re: Official “Top Gun: Maverick” Thread - Spoilers Welcomed

1st act setting up the story was a little hokey and boring.
2nd act with all the action scenes were fantastic.

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there were at least 8 previews/trailers before it started, from an extremely wide range of genres

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my wife commented that the previews were all over the place.

I checked my watch when the welcome message came on and there had been 25 minutes of previews.

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I checked my watch when the welcome message came on and there had been 25 minutes of previews.

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The line for concessions was ridiculous even though we got there early. I was thankful for all the previews for once

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The movie had a lot of unrealistic moments.

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Have you seen the first one?

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And that Maverick feels the need to constantly explain G-forces to top gun graduates.

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Because most of the theatre would be wondering why the pilots look like they are taking a huge shite during the flight scenes. The same reason why they re-did the briefing for the mission on the carrier as if the pilots forgot it. Audiences are dumb and need to be reminded of stuff.

I feel like a lot of people will be disappointed if they are just holding out to see this movie at home on their living room flat screen.

This was my first theater visit in 5 years and I wasn't disappointed.

It was a different movie from the first, but it really was a nice character development on Maverick. It approached the subject of maturity and loss with a dignity I wouldn't have expected from the series while still making it fun, overall. The visuals were stunning.

Most of all, it's nice to watch a big, well written, well shot, directed and acted summer blockbuster without comic book characters...that wasn't controversial, that didn't need to check boxes, that didn't insult its audience's intelligence, it was just a good, fun story.

I'm hoping the success of this movie sends some messages to the industry that making movies fun is more effective than pushing "the message" constantly. I suspect the only message that takes, however, will be the usual "we need more throwback brands to abuse".

Loved it! Hit the nostalgia well, the flight scenes were patriotic boner inducing, and it dodged the need to insert social topics into the plot (admit it, we were all waiting for Phoenix to take out Maverick no problem in training).

I thought the plot handled my most significant going in concern (plausibly explaining a 60-year old Maverick as a fighter pilot) very well.

The plot requires some hand-wavy things to work and provide the action but it was all justified IMO. But for the fun of it:

1) No way Rooster doesn’t know about the Tomcat’s variable swept wing beforehand (kid dreamt of being a fighter pilot since youth and his dad flew the F-14)

2) Have the F-35’s on alert instead of an in the event of an 5th Gen airborne fighter threat (which was spelled out as a threat beforehand).

3) For an extra 50 Tomahawks you probably could have taken out the SAM sites as well. Throw an SSGN that way if you don’t want the second surface ship there.

4) Mav didn’t register any kills since the first movie? He got 3 kills in a random oopsy in the mid 80’s and couldn’t wipe out some Iraqi fighter pilots in 1991? (It was mentioned in the movie that he served in both Gulf Wars and Afghanistan - tying the Top Gun universe to ours)

What the frick happened at the top of the last page?