
Well done gents 👍🏽
Damn man, i don't think anyone was expecting the movie to have this much of a positive response. Literally everyone loves this movie
We can hope that its success may bring a return to the 80s action movie. But it's a long shot.
literally everyone? really? not one single person, huh? then I am your one, I refuse to watch this purely on principle, and no I am not missing out on anything. the original was a perfect story, and ended with no further story needed.
@@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658 Nah, that'll never happen. Too much "toxic masculinity" and "inequality" in those kinds of movies for modern audiences.
@@Khazandar Yeah it's very very unlikely but we can hope.
@HybridWeasel yes. you are a special one aren't you?
This is how the Star Wars sequels SHOULD HAVE BEEN MADE! Giving the old cast one last bit of glory, yet letting the younger gen participate, too.
It makes you weep at the lost opportunity. In fairness though the original series cast is a bit older and they don't take care of themselves the way Tom Cruise does.
Imagine it: A Star Wars sequel where we, through the viewpoint in a new generation of characters, got to go along on an adventure with Han, Luke, and Leia....
@@exhaustguy "the lost opportunity" might be the key phrase. Hollywood can make as many bad movies as they like, but some things simply cannot be remade later to a better result.
@@exhaustguy yeah, they probably should have just had a longer time skip and just had the old cast die of of age. Maybe a droid or chewie still alive
That's what I was thinking as well. "This is how you pass on the torch to the next generation DONE RIGHT."
About half way through the movie, I was thinking, the reviews were probably overhyped and nostalgic but the final act of the movie blew my socks off. From the moment Maverick does the test run to the end of the film, was just pure, unadulterated, edge-of-your-seat joy. The escape was so over the top, far-fetched but forgivable because of how awesome it was.
Fun Fact, What Maverick and Rooster did has been attempted 2 times in Movies based on 3 real attempts by shot down airmen to get onto an enemy airfield and steel an aircraft to escape during WWII. First attempt had an escaped Luftwaffe POW (shot down during the Battle of Britain) got on to an RAF airfield and tried to steal a Hurricane. He actually was in the Cockpit trying to start it when he was recaptured. The film was called "The One that Got Away" and the German in it later escaped in Canada and got to the USA before they declared war and got back to Germany. The other movie is the Great Escape. In that film two British Airmen steal a Me-108 Trainer after getting out of Stalag Luft III. They managed to take off, but crash after running out of fuel. That part of the film was based on two escapes, One British and One German. The British one had two guys get out of Stalag Luft III in an escape before the big one, they got on to the airfield and into the cockpit of the Me-108 but couldn't work put how to start it and were caught. The German one had two Luftwaffe pilots escape from a British POW camp, get on to an RAF Airfield and into the cockpits of a Mile Magister Trainer, which they were able to start and take off in. They flew from Yorkshire to Norfolk with the plan to fly to Holland, but ran low on fuel and landed in a field with the hope of getting some fuel to finish the trip, then they got recaptured. The one thing Maverick would have nailed in his memory is how to start a Tomcat and fly it.
@@richardvernon317 Sir, this is TH-cam. Appreciated your post, most won’t.
@@richardvernon317 "It's been a hot minute"
ok! but why watch half a movie of cliches?
@@mikedown1250 Most movies are cliched in some way or another. Hard to stay original when theres been literally 1000s of films made in the last 100 years, especially a sequel no less.
The characters were well-balanced.. Although they had Phoenix as a female pilot but they never portrayed her as cocky and overwhelming..
she was a good character! she was co-operative and caring of her comrades. I think her being female was only mentioned like once by the cocky pilot Hangman, who was supposed to be a jerk
You know, you should realise how much more problem the message thing is causing, like just seeing her you expected her to be bad. Even though she was just a great fucking character.
Yeah, the whole movie actually measures up to all of those woke films in diversity, but it's not aggressively virtue signaling, it just has good characters.
It even passes the Bechdel Test
@@sqwalnoc It's mentioned a few times actually, but all in hazing/good fun. These alpha groups always attack each other where they are weak. Hangman tests her resolves by poking fun at her gender and she ignores him because her excellence puts her above such petty insults. It comes across as very genuine to me.
