I think Tom Cruise not hiding the fact that he is both older and shorter than pretty much everybody else in the movie plays a huge role in the movie's overall success.
@@butterymales I work in a Cinema and we get big cardboard cutouts for every film. Top Gun 2's cut out is a giant Tom cruise stood looking cool with tiny versions of the other characters floating around him. It is also at least a 3rd bigger than all the other cutouts - which are all & always, the same size. This man is not comfortable with his height
@@cph4314 come on bro, if you want to advertise a movie known for two things, tom and airplanes, then you do the best of it, you showcase both things everything else is less relevant
McQuarrie is just so good at helping Cruise adjust his image and age with dignity. He co-wrote this as well as working on Fallout, Rogue Nation and Edge of Tomorrow.
I really liked the part where Miles Teller was all "I'm gonna do the thing that Luke Skywalker did in Star Wars the original Star Wars from 1977" and then he did it.
He literally said "I think I'll just use the force" and Iceman's force ghost was like "dont think about the similarities with that other movie, just do"
Tom Cruise being short is an advantage as a fighter pilot. Shorter people have a shorter distance for the blood in their body to go when pulling high G forces. So Tom cruise can physically handle tighter turns than your average height man. Therefore this movie is just being accurate by having short man cruise in it.
Yeah I’m pretty sure some of the actors actually surpassed the height maximum you can be for some of these planes (your knees have to be able to clear everything when ejecting).
Hangman wasn't the Iceman character. Hangman was the Maverick character, taking insane risks. Rooster was the Iceman character, playing it safe to complete the mission simulation. This is interesting first because he's carrying too much caution due to his dad's accident and second because Maverick himself, on the other side of a life of experience, can respect Rooster's reservation, but knows it must be balanced with a measure of instinct. The real genius of this movie is that it's like Maverick watching Top Gun, seeing himself and his comrades in these younger pilots. He knows their shortcomings like we do when we watch that "cheesy" old movie. Just like we do when we remember the idiocies of our own youth. This is how you do a 35-year sequel without sidelining the main character.
I really liked the surprise ending when Maverick was surrounded by enemy jets and then he hears over the radio "It's Morbin time!" and a million bats appears over the horizon led by Morbius that totally destroyed all the enemies, and then they hugged it out and Tom said "You're the real Maverick". So touching.
I actually enjoyed that they did not specify who the enemy was. Because that does not matter, I just want to watch jets go whoosh, I don't care if the enemy exists or not
Agreed. The idea is to make the movies relatively timeless in their depiction of combat. So to achieve that, making the decision to not label the enemy and designate them a nation makes the movies timeless. The movies can represent any enemy force in any timeframe in history
To put it as a gross oversimplification here: - People who know what they are doing, deciding to focus their efforts on making a good movie instead of an intentionally bad one.
This movie is Star Wars:A New Hope, if instead of Obi-Wan sacrificing himself to allow Luke to become the hero, he tells Luke “hold my beer, and watch this.”
I like how they showed even Hangman being a skillful guy but Maverick just has much more experience and thinks outside the box. Even Hangman was a bit of a dick but actually was a good guy and didn't like Rooster based on him thinking "He's not ready" and showed Hangman as more experienced. They showed that the pilots were all physically fit since they needed to be very sharp while flying and shows how much strain it actually takes. I like how they showed the enemy as being a legit threat and even 2 enemy fighters with modern equipment became a huge issue.
I love the film deifies and humanizes fighter pilots at the same time. As you said although the pilots are as fit as can be and are at the top of their game, they’re not invincible in anyway shape or form and they make mistakes. Coyote passes out from the 9G climb Phoenix and Bob loose their jet to a bird strike Rooster almost blows the mission by playing it safe There’s a real human element in TG Maverick that wasn’t as prominent as the first and that’s commendable.
@@BullGator-kd6ge even Jon Hamm and Ed Harris played the hard stern higher up well. They didn't want Maverick to fail but they just didn't think what he wants can't be done and allows him to prove them wrong. Even Jon Hamm recognizes that Mavericks team building methods and risky maneuvers are the best shot getting them home alive. I like how Jennifer Connoly comes across as a badass too without downplaying others.
They didn’t make Mav a pathetic failure. They respected the original movie. They did as many practical stunts as possible. All the actors brought their A game. Tom Cruise didn’t show up to fuck around. PERIOD.
@@simplebidnessman , that's called the redemption arc. He's a mess through it, mainly because of Goose, but also because he's just that bit extra irresponsible. They have him at rock bottom, and he decides to finally turn it around after the girl that really shouldn't have given him yet another chance gives him a pep talk.
For me it just had everything, great characters, acting, well shot fun action, funny moments, emotional moments. You can just tell a lot of thought and effort was put into this movie.
1. Everything Everywhere All At Once 2. Top Gun 2 3. The Batman 4. The Northman 5. Elvis 6. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent My favorite movies of the year so far
Nice touch lads - the very slow almost imperceptible rotation of the propeller in the still image. I didn't notice it right away, but if you scroll through the video timeline you can see it spinning away as if the propeller is running.
Well for one thing, unlike most legacy sequels, this one had to do heavier lifting by not being a slave to the merchandising so it doesn't have the same quality of getting away with essentially just giving up it's new stuff in favor of putting the old on a pedestal ala things like Jurassic World, Afterlife and Force Awakens. It's more akin to legacy sequels like "Tron:Legacy", "Mad Max: Fury Road" or "Blade Runner 2049" where they give plenty of breathing room for the new stuff to stand out with very little reverence to past material. And, let's also be honest about the fact that the original wasn't quite the most interesting thing on a plot or character level. There are moments, but it's really bathed in an 80sness that really feels more like a time capsule than a worthwhile plot. This film actually managed to have it's moments wrapped around narrative and character so it actually would be, you know, an actual film rather than a recruitment ad with some cheese.
Saw it in the cinema last night, and enjoyed it so much more than I thought I would. It was kind of exactly what I expected it to be, but such a tight, well paced, fun version of what I expected.
Goose mentions Penny when he and Mav are getting chewed out at the beginning of the original. "You've been busted, you lost your qualifications as section leader three times, put in hack twice by me, with a history of high speed passes over five air control towers, and one admiral's daughter!" "Penny Benjamin?"
