Top Gun Maverick

[Canon Shooter]

So they give me the penthouse, and i have to pay another 3,000 dollars of air fare, get to the hotel and find out another production crew has bought the top floor again, thus i get moved down the 5th floor....again.

It is like Cheverolet and Chrysler, they went bankrupt didnt honor their stock or their warranties for the cars that were produced before the bankruptcy. Why on Earth would i ever buy a Cheverolet or Chrysler, knowing that they could go bankrupt again, have worthless cars again, or buy their stock which could go to shit again? Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me...

Well, I guess I just don't see the odds of that happening again being very great. It's not like Lemoore Station is a big tourist destination...

 

[Oddball]

Robin was a fun guy to party with! We closed down more than a couple of saloons!

Good God!....You're like the Forrest Gump of the forum!

P.S....I'm once again jealous AF.

 

[Dekster]

Fox has been promoting Top Gun 2 for the last few days, well went to see it over the weekend and I thought it was okay. Basically it's the same as the 1st movie with Cruise and a new supporting cast. Miles Teller plays Goose's son all grown up, okay that's fine, but he wears the same cheesy mustache as his dad from the original.
I just don't get all the hype.

I really do not plan to ever watch it even if it is free on TV TBH. Not a Tom Cruise fan at all. His acting looks barely existent in the previews. And it looked almost like it was going to be a remake hid as a sequel based on what I could tell.

 

[basquebromance]

my favorite ACTION-PACKED scenes from the movie Top Gun:

 

[Theowl32]

Went to see it. I liked for a few reasons. First I assumed I was going to be dealing with a gay pilot shoved in our faces, a woman jedi type who is was more skilled than anyone ever, etc etc etc.

But.....


They didn't do that, mainly cause it wasn't a disney movie.

I was entertained. A few tear jerking moments with the pics and Val making his cameo suffering through his ailment.

Tom Cruise is a confirmed weirdo but I like his movies. Thanked God it was not some PC shit log they try to shove down our throats.

They didn't insult us fans of the original from 1986. So, I recommend it.

 

[AZrailwhale]

We saw it the other night.

The biggest issue I had wasn't with the movie, but with the theater. The volume was very low. I suffer from a bit of hearing loss, but even my brother had a difficult time making out what was being said on screen.

The movie itself? I have to say I was mildly disappointed. Don't get me wrong, it was a good movie. I just think I expected to see more flying/action scenes. Instead, they seem to have spent a great deal of time on the interpersonal relationships between characters. The way they hyped the movbie with extended trailers and all, and showed all of the technology they were using to, and I'll quote Jerry Bruckheimer here, "show the viewer what it's really like to be a Top Gun pilot", I really thought there'd be more flying scenes.

Jennifer Connolly is hot as Hell as Penny Benjamin (who got only a passing mention in the original "Top Gun"), and Miles Teller does a good job as Rooster, Goose Bradshaw's son. Glen Powell, who plays Hangman, tries far too hard to be the reincarnation of Val Kilmer's Iceman. Val Kilmer, despite his real life health challenges, is written into the script rather deftly. He even speaks in the movie which, if you know anything about Val Kilmer, you know that's not easy for him to do these days.

The Navy's Fighter Weapons School (Top Gun) used to be located at NAS Miramar in San Diego. In 1996 it was moved to NAS Fallon (Nevada). For whatever reason, the producers decided that it needed to be at NAS North Island for the movie. I used to be stationed at North Island. There aren't the facilities to put Top Gun there. This isn't something the general public would know, though, so I can give them a pass on that.

The beach football scene takes place on Coronado Island (which is where NAS North Island is). You can see Point Loma in the background and you know it's San Diego. The funeral scene was filmed at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, which sits atop Point Loma. No other National Cemetery looks like that, so you know it's San Diego. The sailing scene with Maverick and Penny, though, looks like it was filmed in the straits of Juan de Fuca as opposed to the waters off of San Diego. It was laughable.

All in all I would give the movie a 7.5 out of 10. I'm going to see it again in a theater which has a proper volume and see if my opinion changes. I've never had a problem hearing dialog in a theater before, so I'll give this another shot...

I don’t know what the sailing scene had to do with the movie. I’ve raced enough sailboats that it was accurate although having a rookie do a spinnaker set, even an asymmetrical one, was a bit of a stretch. That scene really made me miss California. The racing is really the only thing I miss.

 

[Stryder50]

Spoiler Alert:
If you haven't seen the movie and want the "surprises", then scroll by and don't click the link.
Otherwise, some interesting details here, the Wiki page;

Top Gun: Maverick - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[BackAgain]

It was a good flick. It certainly tracked the original movie. But the jets serve an academy award. And pissing off China was a bonus.

 

[Hellokitty]

We saw it the other night.

The biggest issue I had wasn't with the movie, but with the theater. The volume was very low. I suffer from a bit of hearing loss, but even my brother had a difficult time making out what was being said on screen.

The movie itself? I have to say I was mildly disappointed. Don't get me wrong, it was a good movie. I just think I expected to see more flying/action scenes. Instead, they seem to have spent a great deal of time on the interpersonal relationships between characters. The way they hyped the movbie with extended trailers and all, and showed all of the technology they were using to, and I'll quote Jerry Bruckheimer here, "show the viewer what it's really like to be a Top Gun pilot", I really thought there'd be more flying scenes.

Jennifer Connolly is hot as Hell as Penny Benjamin (who got only a passing mention in the original "Top Gun"), and Miles Teller does a good job as Rooster, Goose Bradshaw's son. Glen Powell, who plays Hangman, tries far too hard to be the reincarnation of Val Kilmer's Iceman. Val Kilmer, despite his real life health challenges, is written into the script rather deftly. He even speaks in the movie which, if you know anything about Val Kilmer, you know that's not easy for him to do these days.

The Navy's Fighter Weapons School (Top Gun) used to be located at NAS Miramar in San Diego. In 1996 it was moved to NAS Fallon (Nevada). For whatever reason, the producers decided that it needed to be at NAS North Island for the movie. I used to be stationed at North Island. There aren't the facilities to put Top Gun there. This isn't something the general public would know, though, so I can give them a pass on that.

The beach football scene takes place on Coronado Island (which is where NAS North Island is). You can see Point Loma in the background and you know it's San Diego. The funeral scene was filmed at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, which sits atop Point Loma. No other National Cemetery looks like that, so you know it's San Diego. The sailing scene with Maverick and Penny, though, looks like it was filmed in the straits of Juan de Fuca as opposed to the waters off of San Diego. It was laughable.

All in all I would give the movie a 7.5 out of 10. I'm going to see it again in a theater which has a proper volume and see if my opinion changes. I've never had a problem hearing dialog in a theater before, so I'll give this another shot...

Nice review. We had the same issue with low volume in the movie theater. We could make dialogue out fine, but I was thinking this is the quietest movie.