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Is this one also brought to us by Pepsi?

Top Gun was the first movie where I noticed obvious product placements.
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Daehawk wrote: Fri May 27, 2022 5:22 pm Not sure why they went with all the silly stuff. Other than him buzzing the tower I dont recall anything but serious flying in the first one..
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McNutt wrote: Fri May 27, 2022 10:39 pm Is this one also brought to us by Pepsi?

Top Gun was the first movie where I noticed obvious product placements.
They do make one of the students in Maverick's training class the Burger King. I thought that was odd.
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Took Ethan and met up with my brother to watch. I totally forgot to check what type of theatre we selected, so we got the normal size screen. Still fun. Slow in some spots, predictable, but satisfying ending.
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Just thank god you didn't see THIS in 4DX. I can only imagine the trauma...
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Daehawk wrote: Fri May 27, 2022 5:22 pm Not sure why they went with all the silly stuff. Other than him buzzing the tower I dont recall anything but serious flying in the first one..
"Hit the brakes and he'll fly right by!"

Neither airplanes nor physics work like that.
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I've heard real pilots say that the best in-cockpit video they've ever seen is a pilot over Iraq dodging five (or is it six?) SAMs by proper use of chaff and flares. There are no fancy maneuvers at all; the gripping part is just that he keeps his cool the entire time.
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Holman wrote: Mon May 30, 2022 5:21 pm I've heard real pilots say that the best in-cockpit video they've ever seen is a pilot over Iraq dodging five (or is it six?) SAMs by proper use of chaff and flares. There are no fancy maneuvers at all; the gripping part is just that he keeps his cool the entire time.



there are still a lot of manuevers.
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Just came out, did the RPX screen, which is digital projection high quality sound, but not IMAX or super or whatever. No tilt seats or water spray or whatever.

Entertaining, no obviously-huge plot holes, just your typical movie plotholes, the minor details that makes you go "uh... what?"
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Holman wrote: Fri May 27, 2022 4:42 pm
Airplanes are awesome, but propaganda is gross, and (from the previews I've seen) the movie features a lot of stunt-flying that would actually get you reprimanded.
I'm at a loss, as someone who's actually watched the movie, how any of it can be considered propaganda.
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Military propaganda, I'm assuming. Since this isn't a Triumph of the Will kind of film, I'm hard pressed to find it offensive. I've known too many good people who attribute their success to military service and the opportunities it afforded them, and the self discipline it gave them, to view it negatively by default.

If the issue is that it's jingoistic, I haven't seen anything in the previews that lead me to believe that it's advocating that we go to war with anyone.

And I have no trouble with patriotism. Patriotism in and of itself is not inherently bad. As a matter of fact, we're celebrating the patriotism seen in the faces of Ukrainian soldiers right now. Can it be warped and made into something awful? Of course, but I'm not seeing that in this instance.

That being said, I probably won't see this until it premieres on HBO Max or something. It's just not my kind of thing.
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hepcat wrote: Tue May 31, 2022 1:56 pm Military propaganda, I'm assuming. Since this isn't a Triumph of the Will kind of film, I'm hard pressed to find it offensive. I've known too many good people who attribute their success to military service and the opportunities it afforded them, and the self discipline it gave them, to view it negatively by default.
Your Triumph of the Will comment is pretty much why I don't see the movie as propaganda at all.

Unless you're going down the Breitbart rabbit hole of thinking the movie is specifically a counter punch against wokeism in Hollywood or some such nonsense.
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Ya I got zero vibes that they are trying to send any political message. Tom just wanted to blow shit up and military airplanes are good at that.
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pr0ner wrote: Tue May 31, 2022 1:34 pm
Holman wrote: Fri May 27, 2022 4:42 pm
Airplanes are awesome, but propaganda is gross, and (from the previews I've seen) the movie features a lot of stunt-flying that would actually get you reprimanded.
I'm at a loss, as someone who's actually watched the movie, how any of it can be considered propaganda.
Yeah, my comment went too far.

