No razor wire on topDo you live next to a prison with that tall chain link fence there?
No razor wire on topDo you live next to a prison with that tall chain link fence there?
Yes, I agree. I basically said the same thing on the way home.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.
Yes, I agree. I basically said the same thing on the way home.
I would once in a while get the same feeling at the Sci Center dome screen but on a regular one I don't.I saw it on a huge screen and honestly had a great time. I'm apparently old enough sometimes IMAX gets me motion sick.
Honestly I think the volume is huge. It needs to be loud enough that it's almost too loud.
I would once in a while get the same feeling at the Sci Center dome screen but on a regular one I don't.
Notice the trampoline right next to the fence and then ask yourself that question again.Do you live next to a prison with that tall chain link fence there?
I haven't been to a movie theatre in 5 years, but this was worth it. Tom Cruise might be the last movie star left. Can't think of any other actor with that much charisma on the big screen.
I'd still put Will Smith up there, though he's gone for more serious roles that showcase his considerable acting chops, especially in the last 15 years or so. Leo is also similarly bankable, but he's a more traditional movie star rather than action hero.
Cruise's career has honestly been pretty disappointing, IMO. He's free to do what he wants, but for a guy who had a 13-year run in the 80s and 90s that included Top Gun, The Color of Money, Rain Man, A Few Good Men, Born on the Fourth of July, The Firm, Mission Impossible, Jerry Maguire and Eyes Wide Shut, it's hard not to wonder what could have been if he hadn't chosen to pigeonhole himself as a blockbuster action star. He's only wandered out of that genre a few times since 2000. There's nothing wrong with making those kinds of films, but I think he demonstrated quite clearly early in his career that he could do a lot more than that
I'd put Pitt in there. Similar to Leo, though, he doesn't have the action movies behind him. I'm not really sure Will Smith belongs in the conversation with either of them.
Never know what they have in prisons now?Notice the trampoline right next to the fence and then ask yourself that question again.![]()
Okay I'm posting this --
Maverick clearly dies in the beginning. Flying at Mach 10 is 7,673 MPH. Escape velocity is about Mach 33. So he's going about 1/3rd escape velocity when his rocket plane disintegrates.
He's toast. Literally. He's vaporized along with the craft itself.
So the rest of the movie is either (1.) dead Maverick is stuck in limbo or (2.) Maverick's brain overclocked itself in its final moments to live out an elaborate fantasy tying up all the loose ends of his life --
-- proving he still belonged with the best of the best as a pilot
-- demonstrating his ethos that machines can never match human intuition and creativity
-- risking his life to slow a rogue state's nuclear program, a huge favor to all of humanity
-- passing along all he knows as a pilot to the next generation, letting them have the baton
-- saying a final goodbye to Iceman, his lifelong friend
-- reconciling with Penny and her daughter, the family he should have but never had
-- reconciling with Rooster, the son he never had, and finally letting go of Goose
Maverick was either the labor of an unsettled soul before eternity or the last-moment fantasy of a man who lived a long life full of regrets who comforted himself in his death by "setting it right."
I saw it on a huge screen and honestly had a great time. I'm apparently old enough sometimes IMAX gets me motion sick.
Honestly I think the volume is huge. It needs to be loud enough that it's almost too loud.
And was also from 1956. I'm sure the same 60+ years of advancement in material science would apply in the theoretical storyline (or even the current real world).1,400 MPH
How would it do at 7,700 MPH?
Closest thing to trampoline maybe the solitary confinement rubber roomNever know what they have in prisons now?![]()
Nicole Kidman is also better than Kelly McGillis.
Kidman has had so much plastic surgery she doesn't even look like the same person as she did when she was in Days of Thunder. I feel bad for McGillis. She's not trying to be famous any more, just go about her life like a normal person, and she gets to hear everyone tell her how she looks terrible now that the new Top Gun movie has put her back in the spotlight.Especially now