OH MY GOD, Glenn Powell IS what Scott Eastwood was supposed to be. Much like Jai Courtney, they tried so hard to make Eastwood happen over the past 10 years.
I was actually surprised by how good it was and I don't even care about the original movie. There was a really good human drama element to it, and the aerial combat was spectacular. I can't believe that the actors actually went up.
The mummy was pretty recent and that movie had huge potential and they shit the bed in spectacular fashion. Even Tom Cruise couldn't save it. Sad too cuz if it was good it woulda opened up so many avenues into so many dope movies
it’s honestly really good to hear a non-American take on Top Gun in general. The original movie is so ingrained in American culture and universally loved here, so I didn’t realize that people overseas don’t have that same relationship with it
How come when parents are feeding their baby they say “here comes the airplane, choo choo”? Planes don’t choo. This is all I could think about during this movie. 4/10
Regarding the crazy manoeuvre that the enemy Su-57 does, it doesn't seem too far removed from what a current generation fighter with thrust vectoring could actually do. Though it was very spectacular!
I like how (a) they show that the "unnamed 5th generation fighter" was indeed superior to their F-18 fighters, and (b) even knowing that both Maverick and Rooster were astonished when the enemy pilot pulled off that move, and (c) Maverick still shot it down because, you know, he's Tom Cruise.
Penny likely is the admirals daughter. If she WAS “16” at the time and Tom was 24 (8 year gap) Jennifer Connelly is 51 and Tom is 59 (8 year gap) now in 2022 :)
Update: Just watched the “Great balls of fire scene” and Gooses wife does say “the admirals daughter” “goose told me all about the time you went ballistic with Penny Benjamin”
Shes 100% the daughter as confirmed by both this movie and the first one. I feel like she was barely or almost 18 in the first one. Seems like he wouldn't care how old she was.
I realised this was going to be a decent movie when I saw how they developed the characters, a dumber movie would have Iceman just showing up and say some stupid sh*t, and there would be no relationship between rooster and mav, rooster would just show up. But instead they actually created a decent backstory connecting mav and rooster and Iceman is the reason why mav keeps being a pilot and doing risky stuff Thats good writing right there!
I went to see this movie a week after it opened on a Thursday night. The theatre was SOLD out. I never see that anymore. It made me so happy that it was for a well deserving movie
Also.....am I the only that noticed in the super 80's nostalgia film, that when Jennifer Connelly is introduced, that David Bowie just happens to be playing in the scene?
It took everything that made the first one a classic and improved on everything. This has the Best Jet scenes since Dunkirk. Best Sequel Since Blade Runner 2049. Please Hollywood make more movies like this.
1. The enemy fighter has supermaneuvering capability. Basically it can still retain some control after entering a deliberate stall. The cobra maneuver the F-18s performs is also a supermanouver, but the enemy fighters are far more capable. 2. Days of Thunder sequel... Well Cruise is pretty much the same age now as Robert Duvall was back in 1990. So let Tom be the guy that has to train the next guy that's gonna win Daytona in a way that's so impossible, that Tom has to prove it can be done and ends up driving the lead car to victory, but crashes out in a fireball... Rehash the plot of Top Gun Maverick. It's how the first movie did it lol
Man, i was watching this thinking I was tripping seeing the prop on cruise’s P-51 moving. Had to go back a few seconds just to put my mind at ease. Lol… it’s not me.
I honestly didn't realise Jennifer Connelly wasn't in the original until after I got home from the Cinema. Also the house she lives in and the Porsche she drives is also extremely similar to the love interest's in the original Top Gun. I thought it was the same beach house and the same Porsche.. turns out it was a different Porsche and beach house. Very cheeky.
Technically she was in the original film, she never appeared in the film but her character was mentioned as the daughter of the admiral that Tom Cruise had a fling with in the first debriefing scene
Nostalgia? Try cinematography, music, action, special effects, acting, story, pacing.. I dont even jave nostalgia for this first one. I saw it in 1999 and thought it was a mediocre movie then.
@@MegaMark0000 lots of movies have good acting, cinematography and action. No other “legacy” sequel has come close to this in properly honoring the original without being completely beholden to it and making a good film. That’s the needle they so perfectly threaded with Maverick.
Val Kilmer wears scarfs to cover a voice box on his throat in real life. I just felt like this was important to say since the scarfs got a bit clowned on in the review (even if they're very, very, very poofy scarfs)
It works because the original source material and characters were respected throughout the story and writing. At the same time, the IP was given enough time to breathe to call for an additional movie from the fans. It also helps that with Covid, there haven't been too many blockbuster action movies, and to be honest, a dumb action flick that I can turn off my brain for 2 hours and forget all the screwed up things going on in the world is a nice little win as well.
I like that they sort of came back and look at the original characters 30 yrs on and acknowledged that actually being a ... Maverick in the military does have implications on the characters career And Iceman's was well utilised to contrast with maverick
I like how even the new characters like Jon Hamm wasn't just higher up who didn't know what he was doing but actually was mentioned as a fellow capable pilot but more by the book and warmed up to Tom Cruise's methods, especially when he realized doing things by the book would get people killed.
"It's building up to this really tense and impossible mission..." C'mon guys. You missed your chance. Cruise is the star of another franchise called The Mummy you know.
Short story long imo: 1. Top gun 2022 , more fun ,more action , awesome visuals , cams , has a real mission, amazing sounds effects 2. Top gun 86 - more like a chill and love story movie
It works because, unlike most sequels to older properties, it doesn’t shit on legacy/existing characters. Maverick is still the top dog, he’s just developing as a human.
Is somebody still salty that Luke Skywalker drank green milk from a space-cow? Let's face it, Last Jedi was infinitely more memorable than anything JJ pooped out. Though to be fair, you could just be salty that Han was killed off in the first movie like it was no big deal...
Everyone keeps saying this, but I honestly can't think of any recent movies where they "shit on the existing characters." In the most recent Spider-Man it seemed like a love letter to all the Spider Men. The Star Wars movies, Luke, Leia and Han all died, but like, they were still heroes and mentors to the characters, even if the films were bland. In Mad Max Fury Road, Max is like the whole reason Furiosa and the women survive. So I don't understand this "take," really.
