Super User Catt Posted December 31, 2022 Super User Posted December 31, 2022 Top Gun: Maverick Pretty good but an F22 Raptor would be the plane for that mission. Quote
Global Moderator 12poundbass Posted December 31, 2022 Global Moderator Posted December 31, 2022 1 hour ago, Catt said: Top Gun: Maverick Pretty good but an F22 Raptor would be the plane for that mission. Or the F35. Both are pretty awesome machines, but both are single seaters so they used the F18 so they could get the cockpit views while in flight. The F22 did make an appearance a couple times in the movie. 1 Quote
Super User Deleted account Posted December 31, 2022 Super User Posted December 31, 2022 1 hour ago, Catt said: Pretty good but an F22 Raptor would be the plane for that mission. Yeah! if we don't fact check them, soon they'll have movies about guys with flying hammers shooting webs from their wrists... 1 Quote
Super User DitchPanda Posted December 31, 2022 Super User Posted December 31, 2022 Watched it last night...like it but didn't love it. Probably had my hopes too high with people making it sound like it's the most important single piece of media made since the bible. People are always doing that in reviews...making outrageous claims and building things up way to much. Its especially true with movies and bands. A few years back when Greta van Fleet came out people were saying they were gonna be the next Led Zeppelin. Get real. Quote
Super User Darth-Baiter Posted December 31, 2022 Super User Posted December 31, 2022 1 hour ago, Deleted account said: Yeah! if we don't fact check them, soon they'll have movies about guys with flying hammers shooting webs from their wrists... hahhaa...I'm convinced already that you have to be really good looking to fly fighter jets. no homely pilots. Quote
Super User TOXIC Posted December 31, 2022 Super User Posted December 31, 2022 Saw the new Top Gun in the theater and liked it. IMHO the reason it is so popular is that it isn’t what we’ve been subjected to for the last few years in filmmaking with all of the “woke” themes. Top Gun Maverick had enough action for the action crowd, some tear jerking for the sensitive crowd, patriotic win for that crowd and was just a good old fashioned feel good movie. We need more of them. 2 Quote
Super User J._Bricker Posted December 31, 2022 Super User Posted December 31, 2022 4 hours ago, Catt said: Top Gun: Maverick Pretty good but an F22 Raptor would be the plane for that mission. The F-35 is carrier based, the F-22 isn’t. Not too mention getting the US government to authorize the use of their newest stealth attack aircraft for a movie when all those F-18s currently in service on carriers around the world. 1 Quote
Super User Deleted account Posted December 31, 2022 Super User Posted December 31, 2022 18 minutes ago, J._Bricker said: The F-35 is carrier based, the F-22 isn’t. The USAF aims high, so they would miss the hook on landing... 1 Quote
Super User Catt Posted December 31, 2022 Super User Posted December 31, 2022 @J._Bricker F22: faster, more maneuverable, lower radar cross section. Better suited for that mission but the movie is about the Navy. Quote
Super User Deleted account Posted December 31, 2022 Super User Posted December 31, 2022 33 minutes ago, Catt said: but the movie is about the Navy. I feel a Caine Mutiny, Up Periscope double feature coming... 2 Quote
Super User J._Bricker Posted December 31, 2022 Super User Posted December 31, 2022 5 hours ago, Catt said: @J._Bricker F22: faster, more maneuverable, lower radar cross section. Absolutely, true but I inclined to believe the Air Force wouldn’t use its limited number of F-22s for this mythical mission as an attack platform instead of F-35’s or F-16s. As I understand it, the F-22 is as pure an “Air Dominance” fighter ever produced and would be employed as such. After all we’re talking about a movie called “Top Gun” and not “Red Flag” and that’s probably why the F-22 wasn’t even in this movie. #FLYNAVY Quote
Super User clayton86 Posted December 31, 2022 Super User Posted December 31, 2022 I haven’t seen it yet. My best friend and I grew up obsessed with the first one. Always said when word came out that there was going to be a second we would go see it together and held to that. When it finally dropped this year we were gonna go but life got in the way he’s a newly wed and family got it the way I suppose we made plans then he ended up going to Italy to his sister in law’s wedding and we pushed off going to see it since he wasn’t even in the same country haha. We kept trying to make plans and stuff kept coming up. Now that it’s out we still keep trying to make plans neither of us are busy to rent it and see it together still. Crazy we’re two grown men waiting to see a movie together haha. Quote
Super User Deleted account Posted December 31, 2022 Super User Posted December 31, 2022 6 hours ago, TOXIC said: what we’ve been subjected to for the last few years in filmmaking with all of the “woke” themes. I hear Broke Back TVA Reservoir is in production... 1 1 Quote
Super User J._Bricker Posted January 1, 2023 Super User Posted January 1, 2023 Looking forward to Avatar and whatever MCU releases there are in 2023 Quote
