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Top Gun Maverick

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GN637 · 14/02/2024 21:03

Ffs I was not expecting the emotional punch from this. Top Gun is my all time favourite film having watched it at age 11/12 and wanting to be Maverick. A dream denied by asthma alas. I'm watching Maverick with ds who has shown a sudden interest in planes. I'm a way behind I know. I didn't know there'd be so many references and clips and links to the original. I didn't pay much attention to all the hype when I came out. I bawl every time Goose smacks his head and did it again 35 years later about half an hour ago. Ds is concerned 😬
No film has ever stirred my blood like Top Gun but planes are in my soul.
I've not got to the end of Maverick yet so there might be more tears. My adrenaline is pumping.
Any other big fans of the original have a similar reaction? I know there'll be those saying it's shite but his I love it.

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FruTbun · 30/05/2024 20:03

I create content (for streaming - a hobby) using the Sim Digital Combat Simulator. I have been “flying” it since 2003. Here is one of my TopGun parodies.

https://vimeo.com/895516729/b74d811075

08 F-14A Turn & Burn

This is "08 F-14A Turn & Burn" by Smudge on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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ArchaeoSpy · 10/04/2024 20:27

TheIcecreamManCometh · 10/04/2024 20:18

I still think though, that if they are making Top Gun 3, they ought to have Robbie Amell appear as Mav's son he never knew existed (from his relationship with Kelly McGillis).
He's 61. She's 66. They appeared together on screen 1986.
Robbie Amell is 35, born in 1988. It's close enough.
He is the spitting image of Tom.

Storyline - Robbie has been a flight instructor elsewhere (let's say Canada, why not?) and Charlie finally tells him who his real father was. She didn't before as she'd moved on/didn't know herself/has only found out after the death of her husband. She always adored Mav but he'd broken her heart/was reckless so she kept quiet.
Oh and bring back Kelly for a dramatic angry scene while you're about it! Wink

Robbie Amell, we need him in the tomorrow people season 2, if they make another season

ArchaeoSpy · 10/04/2024 20:26

@GN637
for me it was the tear moment when the enemy plane was chasing them and mav was climbing over the sea and then says sorry goose just as the enemy locks on

TheIcecreamManCometh · 10/04/2024 20:18

I still think though, that if they are making Top Gun 3, they ought to have Robbie Amell appear as Mav's son he never knew existed (from his relationship with Kelly McGillis).
He's 61. She's 66. They appeared together on screen 1986.
Robbie Amell is 35, born in 1988. It's close enough.
He is the spitting image of Tom.

Storyline - Robbie has been a flight instructor elsewhere (let's say Canada, why not?) and Charlie finally tells him who his real father was. She didn't before as she'd moved on/didn't know herself/has only found out after the death of her husband. She always adored Mav but he'd broken her heart/was reckless so she kept quiet.
Oh and bring back Kelly for a dramatic angry scene while you're about it! Wink

TheIcecreamManCometh · 10/04/2024 20:10

Yep. That tache did all the heavy lifting! Grin

Catch222 · 10/04/2024 19:05

I'm just watching this now. Rooster has just walked into the bar looking like goose and it made be blub.

tracktrail · 30/03/2024 21:47

RicePuddingWithCinnamon · 30/03/2024 21:13

Cobra Kai is brilliant! I tell anyone my age they must watch it.
Its cheesetastic and amazing.

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I totally agree, I've watched the whole series far too many times! 😁

ToxicChristmas · 30/03/2024 21:41

Chocolateteabag · 30/03/2024 21:11

Love both films - just wish they could have found a way to have Kelly McGillis and /or Meg Ryan to feature somehow

Could have been a phone call as a "higher up" or a fleeting scene

I've read that KG wasn't even approached for the second film - which just feels wrong TBH

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Kelly said herself it's because she's aged in a non Hollywood way. She's got grey hair, looks her age and (in her words not mine) is fat. The director denied this, but I think everyone knows this is probably true. Jennifer Connelly fit their lead women type.