I literally had tears in my eyes during the opening sequence. The top gun theme, leading into danger zone... It got me
And it took my breath away
@@joscar062 he. clever.
Top Gun without Danger Zone wouldn't be worth the name.
@@joscar062 nice one!!
Great opening. Takes you right back.
I’m genuinely shocked this movie turned out as good as it is. The fact this ended up as a toy story 2 level sequel is insane
Toy story 2 wasn't that good. 3 was better
@@joncerda351 I wish I never saw 3, should have stopped at two. So I will not watch 4.
No idea why you use Toy Story for comparison. I'd pick Aliens or Terminator 2 as a better comparison for a sequel which excels the original.
@@jonathanzappala Lmao what ?
3 and 4 are objectively better
@@jonathanzappala , that is strange. TS3 was really good and a nice ending for the trilogy, too... Anyway, you're not missing much by skipping TS4 🙃
Tom Cruise is the right type of crazy in Hollyweird, he wants real stunts no agenda and shockingly a good movie.
Who would of thought someone could make a sequel that's actually good in 2022!
Tom is good in almost everything he's in. Usually don't see him in any bad films either. Not that I could remember at least.
@@gj9157 seems you have forgotten the mummy
@@sternencolonel7328 Ah yeah, haven't seen that
@@gj9157 but that was directed by Alex Kurtzman and Tom Hanks was only an actor in that one.
The sequel is great because it's based on an 80's movie that was made before woke agendas and THE MESSAGE started pervading popular culture.
I've just watched this movie a couple of minutes ago. It was the best movie I've seen this year. I laughed, i smiled, i was worried, i was hyped, i clapped. So many emotions, so much suspens.
No sex scenes ✅️
No openly ghey characters ✅️
No weirdos 🌈 just strong willed, talented, good looking people ✅️
Fantastic role play ✅️
Pure action ✅️
Excellent visuals✅️
Terrific Audio ✅️
And i loved the credit showing the actors, their stage name and their real name. It was a good throwback touch.
I basically went back to 25 years ago when my mom used to take to the movies after school, waiting for my dad to get off work and pick us up.
I will definitely watch it again.
I love what they did with Iceman. In the original, he was consistent, by the book aviator that chastised Maverick for rule breaking. Perfect person to go up the ranks to become a fleet commander. I had no idea Val Kilmer had throat cancer. I thought that was just part of the movie. I loved the movie. It was great!
The original Top Gun is a good movie once you realize that Goose and Ice are basically the actual protagonists and Maverick is actually the out of control lunatic that Ice accuses him of being. Note that Rooster is much closer to being the Iceman equivalent here (cautious, team player) vs. Hangman's cocky douche that feels more like the modern Maverick updating.
@@DemoSonicScreamer1 And yet that out of control lunatic was the one they needed to succeed. Not only to teach but to why the job done. Because if he wasn’t, he would have never been able to prove that the mission was possible. And following the book, would have gotten everyone killed.
I walked out of this movie and could have walked straight back into another screening! Can’t remember the last time a movie made me feel like that, but it certainly wasn’t anything made by Disney in the last 10 years that’s fir sure!
damn skippy!
I took my brother and our 60+ year old mom to see this movie and it was a blast.
Respect for it's past while absolutely being it's own thing, respect for it's protagonist, every character is allowed to be human and not some walking diversity ad, race or gender is never mentioned and never matters in anything (except the romance between maverick and penny), had me tearing up in certain scenes and on the edge of my seat for others, wasn't a CGI overload shitshow.
Tom Cruise and everyone involved deserve a medal for proving that movies can indeed be something fantastic even today.
I would happily pay to watch this in the movie theater again.
the last movie that I left the theater with any excitement was django unchained
What’s the best format to watch it in?
As a 21 year old, who saw Top Gun 1 a few years back, this film took me by surprise. Perhaps it’s due to my young age or inexperience with cinema, but it’s so rare for me to watch a movie and then feel like I ate a hearty meal with my family and friends, happy and content.
Top Gun Maverick managed to prove itself to be a phenomenal sequel that improved on its predecessor, but also, as Drinker described it, made me feeling better afterwards.
