maize-blue

December 16th, 2019 at 9:56 AM ^

Cinematography is going to be really good. Very little or no CGI, which I think turns a lot of movies into cartoons. I love real stunts, action, explosions, etc. in movies.

We'll have to wait to see how the story holds up.

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ak47

December 16th, 2019 at 1:00 PM ^

Is it really? You have a guy who consistently flaunts and breaks rules designed to ensure safety and promote the type of team based flying that leads to successful missions despite repeated warnings. After breaking another one of the rules he gets a US service member killed. How is this guy not the bad guy?

I guess you could argue the bad guy would be Charlie, who lied in official reports about Maverick's dangerous flying because she was sleeping with him putting the other students at risk when he should have been benched and eventually also having a say in Goose's death.

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Special Agent Utah

December 16th, 2019 at 2:24 PM ^

Things that were hilarious about the original Top Gun:

1. The guy who played principal Strickland is chewing Maverick out about how he’s an insubordinate asshole and a loose cannon who is going to get someone killed.....Only to suddenly say “Congrats son! You’re going to Top Gun”

2. Maverick is emotionally unstable after the death of Goose and Viper thinks the best solution is to get him up and flying in intense simulated combat situations, where one mistake can easily get him and/or others killed, ASAP.

3. Even though there is already an aircraft carrier with a full squadron on station in the area, Viper interrupts the Top Gun graduation ceremony to tell Maverick and Iceman that they are needed there and have to leave immediately and fly 6000 miles across the Pacific Ocean. Because apparently all the pilots already on the ship are just a bunch of worthless puds who are unable to handle the situation.    
 

4. Principal Strickland decides that Maverick, who is still clearly suffering emotional effects from Goose’s death, is one of the pilots who should be assigned to a fly in a combat zone where action is likely. And, when Iceman very reasonably tries to point out maybe Mav isn’t mentally fit for this mission, Strickland shuts him down with no explanation given.

 

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IYAOYAS

December 17th, 2019 at 10:32 AM ^

Goose’s death was due to failure to follow NATOPS procedure for a flat spin. Unless the water is coming up fast, aircrew is to jettison the canopy prior to RIO initiating the seats. This allows the canopy to clear the stagnant air above the aircraft. 

That the writers knew of this problem speaks highly of their research though. 

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1VaBlue1

December 16th, 2019 at 11:04 AM ^

Gotta keep the women-folk engaged.  You can bet money that the new flavor of Top Gun will also have an improbable love affair with the hunk pilot.  Women will cry in each others arms over the danger he puts himself in, and grumble about macho fighter pilots reckless abandon.  Men will think the lovey-dovey affair is bullshit - tag'em and move on.  What kind of macho-hunk fighter pilot obsesses over lost love?  That crap is for cargo jockeys.

 

::I haven't seen the trailer, but, if nothing else, Hollywood is stereotypical::

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swalburn

December 16th, 2019 at 10:00 AM ^

Two great trailers for this so far.  On paper this shouldn't be good but I can't wait.  I'm a sucker for  movies that don't rely on a lot of CGI.  I still watch Aliens from the 80's and wonder how they pulled that off.

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UMFanatic96

December 16th, 2019 at 10:03 AM ^

Maybe this is an unpopular movie, but I'm so over crazy action movie/superhero movies. Every single one is basically the same and follows the same formula. Is this movie going to be that much different than any of the recent Mission Impossible movies or Jack Reacher ones that Cruise has done? 

It doesn't mean they're bad movies I just don't get the interest. But to each their own.

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1VaBlue1

December 16th, 2019 at 11:13 AM ^

"It doesn't have to be a "good" movie to be enjoyable."

This is the formula that brought us such classic delights as History of the World, Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles, and Young Frankenstien.  To name but a few...

You're other statement can be confirmed by the critically acclaimed 'Sideways' - one of the most shittastic movies I ever had the unpleasure of not turning off quickly enough.

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Special Agent Utah

December 16th, 2019 at 10:04 AM ^

It’s going to be 2 intense hours of Tom Cruise in a drone command center, sipping his coffee and eating a sandwich, all while he remotely flies a strike against ISIS targets hundreds of miles away. 

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