Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

[Socko]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

Ya right ... (use dark mode; better for your eyes).

* Tip: It's a wrong number.

It should be weekend 13

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by Socko

It should be weekend 13

You got it.
Indeed this is weekend #13, and not #12.

[BluBonnet]

Lucky 13!

[Verisimilitude1984]

I have never seen Top Gun and went into the cinema to see Top Gun Maverick knowing nothing about the plot, just excellent word of mouth and the fact it's a Tom Cruise film and you know you're in for a good ride.

Went to my VUE cinema in the UK, which was an absolute downer of an experience. Last time I went was to see The Batman, can't remember before then - certainly not since Covid-19.

Anyway, what a fantastic film and I can see why it belongs on the big screen first and foremost. There wasn't one moment where I was bored, the story was riveting, the performances great and the camera and effects shots just blew me away. 10/10. Possibly the best film Tom Cruise has done in terms of pure spectacle and I thought the last three Mission Impossible films were great.

[Ernest Rister]

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by Verisimilitude1984

Went to my VUE cinema in the UK, which was an absolute downer of an experience.

If you liked the movie why was going there such a downer?

[Socko]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

If you liked the movie why was going there such a downer?

VUE cinema probably sucks

[Verisimilitude1984]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

If you liked the movie why was going there such a downer?

As you asked

I think mainstream cinema is in a few years, sadly on its way out. That's my perception and I'm sure I'm not alone. With many people now having large screen televisions and sound systems at home, the cost of the cinema and then Covid-19 people just prefer to stay at home. Cinema rests largely on blockbusters, which these days are generally super-hero (Marvel) and Tom Cruise films. There just doesn't seem to be the diversity of films that there once was at the cinema (or that I'm aware with), due to the environment largely now being competing streaming services that want content there first and foremost. I would have seen Prey in the cinema and loved it. Your film stars (and particularly of old) are now mainly on streaming content unless they're in a super-hero film. I think there's also an issue with how these films get publicised (or a lack of), because as I say it's mainly those that get driven. Cinema chains, like Cineworld, can't cope.

So, how can this be challenged? It's tough but I think cinema is about the experience and giving consumers one they can't get at home.

Rose tinted glasses perhaps, but there was a lovely Odeon cinema in my town years ago. Outside you saw the movie posters on the wall, you walked in and straight away you saw the confectionary and drinks stand and the smell of popcorn with people that weren't all college age and some looking like they don't want to be there (probably with good reason due to pay and conditions). I still remember the cartoon before the main feature and the 'ice cream' lady walking up and down the aisles.

Now with 'modern' cinema and Vue cinema that replaced it, it lacks that personal touch. It was OK when it opened but let me explain my experience...

Outside the cinema, you'd hardly know it was. Darkened glass, no film posters and not much activity. I go in and downstairs, the front desk kiosk has long since been abandoned and there's nothing there except an escalator (albeit next to a large poster of Jurassic World Dominion lit up). You go up the escalator and upstairs they've put three or four touch screens for buying tickets and confectionary - due to Covid-19 probably but I've always thought touch screens were counter-intuitive with everyone pressing them. I much prefer dealing with a person and not trying to figure out yet another machine, but I input the necessary details and then nothing happens, no ticket although it says I've paid. I wait a couple of minutes then decide to try and find someone behind a kiosk then as I walk away it spits out the ticket. Relieved, I go to get some confectionary - no one seems to be about customer wise and they've laid out this maze of ropes for me to get to the kiosk. No confectionary as such on display as it used to have. I ask for an ice cream they used to have, but they don't have it. I ask where the confectionary is and they say it's behind the desk and you have to buy it on the touch screen first. I give up. I go to the entrance to get to the screens and two teenagers who don't really greet you or anything, just stare at me. I offered my ticket and they just sort of looked at me, then at least one said enjoy the movie. I walk down the corridor, empty, dark, few film posters or excitement. I go into the cinema screen room and then sit through 25 minutes of adverts that I see on television EVERY SINGLE DAY. Then I get only two movie trailers, Mission Impossible (thank goodness) and some awful film starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts that makes me wonder why they picked it. 30 minutes in, the film starts.

We deserve better.

The film Top Gun Maverick though, was one of the best films I've seen in a cinema. So I left happy in that respect

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by Verisimilitude1984

As you asked

I think mainstream cinema is in a few years, sadly on its way out. That's my perception and I'm sure I'm not alone. With many people now having large screen televisions and sound systems at home, the cost of the cinema and then Covid-19 people just prefer to stay at home. Cinema rests largely on blockbusters, which these days are generally super-hero (Marvel) and Tom Cruise films. There just doesn't seem to be the diversity of films that there once was at the cinema (or that I'm aware with), due to the environment largely now being competing streaming services that want content there first and foremost. I would have seen Prey in the cinema and loved it. Your film stars (and particularly of old) are now mainly on streaming content unless they're in a super-hero film. I think there's also an issue with how these films get publicised (or a lack of), because as I say it's mainly those that get driven. Cinema chains, like Cineworld, can't cope.