@29:20 I think the maneuver that the enemy pilot pulls is called a J-turn, which can only be achieved via thrust vectoring. Typically, planes have thrust directed along the centre line of the plane facing forward, but thrust vectoring allows the thrust from the engines to apply force on the plane on a different angle, so not straight forward, so planes can pull off crazy maneuvers like that.
29:34 - The Su-57 is capable of that "handbrake turn" in mid-air because of its vector thrusts. It doesn't need to switch off its engine. You can see a similar move shown in this 57-second clip from an air show: th-cam.com/video/d2QHZ7m1CaQ/w-d-xo.html
It was much better than the original. It was incredible in IMAX. I saw it on Tuesday at a 3:30 matinee, and it was sold out except for a few seats in the front 2 rows
I really like that they don't mention who the enemy is and that the pilots are faceless. I think if you are on the other end of constantly being portrayed as the Bad Guy you appreciate when that's not the point of a movie, but Americans etc probably can't relate to that.
You guys missed the two most OBVIOUS ones! The Color of Money itself was a 20+ years sequel with Paul Newman. We now see Vincent mentoring his own young hustler. And... Jerry Maguire! He has guided human head weighs eight pounds kid to a major league baseball career and the kid has to have Tommy John Surgery. Bring back Renee! That movie writes itself. Tom doesnt have to do any action in these, just acting. And get this, he can win his long overdue Oscar for the Hustler trilogy film, just like Newman finally won his Oscar for The Color of Money. And Martin Scorsese can direct again! Let's go!
He totally nails that he's kind of a dick but you do see things from his perspective and holds himself to a very high standard. I think he's one of the breakthroughs here, won't be surprised bigger roles for him soon.
Another reason this movie works so well is that this story is so relatable to those of us that were also the target audience for the original in `86. We are around Mav's age and experiencing the same things he is going through in this film. This is, after all, really about HIM more than the mission or the passing of the torch. Yes, the `getting over Goose' arc coupled with his relationship with his boy Rooster is part of that, but it's mostly about the impending inevitable push to usher you out to pasture/retirement/put you in their rear view mirror and forget you. They use the mechanism of technology rendering human pilots irrelevant as one such source for this but it happens nonetheless even without such changes. Maverick is faced with being outdated and even a nuisance to the institution he has devoted his life to. For him to get to the point that he welcomes his next chapter in life and is ready to put this old one behind him is the real story here. Yes, it's in his grief with Goose, his relationships with women including Penny, his legacy as an aviator, and the badly damaged relationship he had with Bradley (Rooster). Really though it's all that and a lot more. As someone not too much younger than Maverick is in this film I can relate to ALL of that, and I'm sure all of my generation does too. So this is a powerful and deeply personal one for us. I applaud them for how they handled it all though. I still felt really good about this and had a lot of fun every time I watched it (3X so far). I didn't expect this movie to actually impact me and just thought it would be fun. It's now one of my favorite films of all time.
They say his name is Cyclone briefly when Maverick is being introduced to them. The other officer says "Cyclone here......" I caught that on my second watching of the film. All I took was that his name was Bo "Bort" Simpson.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one watching that suuuuuper slomo photo/video (have no real clue hos Editor-san made it) and rejoicing over the magnificent end!
29:30 the plane performed a Pugachev "Cobra" maneuver with a 180 degree turn around it's upright axis. The only planes capable of performing these maneuver's are the SU-57 (shown in Top Gun Maverick) the SU-37 and the F-22 Raptor because of their vectored thrust abilities.
If you drag the video preview marker on the run time, the propeller moves as fast as you do. Play the video on 5 Times Speed, it moves kinda normal. However, in both scenarios Tom is Still, Not as his name would suggest Cruise-ing. 8/10 Movie
One thing I've noticed from occasionally working with Air Force guys is the ones who are pilots are often shorter than average anyway. Not like 90% of the time, but like 60, 65% of the time. I'm not sure why that is but either way I'm glad they let Timmy Crewz be his natural height because it's just ok & not a big deal.
It has something to do with their shorter body has less room for the blood to travel while pulling high Gs so shorter people are usually a better fit to be pilots for that reason.
They didn't "subvert expectations", they didn't deconstruct Tom Cruise's character from the first one and turned him into a pathetic looser, they didn't film the movie on a greenscreen.
US Navy, F-18’s, and Competition… of course the movie is badass. Just like the F-14 made the original Top Gun badass. It was the US Navy’s greatest recruitment tool.
I love how everyone os scrambling to do top gun videos now that the film is a smash hit lol - the only ones on TH-cam talking about it (as in theory crafting like we do for super heroes and star wars) before it came out seemed to be fighter pilot channels
@@lucasoheyze4597 I'm wasn't writing about reviews though, was I? I've become so spoiled on the other movies I love (Like Star Wars and Super Hero films) where everyone picks apart the trailer and then makes theories for months. I craved that for Top Gun . . . didn't get it except for a few places. Let a man over 40 throw his tantrum in peace, or join me.
@@writingref well, this is a excerpt from their podcast where they review all sorts of non-comic book movies…well, except for Snake Eyes, but that’s coming soon…
@@andrewshandle they probably also won’t cover MOTU revelations either. Which is an awesome show by the way - but it’s another example pf something I was craving to be covered but most people never did Hell even if they hated it, it would at least fit “caravan of garbage”
You just can't argue witg Tom cruise....guys never gonna win an Oscar...but you know what your getting from him...a solid performance and a throwback to when films were good
I didnt recognize that the propeller is slowly spinning but when you drag your cursor along the timeline you can see the propeller sping real fast in the thumbnail.
If you read this, to answer your question about those planes being able to do those crazy maneuvers - most 5th generation fighters such as the Su-57 (in this movie) and the F-22 have thrust vectoring, which allows them to do all kinds of crazy turns and maneuvers on a dime.
my favorite thing about this video is that, after you give it a like, if you pause it and drag the mouse along the progress bar you can make the propeller of the plane move really fast!
