Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by weberrygt

If the preview is any indication of how this will look and sound, then this will look and sound amazing! I didn't think I was excited for a sequel, mainly because it was just 'another sequel', but I'll admit I'm pumped for it.

It should be a high adrenaline rush, or your money back ...

[LordoftheRings]

The aviator jacket was a big deal; click on that aviator jacket above ^

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by weberrygt

If the preview is any indication of how this will look and sound, then this will look and sound amazing! I didn't think I was excited for a sequel, mainly because it was just 'another sequel', but I'll admit I'm pumped for it.

It’s a pleasure to read somebody else (besides Bob ) with an open mind and not afraid to show it.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

Who is the enemy in TG2?

Along those lines, who/what is the first challenge, as hinted here – https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...9#post19851025
Sneak peek as to the answer –

[Show spoiler]Mach 10

[LordoftheRings]

I bet people didn't know that ...
Tom Cruise Taught Actors How To Operate Sony VENICE Cameras Inside Fighter Jets in Top Gun: Maverick

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

It’s a pleasure to read somebody else (besides Bob) with an open mind and not afraid to show it.

That's what missing around here.
And we know that from a while back.
The more people sharing the more fun adding.

[Penton-Man]

A few have stepped up, e.g. credit also to Staying Salty for describing where thee eagle be, despite showing a less magnified shot as compared to what you just posted above, as seen in the trailer - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...e#post16648171

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Along those lines, who/what is the first challenge, as hinted here – https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...9#post19851025
Sneak peek as to the answer –

[Show spoiler]Mach 10

Did you start this thread Penton? You didn't start that thread, neither I.
It's not important who started the thread; what is ... is who contribute, and that we sure do.
The more people contributing the merrier the world.

THE MORE THE MERRIER - Trailer | Aug 29 - 31 | Austin Film Society - YouTube

We're in it for the expanded knowledge, because movies matter.
Too many good movies not enough time.

Venice cameras were used in 'Top Gun: Maverick', and IMAX cameras...state-of-the-art.

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

A few have stepped up, e.g. credit also to Staying Salty for describing where thee eagle be, despite showing a less magnified shot as compared to what you just posted above, as seen in the trailer - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...e#post16648171

Staying Salty ... excellent contributor, so is DanBa, and gkolb, and bruceames (threadstarter), and PaulGo, and Robert Zohn, and ray0414, and a bunch more.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Convincing the U.S. Navy to put more cameras in the cockpit and…to turn the aircraft carrier wherever for the sake of the sun - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWb41w0SgWM#t=56m7s

Along the lines of Claudio Miranda ^ , who do you hire as the colorist for Top Gun: Maverick?
Of course, one of the busiest (as one learns thru experience with regards to any profession) and best there is - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0814406/

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

Chances of a flyby for Top Gun 2?

Bob, my personal preference? (as I can't get to Cannes)
Like with the Carl Vinson a couple months back –

Watch the Blue Angels fly over the USS Carl Vinson as they returned to San Diego from deployment. - YouTube

an acknowledgment with a flyby over a retired one, as they’ve already practiced essentially the same flight pattern.

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Bob, my personal preference? (as I can't get to Cannes)
Like with the Carl Vinson a couple months back –

Watch the Blue Angels fly over the USS Carl Vinson as they returned to San Diego from deployment. - YouTube

an acknowledgment with a flyby over a retired one, as they’ve already practiced essentially the same flight pattern.

That was very cool.

I don't know if they'll have one @ Cannes but I like the idea very much ... good for the spirit and Maverick.

[LordoftheRings]

Top Gun: Maverick (thread) ...

