This is technically a re-upload, so if it seems familiar, that's why. It got taken down a few months ago for copyright, but it's such an amazing movie, there's no way I wasn't going to find a way to get it posted again! FIREFLY will be back on Tuesday!
Talk to the girl of the Popcorn in Bed channel, and ask her what she does ?, because apparently she I think she has a group that advise her with that to edit the videos well and avoid those problems. Because she left a comment I remember, in one of the videos of the channel: “Brandon Likes Movies” a guy who had a lot of problems with copyright, and tired finally abandoned the reactions about 2 years ago, so I do not know if he had read the comment of this girl, who offered to advise him on the subject, so you can try to consult them to see how to avoid copyright claims.
This one- in just the first few seconds of film, the music & attention to detail brought back that nostalgia of seeing the original in the theater all those years ago. Further into the movie It made me remember comments made by my buddies who were in the seats next to me, & despite being long since deceased; for a few brief moments it was like they were right back with me. As painful as it was, it was a beautiful gift I will not soon forget... Oh & Jacqui did you forget to juggle your goslings? (Baby Geese)
A little note, Mach 10 is a speed and 10 G is gravitational force. Think of it as "weight" on your body in the cockpit. Higher Gs equals heavier weight.
For extra clarity: Mach 10 is ten times the speed of sound. The speed of sound is roughly 760mph so mach 10 would equal around 7672mph which then becomes known as Hypersonic. Modern missiles can travel at hypersonic speeds but they are still relatively new.
@@benn454True varies from ~ 760mph@5000ft to 660mph@50000. Got these figures from wolfram alpha. I got to ask this question of a docent (former Pilot forgot branch) at Udvar-Hazy National Air and Space Museum. If you fly into Dulles you must go.
One thing you have to understand for Genx the f-14 isn’t just a plane. It’s not just a machine. It’s a character , an icon , like the millennium falcon or an Aston Martin. It evokes raw emotion at the mere sight of it. We had posters , we had air shows , we sat in cockpits. We had simulators , nintendos , gi joe figures. Aircraft carriers. There is no modern equivalent. There will never be a modern equivalent. We quake and shake at the mere sight of an f-14. You have to understand this.
I once read the F-14 being described as a muscle car-equivalent, and I think that comparison holds up. It just looks "strong". Viewed from the front, the wingroots almost look like big shoulders.
@@marcusott5054 It's also hard to understand just how large an F-14 is, they are over 60ft. long, so bigger than a school bus, bigger than most recreation motoryachts, about the same length as a semi-truck fully loaded and that wide as well with wings extended Imagine that barreling at you in 1974, at Mach 2 and then firing Gatlings....
The frontal silhouette of it (so many visible control surfaces and armaments) in the hangar is evocative of like a billion anime spaceship and mech shots from the 80's and 90's that were likely homages to it. It's iconic.
The F-14 was the same generation as the F-15 and F-16, but because it was designed for one purpose -- fighting off waves of Soviet aircraft carriers -- and was removed from service shortly after the end of the Cold War, it evokes memories of a specific era more so than planes that spanned multiple decades and wars
They put the "museum piece" F-14 in the movie, as a 'somewhat' believeable reason to get Mav and Rooster in the cockpit as a nod to Mav and Goose. It really WAS a museum piece, the F-14 Tomcat had been out of service for around 15 years (at time of filming) and other than Iran (who would not have lent one anyway) there are no airworthy F-14s left in the world. The one you see in the movie was towed out as it was incapable of starting the engines as it didn't have any. They've all been removed from the obsolete airframes. All the external footage is VFX. Rooster and Mav were unable to eject, because Rooster having never started/flown an F-14 and being in a rush never asked, didn't remove the safety pins from the ejector seats. It also meant there is no danger of history repeating itself and Rooster being killed the same way as his dad. The P-51 Mustang at the end of the movie is actually owned by Tom Cruise and is flown by him in the film as he holds a pilots licence. It's rumoured that he was experienced enough to have flown some of the non-combat manoevers in the F-18 Hornets, but was refused official permission.
Kind of. The nation they attack is believed to be Iran (obviously not stated). We sold F-14s to them. We don't know how many they still have exactly. But they have operational ones.
@@David_randomnumberWe wouldn’t be attacking a Russian uranium enrichment plant; they have lots of them and we’re fine with it. Russia hasn’t sold any 5th gen fighters to Iran (yet?), but it’s not much of a stretch.
@@k5sss Both is weird. Russia never sold top of the line equipment and you're right. Enrichment facilities are only a threat if they are built in nations without nukes.
@@MrPingn Believed to be Iran because of the F-14's, Yes. Also believed to be Russia as the 5th gen fighters were a VERY close representation of the SU-57 Felon in which ONLY Russia has. Iran is ONLY know for the F-14's. In true Topgun form, this movie's antagonist was a made up country that represents known countries but doesn't represent only one. Ironically, Iran and Russia are current modern day allies soooo ... In the Original Topgun the Antagonist was believed to be Russia. HOWEVER, the "MIG-28" does not exist in real life. There is a Mig 29 Fulcrum but no 28. Also these "Mig 28's" carried the Exocet Anti-ship missile in the Original movie which is actually a French made missile, Not Russian. Furthermore, the Mig's were not labeled with the Hammer and Sickle, but a RED STAR. So one would think China but they didn't have Migs or imported weaponry. But you know who did and does? North Korea. The Scene at the end said the communications ship SS Laten was become disabled and wondered into to enemy territory, if you witness a hostile act, you WILL return fire. I think this was a play on the Pueblo incident which in real life, North Korea STILL has possession of.
I remember songs, but forget singers. Forget jokes 20 min later so you can recycle them on me. Remember some movies frame by frame but many are lost in time. Lose names quickly or remember them forever. And having now turned 50+ I get to blame it on brain fog and neural synaptic malfunction. Sometimes whiskey.
I was one of those who was "Why do we need a 35 year old sequel to this?" Was convinced it would be a Meh re-hash cash grab. Most of the time, it would be. So happy this was more. Proves you can do a great sequel, IF you take the time and care to do it right.
Thank The Great Maker that JarJar Abrams didn't get his barely talented mitts on this film! Not sure I could've handled him taking a dump on yet another favourite movie/franchise from my youth.
Kelly McGillis did not come back, possibly, because she’s in semi-retirement, living in the North Carolina mountains and, at the time of filming (2018) [filmed in 2018-19 but released in 2022 due to Covid], was 61 years old but looks older. Cruise, btw, was 56 but looks younger. Also Jennifer Connolly was 48 and would have been 16 when the original came out. Cruise was 24 at the time. 16? No wonder the CAG in the original movie wasn’t pleased with Maverick about it. 🤣
Also, the caractor of Penney , the admirals daughter, comes first than Charlie...at that time , as the commander of the ship said before sending him to top gun, he risked two times to be grounded for buzzing 3 times the tower and in one of those occasions he did it for the admirals daughter that goose remembered being called Penney with who he had a past relationship. Then she was mentioned another time by gooses wife wile talking to Charlie in a bar . For Kelly's fisical and retirement conditions as an actress, for not incuding her in sequel they made the caractor of Charlie being not so important and limited for only that period and maybe not more than 2 months after the concusion of the first movie wile being a top gun instructor that lasted only for a couple of months, so Penney should have came out again later becoming his main partner of his life...
I loved that Rooster echoed his dad when he said “Do some of that pilot shit!” A the reason he couldn’t eject, they left the ejected safety feature on, it’s like a grenade pin, pull it a the ejector is live, they didn’t so it wasn’t.
Apparently, this makes perfect sense - ensuring that the ejector safety pin was pulled was part of the RIO's job during pre-flight on the F-14, so it's unlikely Maverick ever did it. He's running entirely on years-old muscle memory to get the plane running, which would only include the pilot's responsibilities, and Rooster probably hasn't even sat in an F-14 since his dad showed him one as a kid. Plus, they were in a bit of a hurry to get airborne. It's unsurprising that something was missed.
@@Dafmeister1978 I only know this bc in the 80’s I went to the Airshow, and a family friend was one of the instructors at the airfield, and we got to have a small walk through for the kids and the pilot of the F-14 explained how that mechanism worked, got to sit in it too. But I agree, the script didn’t need to cover it and it all happens fast the verisimilitude of the story & the moment superseded the textbook stuff.
Nominated for 6 Oscar including Best Picture but won for Best Sound Editing. It's one of the highest grossing movies ever made, $1.4 billion dollars. It's also the last onscreen appearance of actor Val Kilmer, who sadly lost his voice to throat cancer in 2015, and has difficulty speaking.
And it's pure Hollywood BS, this mission would never have been flown by pilots. We would have used a Predator drone with a Pathfinder lazor guided bombs or the Tomahawk missiles. There's no plane that can get close to Mach 10 and if there was ejecting at that speed would kill you. Also in a dog fight if you are that close to an enemy plane you can't shoot it without flying into the debris. But it's a good movie.
@@scottdarden3091 Yes, it was a movie, not a documentary. You forgot that Maverick's behavior would have gotten him grounded, if not punitively discharged, decades ago. Probably before he ever went to Top Gun the first time. Incidentally, there's no such thing as "lazor" guided bombs. If you're gonna get picky, make sure you get it right.