The only thing i cannot get over in this movie is that he ejected at Mach 10 in the opening sequence and didn't have his body completely ripped apart by wind speed. otherwise super solid 8 maybe 9/10
I'm 32 and I've never even watched the first Top Gun, but I've absorbed a lot through pop culture osmosis. So I'm interested to hear the story about this movie, I was surprised to hear that people like it. This is off topic, but there's growing evidence to suggest that drinking up to 3 cups of coffee daily lowers your chances to die early by a significant amount (up to 30%!), even if you put a teaspoon of sugar in your coffee. I'd still steer clear of artificial sweeteners, though. Decaf coffee provides the same benefit, so if you're sensitive to caffeine you can still take advantage of this.
to get an actual therapeutic dose of caffeine you should drink nine cups per day... yes 9. Sounds strange but it's true. and sugar is way better for you then artificial sweeteners.
I think Tom Cruise not hiding the fact that he is both older and shorter than pretty much everybody else in the movie plays a huge role in the movie's overall success.
Yeah! Didn't feel like it was emasculating or whatever. If anything, the fact that he's comfortable with it is in itself very charming.
@@butterymales I work in a Cinema and we get big cardboard cutouts for every film. Top Gun 2's cut out is a giant Tom cruise stood looking cool with tiny versions of the other characters floating around him.
It is also at least a 3rd bigger than all the other cutouts - which are all & always, the same size.
This man is not comfortable with his height
@@cph4314 You are aware that Tom Cruise didn't personally design the advertising for this film, right.
@@cph4314 You are aware he doesnt do the marketing right? Sometimes it pays to have a brain...something you lack very much of
@@cph4314 come on bro, if you want to advertise a movie known for two things, tom and airplanes, then you do the best of it, you showcase both things everything else is less relevant
McQuarrie is just so good at helping Cruise adjust his image and age with dignity. He co-wrote this as well as working on Fallout, Rogue Nation and Edge of Tomorrow.
he also wrote the usual suspects which is one of the best screenplays of all time
Age with dignity? Dude's had more work done than a Kardashian.
@@kdkseven proof....??
I think it was a good find by Cruise to get a solid writer/director to keep high quality projects in the pipeline
@@willlast2015 just look at him.
I really liked the part where Miles Teller was all "I'm gonna do the thing that Luke Skywalker did in Star Wars the original Star Wars from 1977" and then he did it.
😂
He literally said "I think I'll just use the force" and Iceman's force ghost was like "dont think about the similarities with that other movie, just do"
Original star wars was a rip off of the hidden fortress and the dam busters
@@bono9814 633 squadron more so than dam busters for the death star trench run
@@bono9814 couldnt find a post where that info was relevant so you dropped it here right?
Tom Cruise being short is an advantage as a fighter pilot. Shorter people have a shorter distance for the blood in their body to go when pulling high G forces. So Tom cruise can physically handle tighter turns than your average height man. Therefore this movie is just being accurate by having short man cruise in it.
That’s a myth
Yeah I’m pretty sure some of the actors actually surpassed the height maximum you can be for some of these planes (your knees have to be able to clear everything when ejecting).
Yeah, but Maverick has to sit on a whoopie-cushion to see out the cockpit window.
@@johnandjennireynolds1050 I’m not sure you know how whoopie cushions work
Hangman wasn't the Iceman character. Hangman was the Maverick character, taking insane risks. Rooster was the Iceman character, playing it safe to complete the mission simulation. This is interesting first because he's carrying too much caution due to his dad's accident and second because Maverick himself, on the other side of a life of experience, can respect Rooster's reservation, but knows it must be balanced with a measure of instinct. The real genius of this movie is that it's like Maverick watching Top Gun, seeing himself and his comrades in these younger pilots. He knows their shortcomings like we do when we watch that "cheesy" old movie. Just like we do when we remember the idiocies of our own youth. This is how you do a 35-year sequel without sidelining the main character.
Was hangman as good as maverick tho
I think Hangman was more a career opportunist
@@vinniechan I think so at least adjusted for experience. He did the run super fast on the simulations he just didn't hit the shot at the end.
@@vinniechan maverick said when flying against him " this guy is good" when before he took out the othe fighters fairly quickly
@@vinniechan his team work let him down.
He was a blend of both Iceman and Maverick
I really liked the surprise ending when Maverick was surrounded by enemy jets and then he hears over the radio "It's Morbin time!" and a million bats appears over the horizon led by Morbius that totally destroyed all the enemies, and then they hugged it out and Tom said "You're the real Maverick". So touching.
I shed a tear when that happened.
They should Do a Morbius crossover with all movies now
Spoilers 😩 put a warning next time
This joke is just old and boring now
@@brendan7704 you are fun at parties Brendan
This movie was like the movie creed but Sylvester Stallone jumps into the ring and wins a heavyweight title at the end even though he’s retired
Technically, the theme is the other way around where Creed getting into the ring helps motivate Rocky to fight cancer.
I actually enjoyed that they did not specify who the enemy was. Because that does not matter, I just want to watch jets go whoosh, I don't care if the enemy exists or not
There's only one country that operates the F14 and accused of enriching uranium soniy wasn't subtle
Agreed. The idea is to make the movies relatively timeless in their depiction of combat. So to achieve that, making the decision to not label the enemy and designate them a nation makes the movies timeless. The movies can represent any enemy force in any timeframe in history
the enemy is luny lefty wokeness.
and Tom Cruise shot it all down and came home.
Agreed, I appreciated that
I appreciated that they gave one of the 'enemy' pilots a cool Maverick-like manoeuvre.
To put it as a gross oversimplification here:
- People who know what they are doing, deciding to focus their efforts on making a good movie instead of an intentionally bad one.
Exactly
Who intentionally makes a bad movie?
@@coopersavva2689 The woke crowd: Rian Johnson, Kathleen Kennedy etc, etc, etc.
Good movie? I mean, it's a movie, that it certainly is.
Definitely not combination of Russia- North Korea-Iran...
"Look at all our personalities" is the absolute greatest description of the bar scene and all like it
I was half expecting Cruise to announce how he used to bullseye womp rats during the briefing for the mission.
I couldn't help but see Armageddon. just before the suicide mission, they all have a timeout moment (but no hookers were involved)
I feel Miles was more Luke, especially when he stopped thinking and "trusted the force".
