Posted on 07/31/2022 4:43:15 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
"Top Gun: Maverick" took to the skies in late May and hasn't looked back. Tom Cruise's latest release is now the ninth-highest grossing movie of all time at the domestic box office.
"Maverick," the sequel to the hit 1986 film "Top Gun," has grossed nearly $650 million in the US alone, a feat that has only been accomplished by a handful of other films.
Just last week, "Maverick" blew past 2012's "The Avengers" to take sole possession of ninth place on the list, and is within striking distance to pass No. 8 "Jurassic World" and seventh place "Titanic," according to data from Box Office Mojo.
The top 10 highest-grossing movies at domestic box office
Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($936.6M) Avengers: Endgame ($858.3M) Spider-Man: No Way Home ($804.7M) Avatar ($760.5M) Black Panther ($700.4M) Avengers; Infinity War ($678.8M) Titanic ($659.3M) Jurassic World ($653.4M) Top Gun: Maverick ($635.5M as of July 25, 2022)
Top Gun: Maverick' is the first billion-dollar movie in Tom Cruise's career Despite blockbuster hits like the long-running "Mission: Impossible" franchise and 2005's "War of the Worlds," "Top Gun: Maverick" is the first film in Tom Cruise's 40-year-career to gross more than $1 billion globally.
Cruise, who has been a proponent of getting movie lovers back in cinemas and who recorded a thank you video that played before certain "Maverick" showings, last month thanked fans "for venturing out and allowing us to entertain you."
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Well it took 35 years to make the sequel.
In another 35 years, Cruise will be needing glasses to read.
Chuckle.
“The whole point is that Jack Reacher is a physical giant” is not quite correct. The point is that Jack Reacher is quite intimidating. That was established very early in the Cruise films with lightning quick takedowns of multiple adversaries.
I’ve read all of the Jack Reacher books and short stories. I loved the Amazon series, but I still loved the Tom Cruise Jack Reacher films. His Jack Reacher was not a giant but he was believably intimidating and resourceful.
Whatever dude....I know evil when I see it.
Saw it once ... would like to see it again in the theater, big screen, big sound, popcorn and Cokes ... because some of those flight scenes just have to be on the big screen.
Yes you should!
It’s amazing on the big screen!
“Collateral” is one the best Tom Cruise movies most people have never heard of. He’s incredible in it and so is Jamie Fox.
When I think of the physicality of Jack Reacher, Trace Adkins comes to mind.
Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher is a travesty
Tom’s movie is Entertainment and not Reeducation
We saw it and found it enjoyable if implausible. I’d watch it again. I do not go to the movies often. I enjoyed going during the lockdown days as our movie theater showed a lot of old movies, and we took our teens to see them. We waited for the crowds to go down to go see Maverick. The theater was still about half full.
One of the best movies I’ve seen in a long time. It was awesome!! My husband and I loved it.
Tom Cruise will get maybe $30 million of that $1.3 billion haul. That leaves $1.27 billion for the real enemies of freedom, the studio and distibution owners. That is the hollywood that is the enemy.
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I saw it last month—then came home and rewatched the first Top Gun. The first one was better. I’m Gen X like Tom Cruise—he was 23 in the first one and I was in high school. Great 80s flick! Great chemistry with Kelly McGillis.
The sequel had a better and more defined military mission (except that “the enemy” was a bit vague).
I appreciated that Tom cruise thanked the audience for returning to the theater at the beginning.
I haven’t bothered to see it. I saw the original when it came out 36 years ago. From my POV “Maverick” is mostly a remake/retool/reimaging of the original, which itself was only moderately entertaining and full of cliches even in 1986.
I have to give a lot of credit though to Tom Cruise. He can still play the part of a gung-ho fighter pilot after 36 years. The man must be a billionaire by now.
Simple story with plenty of F18s doing cool stuff. I enjoyed it. Twice.
Outside of the ridiculous casting, it was better than the original. Almost completely devoid of navel gazing. Pretty much every scene was filled with conflict or action, or both.
If you like to watch fighter plane stunts, this is the film for you.
Yes, adjusted for inflation, Gone with the Wind takes number one. Then the top twenty or so of the list adds in Sound of Music, Dr Zhivago, The Ten Commandments, ET, and a bunch of older Disney movies.
And he wanted to wrk with Oliver Stone. Cruise has worked with all the contemporary great directors - Kubrick, Spielberg, Stone, Scorsese, Ridley Scott to name a few.
Cruise as Reacher doomed the flick from the start.
Great flick, and Cruise worked with another great director Michael Mann.
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