I saw this in the theatre then bought the DVD as a way of trying to express with my wallet that this is how you make movies in general and sequels in particular. I was in high school when the original came out and that summer it was the definition of blockbuster. The soundtrack was everywhere and of course the patch jackets was something everyone had or wanted. For the theatrical release, before the opening credits, Cruise made a very short introduction. Just him looking into the camera and saying to the audience, "this took a long time to get made and thank you for coming to see our movie." Love or hate Tom Cruise, you have to recognize that was a very polite and humble thing to do. That simple, genuine expression of gratitude on his part definitely raised my opinion of the man.
Yeah, I remember how the media machine was working overtime to explain all of the woke flops coming to theaters by saying 'people just didn't go to the theater any more because of Covid'... then this movie glorifying everything the woke crowd stands against popped up and made $1.5 billion at the box office.
-As someone who saw the original in the theater, I definitely wasn’t high on a sequel because of the amount of time since the original. While the idea of Val Kilmer appearing was interesting, the use of Goose’s son seemed a bit lazy because the use of a family member has been done. So, it became a Redbox rental for me. After I saw it, I was kicking myself for not seeing it in the theater. -The opening was ideal. It definitely made it clear that this was going to be a “Top Gun” movie and not a movie using the name. -My theory of why there wasn’t anything related to Charlie was because they wanted to focus on the story with Goose and how it shaped Mav’s relationship with Rooster. First, they needed to introduce Rooster. Then, you illustrate the tension between him and Mav. Then, create the backstory of why Rooster hates Mav from his perspective. Then, push it hard. Then, you present Mav’s side of the story. Then, you finally reconciliation. With Kelly McGillis not returning, her character being brought up becomes pointless especially if there’s no way to link it to what’s going on in the movie. Your explanation is probably the best one. -My favorite scene has to be the “YOU TOLD US NOT TO THINK!” scene. Mav’s yelling at him for not following orders and you can understand why. However, after Rooster explains, it’s hard to argue with him. It’s kinda like in “Avengers: Infinity War” when Tony yells at Peter for not staying on Earth but then Peter says,”You can’t be a friendly neighborhood Spider Man if there’s no neighborhood.” -Hangman saving the day was predictable from the start but still done well especially with him referring to himself as their personal savior. He did something selfless but he was still going to be him. He changed but he wasn’t going to stop being that arrogant hot shot pilot. -A surprisingly awesome movie.
one of the main reasons that this movies is a parallel of it predecessor is because the military in general is one. The Navy was built on tradition and repetitive training and I think all sailor hold dear to their harts. I met an old Chief that owned a bar and we were in the same rate and stationed in the same places and even though were were 30 years apart we laughed about the same things and places.
I watched the original Top Gun with my parents right after I had my review board for Army flight school. I am a former Army attack helicopter pilot with combat experience who now flies jets…great reaction!
Apparently, that early scene in the diner was based on something that happened to Yuri Gagarin, the first man to go into space. After his orbit around the earth, he landed near a peasant village and asked them to notify the Soviet Space Center officials to come retrieve him. A young boy asked if he had just come from outer space, and he wittily replied, "As a matter of fact, I have".
The “Top Gun chime” plays when everyone realizes Mav is flying the F-14 ( 34:16). It plays again when Hangman rescues Mav and Rooster, mirroring Mav’s saving the day from the first movie ( 37:24). The torch has been officially passed.
As much as I love this movie it owes a huge debt to Star Wars: A New Hope. The mission is almost beat for beat the same as the Death Star trench run, complete with disregarding the targeting computer and relying on instinct, and Hangman's suckered punch rescue at the end from a superior enemy pilot is exactly the same as Han Solo's rescue of Luke from Vader.
11:19 The subtle foreshadowing in this shot is brilliant- "We've recalled 12 TopGun graduates... They'll fly the mission." Maverick (also a TopGun graduate) is literally in the 12th position.
Notice during the actual mission when Rooster says “talk to me dad” and Maverick responds “don’t think, just do”. It’s symbolic of Maverick’s place in his life going forward
My wife and I, both fans of the original (we both saw the original when it first came out), went to see Maverick in a theater here is Colorado Springs on opening night. What we didn't know beforehand was that the theater was across the street from the Air Force Academy, and that this was graduation day. We got treated to a Thunderbirds flyby as we entered the parking lot. The theater itself was full of cadets, still in their graduation ceremonial uniforms, discussing in hushed voices the technical merits of the movie. The experience doesn't get more magical than this!!! Dan. PS: The fictional "Darkstar" is clearly based on the real world SR-71 "Blackbird" (last flew in 1998). PS2: The scene when Maverick walks into a diner after (presumably) bailing from the Darkstar, I think, is loosely based on a real event where Chuck Yeager, first test pilot to break the sound barrier ("fastest man alive"), crashed near Mojave, CA (Darkstar home base) after trying to set an altitude record and was helped by a kid passersby before the rescue team arrived. PS3: Mach Number is an aerodynamic metric relevant to assessing airframe stress. It is often inaccurately explained as a unit of speed. The Mach number is how fast an object moves relative to the speed of sound. However, since the speed of sound itself is not a constant, it isn't really a unit of speed. At sea level, the speed of sound is about 770MPH; however at typical SR-71 cruising altitude (~80Kft), it is about 660MPH. So Darkstar, having reached Mach 10.3, was travelling at about 6800MPH. For comparison, the SR-71, still the speed record holder for airbreathing aircrafts, top Mach number was 3.4 (when Maverick said, in a casual tone, right after takeoff, "increase to Mach 3.5", I thought it was a nod to aviation enthusiasts that he is about to surpass the real life SR-71 record).
@@patrickkenyon2326 Yup. The LM Skunkworks engineers actually built the mockup used in the movie. When they rolled it out of the hanger for filming, allegedly, it was picked up by a Chinese satellite (supposedly, they rerouted a satellite to take better pictures) who thought it was real and test-flight operational 6 years ahead of the announced timeline.
There needs to be a cut off for copyright claiming. If a video is up for 6 months and no one had any problem with it for all that time... it should be exempt from new claims.
@Dracounguis They need to ease the hell up in general. Pretty much every reaction is positive, and not allowing people to praise your work is just stupid.
Admiral Tom "Iceman" Kazansky... The Part was written the way it was to accommodate Val Kilmer's real-life condition. He actually is suffering from throat cancer and can barely speak. Taht part of the film wasn't acting. The P-51 Mustang at the end of the film is Tom Cruise's actual plane and he is a qualified pilot himself, Though he was not allowed to actually fly the Navy jets, all those scenes he and the rest of the actors were in the backseat of 2-seat hornets.
My thoughts on the Top Gun series....I'll some it up this way, if someone says I want to make a sequel of a classic how do I pay proper respect, I'll say watch Top Gun and Maverick, to see them for the first time or get a refresher, then watch them again and pay attention scene by scene to each movie and go from there. This is a master class in how a sequel to a classic should happen and not only get all the die hards on board but actually make the OG Movie more important and better
@@steved1135 I hope you know people like you cost youtubers money by getting people to not want to post comments, your entitlement and arrogance...Jacqui this guy is literarly trying to cost you money by getting people to not want to post replies
The 5th-Gen fighter they kept referring is, in design, a Russian Su-57. The crazy flip move the fighter did when Maverick shot the missile at him is an actual move the Su-57 can make, and has been demonstrated at air-shows. Most actual American fighter pilots doubt its usefulness in actual combat but admit that it can throw you off if you are unfamiliar with the crazy maneuverability of 5th- Generation fighters. Oh, the F/A 18 (E and F) Super Hornets in the movie are 4th Gen fighters. The F 14 is a 3rd Gen.
Heater Heatley who's photos inspired the original movie saw the film when it was screened for the Navy and mentioned that when he saw that his left leg kicked out, his left arm pulled back and right hand pulled back towards his stomach.
The director invented the filming technology for the cockpit shots. He came up with a camera rig that fit in the real planes, and they were controlled in the planes as they flew. The actors literally shot the footage, as the real pilots flew the "missions". After a few hour of flying they would come back and they would go through and edit all the raw footage. That is why the faces look right, the bodies look right. CGI was only used in the film when there was no other way to do it (granted there is a fair amount). In the final sequence where rooster is bouncing around the back seat, he was literally experiencing that.
And all the exterior shots were CGI. I hate that they marketed the movie as "we didn't use any CGI" where it's literally all of it. The terrain, the sky, the planes (no, they didn't use F18's)...
@@darjanator "all exterior shots were CGI" is an exaggeration. That applies to the F-14 v SU-54 because those were a pair of LA-39's flying the maneuvers with a Cinejet LA-39 camera plane filming the fight. (from the flight co-ordinator), these then had the digital F-14 and SU-54 digitally replacing the real jets. According to the flight schedule they used 2 F/A-18E and 2 F/A-18F's The claim that every scene with more than one plane, was CGI is also a lie as in the documentary you see a second plane flying in the background of the actor and principal aircraft, both in formation or re-joining. They used pilots and F/A-18E and F's from NAS Lamore and pilots in EA-18G's out of Whidbey Island. The darkstar buzzing Cain, was done using an F/A-18 flying over the actor at below 100ft, it was flown by a pilot who was in charge of the Blue Angel's transition from the F/A-18C/D to the F/A-18E/F. That was it's 13th pass and last flight of the day. They had actor, the set and the plane in the same frame and they did it in one take, because the roof came off the set, no there were not wires pulling the roof off, that was an accident. The same pilot also flew the F/A-18 flying low over the desert floor, and that pop up was real, as was the F/A-18 climbing towards the camera (helicopter) They used real F/A-18's but they digitally added the bombs, which is why the bombs looked small, also why Hangman still had his bombs when he blew up the SU-57. A pilot who was about to engage an enemy fighter would have jettisoned the bombs as soon as he got the order, (something you see Phoenix do when the SAM's started launching at her). So as soon as Hangman got the order to launch, he would have dropped those as soon as he got clear of the ships' (the carrier and her near escorts) paths.
