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I would also add that extra vital ingredient too - feelgood factor.
For too long now Hollywood has tied itself up in knots, not allowing heroes anymore to be just that - heroes. They have to be flawed, tragic human beings, and with recent trends, the hero has to die at the end of the movie too. He can no longer live.
If TGM had fallen into the hands of another trendy producer, no doubt Maverick would have been killed at that moment when you thought he may have been killed in the film.
This ruins the feelgood factor, which is something Cruise has brought back, in spades. The hero wins, and survives to fight another day - and the film ends on a happy note too.
Let's watch out for spoilers too.
https://deadline.com/2022/06/top-gun-maverick-box-office-tom-cruise-record-1235038177/
Cruise has never been so successful at the boxoffice since… the first Top Gun.
Also Miles Teller’s f-bomb is one of only two bits of cockpit dialogue where they actually used the version recorded in the cockpit: he was so surprised and shocked by the fly past from a real jet that he never quite managed to replicate his shock in ADR! :)
I also appreciated the out of flight scenes a lot more this time around. The first time around I just wanted the adrenalin junky highs of the plane sequences... Then when you strip it down to the out of cockpit scenes there's actually a stupidly simple story being told but done in such a way that makes it feel deeper than what it really is - it's so easy to follow and the individual motivations of everyone are easy to relate to.
I also love some of the characters in this movie and the way everything fits together. Jon Hamm as a minor antagonist is great and I love the way Charles Parnell contrasts as the go between, almost a foil for him in those scenes. I have to say I really love Rooster as a character and his growth/development is probably my favourite of the whole movie. It's Maverick's movie but Rooster stands side by side for me.
Look - it's shockingly simple and it's no Shakespeare but what it does well it does really, really well.
I did notice one little thing last night though...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2022/06/26/box-office-tom-cruise-top-gun-maverick-flies-past-1-billion-worldwide/?sh=699463575511
Iceman's setup is a peculiar exception to this though
It will surely cross the $1.2B mark.
In the US its legs are just insane: Maverick’s fifth weekend is the 3rd biggest ever behind only Titanic and Avatar.
This incredibile success will boost M:I-7 performance a lot. With the help of China (M:I films are being made with Chinese money as well) Dead Reckoning will likely hit the billion as well.
Maverick is such a fantastic adrenaline rush, you can see the hard work and dedication that's been poured into it. This is what the cinema is all about
What made the first film spectacular (the real flying) makes this stratospheric. It's amazing thry managed to balance all storylines so well, without getting cheesy. I love Penny as his love interest, and her daughter's reaction. Icemans return was done amazingly, and everything was explained without rush for those who didn't see the original. Tom called it a 'love letter to aviation'. It is, but it's also a love letter to cinema.
The film should be applauded for that and fellow filmmakers should take notes
That's exactly how I felt, it's such a feel good experience yet full of danger and excitement until the end. I loved it so much, very refreshing.
But seriously, is there any sense in bombing an atomic facility? How much radiation would this cause?
Movie now moved from 4th movie of year to 2th place. That 4th place is now for Fantastic Beasts 3 ($7,758,956) that moved from 2th place because Strange 2 stick on 3th place because it turnout movie get 8th weak ($7,816,137). 5th place on this moment still be for The Batman, but 4th and 5th weak numbers for Jurassic World 3 are stil not confirmd yet. First place will be difficult to beat, the 13,1 million is for in The Netherlands 2021 to 2022 delayd Spider-Man No Way Home.
yep, they wanted to deliver (the admiral's bombs) before the plutonium arrived.
This film is how a sequel should be done: get the same atmosphere as the previous film, and make a meaningful follow-up story.
He did something DC's Bond didn't do and should have. Actually top gun maverick did stuff bond films used to do keep you guessing till the end and somehow he survives.