Is it just me or were all these 80s Tom cruise movies just the same movie with a different theme. He is the best at something (fighter pilot, bartender, pool player, race car drivèr, lawyer,etc.), his cockiness gets him in trouble, but his awesomeness wins out in the end. Always with a side story of some pouty girl, who realizes how awesome he is by the end of the movie.
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In the near future, Maverick and Ice Man are now senior Top Gun instructors (the same roles as Viper and Jester in the first movie), but the bean counters at the Pentagon are out to prove that manned fighter aircraft are a needless expense. The incoming Top Gun class, rather than being fighter jocks flying Super Hornets or F-35s, is instead a group of geeky computer nerds who fly an advanced air-to-air drone prototype capable of extreme high-G maneuvers that are impossible for a manned aircraft to complete. The cocky hotshot drone pilot is played by Jesse Eisenberg, callsign "1337mastakilla". Instead of having a topless volleyball scene, 1337mastakilla and his fellow drone pilots are shown playing World of Warcraft when they're off duty. In the first training exercises, Maverick suffers an embarrassing defeat after he realizes that drones don't get angry if he flips them the inverted bird. However, in classic John Henry fashion, Maverick ultimately proves that humans will triumph over technology and saves the day at the end by pulling off a maneuver that should have killed him from the G forces.
Is it just me or were all these 80s Tom cruise movies just the same movie with a different theme. He is the best at something (fighter pilot, bartender, pool player, race car drivèr, lawyer,etc.), his cockiness gets him in trouble, but his awesomeness wins out in the end. Always with a side story of some pouty girl, who realizes how awesome he is by the end of the movie.
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Top Gun sucks. Probably one of the most overrated movies of the last 30 years. That beach volleyball scene is one of the lamest pieces of crap I've ever watched. You know what the problem is? Kenny Loggins. Any movie that relies heavily on that dirtbag for its soundtrack is destined to suck. That goes double for you, "Footloose." Caddyshack doesn't count.
Kenny Loggins sucks!
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Top Gun sucks. Probably one of the most overrated movies of the last 30 years. That beach volleyball scene is one of the lamest pieces of crap I've ever watched. You know what the problem is? Kenny Loggins. Any movie that relies heavily on that dirtbag for its soundtrack is destined to suck. That goes double for you, "Footloose." Caddyshack doesn't count.
Kenny Loggins sucks!
They can't all be Brokeback Mountain or My Dinner with Maury
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I think waiting two and a half decades to make a sequel is probably a tad long. That being said, Cruise has remained in great shape so I think he can get away with it. Kelly Mcgillis, not so much. She was arguably a total babe in the 80's though...
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In the near future, Maverick and Ice Man are now senior Top Gun instructors (the same roles as Viper and Jester in the first movie), but the bean counters at the Pentagon are out to prove that manned fighter aircraft are a needless expense. The incoming Top Gun class, rather than being fighter jocks flying Super Hornets or F-35s, is instead a group of geeky computer nerds who fly an advanced air-to-air drone prototype capable of extreme high-G maneuvers that are impossible for a manned aircraft to complete. The cocky hotshot drone pilot is played by Jesse Eisenberg, callsign "1337mastakilla". Instead of having a topless volleyball scene, 1337mastakilla and his fellow drone pilots are shown playing World of Warcraft when they're off duty. In the first training exercises, Maverick suffers an embarrassing defeat after he realizes that drones don't get angry if he flips them the inverted bird. However, in classic John Henry fashion, Maverick ultimately proves that humans will triumph over technology and saves the day at the end by pulling off a maneuver that should have killed him from the G forces.
Didn't you more or less just describe the plot of Stealth?
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This thread finally makes me realize I was not crazy when I was a teen and first saw it.
I was really uncomfortable with a lot of the scenes, and kept thinking ,"These guys seem really.....gay. I mean it is not normal for dues to put their arms around each other when they are shirtless, unless you are fighting."
I've never actually seen the movie. I was never into fighter planes so I never bothered to go as a kid. I've never felt the need to watch it on tv either.
Don't know why.
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