F18 carrier landing mission escorte10/24/2022 ![]() ![]() We’re led to believe that the most elite graduates in Top Gun’s history can’t beat up on an old man? What did they learn at Top Gun - nothing? And what’s that say about the people who didn’t go to Top Gun? Comical. Whiz’s Take: This one also kind of sucked, but again: Hollywood. Though initially skeptical, the cocky grads soon learn that despite his advanced age Mav is still “the best of the best.” In a red blooded montage set to The Who’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” Mav “kills” the whipper snappers one by one, each time doling out 200 pushups as punishment. The Scene: Back at Top Gun (his penance for disobeying orders and destroying the aforementioned prototype), Mav returns to train the school’s most elite alums for a mission to destroy an unnamed nation’s uranium enrichment program. Unless Mav ejected in a capsule, punching out at Mach 10 ain’t survivable.īelievability Score: Negative 10 Training Montage Now doing that at Mach 10? That’s impossible. I’ll put it this way: It would be easier to tell you what he didn’t break. He was sub sonic - it’s the fastest ever punch out of a Hornet. I’ve got a buddy, call sign Smurf - short for Scrappy Motherfucker - who ejected out of a Hornet at 695 mph. There are booger eating guys in windowless rooms thinking this shit up as we speak.īut the ejection scene? No way. If you can think we are doing something we probably are. Whiz’s Take: First of all, that plane is pretty cool. The Scene: In direct violation of Rear Admiral Cain’s (aka The Drone Ranger) orders, Mav - now a nearly 60-year old Navy test pilot - pushes a prototype plane beyond Mach 10, resulting in a spectacular explosion somewhere in the stratosphere that the grizzled (or as grizzled as an ageless Tom Cruise can ever look) veteran miraculously survives. Dogfight: 10 single-engine Ice Man: 0 TOP GUN: MAVERICK Mav Goes Mach-10 Good theater but that ain’t reality…that’s just awful.īelievability Score: It’s a draw so we gotta split it. The odds of a Tomcat surviving any of that are next to zero. The funniest part of the whole damn thing is when Ice Man - with one engine on fire! - does a flyby of the carrier with Maverick. It’s funny, they take a bunch of bullets but Slider says, “They didn’t hit anything critical!” Uhhhh, every bit of a fighter jet is critical! They lose their motor and fly with one engine. Whiz’s Take: This one is kind of realistic, except when Ice Man’s Tomcat gets shot up. MiGs are engaged, MiGs are defeated, towers are buzzed and Mav and Ice famously make amends (“You can be my wingman anytime.” “Bullshit, you can be mine!”). The Scene: The Top Gun grads are deployed to a mission against unnamed enemies (how convenient), and Mav teams up with Cougar’s old RIO, Merlin. ![]() Ten fighter jet set pieces stretch across the two flicks, which got us thinking: which one is the best? Or, better yet, which ones are the most believable? #F18 CARRIER LANDING MISSION ESCORTE MOVIE#From shirtless beach football to Kenny Loggins’ “Danger Zone,” TG:M channels all the nostalgia and hits every target you’d want from such a sequel, and even delivers some unexpected pathos along the way - causing the most smitten of critics to reconsider the original Top Gun as more than just a slick, two-hour exercise in Reagan era homoeroticism.īut Oscar buzz aside, let’s be honest: the real reason we watch a Top Gun movie is for the dog fights, and both films deliver those in spades. Such praise, however fawning, seems well earned, especially during a time when most people would like to forget about the sad state of the world for a few hours during a mindless matinee spent in front of the big screen. Critics and audiences adore the film, as do the Hollywood execs at Paramount, who’ve got missile lock on a coveted one billion dollar global box-office payday (which would make TG:M Tom Cruise’s most financially successful hit yet). By summer blockbuster standards, Top Gun: Maverick already ranks as an undisputed masterpiece. ![]()
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