@darjanator I've seen what is claimed and I've seen the pre cgi shots. I've also been watching the flying and movie making scene for close to 40 years. Both "it's all CGI" and "there's no CGI " are lies. The majority of the CGI involving the Hornets are environmental, remove visual elements, munitions. Oh and one of the missile shots used in this film used a real missile an a real F-14. It was filmed by Heater Heatley.
@@darjanatorThe shot of the Su-57 flying up beside the F-14 was literally shot using an F-18E standing in for the Su-57 and an F-18F for the F-14. Then both were reskinned.
FYI, the P-51 at the end is Tom Cruise’s own plane (he got his pilot license after Top Gun), and he insisted on adding that scene when the Navy wouldn’t let him fly one of the F-18s for real.
Penny had to be very, very, very rich to not only own that Bar, but to own a 1973 Porsche 911 S and the The J/125 sailing yacht. It can't be cheap for Maverick to own a P-51 Mustang and that hanger as a Navy Pilot either.
@@jbdragon3295 In the movie Penny says she's delivering the yacht to a customer which is something she does as a side job. Her father was an Admiral, who could have second careered as a defense contractor, so her having upper five to six figures to put into a bar isn't impossible. Plus the car could have been her father's from the 1970's and she restored it. Maverick is living in a mini-house trailer in a rented airfield hangar at the beginning of the movie, and apparently has been doing that for a long time. Sinking your 0-6 pay ($171,388.80 / year for a Navy Captain with 30+ years) into a P-51 and just riding your vintage motorcycle from the 1980's everywhere would cut down on the expenses a lot. Plus, I'd imagine he gets a good deal on the hangar from whatever defense contractor is running the Mach 10 test. Still, you're right. Even a "needs restoration" P-51 is going for $2 million. So Maverick had to have sunk a HUGE amount of his pay (and financed the heck out of it) into that plane.-
6:00 imagine you are watching another movie and suddenly seeing the trailer for this, knowing NOTHING about a sequel. The mountains, the F-18 going hot, the gong... I almost cried and went nuts in the cinema :D And then Covid came and the release was postponed and postponed.... But the movie was just so unbelievably good and nice to notice right from the beginning, they know what worked for the first movie and had no problems of using that in the second. Love the reaction already :D
Wow, I can’t believe you had to deal with this for a year to get it uploaded! Thank you for continuing to work on it!!! I always love your wrap up at the end when you go in depth into the script and the score and filming techniques. The reason it feels different is because this time they were actually flying in the planes, so they could get shots that wouldn’t have been possible in the first movie. They actors actually had do a 3-month boot camp just to get used to the kind of g-forces they’d be experiencing, and then they flew in a specially modified plane with the real pilot in the back where you couldn’t see them.
I needed to post a comment to help you out sooo. Just FYI (in a very simplistic definition) "Mach" is a term of speed. Multiples of the speed of sound. Mach 2 = twice the speed of sound "G's" is a term of the gravitational pull of the Earth on an object. So each G that a pilot pulls, means they will experience that many times the normal gravitational pull on their body.
This movie makes me cry every time. I don’t know why. This is something in cinema that we’ve been missing for years. Twisters was also an unpredictable blockbuster because it’s just simple storytelling.. I think Hollywood lost that
4:36 Love that they brought back some of the soundtrack. Pure '80s Bliss. 🤘 6:00 Yup, you're quite correct.😉 11:25 They're called "Kens". 🤣 15:55 Never fails to put a smile on my face. 🤘😁🤘
These two movies and "The Right Stuff" are the peak examinations of the hot shot pilot character. Earlier perspectives on the hot shot pilot include "Fighter Squadron" set in WWII, "The Hunters" for Air Force in Korea, and "The Bridges at Toko-Ri" Navy in Korea. Flying bombers, while it requires as much or more courage, is not really the arena for the cocky hot shot.
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this before, In the scenes at the end with Tom Cruise and Jennifer Connelly flying around in the p51, that plane actually belongs to Tom Cruise and all those shots of it are him actually flying it.
What I love about your channel is your analysis and perspective is spot on. Great to see someone that just gets it and enjoys quality cinema/TV and appreciates the nuance of story telling at its finest. Hollywood rarely makes movies like this anymore.
Val's voice that you *do* hear in the movie is ai generated from a collection of sound clips from his other movies. he really did have cancer and cannot talk. he uses an electronic voice box to communicate in real life.
I’ve seen a few reactions to this movie and I must say you’re one of the best. You knew the characters and storyline and was really in to it Just what the viewers wanted to see
I was 16 yrs old when the original Top Gun came out. My buddy and I saw it in the theater and it was amazing! We ran out the next day and got the soundtrack and blared the Top Gun Anthem it on his dad's stereo system every day after school before his parents got home. Watching Maverick on the big screen brought back that same feeling of awe, but more intense. They took the great parts of the first movie and added/expanded. It's one of the few sequels, in my opinion, that was equal to the first.
This may not be the most popular take, but I actually really like the theory that Maverick actually dies in the opening scenes of the movie when the plane blows (can't imagine him surviving, honestly) and the movie is actually him working through his own personal purgatory, making right the things he most regretted in life, before he's able to move on. That helps frame the slightly more fantastical aspects of it and even him being saved at the end by the next young, clueless hotshot is sort of him letting go and passing the torch... "Where am I?" "The future is coming, and you're not in it." etc.
I was born a few years after Top Gun released in the theater, but growing up my parents had it on VHS. I watched that tape so often that literally wore it out! Being able to watch it in theaters when it released was such an incredible experience I'll never forget! It had so many great deep moments that I had tears in my eyes so many times. Truly, Top Gun and Maverick are movies for the ages in my opinion.
I saw the original Top Gun in the theater, as a teenager. I saw maverick in the theater also. It was truly great to see it in the theater. The best part was the personal message from Tom Cruise before the movie. Thanking the audience for coming to see the movie, and that he put his heart and soul into this movie. It was a very honest, heartfelt message.
"You are required to maneuver straight down this trench and skim the surface to this point. The target area is only two meters wide. It's a small thermal exhaust port, right below the main port. The shaft leads directly to the reactor system."
Yeah. They stole the Star Wars plot. And George Lucas stole that from the British war movie "The Dam Busters". But, hey, if you have to steal for a fighter pilot movie ...
@@kenle2 I loved the fact they copied SW. I laughed out loud in the theater, because it was so funny. I laughed at the Admiral's daughter throwback as well. Great movie and a solid rebrand of an older franchise as well. More studios in Hollyweird should take notes. This is how it's done.
For those that don’t know the F14tomcat is faster than those fifth gen jet fighters , Mach 2.4 conservatively by the navy , Grumman factory more over 2.4 aswell the GeForce .
This was the first movie after Covid lockdown that reminded me why I go to theaters. Not every movie deserves a theatrical release, but I’m glad that theaters have started to rerelease old movies that are best seen on the big screen.
With how long it had been since the first movie, and how beloved the original film was, my expectations for this movie were not high. Thankfully, it was much better than I expected, and I'm glad for it.
A little techno jargon, just for the hell of it: Gs and Mach are completely different things. Mach is speed. Mach 1 is speed of sound, mach 10 is ten times that. About 10.000 km/h. In real life, the speed record for a manned plane is around Mach 3. The max speed for a F-18 Hornet they flew in this movie is mach 1,8. Gs, on the other hand, is acceleration. In this context, how much heavier a pilot feels when making steep maneuvers. A 70 kg man doing a 9 G maneuver would feel like he weights 630 kg, or like there're eight other people sitting on their chest. An F-18 is rated to 9Gs.
a short fyi, ejection seats in the f14 had a preflight arming procedure. They did not do that procedure. So even if the ejection seats were functional, they would not have worked having not been activated in preflight.
I was 12 when my aunt took me to see Top Gun in the theater. I fell in love. I took the family to see this in the theater, and this felt like an absolute love note to fans of the original
I watched this movie in the theatres. Seen multiple reactions. No one ever made the connection or called out the line “everything’s dead back here” that Rooster says but you called out how screwed up saying that is in Goose’s seat by Goose’s son! 😂 Feeling both slow for missing it and impressed by how quick you caught that!!
So the Callsigns were chosen by the actors which isn't the norm as a Military fighter pilot because your first squadron or wing will choose your callsign for you based upon to mannerisms, actions or what have you, because if everyone got to choose their own callsigns you would have too many pilots trying to choose cool ones like reaper or scythe or whatever and that callsign won't truly represent them. These callsigns sort of fit though because of how the characters act. For example, Rooster is called Rooster because like a Rooster he is the first to brave danger up the point of death to protect others, Phoenix is called Phoenix because she rises from adversity as in the proverbial ashes, Hangman is so named because he leaves his wingmen hanging out to dry......
Well, this was the first movie I watched you do a reaction for and it's pleasure to watch it with you again. You are fast becoming my favorite reactor. Cheers!
The 2 miracles in this movie was based on a real event. Not inside a volcano, and not F-18s but actual F-14 Tomcats. The precision bombing variables are the same
You asked - a baby goose is called a gosling. Annnd at 29:47 (right before the "holy shit comment" you see him inverted. They'd climb up and then invert as they curved over and down hard to keep the blood from rushing to their heads. There are likely avionic reasons also, but a fighter pilot pointed that out. Keep the blood from rushing up, keep your legs tensed to keep the blood rolling to the heart and all the rest.
