Very much so. (Like the infamous (ad adlibbed) iceman “bullshit” when at their first meeting with Charlie)).
The pilots in Top Gun are already out on deployments too. They've already proven themselves to be the best in their squadrons, which is why they get the opportunity to go to Top Gun in the first place.
I think his point was just that ALL of them (not just Hangman), lacked that cockiness/comradery/frenimes/rivalry that was entertaining in the first one. Also, the lack of that with the other pilots made Hangman stick out even more....
The fact that top gun graduates had a lot to learn is believable.
Agreed. It was a great moment that progressed the story exceptionally well. The writing in this movie was spot on.
The only airworthy Tomcats left are in Iran. So yes if it’s moving it’s CGI.
Oh, I kinda liked it. A call back to the first movie was great, and it showed that Pete, as a person, was changing.
I was really hyping for this movie since they stealth revealed the trailer at Comic Con in 2019.
After 3 years of waiting/hyping every single piece of info of it, i bought tickets for the premiere on may 26, me and my girlfriend got fucking COVID on Wednesday 25 after went unscathed for more than 2 years of pandemic, reimbursed my tickets and only went back to the cinema this last Saturday.
And what a great experience it was. Besides some cringe dialogs, some nerdy pet peeves and the "negative charisma" of some of the new pilots (we are the best, who's gonna teach us?)... I love every bit of it. A pure breed old school blockbuster like we didn't have in a long time but I still prefer the first one (by a small margin and considering that they made it in 86). But given first is one of my favorite movie ever...
The F-14 scenes, that small Iceman cameo and the rolling scissors to the deck were the best scenes of the movie. Even the completely unnecessary Darkstar prologue give us some heavy First Man vibes, filled with cool small details.
Tom is the last real old school movie star of our generation.
The F-14 scenes with all that flips and switches and bitching Bettys/audio is an love letter to anyone who enjoy simulation / DCS.
CW Lemoine (F16/18 pilot) just did an awesome behind the scenes with one of the guys that worked VFX at Top Gun Maverick
They really did a wonderful job.
ps. Curioulsy my favorite scenes were all CGI's
90% of the flying is real. The fake stuff were the f14, su-57s and the darkstar. The rest was mostly real with some editing tricks.
From Lemoine "Small correction/clarification from a commenter during the live chat (who claims to be the head VFX guy): The TOMCAT was the refurbished one I showed the picture of and they did tow it around, but as Fred said, they replaced it with a CG version. I think he didn't quite understand my question (he couldn't see the picture that I added while editing this video). Just want to be accurate!"
What? Who has ever claimed that lol.
variety.com
Yvan eht noij!
Have people really said that?
Does it start with an 'R'?
Retardera?
I mean no doubt. In a desert of absolute shit this was a certified oasis. If it came out before the prevalence of The Message™ and Hollywood's insistence of subverting and destroying all of its once great franchises we'd probably not hold up Maverick as high as we do now. These days however something like Fast & The Furious In The Sky is pretty much akin to Apocalypse Now or 2001: A Space Odyssey lol.
They didn't, it was all mapped through a virtual simulation during the training.
It’s not Citizen Kane or anything but it does exactly what it set out to do and gave us exactly what we wanted out of a sequel. If you don’t care about the original or for real life aerial effects then yeah I could see it not landing (lul) but I think one’s gotta respect a movie exactly nailing what it was going for.
