‘Born to Fly’: China's 'Top Gun Maverick' imitation that makers dumped after watching Tom Cruise's film

WION News ^ | 12-23-2023 | Kshitij Mohammed Rawat

[poconopundit]

Maverick was the best film about flying ever made. It completely re=wrote the book on how to make flight scenes realistic and thrilling.

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Yeah, it certainly was the best in my book. Just loved the scene where the jet went under a bridge sideways!

Wonder how well the film portrayed flight deck operations. Any perspective on that, rlmorel?

[Chainmail]

Realistic in the sense that the flight scenes - showing the view from the cockpit and the effects of G-forces on the actor's faces - was excellent. I flew in the back seat of a TAV-8B Harrier for a few hours and well remember what just 4.5 Gs felt like.

Obviously, the plot was more than a little unrealistic - but the air-to-air stuff was very impressive. Contrast that with the aviation movies filmed with actors in dummy cockpits, grimacing at the enemy. Scenes in which they changed aircraft in scenes from one kind to another - or in some lame Korean War movies, swapped jets for prop planes and then back again! These actors were really flying and sustaining some serious Gs!

[dfwgator]

They could always make a movie about a Sniper

[rlmorel]

As an aviation enthusiast, I did enjoy watching it. Heck, I am a sucker for anything that gets a vintage Tomcat back in the air, especially a purloined one!