They gave Val Kilmer, and his character, a beautiful send off. I'm very glad they were able to bring him on board. Not surprised at all that Ice Man would go admiral either. Jennifer Connelly still has it going on. Both in acting and beauty. Loved how they were able to use actual cockpits in flight for pretty much all of those scenes. The actors (beyond what instruction and rehersal they got on the ground) were effectively their own directors and camera operators in the air. Sitting the be back seats of the F-18. It gave the scenes so much more believability and energy. Fun fact about the "museum piece" that they escape in. It's believed Iran is the unspoken enemy. At some point the US sold a number of F-14 fighters to Iran. We don't have an exact public number of how many they still have. But we do know there are some operational ones. As well as a predecessor of the F-14, the F-4 Phantom. Another beautiful plane. Definitely one of those sequels that just sticks the landings. It wasn't a deep plot. In fact some have made a solid argument that this kind of copies the original Star Wars Death Star canyon run. But it works. You don't always need a deep plot when you show respect to the original, the fans, and know what works. My idea of what happened with Charlie is that Maverick realized he'd rather be put there pushing the envelope rather than teaching. Since she was a civilian contract instructor. It meant that she was more static in her job. They realized it couldn't work as they had different goals.
Unrelated to the movie, but I use maverick(or some small variation) as my username nearly everywhere except UA-cam, and have for basically a couple decades. I so often forget that it’s also just a word and not just my name. Always throws me off when I see it somewhere or someone else uses it. 😂 Coincidentally, after I chose that username as a kid, I befriended someone who used the name Goose(it was a play on his last name), and so of course we had to team up whenever we could.
As an old Top Gun fan I was... highly doubtful about this whole idea of a new Top Gun. Until two seconds into the movie, when the bell rang... and and I was 13 again. The remake of the whole first scene - but with modern planes - was just perfect. The hook was in.
As an 80's kid and pilot, I can say that TG Maverick was the closure we all didn't know we needed. Decades of waiting to close a chapter of our youth, it was glorious. Your bad language doesn't add to the viewing experience...
Beg to differ about the swearing. When someone whose normally as classy and "ladylike" as Jacqui lets go enough to use profanity it makes it MORE impactful.
Fun fact: the fastest any person has went in the atmosphere was mach 6.7 in 1967 aboard an X-15 hypersonic rocket plane. Also for anyone who says its "impossible" for an F-14 to win against an Su-57, look up Growling Sidewinder. He did that fight in DCS
Our conception of "copyright" is insane Yeah, you should have to make transformative content, but no one is harmed by seeing 50 minutes of a movie's footage on UA-cam with someone talking over it years after the film is no longer in theaters
@@cleekmaker00 Sure, but that's my point. The reactor isn't making money off of the movie, they're making money because of what they add to it. That's what people watch for.
I agree with the spirit of the law in that "you can't just take something I made and make money off it" but in practice it ruins a lot of fun. Like this reaction doesn't make me watch Maverick less, it makes me want to watch it more. That's what most copyright owners don't understand. It's literally advertising your product and you should let it.
I saw Top Gun in the theatre when I was a kid... I thought I was the coolest kid in the world seeing it. I felt almost as excited 30+ years later seeing Maverick on opening night.
I've watched most of the reviews about this film, but your review was for me, one of the very best!! Thoughtful and intelligent with great insight. May I suggest that you search UA-cam about how the film was made. The work, time and effort that Cruise put into this labor of love was staggering. I've spent hours watching other videos about how it was made, and those responsible. A wonderful journey that II would highly recommend. Cheers
A baby goose is called a gosling.My high school mascot was the Honkers. ( We were right in the center of the Pacific Fly way for the largest migration path of ducks and geese) Honkers is a nickname for Canadian geese! Our freshmen sports teams were the Goslings! 😊
The big movie screen for this one was Very Nice indeed! And yeah, as someone who saw the first one when it came out, it felt like "coming home." (That, and I used to live in San Diego.)
I was in the Navy. I thought this was great. The Cat shot (with TC in the back seat) definitely brought back memories, and clearing the ridgeline inverted was another great moment. But for capturing the juvenile antics of fighter pilots and fighter squadrons, it is with some embarrassment that I have to say, "Hot Shots" is pretty dang hard to beat!
Lots of throwback nods in this one. For me (although not in the edit) seeing the Skunk Works logo (designed by Disney, as I recall) on the tailfins of the Darkstar really hit me. Lockheed's Skunk Works designed and built the U-2, SR-71, and F-117, first at Burbank Airport, and now in Palmdale. I knew a few people that worked there, although they couldn't talk much about what they did. If the SR-72 or similar exists, I'm certain the Skunk Works is working on it.
Mach is expressed as multiples of the speed of sound, which is about 609 mph. Mach 1 is about 609/mph, Mach 2 is 1218 mph, and so on. G is the force of gravity, that is the thing that gives you the sense of weight based on your mass. So if you weigh 200 lbs, at 1 G you weigh 200 lbs. At 2 G you weigh 400 lbs and so on.
Love the movie, and your reactions. I had the same emotional highs and lows, at pretty much the same time. The BEST movie sequel ever. Thank you for re-uploading !
Something you didn't point out was the AMAZING flying and effects, they did so many things to add realism, everything was completely believable (until the end with the F14).
During the briefing, they mention a speed that the F/A-18's would need to fly at during their approach. Note, the F/A-18 can't fly at that speed with that payload, but the real F-14 could and did and did it while in Mil power (max throttle without going into afterburner)
Brilliant reaction. Not just emotional but insightful as well. But yeah, this might be the best sequel ever made. The actual footage of the real actors/actresses up in real jets is just staggering. Even without big name(s) in this movie, a great story and great performances, the flight footage alone is worth watching. I sub'ed.
dont confuse mach with G-force, they are not the same, mach is speed of sound, G-force the gravitational force, mach 10: 10 times the speed of sound, 9G or G9 nine times of the normal weight. so pulling 9G your body weight 9 times heavier than normal during that pull. i believe its like that.
YES IT FELT AWESOME SINCE I WAS ONE OF THE ORIGIONAL FANS SEEING IT IN THE 80'S, AND THEN WATCHING MAVERICK! I WAS SO PUMPED TO SEE THIS MOVIE AND WAS NOT DISAPPOINTED 1 BIT. I NOTICED EVERY CALLBACK THROWN INTO THIS MOVIE.
ONE OF THE CALL BACKS WAS TOWARDS THE END WHEN ROOSTER TELLS MAVERICK " LETS SEE SOME OF THAT PILOT SHIT! " THATS EXACTLY WHAT GOOSE SAID TO MAV DURING ONE OF THE TOP GUN EXERCISES.
This is technically a re-upload, so if it seems familiar, that's why. It got taken down a few months ago for copyright, but it's such an amazing movie, there's no way I wasn't going to find a way to get it posted again! FIREFLY will be back on Tuesday!
Talk to the girl of the Popcorn in Bed channel, and ask her what she does ?, because apparently she I think she has a group that advise her with that to edit the videos well and avoid those problems. Because she left a comment I remember, in one of the videos of the channel: “Brandon Likes Movies” a guy who had a lot of problems with copyright, and tired finally abandoned the reactions about 2 years ago, so I do not know if he had read the comment of this girl, who offered to advise him on the subject, so you can try to consult them to see how to avoid copyright claims.
@@javix2013 She's had all kinds of problems, but she has done posts about how she dealt with them that might ne helpful.
Glad I caught the first one. Still watched this one tho.
This one- in just the first few seconds of film, the music & attention to detail brought back that nostalgia of seeing the original in the theater all those years ago. Further into the movie It made me remember comments made by my buddies who were in the seats next to me, & despite being long since deceased; for a few brief moments it was like they were right back with me. As painful as it was, it was a beautiful gift I will not soon forget... Oh & Jacqui did you forget to juggle your goslings? (Baby Geese)
There are other reactors that do the blurring thing all the way through as well as off screen. I can't understand why they would come for you.
A little note, Mach 10 is a speed and 10 G is gravitational force. Think of it as "weight" on your body in the cockpit. Higher Gs equals heavier weight.
Mach 10 is 10 times the speed of sound or 7600 MPH
For extra clarity: Mach 10 is ten times the speed of sound. The speed of sound is roughly 760mph so mach 10 would equal around 7672mph which then becomes known as Hypersonic. Modern missiles can travel at hypersonic speeds but they are still relatively new.
@@Dizzyruptor It's variable depending on altitude and atmospheric conditions. That's the speed of sound at sea level.
specifically, mach 10 is 10x the speed of sound, and 10Gs means your body feels like an elephant 10x your weight is sitting on top of you...
@@benn454True varies from ~ 760mph@5000ft to 660mph@50000. Got these figures from wolfram alpha. I got to ask this question of a docent (former Pilot forgot branch) at Udvar-Hazy National Air and Space Museum. If you fly into Dulles you must go.
Tom insisted that Val be in the movie, I’m sure his family is appreciative of that. Side note, Val’s voice was done by his son.
One thing you have to understand for Genx the f-14 isn’t just a plane. It’s not just a machine. It’s a character , an icon , like the millennium falcon or an Aston Martin.
It evokes raw emotion at the mere sight of it.
We had posters , we had air shows , we sat in cockpits. We had simulators , nintendos , gi joe figures. Aircraft carriers.
There is no modern equivalent. There will never be a modern equivalent.
We quake and shake at the mere sight of an f-14. You have to understand this.
