Just like with its predecessor, the hardest thing about enjoying Top Gun: Maverick is ignoring the glorification of the military and its actions. The problem is that the original Top Gun seems so ridiculous nowadays that it's actually not all that hard to look past that there.
If you manage to forget your own morality for two hours, though, Top Gun: Maverick gives you a magnificently made action blockbuster and a sequel that nails its landing (ha!) as a tribute…
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Top Gun 1986
Top Gun doesn't need a parody, it couldn't be parodied, because it takes itself so seriously while being entirely ridiculous. The plot is almost insanely thin and predictable, but it does hit all the right notes dramatically. Besides being 80s as fuck, which always wins me over, it's genuinely beautifully shot. Tony Scott really knew what he was doing. And I don't even mean the pretty impressive action scenes exclusively, it is also true for just ordinary moments. This one…
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I've never been that great at analyzing films in search of a specific meaning especially if that meaning is to some extent hidden on purpose. However, even without being completely certain what Denis Villeneuve tried to express here, "Enemy" makes for a really interesting watch.
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