Top Gun: Maverick has 96% rotten tomatoes rating. How much did the studio pay critics to write positive reviews?

It featured the Kawasaki Ninja H2R. It can't possibly be bad.

As an intelligent person who didn't try to sit through it, I sympathize but am unqualified to comment. I did comment on Señor Cruz's cultist personality

Tom Cruise (61) found the Fountain of Youth, not so much Kelly MacGillis (66) and Val Kilmer (63).

Kelly looked old 35 years ago. 80’s hair is ridiculous.

the characters were unlikeable. Set pieces with carefully crafted archetypes.

Tom Cruise is so unlikeable he's made over $10 billion at the box office.

Some of you are really struggling to understand the difference between a bad movie and a good movie you personally didn't enjoy.

I don't think you get it.

If I want Restrepo, I'll watch Restrepo.

If I want Dunkirk, I'll watch Dunkirk.

But sometimes I just want to watch Maverick (himself, mind you) fly sexy jet fighters, hit the time on target and get the girl.

What you're missing is the environment/situation when it was released. Much of the world had been in lockdowns for a long time, then we were trying to get back to normal. People stopped going to the theaters and started streaming everything -- some major new releases went straight to streaming. Movie production had slowed and there were a lot of crappy movies coming out.

Maverick was a solid sequel with enough (too much) nostalgia to appeal to fans of the original, and good enough action/flight scenes to satisfy the rest of us. It gave critics a reason to go to the theaters again.

It was the perfect movie for its time and place, but my guess is that it will not age well in the pantheon of Best Picture nominees.

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One of the greatest war movies of all time (Saving Private Ryan)had the most flawed plot line of all time.

Military leaders would never risk 8 lives to find (not “save”, FIND) one other solider because of a brother(s) death.

Now, like Maverick, the effects of the movie were very similar to reality (going off WW2 soldier accounts) and they do even speak to the absurdity of the plot line when the Ed Burns / Barry Pepper characters voice their disagreement. BUT, overall that scenario would never exist in the first place. STILL, a 5-star movie.

Saving Private Ryan was one of if not the most graphic war movies ever made and it was still pretty much like a cartoon compared to reality.

real-life footage of modern wars is all over the place, the only thing "cartoonish" about SPR is a focus on action and gore, rather than time and boredom. Of course they pick Omaha beach, not Juno or Sword beach.

Most infantry move slowly and don't do a whole lot most of the time, mostly sit around in trenches or wherever they can avoid being blown up by artillery

Top Gun original was terrible, not even remotely accurate air combat

The dogfight scenes were good. The film was garbage.

I bought the movie. It was great.

I was referring to the "gore" as cartoonish.

Actual accurate combat makes for bad movies.

C'mon now, I am Leonard, It was really good. The Big Cringe was Tom Cruise thanking us for getting out of our houses before the movie started.

Upvoted (10:10 of 100%) by guys who like "guy" flicks -- the first Top Gun was a closeted gay romance flick. The same "guys" give 1:10 and 0% ratings to any movie with a female director and female lead. Many of those 97% voters are still trapped in the closet.

Neither Top Gun was a good film. The first was better because it was obviously a gay military parody film that drove Tom Cruise insane when it was called a gay film. It is now considered a Gay Classic.

esquire.com

The 'Top Gun' Volleyball Scene Is Not Homoerotic. It Is Homosexual.

To have watched all of this unfold, on the big screen, right in the middle of puberty, was simply not fair.

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The last remaining child of a mother who lost her other son's in combat on the same day.

Google the Sullivan brothers. The Sole Survivor Policy was a real thing but it didn't get implemented until 1948.
Also, Top Gun wasn't a "gay classic" any more than Kindergarten Cop was a pedophile classic. A movie isn't aimed at your perversions Just because it gives you a stiffy.

^ closeted dude claims his favorite gay classic isn't gay even though he got a stiff one during the scenes with the guys bonding while playing volleyball and smiling at each other when showering together.

slate.com

Top Gun’s Sweaty, Sexy Men Helped Me Survive My Adolescence

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Iceman and Maverick jetted lifesaving homoeroticism past a generation of conservative parents.

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How Top Gun Became A Gay Classic - IMDb

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