To me, it’s such a rare feeling these days. What an incredible movie.
Agreed. Theres so many cinical, woke, anti humanity anti masculinity anti America movies these days that it's impossible to come home from the movie theater without feeling anxious and depressed. Top Gun gave me the same feeling I used to get from movies that actually celebrated heroes and humanity and even got me to feel good after bat shit crazy Tom cruise introduced the movie and said they all made it for the fans. I believed him.
They worked really hard on this film and I felt honored to watch it show on screen - this film is a class act and I hope to God it starts a trend. No more edgy woke anti love anti American disney bs.
Finally watched it today. Not only did I love it, but even my wife that never likes my movies loved it. It really was awesome.
A movie where the hero didn't HAVE TO die and wasn't sacrificed for the next hero. Instead they elevated the hero to a mentor role and left it open for new heroes to step in if they wanted. That was a point of contention for me for a lot of films *Star Wars,Batman*, so I'm glad to see a film that decided to go into a more natural direction.
But look - he sits on the chair after starting the game. He is vitial to the mission, but would have died without MANY others.
It was a pleasant surprise. I was fully prepared for them to have Maverick go the way of the clichéd "sacrifice at the end to give others a chance to live" route. The fact that they didn't made the movie ten times better and injected some much needed life back into the theaters that's been missing the last several years.
Unless it’s all a “death dream” after the unsurvivable Mach 10 crash? Would explain the nostalgic callbacks. But 99% of the audience wouldn’t accept it. So, it is what it is.
I have never been so happy coming out a theater. Absolutely loved it. Cruise is a genius and this movie is a real miracle. I'm so glad this thing happened!
this is a star wars story about luke train new jedi
Miracle no. 3 😉
507MK Cruise is a paid actor who reads other people's lines. Da Vinci, Mozart, Shakespeare were geniuses. Today's standards are shockingly low. Smh.
@@truthoftheuniverse4179 Yup; but in this case it was done right, ammirite?
@@spellbindingcrashed Cruise has put his life and body on the line countless times for roles just to keep sacred things that are mostly CGI today. There's no other Top Hollywood actors doing anything close to what Cruise has done. So trying to discredit Cruise sounds like a bunch of Projecting babble
This was a perfect film. It was pure, an old-fashioned movie in the best way imaginable. I loved the refreshingly reverential treatment of the source material, how it not only honored the original characters, but gave them more dimension and development until you felt that you understood and liked the characters even more by the ending. There were stakes, there was emotional gravitas all throughout, a complicated relationship conflict thread woven through the movie that culminated in a cathartic payoff. Everyone behaved consistent with their character, everything was even and objective, everything made sense, and you cared every step of the way. There were no obnoxiously gratuitous, sledgehammeringly force-fed identity, gender, and race politics. It was simply a strong narrative all its own built upon an iconic legacy that it somehow transcended in a true feat of filmmaking. The movie was absolutely phenomenal.
absolutely. spot on
Totally agree. Just saw it for the 2nd time today and loved every second of it, all over again. Exciting and well-drawn plot, excellent acting, pathos, reflectiveness, maturity, fleshed out characters and narrative, wonderful soundtrack, magnificent call-outs to the original, handled with total class….and the most amazing aerial scenes ever. This is one of the greatest action movies ever filmed and it was a total pleasure to watch from start to finish. Cruise is a legend.
More of an Action movie than part 1, which was like a drama with fighter planes
I've rewatched this video more than I have the movie itself😁. It's nice to hear the Drinker happy
Honestly the secret of the 80's and 90's was always unapologetic liking of a thing, instead of this shit attitude internet culture instilled in us where unironically liking things was bad and you have to mock anything you make. 80's and 90's didn't give a fuck if you thought they were cringe, that was a you problem. I miss that energy.its good to see it start coming back.
The thing about being genuine is that it's a vulnerable position to place yourself in. If you say "Haha, look at how stupid and ironic everything is!", you're dissuading people (deliberately or subconsciously) from weighing your story on its merits. It's literally the b-movie mindset. If you present honest joy or, worse, ask people to take you seriously, you lose that shield.
