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You Going to See Top Gun: Maverick?

Are you going to watch Top Gun: Maverick in theaters?

  • Yes

    Votes: 142 51.4%

  • No

    Votes: 72 26.1%

  • Maybe

    Votes: 36 13.0%

  • Who cares

    Votes: 24 8.7%

  • Other

    Votes: 2 0.7%
  • Total voters
    276
  • Poll closed .
Sigmapolis

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BryceC said:
I am 100% serious, please never, ever, under any circumstances, watch a movie with me.
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theshadow said:
Did I miss the announcement that this movie was a poorly-executed documentary, or is CF just doing normal CF things?
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isufbcurt said:
people can't just enjoy a movie they need to dissect everthing
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It was a great film. Entertaining as ****. Best action film since, I don't know, Mad Mad: Fury Road maybe?

I think poking fun at the unreality of cheesy action films is part of how you enjoy them.

CycloneNorth said:
You should go back and look at the Transformers thread. Sigmapolis had major issues with Optimus Prime's tactical decision making.
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Funny joke.

:)

But I've thankfully never watched any of those.
 
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CycloneNorth said:
You should go back and look at the Transformers thread. Sigmapolis had major issues with Optimus Prime's tactical decision making.
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CyHans said:
If you go to this movie, spend the extra money and extra drive (depending on where you live) and go to the IMAX in Waukee.
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Did just that yesterday. And it honestly was cheaper then B&B theater or some of the other places.
 
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CyHans said:
If you go to this movie, spend the extra money and extra drive (depending on where you live) and go to the IMAX in Waukee.
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I highly agree this is one that deserves IMAX.

Cruise and the producers held the release for years to be post-COVID so theaters could show it at fully capacity.

This isn't one that has the same impact even with a nice home system.
 
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BryceC said:
That makes sense until you consider that there is no way in hell Iran has superior jet technology to us.
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Iran itself no, but buy a few from China or Russia. Granted their 5th gen fighters are still in the teething/development stage, but our F-22 (and the Yf-22 for that matter) we're both proposed in 1986 and prototyped/ 1st flown in 1986. The F-22 is our air superiority fighter "that we know of" while else the F-35 is supposed to be the "do all be all" fighter/attack plane.
 
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cycloneworld said:
Just got back from it and loved every minute. I don’t recall a sequel that tied so well back to the original between the music, characters, and references. Is it going to win awards? No. But most fun I’ve had at a movie in probably a decade.
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The "tied back" is so true.
I loved seeing the deck crew on the carrier again, I think that's such an under appreciated role in the Navy. Especially at the end of the movie when they had to improvise.
 
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Sigmapolis said:
Well if you want to bark up that tree...

There is no way that military planners would task either Hornets or Super Hornets for this raid. They're fine, far from obsolete, but they're far from the cutting edge. I would imagine they would use either stealth strike fighters (either F-22s or F-35s) and/or high-altitude B-2 strikes above enemy SAM range.

The movie handwaves around this saying they are "jamming GPS signals" at the site and thus they need to use laser-guided bombs to hit the target. Umm, okay? The F-35 can carry laser-guided bombs. I'm not sure it is quite that easy to make the most advanced aircraft in the world totally useless, as well.

In reality, if this were a real operation, I would imagine...

-- Joint operation, because everything is because everybody wants a piece of the action so they can point to their "essential role" when it comes time to make the budget for next year.
-- Probably still a USAF-led operation with F-35s or B-2s to strike the facility with F-22s providing air cover. Mid-air refueling means a lack of local airbases isn't going to be a problem for them.
-- Navy still might have a role with cruiser- or sub-launched cruise missiles to suppress enemy air defenses, electronic warfare/jamming and AWACs coverage from EF-18s and E-2s, respectively, and probably having search and rescue offshore ready to go in case anything happens to the aircraft on the strike.
-- Probably some sort of cyber warfare element to further suppress enemy air defenses.

I get it, Maverick is fun, not serious, but no way that operation is planned as it was.
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In a real world situation this would never happen can stop at that. If movies were realistic I'd stop going to movies.
 
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JP4CY said:
The "tied back" is so true.
I loved seeing the deck crew on the carrier again, I think that's such an under appreciated role in the Navy. Especially at the end of the movie when they had to improvise.
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You liked TC with no shirt playing football, just admit it.
 
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