Top Gun Maverick | May 27, 2022 | Catch it in theaters...again on December 2nd! | Comes to Paramount+ on December 22!

[CoolioD1]

55 minutes ago, The GOAT said:

 

found out they weren't real pilots.

[DC Rich]

6 minutes ago, Ryan Reynolds said:

Top Gun school p+ series 

 

[Mr Terrific]

Maybe if they were Twenty One Aviators. 

[Brainbug]

Ill watch the original Top Gun for the first time tomorrow. Guess if i want to see this new one, i shoud see the first beforehand lol.

 

I expect a lot of cheese, a lot of Tom Cruise and a lot of planes.

[grim22]

1 hour ago, The GOAT said:

 

Makes sense - they were pilots, not musical artists.

[SnokesLegs]

15 minutes ago, Brainbug the Dinosaur said:

Ill watch the original Top Gun for the first time tomorrow. Guess if i want to see this new one, i shoud see the first beforehand lol.

 

I expect a lot of cheese, a lot of Tom Cruise and a lot of planes.

I rewatched it a few weeks back, honestly I felt that it held up surprisingly well. It’s undoubtedly cheesy, but if you can look past that and accept it as a product of its time, the story is actually pretty good. The flight scenes are still great too.

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

57 minutes ago, Brainbug the Dinosaur said:

Ill watch the original Top Gun for the first time tomorrow. Guess if i want to see this new one, i shoud see the first beforehand lol.

 

I expect a lot of cheese, a lot of Tom Cruise and a lot of planes.

It's Tony Scott so it looks fucking great. Dogfights are great. Extremely cheesy and over the top, but it's such an embodiment of the 80s that it's an enjoyable watch even if it doesn't make much sense.

[Gopher]

2 hours ago, keysersoze123 said:

I must admit I am not a big fan of the original. There were moments I enjoyed but the movie itself did not grip me that much. But if this is like MI kind of quality, I am super excited and I will see this in Dolby for sure. 

 

 

Craziest thing is that I'm not big on the first movie either. Tony Scott was one of our greatest directors, but that movie was never my favorite of his, it feels like a surface-level recruitment ad and the flight stuff is (dare I say this?) just okay. Maverick takes the one emotional access point the original had and makes it the entire story of this movie. It works as a far superior sequel, it works as a great standalone movie and it works as a celebration of late-era Cruise (not a coincidence that the core theme of this movie is arguably the same as MI - Fallout's). And the action is DIVINE. Shot and edited in a way that puts every tentpole to shame since... well, MI- Fallout! 

 

(good talking with you again man-- been a little while!)

[keysersoze123]

1 minute ago, Gopher said:

 

 

 

(good talking with you again man-- been a little while!)

Same here as well. I am excited bcos you are excited. You are not one to get excited on that easily. 

[SLAM!]

Even Hideo Kojima’s praising this:

 

 

[Menor the Destroyer]

2 hours ago, keysersoze123 said:

I must admit I am not a big fan of the original. There were moments I enjoyed but the movie itself did not grip me that much. But if this is like MI kind of quality, I am super excited and I will see this in Dolby for sure. 

Agreed on the original, but seems like this one steps it up from the first.

[Brainbug]

This movie has that certain feel to it.

 

I mean that in the sense that it could amount to a perfect storm. Gigantic breakouts for movies where expectations are big, but not huge, are very rare and the nature of movies like them (JW comes to mind) is that they obliterate any pre-release reasonable predictions and turn into zeitgeist events.

 

I get the feeling that this could fall into that category. Reviews will probably be raves judging by all the early reports we have. Top Gun also has a promise/concept that makes it completely unique compared to other big films in our current marketplace and it has an extremely bankable poster star with Tom Cruise.

 

I could be wrong and its certainly possible that my own hype for this movies box office run caught up with me. But i really do think that this could explode massively. To something like 150M+ 4-Day and 400M+ DOM. 

[eXtacy]

Hey everyone! Wonder if anyone remembers me. Been 3 years since my last post.

 

The social reactions for this seem to some of strongest I have seen in a while. Very interested to see its reception. Grace Randolph says reviews up on 9am EST Thursday/today.

[Brainbug]

4 hours ago, eXtacy said:

Hey everyone! Wonder if anyone remembers me. Been 3 years since my last post.

 

The social reactions for this seem to some of strongest I have seen in a while. Very interested to see its reception. Grace Randolph says reviews up on 9am EST Thursday/today.

 

First @Eevin, then @Mulder and now you!

 

BOT community coming together again, after the dark years of Covid.

[John Marston]

Hope this is not another Ghostbusters Afterlife where it gets strong social media reactions but average reviews 

[Maggie]

6 minutes ago, John Marston said:

Hope this is not another Ghostbusters Afterlife where it gets strong social media reactions but average reviews 

We'll find out in 20 minutes

 

 

AvClub gave it an A-

 

[Maggie]

 

 

 

Edited May 12, 2022 by Maggie

[Tarintino]

Still thinking this ends up being rotten

[Maggie]

 

[Cmasterclay]

7 minutes ago, Tarintino said:

Still thinking this ends up being rotten

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