The original movie was definitely a recruiting poster, though.
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Saw it over the weekend. Fun popcorn flick with some nice throwbacks to the original. Didn't have the same juice as the original, IMHO, but some nice moments.

Favorite throwback:
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Leah Remini wants to remind us how bad scientology is, and says Cruise is the #2 guy in the church.

For those that don't know, she was raised in scientology, but left in 2013. She published a scathing documentary in 2016. It's telling the church did not sue for slander.
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I don't agree with Scientology, but as long as Cruise is not making films that actually endorse/fund (well, directly, at least) that whack job religion, I view it as independent of that and think about the many, many good people it does employ.

However, if John Travolta wants to make another Battlefield Earth, I won't object. It's one of my favorite awful films of the last 20 years. I like to take a drink every time someone yells "leverage!" in the film. Consequently, I've never actually seen the last 45 minutes of the movie.
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Saw it today in IMAX - got goosebumps at the beginning. Overall I'd say it was good and very good if you are looking for a popcorn flick where you really shouldn't think very much.
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Are there many scenes of people talking in which you can only see the top of Tom's head?
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noxiousdog wrote: Wed Jun 01, 2022 11:46 am Leah Remini wants to remind us how bad scientology is, and says Cruise is the #2 guy in the church.

For those that don't know, she was raised in scientology, but left in 2013. She published a scathing documentary in 2016. It's telling the church did not sue for slander.
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My biggest takeaway from this article is Tom Cruise's center tooth.
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that makes my brain hurt, looking at that.
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My favorite irreverent website for military aircraft news and commentary is Hush-Kit.

Their review of TG2 is here: Why Top Gun Maverick is such a snoozefest.

(Spoilers and snark, obviously.)
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As in all war movies featuring jets, infra-red flares can fool radar-guided missiles. The pedantically minded may also enjoy spotting that the shadow of Maverick’s single-seat aircraft is that of a two-seater.

What, if anything, is the film’s central message? It is far too conventional not to have a central message – and it seems to revolve around ageism. Both Maverick and the F-14 are older, seemingly obsolete, and win the day. This is reassuring to the millions of 40+ plus moviegoers feeling increasingly obsolete in their own lives.

The flying sections are very well done, but much like the first film, do not represent a great percentage of screen time.

The movie is a pointless – and occasionally fun – exercise in nostalgia. Is American cinema a rusty old F-14 expensively limping home with one engine? Unmanned aircraft are villainous threats to the future existence of fighter pilots in this movie, and Maverick would clearly rather have his kicks than entertain a future without friendly casualties. Villianising unmanned aircraft is itself a quite old fashioned view nowadays, it should be noted that songs are sung in celebration of the Bayraktar in 2022. The whole experience was like lying in a long cold bath. It is soupy pointless nostalgia that cost god knows how much to make.
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I''ve seen it! Loved it! I was particularly impressed in how they managed to respect the original without going overboard on the nostalgia. I think this must be one of the better sequels in recent memory.
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Holman wrote: Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:51 pm My favorite irreverent website for military aircraft news and commentary is Hush-Kit.

Their review of TG2 is here: Why Top Gun Maverick is such a snoozefest.

(Spoilers and snark, obviously.)
Spoiler:
As in all war movies featuring jets, infra-red flares can fool radar-guided missiles. The pedantically minded may also enjoy spotting that the shadow of Maverick’s single-seat aircraft is that of a two-seater.

What, if anything, is the film’s central message? It is far too conventional not to have a central message – and it seems to revolve around ageism. Both Maverick and the F-14 are older, seemingly obsolete, and win the day. This is reassuring to the millions of 40+ plus moviegoers feeling increasingly obsolete in their own lives.

The flying sections are very well done, but much like the first film, do not represent a great percentage of screen time.

The movie is a pointless – and occasionally fun – exercise in nostalgia. Is American cinema a rusty old F-14 expensively limping home with one engine? Unmanned aircraft are villainous threats to the future existence of fighter pilots in this movie, and Maverick would clearly rather have his kicks than entertain a future without friendly casualties. Villianising unmanned aircraft is itself a quite old fashioned view nowadays, it should be noted that songs are sung in celebration of the Bayraktar in 2022. The whole experience was like lying in a long cold bath. It is soupy pointless nostalgia that cost god knows how much to make.
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Maverick was great. Both times I saw it.

