maroon barchetta said:

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helloimustbegoing said:

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TCTTS said:

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And your point? "I bet I can get him to make a comment about hypocritical behavior"? Congrats?

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Christ man, I was just kidding. I really enjoyed Maverick. Will probably see it again.

"and nitpicking the hell out of it?" I made 2 comments, both with the laughing face, neither critical of the movie.

And Barchetta, check your PMs please.

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No

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Boxofficemojo put the estimates out - maverick ties Elvis with $30.5 million for the weekend. Up to $521 million now, 15th all time.

Saw this tonight. ****ing awesome.

Just got back. Had my expectations set pretty high after all of the hype and this movie still exceeded that. One of the greatest sequels ever made. Awesome on a lot of levels.

Also

The Khomeinist regime watching this movie:



VS

The IDF watching this movie:

maroon barchetta said:

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I wonder if he has experience doing online social experiments to get reactions from people.

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Highway to the danger zone!

helloimustbegoing said:

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Terminator 2?

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Wow, definitely! That's like my defining movie experience as a teenager. Have to drop Mav to 4th. Thanks for helping out an old man, Spilner

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While I think Alien is better, Aliens is a damn great sequel.

I think what puts TG:M at the top of the sequels list is the amount of time between the original and this sequel and how everything still works so well.

MooreTrucker said:

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I think what puts TG:M at the top of the sequels list is the amount of time between the original and this sequel and how everything still works so well.

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This. We watched the original again, and the scene where goose dies and the swimmers are grabbing his body from Maverick… "sir, you have to let him go sir"… took him 30 years.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Cameron: king of the sequel

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I don't care what people think - Titanic 2 with zombie Jack needs get made. It can be straight to the Scify channel if need be.

Ok more thoughts now that I've slept.

1. I know Tom Cruise isn't the most loved celeb out there and has probably earned some of that disdain, but I'm glad for him that he got to have the moments of making this sequel. Regardless of his personal life I think he's one of the hardest working, most dedicated actors alive today.
2. The only part that really made me cringe. As soon as Mav was falling out of that window I hoped they wouldn't have the daughter conveniently watching and saying something that a kid her age wouldn't say and...yeah. "just don't break her heart again"...come on
3. As badass as the final action sequence was, I almost think I would have preferred if Mav just sacrificed his life pulling that flares trick to save Rooster and that's his final act. Everything starting with his rescue and the next several sequences all felt a little too...Ramboish. So far I had been able to suspend my disbelief but that whole thing took it to a new level of "Hollywood".
4. I really hope there will eventually be a "making of" doc or feature. I'd watch the hell out of that. I'm super interested in the whole process of how in the world that was made
5. Great casting, I can't think of a single actor that didn't nail their part. I'm particularly glad that they chose to include a sharp female pilot but not have that become THE focus of the movie and have her "teach all the guys a thing or two" because 90% of woke producers would have insisted that be the central aspect.
6. Again...damn near a 10 out of 10 movie. Doesn't get much better than that. In an age of a thousand weak, cash-grabbing sequels and reboots this was a diamond in the rough. I want to see it again in IMAX before it's too late.

jokershady said:

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So you think return of the Jedi is better than the twin towers?

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Agree 100% on the casting of the ace female pilot. She was one of the many great pilots. Nobody was having a secret love affair with her, although perhaps implied with Rooster a bit. She didn't have some BS sob story about her mother dying from a fighter attack in some third-world country. She didn't fall in love with nerdy Bob because he was the only non-Alpha, etc.

I was also trending towards Maverick sacrificing himself, but I don't think Tom Cruise has ever died in a movie, so that seemed unlikely. Plus, if you do that, there's no Top Gun 3: 10 Ways to Lose a Guy While Inverted

jokershady said:

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Terminator 2?

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if you're like me, my dad showed me T2 before T1…..so is it still a sequel to me?

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I saw T2 for years without even knowing there was a first.

helloimustbegoing said:

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Agree 100% on the casting of the ace female pilot. She was one of the many great pilots. Nobody was having a secret love affair with her, although perhaps implied with Rooster a bit. She didn't have some BS sob story about her mother dying from a fighter attack in some third-world country. She didn't fall in love with nerdy Bob because he was the only non-Alpha, etc.

I was also trending towards Maverick sacrificing himself, but I don't think Tom Cruise has ever died in a movie, so that seemed unlikely. Plus, if you do that, there's no Top Gun 3: 10 Ways to Lose a Guy While Inverted

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He died in Collateral

TXAG 05 said:

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helloimustbegoing said:

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Agree 100% on the casting of the ace female pilot. She was one of the many great pilots. Nobody was having a secret love affair with her, although perhaps implied with Rooster a bit. She didn't have some BS sob story about her mother dying from a fighter attack in some third-world country. She didn't fall in love with nerdy Bob because he was the only non-Alpha, etc.

I was also trending towards Maverick sacrificing himself, but I don't think Tom Cruise has ever died in a movie, so that seemed unlikely. Plus, if you do that, there's no Top Gun 3: 10 Ways to Lose a Guy While Inverted

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He died in Collateral

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And in Vanilla Sky, twice

And in Edge of Tomorrow, fifty (?) times

And in Valkyrie

And in Oblivion, (he AND his clone)

The dude dies a lot

Wow...

"Let me spoil any Tom Cruise movie you haven't seen!"

Teacher_Ag said:

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TXAG 05 said:

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helloimustbegoing said:

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Agree 100% on the casting of the ace female pilot. She was one of the many great pilots. Nobody was having a secret love affair with her, although perhaps implied with Rooster a bit. She didn't have some BS sob story about her mother dying from a fighter attack in some third-world country. She didn't fall in love with nerdy Bob because he was the only non-Alpha, etc.

I was also trending towards Maverick sacrificing himself, but I don't think Tom Cruise has ever died in a movie, so that seemed unlikely. Plus, if you do that, there's no Top Gun 3: 10 Ways to Lose a Guy While Inverted

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He died in Collateral

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And in Vanilla Sky, twice

And in Edge of Tomorrow, fifty (?) times

And in Valkyrie

And in Oblivion, (he AND his clone)

The dude dies a lot

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Frozen, not dead. One might even say he was... an iceman.

TCTTS said:

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Teacher_Ag said:

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TXAG 05 said:

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helloimustbegoing said:

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Agree 100% on the casting of the ace female pilot. She was one of the many great pilots. Nobody was having a secret love affair with her, although perhaps implied with Rooster a bit. She didn't have some BS sob story about her mother dying from a fighter attack in some third-world country. She didn't fall in love with nerdy Bob because he was the only non-Alpha, etc.

I was also trending towards Maverick sacrificing himself, but I don't think Tom Cruise has ever died in a movie, so that seemed unlikely. Plus, if you do that, there's no Top Gun 3: 10 Ways to Lose a Guy While Inverted

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He died in Collateral

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And in Vanilla Sky, twice

And in Edge of Tomorrow, fifty (?) times

And in Valkyrie

And in Oblivion, (he AND his clone)

The dude dies a lot

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Frozen, not dead. One might even say he was... an iceman.

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[/clicks teeth]

I think in the 3rd movie Bill Pullman shows up as the President and flies with Bob ( Pullman's real life son) so that they can have a father son moment and it can also tie in Independence day and have Maverick fight 475th generation alien aircrafts.