This movie is Star Wars:A New Hope, if instead of Obi-Wan sacrificing himself to allow Luke to become the hero, he tells Luke “hold my beer, and watch this.”
I like how they showed even Hangman being a skillful guy but Maverick just has much more experience and thinks outside the box. Even Hangman was a bit of a dick but actually was a good guy and didn't like Rooster based on him thinking "He's not ready" and showed Hangman as more experienced. They showed that the pilots were all physically fit since they needed to be very sharp while flying and shows how much strain it actually takes. I like how they showed the enemy as being a legit threat and even 2 enemy fighters with modern equipment became a huge issue.
I love the film deifies and humanizes fighter pilots at the same time. As you said although the pilots are as fit as can be and are at the top of their game, they’re not invincible in anyway shape or form and they make mistakes.
Coyote passes out from the 9G climb
Phoenix and Bob loose their jet to a bird strike
Rooster almost blows the mission by playing it safe
There’s a real human element in TG Maverick that wasn’t as prominent as the first and that’s commendable.
@@BullGator-kd6ge even Jon Hamm and Ed Harris played the hard stern higher up well. They didn't want Maverick to fail but they just didn't think what he wants can't be done and allows him to prove them wrong. Even Jon Hamm recognizes that Mavericks team building methods and risky maneuvers are the best shot getting them home alive. I like how Jennifer Connoly comes across as a badass too without downplaying others.
@@MaestroJericho I liked Bob (a.k.a. "Bob").
They didn’t make Mav a pathetic failure. They respected the original movie. They did as many practical stunts as possible. All the actors brought their A game. Tom Cruise didn’t show up to fuck around. PERIOD.
Full stop.
They really subverted my expectations by not subverting any expectations!
Too many times (in sequels of all kinds) they make the hero a loser to try to recreate whatever struggle/rise they had in the first movie.
I'm pretty sure him getting kicked out of every assignment and nearly going to prison fit the "loser" mold.
@@simplebidnessman , that's called the redemption arc. He's a mess through it, mainly because of Goose, but also because he's just that bit extra irresponsible. They have him at rock bottom, and he decides to finally turn it around after the girl that really shouldn't have given him yet another chance gives him a pep talk.
For me it just had everything, great characters, acting, well shot fun action, funny moments, emotional moments. You can just tell a lot of thought and effort was put into this movie.
And lot of US military money...
By far the best part of the movie was the surprise cameo from Robert Downey Jr as the Superior Maverick! Who could have seen THAT coming?
I thought the scene where Tom Cruise brutally murdered Robert Downey Jr with his mind powers was a bit too much.
I couldn't believe the end credit scene where we find out Goose was actually alive this whole time and that he was really Mephisto.
Dang. spoilers, man. But yeah that part was awesome
Can't believe there's no Tropic Thunder joke in here.
1. Everything Everywhere All At Once
2. Top Gun 2
3. The Batman
4. The Northman
5. Elvis
6. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
My favorite movies of the year so far
Amazing year for movies so far
Been a hell of a run so far
Good list except for the Northman. It was awful.
@@brianmontgomery4604 What would you replace it for on this list ?
I loved The Northman. Probably no 3 for me.
Nice touch lads - the very slow almost imperceptible rotation of the propeller in the still image. I didn't notice it right away, but if you scroll through the video timeline you can see it spinning away as if the propeller is running.
You can also see the two jets slowly trace their way across the sky.
Holy shit I thought you were kidding
Thanks for pointing it out
Love it when the star destroyers started appearing in space and tom cruise and the guy from whiplash had to destroy it.
Well for one thing, unlike most legacy sequels, this one had to do heavier lifting by not being a slave to the merchandising so it doesn't have the same quality of getting away with essentially just giving up it's new stuff in favor of putting the old on a pedestal ala things like Jurassic World, Afterlife and Force Awakens. It's more akin to legacy sequels like "Tron:Legacy", "Mad Max: Fury Road" or "Blade Runner 2049" where they give plenty of breathing room for the new stuff to stand out with very little reverence to past material. And, let's also be honest about the fact that the original wasn't quite the most interesting thing on a plot or character level. There are moments, but it's really bathed in an 80sness that really feels more like a time capsule than a worthwhile plot. This film actually managed to have it's moments wrapped around narrative and character so it actually would be, you know, an actual film rather than a recruitment ad with some cheese.
Well said
Two words, Military Sponsorships.
Did you just lump Tron Legacy in with Fury Road and Blade Runner 2049 lmao
The Force Awakens is genuinely great
@@rifway22 It would be better if Finn was main character and Rey already being trained Jedi.
Saw it in the cinema last night, and enjoyed it so much more than I thought I would.
It was kind of exactly what I expected it to be, but such a tight, well paced, fun version of what I expected.
Goose mentions Penny when he and Mav are getting chewed out at the beginning of the original.
"You've been busted, you lost your qualifications as section leader three times, put in hack twice by me, with a history of high speed passes over five air control towers, and one admiral's daughter!"
"Penny Benjamin?"
And Goose's wife, Carole ribs Maverick later in the film talking about the time he went ballistic with Penny Benjamin, as well.
OH MY GOD, Glenn Powell IS what Scott Eastwood was supposed to be.
Much like Jai Courtney, they tried so hard to make Eastwood happen over the past 10 years.
I was actually surprised by how good it was and I don't even care about the original movie. There was a really good human drama element to it, and the aerial combat was spectacular. I can't believe that the actors actually went up.
Tom Cruise at this point knows very well what makes a good action movie. This was a master piece period. See you at the Oscars.
The mummy was pretty recent and that movie had huge potential and they shit the bed in spectacular fashion. Even Tom Cruise couldn't save it. Sad too cuz if it was good it woulda opened up so many avenues into so many dope movies
it’s honestly really good to hear a non-American take on Top Gun in general. The original movie is so ingrained in American culture and universally loved here, so I didn’t realize that people overseas don’t have that same relationship with it
How come when parents are feeding their baby they say “here comes the airplane, choo choo”? Planes don’t choo. This is all I could think about during this movie. 4/10
_Maybe_ the train from back to the future 3...? Or Astrotrain...?