It really shows that modern writers know that their work is trash.
@@GutsofEclipse But you also can get so much more, if people start out thinking you don't like or really believe in what you're doing, why should they? You've just lowered a ceiling on yourself, and let's be fair, we'll still shit on an "Ironic" movie just as much as a sincere one.
To be honest I think even then they knew that cringe and cheesy moments were that: they just didn't care. It's like the guy in the club who's rat-arsed and dances like a frog in a blender: he knows he can't dance for shit, but he's too delirious and hopped up on the hype and the atmosphere that it doesn't matter, and people can respect that.
In any case, I'm glad it's returning too. I still like deconstruction and questioning things, but films like this work as amazing palate cleansers and are needed now more than ever.
@@WalkerOfTheWastes Same As Man!
What makes this film even better is that it actually uses diversity in a manner that benefits the film.
A lot of scenes in the movie are shot in the cockpit of the aircraft. The backgrounds are all the same and the pilots heads/faces are almost completely covered. Using actors with different skin colors can help you identify who your looking at when the movie is making quick cuts between the actors when their flying.
They also had characters wear things like glasses to help the audience be able to quickly identify characters during quick cuts.
and diff colored helmets, noticed all that too. very well thought out cinematography!!!
I love how there were characters of all races, all genders and they were all fleshed out, human, had subtlety and bombast, different abilities and traits. No one of any particular race was written to outshine the other for diversity or woke political agenda pushing. Not something you see often with the toilet paper writing of today's day and age. They were a team and I loved it.
@redwill17 Maybe they'll release an extended cut.
This is a very good point on the proper use of diversity. First time I watched the first Top Gun, there were some scenes where I had to audibly ask myself who a character was. That's because most of them were very generic and similar looking. I didn't have this problem in Maverick.
@@egdapo I thought they just used see through goggles so you could see there faces.
I haven’t felt that good walking out of a movie in an extremely long time. It was pure entertainment.
I was just thinking this movie felt like it had an actual happy ending
I would have walked out of this pile of dogshit movie too. Glad there are others who aren't buying the hype.
@@salazam Why didn't you?
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Too manly was it?
Right... it’s been a long time since when I was so heavily invested in the characters and their was real stakes that keep you on the edge of your seat
Dont Care what anyone says its a top 10 all time movie!
Saw it last night! What a movie! Thank you Tom Cruise for telling a story that the fans actually wanted! Cheers Drinker! 🍻
"The end is inevitable,your kind is heading towards extinction"
"Maybe so sir,but not today"
This dialogue pretty sums this movie and Cruise in current state of affairs and the direction hollywood is taking,proper passionate movie star making a movie that didn't gave an f about message or promoted wokeness or capatilized brands,just an honest to god action movie for you to enjoy and forget about the world,i haven't enjoyed a movie this much in theaters in a very long time and i am gald to see its sucess,but there is no denying such actors and movies are a dying breed.
Only for now, there's a bit of a resurgence going on under the hood. Things like this, the northman, Reacher, Terminal List, etc, I think some of the movie and TV industry is slowly waking up to the fact that good show= more money, forced, unwanted message = lost money.
As much as the message has taken over everything, businessmen are ultimately businessmen(even the dumbasses that caused this mess) and are going to gravitate toward the money.
@@blackjoker2345 Hmm, odd though how every single one you listed has a male Protagonist being a Muscleman... hmm...
Instead it just secretly makes billions for scientology to help them ruin lives m.th-cam.com/video/Ivuxe8WYJug/w-d-xo.html
@@loturzelrestaurant *DO YOU KNOW WHO ELSE IS A MUSCLE MAN? MY MOM!*
Agreed on all points. Wanted to add that this movie is "diversity" and "representation" done right. Many of the young pilots are minorities of some kind or another, but crucially that is never the point. The movie does not draw attention to this, it is presented neither as an obstacle nor a strength, it just...doesn't...matter. There is no "message" there, other than I'd say an implicit message that no "message" is needed nor wanted.
I couldn't agree more with this post.
You mean they are just looked at as regular people?
