Top Gun: Maverick (2022) Movie • Page 10

This blew me away lol

 

First time in a while I was getting texts from people in my life that don’t normally go to the movies, very excited to tell me they saw this. This is gonna continue to play like gangbusters throughout the summer

 

I definitely plan on seeing it more. That third act on the big screen is just something else.

 

I saw this today and I don't really have anything to say about it other than that I really enjoyed it much more than I thought I would, and it was kind of nice to watch a movie that just wanted to tell a story. Even if plot points were predictable, it was a nice kind of predictable, where it feels good to just watch it play out.

 

Politically, it is as odious as the original. I was surprised there wasn't a military recruiter waiting outside of the theater to sign us up.

It was fun, though. The younger cast were surprisingly well-rounded, especially since a lot of these films spend so much time on the older generation that the new cast can feel generic. It is a much better cross-generational sequel than everything else we have been getting.

 

Saw this in IMAX and it indeed slaps. Can’t wait to see it again

The Mission Impossible trailer got a standing ovation

 

Pretty much the antithesis of what The Matrix: Resurrections did as a sequel.

 

And yet The Matrix Resurrections was also great

 

Yeah this and Resurrections are doing different things but are both valid in their approach and both excellent movies

 

I haven't even seen this movie yet (I will this weekend), but I'm already pissed off at it as Foxnews are hyping it up as a '100% American movie devoid of wokeness', and that it's proof that conservatives won't be silenced and the box office results this weekend are a reckoning for hollywood and proof that you go woke, you go broke, blah blah blah blah,

why does everything have to be dumped on one side of the culture war? Can't a movie just be a movie?

I mean i could ignore it, but now the movie is tainted if it really is becoming this conservative rallying point. Like I don't want to be overhead at a bar being like 'yeah! top gun was awesome, go see it' and then some conservative knob head start ranting about how bitchingly non-woke it was.

 

There's always going to be bad takes. But a good movie is a good movie

 

The Great Balls of Fire scene was so well done.

 

Interested to see if this passes the 245 million domestic box office mark, if they do it will overtake 2014's Transformers Age of Extinction as the highest domestically grossing Paramount film of the last 10 years.

Either way this is a huge W for Paramount, who has been struggling the last decade or so finding a lane in the big budget blockbuster space against other studios' IP machines since Disney took Iron Man/Indiana Jones from them and Universal took Dreamworks Animation from them. Transformers, Star Trek, and Mission Impossible were pretty much the only big money franchises they had until now.

 

Penny's bar had such cursed vibes, no one under the age of 50 loves Slow Ride

Tom needs to be studied in a lab

 

wtf that song is great and ubiquitous speak for yourself

 

That scene was definitely off for a bunch of people in their late twenties/early thirties. I did not know the significance of the piano scene from the original film so at first that seemed like a really odd choice.

 

Have you not seen the first movie?

 

Should've been The Ghost Of You or Boulevard Of Broken Dreams.

 

bad guy billie eilish anything else is fake

 

It’s pretty funny that besides the Lady Gaga song, there’s like not a single song that plays that was released when the main cast (minus Cruise) was alive.

 

my soul left my body at Won't Get Fooled Again and I'm not sure it's returned yet

 

The OneRepublic beach football scene was the only other one, I think.