I think your parents just made the wrong noises, some people do food train for baby...but food plane goes vroooooooom
@@FreyaEinde agreed
@@FreyaEinde I do A-10 for my kid brrrrrt
@@orestmarkheva7325 Sonic booms for breakfast, lunch, and dinner!
Regarding the crazy manoeuvre that the enemy Su-57 does, it doesn't seem too far removed from what a current generation fighter with thrust vectoring could actually do. Though it was very spectacular!
its actually a real move
there is a video on youtube of a pilot doing it
Indeed that was a real move. It's called a rolling cobra
A video of an Su-35 pulling it off th-cam.com/video/02qX9RvSyA8/w-d-xo.html
I like how (a) they show that the "unnamed 5th generation fighter" was indeed superior to their F-18 fighters, and (b) even knowing that both Maverick and Rooster were astonished when the enemy pilot pulled off that move, and (c) Maverick still shot it down because, you know, he's Tom Cruise.
This movie gave me a headache afterwards because I was tense during all the action scenes, really fun movie
Penny likely is the admirals daughter. If she WAS “16” at the time and Tom was 24 (8 year gap) Jennifer Connelly is 51 and Tom is 59 (8 year gap) now in 2022 :)
Update: Just watched the “Great balls of fire scene” and Gooses wife does say “the admirals daughter” “goose told me all about the time you went ballistic with Penny Benjamin”
Shes 100% the daughter as confirmed by both this movie and the first one. I feel like she was barely or almost 18 in the first one. Seems like he wouldn't care how old she was.
Tom isn't playing a 59 year old though! :)
@@2HatHudders he pretty much is tho, he’s 57
Putting that into perspective. Goose's son was 7-8 years old in the first movie, he should be at least 40+ years old in this movie then and he's not.
I’m having so much fun moving the video time bar back and forth watching the propeller spin.
I just came to the comments to see if anyone else was noticed! Tons of fun!!!
Me too!
That scene with val Kilmer, made me realise just how good of an actor Tom Cruise is.
I realised this was going to be a decent movie when I saw how they developed the characters, a dumber movie would have Iceman just showing up and say some stupid sh*t, and there would be no relationship between rooster and mav, rooster would just show up. But instead they actually created a decent backstory connecting mav and rooster and Iceman is the reason why mav keeps being a pilot and doing risky stuff
Thats good writing right there!
I went to see this movie a week after it opened on a Thursday night. The theatre was SOLD out. I never see that anymore. It made me so happy that it was for a well deserving movie
The inclusion of Morbius and his iconic catch phrase "Its Morbin Time" are the reason for this movie's success.....
Biggest cheer in my screening was for Jared Leto in his iconic role.
Meaning the inclusion of Morpheus would elicit the iconic catch phrase "It's Morphen Time?"
@@SuperOmnicronsj44 yes, of course.
Also.....am I the only that noticed in the super 80's nostalgia film, that when Jennifer Connelly is introduced, that David Bowie just happens to be playing in the scene?
It took everything that made the first one a classic and improved on everything. This has the Best Jet scenes since Dunkirk. Best Sequel Since Blade Runner 2049. Please Hollywood make more movies like this.
1. The enemy fighter has supermaneuvering capability. Basically it can still retain some control after entering a deliberate stall. The cobra maneuver the F-18s performs is also a supermanouver, but the enemy fighters are far more capable.
2. Days of Thunder sequel... Well Cruise is pretty much the same age now as Robert Duvall was back in 1990. So let Tom be the guy that has to train the next guy that's gonna win Daytona in a way that's so impossible, that Tom has to prove it can be done and ends up driving the lead car to victory, but crashes out in a fireball... Rehash the plot of Top Gun Maverick. It's how the first movie did it lol
Man, i was watching this thinking I was tripping seeing the prop on cruise’s P-51 moving. Had to go back a few seconds just to put my mind at ease. Lol… it’s not me.
Took me 5 minutes to realize the plane's nozzle was moving during this whole thing
Also the jets in the background! Super slow moving across the sky... and ofc the magnificent, bloody end seconds!
Oh my god
20 minutes for me, but I was casually reading the comments simultaneously
The nozzle? Do you mean the propeller?
@@kinnexion yes! Thank you! I forgot what the actual word for it was
I honestly didn't realise Jennifer Connelly wasn't in the original until after I got home from the Cinema. Also the house she lives in and the Porsche she drives is also extremely similar to the love interest's in the original Top Gun. I thought it was the same beach house and the same Porsche.. turns out it was a different Porsche and beach house. Very cheeky.
Would be awkward if she was neighbors with Kelly McGillis’s character.
Technically she was in the original film, she never appeared in the film but her character was mentioned as the daughter of the admiral that Tom Cruise had a fling with in the first debriefing scene
@@aimanmarzuqi4804 so you're telling me Jennifer Connelly wasnt in the original film
@@JabboRockets Yes, she wasn’t
@@aimanmarzuqi4804 Oh so the daughter of the admiral that tom cruise had a fling with wasn't in the film?
This film should be required viewing in "Director School" as a way to properly use nostalgia.
Nostalgia? Try cinematography, music, action, special effects, acting, story, pacing.. I dont even jave nostalgia for this first one. I saw it in 1999 and thought it was a mediocre movie then.
@@MegaMark0000 lots of movies have good acting, cinematography and action. No other “legacy” sequel has come close to this in properly honoring the original without being completely beholden to it and making a good film.
That’s the needle they so perfectly threaded with Maverick.
@@andrewshandle Blade Runner 2049
Mav killed in Hypersonic crash,walks into Diner scifi purgatory,sent back reconciled with Penny Rooster ice
Val Kilmer wears scarfs to cover a voice box on his throat in real life. I just felt like this was important to say since the scarfs got a bit clowned on in the review (even if they're very, very, very poofy scarfs)
We all know the real enemy are the friends we made along the way.
the Su-57 maneuver can be achieve through thrust vectoring, something only 5 gen and some 4.5 gen aircfraft can do.
Hot take: Joseph Kosinski should make the Rogue Squadron movie instead of Patty Jenkins.
