Posted on 05/12/2022 1:50:20 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Satisfying sequel hits nearly all the marks while outdoing the original
The 1986 smash “Top Gun” was both a movie and a pop cultural moment.
The latter mattered more, given the tenor of the times. President Ronald Reagan lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW D.C., and his confidence buoyed the nation. Pop hits like “Danger Zone” and “Take My Breath Away” crushed the Billboard charts, and rightly so.
The film’s star, Tom Cruise, couldn’t be more movie-star handsome or powerful within the industry — even if 1985’s “Legend” showed his commercial vulnerability.
“Top Gun” was the right movie at the right time, even if the film itself was far from great.
So where does that leave “Top Gun: Maverick?”
The oft-delayed sequel can’t replicate that Reagan-era optimism or the original’s rah-rah patriotism. This is 2022, and cheering on a straight white male military hero is problematic to the small but vocal minority that runs the culture.
Don’t tell that to Cruise.
The ageless star is in full control of his film destiny, and he clearly helped “Maverick” avoid most, if not all, of the culture war booby traps.
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SWORDFIGHT!
Cruise is a short li’l feller.
I’ll take Russell Crowe or Gerald Butler.
If I still went to the movies that is.
The filmmakers should edit it back in somewhere just to mess with them.
Quite right but you don’t have to revel in it like her. It takes discipline and hard work to stay young at heart and healthy. McGillisis t interested. Clearly
The question is how her soul looks to God and man. Personally I have no clue what kind of life she leads or why. I don’t follow her or even recognize her name.
Now people like the new White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, she is an ugly soul inside and out. People like Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg, utterly disgusting souls.
Little weird Cruze must be 60 years old and still can’t get enough of himself with a remake 🤪
It’s fun to make fun of old people for getting old!
Well, ya probably ought to watch the first one just to come up to speed on the story. The flying scenes, for the time, were really quite good.
I’m not a Tom Cruise fan. It’s not just because of his Scientology stuff. I think he’s a pompous jerk, true to his character Maverick. I try to stay away from his movies, but sometimes I want to see the other actors so still view a few, but reluctantly.
The Top Gun school is Air Force? I think it’s Navy
Who’s that lady and why did she eat Kelly McGillis?
That’s not McGillis
Getting old sucks. But you don’t have to let yourself go like that!
Top Gun was the only movie I’ve ever walked out of in my life.
It was silly.
Imagine if we could have taken just a peek of what lied ahead. I'd have never believed it.
Ain’t it the truth. I went to my high school reunion. 40th delayed 2 years. Both girls and guys looked way older than their years. I guess hard lives will do that.
I wonder what they replaced “you’ll be flying a cargo plane full of rubber dogshit out of hong kong” with?
I’m so glad I was a kid in the 80’s. Reagan defined the whole Era, pure American is, after the awful years from JFK’s Assination till 1980. The Bush 1 threw it all away.
Don’t know, but it looks like Jon Hamm will be the one to say it.
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