You aren't seeing it right, because jingoism?
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Redfive wrote: Mon Jun 06, 2022 2:18 am
Holman wrote: Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:51 pm My favorite irreverent website for military aircraft news and commentary is Hush-Kit.

Their review of TG2 is here: Why Top Gun Maverick is such a snoozefest.

(Spoilers and snark, obviously.)
Spoiler:
As in all war movies featuring jets, infra-red flares can fool radar-guided missiles. The pedantically minded may also enjoy spotting that the shadow of Maverick’s single-seat aircraft is that of a two-seater.

What, if anything, is the film’s central message? It is far too conventional not to have a central message – and it seems to revolve around ageism. Both Maverick and the F-14 are older, seemingly obsolete, and win the day. This is reassuring to the millions of 40+ plus moviegoers feeling increasingly obsolete in their own lives.

The flying sections are very well done, but much like the first film, do not represent a great percentage of screen time.

The movie is a pointless – and occasionally fun – exercise in nostalgia. Is American cinema a rusty old F-14 expensively limping home with one engine? Unmanned aircraft are villainous threats to the future existence of fighter pilots in this movie, and Maverick would clearly rather have his kicks than entertain a future without friendly casualties. Villianising unmanned aircraft is itself a quite old fashioned view nowadays, it should be noted that songs are sung in celebration of the Bayraktar in 2022. The whole experience was like lying in a long cold bath. It is soupy pointless nostalgia that cost god knows how much to make.
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Maverick was great. Both times I saw it.

You aren't seeing it right, because jingoism?
I'm not seeing it because I don't really like action movies, I've never been a Tom Cruise fan, and Covid hasn't gone away.

FWIW, I'm a huge warplane/warship/weapons aficionado. I spend most of my gaming time on wargames and military sims. If anything, I'd probably walk out of Top Gun 2 annoyed that the stunt flying doesn't accurately represent military aviation.
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Holman wrote: Mon Jun 06, 2022 12:01 pm FWIW, I'm a huge warplane/warship/weapons aficionado. I spend most of my gaming time on wargames and military sims. If anything, I'd probably walk out of Top Gun 2 annoyed that the stunt flying doesn't accurately represent military aviation.
Maybe tactics and how close they fly (as a function of getting everything in the shot), but the flying itself is said to be very real.

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Saw it over the weekend and got what I bargained for. A work of art? Not exactly, but it was fun and scratched an itch.

The only thing that really fell flat to me was the Maverick/Penny relationship. Like, did they really need Maverick to have a love interest? There was no chemistry, and I felt like they could have replaced Jennifer Connelly with a mop, and there would have been little to no change.

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Kurth wrote: Mon Jun 06, 2022 4:49 pm

The only thing that really fell flat to me was the Maverick/Penny relationship. Like, did they really need Maverick to have a love interest? There was no chemistry, and I felt like they could have replaced Jennifer Connelly with a mop, and there would have been little to no change.
Yeah, that was the only thing that struck me as rather off. I think they're supposed to know each other from his time of being an instructor from the end of the first movie. He mentions it didn't last long. Still, I'd have expected his personal relationship to have been much more advanced ie a wife and kids, but what we got was more or less rehashed plotline mirroring the original, as if he were still a bachelor after all these years. I find that one hard to believe.
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Bachelor? No. Twice-divorced is more like it.
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Rumpy wrote: Mon Jun 06, 2022 5:00 pm
Kurth wrote: Mon Jun 06, 2022 4:49 pm