HappiestSleeping · 30/03/2024 21:14

Chocolateteabag · 30/03/2024 21:11

Love both films - just wish they could have found a way to have Kelly McGillis and /or Meg Ryan to feature somehow

Could have been a phone call as a "higher up" or a fleeting scene

I've read that KG wasn't even approached for the second film - which just feels wrong TBH

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I know what you mean. Not as wrong as not using the same voice actors for the second Chicken Run film though. That was sacrilege.

RicePuddingWithCinnamon · 30/03/2024 21:13

gemsgv · 14/02/2024 22:01

On a side note, if you like the clips and references to the original, have you seen Cobra Kai? I didn't realise just how many of the original Karate Kid cast were in it and the flashback scenes are really well mixed in

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Cobra Kai is brilliant! I tell anyone my age they must watch it.
Its cheesetastic and amazing.

Chocolateteabag · 30/03/2024 21:11

HappiestSleeping · 14/02/2024 21:32

I like that Tom Cruise gathered as many of the original crew together in order to get the same feel as the first one. And also insisted Val Kilmer was in it.

Love both films - just wish they could have found a way to have Kelly McGillis and /or Meg Ryan to feature somehow

Could have been a phone call as a "higher up" or a fleeting scene

I've read that KG wasn't even approached for the second film - which just feels wrong TBH

Mollyplop999 · 30/03/2024 21:10

I watched Top Gun only 7 years ago with my uncle. He was dying of cancer and I used to go and sit with him at night. I loved it, but I'll never be able to watch it again as it would be too painful.

HesterPrincess · 30/03/2024 21:06

I loved the original so much, I think I went 5 times to the cinema. I really didn't enjoy the sequel at all - moments of it were amazing but it stretched the imagination too far for me. I was horribly disappointed.

The original will have my heart forever.

TroysMammy · 30/03/2024 21:05

I also updated my Facebook status " It's 1986 again and I'm 18" .

TroysMammy · 30/03/2024 21:04

After I saw it on the cinema I listened to the original soundtrack on YouTube. Again and again and again.

WingingItSince1973 · 30/03/2024 20:49

Mookie81 · 15/02/2024 00:19

When Dangerzone got going I squealed Grin.

Same 😂

WingingItSince1973 · 30/03/2024 20:48

I saw it at the cinema. It was such a nostalgia trip for me as I was a teen when Top Gun came out and I had the soundtrack on cassette tape! I watched it again with my dd on tv last week and still felt the same. She didn't understand my emotions. To be honest she doesn't really like any of my childhood (80s) films 😂

ToxicChristmas · 30/03/2024 20:30

lysto · 15/02/2024 01:44

I agree. I loved the original and had been expecting a lot so was disappointed.

It seemed like a part rehash of some of the original themes, but some parts were silly (Tom helping at the end really?) Overall it was cheesy.

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Agree with this.Loved the first one and was excited for the second but sadly for me it didn't really hit the spot. I thought the chemistry between Tom Cruise and Jennifer Connelly wasn't there and that the whole film was forgettable. It was fine, it certainly wasn't shit. I honestly watched it and forgot it immediately though. I couldn't even really tell you the plot a year or so on. Everyone likes different things though, just an opinion.

FoxyLoxyLoo · 30/03/2024 20:29

They’re making another one.

AgnesNaismith · 30/03/2024 20:26

i think Maverick is one of the best films of the last 10 years. Such an antidote to a conveyor belt of marvel and dc films. Agree with you OP, my kids also absolutely loved it - so much I caught the older one watching it out of choice the other day on her own.

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 30/03/2024 20:20

Highfivemum · 30/03/2024 20:08

I thought it started a bit poor but then I really enjoyed it.
Tom Cruise is like Peter Pan and doesn’t seem to age.

I was thinking that about Tom but he’s had good work done and his hair is dyed. He looks good on it though.

ADoggyDogWorld · 30/03/2024 20:16

I watched Maverick the other week, we were staying with friends and they put it on. I was not expecting it to be so GOOD!

Highfivemum · 30/03/2024 20:08

I thought it started a bit poor but then I really enjoyed it.
Tom Cruise is like Peter Pan and doesn’t seem to age.

Oblomov24 · 30/03/2024 18:15

Enjoyed it very much.

janefondofu · 30/03/2024 18:08

I've watched it about 5 times and still cry everytime

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