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this movie was woke garbage
you’re telling me a guy named hangman would just let the black character take his spot on the mission?
>good mobie bad because popular ugh!
You fricking morons don't deserve opinions.
The first guy was making a joke, anon
You can assume they either didnt watch it or they are needle dick asians lol
This movie sucks ass.
I was squirming with discomfort during some of the scenes and the credits felt like a punch in the gut. The had just made me watch an awful movie and now they were celebrating it.
I left the cinima thinking it was one of the worst things I had ever watched, and assumed everyone else hated it too.
It isn't bad because it's popular, it's bad because it sucks.
Well that's a lie. It is a very average movie, quite smart in some structural aspects, and with some very good areal action scenes.
Tom Cruise fricking ruins it.
All of this good stuff gets dropped whenever he's on screen in favour of sucking his dick.
He acts like a child for the whole movie and learns nothing because he fly good and Tom Cruise sexy.
His best friend's dying wish was for him to let go, and his response is to immediately steal an aeroplane and give himself the position of team leader for the mission.
Any chance for the introspective moment that the entire movie builds towards where he has to deal with the fact he isn't going to fly again and he has to let the new generation is chucked out the window.
Why the frick did I watch him babysitting for the whole movie if he is just going to do it himself?
Why did they make such a bid deal about drones at the start then just forget about it?
Why is Cruise always rewarded for his shitty decisions?
I'll never know.
Instead of writing anything that resolves the conflict they had Cruise steal an outdated aeroplane for the nostalgia factor from the first movie, then become an ace pilot by downing two guys that four people in modern planes could not manage to.
Logic and good writing go out the window at any opportunity to jerk Cruise off.
I liked the movie, though I did see it very accurately described as "A legacyquel where Tom Cruise passes on the mantle to Tom Cruise".
The mental dissonance I get when the movie says one thing but shows me pictures of the other just ruins it.
That quote is great by the way, it's like Cruise exists in a superposition of being both a the instructor and a student in the class and has to fill both roles.
I get that some people might be able to ignore it but I felt like I was losing my mind while watching this.
I thought it was quite clear that the whole point of the "babysitting" part of the movie was just to reiterate how great tom cruise is. See these zoomers are the best of the best of the best of their generation but they're still shit and even tom cruise can't teach them to fly like tom cruise.
It's supposed to prove he's one of a kind. No one else could pull off the mission.
i actually watched a clip from Le Good Man Jocko talking with a Top Gun instructor who said that anyone who has enough experience to be a veteran would merk noobs
Then it's literally just a movie about how good Tom Cruise is while everyone else is unreasonable and gets in his way.
The issue I have there is that, in real life, Cruise would be the unreasonable one.
It's just someone who is good gets good things and doesn't have to deal with character flaws.
The people aren't meant to be noobs.
I think they mention that some of them have kills already / are the best active pilots available.
>his call sign is literally maverick
>he did his own thing from day 1
have you even fricking seen the first one? it has nothing to do with "tom cruise" and everything to do with the character, which was written before tom cruise was even a household name.
IDAF about Tom Cruise. I just call him that because that is the guy's name.
The person I hate is the one portrayed in the movie.
I also don't care if him being a shitty person is consistent characterisation, I still hate him for it.
When I watch those, I don't mind as much.
What really destroys this for me is the way the movie draws attention to it.
It feels like the script was written for a universe where Cruise was on his way out and not as good as he used to be, then they just edited all the scenes so that he was amazing.
The whole movie is filled with setup about how he's going to learn his lesson and grow then he just doesn't.
The mission impossible films don't, as far as I can remember, pretend that he is about to have a character arc; the focus is soulely on the mission.
By contrast this entire movie seems to be about characters, yet doesn't actually have good characters.
It draws attention to the issue instead of hiding it like other movies do.
>Then it's literally just a movie about how good Tom Cruise is while everyone else is unreasonable and gets in his way.
This is basically what the Mission Impossible movies are like too, the entire security apparatus of the west is useless except for one really cool guy and the people he deems cool enough to hang out with him.
>This is basically what the Mission Impossible movies are like too
reminder that mission impossible is an IP created when tom cruise was 4 years old. you people are acting like "le ebil tom cruise" is just making unstoppable characters for himself when the characters were created and written by other people.
also guarantee ethan hunt dies in the last MI movie.