I once read the F-14 being described as a muscle car-equivalent, and I think that comparison holds up. It just looks "strong". Viewed from the front, the wingroots almost look like big shoulders.
@@marcusott5054 It's also hard to understand just how large an F-14 is, they are over 60ft. long, so bigger than a school bus, bigger than most recreation motoryachts, about the same length as a semi-truck fully loaded and that wide as well with wings extended
Imagine that barreling at you in 1974, at Mach 2 and then firing Gatlings....
So. Much. This.
The frontal silhouette of it (so many visible control surfaces and armaments) in the hangar is evocative of like a billion anime spaceship and mech shots from the 80's and 90's that were likely homages to it. It's iconic.
The F-14 was the same generation as the F-15 and F-16, but because it was designed for one purpose -- fighting off waves of Soviet aircraft carriers -- and was removed from service shortly after the end of the Cold War, it evokes memories of a specific era more so than planes that spanned multiple decades and wars
"I imagine it felt pretty good" - yeah as someone who saw Top Gun in the theatre five times, it felt GREAT
@@mainstuff7858 Top Gun was one of the most popular movies of the decade, and holds up well in quality even today. I was in pretty good company
@@mainstuff7858 Get a life!
They put the "museum piece" F-14 in the movie, as a 'somewhat' believeable reason to get Mav and Rooster in the cockpit as a nod to Mav and Goose. It really WAS a museum piece, the F-14 Tomcat had been out of service for around 15 years (at time of filming) and other than Iran (who would not have lent one anyway) there are no airworthy F-14s left in the world. The one you see in the movie was towed out as it was incapable of starting the engines as it didn't have any. They've all been removed from the obsolete airframes. All the external footage is VFX.
Rooster and Mav were unable to eject, because Rooster having never started/flown an F-14 and being in a rush never asked, didn't remove the safety pins from the ejector seats. It also meant there is no danger of history repeating itself and Rooster being killed the same way as his dad.
The P-51 Mustang at the end of the movie is actually owned by Tom Cruise and is flown by him in the film as he holds a pilots licence. It's rumoured that he was experienced enough to have flown some of the non-combat manoevers in the F-18 Hornets, but was refused official permission.
Kind of.
The nation they attack is believed to be Iran (obviously not stated). We sold F-14s to them. We don't know how many they still have exactly. But they have operational ones.
@@MrPingnwasn't the rumour that that's Russia since Iran doesn't have 5th gen fighters ?
@@David_randomnumberWe wouldn’t be attacking a Russian uranium enrichment plant; they have lots of them and we’re fine with it.
Russia hasn’t sold any 5th gen fighters to Iran (yet?), but it’s not much of a stretch.
@@k5sss Both is weird. Russia never sold top of the line equipment and you're right. Enrichment facilities are only a threat if they are built in nations without nukes.
@@MrPingn Believed to be Iran because of the F-14's, Yes. Also believed to be Russia as the 5th gen fighters were a VERY close representation of the SU-57 Felon in which ONLY Russia has. Iran is ONLY know for the F-14's. In true Topgun form, this movie's antagonist was a made up country that represents known countries but doesn't represent only one. Ironically, Iran and Russia are current modern day allies soooo ...
In the Original Topgun the Antagonist was believed to be Russia. HOWEVER, the "MIG-28" does not exist in real life. There is a Mig 29 Fulcrum but no 28. Also these "Mig 28's" carried the Exocet Anti-ship missile in the Original movie which is actually a French made missile, Not Russian. Furthermore, the Mig's were not labeled with the Hammer and Sickle, but a RED STAR. So one would think China but they didn't have Migs or imported weaponry. But you know who did and does? North Korea. The Scene at the end said the communications ship SS Laten was become disabled and wondered into to enemy territory, if you witness a hostile act, you WILL return fire. I think this was a play on the Pueblo incident which in real life, North Korea STILL has possession of.
The good thing about having a terrible memory is I can enjoy this reaction a second time, no problem lol.
You do know you have posted this before? Twice in fact!
Long covid has Swiss cheesed my memory so I'm seeing movies and hearing music for the first time again too.
@@GnrMilligan just a glitch in the Matrix
I remember songs, but forget singers. Forget jokes 20 min later so you can recycle them on me. Remember some movies frame by frame but many are lost in time. Lose names quickly or remember them forever. And having now turned 50+ I get to blame it on brain fog and neural synaptic malfunction. Sometimes whiskey.
I was one of those who was "Why do we need a 35 year old sequel to this?" Was convinced it would be a Meh re-hash cash grab. Most of the time, it would be.
So happy this was more. Proves you can do a great sequel, IF you take the time and care to do it right.
As Tom said, it was his love letter to aviation. So yeah, it was done RIGHT.
Thank The Great Maker that JarJar Abrams didn't get his barely talented mitts on this film! Not sure I could've handled him taking a dump on yet another favourite movie/franchise from my youth.
Mach 10 is speed, 10G is g force, not the same 🙂
Both are hard on an airframe.
Kelly McGillis did not come back, possibly, because she’s in semi-retirement, living in the North Carolina mountains and, at the time of filming (2018) [filmed in 2018-19 but released in 2022 due to Covid], was 61 years old but looks older. Cruise, btw, was 56 but looks younger.
Also Jennifer Connolly was 48 and would have been 16 when the original came out. Cruise was 24 at the time. 16? No wonder the CAG in the original movie wasn’t pleased with Maverick about it. 🤣
Yeah, Kelly didn't keep herself in the best of shape.
Also, the caractor of Penney , the admirals daughter, comes first than Charlie...at that time , as the commander of the ship said before sending him to top gun, he risked two times to be grounded for buzzing 3 times the tower and in one of those occasions he did it for the admirals daughter that goose remembered being called Penney with who he had a past relationship. Then she was mentioned another time by gooses wife wile talking to Charlie in a bar .
For Kelly's fisical and retirement conditions as an actress, for not incuding her in sequel they made the caractor of Charlie being not so important and limited for only that period and maybe not more than 2 months after the concusion of the first movie wile being a top gun instructor that lasted only for a couple of months, so Penney should have came out again later becoming his main partner of his life...
I loved that Rooster echoed his dad when he said “Do some of that pilot shit!” A the reason he couldn’t eject, they left the ejected safety feature on, it’s like a grenade pin, pull it a the ejector is live, they didn’t so it wasn’t.
Apparently, this makes perfect sense - ensuring that the ejector safety pin was pulled was part of the RIO's job during pre-flight on the F-14, so it's unlikely Maverick ever did it. He's running entirely on years-old muscle memory to get the plane running, which would only include the pilot's responsibilities, and Rooster probably hasn't even sat in an F-14 since his dad showed him one as a kid. Plus, they were in a bit of a hurry to get airborne. It's unsurprising that something was missed.
@@Dafmeister1978 I only know this bc in the 80’s I went to the Airshow, and a family friend was one of the instructors at the airfield, and we got to have a small walk through for the kids and the pilot of the F-14 explained how that mechanism worked, got to sit in it too. But I agree, the script didn’t need to cover it and it all happens fast the verisimilitude of the story & the moment superseded the textbook stuff.
Nominated for 6 Oscar including Best Picture but won for Best Sound Editing.
It's one of the highest grossing movies ever made, $1.4 billion dollars.
It's also the last onscreen appearance of actor Val Kilmer, who sadly lost his voice to throat cancer in 2015, and has difficulty speaking.
And it's pure Hollywood BS, this mission would never have been flown by pilots. We would have used a Predator drone with a Pathfinder lazor guided bombs or the Tomahawk missiles. There's no plane that can get close to Mach 10 and if there was ejecting at that speed would kill you. Also in a dog fight if you are that close to an enemy plane you can't shoot it without flying into the debris. But it's a good movie.
@@scottdarden3091 You must be so fun at parties
@@leiny5421 yeah hell yeah I am
@@leiny5421 but the movie is still BS
@@scottdarden3091 Yes, it was a movie, not a documentary. You forgot that Maverick's behavior would have gotten him grounded, if not punitively discharged, decades ago. Probably before he ever went to Top Gun the first time. Incidentally, there's no such thing as "lazor" guided bombs. If you're gonna get picky, make sure you get it right.
I saw this in the theatre then bought the DVD as a way of trying to express with my wallet that this is how you make movies in general and sequels in particular. I was in high school when the original came out and that summer it was the definition of blockbuster. The soundtrack was everywhere and of course the patch jackets was something everyone had or wanted.
For the theatrical release, before the opening credits, Cruise made a very short introduction. Just him looking into the camera and saying to the audience, "this took a long time to get made and thank you for coming to see our movie." Love or hate Tom Cruise, you have to recognize that was a very polite and humble thing to do. That simple, genuine expression of gratitude on his part definitely raised my opinion of the man.
Yeah, I remember how the media machine was working overtime to explain all of the woke flops coming to theaters by saying 'people just didn't go to the theater any more because of Covid'... then this movie glorifying everything the woke crowd stands against popped up and made $1.5 billion at the box office.
-As someone who saw the original in the theater, I definitely wasn’t high on a sequel because of the amount of time since the original. While the idea of Val Kilmer appearing was interesting, the use of Goose’s son seemed a bit lazy because the use of a family member has been done. So, it became a Redbox rental for me. After I saw it, I was kicking myself for not seeing it in the theater.
-The opening was ideal. It definitely made it clear that this was going to be a “Top Gun” movie and not a movie using the name.
