Top Gun 2 filming now-release date next July!!

justdoit19 said:
I told DH ‘watch him request navy pilot’. Will be interesting to see if there is a surge next year!
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The original Top Gun brought out some real-life characters wanting to live the dream. During my flight instructor tour there was an AZAN (aviation maintenance administration-airman, (E-3), in our squadron. His primary job was to enter pilot flight times into the log books. He went UA (unauthorized absence) so our Operations Officer, a Marine, went to the barracks to check on him. No joy. During the room search he found some flight suits adorned with pilot name tags with the airman’s chosen call sign. Also discovered were khaki uniforms with rank insignia and wings, fore and aft cap, sun glasses – everything that could play the part in today’s TG II bar scene trailer. I forget happened to him after he went to mast. The whole episode was good for some yuks in our helicopter ready room.

A little later during the same tour, there was a civilian masquerading as a Navy 0-6, F-14 pilot, at the Mustin Beach O’Club in Pensacola. That’s another story.
 
I don’t want to jinx Mav, but he must be exempt from “There are old pilots, there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots.”
 
The first top gun came out in the 80's and there were a bunch of pilots in the row behind me. I heard a lot of (begin 80's vernacular) "Fake....That's so fake..." (end 80's vernacular).
 
Whenever you see a movie about your own profession or occupation, you will find a lot wrong with it. Movies are art. "Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth." So, movies are not necessarily even intended to be accurate. And for most of us, non-pilots, it will be real enough to make us believe. Finally, movies don't have to be realistic at all to be enjoyable.
 
Maybe this time they'll get some of the radio chatter right. One can hope.
 
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Whenever you see a movie about your own profession or occupation, you will find a lot wrong with it. Movies are art. "Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth." So, movies are not necessarily even intended to be accurate. And for most of us, non-pilots, it will be real enough to make us believe. Finally, movies don't have to be realistic at all to be enjoyable.
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The choice every director has to make is to try to do a very accurate simulation of the real life being presented or to strip out the details and intentionally keep things vague and in the background. Movies about technology are always stupid or never show a screen at all since any detail is so easily verified or exposed. Sports movies can try to do things well like Raging Bull or 42, but most don't bother. Bull Durham was a pitcher with a ridiculous wind-up and the rest was set pieces and no wide angle shots to establish any realistic action. Field of Dreams was pretty half-speed and Major League had terrible game play. I guess Slapshot had some OK skating. Anyway, yes, the more you know the more you groan unless the details are pulled out to just use the profession as a background (like the TPS reports in Office Space.)

Cruise had the budget and pushed to go for realistic this time. Apparently it was pretty cool.
 
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This is the film that IMO defies —-the more you actually know about a subject—-the less real or less accurate it will seem on film.

On USMC mostly enlisted forums this film ( about USMC snipers) when it came out was savaged by a large number for its anti USMC over the top Hollywood take on the Corps and that wars version of combat. Absolute junk many claimed. Marines don’t act that way.

All except for the infantry and recon or snipers who were boots on the ground, Many of them claimed the movie was not only accurate but a classic as well..
 
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I agree it was better than the first one. Definitely a must-see on a big screen. The only thing missing was seeing it with our kids. It was just DH and I reminiscing about our kids and their big dreams inspired by the original. DS who went on to become a Navy pilot must have watched the first one 100 times.
 
Loved it. Except, similarly to Indiana Jones 4, I couldnt quite shake how much older the main character was than what I still expected him to be.

I got to take a midsib. I jokingly told her I remember being her age and my parents taking me to Top Gun. And then I realized, I actually was her age. And then I realized, I have probably aged a little in that time as well.
 
Raining at the lake on Sunday night, so Mrs StPaulDad and I ran into the tiny town near us and grabbed $10 seats. Wild fun, not art, not a doco, just plunge in and enjoy the ride. Totally worth seeing on a big screen with the huge audio system.
 
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