WHAT DID YOU GUYS THINK ABOUT TOP GUN: MAVERICK?! PS: I ENDED UP WATCHING THIS IN THEATERS THE WEEKEND AFTER THIS REACTION AND IT WAS EVEN BETTER ON THE BIG SCREEN! PSPS: IF YOURE HERE EARLY VID IS STILL PROCCESSING WHICH IS WHY QUALITY LOOKS BAD RN!

Top Gun: Maverick was WAY WAY better than it had any right to be.

I work at a movie theater. This movie came out in May, and we are still playing it now, in what’s about to be October. And people are still coming out to see it in the theater when it’s on streaming by now. That is a testament to how much of an impact this film has had on people.

“It’s what my dad would’ve done” gets me every time

"Do some of that pilot shit!" - my favorite line in the film

The original Top Gun was huge commercial hit, grossing $357 million globally against a production budget of $15 million. It was very popular in Air force/military/navy communities all over the world.

One of the few movies I’d consider as a perfect movie

Watched these two movies for the first time when Maverick came out. An incredible sequel that delivered after all these years. Fans who have been waiting for years must've been happy af.

I heard Tom Cruise fought for Val Kilmer to have a role in this movie. A few years ago, Kilmer underwent treatment and operations for Throat Cancer and while he has been cancer-free since, the ordeal has reduced his voice to a rasp. Still, he actually did speak his lines in this movie, albeit digitally altered for clarity. The WTF-Maneuver that one enemy plane pulled near the end is actually something that exists. Its called Cobra Manoeuvre or 'Pugachev's Cobra'.

I saw the original in the theater 7 times. I wanted nothing more than to be a naval aviator, but imperfect eyesight said otherwise, so I became a sailor instead. Captaining my own ship was satisfying, but I never lost my admiration for fighter pilots. Great movie, great reaction.

My dad actually worked on the f14. The plane in the first film, and he got to watch it on an aircraft carrier. When we watching maverick, the scene where they took the f14, I honestly got a little emotional

It is kind of true, Tom is one of our last moviestars. Just making fun entertainment, say what you want about the guy, but he knows how to do this.

Something to note. While Maverick was doing the trial run at 2:15 sec. (which was 15 sec. shorter than originally planned) he had to launch the missiles and line up the laser sight at the same time while existing the climb. Very impressive!

Probably the biggest surprise in the history of film. And that's not an exaggeration. This could honestly win Best Picture at the Oscars. It would be historic for this type of film to win.

One of the best films I've seen in years! My dad took me to see the original in theaters when I was ten years old and I took him to see this on opening weekend a few months back. Getting to see both of them with him is a memory I will always cherish.

The original Top Gun was the highest grossing film for 1986 and it made more men join the Navy than any other recuiting effort made by the Navy.

Fun facts/eater eggs for this movie (if not known already) they filmed about 80% of the air scenes practically. The actors went through 3 months of real military flight training to ride in real F-18’s actually going full speed and pulling G’s. So all the reactions on their faces are legit. Tom really launched off the carrier before the mission. (A shot he wanted in the original but they wouldn’t let him). Penny Benjamin was referenced twice in the first film by goose and his wife (the admirals daughter. Iceman’s cancer in the movie is actually Val’s real cancer. He cannot speak anymore in real life so they pretty much had no choice but to make it a thing in the movie. The little he does isn’t even actually him they used his sons voice and had him mouth it. The test flight in the beginning (Mach 10) Mach is a measure of speed not the G force, Mach 10 is ten times the speed of sound so over 7,000 miles per hour. The fastest recorded speed from a plane in real life is from the SR-71 blackbird at a little over Mach 3 maybe 3.5 I think.

This was everything I wanted & then more. There was just the right mix of nostalgia & new content and it hit so hard in all the right ways. Glad you enjoyed it, fantastic reaction.

I went to see it with my family at my local IMAX theater in June. Maybe like 4 weeks after it’s first release. The theater was packed. Then I went to see it a second time with a friend on August, about 13 weeks after its first release. The theater was also packed then. I’ve never see anything like this movie. Awesome stuff. Well done Tom Cruise and the rest of the cast and crew. Great movie that doesn’t ruin old characters to prop up new ones. Hollywood hopefully makes better movies like this one if they want big success.

The original Top Gun was absolutely a huge movie. Its what took Cruise's 'rising star' and catapulted him into the stratosphere. It made a shit ton of money. $357 million on a $15m budget. That's close to a billion in today's money. Besides that, it raised enrollment in the navy for piloting by leaps and bounds. This movie, Maverick, is absolutely incredible. Written SO well, it handles everything just about perfectly. Very well done by the writers and Kosinski.

Hopefully this movie will inspire other companies to make actual good movies.

“Jeez (G’s), feelin’ all that fuxkin’ force…” I see you. 😉

Best movie i have watched in a while. 10/10. So perfect! This is a movie you HAVE to watch in an IMAX Theater!

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Top Gun (the original) is actually like one of the quintessential middle aged dude movies, so my dad and his friends very much knew and loved the original and were super hyped when maverick came out!

Whoever told you that the original wasn't crazy-popular back in the day is either suffering from dementia or outright pulling your leg. XD I was there opening weekend in 1986 and Top Gun was all the rage. Theaters were PACKED. Navy Recruiters were set up at theaters all over the country (enlistments SURGED!). Every kid in school wanted to be a Navy pilot when we grew up - we would buddy up and pick our pilot/co-pilot teams on the schoolyard playgrounds and make plans of enlisting together "someday." While we didn't all become flyers, some of did follow that dream and eventually join the Navy.