It works because the original source material and characters were respected throughout the story and writing. At the same time, the IP was given enough time to breathe to call for an additional movie from the fans. It also helps that with Covid, there haven't been too many blockbuster action movies, and to be honest, a dumb action flick that I can turn off my brain for 2 hours and forget all the screwed up things going on in the world is a nice little win as well.
😎👍🏽
"The original source material and characters were respected throughout the story and writing."
Except Charlie, lol.
I like that they sort of came back and look at the original characters 30 yrs on and acknowledged that actually being a ... Maverick in the military does have implications on the characters career
And Iceman's was well utilised to contrast with maverick
I like how even the new characters like Jon Hamm wasn't just higher up who didn't know what he was doing but actually was mentioned as a fellow capable pilot but more by the book and warmed up to Tom Cruise's methods, especially when he realized doing things by the book would get people killed.
Because it was incredible cinema. I’m gonna pay another $25 to see it on imax a second time. It’s that good.
facts I really want to see it in imax
I did.
"It's building up to this really tense and impossible mission..." C'mon guys. You missed your chance. Cruise is the star of another franchise called The Mummy you know.
Does one (failed!) movie make a franchise?
@@viddork It does not but we sometimes bend things for humor.
Wow, did not see that ending coming. Poor Tom.
funniest thing i've read today
After the singing bar scene, I just couldn’t help but think this is how they should have made The Last Jedi 😂
You guys should really watch “Val.” Answer all your Val Kilmer questions.
Short story long imo:
1. Top gun 2022 , more fun ,more action , awesome visuals , cams , has a real mission, amazing sounds effects
2. Top gun 86
- more like a chill and love story movie
It worked because Top Gun: Maverick isn’t just a movie. *It’s an experience.*
It works because, unlike most sequels to older properties, it doesn’t shit on legacy/existing characters. Maverick is still the top dog, he’s just developing as a human.
Is somebody still salty that Luke Skywalker drank green milk from a space-cow?
Let's face it, Last Jedi was infinitely more memorable than anything JJ pooped out.
Though to be fair, you could just be salty that Han was killed off in the first movie like it was no big deal...
Everyone keeps saying this, but I honestly can't think of any recent movies where they "shit on the existing characters." In the most recent Spider-Man it seemed like a love letter to all the Spider Men. The Star Wars movies, Luke, Leia and Han all died, but like, they were still heroes and mentors to the characters, even if the films were bland. In Mad Max Fury Road, Max is like the whole reason Furiosa and the women survive. So I don't understand this "take," really.
A movie all about aerial combat, but Tom Cruise still found a way to "get in his steps." LOL
@29:20 I think the maneuver that the enemy pilot pulls is called a J-turn, which can only be achieved via thrust vectoring. Typically, planes have thrust directed along the centre line of the plane facing forward, but thrust vectoring allows the thrust from the engines to apply force on the plane on a different angle, so not straight forward, so planes can pull off crazy maneuvers like that.
and the stunned reaction of the good guys when that happened. they know what it can do.
29:34 - The Su-57 is capable of that "handbrake turn" in mid-air because of its vector thrusts. It doesn't need to switch off its engine. You can see a similar move shown in this 57-second clip from an air show: th-cam.com/video/d2QHZ7m1CaQ/w-d-xo.html
It was much better than the original. It was incredible in IMAX. I saw it on Tuesday at a 3:30 matinee, and it was sold out except for a few seats in the front 2 rows
There’s no propaganda in it. A movie made for the movies sake.
I watched it in 4DX and it was incredible
I was halfway through this before i realised the propeller was turning and the planes were moving.
I really like that they don't mention who the enemy is and that the pilots are faceless. I think if you are on the other end of constantly being portrayed as the Bad Guy you appreciate when that's not the point of a movie, but Americans etc probably can't relate to that.
You guys missed the two most OBVIOUS ones!
The Color of Money itself was a 20+ years sequel with Paul Newman. We now see Vincent mentoring his own young hustler.
And...
Jerry Maguire! He has guided human head weighs eight pounds kid to a major league baseball career and the kid has to have Tommy John Surgery. Bring back Renee! That movie writes itself.
Tom doesnt have to do any action in these, just acting. And get this, he can win his long overdue Oscar for the Hustler trilogy film, just like Newman finally won his Oscar for The Color of Money. And Martin Scorsese can direct again! Let's go!
Everyone knows that Maverick dies after being shot down and everything else that follows are his dying 'wishes'?
I liked it when Goose came back as a Vampire and said, "IT'S MORBIN' TIME!"
After watching this, I think Glen Powell would have made an amazing John Walker in the MCU
He totally nails that he's kind of a dick but you do see things from his perspective and holds himself to a very high standard. I think he's one of the breakthroughs here, won't be surprised bigger roles for him soon.
Was anyone else watching this and thinking it was a way cooler and tense version of the death star run?
Its a modern take on the attack in 633 Squadron which predates Star Wars by over ten years!!!
@@richardvernon317 I'm pretty sure movies weren't around before starwars. That was like 100 years ago
It's not WOKE...
It's won't go BROKE.. $$$. 🇺🇸
Exactly! There’s not one single politics in it!
Actually I thought it was bit conservative, as it was kinda promoting movie goers to join the navy for the action
Talking of Tom Cruise sequels... They should do a Cocktail sequel and call it Chaser!
Another reason this movie works so well is that this story is so relatable to those of us that were also the target audience for the original in `86. We are around Mav's age and experiencing the same things he is going through in this film. This is, after all, really about HIM more than the mission or the passing of the torch. Yes, the `getting over Goose' arc coupled with his relationship with his boy Rooster is part of that, but it's mostly about the impending inevitable push to usher you out to pasture/retirement/put you in their rear view mirror and forget you. They use the mechanism of technology rendering human pilots irrelevant as one such source for this but it happens nonetheless even without such changes. Maverick is faced with being outdated and even a nuisance to the institution he has devoted his life to. For him to get to the point that he welcomes his next chapter in life and is ready to put this old one behind him is the real story here. Yes, it's in his grief with Goose, his relationships with women including Penny, his legacy as an aviator, and the badly damaged relationship he had with Bradley (Rooster). Really though it's all that and a lot more. As someone not too much younger than Maverick is in this film I can relate to ALL of that, and I'm sure all of my generation does too. So this is a powerful and deeply personal one for us. I applaud them for how they handled it all though. I still felt really good about this and had a lot of fun every time I watched it (3X so far). I didn't expect this movie to actually impact me and just thought it would be fun. It's now one of my favorite films of all time.
