Top Gun sequel: Maverick

[Rivendelboy]

I'd like it to be really subversive. Maverick feels hard done by and disillusioned over the years and has gravitated towards alt right militia types and decides to fly a suicide mission smack bang into his old base. Val Kilmer reluctantly has to take him out with some snappy dialogue. RATM reform to cover Dangerzone, of course.

...while quoting pewdiepie

 

[Sprocket.]

Enjoyed the flying sequences in the first and probably will in this, the story will not be a major issue.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

It will be interesting to see scenes with Val Kilmer. He's seemed to be in ill health for a while now. I have to doubt if he's got that eternally youthful bounce that Cruise manages to maintain somehow--probably the liberal application of the blood of sacrificed virgins.

 

[Poi E]

Cruise strikes me as someone who has avoided booze, ciggies and junk food for a long time. Kilmer, not so much.

 

[bellaozzydog]

Looks awesome I'm all in for this.

Aw man that looks MEGA

 

[krtek a houby]

...while quoting pewdiepie

Had to look this guy up. I am still none the wiser.

 

[skyscraper101]

I like it because it looks old school action/drama. I'm not a fan of most action movies nowadays with superheroes, daft plots and overly CGI'd effects. This looks - at least from the trailer - refreshingly free of all that with real military hardware and stunts.

 

[T & P]

I don’t think Cruise flew for real (solo, at least) in the original films did he? Looks like he does fly them for real in this one. Which wouldn’t surprise me as there’s little he won’t learn to do for one of his films, instead of being sensible and letting a stunt double or professional do it instead

 

[DownwardDog]

I don’t think Cruise flew for real (solo, at least) in the original films did he? Looks like he does fly them for real in this one. Which wouldn’t surprise me as there’s little he won’t learn to do for one of his films, instead of being sensible and letting a stunt double or professional do it instead

There is absolutely no way a civvie would be allowed to fly a USN jet unless they are one of the manufacturer's test pilots with thousands of hours of miljet experience. TC also couldn't stand to lose the inch of height if he had to bang out.

 

[skyscraper101]

Tom Cruise Required Top Gun: Maverick Cast to Be Able to Fly in Fighter Jets

He seems to suggest he (and other cast members) flew the planes, but I can't believe he didn't have someone else in there too.

 

[Cid]

Had to look this guy up. I am still none the wiser.

Famous youtuber, in fact the highest number of subscribers at the moment (97 million, video views total 22 billion). Became controversial for using the N word on a live stream, also various anti-semitic 'jokes'. Drifted into the alt-right spectrum... And, well... The gunman at the Christchurch mosque shooting suggested subscribing to him just before murdering a lot of people.

 

[T & P]

Tom Cruise Required Top Gun: Maverick Cast to Be Able to Fly in Fighter Jets

He seems to suggest he (and other cast members) flew the planes, but I can't believe he didn't have someone else in there too.

DownwardDog and our other pilots would know for sure, but surely there must be such thing as a 2-seater trainer F18... Perhaps they were two-seaters and they cgi’d the other guy out afterwards?

 

[mauvais]

F/A-18F is two seat, significantly fewer exist than the single seat E, but there are plenty.

 

[fishfinger]

Yeah, he'll be a back-seat passenger.

 

[mauvais]

Also, from the trailer:



That's an F-14, original TG style. But the only current operator of these is...?

 

[DownwardDog]

DownwardDog and our other pilots would know for sure, but surely there must be such thing as a 2-seater trainer F18... Perhaps they were two-seaters and they cgi’d the other guy out afterwards?

The FRS F/A-18Fs are twin sticks while the fleet F/A-18Fs have the rear cockpit configured for a WSO.

There were never any twin stick F-14s so the first time a pilot flew that they were really flying it.

 

[Don Troooomp]

War/American hero films always had an enemy of the day to point their guns at (Rambo's holiday in Afghanistan didn't age well) but who will they use as the enemy this time?
"Enemies" of the US are changing every second week, Iran, Afghanistan, China, mobile phone manufactures, left wing women in Congress - Who are they going to shoot at?

 

[Don Troooomp]

Also, from the trailer:

View attachment 178431

That's an F-14, original TG style. But the only current operator of these is...?

An Iranian is going to play the hero???

 

[krtek a houby]

Famous youtuber, in fact the highest number of subscribers at the moment (97 million, video views total 22 billion). Became controversial for using the N word on a live stream, also various anti-semitic 'jokes'. Drifted into the alt-right spectrum... And, well... The gunman at the Christchurch mosque shooting suggested subscribing to him just before murdering a lot of people.

Ugh

 

[T & P]

I am pleasantly surprised they’ve resisted the temptation to have Cruise flying the F-35 or F-22 in the film, rather than the more ‘mundane’ F-18.

 

[likesfish]

An Iranian is going to play the hero???

Obviously after iraq Maverick converted to Islam and as the forces of the great satan begin the invasion Maverick takes the last operational f14 devestates the american invasion finally out of missiles and ammo he plunges the f14 into the heart of the american carrier he last words being
Allah Akbar!

 

[krtek a houby]

Obviously after iraq Maverick converted to Islam and as the forces of the great satan begin the invasion Maverick takes the last operational f14 devestates the american invasion finally out of missiles and ammo he plunges the f14 into the heart of the american carrier he last words being
Allah Akbar!

Meh

I'd like it to be really subversive. Maverick feels hard done by and disillusioned over the years and has gravitated towards alt right militia types and decides to fly a suicide mission smack bang into his old base. Val Kilmer reluctantly has to take him out with some snappy dialogue. RATM reform to cover Dangerzone, of course.

 

[ferrelhadley]

An Iranian is going to play the hero???

Its flying so no.

 

[DexterTCN]

Wonder if he does his own flying? Bet he does after that helicopter thing.

 

[likesfish]

Wonder if he does his own flying? Bet he does after that helicopter thing.

. It takes years to learn to fly a fast jet the yanks might put him in the front seat with an instructor in the back so he can hurtle round the sky a bit

 

[donkyboy]

so what is the plot? trailer tells me nothing. and where is kilmer? never seen the original. don't care for this, either.

 

[Gromit]

Also, from the trailer:

View attachment 178431

That's an F-14, original TG style. But the only current operator of these is...?

According to wiki it's Iran

 

[Gromit]

so what is the plot? trailer tells me nothing. and where is kilmer? never seen the original. don't care for this, either.

Ace veteran who never stopped with their juvenile behaviour faces his greatest challenge yet... to train a new batch of hotshots to face the newest, baddest enemy ever seen!!!

/My prediction

 

[donkyboy]

the eyerianians?

 

[gosub]

Also, from the trailer:

View attachment 178431

That's an F-14, original TG style. But the only current operator of these is...?

If he's going down that route....I had posters of the F20 Tigershark on my bedroom wall as a kid.