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Post by XAsstCoach on Mar 31, 2022 4:10:07 GMT -5
New trailer looks awesome! Wonder if they'll show it here, but if not I'll have to wait for the 4k release to get it.
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Post by akbar on Mar 31, 2022 5:04:24 GMT -5
Looking forward to it
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Post by Mocha on Apr 28, 2022 17:31:54 GMT -5
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Post by geddyleeridesagain on Apr 28, 2022 17:36:46 GMT -5
Honestly, I’m going to watch the sh!t out of it regardless.
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 28, 2022 17:40:57 GMT -5
I remember going off campus and across the river into Boston to watch the first movie in first run. That was just something I did not do lightly on a college student budget, especially since I could see movies really cheaply on-campus if I was willing to wait about six months until LSC was able to show them.
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 28, 2022 17:45:28 GMT -5
I happened to just see a comment about the first Top Gun that said, "like the fighter jets, the movie fires on all cylinders".
Um, "cylinders"? Soooomebody doesn't know how a jet engine works....
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Post by BearClause on Apr 28, 2022 18:01:19 GMT -5
I remember going off campus and across the river into Boston to watch the first movie in first run. That was just something I did not do lightly on a college student budget, especially since I could see movies really cheaply on-campus if I was willing to wait about six months until LSC was able to show them. I saw it when I was in high school at the now gone Berkeley Theatre. It was a classic large single screen movie house (maybe 800 seats) with 70mm projection with six-channel sound (I think they had that for Top Gun). Saw it twice too. But my parents only gave me enough to afford a matinee. I think I saw it with my dad the first time, then again with some friends, including one buddy who wanted to be a fighter pilot. But it might have been something like $5 for the matinee. cinematreasures.org/theaters/5357
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Post by ironhammer on May 17, 2022 20:07:04 GMT -5
Top Gun...at one point I knew the movie so well I could recite almost all the lines from the movie. But then I just realized, I haven't watched the movie in...well over 20 years. The other day I decided to watch it for the first time in 2+ decades. But anyway, watching it again, the movie struck me as being so "80s". You know how some movies have this timeless quality and then other movies are so very much a product of its time. Top Gun falls into the latter category.
Maverick's romance with Kelly McGillis' character "Charlie" Blackwood felt soapy and melodramatic. I personally didn't buy the relationship. It kinda reminded me of a sort of boy fantasy, but quite unbelieveable if you consider it in a realistic scenario. The whole movie had that slick "MTV" feel, at times it felt like an extended version of those early music videos from the 80's. Not a surprise if you consider director Tony Scott (the younger brother of director Ridley Scott btw) started his career making TV commercials.
And the dialogue was so cheesy at times it felt like it was written by a teenager. I mean I can't help but roll my eyes at some of the lines like "I feel the need...for speed" or when Iceman tells Maverick that he can be his "wingman anytime" and Maverick replies with "Bullsh*t...you can be mine". Oh geez, who wrote those lines???
But you know what, despite all those faults...I still love the movie. The aerial dogfight scenes look good to this day. It has this thrilling energy to it that you can't help but go along with it. And when you hear "Danger Zone" being belted out by Kenny Loggins, you just gotta smile and say "Alright...YEAH!!!".
