Great Balls of Fire!
and just because I can
and just because I can
Film Top Gun - Maverick
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Definitely going to watch this but am under no illusion that it'll even come close to the first one. I'm also not thrilled to see that they have gone with the F/A-18 Hornet as the main aircraft. For me, it really doesn't have the 'cool factor' that the F-14 Tomcat had, although the final shot in the trailer is of an F-14, so it's at least making an appearance. I really would have loved to see it replaced with something a bit cooler than the Hornet, though.
He doesn't look crazy at all.
Hornet is still the primary naval fighter jet as the F-35 is taking an age to get to production levels. F-14 hasn't been used for over 15 years and the 5 years previous to that only a select few crews were still using it. I just hope they don't do some hopeless romantic bullshit and call "out of retirement" as some sort of secret weapon. Even back when the original came out, it was a dated aircraft with massive flaws and was at the point of requiring extensive redevelopment to remain competitive against the Fulcrum and other Mig's. The Hornet is lighter and more manoeuvrable which is why it replaced the F-14 although the F-14D had some serious grunt from the engine upgrade.
Still, the F-14 is a much prettier plane and probably only the F-22 comes close to having as bad ass stance.
If it's successful, you'll see another one after this.
The beauty of the first Top Gun is that it was incredibly simplistic. It was literally an epic popcorn film. I hope that some of the Cinema's run them back to back because I would to see the remastered first film in the Cinema. I was born 6 years after it was made and its something that I'd love to witness.
You can already pick holes throughout this movie (no chance on earth that a 50+ year old fighter pilot is flying carrier landings and takeoffs) but who cares
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Imperialist claptrap for perpetual adolescents; weak daddy's boys hiding beneath a military-masculinity complex. You can be Tom Cruise too.
Was hoping someone started a thread on this. Watching that trailer got me pumped!!
Cruise is a complete feckin' lunatic of the highest order but as a result he makes some great action pieces. It might actually be ... decent?
90 minutes of Cruise complaining about how hi G's hurt his piles to his 20 year old fellow pilots.
I have never looked forward to a film as much as this one.
Is he actually piloting a fighter jet? First a very risky helicopter shot and now a fighter jet ? The guy has some balls or as others have said, he’s completely crazy. I’ve heard that even proper fighter pilots have a difficult time landing those jets on a moving aircraft carrier. How the feck is he doing it, if that’s not CGI that is. Looks pretty real to me
The last few Mission Impossible movie were fecking amazing. I'm sure this will be too.
I will convert to Scientology for this one.
I will convert to Scientology for this one.
Heyyyy yeah! Playing with the boys!
Of course he's not piloting them. Many of the F18s are two seaters, they're just filming him in the back seat whilst the actual pilot flies in the front. They did the same thing in the F14s in the original.Oh yeah makes sense. I knew it was improbable but fecking Tom Cruise can do anything
This is going to be amazing.
Holy rubber dog shit. I need this.
No acting needed in that scene i suspect, that is one happy man!He doesn't look crazy at all.
He's wearing some sort of space suit in most scenes in that trailer (that he isn't wearing in the F/A-18. So it looks like some other aircraft is going to be the focal point.
Interested to know the length of CGI used in this film. He said he wouldn't do it unless it was done right.
Interested to know the length of CGI used in this film. He said he wouldn't do it unless it was done right.
Fast and the Furious meets Top Gear judging by that trailer. But still, fighter planes are cool and make pretty pictures, I'll probably give it a watch.
Watched the original 20+ times ... very sad I know but loved it.
Kenny Loggins has been playing all day at full blast and when ever anyone asks me a question no matter what it is I have been replying, “because I was inverted” I have even referred to some people as enemy MIGS.
SR-71 Blackbird
I never really watched Top Gun. 
Worse, haven't even seen Coctail.
Worse, haven't even seen Coctail.
This should be great fun.
He knows how to make an action film that's for sure. It'll be corny and slightly camp in true top gun style, and we'll love it!
He knows how to make an action film that's for sure. It'll be corny and slightly camp in true top gun style, and we'll love it!
Cocks definitely out for this.
I felt very nostalgic when I watched the trailer - the in-cockpit footage looks incredible - I'm 100% all in.
Do yourself a favor and watch Top Gun - it's an absolute blast and pure 80's.I never really watched Top Gun.
Worse, haven't even seen Coctail.
Looks fun. Think it needs that retro feel though, which I realise wasn't retro at the time but still must've had an obvious charm.
gonna give Top Gun a go, never seen it on account of it looking like an extremely shit Tom Cruise movie
Hopefully this one is as homoerotic as the first one...
He's said that all the footage in the trailer was real, so I hope that applies for all of the scenes. Unless they need to blow something up that'll need to be CG especially if Tom is in the jet. Not even Xenu will save him from that.
Most probably will before the new one.
Didn't care much about Cruise during his early career.
Doing a super-straight sequel would be weird given the original is now (arguably) primarily known for being so ridiculously homoerotic but actually setting out to maintain that sheer level of camp in a sequel would be quite the task. Action films don't really work like that any more.
Don't think one of those bad boys has been flown since the early 90's, but why the feck not.SR-71 Blackbird
FYI - Greatest fight pilot story ever
Great thing about the first movie is it really hasn't aged that badly. There's very little dialogue and its extremely basic. You could literally remake the thing tomorrow exactly the same with updated CGI and camera work and it would blow box office records.
Looking back, I am surprised I failed to see the sexual tension between Mav and Iceman.
In the Navy aint they
In the Navy aint they
The first one is an absolutely horrendous film. Nothing happens and Tom Cruise follows a woman into the toilet. Then there’s an hour of the steel mill scene from the Simpsons. Nostalgia rots your brains guys.