I totally agree and this is one of the things I appreciated most about the film.. how everyone was treated as a kickass fighter pilot, there was no singling out or special treatment, kinda how it is supposed to be. If Hollywood just followed this guideline we wouldn't be divided over 'woke-ism', we would all just be cinema fans.
This is the way it should be done. I would also point to "The Expanse" which even ticks off a lot of the modern checkboxes with alternate sexuality and all that, but it's not done for show, or to score points, it's just part of the story, and since the story is good and the actors are good, it doesn't matter.
Agreed. Diversity and inclusion without shitting on the source material and shoving it down my dickhole.
8:11 that shot of the three jets in line, heading into the canyon and getting the vapor wave… man. Gives me chills every time
I love how Tom Cruise never wears a helmet riding his motorcycle in the movie. True 80s fashion. He’s a badass.
But then he's running through the woods with his helmet on.
@@PhaTs00p woods are more dangerous lol 😂
@@PhaTs00p and risk a branch or twig scraping your corneas? Ever had that happen? I have while riding a bicycle as a kid. I’d imagine it’s the same thing while running.
@@PhaTs00p He was in not-Russia, it was cold! 🥶
@@PhaTs00p Best way to carry it for the totally not contrived next bit. (It was awesome though)
I'm sure the only reason this movie didn't end up being woke junk, just like every other movie today, was because of Tom Cruise. He takes his craft very seriously and I'm sure he had great input in all aspects of the film.
Yeah. He carries a producer credit and has enough weight in Hollywood that he could probably get this made the way he thought best.
>not woke junk
ok gay propagandist
100% agree. Cruise knows how to make a good movie that people want to watch.
@The Nigerian Emporium Well, Alex Kurtzman was the leading head there. Tom Cruise was just an actor.
If there was any wokeness at all, it would have to be Maverick choosing the Hispanic girl and the black guy for the mission over the clearly better white guy.
Tom cruise knows exactly what the audience wants and he delivers.
honestly i can respect him for that
Yes
Good action scenes but little to no character development and lots of Tom being the hero again and again. yup I agree.
@@grahamjackmacpherson6501 I mean ..... Maverick himself went through character development. I was actually surprised where they reveal that he did some bad decisions in the past with Rooster, and the weight of guilt he feels. I also liked Rooster and his plot, with him trying his best to prove to both his family and himself that he's worthy.
Sorry but just because they didn't make the Maverick into another "old Luke Skywalker" doesn't mean it's bad.
@@gamemediafan1714 aside from Maverick and a little bit of Rooster, there was virtually no character development for any of the many other characters. Virtually the entire squad of young pilots were given nothing to say or do apart from Hangman. Jennifer Connelly was given nothing to do except be a forced love interest because God forbid we can't have Tom Cruise without a love interest. And when did I ever mention Luke Skywalker haha? You're reaching a bit too far with that comparison.
the happiness as he said "go away now". its the first time I've heard him say it happily and energetically. Beautiful
I reacted the exact same way Drinker did: Honors the original without deconstructionist bs, great characters, REAL action, and such pallet cleanser from the usual CGI superhero stuff we've been getting.
Sorry but CGI is what made the best sequel in history! T2. This movie wasn't bad but seriously its a fanboy movie with none of its own personality.
@@robert7622 You're comparing apples and oranges.
@@russelllangworthy8855 Na I’m not. Could you really tell the scenes where Tom is flying the old Tomcat plane near the end looked real?
@@robert7622 No, you're right about that, but the reason I said you're comparing apples and oranges is because T2 couldn't have been made without CGI, whereas, Top Gun Maverick could. For what it's worth, I agree with you about T2 being a great sequel. Not sure if it's the best, but definitely in the top 3 for sci-fi.
@@russelllangworthy8855 Just remember that most of the the 3rd act in Maverick is CGI. The Tomcat, the "5th" generation fighters, most of it.
As a fatherless child with my mother, Top Gun was one of those movies we watched atleast once a month for the majority of my childhood. Words can't describe my relief while watching this review. Cheers mate!
dude, i went to the movies with my mom too lol,
Certainly some great masculine role models for any fatherless child.
same, i felt huge relief as well
Tom Cruise is definitely the last great action hero, that makes an absolutely non-apologetic action movie in present time. Never change please.
