Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskIt isn’t just the cold-war fashion sense and Mr Cruise that return in “Top Gun: Maverick”, a much-delayed follow-up released this week. So do the nosebleed-inducing cockpit footage, the haze above the runways, the sweat on anxious faces in the blue-lit control rooms. Maverick again races a fighter jet on his bike; his new girlfriend seems to live in the same neighbourhood as his old one.
Maverick’s Eighties-style courtship technique, for instance, looks like harassment today. Glimpsing his love interest, played by Kelly McGillis, in a nightclub, he bet Goose $20 that he could have sex with her on the premises. Rebuffed, he chased her into the ladies’ room; she was soon charmed. In what seems a kind of apology, when latter-day Maverick visits a bar, two young pilots are making another $20 bet—over a harmless game of darts.
As for headline politics: “Top Gun: Maverick” tries to glide over them and through an airtight world of entertainment. Yet recent history is visible as a negative impression, like the shadow of an enemy jet on the clouds.
.theeconomist .benshapiro The real enemy is capitulation to the Chinese gov by removing the Taiwan flag from his vest. Shameful on Paramount and Tom Cruise
Mate, given how shite 2020-2022 has been, do you think we shouldn’t hark back just a wee bit to a time when baddies were baddies, folk had a shot at owning a home & public officials at least tried to hide their massive corruption?
is awful when writing about economics, writing about cinema is even worse
Just saw it - it was amazing. It delivered in every way. So stuff it.
Long time reader, here. Stay in your lane. This take is embarrassing.
The desperation of claiming that the one man on the planet who is impervious to ageing is somehow worried about the passage of time. Cope.
The movie was excellent and did exactly what it was designed to do.
Ouch
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