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re: Top Gun: Maverick | Tomatometer Watch | 97% with 90 reviews in | 8.5/10 average rating
Posted on 5/12/22 at 9:32 am to kywildcatfanone
Posted on 5/12/22 at 9:32 am to kywildcatfanone
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People like gay themed plane movies
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Posted on 5/12/22 at 9:42 am to NATidefan
just rewatched the original and got seats opening night - my body is fricking ready
Posted on 5/12/22 at 10:05 am to RollTide1987
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they are also calling it a superior film to the 1986 original.
Well, it has a female Top Gun pilot, so of course they think it's better than the original.
Posted on 5/12/22 at 10:09 am to Fewer Kilometers
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Dropping, or flying upside down to give the Commies the bird?
'MURICA.
Posted on 5/12/22 at 10:14 am to RollTide1987
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While they acknowledge that the film is "military propaganda" (I shite you not, that's what some of the critics are saying)
I mean, it was a LITTLE (though it was more meant to tell a fun story, the Navy had a surge of people trying to get in - a lot of folks finding out that becoming a Naval aviator took a lot more than attitude and a desire to fly).
More to the point, while the intent of the movie was not really to be propaganda, it definitely got USED in that way.
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According to the US Navy, the box office success of Top Gun saw their recruitment rates balloon by a massive 500% in the year following the original movie’s release. This swell in numbers was due in no small part to the institution’s ability to tap into Top Gun fever when viewers of the movie were still at their most zealous and over-enthusiastic — as they walked out of the multiplex. The U.S. Navy set up recruiting stations outside of movie theaters when Top Gun was released, catching potential recruits as they were left the cinema hyped up by the movie’s dramatic climax. The strategy paid off, as the Navy soon had their highest number of applications in years.
Posted on 5/12/22 at 10:21 am to BuckyCheese
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Well, it has a female Top Gun pilot, so of course they think it's better than the original.
In 1986 there had never been a female pilot accepted into the US Navy's Fighter Weapons School (Top Gun) - the first was in 2004 - Becky Calder.
On a side note Japan got its first female combat pilot because she was inspired by the original movie, Misa Matsushima (1st Lt. in the article I found but that was 4 years ago, so I presume she's a higher rank if she's still in the service).
Posted on 5/12/22 at 10:25 am to skrayper
Has the Navy swung far enough to name a female pilot Top Gun yet?
From the trailer the broad's comment came across as the pilots in the room were all named Top Gun at some point. That's how I took it anyway.
I'm not that excited about it, but will watch when it hits' HBO or whatever it's on.
*Chuckled at the pic of Admiral Iceman.
From the trailer the broad's comment came across as the pilots in the room were all named Top Gun at some point. That's how I took it anyway.
I'm not that excited about it, but will watch when it hits' HBO or whatever it's on.
*Chuckled at the pic of Admiral Iceman.
Posted on 5/12/22 at 10:29 am to LNCHBOX
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LNCHBOX
So now you don't know the definition of propoganda?
Posted on 5/12/22 at 10:40 am to Wally Sparks
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So was the first movie.
Yeah well so is my johnson.
Posted on 5/12/22 at 10:45 am to BuckyCheese
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Has the Navy swung far enough to name a female pilot Top Gun yet?
That doesn't appear to be an actual thing.
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Note: Contrary to the famous movie, there was never a Top Gun "trophy" or "winner" in the class. However we did have some gag awards upon graduation.
Article here:
LINK
Additional article confirming this:
Task and Purpose
Looper
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Oh, and you know that trophy Maverick was determined to wrest away from Ice Man?
There is no such thing as a TOPGUN trophy for the best graduate. There never has been.
TOPGUN isn't about standing out. It's about standing together to be the best and working as an unbeatable team.
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Like any Hollywood movie, Top Gun's commitment to accuracy has its limits. Some of Top Gun's storytelling liberties are about creating character stakes — for instance, there is not, nor has there ever been, a TOPGUN trophy. The trophy is an invention of screenwriters Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr., created to give Maverick and rival aviator Iceman (Val Kilmer) something to compete over, establishing sports-style stakes for a war film without a war. In the Danger Zone documentary, former TOPGUN instructor Pete Pettigrew recounts explaining to the screenwriters that if a trophy really existed, "No one would ever graduate. You don't understand the intensity of these guys. ... Everybody would die."
This post was edited on 5/12/22 at 10:46 am
Posted on 5/12/22 at 11:11 am to skrayper
Well that sucks.
Regardless, knowing how the military is about promoting broads I doubt a one is truly in the top pilots yearly.
I doubt it is only PT standards that are lowered.
Regardless, knowing how the military is about promoting broads I doubt a one is truly in the top pilots yearly.
I doubt it is only PT standards that are lowered.
Posted on 5/12/22 at 11:16 am to skrayper
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former TOPGUN instructor Pete Pettigrew
dude is a rat
Posted on 5/12/22 at 11:16 am to whatiknowsofar
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So now you don't know the definition of propoganda?
It was a dumb comment to be filed away under the "no shite" section. Why does it even need to be said?
Posted on 5/12/22 at 11:44 am to Dire Wolf
quote:That's my nephew, the SWCC Warrant Officer, who has flown drones. He went to jump school, and has been trained to call in bomb strikes too. I used to play Wolfenstein, with he and his brother, when they were in elementary school and played Call of Duty online when they were in high school. Any time I played against them, they killed me quickly.
i was worried it was going to be about some gamer that turned into the world's best drone operator
His "fighting" world has kind of come full circle. After being deployed in the Middle East multiple times and to The Philippines. he's had deployments to Italy and Greece. He will be going to Sweden to train boat crews in a couple of weeks.
Posted on 5/12/22 at 11:52 am to BuckyCheese
i honestly could care less. going to see it
Posted on 5/12/22 at 12:05 pm to theunknownknight
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I need to change my pants
Just like the first one, that's what they're hoping for. Alotta guys who need to change their pants.
Posted on 5/12/22 at 12:08 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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But the San Francisco Chronicle is listed as well, so that’s a legit positive review.
Considering the sweaty, oiliness of the first one. This checks out.
Posted on 5/12/22 at 12:09 pm to RollTide1987
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And the critics are raving
While he is a nut job, i trust Tom Cruise not to make a shitty action movie, especially one as personal to him as Top Gun
Posted on 5/12/22 at 12:10 pm to Pax Regis
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Honestly a good old fashioned “America frick yea!” movie would be great right now. Every movie Hollywood puts out right now shits on this country in some manner.
This movie will probably find a way to do it too.
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