Maaaaaybe drop the scientology nuttery
Tom Cruise became synonymous with action star, but people tend to forget he absolutely crushes in serious dramatic roles, like in Rain Man, Color of Money, Jerry Maguire.
No, that title goes to Steven Segal!
@@RichardEnglander lmao nice joke. Dude never made a good movie
@@riccardo1796 It’s not much crazier than the stuff in the books for Abrahamic followers, and that’s all super normalized (and shouldn’t be). But people are complex and identify religiously for a variety of different reasons. Me, I think it’s all garbage, but my rule is if you can be cool then I can be cool. And if we only enjoyed or benefited from content from people who we have to agree with on everything, we’d barely ever get into anything.
THE best movie in recent years, I was literally shivering the whole time. My anxiety was at a 100
The most touching moments where Iceman's scenes. I'm so glad that they included Val Kilmer in this project, and he performed them well.
totally agree
Two things here: Firstly, Cruise asked for and was refused permission to fly his own stunts in a Navy F/A 18. Yes, really. Apparently the Navy is a bit nervous about handing a multi-million dollar fighter jet over to an actor for real. Also, the P51 Mustang in this movie is Tom Cruises' personal P51 "Kiss Me Kate" , and he does indeed fly it.
Tom Cruise's taxes probably paid for at least one F18 by now.
@@Greg-lo1tl It wouldn't surprise me if he said he'll buy them a new one if he has to 😂
And I was going to boycott it because they had removed the Taiwanese flag from Maverick's jacket in the trailer, but alas it was returned it in the movie thank god, I bet they'll rub it out for the Chinese release..
@@fcukgogle9213 The Taiwanese flag is the same flag as the nationalist Chinese regime that got defeated in their civil war. It's like how some get mad about flags and symbols from a certain German regime from the 1930's & 40's.
Asking to fly a Navy fighter jet just to perform your own stunts is his "ego writing checks his body cant cash." I wouldnt turn one over to him either.
“Well f**k that!” - This. THIS. I’m so glad the creators of the film said it too, flushed the woke BS down the toilet and went out and made a fun arse movie. No need to kill the main character, no need to insult the audience. Just pure escapism, which is the whole purpose of going to the movies.
F#@%ing finally!
It was finished in 2019 before woke turned everything to sh*t....... If it was made now.......
Perfect comment!!
@@bengun1 Wokeness was happening in Hollywood since 2015.
You know it’s a fantastic movie when normal people like it, China bans it and Twitter hates it. Lol
Just saw it and man… I can’t get over how good this movie was! I was entertained, emotional and hyped throughout! Best movie I’ve seen in 10 years maybe 20…
The casting really was one of the movies today that FINALLY cast to the environment of the film. No skinny feminine males to bring in inclusivity, no dudes in a wheelchair to represent their community. But people who actually look like they’ve been training in the military, glad to also see them use some actors who aren’t all house hold name for the pilots but actors who really fit the role.
The lady pilot is hotttttttt
@@ptbot3294 I'd like to be Pheonix's copilot
@@b3rz3rk3r9 BOB.........LOL.
@@ptbot3294 Yes, she is a very attractive italian woman!
@Stovepipe Downtube but not in an unrealistic way. One out of the bunch of pilots was a woman, and not 80% of them. The girl even looked like she could be a navy, so that was fine. And the rest were just well trained dudes flying fighter jets: doesn't seem too diverse to mr
Fucking amazing. You gotta love when they actually have RESPECT for the old characters and actually care for the story. I have to admit that while I was watching Maverick kick ass (which was basically the entire movie) in utter joy, I was also asking myself, WHY couldn't they do this with Luke Skywalker? Maverick gets to shine, new characters get to shine, not even a hint of The Message. This may be the movie of the year.
Funny thing is, Maverick got punked a couple times in the film (outside the cockpit) and it was done in a way that added to the character arc, instead of just taking a dump on a character.
This comment... all of this! Thank you.
It definitely is for me. I think this is a rare gem, I am 47 and I think this is probably the last great film I will ever see in a theater.