The only thing that really fell flat to me was the Maverick/Penny relationship. Like, did they really need Maverick to have a love interest? There was no chemistry, and I felt like they could have replaced Jennifer Connelly with a mop, and there would have been little to no change.
Yeah, that was the only thing that struck me as rather off. I think they're supposed to know each other from his time of being an instructor from the end of the first movie. He mentions it didn't last long. Still, I'd have expected his personal relationship to have been much more advanced ie a wife and kids, but what we got was more or less rehashed plotline mirroring the original, as if he were still a bachelor after all these years. I find that one hard to believe.
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stessier wrote: Mon Jun 06, 2022 6:03 pm
Rumpy wrote: Mon Jun 06, 2022 5:00 pm
Kurth wrote: Mon Jun 06, 2022 4:49 pm

The only thing that really fell flat to me was the Maverick/Penny relationship. Like, did they really need Maverick to have a love interest? There was no chemistry, and I felt like they could have replaced Jennifer Connelly with a mop, and there would have been little to no change.
Yeah, that was the only thing that struck me as rather off. I think they're supposed to know each other from his time of being an instructor from the end of the first movie. He mentions it didn't last long. Still, I'd have expected his personal relationship to have been much more advanced ie a wife and kids, but what we got was more or less rehashed plotline mirroring the original, as if he were still a bachelor after all these years. I find that one hard to believe.
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Penny was the Admiral's daughter referred to in the first one when Goose is arguing why they can't afford to buzz the tower.

Yeah, I guess I missed the reference, even though I watched the original about a week ago. Both movies aren't necessarily the type of movie to provide lots of details to connect the dots with. One thing I also was really confused about was the whole bell thing at the bar.
Isgrimnur wrote: Mon Jun 06, 2022 5:12 pm Bachelor? No. Twice-divorced is more like it.
Yeah, I know. I'm saying it played off more like he was still a bachelor. The end-result was not entirely dissimilar to what happened on screen in the first movie. In other words, he's back to square one, and playing off the same beats as the original.
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We went tonight at an imax. Very good movie. I was quite surprised. It was borderline to excellent. My wife and our 16 yr old son loved it.
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Rumpy wrote:

Yeah, I guess I missed the reference, even though I watched the original about a week ago. Both movies aren't necessarily the type of movie to provide lots of details to connect the dots with. One thing I also was really confused about was the whole bell thing at the bar.
Supposedly, the bell thing is apparently totally real. In watching a topgun instructors react. They confirmed thats how most of the officer bars work. One of them said he got stuck with an $800 tab for a slipup. And frustratingly every bat has slightly different rules so you can't just acclimate to one set.

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Combustible Lemur wrote: Tue Jun 07, 2022 10:48 am
Rumpy wrote:

Yeah, I guess I missed the reference, even though I watched the original about a week ago. Both movies aren't necessarily the type of movie to provide lots of details to connect the dots with. One thing I also was really confused about was the whole bell thing at the bar.
Supposedly, the bell thing is apparently totally real. In watching a topgun instructors react. They confirmed thats how most of the officer bars work. One of them said he got stuck with an $800 tab for a slipup. And frustratingly every bat has slightly different rules so you can't just acclimate to one set.

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Huh, interesting. For someone without any kind of background on that, it was super confusing, at least the way it written in the script. I don't remember the bell being in the original, which I think adds to the confusion.
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I remember reading some "naval aviator" semi-fiction and there were definitely bar rules like you don't wear your hat into the bar, or you end up buying everybody a round, or something like that.
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Ok, yeah and I see one of the guys mentions it happening to him in the video above. I think that one could have been explained better in the movie for the average audience.
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Re: Top Gun 2 coming?..It is! 2020

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The family of the Israeli writer whose article inspired the 1986 Tom Cruise movie Top Gun is suing film studio Paramount Pictures for copyright infringement over its sequel.

They claim the studio did not have the rights to Ehud Yonay's 1983 story "Top Guns" when it released the sequel Top Gun: Maverick last month.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61714737
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Re: Top Gun 2 coming?..It is! 2020

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I don't know about Naval aviators, but in the Air Force, at the Officer's Club, whenever someone threw their challenge coin on the bar, everyone had to match with their challenge coin. If you didn't have your coin, you were the one buying the bar. If everyone had their coin, whoever threw the challenge was buying. Even years after leaving the Air Force, I was usually carrying my coin out of habit.
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