You Going to See Top Gun: Maverick?

[IASTATE07]

Didn't watch the first one til last night. Watched Maverick tonight and thought it was great.

 

[Rural]

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.

I don't even remember 64.

 

[BCClone]

Wife had me go with her last night. I was a “who cares” vote. I would say it was worth whatever the wife paid. Had a light headache going in and the theater was at 11 for volume. Nothing great but not a waste of time. May have been better if I saw more than the shirtless VB scene in the first. TC had to go shirtless again I see. If Connolly is supposed to be a replacement for McGillis, I approve. I never found McGillis attractive in her youth so that is why.

 

[MisterO]

Made a baby during the volleyball scene … cant wait to see the new movie but no more babies for me.

I didn't think I should go into details about how the original was an excellent seduction tool in college. lol

Wait a second…these might be the missing details.

 

[Cycho1]

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.

 

[Aclone]

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.

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.

 

[Aclone]

Some of these charts are 5-10 years out of date but they get the point across...

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Sweet. Now do rock stars! Like, in real life.

 

[shadow]

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.

Agreed. Really well done.

If I had to compare to the Star Wars sequels, it's like Rogue One which I think was the best post-original trilogy by a long shot.

It actually reminds me a bit of the more recent Mission Impossible movies.

 

[wxman1]

Absolutely incredible. Only nit pick is they should have cranked more volume in from Tom’s P-51 at the end.

 

[fcclone]

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.

Nope. Pictures.

 

[harimad]

I saw about 5 minutes of the first, I thought it sucked and quit watching.

So you watched the main titles.

 

[harimad]

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.

You watched these movies and that is your takeaway for the unrealistic part of them?

 

[BCClone]

So you watched the main titles.

No, I walked in during the volleyball part.

 

[CycloneNorth]

No, I walked in during the volleyball part.

Which volleyball part?

 

[BCClone]

Which volleyball part?

They were shirtless, then he took off on a motorcycle. There was more than one VB scene?

 

[harimad]

They were shirtless, then he took off on a motorcycle. There was more than one VB scene?

There was a Kenny Loggins song playing during this montage. And you walked out? What kind of monster are you?

 

[bos]

Went lastnight and loved it. It was a fun throwback and had a lot of action and great acting.

 

[BCClone]

There was a Kenny Loggins song playing during this montage. And you walked out? What kind of monster are you?

I remember some sappy song while he was on his motorcycle.

 

[Drew0311]

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.

I saw the original Karate kid in theatres and when Daniel nailed the crane kick. The theatre erupted. It was crazy. Like a real sporting event. I’ll never forget how weird it was when it was over.
People were legit giving each other high fives. Ahhhh the 80’s

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

Cruise is a douche.