Tom Cruise doesn't die.
he literally died in MI3
He dies in Collateral.
How much relation does the movie series have to the TV show? The M:I movies are the Tom Cruise experience.
>also guarantee ethan hunt dies in the last MI movie.
The only way this happens is if Tom dies in real life doing a stunt and they put it the movie, including the actual take where he loses his life. This will be the final apotheosis of the Cruise project.
Killing Ethan Hunt is fair game after killing Jim Phelps. You don't know/care who Jim Phelps is, well zoomers and alphies don't know/care who Ethan Hunt is
The best pilots tend to be 5"4 to 5"10 no shit.
Yeager was pushing the limit. They can handle the G forces better. Most of them look like Apollo from bsg. I think the average f 22 pilot is 5"7. 6'1 or 6'2 is the limit.
After 5'9 they can do 7 gs plus for awhile without stroking out
>I was squirming with discomfort during some of the scenes and the credits felt like a punch in the gut.
What a gay, lmao.
Shit sucked and it made me cringe.
Cry more.
>I don't like movie
>it's average
>quite smart
>very good action scenes
>I went to watch top gun
>I don't like Tom cruise
Do you ever read what you write you bumbling frick
>nice breakfast
>eggs looked good
>toast was well done
>ruined when waiter took a shit on my plate
Sometimes one part of an experience can drag the rest of it down.
did you write this in fricking DOS lmao
Imagine being this wrong. Letting go was about learning to trust the kid, not about him flying or not. He was introspective about everything from the relationship to his friend dying, we didn't need more of it. The whole point of babysitting was that he literally couldn't do it himself, it required four planes and then the rescue. The drones are a subplot to get him out of the test pilot position, you are moronic for thinking it was going to be anything more. He wasn't rewarded for shitty decisions, he was rewarded for being the only one who had faith in the pilots to perform the mission. And he downs one of them in a surprise attack and only dogfights the other in terrain he was familiar with in a plane he's flown for longer than most pilots have been alive. Kindly frick off.
This. Hangman should've also raped Pheonix because her pussy belongs to him. Such woke garbage it didn't happen.
because tom told him and you dont disobey him
the frick he was following his CO orders.
And in the end he saves the day.
REMINDER: H_NGMAN is the only reason Cruise and Teller make it home, he is BASED
>H_NGMAN
>A
did you morons not watch the movie, that's how he stylized his name
Anon if the A was guessed both would be revealed, I suppose he could stylize it that way anyway, but he did not 😛
nice shop
moron
>H_NGMAN
He's literally a younger Maverick
>lets his buddy hang
>wienery and dangerous
>is on standby but saves the day at the end
>He's literally a younger Maverick
He's a younger Iceman
nah, Rooster is Goose but he lives this time. Hangman is Maverick but from the perspective of Yuna in FFX or Martin in Elder Scrolls Oblivion
>woke shit
>hangman literally saves day black guy doesn't do anything of importance
moron detected. This is prob liberals playing reverse psychology. Movie was far from not being woke by today's standards.
>you’re telling me a guy named hangman would just let the black character take his spot on the mission?
10/10 + 3 points for people not understanding the joke
fpbp
Good goys, keep handing all your money over to the movies israeli producers and don't forget to sign up for the navy on your way out and pledge your life to Israel when the time comes
Cope and seethe MCU fans, Maverick is going to make more domestically than Doctor Strange 2.
But the MCU fans are the same people watching Top Gun
No they're not
Of course they are
No they are not.
False chart, the actual info is
>55 percent of Top Gun: Maverick's opening weekend box office came from moviegoers who are 35-years-old and older.
Since the movie keeps drawing crowds worldwide, it seems clear that its appeal is crossgenerational because otherwise it'd be simply frontloaded
Kek no they are just a bit outdated, updated demos are even better.
>Under 35: 45%
Seems fine. Almost half the audience is millennials/zoomers
I'd say there is a very considerable amount of superhero movie fans who are also going to watch Top Gun Maverick because of its general appeal
You can see those MCU fans talking shit about it on twitter
cap
Yet this board loves it so...?
