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Top Gun Maverick, My .02 cents worth.
28 May 22 | Fightin Kentuckian

Posted on 05/28/2022 9:09:54 AM PDT by fightin kentuckian

Went to see the new Top Gun last night with my hot girlfriend. The first time I saw the original I was in Air Force Tech School and went to see it with my wing man at the mall in Henderson KY. This was of course, smack dab in the middle of the 80s when the movie really meant something. I had expected this to flop like the remake of Red Dawn because in large part due to the context of the time, then and now. But I was disproved, thank goodness, read on.

I wanted to like this movie a whole lot because of my history with it and I'll try not to give too much away. I'll cut to the chase, overall the movie was fantastic. It was nail biter. It was not as sophisticated as the plot in the first movie but not bad. I would have executed it differently with my 30+ year military background to make it a little more believable but that's me.

There was NO overt political language and that was very nice given todays movies. However there small political realities of the woke era that you'll notice. For example they never used the term "cockpit". Instead they used a term, "pilot in the box". Oh well. And the pilots assembled for the dangerous mission were the utmost in diversity, with a tough talking hispanic female, a dorky white guy named Bob, and the rest black and hispanic millennials acting like the had watched the first Top Gun several times in order to learn how to act like an Alpha Male. They did an OK job.

They tried to mimic the testerone filled VollyBall scene with a very watered down beach football scene. There were a few shirtless beefcake shots but nothing close to the original. After all we couldn't overshadow the strong hispanic female pilot or offend any beta cucks in the audience. But one thing I did notice that was a pleasant surprise, there wasn't one tattoo or piercing shown in that scene.

The dogfighting scenes were a different story and the pilots behavior was very, very millennial. In the first movie all the pilots were angry with themselves for not being good enough to best their instructors. In this movie the pilots sound just like the whiny millennials that they are. I heard a lot of, "we can't keep up with him" and "we don't do it that way, he's an old guy". Very different mentalities from 37 years ago.

One odd thing, when the movie starts out Mav is living in a hanger at an old navy airfield working on his P-51 Mustang (Yep, Wow!) and in the background of the hanger you see vintage motorcycles and cars and Mav's living quarters. This was out of character for Mav but it seems to me the producers borrowed heavily from Clive Cussler's, Dirk Pit character for this aspect of Mav's life.

That's about it. Overall I really liked and enjoyed the movie Oh and btw, Jennifer Connoley is my new crush. She'll be yours too.

Have a great and safe Memorial Day Weekend Freepers.


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: butterface; hollywood; imaginaryhotgirl; mav; movie; movies; tom; topgun
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To: crusty old prospector

I’ve only seen the video.


61 posted on 05/28/2022 11:10:57 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Texan

“Our very athletic college senior grandson has been talking about being a navy pilot for a couple of years now.”

My girlfriend’s grandson just became a Navy pilot. They are so woke! If I heard her correctly, he’s discouraged, possibly prohibited, to speak to black subordinates directly because his “tone” might offend them.

I’m not sure how the messages get filtered because there has to be a line where the two races must engage.

How’s that going to be helpful in combat or other emergency situations? I don’t know.


62 posted on 05/28/2022 11:13:17 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Jesus took my burden and left me with a song.)
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To: US_MilitaryRules

“Sounds like a woke movie to me.”

Not at all. And the enemy was ... our actual enemy, i. e., middle east rat bastards.


63 posted on 05/28/2022 11:19:02 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Jesus took my burden and left me with a song.)
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To: crusty old prospector

I don’t recall that scene in the original.

Maybe Urban Cowboy?


64 posted on 05/28/2022 11:20:41 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Jesus took my burden and left me with a song.)
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To: fightin kentuckian

This review is worthless without pictures of said ‘Hot Girlfriend’.


65 posted on 05/28/2022 11:23:31 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign! )
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To: logi_cal869
Penny Penny Penny - Jennifer Conolly proves there is no reason on Earth why women in their 50’s must look like the box your refrigerator came in.

Loved the movie! The SR 71 opening sequence sets the tone. That was badass when the SCRAMjets come on. Yeowwwww! The inverted high speed dive down the mountainside was fantastic. Favorite line: When Penny let’s out the mainsail on her ocean racer and scares Maverick to death. - - “ Now you’re in the Navy!”

LOL OH, yeah

66 posted on 05/28/2022 11:29:42 AM PDT by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: All
a tough talking hispanic female, a dorky white guy named Bob, and the rest black and hispanic millennials a

In other words just like every insurance commercial State Farm runs.

67 posted on 05/28/2022 11:29:46 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Where is Biden leading us and what's with the hand basket")
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To: MayflowerMadam

It was from another movie that she was in that was called “Career Opportunities.” I have no memory of it but I have seen the Flock Of Seagulls video.


68 posted on 05/28/2022 11:33:02 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: laplata

I didn’t say it was woke.

Do you know how to read a thread?


69 posted on 05/28/2022 11:40:48 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I'm running that far! )
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To: vikingd00d

Are you going to pre-order his upcoming book? he says he’ll hand deliver to your home and take you out to wild night of partying?


70 posted on 05/28/2022 11:40:50 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Where is Biden leading us and what's with the hand basket")
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To: fightin kentuckian

It was cheesy and utterly predictable. I was constantly thinking “look at all the old hollywood people with fake teeth.”

But overall, passable couple of hours.


71 posted on 05/28/2022 11:47:05 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: fightin kentuckian

Thanks for the run down but I will not be seeing the movie. Even when the pedophiles make a good movie, I will still not support their leftist lifestyle by paying to see it.

Thanks again for the post.


72 posted on 05/28/2022 11:48:43 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Jim W N

Agreed. It is a woke movie like all the other filth coming out of the freaks in hollywood.


73 posted on 05/28/2022 11:50:31 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Mr.Unique

It looks like a good movie to me.


74 posted on 05/28/2022 12:06:16 PM PDT by laplata (")
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To: Farmerbob

Just one.


75 posted on 05/28/2022 12:14:40 PM PDT by Mathews (It's all gravy, baby!)
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To: fightin kentuckian

Way more interested in seeing pics of the hot girlfriend than anything Tom Cruise is in.

In fact, even watching wallpaper paste dry seems more interesting…


76 posted on 05/28/2022 12:20:07 PM PDT by Magnatron
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To: fightin kentuckian

Who are the bad guys in Top Gun: Maverick?

https://slate.com/culture/2022/05/top-gun-maverick-enemy-country-rogue-state-revealed.html


77 posted on 05/28/2022 12:20:08 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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To: fightin kentuckian

Pilot in the box sounds like child talk akin to calling a car a wheel box.


78 posted on 05/28/2022 12:30:44 PM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: fightin kentuckian

I much prefer just watching airshow videos on UTube.


79 posted on 05/28/2022 12:55:41 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: fightin kentuckian

Id rather watch Hot Shots one and Two


80 posted on 05/28/2022 1:20:23 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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