Official Top Gun: Maverick Thread

[NobodyReally]

Holy shyt this movie was ass. Are y’all serious? The plot was DUMB AS fukk!!!!!!

Spoiler: Plot

A run stolen from the 1st Star Wars really??!! Ohh the dangerous mission where we have to shoot a missle in the only vent capable of blowing the base all the way up.

We are in 2022. This mission could have been accomplished by cruise missles and drones. If a fighter was to go in why wouldn’t they use and F-22? How are they getting carriers that close to a base without radar seeing that?

The F-14 Vs 5gen fighters was utterly absurd. I don’t care if Jesus was flying the F-14 it’s a no contest.

If they used F-22’s instead of F-18’s I would have liked the movie better.

Best part to me was when the tomahawks were launched and flew over the planes on their way to attack.

I hated how to pilots interacted also that shyt was so cheesy, nobody had a real persona except Miles Teller. I did like how they finally bonded in the end.

Also the big black dude had every job in the Navy? What was his actual duty? He was mission control, then he was like a drill sergeant, then he worked the flight deck on the carrier wtf?!

Isn't most of your argument meaningless because

Spoiler

they point out several times there are GPS and electronic signal jammers at the top of the mountain?

I've seen the SW/Death Star argument before, and I think there's some truth there, but that situation has never been applied to an earth bound target with real jets, so I think it was a fun exercise in 'what if?" that people are interested in.

And LOL@ the big black dude doing everything. I did think it was odd he was everywhere lol.

It's interesting to get a military specialist' perspective on this. As a creative writer, I always try to check in with people in the field to make sure I'm not writing something people can call out as BS. It was my understanding that Tom and his crew worked with the Navy and real fighter pilots to train for the movie, but I wonder if they consulted with them about everything like the plot.

 

[Shogun]

Every single actor that was a pilot in this movie went up and flew on the back seat of a jet. Cruise designed a 3 month course for them to be able to withstand the G forces and everything else that is at play when you are inside a super hornet (plus had to teach them how to work the cameras inside the cockpit). They didn't let Cruise fly one because of the risk but people have kinda implied that Tom could fly one no problem

Welcome to Tom Cruise’s Flight School for ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

If there was to be a sequel to the ’80s classic ‘Top Gun,’ it was going to need to be even better than the original—and way more realistic. Before the movie hits theaters, the cast of ‘Maverick’ explains what it took to become on-screen pilots.

www.theringer.com

Really stands out from these bland green screen assembly-line movies.

 

[pickles]

You guys seeing this on IMAX or what? Worth it to see on IMAX?

 

[Jmare007]

Holy shyt this movie was ass. Are y’all serious? The plot was DUMB AS fukk!!!!!!

Spoiler: Plot

A run stolen from the 1st Star Wars really??!! Ohh the dangerous mission where we have to shoot a missle in the only vent capable of blowing the base all the way up.

We are in 2022. This mission could have been accomplished by cruise missles and drones. If a fighter was to go in why wouldn’t they use and F-22? How are they getting carriers that close to a base without radar seeing that?

The F-14 Vs 5gen fighters was utterly absurd. I don’t care if Jesus was flying the F-14 it’s a no contest.

If they used F-22’s instead of F-18’s I would have liked the movie better.

Best part to me was when the tomahawks were launched and flew over the planes on their way to attack.

I hated how to pilots interacted also that shyt was so cheesy, nobody had a real persona except Miles Teller. I did like how they finally bonded in the end.

Also the big black dude had every job in the Navy? What was his actual duty? He was mission control, then he was like a drill sergeant, then he worked the flight deck on the carrier wtf?!

I mean, they explain why they use the F-18 at the very beggiging of the movie. They go step by step to explain the audience why this is a very unique misión that can only be accomplished in this way. Hell, it's heavily implied it's a suicide misión and that Don Draper doesn't give a shyt about the pilots.

If those explanations werent enough for you, I get it. But having that level of scrutiny over a summer blockbuster that's a sequel to one of the cheesiest 80's classics is hilarious to me. There was no way this film was ever going to please you ubder those circumstances

The Star Wars stuff is completely true. I think it's pretty evidente most peopl were willing to giving it a pass because it looked cool as fukk (and it was a 45 year old movie they ripping stuff from...)

 

[TheFireCar]

Holy shyt this movie was ass. Are y’all serious? The plot was DUMB AS fukk!!!!!!

Spoiler: Plot

A run stolen from the 1st Star Wars really??!! Ohh the dangerous mission where we have to shoot a missle in the only vent capable of blowing the base all the way up.

We are in 2022. This mission could have been accomplished by cruise missles and drones. If a fighter was to go in why wouldn’t they use and F-22? How are they getting carriers that close to a base without radar seeing that?

The F-14 Vs 5gen fighters was utterly absurd. I don’t care if Jesus was flying the F-14 it’s a no contest.