Super User MN Fisher Posted January 1, 2023 Super User Posted January 1, 2023 17 minutes ago, J._Bricker said: Looking forward to Avatar and whatever MCU releases there are in 2023 I'm looking forward to Season 2 of SNW, and the return of David Tennant as Dr. Who. 1 Quote
Super User Koz Posted January 1, 2023 Super User Posted January 1, 2023 3 hours ago, MN Fisher said: I'm looking forward to Season 2 of SNW, and the return of David Tennant as Dr. Who. Unfortunately, Tennant is back for only a few episodes. I think that the whole Chibnall / Whittaker scarred the franchise so much that they needed to do something to bring people back to the show. I liked Whittaker in Broadchurch but she was awful as the Doctor. It was like she was always wheezing and out of breath. Quote
Super User MN Fisher Posted January 1, 2023 Super User Posted January 1, 2023 9 minutes ago, Koz said: Unfortunately, Tennant is back for only a few episodes. I think that the whole Chibnall / Whittaker scarred the franchise so much that they needed to do something to bring people back to the show. I liked Whittaker in Broadchurch but she was awful as the Doctor. It was like she was always wheezing and out of breath. Ya - another one of those short 'special' seasons - I think it's 3 or 4 episodes. Having Tennant and Davies together again I think is ***'s way of trying to regenerate the series. Plus I think Gatwa has a commitment through next year, so it'd either be do something short for one season, or have it on hiatus for a full year. I really couldn't get into Jodi - never saw Broadchurch, so I can't compare. And where the "HE double hockey sticks" did Chibnall come up with the entire ret-con of the Doc's past? Personally - I think the whole Whittaker era should be written off as a bad dream and Peter be credited as the last 'real' Dr before the Tennant #14 era...short as it may be. This from someone who started watching during the Pertwee era. 1 Quote
Super User Deleted account Posted January 3, 2023 Super User Posted January 3, 2023 Who fandom bass heads? Who knew?.... 1 Quote
JohnFromLisbon Posted January 3, 2023 Posted January 3, 2023 Top Gun: Maverick was the best movie I saw all year. Saw it on IMAX with a couple of buddies, and it was totally worth it. Growing up I had a few vhs tapes that I watched over and over again: the Star Wars trilogy, Space Jam, Alien, Aliens... and Top Gun. So it's as much a part of my childhood and early teens any of the others. Recently I got Sky Showtime (it basically has some stuff from Showtime, some from Paramount+, some from Peacock... Europe's weird like that because Netflix and Prime still hold the rights to a lot of stuff) and watched Strange New Worlds. @MN Fisher is absolutely right about that show. I remember watching some TNG and Voyager when I was really really young but I never quite got it. Later on in my mid to late teens I saw the original series and that's when it finally clicked. So SNW gives me the TOS warm and fuzzies, and even on the oddest episode (The Elysian Kingdom) you can tell they're having a great time, especially Anson Mount, man... He's just chewing up the scenery. I had stopped watching Discovery for one reason or another and hadn't picked it back up, SNW is exactly what I wanted out of Star Trek. As for Doctor Who... I kinda sorta stopped watching midway through Capaldi's run. I love the man, but I have trouble seeing him as anything other than Malcolm Tucker. Also, I really liked the first season of Jack Ryan on Prime. The second one was meh, the third is better but still can't beat that first season. 1 Quote
cheezyridr Posted January 8, 2023 Posted January 8, 2023 i watched top gun the night before christmas. i only watched it because i like planes. i was not disappointed, they had alot of scenes with planes flying around. outside of that, i avoid watching hollywood and lakeshore (canadia) stuff. i don't like the woke stuff getting jammed down my throat. i stopped watching television back in the late 90's because i refuse to pay to watch commercials. most of the movies i watch are asian action stuff, mostly wuxia films. 99% of the people i know hate it. they call it "wire-fu" and say it's not realistic! but they'll watch marvel movies all night long and have no complaints. Quote
Captain Phil Posted January 8, 2023 Posted January 8, 2023 We stopped going to movies years ago. So did many other people we know. This is why all the money and talent is moving to streaming. After "Breaking Bad" who wants to see another Batman or dinosaur squeal? Our son told us to see Top Gun Maverick, so we decided to break the drought. It was pure entertainment. No Woke characters or messages. Non stop action with some of the best action filming ever. Tom Cruise was amazing. We didn't see Top Gun, so the Val Kilmer sequence didn't mean much to us. We loved him in Tombstone and felt sad to see him since he got ill. This is one movie that's better in a theater. Watching it on a home TV does not do it justice. I would see it again. 1 Quote
Jmilburn76 Posted January 9, 2023 Posted January 9, 2023 Top Gun was the first movie I saw at the theater after my a accident, loved it, and it takes a lot for me to like a movie these days. Quote
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