That said, the flight scenes in Top Gun: Maverick are far better than what we ever had in the original. I had the pleasure of working on carrier flight decks and seeing the last few years of the Tomcat in service. Seeing what's happened with a lot of stuff I used to like get butchered, I was deeply worried for Top Gun: Maverick.Īlso for me: The F-14 is a beautiful aircraft, very sexy looking jet. The other thing is the original Top Gun is so full of 1980s tropes that I wondered how it would translate to a decent sequel in 2022. I've watched with great and immense displeasure what has been happening to both Star Trek and Star Wars for a long time, and how badly they've been mangled. It's how Hollywood has handled sequels, particularly old franchises / old movies for over a decade.

He hasn't had that until this movie several decades into his acting career.īox Office: ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Cruising to $150 Million Memorial Day I also have to stress how deeply concerned I was for this movie leading into release. I would have thought some other big movies he has had in the 80s and 90s would have gotten him the $100+ million opening. It's also amusingly Tom Cruise's biggest release. The movie somehow paid it's dues and respects to the original, aviation in general, while also forging ahead. So I was very happy to see that Top Gun: Maverick was great. The original Top Gun was also about as 1980s as you can get. It makes me think of Tom Hanks' greyhound, which had a very subdued release due to COVID. I think Tom was apprehensive about releasing it back then because of the state of movie-going at the time. I remember it was slated to come out in 2020 but COVID hit Hollywood pretty hard and it got pushed back. I had apprehension about a sequel for a movie almost 40 years past the original which came out in 1986.

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