Didn't watch the first one til last night. Watched Maverick tonight and thought it was great.
I don't even remember 64.The ten year age difference is most significant because McGillis is post menopausal. She won’t get plastic surgery or dye her hair at this point due to the damage she feels she did in denying who she is with her sexuality. She was brutally raped when she was younger and physically assaulted at an older age. Has lived a difficult life. But I am sure you guys will all look fabulous at 64.
Made a baby during the volleyball scene … cant wait to see the new movie but no more babies for me.
Wait a second…these might be the missing details.I didn't think I should go into details about how the original was an excellent seduction tool in college. lol
Have a classmate/neighbor who made medical school after three years undergrad. Summa cum laude, top of her med school, chief resident at a prestigious west coast hospital. Now faculty at Harvard—among other things.If I remember correctly he was a second-year surgery resident.
Add 5-6 years to that to become an attending. And no, residencies and fellowships are not like high school or even college where you can test out of things and skip ahead. You have to put in the time.
Which would put him in the... 23ish range.
Confirmed, Days of Thunder is realistic if Nicole Kidman is a once-in-a-century child prodigy.
Sweet. Now do rock stars! Like, in real life.Some of these charts are 5-10 years out of date but they get the point across...
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Caught the morning show on a IMAX screen. I thought it was great. Good balance of nostalgia without over doing it in my opinion. Less cheesey than the original and more humor as well. Jennifer Connelly is still a fox. Tom Cruise is an underrated actor. He still has the "it" factor of a bonafide movie star. Still a weirdo in real life though.
I would recommend watching the original before hitting up the sequel. It's streaming on Netflix currently.
Nope. Pictures.Have a classmate/neighbor who made medical school after three years undergrad. Summa cum laude, top of her med school, chief resident at a prestigious west coast hospital. Now faculty at Harvard—among other things.
But no, she didn’t start college at 13.
Oh yeah. She’s as good looking as Kidman.
So you watched the main titles.I saw about 5 minutes of the first, I thought it sucked and quit watching.
You watched these movies and that is your takeaway for the unrealistic part of them?Both their characters were pretty ridiculous, though.
McGillis was 29 and pretending to be some expert on air combat that senior naval officers deferred to on the matter. Was she a pilot? Did she have combat experience? Nobody knows...
Kidman is a better actress, definitely. Her successful and varied career since then (which still continues, she did great as the Queen Gertrude character in The Northman) proves that. But she was 23 at the time of Days of Thunder and pretending to be a neurosurgeon specializing in brain trauma.
Umm... assuming somebody starts college when they're 18 then...
AGE
18-21 = undergraduate
22-25 = medical school
26-32 = the SEVEN-YEAR residency required to be an attending neurosurgeon
might even add 1-2 research years or a fellowship to this
So you're not an attending in that field until probably your mid-30s if not late-30s. She's too young to be playing that character by a decade at least. Not sure they thought that casting through...
The script just needed an attractive woman for Tom Cruise to boink in both instances.
No, I walked in during the volleyball part.So you watched the main titles.
Which volleyball part?No, I walked in during the volleyball part.
Which volleyball part?
There was a Kenny Loggins song playing during this montage. And you walked out? What kind of monster are you?They were shirtless, then he took off on a motorcycle. There was more than one VB scene?
I remember some sappy song while he was on his motorcycle.There was a Kenny Loggins song playing during this montage. And you walked out? What kind of monster are you?
Yeah- this thread took a weird turn. The movie exists purely to give the fans what they want. The theater I was in actually cheered. I don’t think I’ve experienced that since LOTR. Top Gun never claimed to be anything more than a popcorn flick. This one I would consider family friendly. Highly recommend.