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Little ray of sunshine |
Plus you have to have the trope where the new guy doesn't understand something the geezer knows all too well and gets shown up as an ignoramus. Plus it allows some exposition for the audience, too. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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Ignored facts still exist |
It's as if the entire movie is like the ending scene of Taxi Driver. The main character gets to die as a hero, at least in his own mind. . | |||
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Bigger question....how does an O-6 afford a P-51? Housed in the man cave hanger at Inyokern airport? Its all rhetorical, it shapes the character. | |||
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Purveyor of Fine Avatars |
He was recalled to active duty for the mission in the movie. He could have been spending the last decade in the private sector earning good money. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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Doin' what I can with what I got |
Huh? I do not remember reference to this in the movie. They wouldn't need to recall someone to active duty to fly a super secret space plane, just pay him as a contractor (as if they had to use a contractor...I don't think there's a serving fighter pilot alive who wouldn't literally stab another human being to be the next Chuck Yaeger and break Mach 10). The impression I got is they just kind of hand-waved the time by being deliberately vague about exactly when the movie was made. If there were brand new/late model cars in the movie I must have missed them. Oh: and I absolutely loved this flick. I didn't go to the theater expecting a docu-drama, I went expecting Tom Cruise breaking the fourth wall at the camera and top-notch fighter jet porn. TGM well exceeded my expectations and I consider it a very worthy (albeit outrageously delayed) sequel. Honestly it felt like it should have been Top Gun 5 or whatever, the capstone send-off love letter to the original that some successful and long-running movie franchises do. ---------------------------------------- Death smiles at us all. Be sure you smile back. | |||
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Official Space Nerd |
Yeah, I just read that. He also designed a training program for all the actors to learn to fly in the F-18s. Half of them got violently ill while flying. IMDB.com has a lot of cool trivia on the movie. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt174...via/?ref_=tt_trv_trv Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher | |||
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There was a discussion about how plausible a 58-yr old, dead-end Captain could possibly be still in the Navy. The one that seemed most believable would be Captain Pete Mitchell is in the Navy Reserve, has some high-paying civilian job (who could afford and maintain a P-51 ), and is apart of the Navy's Test Pilot program where China Lake NAS is one of the locations. What was a stretch and not plausible, besides his age, is the test pilot career path takes you away from the deployable cycle so, you're not going downrange. As an FYI, Navy aggressor squadrons are apart of the Navy Reserve. | |||
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Official Space Nerd |
Well, you can buy a P-51 Mustang in flying condition today for $2.5 to 4 million. It would have been a lot less if he bought it even 10, 20, or 30 years ago. Assuming Maverick was the 'celebrity' he was at the end of the first movie (bald CO said his name was on the front page of every magazine/newspaper in the country), it's entirely reasonable he could have made a book deal. That alone would have gotten him several million $$$. I don't know if the Navy would let him do endorsements ("When I'm shooting down MiGs, Breitling/Ray Ban/Fruit of the Loom/Heinz is the only brand I trust"), but that would bring in more cash. He could also have done a movie deal ("Based on a real story" - heck, there probably was a 'top gun' movie in the Top Gun movie cinematic universe). It seems a stretch, but not as big of a deal-breaker than one might assume. . . Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher | |||
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Purveyor of Fine Avatars |
Everyone keeps mentioning the P-51 as a sign that Maverick is rich; however, nobody seems to have noticed there is a car in the hangar that went for roughly $20 million at a recent auction. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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Agreed. It ain't a friggin' documentary!! *Just got home from the morning matinee. I thought it was friggin' AWESOME!!! Entertainment value - 10!!! "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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Thank you Very little |
LOL that's the truth, it's entertainment, not documentary, sometimes things are just for enjoyment. | |||
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Official Space Nerd |
Was that a Bugati Atlantique? Edit: ok, I googlificated it. It was a 1956 Aston Martin DBR1. Nice car. . . Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher | |||
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Hey maybe it was a POS barn find that he got a great deal on and he restored it with his hands over the last 20 years. You never know What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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Been waiting 2 years finally saw it tonight. Great entertainment for $10 ticket and 2+ hours. People clapped and cheered at the end. They say Maverick and Jurassic Park could save the movie theater industry… I dunno. Every sneak preview trailer looked atrocious and /or too woke to waste time and money on | |||
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Legalize the Constitution |
My wife and I saw it yesterday and we both thought it was great entertainment; once again, the highly reliable Tom Cruise. I read through this thread and I’ll throw out the one question that’s been bothering me since the scene in the movie. What was the one-sentence explanation for not flying F-35s with their stealth characteristics on this mission (our own Fifth Gen fighter)? _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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Official Space Nerd |
They said the enemy GPS jammers prevented the use of GPS-aided munitions. They imply the F-35 lacked a laser target designator, forcing them to use F-18s with laser-guided bombs. Somebody smarter than me can chime in on whether this is true or not. . . Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher | |||
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Legalize the Constitution |
It just seems a little silly to spend billions of dollars developing an advanced fighter only to have them parked on the hanger deck because the enemy “is jamming GPS signals.” My guess is that the Navy said, “We’ll provide sufficient FA-18s, Hornets and Super Hornets, for the movie, but we’re not going to provide and film F-35s.” _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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Official Space Nerd |
A MAJOR feature of this movie is having the actors filmed while in flight, often pulling heavy Gs. They showed Tom Cruise during a real cat launch off the carrier (he was in the back seat, though most people would not notice). Since there are no 2-seat F-35s, they HAD to have a reason for using -18s. Plus, it enhanced the drama with the 'superior' enemy fighters. Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher | |||
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Legalize the Constitution |
Hound Dog, no argument with your last statement at all. Cruise talked at length about the flight training he and the other actors went through to film this movie. They were pulling high Gs _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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The screen writers needed something simple the audience could grasp, despite the 'jamming GPS signals' reason line not being entirely accurate. The plausible explanation I've heard is: 1) Navy was not going to have multiple cameras featuring the insides of F-35 nor did they like the idea of a Hollywood crew monkeying around its newest jet, 2) there's no two-seat F-35s, and with the story imperative that 'real flying' be filmed, the super bug was the jet to use, and 3) there's A LOT of Hornets available with plenty of squadrons and pilots rotating, whereas there's not a lot of Lightnings available; the C-model just completed its first deployment several months ago. | |||
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