High Voltage
In the top 97% of Urban's most interesting posters
I do mean the Top Fuzz film, as in, the lead is the "top" fuzz, a really really good copper - I really am that far behind
Top Gun sequel: Maverick
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izz
Increased Leisure Citizen
Yes he does. He's getting on a bit, but then we both are
ska invita
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krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
That's the music show, surely
souljacker
innit
Watched it today and took the kids, half expecting them to think it was rubbish but they loved it too. Great fun, very exciting in parts and a good reboot of the previous story.
Total confusion about the female lead though. I assumed it was Kelly McGillis' character but due to KM having given up acting and not actually looking that hot any more (not that that should make a difference), they'd just replaced her with Jennifer Connoly. But apparently not. I actually have no idea who JCs character was supposed to be in respect of the first movie.
Total confusion about the female lead though. I assumed it was Kelly McGillis' character but due to KM having given up acting and not actually looking that hot any more (not that that should make a difference), they'd just replaced her with Jennifer Connoly. But apparently not. I actually have no idea who JCs character was supposed to be in respect of the first movie.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
"Hot"
Schmetterling
I saw something nasty in the woodshed!
He said it’s a quarter past five, dear.
souljacker
innit
as in the hollywood ideal for Tom Cruise's leading lady.
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
Nah, she was just a new character that he'd dated in the many years in between.
At least, although she is younger than Cruise, it's only 9 years, so she's pretty much age-appropriate.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
ska invita
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Was looking at some clips of Tom Cruise in Magnolia ..seek and destroy...he's good in that .... A bit too good in fact 
film is probably more relevant now than ever what with alt right etc stuff. They should reboot that!
film is probably more relevant now than ever what with alt right etc stuff. They should reboot that!
souljacker
innit
They didn't really explain that though.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Again, I don’t think anyone really cares that much about the plot
urbanspaceman
Well-Known Member
Her name is Penny Benjamin, which references back to the original Top Gun.
Stinger says that Maverick has been disciplined for "a history of high-speed passes over five air control towers and one admiral's daughter!" Goose then whispers "Penny Benjamin" to Maverick.
Later Goose's wife, Carole says to Maverick: "He told me all about the time you went ballistic with Penny Benjamin."
Same here, its never interested me at all and has always struck me as really naff. And apparently its really just a military recruitment film -
Top Gun: Maverick Is Another Military Recruitment Video Disguised as a Movie
The hotly anticipated sequel to Top Gun, the 1986 movie that made Tom Cruise a star, is raking in cash, great reviews, and even Oscar buzz. Don’t be fooled — it’s the same glorified military recruitment video that the original was.
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Schmetterling
I saw something nasty in the woodshed!
I bloody loved it. It is such a good action film.
Anyway; boyfriend and I watched Hot Shots last night (not sure whether anyone has mentioned this already) and we now think that whoever wrote the script for Mav wrote it based on Hot Shots.
Anyway; boyfriend and I watched Hot Shots last night (not sure whether anyone has mentioned this already) and we now think that whoever wrote the script for Mav wrote it based on Hot Shots.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Going to see it in the cinema this evening.
Graymalkin
Ironclad Activist
Same here, its never interested me at all and has always struck me as really naff. And apparently its really just a military recruitment film -
Top Gun: Maverick Is Another Military Recruitment Video Disguised as a Movie
The hotly anticipated sequel to Top Gun, the 1986 movie that made Tom Cruise a star, is raking in cash, great reviews, and even Oscar buzz. Don’t be fooled — it’s the same glorified military recruitment video that the original was.
My wife and I like to watch it along with Con Air and Armageddon as part of our "Jerry Bruckheimer"-a-thon movie nights. It's an entirely ironic exercise in enjoying jingoistic movies for their absurdity. Our Roland Emmerich-a-thon (ID4, Day after tomorrow, 2012) is still quite absurd though less jingoistic, and our Paul Veerhoven-a-thon (Total Recall, Robocop, Starship Troopers) is just awesome in its OTTness.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Top trivia! I salute you.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Gosh really? None of the rest of us noticed. There we were, thinking that the US Department of Defence gave access to a film crew and probably millions of dollars of flying hours to a film production company out of the goodness of their hearts. What a good job you are around to enlighten us with your perceptive and incisive analysis.... And apparently its really just a military recruitment film -
Top Gun: Maverick Is Another Military Recruitment Video Disguised as a Movie
The hotly anticipated sequel to Top Gun, the 1986 movie that made Tom Cruise a star, is raking in cash, great reviews, and even Oscar buzz. Don’t be fooled — it’s the same glorified military recruitment video that the original was.
In other news, you know that bloke that lives in the Vatican, Pope Francis? well, I've just worked out that apparently he is a member of the Catholic church!?!
High Voltage
In the top 97% of Urban's most interesting posters
The sarcasm is strong with this one
edit: actually checked the quote and realised I'd initially got it wrong . . . and knowing what Trekkies are like
edit: actually checked the quote and realised I'd initially got it wrong . . . and knowing what Trekkies are like
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High Voltage
In the top 97% of Urban's most interesting posters
That's Top of the Fuzz with that lovely Timmy Saville - he does a lot for charity doncha no!
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
It was good. 
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Use the Force Harry, said Gandalf as the Cybermen invaded.
stdP
One Swiss dinosaur in Polly Gosling's anorak hood
I'm someone who never saw the original Top Gun - somehow avoided it in the 90s, by which point I'd seen so many parodies of it I felt like purposefully watching it would be pointless, and I've just never happened upon it by accident either. I don't really felt like I missed anything.
...yet my partner wanted to see this'n' so I dutifully traipsed along to join them. It's almost comically predictable and the character stereotypes are cut completely from a My First Hollywood Screenplay kids half-term activity book before being slathered in some gung-ho militarism relish.
But this was my perception of the film and its predecessor before I went to see it anyway. As a dumb action film it's pretty much flawless - a token negligee of a plot draped over the sexy silhouette of some truly excellent, white-knuckle flying scenes*. Yes, it benefits hugely from being seen in the cinema I think. Just turn off your brain and munch your damned popcorn, you elitist snobs.
* I still thought the flying scenes in Dunkirk were better though, I think because they weren't so frenetically edited.
...yet my partner wanted to see this'n' so I dutifully traipsed along to join them. It's almost comically predictable and the character stereotypes are cut completely from a My First Hollywood Screenplay kids half-term activity book before being slathered in some gung-ho militarism relish.
But this was my perception of the film and its predecessor before I went to see it anyway. As a dumb action film it's pretty much flawless - a token negligee of a plot draped over the sexy silhouette of some truly excellent, white-knuckle flying scenes*. Yes, it benefits hugely from being seen in the cinema I think. Just turn off your brain and munch your damned popcorn, you elitist snobs.
* I still thought the flying scenes in Dunkirk were better though, I think because they weren't so frenetically edited.
ska invita
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For me its not elitism i just really hate the military too much to do this.
Less offensive i've seen all the mission impossibles and switched brain off as is required, though those films have taken the impossible bit from the title way too literally... The original TV MIs had some tension, there's nothing at stake in the new ones, just too unrealistic
Gromit
International Man of Misery
If he was 23 in Top Gun and Penny was 9 years junior (assuming it wasn’t a year earlier they “went ballistic”) it still seems pretty age inappropriate to me that he groomed a 14 yr old.