▪︎133,970 views
It's not much so far but with May 27 approaching fast it might take off eventually

[LordoftheRings]

...That in the original Top Gun the flying manoeuvres were more realistic than its sequel ...
▪︎https://www.popularmechanics.com/cul...er-jet-stunts/

[Moviefan2k4]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

The aviator jacket was a big deal; click on that aviator jacket above ^

I remember a bit in the news a while back, about the filmmakers taking the Russian and Chinese war patches off Maverick's jacket, supposedly for political reasons. If true, I think that's just shameful.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

Did You Know
...That in the original Top Gun the flying manoeuvres were more realistic than its sequel ...
▪︎https://www.popularmechanics.com/cul...er-jet-stunts/

excerpted from ^ -
“The glaring exception [to a real maneuver] is the scene where the F-14 rolls inverted right on top of the F-5/MiG-28, so close that the F-14’s vertical stabilizers would be on either side of the other airplane’s. Even if that’s physically possible, it’s so precarious that the situation could probably get away from the pilots (e.g. sucking the airplanes closer together) more quickly than the pilots would be able to react,” explains Malfitano, who offers a “mini degree” in aeronautical engineering.”

Actually, despite fuel starvation issues, highly expert pilots can get pretty darn close for the inverted shot –



as described in the “Because I was inverted….” video presented by one of your fellow Canadians from your neck of the woods, video here –

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

TOP GUN challenge: "Because I was Inverted" Is a canopy to canopy shot possible? | AVchat w/ Scratch - YouTube

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

Did you know
...That in the original Top Gun the flying manoeuvres were more realistic than its sequel ...
▪︎https://www.popularmechanics.com/cul...er-jet-stunts/

excerpted from ^ -
“To him, the most intriguing scenes from the second film portray Maverick wearing a pressure suit and flying what looks like a hypersonic airplane.”

Then hopefully he ^ should enjoy this - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...k#post20027802

However, to me, the most intriguing scene related to that whole sequence (because it shows human to human contact/reaction) is

[Show spoiler]in the café afterwards

.

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by Moviefan2k4

I remember a bit in the news a while back, about the filmmakers taking the Russian and Chinese war patches off Maverick's jacket, supposedly for political reasons. If true, I think that's just shameful.

I remember that too. We don't want any further provocations, neither with Russia, neither with China ... in real life as in films like Top Gun 2.

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

excerpted from ^ -
“The glaring exception [to a real maneuver] is the scene where the F-14 rolls inverted right on top of the F-5/MiG-28, so close that the F-14’s vertical stabilizers would be on either side of the other airplane’s. Even if that’s physically possible, it’s so precarious that the situation could probably get away from the pilots (e.g. sucking the airplanes closer together) more quickly than the pilots would be able to react,” explains Malfitano, who offers a “mini degree” in aeronautical engineering.”

Actually, despite fuel starvation issues, highly expert pilots can get pretty darn close for the inverted shot –



as described in the “Because I was inverted….” video presented by one of your fellow Canadians from your neck of the woods, video here –

Yes, I've read the full article.

* That reminds me films like 'Bullitt' - 1968 (epic car chase with Steve McQueen), 'The French Connection' - 1971 (the car chase), 'Gone in 60 Seconds' - 2000 (final chase), 'Jack Reacher' - 2012 (car chase). Some scenes were real others unreal. Today they don't take chances like yesterday, on the roads like in the skies. The stunts of yesteryears are replaced by CGI.

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

excerpted from ^ -
“To him, the most intriguing scenes from the second film portray Maverick wearing a pressure suit and flying what looks like a hypersonic airplane.”

Then hopefully he ^ should enjoy this - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...k#post20027802

However, to me, the most intriguing scene related to that whole sequence (because it shows human to human contact/reaction) is

[Show spoiler]in the café afterwards

.

▪︎https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...postcount=1351

[LordoftheRings]

And because I mentioned 'Gone in 60 Seconds', in the original (1974), it was one of the longest car chases in movie history (40 minutes).
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone...ds_(1974_film)

What does it have to do with Maverick? Nothing. Same for the dukes of hazzard.
We're talking stuntman here with Tom Cruise. Except that in Top Gun Tom is not flying an hypersonic jet. ...Motorcycles yes he can ride, but all in safety.

* Extra: https://ew.com/movies/mission-imposs...ngerous-stunt/

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

* That reminds me films like 'Bullitt' - 1968 (epic car chase with Steve McQueen)

I feel Tom is the closest we’ve gotten (and perhaps, ever will, now with the introduction and implementation of virtual production ) to the King of Cool - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...e#post18930610