Top Gun: Maverick

Saw this yesterday, didn’t care much for the first half, was great hearing the original top gun music at the start, loved the original.

second half of the movie flew by and was entertaining, all the new actors are rubbish to be honest.

was better than I expected, popcorn for the brain, not much to think about but plenty of cool stuff to look at.

Sending in a drone to take out the enemy target would have made for a much less interesting movie.

There's a French movie: Sky Fighters 2005.

I'm still awaiting my cheque. Hope it comes soon so I can but another cinema ticket to see it again.

Take another look - they weren't flying in a canyon, they were just flying close to terrain, hills and such. A bit of common sense and we can assume they probably didn't lay out their waypoints in locations where the real underlying geography would cause accidents.

Hmmmm... $757m worldwide ($393m USA, $353m World) now..

It'll definitely pass Batman at $770 .. Not sure it'll get the $1b or even pass Dr Strange at $930m

Still early days all the same.

Not sure what hold Jurassic World can do and what pull Lightyear will have.

Top Gun might be able to coast along until Minions and Thor in July.

Having now outgrossed Dr Strange 2 in the US, this will probably be the highest-grossing movie of the year there, although maybe Thor or Avatar 2 can overtake it.

They were not training in a canyon..

The were flying along mountain and hillside but in several scenes wide open ground in the other side was clearly visible.

They were simply flying as though it was a valley or canyon.

I think Maverick even stated I. The first meeting that they had no similar terrain to train in.

It would be more satisfying from the standpoint of fiction but also more inflammatory.

As for co-operation with the military... in the first film in 1986 the camera lingered on a recruitment poster at one point. Many critics saw it as a 110-minute recruiting ad, which it was. It led to a 500-percent increase in naval aviation recruitment.

The military talk openly about using these films for recruitment and have big links to Hollywood.

That the current US armed forces doesn't have enough pilots is well known in military circles so that American Airlines which depends on ex-military pilots is now running buses instead of planes between regional airports. Plus they will now need even more military personnel if Sweden and Finland join NATO (Yes, I'm aware that this film went into production in 2018 long before the conflict in Ukraine started).

'“The movie came out on Friday and [we] haven’t seen a giant uptick yet just because it’s the weekend,” said Navy recruiter Lieutenant Caitlin Bryant. “But we’re looking forward to it.”

Bryant says there was a noticeable bump even after the trailer first came out.'

Only one country in the world flies Su-57s (the enemy fifth gen fighter) and another country is the only one to have operational F-14s so it might be a team up between those two.

Great flick. Very enjoyable. Cringey yes but as expected. The fighter jet scenes were superb.

Top movie, so refreshing to see a classic type of movie like that on the big screen. Done so well for a bit of fun

The defence systems would take them out?

The planes can go low enough to evade defence systems

Dropping a bomb from the sky wouldn’t.

Didnt even notice there was a lady gaga song so you must be right, The main thing I thought was missing were classic quotes....

There were no infinitely quotable lines like eg

Your ego is writing cheques your body can't cash

You'll end up flying cargo planes full of rubber dogshit out of Hong Kong

I feel the need, the need for speed!

The biggest hit of Cruise's career and now the highest grossing film for 2022