Top Gun: Maverick (2022) Movie • Page 12

I only remember that being a very brief conversation in the beginning of the movie, and while it was pure cheese, I'm not sure an anti-drone message is necessarily a pro-war message.

 

Drones aren't less war, but you don't need to recruit drones. It's about that kid in the audience.

 

I guess. I dunno, I just didn't get a lot of "sign up today" vibes out of it, but then again, I'm not their target audience for that anyway.

Overall though, I thought it was interesting the tack the movie took with the whole "hey, if you don't train them to survive, we're still gonna send them anyway" vibe.

I'm not sure that would entice people to sign up. But then again, (points to self) not their target audience.

 

I did just see an ad last night before Jurassic that made it look like joining the air force means you get to joy ride in jets. Oddly enough, don't remember getting that ad before Top Gun.

edit: found the ad

edit: I'm now reminded that technically the pilots in Top Gun fly for the Navy, so maybe that's why.

 

I don’t think the navy is gonna loan a bunch of $60M planes to a movie they don’t think is gonna boost recruitment

 

Curious what % of the budget was allocated just for borrowing those jets.

 

I have never really thought about flying a plane and even I thought it looked fun. The reality is that any big-budget action movie probably had its script approved by the Department of Defense, which has a special unit just to coordinate with movie studios.

 

The real question is whether this movie is subliminal, liminal, or superliminal.

 

so damn good

 

This made another $50 million this week against a fucking Jurassic Park movie. Fucking wild.

 

Pretty sure now Paramount will want another sequel, to keep the money train flowin’

 

They definitely set up Amelia (Penny's) daughter to end up a pilot, so I wouldn't be surprised if that's the direction a third movie goes.

 

First one is a sports movie. This one is a heist movie

 

At first I had no idea what you were on about, but the more I think about it, the more the heist comparison makes sense. There is no "heist", but it's still built like one to a degree.

 

Yep the mission plays out like they are pulling off the greatest heist of all time

 

This was a ton of fun. This was very similar to a new hope.

 

First one is a sports movie, this one is the trench run

 

This one is more of a cosmic gumbo.

 

I bet Maverick doesn't care if he dies at all

 

Damn, that's a good description.

 

gonna quit my job to only make (monetized!) ending explained videos

 

Saw this for a third time today and it still hits all of the emotions that it did in the first time. Am curious to see if it holds up when I eventually watch it at home vs at the theater.

 

Great video on what it was like for the first few women to fly fighter jets (like the Tomcat) in the 90's