Top Gun: Maverick

Isn’t that just because the music’s so good? :woot:
 
Boo, sir, boo. It's like the quintessential Tony Scott movie. Orange filters, rockin' tunes, loud engines, bunch'a gay dudes playing volleyball. :oldrazz: What's not to love?

Crimson Tide. Also True Romance, but that's more of a Tarantino film disguised as a Scott film. But I will say that Top Gun's soundtrack is far superior to either of those movies.

Critically it’s not Shawshank Redemption. I’ll 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.

Isn’t that just because the music’s so good? :woot:

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.
 
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.
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.
 
Boo, sir, boo. It's like the quintessential Tony Scott movie. Orange filters, rockin' tunes, loud engines, bunch'a gay dudes playing volleyball. :oldrazz: What's not to love?

By the way, check out Final Countdown if you want F-14 footage to rival Top Gun.
 
So, what aircrafts are taking the place of the F-14 in this film?
 
That’s what we’re trying to speculate. Probably a mixture of F-18s and F-35s
 
I hope we see surprise cameos in here from Meg Ryan, Adrian Pasdar and Tom Skerritt even though they haven't been announced.

Also, I don't think Miles Teller will be playing a Goose-type character, even though he's meant to be his son.
 
I hope Harold Faltermeyer comes back or they use his themes (prays)
 
Boo. That's now more than a year away. It's just short of 2 years away since we're still in August 2018.
 
It might also do better if it's released before Fourth of July weekend in 2020 as opposed to a week after that in 2019.
 
I always kinda figured this would get pushed back, especially with how late they've been making cast additions and how it sounds like they're still making changes to the script and flying sequences.
 
I’m not in a rush for this. I’d rather it was good if it needs to be delayed.
 
Cruise just needs more time to practice flying... without a jet.
 
Val Kilmer looking pretty good after all his health scares the past few years:
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I didn’t know about that. What happened to him?
 
I didn’t know about that. What happened to him?
He battled throat cancer for 2 years and had a procedure done on his trachea that left him with almost no voice for awhile.
 
Crimson Tide.


Crimson Tide's cool and all, but I dunno I'd call it iconic as far as a Scott flick in the same way as Top Gun, seems to be one of the more under-the-radar ones. Gets the job done, Denzel & Hackman are awesome as always, but ehh. It's still pretty much poor man's The Hunt For Red October as far as 90s sub flicks go. It's still pretty good though, caught it again just recently.

I dunno, Top Gun's still kinda the classic. Or the most fun, and biggest cultural impact or whatever. Days Of Thunder, Beverly Hills Cop 2, The Last Boy Scout, that's all kinda what I think of when I think "Tony Scott" too. Enemy Of The State's a fun ride as far as the 90s stuff, and Man On Fire more recently's one of his more hardcore efforts.


EDIT: Also, as far as what they'll be flying in this, this is all I could find online on the awesome aviation-dweeb pages.


https://theaviationgeekclub.com/top...-lightning-ii-along-with-f-a-18-super-hornet/


Sounds like thankfully we'll be getting at least some F-18 goodness at least, even if they do go a route of the F-35 being the prime craft. Hope they don't, 35s are lame even if you overlook all their mechanical issues so far, but assuming they've done some deal with the Navy to use this as some P.R. thing for the new tech, seems like the 18s are probably at least involved in a secondary sense.

Which makes sense, given they still make up a majority of the Navy fleets, along with the craft serving other purposes like the modified-F18 Growlers, the Hawkeye, and Orion.
 
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He battled throat cancer for 2 years and had a procedure done on his trachea that left him with almost no voice for awhile.

Oh that’s terrible. Has he recovered fully now or still suffering some effects? (if you know)
 
So with the film delayed, does it mean that they're also going to be filming all of next year as well? So the cast will have to clear their schedules to not take on other projects? But what if they did have other films in the works in their schedule?

And does that mean that Cruise won't be working on anything else until at least late next year?
 
Doesn't sound like anything involving the cast though.

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.

Doesn't Cruise want to do some of the flying sequences himself? Or at least he'll want to be present in the cockpit for those like he was for the first film. So won't it involve him in this increased production time, if not the rest of the cast?
 

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