re: Top Gun: Maverick — just want to reiterate how…

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Funny you post that gif of Miles Teller. That was the only groan inducing part of the movie. "thank you for saving my life!!!!"

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And see, I thought it was a great little heartfelt homage to the OG TG. Top Gun was all about cheese, but it was awesome. So why should we cringe at the cheese in the sequel?

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Why wouldn’t you simply assume that they were roughly the same age in the original, especially considering we never see her onscreen and she’s only referenced like twice in the whole movie?

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Right. An Admiral will be in their early 50s at best. She could've been 35 in the original

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argument for the best sequel of all time

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It’s in my top movies of all time let alone sequel.

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man....it amazes me how people cannot just enjoy movies anymore, and have to dissect and nit pick every little detail.

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You have to be able to suspend reality for the duration of most action/fantasy/war movies. They almost all get some things, often physics, wrong but a lot of times it is done by choice not by accident. TG and TGM require a lot of looking the other way which is fine and makes for a great popcorn movie but I think that is distinct from a great movie though a movie can be both but it is really hard.

I enjoyed TGM, I have watched it several times but it doesn't meet my definition of a great movie without caveats. IMO movies are like food sometimes you want a 3 star meal and sometimes you just want some comfort food. The problems start when some people begin to conflate the two and on the opposite side some people start to dissect the comfort food ruthlessly. Sometimes fried porkchop, gravy, and mashed potatoes are perfect.

The internet is the perfect conduit for ruining the enjoyment of movies. Everyone is a critic and plenty of people just love being a contrarian all the time. Gods forbid if there is any canon involved because it will go downhill fast.

While I doubt it would have turned out good for him, he didn’t eject. The cockpit/plane broke apart around him which evens out the deceleration. There is a story about a SR71 Blackbird crash in mid air, where one guy ejected and had his neck broken by the deceleration while the pilot couldn’t get out of the cockpit until it fully broke apart and survived, though ended up with a broken leg among other injuries.

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And Maverick ejecting at Mach 10.

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To be fair, they didn't portray it as a typical ejection (canopy jettison/ejection seat). They just showed the breakup and then him walking into the diner. For all we know the aircraft had a capsule system or something more plausible.

I knew a 25 year old guy who dated a girl at a catholic high school in 1998. Went to her prom and all. She was 17.
The 80s were even worse than the 90s.

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At a min he would’ve had 4 years of college, then a year of flight school, and if eligible to attend Top Gun would’ve had at least finished his nugget cruise and probably done a dept head tour. So your number is probably right.

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Thank you. That aligns with Cruise's age at the time, by the way.

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Penny being around 20 at the time isn’t creepy.

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I think the implication of the scandal being recited in a litany of Maverick's other transgressions suggests she couldn't have been any older than 20 and likely 18 or 19. I'm certain that's the way the scriptwriters want us to interpret it.

So, that brings us up to TGM. Shot in 2019, so we have to read the lovely Ms. Connelly as portraying a character in her mid-50s when she was an already youthful looking 48 - 49 at the time of filming.

I'm catching a bunch of grief in this thread - I LOVE these movies, but there is a dance around this casting that isn't comfortable. That's all I'm saying.

I've never seen someone dedicate this much effort to making a fictional character out to be a pedo.