They're playing on our sense of nostalgia usually, which is a very powerful force as we all know.
They're playing on our sense of nostalgia usually, which is a very powerful force as we all know.
Re: Top Gun 2
Here is the alleged script synopsis that is being floated around the internet as real. Assuming it is, I might go see it. Oh bullshit, I'll got see it either way.
Tom Cruise's character "Maverick" is head of the Top Gun school, taking over from Tom Skerritt's "Viper."
He has to fight off a senator who wants to shit-can manned fighters and the Top Gun School in favor of drones while simultaneously teaching a new generation of fighter pilots that dog fighting is about skill and awareness, not moving a cursor on a touchscreen.
In his last class before retiring he meets a young pilot like himself, who has a natural gift for flying while also breaking the rules in both the air and on the ground.
Just before the senator succeeds in closing the book on manned naval aviation, North Koreans start beef along the 38th parallel using stolen Chinese tech (shoutout to China, we won't make you the big bad guy, but you can still be in it cuz we want your money). This tech jams all frequencies used to control drones. Rumor has it that the drone-jamming tech was brought to NKOR by a group of Old Guard Rogue PLA pilots who defected to the NORKs, taking their sophisticated fighters with them.
Maverick's graduating class is in for fight of their lives.
.... or under investigation for being friends with Fat Leonard...I read somewhere that if Maverick were still in the Navy today he'd be an admiral and probably retired by a few years...
Concur. Frankly, I think it's also compounded by just plain old laziness in Hollywood.Production companies are hell bent on sequels, prequels and remakes; cause they are cheaper to make (usually already own rights), with an established fan base. I'm getting really tired of it and think it's part of the reason for the rise in HBO and Netflix (and similar platforms) popularity; they make excellent new productions.
Your previous post on this movie already lost me. The fact that the star of a movie like this doesn't even know how to make it look like he knows how to use rifle sights and the producers aren't smart enough to keep it off a promo photo doesn't leave me with a lot of hope.Updated American Assassin Preview....
As a Vince Flynn/Mitch Rapp fan I am already concerned that they've changed his backstory from losing his girlfriend in the Pan Am flight 103 bombing in 1988, to losing her to AK wielding terrorists on a beach....but I am guessing they did that so that they could use modern technology. I'll give them that one.
Your previous post on this movie already lost me. The fact that the star of a movie like this doesn't even know how to make it look like he knows how to use rifle sights and the producers aren't smart enough to keep it off a promo photo doesn't leave me with a lot of hope.
I'll watch the shit out of a good fighter pilot movie... the last good fighter pilot movie we had was....Top Gun? The last fighter pilot movie was Stealth?? Ugh.
Bruce Willis's M68 was on backwards in that movie.I've been this close to starting a thread where we can bitch about war/ tactical type movie inaccuracies.
Tears of the Sun. Behind hostile lines. No rucks, yet they conduct an entire op. and spend ammo like like its being dumped out of a resupply helicopter, for instance.
Perhaps I was asleep for most of the movie. :-/
Bruce Willis's M68 was on backwards in that movie.
They should pay us big us the big bucks to be advisors so this stupid shit doesn't happen
You should hear what the community has to say about the advisor for the Hurt Locker. :-"
LOL. I'm sure it looked "cooler" that way to someone.
Updated American Assassin Preview....
As a Vince Flynn/Mitch Rapp fan I am already concerned that they've changed his backstory from losing his girlfriend in the Pan Am flight 103 bombing in 1988, to losing her to AK wielding terrorists on a beach....but I am guessing they did that so that they could use modern technology. I'll give them that one.
I figured three man EOD teams wandering around Iraq in a hummer by themselves was standard SOP