Top Gun: Maverick (2020)

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A lot of what made two so good was the connection with the first movie. I feel this is now a money grab which is concerning. Hopefully I am wrong and the story is actually very well done.

Yeah you could say the same for Maverick though. Nobody expected it to be any good, like basically every 20-year-later sequel. None of them are ever good, and yet Maverick was fantastic.

Benefit of the doubt at this point.
 
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Yeah you could say the same for Maverick though. Nobody expected it to be any good, like basically every 20-year-later sequel. None of them are ever good, and yet Maverick was fantastic.

Benefit of the doubt at this point.
This was exactly me. It was one of the very first movies I saw after covid and I went in expecting a popcorn flick and nothing more. I walked out having had a great movie experience with Maverick. I was also really glad they got Val in there before he passed away.
 
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This was exactly me. It was one of the very first movies I saw after covid and I went in expecting a popcorn flick and nothing more. I walked out having had a great movie experience with Maverick. I was also really glad they got Val in there before he passed away.

Yeah it was a fantastic surprise, Great movie.
 
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Need are release, I missed seeing it big screen, been holding off so I don't get stuck watching at my desk
 
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I think you guys forget the original Maverick was complete shit and they had to cut and refilm a ton of stuff. They cut out half of the cast lol.

If I remember right test screenings really fucked up the release and not COVID as much
 

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I think you guys forget the original Maverick was complete shit and they had to cut and refilm a ton of stuff. They cut out half of the cast lol.

If I remember right test screenings really fucked up the release and not COVID as much
If it didn't suck when it was released then why do I care?
 
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Just saying the original they made sucked and cruise had to take over or some shit

Doesn't that kind of highlight the general theme of what we're saying? In a sea of shit, Cruise was able to make a very good sequel to a 25 year old movie.
 
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Just saying dammit, maverick was supposed to be a massive failure. Cruise has let me down twice, MI2 and MI8. Well I guess the Mummy also, eyes wide shut isn't as bad as I thought it was

Hard to think of an actor that have such a successful resume
 
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Eyes wide shut is so darn odd and creepy and then you realize that its his IRL wife and it’s creepy-er and odd-er and wtf-er.

It’s also funny he was outed bc no rich sex addict comes to the cult sex meetings in a normal cab.
 

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There is so many conspiracy theory about that movie, if I remember right there was stuff taken out of the movie when he died, a lot of people in the industry said he wouldnt have had the film end as it was.

I didn't know he died days after he did his cut of the movie

Of course the one I find is Rogan.

I just put his name together. Roger Avery, he was working in on Brett Easton elis movies and fucked his career up with Dui/Drugs right after Rules of attraction, he was supposed to do glamarama or whatever then made a low budget film that was never released. He did mimick Kubrick so much in Rules of attraction. Can't believe I didn't notice that

 
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So everyone should re-watch The Last Samurai & Edge of Tomorrow. You won't be disappointed. Hell, throw Days of Thunder and Oblivion onto the pile as well.
 
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I want to rewatch days of thunder, I still haven't watched it since it came out, meant to rewatch when Duval died
 

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I don't know what plot they'll contrive to get Maverick in an F-14 where he is a monster and I don't care. After Maverick and a hundred other bangers he's earned my trust!


But this might also be a modern rendition of the US military and just be him flying F-22's and bombing civilians in Gaza.
 

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So everyone should re-watch The Last Samurai & Edge of Tomorrow. You won't be disappointed. Hell, throw Days of Thunder and Oblivion onto the pile as well.
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