Shrill, unhinged people on twitter are not statistically representative. Twitter consensus generates nothing because it's a fringe talking to itself
If they weren't then Top Gun wouldn't be making any money
I loathe MCU shit and I enjoyed both films. Raimi kino and Cruise kino go well together.
>But the MCU fans are the same people watching Top Gun
Statistically untrue, MCU movies do better internationally and among young people and minority groups, Top Gun is performing better among domestic, older, white and male audiences.
just got back from watching the cruise missile at the kino plex
can confirm lots of well dressed males with familys and lots of well dressed females about 60/40 ratio
not a single onsie wearing fat person with a replica thor hammer in sight
not that theirs anything wrong in wearing an adult babygrow to the cinimea with a gaint plastic hammer to acutriate it just its clearly not the same audience
That's a troony disinformation attempt. All in all the movie is ideologically healthy and a breath of fresh air because it restores a sense of thrill and heroism
Keep simmering, trannoid. Cruise missiles are about to blow you to kingdom come
This site is almost all thirdies from china, indian or arab shitholes
All the americans left after trump lost. There is some suburban white trash left and former ***** like me from america
But thats it beyond sp.
Misc is 95-99% thirdies or brown shits now.
Here we go again hehe
troony
Where do I sign up? Movie was badass and I am inspired to sacrifice myself for greater Israel(usa)
if they make content like this I am happy to give money to these israelites
>That’s the smallest drop ever for a $100 million-plus opener
Also
>With a new global cume of $548.6 million
It flew past the USD 400 mil expectation, very impressive
that's actually peak performance for a blockbuster
it's really crazy since the first weekend was Memorial Day weekend which was 3 days obviously
Tom has single handily saved cinema The defining movie of a generation at a time this nation needed it the most. Hard to overstate what this film means. Just incredible
>That final hug between Iceman and Maverick.
Goddamnit.
Definitely sexual tension in that scene, it was just great!
Anyone else remember when Mile's Teller's career was in the toilet for a while? He did that terrible Fantastic 4 film and some interview where he came off like a douche, now he's back on top.
just feeling himself too much, he's a big barstool gay meathead
cruisebros... we won
Word is probably getting out about how over the top and ridiculous some of it is, why do Americans do this?
>highway to the danger zone starts playing
such a bad fricking movie. why did this even get made
>trying to convince my boomer dad to go see this in theatres with me but he's too lazy and, understandably, skeptical of the theatre going experience
>even if I do convince him he'll want to go to the DOGSHIT theatre near his house with garbage screens and audio, when there's a great theatre near my place
I need to pull off two miracles bros
Buy him a ticket and drinks. My dads an old fart and I do it for him all the time
My dad bought my tickets and took me to an imax theater.
fell asleep during all the non flying scenes
The romance added absolutely nothing to the movie for me but they didn't annoy me either.
Haven't seen it yet, but I'm definitely going to soon. Tom and Nolan are the saviors of blockbuster cinema.
Will it hit $1B?
>Will it hit $1B?
I don't think so. It's foreign numbers aren't as strong as domestic
theres nothing after Jurassic Park, if it comes close or beats it then it might have a Pirates run of 7 or 8 weeks at top
There's no way it's still number 1 once Jurassic World comes out, just based on the screen real estate.
its got 4 screenings a day scheduled for Friday June 10 a cursory search shows
No c**t is looking forward to Jurassic Park 6
You'd be surprised. Those films are dogshit but people keep watching them
>Hangman
>Leaves his wingmen hanging
>Does not leave Maverick hanging in the end
It's so stupid but I loved it
>Let me tell you something that might be a bit dangerous. I was raised in the US. I was schooled in flight arts. I was given the title of aviator. They take a movie “Top Gun.” They have a 5-foot-2-inch little guy, whether he was straight or gay, I don’t know. I don’t care. He had never been to the Ukraine. He doesn’t speak the Ukrainian. He has never held a joystick. They make him the Top Gun. We got 450,000 phone calls [laughs]from everybody in the world saying, “That role was perfect for you. How did that happen?” Most of the people I know didn’t like the film and didn’t go see it. It’s just a classic example of Hollywood and the politics.