If they used F-22’s instead of F-18’s I would have liked the movie better.

Best part to me was when the tomahawks were launched and flew over the planes on their way to attack.

I hated how to pilots interacted also that shyt was so cheesy, nobody had a real persona except Miles Teller. I did like how they finally bonded in the end.

Also the big black dude had every job in the Navy? What was his actual duty? He was mission control, then he was like a drill sergeant, then he worked the flight deck on the carrier wtf?!

Why would they use an F-22 when that’s strictly
air force and their navy?

 

[detroitwalt]

Just saw this. Didn't make it to 4d, but I might watch it again at a 4d theater. It was seriously that good to me. One of the best and most entertaining movies I've seen in a while. The last 30 - 40 minutes was fukking intense. This is definitely better than the original imo. I'm not very knowledgeable with fighter jets so is there a reason why all the pilots in the original had co-pilots like goose, but in the new one only bob was a co-pilot.

Spoiler: Spoiler?

My only issue was that it didn't make sense to me why hangman was left back as a reserve when he was the best pilot there. I get why rooster was there, but the others were not as good as hangman. I'm probably missing something

Hornets have single seat & 2 seat versions. The F-14s they were flying in the 1st one came only in a 2 seat version. Maverick & Rooster were flying single seat aircraft. Phoenix & Bob and Payback & his backseat man were flying in a 2 seater.

 

[detroitwalt]

Holy shyt this movie was ass. Are y’all serious? The plot was DUMB AS fukk!!!!!!

Spoiler: Plot

A run stolen from the 1st Star Wars really??!! Ohh the dangerous mission where we have to shoot a missle in the only vent capable of blowing the base all the way up.

We are in 2022. This mission could have been accomplished by cruise missles and drones. If a fighter was to go in why wouldn’t they use and F-22? How are they getting carriers that close to a base without radar seeing that?

The F-14 Vs 5gen fighters was utterly absurd. I don’t care if Jesus was flying the F-14 it’s a no contest.

If they used F-22’s instead of F-18’s I would have liked the movie better.

Best part to me was when the tomahawks were launched and flew over the planes on their way to attack.

I hated how to pilots interacted also that shyt was so cheesy, nobody had a real persona except Miles Teller. I did like how they finally bonded in the end.

Also the big black dude had every job in the Navy? What was his actual duty? He was mission control, then he was like a drill sergeant, then he worked the flight deck on the carrier wtf?!

The F-22 is strictly a fighter jet. The F/A-18 is a fighter/ATTACK aircraft, emphasis on attack. Attack aircraft are more suited for air to surface attacks like they had to do in this one. An F/A aircraft was needed since they to not only go after a ground target but also dogfight their way out of there.

 

[TheFireCar]

The F-22 is strictly a fighter jet. The F/A-18 is a fighter/ATTACK aircraft, emphasis on attack. Attack aircraft are more suited for air to surface attacks like they had to do in this one. An F/A aircraft was needed since they to not only go after a ground target but also dogfight their way out of there.

exactly like Maverick says in the movie "the f-35 won't work because of its GPS targeting vs. the F-18's laser guidance

 

[YaThreadTrashB!]

The F-22 is strictly a fighter jet. The F/A-18 is a fighter/ATTACK aircraft, emphasis on attack. Attack aircraft are more suited for air to surface attacks like they had to do in this one. An F/A aircraft was needed since they to not only go after a ground target but also dogfight their way out of there.

exactly like Maverick says in the movie "the f-35 won't work because of its GPS targeting vs. the F-18's laser guidance

The movie gave a very plausible answer and people still want to complain

 

[YaThreadTrashB!]

If they can keep making real movies like this

Movie theaters will last forever

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

Why would they use an F-22 when that’s strictly
air force and their navy?

Why wouldn’t they send in the tomahawks to blow up the missle and radar sites along with the air base.

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

The F-22 is strictly a fighter jet. The F/A-18 is a fighter/ATTACK aircraft, emphasis on attack. Attack aircraft are more suited for air to surface attacks like they had to do in this one. An F/A aircraft was needed since they to not only go after a ground target but also dogfight their way out of there.

Ok I can understand that but they wouldn’t send in escort fighters to deal with the Gen5’s so the team could get home. Seems they made this unnecessarily difficult.

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

Spoiler

them stealing the F-14 was so far fetched they should have gotten a jumpstart from a Thor lightning bolt. Not only was it locked loaded and fueled but he was able to do a short takeoff. Amazing.

 

[TheFireCar]

Spoiler

them stealing the F-14 was so far fetched they should have gotten a jumpstart from a Thor lightning bolt. Not only was it locked loaded and fueled but he was able to do a short takeoff. Amazing.

The F-14 was purely nostalgia

 

[Big Boss]

What even is the rock’s best action film?Fast five ? which was good but in the realm of action pretty mid and he wasn’t even the main star on that

Even then FF is Vin Diesel series lol