Maverick: "Okay, I'm still going through this test flight. You know, to save all your jobs."
Ground Crew: "We're with you. Remember 10. Not 10.1 or 10.2. JUST 10 FOR CRISSAKES"
Maverick: "To hell with your jobs and this plane" 10.1. 10.2....
Why it's just the way he is.
shareWe're supposed to be impressed the nobility of him risking himself for the sakes of their program. He was specifically instructed by the crew exactly where their goal is, and what to do. There was no need to push it, now he's not only risking himself, he is risking the aircraft aka the entire program itself, nullifying his supposed purpose.
shareHave you not seen Top Gun?
shareYes. We were left that he had some character growth at the end, and didn't end up as the same rouge lone-wolf as he started, thereby earning the respect of Ice Man, no?
Yeah I agree but he's always gonna be a loose cannon?
shareHence, why it kind of bothered me that his character arc reverted a bit, also considering his character is much much older.
shareGood points, I just watched it, I loved it by the way, did you read my post? Did Charlie get mentioned?
shareAgain, loved it too, that was my only nitpick considering the one guy ground crew guy considered him a great friend apparently...
Charlie was not mentioned at all, as if she never existed.
That's a shame isn't it? They should of said something about her at least.
shareCompletely agree. We can all argue all day about Kelly Mcginnis not being asked to come back because she's not the smoking hot bombshell she was 40 years ago, and the implied sexism in Hollywood...
The least they could've done is did some justice for her character.
The movie's title is not "Bottom Gun"
sharePlease explain how this flight program successfully hitting their "fastest ever" mark would be considered anything bottom? Go ahead. Meanwhile, I could probably make a case for a program that is about to be defunded and shut down getting literally vaporized in the air being the literal bottom.
shareFastest ever is not enough. Have to push the envelope to be "Top Gun". Anything less is considered a failure.
shareThis program has nothing to do with the flight school Top Gun. LOL
Not sure how you define the word failure. Reaching that mark would've saved their program, their plane, and their goal. That's actually how you define the word "success."
Maverick is Top Gun. If he doesn't wring that aircraft out of everything she has then he's not Top Gun anymore.
shareThat is the stretchiest stretch of an explanation that has ever stretched. LOL
OK.
I did ask Paramount to change the title to "Top Gun: EBHAYNZ"
I was quickly told to go pound sand.
...which you took literally with a pair of aviators and a volleyball to prove them wrong.
share(Spoiler)......When things go awry after he passes Mach 10, and the next scene is him walking into a diner.....is the implication that he crash landed, or that he ejected??
I couldn’t imagine bringing something going that fast into an emergency landing in a field somewhere and surviving. But then....if he ejected, that runaway plane crashed like a missle into SOMETHING. (Could have been a town full of people).
Completely agree.
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