re: Just watched Top Gun:Maverick for the 10th time

I’ve seen it a few times, it works. Yes it’s cheesy but it stays true to its 1980’a ethos.

One thing that was impressive:

Except for one joke sequence of two pilots ribbing each other “Hey Phoenix I hear he called you a man” - “At least he didn’t call you a man” gender/race wasn’t a topic.

Phoenix doesn’t break from the plot into a 5 minute speech about gender pay gaps, Coyote doesn’t talk about how hard it was being black at the naval academy, etc. They just let a cast of characters be pilots with their own personalities - and that’s it.