They say his name is Cyclone briefly when Maverick is being introduced to them. The other officer says "Cyclone here......" I caught that on my second watching of the film. All I took was that his name was Bo "Bort" Simpson.
Satisfying conclusion to the edit. Well done Lawrence or Ben.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one watching that suuuuuper slomo photo/video (have no real clue hos Editor-san made it) and rejoicing over the magnificent end!
29:30 the plane performed a Pugachev "Cobra" maneuver with a 180 degree turn around it's upright axis. The only planes capable of performing these maneuver's are the SU-57 (shown in Top Gun Maverick) the SU-37 and the F-22 Raptor because of their vectored thrust abilities.
You guys should do a video on ‘everything everywhere all at once’
If you drag the video preview marker on the run time, the propeller moves as fast as you do. Play the video on 5 Times Speed, it moves kinda normal. However, in both scenarios Tom is Still, Not as his name would suggest Cruise-ing. 8/10 Movie
He still loses his face in the last seconds, though xD
The editor took the time to make the propellor spin slowly for no reason? Nice. Good job.
They didn't just push the same jokes, one liners, and story just updated. It can stand on its own.
One thing I've noticed from occasionally working with Air Force guys is the ones who are pilots are often shorter than average anyway. Not like 90% of the time, but like 60, 65% of the time. I'm not sure why that is but either way I'm glad they let Timmy Crewz be his natural height because it's just ok & not a big deal.
It has something to do with their shorter body has less room for the blood to travel while pulling high Gs so shorter people are usually a better fit to be pilots for that reason.
They didn't "subvert expectations", they didn't deconstruct Tom Cruise's character from the first one and turned him into a pathetic looser, they didn't film the movie on a greenscreen.
US Navy, F-18’s, and Competition… of course the movie is badass. Just like the F-14 made the original Top Gun badass. It was the US Navy’s greatest recruitment tool.
I love how everyone os scrambling to do top gun videos now that the film is a smash hit lol - the only ones on TH-cam talking about it (as in theory crafting like we do for super heroes and star wars) before it came out seemed to be fighter pilot channels
Content is content. ;)
It's pretty standard for movie review channels to review movies when they come out.
@@lucasoheyze4597 I'm wasn't writing about reviews though, was I? I've become so spoiled on the other movies I love (Like Star Wars and Super Hero films) where everyone picks apart the trailer and then makes theories for months. I craved that for Top Gun . . . didn't get it except for a few places. Let a man over 40 throw his tantrum in peace, or join me.
@@writingref well, this is a excerpt from their podcast where they review all sorts of non-comic book movies…well, except for Snake Eyes, but that’s coming soon…
@@andrewshandle they probably also won’t cover MOTU revelations either. Which is an awesome show by the way - but it’s another example pf something I was craving to be covered but most people never did
Hell even if they hated it, it would at least fit “caravan of garbage”
There is an esquire article from the year 2019 where the writer of the film Cocktail says he's working on a certain Cocktail 2.
#1 proper respect for the source material. That HAS to be the starting point
It took me so long to realize the propellors were moving the whole time
Just make the enemy a small market that won't hurt the box office - like Iceland.
Russia
You just can't argue witg Tom cruise....guys never gonna win an Oscar...but you know what your getting from him...a solid performance and a throwback to when films were good
"A throwback to when films were good"
Lmfao, you're either a 66 year old, or a 16 year old who only listens to Pink Floyd on vinyl.
@@GoddoDoggo .what's the last bad Tom cruise film you watched ?
N nowhere near..but nice try...can I assume you are mid 20s and edgy
Actually scratch that .what's the last good film you watched?
@@dannyb9209 hundreds of good movies get made every year.
@@JvS1711 I can't name that many I've seen in the last 2 years that I'd rank up there with the atg's
I didnt recognize that the propeller is slowly spinning but when you drag your cursor along the timeline you can see the propeller sping real fast in the thumbnail.
If you read this, to answer your question about those planes being able to do those crazy maneuvers - most 5th generation fighters such as the Su-57 (in this movie) and the F-22 have thrust vectoring, which allows them to do all kinds of crazy turns and maneuvers on a dime.
Ah cheers Zack!
@@mrsundaymovies Sure thing! Love your content.
21:01 A rogue nation?!? The MSF?? Militaires Sans Frontières, Soldiers Without Borders, Diamond Dogs, Outer Heaven, Big Boss!?! SNAAAAKKKKE!!!
my favorite thing about this video is that, after you give it a like, if you pause it and drag the mouse along the progress bar you can make the propeller of the plane move really fast!
The Les Grossman character from Tropic Thunder needs to return
That animation at the end really got me. 35:34
6:03 ..this was the greatest 4DX movie i have ever seen, and felt - yes, you could feel the Gs
29:35 That fancy move involves Thrust Vectoring, with the F22, F35 can do and the Russian Su-35S.
The only thing i cannot get over in this movie is that he ejected at Mach 10 in the opening sequence and didn't have his body completely ripped apart by wind speed. otherwise super solid 8 maybe 9/10
I'm 32 and I've never even watched the first Top Gun, but I've absorbed a lot through pop culture osmosis. So I'm interested to hear the story about this movie, I was surprised to hear that people like it.
This is off topic, but there's growing evidence to suggest that drinking up to 3 cups of coffee daily lowers your chances to die early by a significant amount (up to 30%!), even if you put a teaspoon of sugar in your coffee. I'd still steer clear of artificial sweeteners, though. Decaf coffee provides the same benefit, so if you're sensitive to caffeine you can still take advantage of this.
to get an actual therapeutic dose of caffeine you should drink nine cups per day... yes 9. Sounds strange but it's true. and sugar is way better for you then artificial sweeteners.
What? Lol
CRAZY how making a simple but good movie with fantastic practical effects and good actors goes a long way.
Star Wars Death Star run is exactly what I was thinking!