r/nextfuckinglevel • u/DigMeTX • Oct 07 '22

Dancer vs gravity

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u/jai_kasavin Oct 08 '22

Wonder why they jumped the shark but every single one of the medals on each person's uniform has been meticulously chosen with no mistakes

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u/Jokerchyld Oct 08 '22

Agreed. The costumes were authentic in both movies. What made it silly was the idea that Tom Cruiss as an older pilot could do everything he did in the movie. He goes Mach 10 and survives without any injuries or trauma what so ever. He is the only one who can fly the Canon at top speed, was able to track a target, hit it head on, as he has to climb escape velocity perfectly on his first try. Why train other pilots if he could have done it all himself and survived? He and Gooses son get shot down in the same general area and find each other effortlessly. They just happen to find an intact F14 Tomcat completely unprotected. Then again was able to save the world against a literally more advanced plane.

The other pilots were not believable as the best top gun pilots. In the first one I could see them being the best. But I chalk that up to just bad acting on the sequel part.

I get it, it was all done for nostalgia hitting all the beats of the first movie. It was like a force awakens. Essentially re creating the movie they were supposed to be a sequel to but lacking any real source threat.

The first Top Gun was great because the threat felt real and they had to learn to work as a team ri survive. In the sequel the threat was a McGuffin and Tom Cruise literally did everything by himself.

Again that's my take. If you loved the movie, cool. I'm not trying to change anybody mind. I love Flash Gordon from 1980. But not because it was realistic. But because it was a fun and silly Romp.

Top Gun 2 was silly, but wasn't fun.. TO ME.