Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

[slumcat]

I always knew the actors were not flying the planes and were in the back seat.

I am surprised anyone thought otherwise.

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by Pieter V

Domestic Box Office $700,329,744

Today

Grosses
DOMESTIC (48.6%)
$701,250,369
INTERNATIONAL (51.4%)
$740,400,000
WORLDWIDE
$1,441,650,369

[slumcat]

Won’t Black Panther get a re-release before part 2 and scratch the B no. 5 spot back from top gun maverick?

[Mikezilla3k]

Finally got around to seeing this. Overall, I liked it though not gaga over it like some.

Then again, I never really have an attachment to the original like others so that may have affected how I felt about the movie.

8/10

[Just_Discovered_3D]

Originally Posted by Mikezilla3k

Finally got around to seeing this. Overall, I liked it though not gaga over it like some.

Then again, I never really have an attachment to the original like others so that may have affected how I felt about the movie.

8/10

It might have been better than the original. The jet action was, as the final fight in TG1 was rather disjointed with all of the cuts and recycled footage. I was surprised at how close it came to Quantum of Solace/Taken Sequels level of cuts. I suppose Star Wars was their inspiration for cutting between pilot and plane, but it was less frenetic there.

Anyhow, point being that the jet fighting was easier to follow in TGM than in TG, I thought. TGM also had a stronger plot, even if its existence was thinly justified by just that throwaway line about GPS jammers.


The soundtrack was better in the original, Hans Zimmer could really stand to take a sabbatical.

[Jonathan McLeod]

Originally Posted by unberechenbar

Even Tom Cruise?

Yes. Pilot he may be; qualified to fly one of those jets he is not.

[Socko]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Yep, even Crooze. The Navy wouldn't let any of them fly a multi-million dollar fighter jet, and with good reason!

One little touch I liked was that they didn't erase the reflections of the cockpit cameras in the pilots' helmets, the cinematographer said they had to work so hard to get that stuff in there that they kept the reflections as an acknowledgement of that work.

Interesting, in an interview with the director he said the camera cables are visible and they kept them in.
Didn’t know about the reflections.

[Socko]

Originally Posted by slumcat

Won’t Black Panther get a re-release before part 2 and scratch the B no. 5 spot back from top gun maverick?

Maverick isn’t done yet.
He still has some millions to shoot at before he touches down that plane of his.

[LordoftheRings]

Maverick is flying high just below Avatar ...
https://variety.com/2022/film/box-of...ca-1235353287/

"The film returned to the top of box office charts over Labor Day weekend, adding $7.9 million between Friday and Monday and bringing ticket sales to $701 million. According to Paramount, “Maverick” is the only film to ever be No. 1 at the domestic box office for both Memorial Day and Labor Day holidays.

Cruise is getting well compensated for reviving the movie theater industry. By the time “Maverick” leaves theaters and ends up on Paramount Plus, the stunt extraordinaire is expected to pocket at least $100 million from ticket sales, his salary, home entertainment rentals, and streaming revenue."

Number one on Labor Day long weekend with $8 million, whoah!
Number eleven worldwide by next weekend.
What will be coming after that ... only the skies know.

[Det. Bullock]

Unlike the original this actually a decent movie even outside the scenes with airplanes going whoosh.

Like, I saw the original only a month or so ago for the first time (which is probably a shame for someone who owns a HOTAS like me) and everything outside the planes was every stupid cliché played completely straight without any kind of charm to boot. Of course this stupidity has given us Hot Shots so it's not all bad.

This new one actually manages to have a narrative that isn't bottom of the barrel and does get how silly certain situations are without doing the full self-aware shtick some movies today tend to abuse. The conversation between Maverick and Rooster on land during the last bit was genuinely funny for example.

[LordoftheRings]

Maverick is projected to make between 4 and $4.5 million this weekend (Sept. 9-11).
That would bring its total domestic revenues to between 706.5 and $707 million.

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Maverick keeps flying into the Milky Way. This weekend it will hit spot number 11 in all-time worldwide box office (non-adjusted for inflation).

And for inflation adjusted I'd say it'll get the number 15 spot in all-time domestic with roughly $720 million, by the end of its run.

Maverick is a $1.480 billion flick ... in that neighborhood (1.470-1.480)

Extra:
‘Top Gun: Maverick’ is unlike any blockbuster Hollywood has seen in years

[LordoftheRings]

Frozen II ... kiss kiss bye bye

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● Check that Speedo guy ... well pass the $2 billion mark worldwide!
How did he do that!

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[shamus]

anyone have any idea what cell phone maverick uses in this movie?

[Lee A Stewart]

Originally Posted by shamus

anyone have any idea what cell phone maverick uses in this movie?

What ever it is it's at least 2 years old.Maybe older.

[Det. Bullock]

I'm more concerned with the fact that the "fifth generation fighters" used this f-16/a-10 stile grip:

[Show spoiler]

If they can buy a Thrustmaster Warthog for the movie they could have easily spent the same money for one of these Sukhoi-based grips which I think would have also been more visually interesting:

[Show spoiler]

In addition to the big red button on top they have a bunch of tech-y looking switches and a flip trigger, it would have looked more "other" so-to-speak and also would have avoided using an American-style grip on a supposedly foreign aircraft.

[Pieter V]

Grosses
DOMESTIC (48.6%)
$705,650,344
INTERNATIONAL (51.4%)
$747,800,000
WORLDWIDE
$1,453,450,344

[LordoftheRings]

And Frozen II is now below Maverick

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* There must be a mistake with Speedo-Man's Foreign numbers (black circle) ^
Mojo has a relapse ...

** All Time Domestic Inflation Adjusted

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#16 spot ^ for sure, #15 maybe...maybe not.

[Joeker]

I cant pull off the Aviator sunglasses look so I got the Ray Bans Hangman wears during the football game

Or at least I think I did if the internet gave me the right info

[Poya]

That chart isn't reliable. Inflation has jumped pretty high over the past 2 years. Black Panther would be around $900m now.

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by Poya

That chart isn't reliable. Inflation has jumped pretty high over the past 2 years. Black Panther would be around $900m now.

Yes I am aware of that; it changes every year, and in 2022 with the inflation rising sky high.
The main matter impact is to be closest to the ballpark; it's the best we the number crunchers can do @ the movies.
▪︎ https://help.imdb.com/article/imdbpr...o_md#inflation

Maverick is like . . . gone with the wind