So, how can this be challenged? It's tough but I think cinema is about the experience and giving consumers one they can't get at home.

Rose tinted glasses perhaps, but there was a lovely Odeon cinema in my town years ago. Outside you saw the movie posters on the wall, you walked in and straight away you saw the confectionary and drinks stand and the smell of popcorn with people that weren't all college age and some looking like they don't want to be there (probably with good reason due to pay and conditions). I still remember the cartoon before the main feature and the 'ice cream' lady walking up and down the aisles.

Now with 'modern' cinema and Vue cinema that replaced it, it lacks that personal touch. It was OK when it opened but let me explain my experience...

Outside the cinema, you'd hardly know it was. Darkened glass, no film posters and not much activity. I go in and downstairs, the front desk kiosk has long since been abandoned and there's nothing there except an escalator (albeit next to a large poster of Jurassic World Dominion lit up). You go up the escalator and upstairs they've put three or four touch screens for buying tickets and confectionary - due to Covid-19 probably but I've always thought touch screens were counter-intuitive with everyone pressing them. I much prefer dealing with a person and not trying to figure out yet another machine, but I input the necessary details and then nothing happens, no ticket although it says I've paid. I wait a couple of minutes then decide to try and find someone behind a kiosk then as I walk away it spits out the ticket. Relieved, I go to get some confectionary - no one seems to be about customer wise and they've laid out this maze of ropes for me to get to the kiosk. No confectionary as such on display as it used to have. I ask for an ice cream they used to have, but they don't have it. I ask where the confectionary is and they say it's behind the desk and you have to buy it on the touch screen first. I give up. I go to the entrance to get to the screens and two teenagers who don't really greet you or anything, just stare at me. I offered my ticket and they just sort of looked at me, then at least one said enjoy the movie. I walk down the corridor, empty, dark, few film posters or excitement. I go into the cinema screen room and then sit through 25 minutes of adverts that I see on television EVERY SINGLE DAY. Then I get only two movie trailers, Mission Impossible (thank goodness) and some awful film starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts that makes me wonder why they picked it. 30 minutes in, the film starts.

We deserve better.

Well, I can't say that I disagree with any of that save for the new Clooney/Roberts movie, which I am actually kind of looking forward to (and admittedly it could be dreadful but I'll give it the benefit of the doubt until it has opened).

Yeah sometimes the movie-going experience just ain't what it used to be, one would hope a new bold theater chain could make it exciting again but, sadly, I don't really think that's going to happen any time soon.

[Pieter V]

Domestic (48.7%)
$683,375,000

International (51.3%)
$720,000,000

Worldwide
$1,403,375,000

[u2popmofo]

I'm late to the party, finally saw this today. The last 40 minutes or so were incredible. Glad I saw this while it was still in theaters.

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by Pieter V

Domestic (48.7%): $683,375,000
International (51.3%): $720,000,000
Worldwide: $1,403,375,000

• Compared to last week (August 14)

Domestic Box Office: $673,822,000
International Box Office: $704,200,000
Worldwide Box Office: $1,378,022,000

In the last 7 days Maverick added $25.5 million worldwide!
That's what I call a good functioning cash register machine.

On another related topic ...
Worldwide Maverick now ranks #12

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[LordoftheRings]

Hey!

https://movieweb.com/top-gun-maveric...-win-an-oscar/

[BluBonnet]

Well that's probably what any producer would have to say about their movies!

[blakninja]

Originally Posted by u2popmofo

I'm late to the party, finally saw this today. The last 40 minutes or so were incredible. Glad I saw this while it was still in theaters.

I didn't like that they used the cliche

[Show spoiler]saved at the last second by an offscreen ally that just appear out of nowhere and that no one saw coming

. I hate that cliche and they used it twice!

I would have preferred that Hangman

[Show spoiler]joined the fight at the end two on one to take out the bad plane. Less cliche and gives Hangman something to do. He kinda disappeared in the final mission, such a shame.

[50strat54]

Only one film on that list won The Academy Award for Best Picture and that was 24 years ago.

[LordoftheRings]

Official numbers (for up to August 21)

Domestic Box Office: $683,438,969
International Box Office: $720,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $1,403,438,969

《Maverick is a $1.455 billion flick》

Graphs of records and for each weekend.
* Notice that it doesn't lose much steam from one weekend to the next.
And from half dozen predictions on weekend #13 (from $5.9 million to $6.7 million) it was the lowest prediction that was the exact right one ($5.9 million).

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Black Panther spot (#5 domestic with $700,426,566) is a walk in the park ... 100%
And Frozen II spot (#11 worldwide with $1,450,026,933) is a fair probability ... 99%

[slumcat]

Top Gun is not an "original screenplay" movie. It is an "adaptation".

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by 50strat54

Only one film on that list won The Academy Award for Best Picture and that was 24 years ago.

Titanic

[BluBonnet]

One more day!