DarkKnight88
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At times, Rocky IV felt like a music video to me.
I think that's a pretty apt comparison for Top Gun as well.
At times, Rocky IV felt like a music video to me.
Boo, sir, boo. It's like the quintessential Tony Scott movie. Orange filters, rockin' tunes, loud engines, bunch'a gay dudes playing volleyball. What's not to love?
Critically its not Shawshank Redemption. Ill give you that.
But people like me enjoy it as a good popcorn movie; like Rocky IV for example.
I would place Top Gun above Rocky IV.
At times, Rocky IV felt like a music video to me.
Besides, in Rocky IV, Rocky Balboa went from a successful fighter who often struggled to a man with his own personal robot.
Yes I know that Rocky gave the robot to Paulie.
Rocky just felt like a caricature of his former self in that movie.
I think that's a pretty apt comparison for Top Gun as well.
Isnt that just because the musics so good? t:
Yeah, as you say I think seeing it late plays a part in how you see it later. I can't imagine a kid seeing it nowadays for the first time and getting the appeal at all.They really are quite similar in that their soundtracks were some of the best that the '80s had to offer and transcended beyond the films they came from. They also share a significant plot similarity (protagonist coming to terms with feeling responsibility for their friend's death). But personally I'd always choose Rocky IV over Top Gun just because it's more entertaining to me. A good chunk of Top Gun is just F-14 porn, which bored me after a while. That combined with the only character in the film I actually liked getting killed off halfway through means I don't really revisit it all that often. It might just be because I never watched it as a kid so I don't have that nostalgic feeling towards it since I only saw it for the first time when I was about 21 or 22. It's probably my least favorite of the big '80s blockbusters but I don't think it's a bad film.
Boo, sir, boo. It's like the quintessential Tony Scott movie. Orange filters, rockin' tunes, loud engines, bunch'a gay dudes playing volleyball. What's not to love?
I hope Harold Faltermeyer comes back or they use his themes (prays)
https://deadline.com/2018/08/top-gun-2-a-quiet-place-2-new-release-date-1202446275/Paramount/Skydances Top Gun: Maverick, the long-awaited sequel to the 1986 Tom Cruise smash, is flying out of next summer to June 26, 2020. The pic had an original release date of July 12, 2019, but we hear the extended time will allow the production to work out all the complex, incredible flight sequences so that the pic can be great.
Boo. That's now more than a year away. It's just short of 2 years away since we're still in August 2018.
He battled throat cancer for 2 years and had a procedure done on his trachea that left him with almost no voice for awhile.I didnt know about that. What happened to him?
Crimson Tide.
He battled throat cancer for 2 years and had a procedure done on his trachea that left him with almost no voice for awhile.
we hear the extended time will allow the production to work out all the complex, incredible flight sequences so that the pic can be great.
Doesn't sound like anything involving the cast though.