-My theory of why there wasn’t anything related to Charlie was because they wanted to focus on the story with Goose and how it shaped Mav’s relationship with Rooster. First, they needed to introduce Rooster. Then, you illustrate the tension between him and Mav. Then, create the backstory of why Rooster hates Mav from his perspective. Then, push it hard. Then, you present Mav’s side of the story. Then, you finally reconciliation. With Kelly McGillis not returning, her character being brought up becomes pointless especially if there’s no way to link it to what’s going on in the movie. Your explanation is probably the best one.
-My favorite scene has to be the “YOU TOLD US NOT TO THINK!” scene. Mav’s yelling at him for not following orders and you can understand why. However, after Rooster explains, it’s hard to argue with him. It’s kinda like in “Avengers: Infinity War” when Tony yells at Peter for not staying on Earth but then Peter says,”You can’t be a friendly neighborhood Spider Man if there’s no neighborhood.”
-Hangman saving the day was predictable from the start but still done well especially with him referring to himself as their personal savior. He did something selfless but he was still going to be him. He changed but he wasn’t going to stop being that arrogant hot shot pilot.
-A surprisingly awesome movie.
one of the main reasons that this movies is a parallel of it predecessor is because the military in general is one. The Navy was built on tradition and repetitive training and I think all sailor hold dear to their harts. I met an old Chief that owned a bar and we were in the same rate and stationed in the same places and even though were were 30 years apart we laughed about the same things and places.
Cool cool. I’m over here waiting for more firefly. 😊
It's really just an excuse to (partially) watch Firefly again 😬
I watched the original Top Gun with my parents right after I had my review board for Army flight school. I am a former Army attack helicopter pilot with combat experience who now flies jets…great reaction!
Apparently, that early scene in the diner was based on something that happened to Yuri Gagarin, the first man to go into space. After his orbit around the earth, he landed near a peasant village and asked them to notify the Soviet Space Center officials to come retrieve him. A young boy asked if he had just come from outer space, and he wittily replied, "As a matter of fact, I have".
come on Mav do some of that pilot "stuff" line was something Goose said word for word
The “Top Gun chime” plays when everyone realizes Mav is flying the F-14 ( 34:16). It plays again when Hangman rescues Mav and Rooster, mirroring Mav’s saving the day from the first movie ( 37:24). The torch has been officially passed.
They had to give Iceman cancer because that's Val in real life. I highly recommend watching Val, a 2021 documentary about him.
As much as I love this movie it owes a huge debt to Star Wars: A New Hope. The mission is almost beat for beat the same as the Death Star trench run, complete with disregarding the targeting computer and relying on instinct, and Hangman's suckered punch rescue at the end from a superior enemy pilot is exactly the same as Han Solo's rescue of Luke from Vader.
Star Wars - A New Hope was itself an homage to The Dambusters.
11:19 The subtle foreshadowing in this shot is brilliant-
"We've recalled 12 TopGun graduates... They'll fly the mission."
Maverick (also a TopGun graduate) is literally in the 12th position.
Oh my God I've watched this movie over a dozen times and this didn't reach me until now
Notice during the actual mission when Rooster says “talk to me dad” and Maverick responds “don’t think, just do”. It’s symbolic of Maverick’s place in his life going forward
My wife and I, both fans of the original (we both saw the original when it first came out), went to see Maverick in a theater here is Colorado Springs on opening night. What we didn't know beforehand was that the theater was across the street from the Air Force Academy, and that this was graduation day. We got treated to a Thunderbirds flyby as we entered the parking lot. The theater itself was full of cadets, still in their graduation ceremonial uniforms, discussing in hushed voices the technical merits of the movie. The experience doesn't get more magical than this!!!
Dan.
PS: The fictional "Darkstar" is clearly based on the real world SR-71 "Blackbird" (last flew in 1998).
PS2: The scene when Maverick walks into a diner after (presumably) bailing from the Darkstar, I think, is loosely based on a real event where Chuck Yeager, first test pilot to break the sound barrier ("fastest man alive"), crashed near Mojave, CA (Darkstar home base) after trying to set an altitude record and was helped by a kid passersby before the rescue team arrived.
PS3: Mach Number is an aerodynamic metric relevant to assessing airframe stress. It is often inaccurately explained as a unit of speed. The Mach number is how fast an object moves relative to the speed of sound. However, since the speed of sound itself is not a constant, it isn't really a unit of speed. At sea level, the speed of sound is about 770MPH; however at typical SR-71 cruising altitude (~80Kft), it is about 660MPH. So Darkstar, having reached Mach 10.3, was travelling at about 6800MPH. For comparison, the SR-71, still the speed record holder for airbreathing aircrafts, top Mach number was 3.4 (when Maverick said, in a casual tone, right after takeoff, "increase to Mach 3.5", I thought it was a nod to aviation enthusiasts that he is about to surpass the real life SR-71 record).
Darkstar was a nod to the just announced SR-72.
Blackbird had a baby.
@@patrickkenyon2326 Yup. The LM Skunkworks engineers actually built the mockup used in the movie. When they rolled it out of the hanger for filming, allegedly, it was picked up by a Chinese satellite (supposedly, they rerouted a satellite to take better pictures) who thought it was real and test-flight operational 6 years ahead of the announced timeline.
There needs to be a cut off for copyright claiming. If a video is up for 6 months and no one had any problem with it for all that time... it should be exempt from new claims.
@Dracounguis They need to ease the hell up in general. Pretty much every reaction is positive, and not allowing people to praise your work is just stupid.
Admiral Tom "Iceman" Kazansky... The Part was written the way it was to accommodate Val Kilmer's real-life condition. He actually is suffering from throat cancer and can barely speak. Taht part of the film wasn't acting.
The P-51 Mustang at the end of the film is Tom Cruise's actual plane and he is a qualified pilot himself, Though he was not allowed to actually fly the Navy jets, all those scenes he and the rest of the actors were in the backseat of 2-seat hornets.
I'm glad that the filmmakers treated Val Kilmer's real life cancer with dignity and respect.
I was wondering how they were going to handle having him come back since he couldn't really speak his lines . I am glad they had him in this movie .
Gosling...
A baby goose is a Gosling...
and Rooster, a male chicken, can also be referred to as a Cock.
Giggity Giggity
....a doodle do.
Nothing against Miles Teller, but not casting Ryan Gosling as Rooster was a missed opportunity.
@@benn454He’s too old.
@@Darth-Lesbian He's 43. Miles Teller is 37. Six years is nothing.
My thoughts on the Top Gun series....I'll some it up this way, if someone says I want to make a sequel of a classic how do I pay proper respect, I'll say watch Top Gun and Maverick, to see them for the first time or get a refresher, then watch them again and pay attention scene by scene to each movie and go from there. This is a master class in how a sequel to a classic should happen and not only get all the die hards on board but actually make the OG Movie more important and better
... "sum" it up ...
@@steved1135 people always love having replies like this...thank you entitled one for correcting something that you completely understood
@@chocomog9567 Indeed i completely understood your error. It's refreshing to see people acknowledge the importance of writing correctly.
@@steved1135 I hope you know people like you cost youtubers money by getting people to not want to post comments, your entitlement and arrogance...Jacqui this guy is literarly trying to cost you money by getting people to not want to post replies
The 5th-Gen fighter they kept referring is, in design, a Russian Su-57. The crazy flip move the fighter did when Maverick shot the missile at him is an actual move the Su-57 can make, and has been demonstrated at air-shows.
Most actual American fighter pilots doubt its usefulness in actual combat but admit that it can throw you off if you are unfamiliar with the crazy maneuverability of 5th- Generation fighters.
Oh, the F/A 18 (E and F) Super Hornets in the movie are 4th Gen fighters. The F 14 is a 3rd Gen.
Heater Heatley who's photos inspired the original movie saw the film when it was screened for the Navy and mentioned that when he saw that his left leg kicked out, his left arm pulled back and right hand pulled back towards his stomach.
The director invented the filming technology for the cockpit shots. He came up with a camera rig that fit in the real planes, and they were controlled in the planes as they flew. The actors literally shot the footage, as the real pilots flew the "missions". After a few hour of flying they would come back and they would go through and edit all the raw footage. That is why the faces look right, the bodies look right. CGI was only used in the film when there was no other way to do it (granted there is a fair amount). In the final sequence where rooster is bouncing around the back seat, he was literally experiencing that.
And all the exterior shots were CGI. I hate that they marketed the movie as "we didn't use any CGI" where it's literally all of it. The terrain, the sky, the planes (no, they didn't use F18's)...
@@darjanator "all exterior shots were CGI" is an exaggeration.
That applies to the F-14 v SU-54 because those were a pair of LA-39's flying the maneuvers with a Cinejet LA-39 camera plane filming the fight. (from the flight co-ordinator), these then had the digital F-14 and SU-54 digitally replacing the real jets.
According to the flight schedule they used 2 F/A-18E and 2 F/A-18F's
The claim that every scene with more than one plane, was CGI is also a lie as in the documentary you see a second plane flying in the background of the actor and principal aircraft, both in formation or re-joining.
They used pilots and F/A-18E and F's from NAS Lamore and pilots in EA-18G's out of Whidbey Island.
The darkstar buzzing Cain, was done using an F/A-18 flying over the actor at below 100ft, it was flown by a pilot who was in charge of the Blue Angel's transition from the F/A-18C/D to the F/A-18E/F.
That was it's 13th pass and last flight of the day. They had actor, the set and the plane in the same frame and they did it in one take, because the roof came off the set, no there were not wires pulling the roof off, that was an accident.