Agreed on all points. Compare Rey bitching that Luke is a quitter vs when Phoenix sees Mav making the run in the stolen F-18 and just smiles and says 'oh yeah'.
I felt this movie was great because I have never seen the original, yet I was immediately drawn in by the characters, and they managed to fill in the back-story without slowing down the pace and without excessive exposition.
But I would have Tomahawked the S/A missiles, and launched a low-level F-35 strike on the airfield (if there weren't enough Tomahawks to go around).
I left the cinema physically shaking both times I watched this. A truly amazing film
What a ride.
Probably the best movie I’ve seen in the last 10 years. And you nailed every reason why, especially the practical effects and no nonsense story.
A modern sequel of an iconic 80's movie that doesn't suck, respects its fans and iconic characters, and doesn't try to push THE MESSAGE or THE RULES?
Am I in the right universe?
How the hell did this movie make it past the woke committee?
Cuz Tom cruise doesn’t give a shit about that gang of PUTAS… are they going to cancel him???🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@External2737 I'm betting it's Tom Cruise I can't really think of a movie he's in that obnoxiously woke maybe I can't remember though
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Tom.
Only Tom has the mojo to give the 🖕🏽to the wokesters and get away with it.
@@External2737 Tom Cruise. And also because comimittees are afraid of fandoms that actually bark and bite.
I could say a lot about this movie. But I'll only say this: some of the flying scenes blew me away. Truly stunning.
Last 30 minutes was the most immersive, intense and genuinely stressful movie experiences I've had. I saw it in IMAX and will see it again.
I totally agree the last fight scene was epic he flew that F-14 perfectly
When I got up from my seat I looked at the head rest to see if I left a head print
the 2:15 scene blew me away
@@adrichigh9478 Kind of wished the seat had 5 point harness i could've put on when the mission started
Just thinking how this could have gone off the rails if it was a Disney woketacular. Tom Cruise's Maverick would be a broken man, haunted by PTSD and his past, called back to Top Gun but unable to do the job. The strong diverse wahmen pilot Phoenix would be a better pilot than he ever was, "the bestest evar", and she would be the one to mentor Maverick back from the depths of despair. The fact that all the ingredients were present and then they DIDN'T go there makes it even more special.
They would have inexplicably had a black actor playing Rooster.
@@OuterSpaceOwl lmao
Or it could be Worse… Hangman being Gay and Phoenix being Transgender.
@@OuterSpaceOwl and he would still be goose’s son from the first movie
@@swag304 😂
I was not only surprised to love this movie, I had to get corrective surgery on my jaw to fix the position it got stuck in. It's been so long since we had a movie that made you want the heroes to succeed leaving you on the edge of your seat. Maverick doing the test run and completing it well below the limit was one of the most exciting scenes in a movie since 1917. I think we would all love more movies like this instead of the shit we've been getting from other studios.
We finally have a sequel from a beloved film that gives us everything we wanted! Let's support it! Send a message to Hollywood, this is the kind of cinema experience we want, not activism disguised as movies
Precisely! And even for Top Gun times change. In 1986 there wouldn't have been a female pilot, but that's ok. She was just part of the team, not some misunderstood genius there to upstage Maverick... That's how you include diversity. Organically not forcefully.
Yes, not been the Cinema in a awhile, but will support this. Probably buy it on BluRay as-well.
Blade Runner 2049 was pretty devoid of activism, and I can only speak for myself but it gave me everything I wanted, which surprised me because I was expecting to hate it. 🤷♂️
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Actually making a sequel to a movie from the 80s and somehow retaining the original spirit is a massive achievement by itself, but actually improving on it in some ways is insane. Great Job Tom you Scientology weirdo
Hate on Scientology but it keeps Tom insulated from the Hollywood hyper wokeness
@@bnmbg731 I thought he left the church? Either way, I don’t know which one is the lesser evil between woke and L Ron.
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@@thetribalist6923 Nooo... he is their face and most exalted member.
@@thetribalist6923 I think he's not as hardcore now but he lives near a Scientology estate in the UK.
