TOP GUN: Maverick

[roadwarrior]

Top Gun: Maverick | NEW Official Trailer (2022 Movie) - Tom Cruise - Bing video

 

I prefer the big screen, but I like it on the small screen, too!

[padlin]

To me it was okay but too much copied from the first. As it pulled in 1.5 billion, I must be in the minority.

[roadwarrior]

My favorite this year.  Avatar a distant second.

[MN Fisher]

5 minutes ago, roadwarrior said:

My favorite this year.  Avatar a distant second.

I missed them both...on purpose...

 

My favorite thing this past year?

[Fishlegs]

Our whole family enjoyed Top Gun. That's unusual. Haven't seen the new Avatar yet.

[Bankbeater]

Haven't seen Top Gun, but we saw Avatar earlier in the week.  Visually it was great, but the story was so-so.

[DanielG]

2 hours ago, MN Fisher said:

I missed them both...on purpose...

 

My favorite thing this past year?

YES!!!

[Jig Man]

I watched it as soon as it came out on Paramount +.  I’m not a big TC fan but the movie was good.

[Koz]

6 hours ago, MN Fisher said:

I missed them both...on purpose...

 

My favorite thing this past year?

 

I liked Strange New Worlds as well. 

 

I actually started watching Star Trek Discovery after I watch SNW and I had to turn it off sometime in season 3 (or whatever the season was when Pike was done). It was just terrible in so many ways. And all I kept thinking was, "This is Star Trek. Why is there so much crying in every episode."

 

As for Top Gun: Maverick, I watched it last night on Paramount+. It was pretty good, and definitely an homage to the original, even in its cinematography. 

[MN Fisher]

13 minutes ago, Koz said:

Why is there so much crying in every episode

And season-long story arcs? I don't understand?

 

Having grown up on the original (started watching in 1966 - first airing of 'Balance of Terror'), SNW feels like Trek...great homage to the original.

[NorcalBassin]

Took the whole family to watch it this summer at a nearby lakeside amphitheater in the mountains... combination of the movie and outdoor setting was fantastic.

[12poundbass]

I rented it on Amazon over a month ago and have watched it twice on Paramount+ since it came out last week. It’s a great movie! I can’t get enough of fighter jets, they’re one bada$$ machine!

 

I might watch it one more time then dump Paramount+, there’s nothing else on it that interests me. 

[DitchPanda]

I'm planning to watch it on paramount+ tomorrow after work. I've heard really good things.

[Masaccio]

I joined Paramount+ just to watch Maverick.  I might try it again but it seemed to lack soul. Also disliked the special effects. Plastic all around for me. (The original was great.  You can’t “go back.”).
Also wanted to watch original Yellowstone but it’s not on P+ anymore. I canceled. Then joined Peacock for Yellowstone and hated that too.  Cancelled Peacock. Not a good TV day for me.  Then rented Sister Act on Amazon.  Went to bed happy. 

[scaleface]

16 hours ago, padlin said:

To me it was okay but too much copied from the first. As it pulled in 1.5 billion, I must be in the minority.

I'm in the  minority to .. I thought it was boring .

[Deleted account]

Haven't seen it yet, but I was at the NEX last evening, and $400 for a 75" 4K Samsung was too good to pass up, so the 60" will go in the bedroom, and will be screening TOP GUN II on the new one, I might even hook up the entire 200 watt 7.1 and rewatching some Thor as well, (unless the ice thaws, then it's pickerel)...

[TnRiver46]

13 hours ago, Masaccio said:

I joined Paramount+ just to watch Maverick.  I might try it again but it seemed to lack soul. Also disliked the special effects. Plastic all around for me. (The original was great.  You can’t “go back.”).
Also wanted to watch original Yellowstone but it’s not on P+ anymore. I canceled. Then joined Peacock for Yellowstone and hated that too.  Cancelled Peacock. Not a good TV day for me.  Then rented Sister Act on Amazon.  Went to bed happy. 

I’m also in the minority that doesn’t really enjoy Yellowstone. Seemed like they just kept reaching for more made up drama 

[Masaccio]

2 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

I’m also in the minority that doesn’t really enjoy Yellowstone. Seemed like they just kept reaching for more made up drama 

Well put.  What's the saying?  Same s--t, different setting?  Something like that.  

[Darren.]

Loved Top Gun: Maverick. Such a great film, haven't seen Avatar yet,

but we plan to.

 

I'm a SciFi junkie - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds was excellent, can't

wait for the next season. I actually enjoyed Picard 1 & 2, so looking

forward to 3. Discovery is fun, IMO.

 

Stargate SG:1, Atlantis I can watch over and over again. Not happy

Amazon Prime is dumping them for yet another subscription svc.,

apparently. The Expanse was phenomenal.

[TnRiver46]

13 hours ago, Masaccio said:

I joined Paramount+ just to watch Maverick.  I might try it again but it seemed to lack soul. Also disliked the special effects. Plastic all around for me. (The original was great.  You can’t “go back.”).
Also wanted to watch original Yellowstone but it’s not on P+ anymore. I canceled. Then joined Peacock for Yellowstone and hated that too.  Cancelled Peacock. Not a good TV day for me.  Then rented Sister Act on Amazon.  Went to bed happy. 

I’m also in the minority that doesn’t really enjoy Yellowstone. Seemed like they just kept reaching for more made up drama 

[12poundbass]

32 minutes ago, Masaccio said:

Well put.  What's the saying?  Same s--t, different setting?  Something like that.  

One of my technicians says, “same ? different toilet”. Lol

[Masaccio]

I'm thinking if I watch the first episode enough times, I'll find some reason to start #2.  We're getting a period of mild weather for January.  I can watch this and fine-tune a fishing trip for next week at the same time.  

[Masaccio]

Actually, after the ridiculous horse-back fishing scene, and then the fireside gathering where they're all eating their fresh catch out of Reynolds Wrap (who brought that, I wonder), I'm done.  A very decent western, on Netflix, is Longmire.  It slays Yellowstone, no sweat.    

[J._Bricker]

The family and I enjoyed Top Gun:Maverick which tied in well with the original. I found it pretty interesting Tom Cruises P-51 was sprinkled into the movie, with him at the controls flying it at the end. A Corsair would have been really sweet since the movie showcases naval aviators , but TC doesn’t own one.

[scaleface]

That lever they push to make the jet go faster . I like the part where Tom Cruise could push it forward better than anyone else causing the jet to go faster than anyone else could .