Top Gun Maverick
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They looked at the bloat of shitty cgi comic book action movies that placate to China and knew they'd make a killing.
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I was waiting for this.
Turns out this Top Gun instructor had a hand in assisting with the script.
https://youtu.be/pn3tmr_cbSw
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China has the worst taste in everything whether it's movies or sports ball (NBA).haie said:They looked at the bloat of shitty cgi comic book action movies that placate to China and knew they'd make a killing.
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It's funny that he mentioned placating China, anyway, as that's exactly what TG:M was set to do. When the international trailer was released, Maverick's jacket had the Taiwanese and Japanese flags from the original movie swapped out for fictional flags in similar colors. This was when the film was being financially backed by Tencent. When they backed out over fear of the Chinese government dropping the hammer on them for promoting a pro-US-military movie at all, the movie's producers no longer had China to appease and put the original patches back on the jacket. They got to the right place in the end, but it's not like it was some kind of principled stand.YellowSnow said:
China has the worst taste in everything whether it's movies or sports ball (NBA).haie said:They looked at the bloat of shitty cgi comic book action movies that placate to China and knew they'd make a killing.
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China chose wisely backing off, the movie releasing in China could singlehandedly collapse the CCP1to392831weretaken said:
It's funny that he mentioned placating China, anyway, as that's exactly what TG:M was set to do. When the international trailer was released, Maverick's jacket had the Taiwanese and Japanese flags from the original movie swapped out for fictional flags in similar colors. This was when the film was being financially backed by Tencent. When they backed out over fear of the Chinese government dropping the hammer on them for promoting a pro-US-military movie at all, the movie's producers no longer had China to appease and put the original patches back on the jacket. They got to the right place in the end, but it's not like it was some kind of principled stand.YellowSnow said:
China has the worst taste in everything whether it's movies or sports ball (NBA).haie said:They looked at the bloat of shitty cgi comic book action movies that placate to China and knew they'd make a killing.
Money is money.
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China = Fags
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CrispenedYellowSnow said:CCP = Fags
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Nothing’s changed with the Chinese. They’ve had an Emperor for 5000 years.LoneStarDawg said:
CrispenedYellowSnow said:CCP = Fags
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The Emperor wears no clothes.YellowSnow said:
Nothing’s changed with the Chinese. They’ve had an Emperor for 5000 years.LoneStarDawg said:
CrispenedYellowSnow said:CCP = Fags
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One of my complaints:1to392831weretaken said:Alright, finally drunk enough to bother posting a ]semi-spoiler] review:
1.) What is the difference between IMAX and any other theater viewing? I couldn't tell.
2to2343434weretaken.) Movie was pure cheese, plot was as ludicrous as Logjammin', I laughed out loud at how corny many of the callbacks were.
3.) Fuckin' loved it. 5-stars, would watch again.
The movie opens with a nice rendition of the original score, crossfading right into Highway to the Danger Zone. Two minutes in, and you know what this is all about. The adult side of me was laughing at the cheese, the six-year-old in me was stooooooked. I seriously played Highway to the Danger Zone for the kids on the way to the theater. As a joke. This movie leaned right in.
Tom Cruise' Xenu shit unquestioningly qualifies him as a trash human being, but he can make a fucking movie like none other, to the point where a principled stand just isn't worth it. The practical flying, realistic butthole clenching techniques (the very same that made @Swaye so popular around here), and top shelf production value make this a movie that legitimately had my heart thumping in a worrying way (I post at Hardcore Husky, so I'm definitely in a demographic that's at risk for heart disease) leading into the third act. Which, to me, is the sign of a good movie. I've gotten shit about not liking most mob movies, but it's because I've seen very few that make me actually care about any of the characters. Leading up to the final scenes of TG,M (ILTCIT), though, I was thinking, "Shit, they're going to kill off a few of these fuckers, aren't they?..."
That being said, I can't wait for the Orkin man to see this movie and chime in, as the entire plot seemed laughably silly: "The F-18 Super Hornet is the ideal plane for this mission. Now here's why just about any other modern plane would be better..." There's also a Death Star ventilation shaft angle that somebody's going to have to explain to me. Let alone why the entire mission couldn't be accomplished with a cruise missile or bomb dropped from space or something.
Beyond all of that, there's just a geopolitics problem. Ironically, the new movie has all of this amazing camera work and effects budget and everything modern Hollywood can do, but the old movie is the better one because the plot is believable: Nobody would bat an eye at the idea of naval fighter pilots dogfighting Dirka Dirka Jihadists in 1986, but nowadays it would be insane for the US military to engage in a direct strike on (what was clearly) a Russian puppet state. Hell, we have a recent example of Iran enriching uranium, and not only was it not happening in a Dr. Evil style hollowed out volcano lair, but we went in with diplomacy instead of jets and bombs. Former Soviet nations would be even more sketchy!
Anyway, totally awesome movie (plot and cheesy callbacks be damned), but I'd appreciate these answers from @Swaye after you see it:
1.) Is it absolute bullshit that this would "need" to be done with Navy F-18s instead of, say, satellite-guided bombs from space? If it absolutely had to be done with jets, could they not have just done it with "better" jets if the enemy 5G jets are so superior?
2.) Don't we(?) have bombs that can blow something up like a half-mile underground? Are your eyes rolling just as hard about the whole "we have to land one direct hit to open the Death Star's ventilation shaft, then another hit to blow it up" bullshit plot angle?
3.) Have you ever seen a Mig-28 do a 4G negative dive?
Holy shit, I rambled on...
I think only @swaye will understand this but the enemy ADA is mapped yet they didn’t do a SEAD mission.