Cruise deserves mad respect. He earns every penny and when he's done making movies, we'll realize how legit he was.
I don’t know…. Cruise is kind of a lunatic and not really in the charming way. I can respect his acting skills. Fully marks for that. But as a human being… nah.
@@AnimatedTerror not here to judge the man, but to judge his movies. And he delivers. Period. Awesome movie
@In your mom's guts uh, you mean a movie with character development, some action, and lots of explosions? Yeah it's a good summer blockbuster action movie
@In your mom's guts Cope
@In your mom's guts maybe cuz it just has better writing and more effort put into it? the movie using practical effects already is a plus
Watched this at a Drive-in where I was forced to watch Love and Thunder prior to.
I'm honestly glad for that, because it really made me appreciate Top Gun even more.
When the Drinker starts with "Fuck Yes!", you know it's going to be a thing to behold. And point made - where we would normally nitpick at small inconsistencies, the film is that good that they are accepted and forgiven with no effort. Lessons for the 'modern hollywood'.
This movie is a great hommage to the first movie, and elevated a "lost" genre. I felt 12 again when the opening scene played. This movie is a must see
I hear ya when I heard the original theme come on, I was a kid again. Then bam they hit you with danger zone! I didn't think they would do it and they did, it was awesome!
The last time any action movie pushed the limits of filmmaking like this was like Mad Max: Fury Road or Mission Impossible: Fallout. What a blast this was in IMAX
No coincidence that Tom cruise is in two of those
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Yeah this is a must see at IMAX.
What it was designed for.
Mad Max was woke trash
@@idhcustomtoys I don't see how it's woke trash, considering Furiosa never belittled Max, nor did the writers make Max weaker than her so she could be elevated. Top it all off with the fact that Immortan Joe had multiple wives that he raped regularly, and were all damsels in distress, which is something woke Hollywood would rather die than put into their movies. Again, I don't see how Max Max is woke.
I watched this film with my mum last night and we both loved it. It was truly so immersive, the air scenes were ridiculously impressive, and I couldn't care less that the plot was simplistic in nature; the band of characters worked, and I agree that this film excels on a 'passing the torch' type of plot without feeling disrespectful to those who came before. I also liked how it was easy to follow for those who hadn't seen the first film, like my mum and I, but you could easily catch up and didn't feel like you were missing anything. My heart was racing during the third act and wouldn't stop soaring once the ending commenced - what a perfectly cheesy happy ending it was. I felt sad getting out of my seat and wanted to do it all over again. Easily the best film of 2022 for me.
I've seen this movie in theater three times. Scheduled visits to local museums featuring these engineering marvels. And had wishful thoughts of an aviation related career change.
This is what movies are meant to do. Friggin inspire the pants off the audience with real world hope, motivation, and amazing visuals.
I watched it last week.
I’m not big into Aviation (my brother is and I’ve flown a lot with him so I have a decent perspective on it)
I wouldn’t join the military in its current state with its current neutered state and crappy leadership.
Yet this movie made me think, ‘Serving my country as a fighter pilot would be damn awesome.’
It Was absolutely inspiring.
I saw this film in IMAX. A perfect 10 out of 10. And I'm not a diehard fan of Cruise. I saw Top Gun as a kid. (I'm an 80s baby.) I thought that it was just okay. I was more into cartoons and video games. 🎮 🕹 Top Gun made Tom Cruise in Hollywood. But, Top Gun: Maverick has made him a legend. This movie is easily the best film of 2022.
Saw it in AMC Prime & Imax.. the Prime seats vibrating during the fighter jet scenes gave it a major edge over imax
#TopGunMaverick does everything a great sequel should do:
- Give the audience something new
- Identify what worked before and build upon it
- Change the stakes
- Play with expectations
- Add new memorable characters
Please go see it at an IMAX theater near you!!
I'm not booking a flight to see a movie....
Whew them stakes though! "Shit shit shit shit shit shit!!!"
@focus fire You’re welcome!! Glad you dug it. ✊🏽
I just did that
+Chris Lacy Basically, the Cobra Kai template.
I saw this when it first came out a few months ago and I'm still excited by it. They really pulled something off with this film.