The same pilot also flew the F/A-18 flying low over the desert floor, and that pop up was real, as was the F/A-18 climbing towards the camera (helicopter)
They used real F/A-18's but they digitally added the bombs, which is why the bombs looked small, also why Hangman still had his bombs when he blew up the SU-57.
A pilot who was about to engage an enemy fighter would have jettisoned the bombs as soon as he got the order, (something you see Phoenix do when the SAM's started launching at her).
So as soon as Hangman got the order to launch, he would have dropped those as soon as he got clear of the ships' (the carrier and her near escorts) paths.
@@pogo1140 Or you could watch the VFX breakdown and see just how much CGI is used in every flying scene.
@darjanator I've seen what is claimed and I've seen the pre cgi shots. I've also been watching the flying and movie making scene for close to 40 years. Both "it's all CGI" and "there's no CGI " are lies. The majority of the CGI involving the Hornets are environmental, remove visual elements, munitions.
Oh and one of the missile shots used in this film used a real missile an a real F-14. It was filmed by Heater Heatley.
@@darjanatorThe shot of the Su-57 flying up beside the F-14 was literally shot using an F-18E standing in for the Su-57 and an F-18F for the F-14. Then both were reskinned.
FYI, the P-51 at the end is Tom Cruise’s own plane (he got his pilot license after Top Gun), and he insisted on adding that scene when the Navy wouldn’t let him fly one of the F-18s for real.
Penny had to be very, very, very rich to not only own that Bar, but to own a 1973 Porsche 911 S and the The J/125 sailing yacht. It can't be cheap for Maverick to own a P-51 Mustang and that hanger as a Navy Pilot either.
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In the movie Penny says she's delivering the yacht to a customer which is something she does as a side job. Her father was an Admiral, who could have second careered as a defense contractor, so her having upper five to six figures to put into a bar isn't impossible. Plus the car could have been her father's from the 1970's and she restored it.
Maverick is living in a mini-house trailer in a rented airfield hangar at the beginning of the movie, and apparently has been doing that for a long time. Sinking your 0-6 pay ($171,388.80 / year for a Navy Captain with 30+ years) into a P-51 and just riding your vintage motorcycle from the 1980's everywhere would cut down on the expenses a lot. Plus, I'd imagine he gets a good deal on the hangar from whatever defense contractor is running the Mach 10 test.
Still, you're right. Even a "needs restoration" P-51 is going for $2 million. So Maverick had to have sunk a HUGE amount of his pay (and financed the heck out of it) into that plane.-
6:00 imagine you are watching another movie and suddenly seeing the trailer for this, knowing NOTHING about a sequel. The mountains, the F-18 going hot, the gong... I almost cried and went nuts in the cinema :D And then Covid came and the release was postponed and postponed.... But the movie was just so unbelievably good and nice to notice right from the beginning, they know what worked for the first movie and had no problems of using that in the second. Love the reaction already :D
Wow, I can’t believe you had to deal with this for a year to get it uploaded! Thank you for continuing to work on it!!! I always love your wrap up at the end when you go in depth into the script and the score and filming techniques. The reason it feels different is because this time they were actually flying in the planes, so they could get shots that wouldn’t have been possible in the first movie. They actors actually had do a 3-month boot camp just to get used to the kind of g-forces they’d be experiencing, and then they flew in a specially modified plane with the real pilot in the back where you couldn’t see them.
25:53 They’re 2 completely different things. Mach 10 is 10 times the speed of sound, whereas 10 G is 10 times the force of gravity.
I needed to post a comment to help you out sooo. Just FYI (in a very simplistic definition)
"Mach" is a term of speed. Multiples of the speed of sound. Mach 2 = twice the speed of sound
"G's" is a term of the gravitational pull of the Earth on an object. So each G that a pilot pulls, means they will experience that many times the normal gravitational pull on their body.
was coming to say this - also the fastest manned jet ever flown topped out at 6.7, now spaceflight has reached speeds near Mach 25, during launch,
This movie makes me cry every time. I don’t know why. This is something in cinema that we’ve been missing for years. Twisters was also an unpredictable blockbuster because it’s just simple storytelling.. I think Hollywood lost that
4:36 Love that they brought back some of the soundtrack. Pure '80s Bliss. 🤘 6:00 Yup, you're quite correct.😉
11:25 They're called "Kens". 🤣
15:55 Never fails to put a smile on my face. 🤘😁🤘
These two movies and "The Right Stuff" are the peak examinations of the hot shot pilot character. Earlier perspectives on the hot shot pilot include "Fighter Squadron" set in WWII, "The Hunters" for Air Force in Korea, and "The Bridges at Toko-Ri" Navy in Korea. Flying bombers, while it requires as much or more courage, is not really the arena for the cocky hot shot.
Ward Carroll has a great channel, from the viewpoint of a Navy RIO (and some guests). One of the discussions is about this movie.
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this before, In the scenes at the end with Tom Cruise and Jennifer Connelly flying around in the p51, that plane actually belongs to Tom Cruise and all those shots of it are him actually flying it.
Beat me to it, great trivia.
What I love about your channel is your analysis and perspective is spot on. Great to see someone that just gets it and enjoys quality cinema/TV and appreciates the nuance of story telling at its finest. Hollywood rarely makes movies like this anymore.
Val's voice that you *do* hear in the movie is ai generated from a collection of sound clips from his other movies. he really did have cancer and cannot talk. he uses an electronic voice box to communicate in real life.
They did blend his recorded voice with Val’s son delivering the lines.
I’ve seen a few reactions to this movie and I must say you’re one of the best. You knew the characters and storyline and was really in to it
Just what the viewers wanted to see
I was 16 yrs old when the original Top Gun came out. My buddy and I saw it in the theater and it was amazing! We ran out the next day and got the soundtrack and blared the Top Gun Anthem it on his dad's stereo system every day after school before his parents got home.
Watching Maverick on the big screen brought back that same feeling of awe, but more intense. They took the great parts of the first movie and added/expanded.
It's one of the few sequels, in my opinion, that was equal to the first.
This may not be the most popular take, but I actually really like the theory that Maverick actually dies in the opening scenes of the movie when the plane blows (can't imagine him surviving, honestly) and the movie is actually him working through his own personal purgatory, making right the things he most regretted in life, before he's able to move on. That helps frame the slightly more fantastical aspects of it and even him being saved at the end by the next young, clueless hotshot is sort of him letting go and passing the torch...
"Where am I?"
"The future is coming, and you're not in it."
etc.
I recommend Dune: Part 1 & 2.
I would love it if you reacted to Twisters. Another remake/sequel that is also a lot of fun and has Glen Powell.
I was born a few years after Top Gun released in the theater, but growing up my parents had it on VHS. I watched that tape so often that literally wore it out! Being able to watch it in theaters when it released was such an incredible experience I'll never forget! It had so many great deep moments that I had tears in my eyes so many times. Truly, Top Gun and Maverick are movies for the ages in my opinion.
She's such a good movie watcher. She's literally who every writer or director is trying to make happy.
I saw the original Top Gun in the theater, as a teenager. I saw maverick in the theater also. It was truly great to see it in the theater. The best part was the personal message from Tom Cruise before the movie. Thanking the audience for coming to see the movie, and that he put his heart and soul into this movie. It was a very honest, heartfelt message.
"You are required to maneuver straight down this trench and skim the surface to this point. The target area is only two meters wide. It's a small thermal exhaust port, right below the main port. The shaft leads directly to the reactor system."
Yeah. They stole the Star Wars plot.
And George Lucas stole that from the British war movie "The Dam Busters".
But, hey, if you have to steal for a fighter pilot movie ...
@@kenle2 I loved the fact they copied SW. I laughed out loud in the theater, because it was so funny. I laughed at the Admiral's daughter throwback as well. Great movie and a solid rebrand of an older franchise as well. More studios in Hollyweird should take notes. This is how it's done.
@@kenle2 It's also a mission that the Navy Coordinator pulled from his own career.
He had trained to fly that mission, only it was a night mission.
For those that don’t know the F14tomcat is faster than those fifth gen jet fighters , Mach 2.4 conservatively by the navy , Grumman factory more over 2.4 aswell the GeForce .
This was the first movie after Covid lockdown that reminded me why I go to theaters. Not every movie deserves a theatrical release, but I’m glad that theaters have started to rerelease old movies that are best seen on the big screen.
With how long it had been since the first movie, and how beloved the original film was, my expectations for this movie were not high.
Thankfully, it was much better than I expected, and I'm glad for it.
A little techno jargon, just for the hell of it: Gs and Mach are completely different things.
Mach is speed. Mach 1 is speed of sound, mach 10 is ten times that. About 10.000 km/h. In real life, the speed record for a manned plane is around Mach 3. The max speed for a F-18 Hornet they flew in this movie is mach 1,8.
Gs, on the other hand, is acceleration. In this context, how much heavier a pilot feels when making steep maneuvers. A 70 kg man doing a 9 G maneuver would feel like he weights 630 kg, or like there're eight other people sitting on their chest. An F-18 is rated to 9Gs.
a short fyi, ejection seats in the f14 had a preflight arming procedure. They did not do that procedure. So even if the ejection seats were functional, they would not have worked having not been activated in preflight.
I was 12 when my aunt took me to see Top Gun in the theater. I fell in love. I took the family to see this in the theater, and this felt like an absolute love note to fans of the original
I'm sure someone pointed this out in the first iteration, but 10G IS NOT THE SAME AS MACH 10!!!. Blydi hell.
I watched this movie in the theatres. Seen multiple reactions. No one ever made the connection or called out the line “everything’s dead back here” that Rooster says but you called out how screwed up saying that is in Goose’s seat by Goose’s son! 😂 Feeling both slow for missing it and impressed by how quick you caught that!!