>no scene where Maverick smokes parmesan cheese hoping it's crack
kek all jokes aside there was one shot that made Tom look short, and it makes sense you'd have a skinnier person in those jets like a horse jockey
>modern sequel that doesn't go out of its way to shit all over the original
Cruise is too powerful
>those flashbacks from the first one
>maverick holding goose
i cried
i remember seeing the first trailer like 3 years ago lol
>week 2
>the contrarians come out of the woodwork
>last week they praised the film to high heaven
>thats boring now
>must be contrarian for (You)s
you all have extreme levels of autism
that scene is why they didn't let Tom Cruise pilot, way too risky
there wasn't a sinlg esomic boom sound in the entire film..... what a joke
the sound wasn't too crazy like I expected compared to Interstellar at least but I guess the rocket on a space ship would be much louder
the camera is also going faster than the speed of sound
How does the actual piloting in this work? The actor is in the front seat and the pilot is flying from the backseat, or vice versa?
vice versa
Its just some low level navy pilots flying old training planes through an old cascade course.
They are that good compared to the rest of the world but bottom 25% of the military.
They wouldnt put elite pilots or none training planes in a movie. Thats insane.
are you sure? the whole movie doesn't happen if Tom Cruise dies in a crash
100%. Those are old f 18s and lower level pilots. The director even talked about it. There is no point in putting a elite pilot in the plane. A lower level guy can easily fly those courses. They are that far the rest of the world. They had a blue angel for one shot and that is it.
what shot do you know? the snowy cavern seemed like the toughest shot to get
It was the ground buzz in the dark star
Thats it. The mountains is part of the cascade course. The rest is just novice flying
Adding on
A F 22 american pilot takes years to build up their body and nervous system just to operate the damn thing and fly with the F 22.
You just dont put someone in an f 22 or f 35. The plane will kill them. These guys are olympic level athletes mixed with engineer who have doctorates.
The planes will literally kill people flying them- then the plane will land itself and be sad.
>these guys are olympic athletes and engineers with doctorates
lmao currently eating Arby's and getting taped for my next PFT but thanks
Getting rope and choked you fat frick? But yeah, my LCDR is a lardo, surprised they still let him fly.
It's Morbin Time? More like we're on #CruiseControl
based
I don't buy a 65 y/o fighter pilot and a 95 y/o Ed Harris as his superior officer.
Ed Harris is only 71, barely 11 years older than Cruise who is 60 next month. Of course the movie was shot over 4 years ago, Cruise is looking his age a lot more now.
How do you even stay Captain in like 3 decades of service?
Most Lts will get kicked out if they don't go to Ranger School in order to reach Captain.
Maverick wasn't former enlisted in the first movie so he should be O-5 or an Admiral by now.
Captain in the Navy is O-6. But yeah, in normal circumstances you wouldn't keep an O-6 around that long if they don't promote to Admiral.
It's spelled out as the main plot of the movie dickhead.
Iceman has been keeping him from getting canned for 30 years.
At the kinoplex rn waiting for the movie to start. Mashallah they did not enforce the no singles policy this time because the gf didn't want to come
My theater has a 'no singles' policy but they'll let you in if you can tell them what a boob feels like, luckily my cousin described it for me.
Isnt there a woman pilot in this movie? God things have really gone downhill the last 40 years
Dang. Murricans really love this one. I am worried its success will prompt the studio to make more unwanted sequels.
Just saw this at a proper imax theater and you know what? I fricking liked it.
No stupid twists, no dark turns, just the right amount of corny without overdoing it, and the good guys won without someone dying to force a point. It was feel-good and it was fun.
And the gay shirtless sports scene, where everyone is covered in baby oil playing football, was funny
What's wrong with Tom Cruise's face nowadays? Too much plastic surgery. I thought this was against his "religion".
Cruise has had plenty of work done. He got his fricked up teeth fixed, hair transplant, there was the shot of him at a basketball game where he looked like Norm MacDonald from using fillers, he's since got them taken out and he looks more lined, and in the new Mission Impossible trailer it looks like he had a facelift in some shots.
What happened with the dude? He looked so good just few years ago, then during pandemic he aged like 20 years. How did that happen?
This just proves word of mouth is everything.
forgettable garbage like all money grabbing nostalgia bait remakes
I think it's better paced and objectively better action than the first one.