Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/07/19/will-top-gun-maverick-be.html
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Does Tom Cruise really need another vanity project?
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Does anyone have any idea what the movie is about? I couldn’t tell from the trailer. It looks like a bunch of random clips stuck together.
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I think there’s a reasonable argument to be made that if not for the cultural impact of Top Gun the DoD wouldn’t have been able to secure the $1.5 Trillion for the JSF/F-35 program at a time when manned fighter jets were becoming less relevant than ever.
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Like, because there won’t be any paying customers in the theater?
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Name me a Tom Cruise effort that wasn’t a vanity project. I’ll wait.
(I won’t wait 
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I would love if this movie was actually about the graft and incompetence at the heart of the US Navy and other armed forces… I also find it extremely entertaining that the f-18 is featured so prominently… A 40 year old aircraft design flown by a 50-something actor in a sequel to a film that came out 30 years ago. Just riding on fumes at this point…
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That’s pretty ageist there, buddy. You’ll be saying the jingoistic attitudes are outdated next…
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How can it accomplish its mission when it doesn’t even cost a billion dollars each?
We need newer, more expensive planes that will deliver important dollars to key congressional districts and campaign donors.
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There wasn’t a very complicated plot to the original, and the trailer displayed pretty much the same major plot points. So…probably a “reboot” remake.
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Just like the other one, it’s about two straight guys and their fascination with each others asses.
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not to mention its gutless compared to the F14 from the original film, which they retired because the F18 was cheaper
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So what was the favorite Val Kilmer film? Mine was easily Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
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Its hard to choose between that, Real Genius and Tombstone.
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Top Secret
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That bar in San Diego makes it plainly known that it’s the bar from Top Gun. I feel so bad for the female servers, who I presume have all suffered through “you’ve lost that loving feeling” more than once, and even once is one too many.
They should put a sign on the wall like “No Stairway.”
Not seeking it out, I found myself in there for lunch a few years ago. The food was not so bad.
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Ponder this–Tom Cruise is roughly five years older than Tom Skerritt was in the original Top Gun.
Say what you will about him being a loon, but Edge of Tomorrow was one of the best science fiction movies of the last ten years.
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Ahhm yer huckleberry.
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