So, I saw Top Gun: Maverick and it was goooooood?
Whaaaaaaat?!
I wasn't expecting this movie to get great reviews so, I was a little intrigued when I saw it was being well received.
And to prepare, I decided to watch the original Top Gun for the first time,
and it was very uh... bad...
It is an incredibly boring and pointless film that barely has a plot,
and even its redeeming elements are still poorly executed overall.
The film has a great soundtrack but the way the film uses the soundtrack is abysmal.
They've got three songs and they're gonna spam them over and over and over and over again throughout the entire film...
The songs are great independently of the film,
but the way the film uses them makes me want to gouge my.... ears out...?
The action flying scenes for this film are pretty well shot but the only flying sequence that feels like it has any stakes is at the end of the movie.
It's an hour and 49 minutes long and it legitimately starts getting interesting at about the hour and a half mark.
The romance scenes are forced and clunky. The only entertaining parts of this film are when it's unintentionally homoerotic...
[Clip] -Plaque for the alternates is down in the ladies room.
*laughs hysterically*
-Oh jesus...
-I'd like to bust your butt, but I can't I got another problem here.
-Well the list is long but distinguished
-Yeah, well so is my johnson
-Our deck my ass! We nailed that son of a bitch!
-I want somebody's butt! I want it now! I've had it! i want some butts!
[YMS] -The characters look like they're from a gay porn and they act like they're in a gay porn...
Throughout the entire fucking movie these characters are just staring longingly into each other's eyes!
They're constantly talking about their penises and there's so much shirtless action...
This movie is up there with Nightmare on Elm Street 2 and Death Race 2 in terms of being unintentionally homoerotic...
and that's pretty much the only entertaining aspect of this film, I understand a lot of people love this,
I'm sorry I get that it's nostalgic it's just it's a... fucking terrible movie,
in my opinion...
Anyway, this newest Top Gun film actually manages to fix a lot of the issues,
there is so much more character in this movie than the original film, both in how characters are written and the entire story.
it's got so much more of a personality, there's so much more clear intent, it feels like the movie the first movie should have been.
There are parts of this film that do a pretty great job at replicating the feel of the original,
The way the entire intro sequence is shot is pretty uncanny.
The soundtrack in this film uses some of the same music as the original, but this time they don't SPAM it the entire movie!
They show a bit more restraint in this film and it's great to see!
They also include tracks that evoke the same sense of nostalgia without actually having appeared in the first film.
The way that they incorporated "Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who into the film was actually pretty great!
This film is a great example of making a sequel that not only improves on the original, but definitely delivers on fan service.
It's difficult to get much better than this in terms of showing fans what they want to see.
The flying action scenes in this film are so much better than the original:
each of these scenes are engaging, and it feels like they have real stakes, they are super well shot and very atmospheric, the flying action scenes are the core of this film
and they are well worth the price of admission.
They are exhilarating and incredibly satisfying and I wish they took up the entire film, because the rest of the film is not as good.
Much of the dialogue scenes in this film are incredibly cheesy, sometimes the cheese helps the film and other times it hurts it.
There are some points where it feels tongue-in-cheek and self-aware and there are other points that had me rolling my eyes,
the way this film uses flashbacks is a little irritating,
there is an overabundance of them and many are providing the same information we were already given.
The non-action scenes in this film are not nearly as boring as the first movie, but there was still nothing really exceptional about them,
they moved the plot along and that's about it.
and yeah that's all you technically need at a base level, to get to the action scenes but the non-action scenes are still part of the movie.
When I rate movies I'm rating everything I saw from the movie and I saw the whole movie, so my rating is going to reflect the parts that were special and the parts that were not.
The original score for this film was fairly well done at points, but unfortunately there's a significant amount of the film where it just rips off Adagio in d minor...
🎵🎵
🎶
🎵🎵🎵
So yeah, that was kind of annoying, with it sounding so similar and with the original song being so
well known and already overused in media...
Even if it didn't remind me of one particular song, the way the chord progression is used is very cliched and uninspired by this point.
Anyway, overall I did really enjoy the film. I was able to enjoy the action scenes despite the non-action scenes.
I totally understand why this is resonating with people,
the last 30 minutes of this film is INCREDIBLY satisfying,
and I don't expect people to view film in the same way that I do,
the most memorable parts of this film that stick with you are really great and I don't expect other people to be thinking about the forgettable parts when talking about this movie,
but like I said I watched the whole movie so I'm reviewing the whole movie...
So, I'm giving this film a 6 out of 10!
It's closer to a 7 than a 5!
Definitely check this one out, there are many scenes that are a lot of fun and very satisfying,
maybe you don't see it if you get motion sickness...
thank you... bye-bye....
[Adum] -Just hanging with the bros!
-this is bro time!
-Oh my god!
he's thi- he had...
Muscular and very thin!