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Post by BearClause on May 17, 2022 20:39:29 GMT -5
Top Gun...at one point I knew the movie so well I could recite almost all the lines from the movie. But then I just realized, I haven't watched the movie in...well over 20 years. The other day I decided to watch it for the first time in 2+ decades. But anyway, watching it again, the movie struck me as being so "80s". You know how some movies have this timeless quality and then other movies are so very much a product of its time. Top Gun falls into the latter category. Maverick's romance with Kelly McGillis' character "Charlie" Blackwood felt soapy and melodramatic. I personally didn't buy the relationship. It kinda reminded me of a sort of boy fantasy, but quite unbeliveable if you consider it in a realistic scenario. The whole movie had that slick "MTV" feel, at times it felt like an extended version of those early music videos from the 80's. Not a surprise if you consider director Tony Scott (the younger brother of director Ridley Scott btw) started his career making TV commercials. And the dialogue was so cheesy at times it felt like it was written by a teenager. I mean I can't help but roll my eyes at some of the lines like "I feel the need...for speed" or when Iceman tells Maverick that he can be his "wingman anytime" and Maverick replies with "Bullsh*t...you can be mine". Oh geez, who wrote those lines??? But you know what, despite all those faults...I still love the movie. The aerial dogfight scenes look good to this day. It has this thrilling energy to it that you can't help but go along with it. And when you hear "Danger Zone" being belted out by Kenny Loggins, you just gotta smile and say "Alright...YEAH!!!". The thing is that they used real footage on film along with practical effects such as setting a model on fire as it spins out simulating a missile strike. I don't think ILM (which used to be huge on practical effects) could have done any better. Even a decade later digital effects were usually the way aerial combat was created, and a lot of times it looks so bad. Heck - I've seen a few Chinese military movies from the 21st century, and they clearly have patterned themselves after Top Gun, from the wearing of bomber jackets (which aren't actually worn during actual military work) and oversized sunglasses. But the special effects just looked so fake.
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Post by Mocha on May 17, 2022 21:03:26 GMT -5
I recently watched some clips of the original Top Gun on Netflix, I was surprised how much it has aged. The simple opening credits looked before they started using computers, the closeup shots inside the cockpit during the aerial scenes looked faked.
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Post by BearClause on May 17, 2022 21:20:21 GMT -5
I recently watched some clips of the original Top Gun on Netflix, I was surprised how much it has aged. The simple opening credits looked before they started using computers, the closeup shots inside the cockpit during the aerial scenes looked faked. I think those were the kind where it's printed on some sort of roll and where it goes through some sort of composite process with a crawler. I've seen something similar on a game show where they intentionally cut to the machine that put out the credits. It was something like black on white, and then the final image would be that overlaid in a certain color on in the final video.
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Post by Mocha on May 22, 2022 2:11:43 GMT -5
Anyone seen it yet?
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Post by mikegarrison on May 22, 2022 2:34:50 GMT -5
No, but this guy has seen it:
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Post by XAsstCoach on May 22, 2022 19:58:30 GMT -5
Even a decade later digital effects were usually the way aerial combat was created, and a lot of times it looks so bad. Well, some parts were good enough for the CCP to use when they tried to pass it off as one of their Air Force drill 🤣
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Post by XAsstCoach on May 22, 2022 20:03:24 GMT -5
Top Gun...at one point I knew the movie so well I could recite almost all the lines from the movie. But then I just realized, I haven't watched the movie in...well over 20 years. The other day I decided to watch it for the first time in 2+ decades. But anyway, watching it again, the movie struck me as being so "80s". You know how some movies have this timeless quality and then other movies are so very much a product of its time. Top Gun falls into the latter category. Maverick's romance with Kelly McGillis' character "Charlie" Blackwood felt soapy and melodramatic. I personally didn't buy the relationship. It kinda reminded me of a sort of boy fantasy, but quite unbeliveable if you consider it in a realistic scenario. The whole movie had that slick "MTV" feel, at times it felt like an extended version of those early music videos from the 80's. Not a surprise if you consider director Tony Scott (the younger brother of director Ridley Scott btw) started his career making TV commercials. And the dialogue was so cheesy at times it felt like it was written by a teenager. I mean I can't help but roll my eyes at some of the lines like "I feel the need...for speed" or when Iceman tells Maverick that he can be his "wingman anytime" and Maverick replies with "Bullsh*t...you can be mine". Oh geez, who wrote those lines??? But you know what, despite all those faults...I still love the movie. The aerial dogfight scenes look good to this day. It has this thrilling energy to it that you can't help but go along with it. And when you hear "Danger Zone" being belted out by Kenny Loggins, you just gotta smile and say "Alright...YEAH!!!". Stop over analyzing the film. Was a good movie…just as Side Out was. 😂 My college roommate said he asked a buddy of his who was in the Navy whether the carrier deck scenes were real with the hand signals, posturing, etc and was told it pretty much is.
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