So the Callsigns were chosen by the actors which isn't the norm as a Military fighter pilot because your first squadron or wing will choose your callsign for you based upon to mannerisms, actions or what have you, because if everyone got to choose their own callsigns you would have too many pilots trying to choose cool ones like reaper or scythe or whatever and that callsign won't truly represent them. These callsigns sort of fit though because of how the characters act. For example, Rooster is called Rooster because like a Rooster he is the first to brave danger up the point of death to protect others, Phoenix is called Phoenix because she rises from adversity as in the proverbial ashes, Hangman is so named because he leaves his wingmen hanging out to dry......
Well, this was the first movie I watched you do a reaction for and it's pleasure to watch it with you again. You are fast becoming my favorite reactor. Cheers!
Seeing this Intro as a Top Gun fan in the cinema literally brought tears to my eyes!
If you want to see Glenn Powell in another good movie, watch "Devotion".
The 2 miracles in this movie was based on a real event. Not inside a volcano, and not F-18s but actual F-14 Tomcats.
The precision bombing variables are the same
Actually, the whole mission is based on real world tactics for the Super Hornet.....low level laser strike. The F-14 never did low level laser strike.
You asked - a baby goose is called a gosling. Annnd at 29:47 (right before the "holy shit comment" you see him inverted. They'd climb up and then invert as they curved over and down hard to keep the blood from rushing to their heads. There are likely avionic reasons also, but a fighter pilot pointed that out. Keep the blood from rushing up, keep your legs tensed to keep the blood rolling to the heart and all the rest.
As an original Top Gun fan who got to see this in the theater, it was amazing. I have watched it three times in theater since it came out.
They gave Val Kilmer, and his character, a beautiful send off. I'm very glad they were able to bring him on board. Not surprised at all that Ice Man would go admiral either.
Jennifer Connelly still has it going on. Both in acting and beauty.
Loved how they were able to use actual cockpits in flight for pretty much all of those scenes. The actors (beyond what instruction and rehersal they got on the ground) were effectively their own directors and camera operators in the air. Sitting the be back seats of the F-18. It gave the scenes so much more believability and energy.
Fun fact about the "museum piece" that they escape in. It's believed Iran is the unspoken enemy. At some point the US sold a number of F-14 fighters to Iran. We don't have an exact public number of how many they still have. But we do know there are some operational ones. As well as a predecessor of the F-14, the F-4 Phantom. Another beautiful plane.
Definitely one of those sequels that just sticks the landings. It wasn't a deep plot. In fact some have made a solid argument that this kind of copies the original Star Wars Death Star canyon run. But it works. You don't always need a deep plot when you show respect to the original, the fans, and know what works.
My idea of what happened with Charlie is that Maverick realized he'd rather be put there pushing the envelope rather than teaching. Since she was a civilian contract instructor. It meant that she was more static in her job. They realized it couldn't work as they had different goals.
Ok, so I'm not nuts! I already saw you reviewing this one. Glad to rewatch it though! Thank you Jaqui.🥰
The nostalgia kicks in with this movie. Its the ultimate conclusion to Maverick's story.
Unrelated to the movie, but I use maverick(or some small variation) as my username nearly everywhere except UA-cam, and have for basically a couple decades. I so often forget that it’s also just a word and not just my name. Always throws me off when I see it somewhere or someone else uses it. 😂
Coincidentally, after I chose that username as a kid, I befriended someone who used the name Goose(it was a play on his last name), and so of course we had to team up whenever we could.
This film came right in, and took a near top spot in my 10 best films ever. It's perfect.
As an old Top Gun fan I was... highly doubtful about this whole idea of a new Top Gun.
Until two seconds into the movie, when the bell rang... and and I was 13 again. The remake of the whole first scene - but with modern planes - was just perfect. The hook was in.
As an 80's kid and pilot, I can say that TG Maverick was the closure we all didn't know we needed. Decades of waiting to close a chapter of our youth, it was glorious.
Your bad language doesn't add to the viewing experience...
Beg to differ about the swearing. When someone whose normally as classy and "ladylike" as Jacqui lets go enough to use profanity it makes it MORE impactful.
Fun fact: the fastest any person has went in the atmosphere was mach 6.7 in 1967 aboard an X-15 hypersonic rocket plane. Also for anyone who says its "impossible" for an F-14 to win against an Su-57, look up Growling Sidewinder. He did that fight in DCS
This movie is the best theater experience i've ever had. Absolutely incredible!
Our conception of "copyright" is insane
Yeah, you should have to make transformative content, but no one is harmed by seeing 50 minutes of a movie's footage on UA-cam with someone talking over it years after the film is no longer in theaters
It's because Reactors make money off it, which infuriates the Studios.
@@cleekmaker00 Sure, but that's my point. The reactor isn't making money off of the movie, they're making money because of what they add to it. That's what people watch for.
I agree with the spirit of the law in that "you can't just take something I made and make money off it" but in practice it ruins a lot of fun. Like this reaction doesn't make me watch Maverick less, it makes me want to watch it more. That's what most copyright owners don't understand. It's literally advertising your product and you should let it.
Love the updated Maverick and your great reaction and commentary.
Oh yay, I get to enjoy my work day now! Thank you, Jacqui.
Mach 10 is 10*the speed of sound. 10g is 10*the force of earths gravity.
I saw Top Gun in the theatre when I was a kid... I thought I was the coolest kid in the world seeing it.
I felt almost as excited 30+ years later seeing Maverick on opening night.
I've watched most of the reviews about this film, but your review was for me, one of the very best!! Thoughtful and intelligent with great insight. May I suggest that you search UA-cam about how the film was made. The work, time and effort that Cruise put into this labor of love was staggering. I've spent hours watching other videos about how it was made, and those responsible. A wonderful journey that II would highly recommend. Cheers
This is one of the best sequels! It brought back so many memories and feelings
This movie is absolutely the best one of the past 10 years to see in motion seats.
A baby goose is called a gosling.My high school mascot was the Honkers. ( We were right in the center of the Pacific Fly way for the largest migration path of ducks and geese) Honkers is a nickname for Canadian geese! Our freshmen sports teams were the Goslings! 😊
The big movie screen for this one was Very Nice indeed! And yeah, as someone who saw the first one when it came out, it felt like "coming home." (That, and I used to live in San Diego.)
I was in the Navy. I thought this was great. The Cat shot (with TC in the back seat) definitely brought back memories, and clearing the ridgeline inverted was another great moment. But for capturing the juvenile antics of fighter pilots and fighter squadrons, it is with some embarrassment that I have to say, "Hot Shots" is pretty dang hard to beat!
As a fan of the original (it's my favourite film) the opening scene when the music hit gave me the biggest chills
I have the biggest crush on Jennifer Connolly like forever, and that had me giving topgun maverick perfect scores
Lots of throwback nods in this one. For me (although not in the edit) seeing the Skunk Works logo (designed by Disney, as I recall) on the tailfins of the Darkstar really hit me. Lockheed's Skunk Works designed and built the U-2, SR-71, and F-117, first at Burbank Airport, and now in Palmdale. I knew a few people that worked there, although they couldn't talk much about what they did. If the SR-72 or similar exists, I'm certain the Skunk Works is working on it.
Mach is expressed as multiples of the speed of sound, which is about 609 mph. Mach 1 is about 609/mph, Mach 2 is 1218 mph, and so on. G is the force of gravity, that is the thing that gives you the sense of weight based on your mass. So if you weigh 200 lbs, at 1 G you weigh 200 lbs. At 2 G you weigh 400 lbs and so on.
Love the movie, and your reactions. I had the same emotional highs and lows, at pretty much the same time. The BEST movie sequel ever. Thank you for re-uploading !
Something you didn't point out was the AMAZING flying and effects, they did so many things to add realism, everything was completely believable (until the end with the F14).
During the briefing, they mention a speed that the F/A-18's would need to fly at during their approach.
Note, the F/A-18 can't fly at that speed with that payload, but the real F-14 could and did and did it while in Mil power (max throttle without going into afterburner)
Thanks for the re-upload. I would highly recommend watching and reacting to "The Last Samurai". One of Tom's more underrated but amazing movies!
Brilliant reaction. Not just emotional but insightful as well. But yeah, this might be the best sequel ever made. The actual footage of the real actors/actresses up in real jets is just staggering. Even without big name(s) in this movie, a great story and great performances, the flight footage alone is worth watching. I sub'ed.
dont confuse mach with G-force, they are not the same, mach is speed of sound, G-force the gravitational force, mach 10: 10 times the speed of sound, 9G or G9 nine times of the normal weight. so pulling 9G your body weight 9 times heavier than normal during that pull. i believe its like that.
YES IT FELT AWESOME SINCE I WAS ONE OF THE ORIGIONAL FANS SEEING IT IN THE 80'S, AND THEN WATCHING MAVERICK! I WAS SO PUMPED TO SEE THIS MOVIE AND WAS NOT DISAPPOINTED 1 BIT. I NOTICED EVERY CALLBACK THROWN INTO THIS MOVIE.
ONE OF THE CALL BACKS WAS TOWARDS THE END WHEN ROOSTER TELLS MAVERICK " LETS SEE SOME OF THAT PILOT SHIT! " THATS EXACTLY WHAT GOOSE SAID TO MAV DURING ONE OF THE TOP GUN EXERCISES.
Great movie, great review.
This was a movie that you had to see in the theater, with a crowd. It was electric!