Best theater experience I've had in at least the last 10 years. This is one of those very rare franchises where the sequel is every bit as good, if not better than the sequel. There may be only about 5 or 6 movies that can tout that, but this is one of them. Glad you enjoyed it!

Just would like to clarify that 10.3 that you referred to at the beginning of the movie. He reached Mach 10.3, which is 10.3 times the speed of sound at the altitude he was flying at. Other Tom Cruise movies you should consider are Knight and Day as well as Risky Business.

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"Thank you for saving my life" "It's what my dad would've done" Doesn't get any better than that.

At 25:13, just want to clarify he didn’t sustain 10.3 Gs at that beginning, but was going Mach 10.3 (10.3x the speed of sound in that medium which was high altitude air). 10 Gs is 10x the force of gravity… which is bonkers haha

If you haven’t seen The Last Samurai, please please watch that. Tom’s best movie imo.

This movie was better than it had any right to be. I have a ton of respect for Tom Cruise because he just doesn't phone it in or cut corners. He knows what you need to make a great movie, and he holds everyone's feet to the fire to get it done. I wish we had more actors like him.

One of my fav movies of all time!

North Island is the location of the CNAF's office (played by John Hamm here) but the US Fighter Weapons School is actually located in NAS Fallon NV. A wingman of mine was a patch wearer and from what I have heard is about to make Captain herself.

I think maybe farther into the future we could get a sequel about Rooster, I'd love to see that because I absolutely love his character and I wanna see more of him!

It has been a LONG time since I saw a movie that you HAD to experience in the theaters. I feel bad for the generation that didn't experience the original Star Wars in the theater. Top Gun Maverick was the closest I got to that feeling. It was a multi-hour roller coaster ride.

That Hangman kill was so sweet.

The reason why the ejection chair didn't work was because neither of them pulled out the two pins prior to flight. My favorite tidbit is that even though Jennifer Connelly is afraid of flying, she has so much trust in Tom Cruise that she didn't even let Tom know that she was afraid and just flew with him in his P51K. BTW, Tom's P51K is worth 4 million dollars. His character, Maverick, would be broke, as all his money would go into the plane, it's gas and insurance. Tom Cruise is a certified airplane mechanic and really maintains that P51K mustang.

The original was a monster hit and helped launch Tom Cruise to superstardom and increased applications for the navy 200%.

He was at Mach 10.4 at the start of the movie which is a measurement of speed (7,707.4087 MPH). G forces deal with gravity, for each G up add your own body weight onto what you already weigh

He wasn't at 10 gs at the start in the Darkstar. He was at mach ten... as in ten times the speed of sound. Or almost 8000 mph to put it another way.

Does Jennifer Connelly not look absolutely amazing? That ending scene outfit, WOW!!!.Love it. People making comments about the car, What car? All I see is that beautiful woman. She's had her ups and downs through the years but if Hollywood doesn't recognize her for the amazing woman/actress that she has become, they are crazy. She needs to be getting a ton of leading lady rolls after this.

Lol so I’m named after him (Maveric), I was born the year it came out and then grew up watching it. So I was extremely excited this sequel was coming out. My siblings were nicknamed Hollywood and Iceman too.

Me and my brothers took our dad to see it since he saw top gun in theaters when he was younger, it was a great experience.

China actually moved an entire satellite to take a look at the Darkstar prop built for the movie! That’s how realistic it looked!

This movie was all practical no green screen

Now we will have to wait 40 years for the third one💀, also, mach ten is roughly 7672 miles per hour. 14:30 “See you in the afterlife.” Gives me chills.

God bless you Val Kilmer. You absolute legend.

The original was hugely successful. $300 million plus in 1986 dollars. Was a massive boon for Navy recruitment as well.

It’s broken…

One of my favorite movies of ALL TIME hands down. If THIS movie came out when I was a kid....ain't no way in hell I wouldn't be a fighter pilot today. Amazing movie.

Wish you could have seen this in the theater. I saw it in imax. It was an experience. Amazing sequel!

Rumors is Glen Powell, Hangman, is up for the Marvel role of Cyclops.

Don't know if you were aware, but the actors are really riding in those jets! They all trained in flight school for six months and most of the shots of them in the cockpit were real, they rode in the back of two seater jets while real naval aviators were piloting the aircraft from the front seat.

22:30 a pilot will always try to save the plane, ejecting is a last resort due to the physical effects of it… some pilots have had their careers ended, some even suffered life changing injuries, and even a few have died… ejections put so much force on the body that a pilot will only do it when they know 100% they can’t save the plane. There is a 3 strikes rule too, 3 ejections and you’re grounded permanently. In reality, Coyote (blacking out) and Phoenix and Bob (recovering from ejecting) are now off the mission for medical reasons, but this is of course a movie. This entire sequence and the following couple of scenes are a hell of an emotional rollercoaster. Tension, relief, tension, relief, tension, sadness… all in about 5 minutes. 30:33 there was a lot of foreshadowing throughout: “Despite your best efforts, you refuse to die.” “Someone’s not coming back from this.” “You’ll be back in the air with your tail on fire.” “I’m never gonna leave you again.” “Don’t break her heart again.” “We’ll talk, when we get back.” 37:56 “thank you for saving my life.” “It’s what my dad would’ve done.” 🥲 gets me every time. Fun facts: the bar scene where we meet the new pilots, Miles Teller learned how to play Great Balls Of Fire. That scene was a live take with the cast and extras joining in, they did such a good job that it made it onto the OST and they edited it into a music video. So Miles Teller has an officially credited cover of the song. The scene where Darkstar flies over Ed Harris and the security booth was one take… they used an F-18 as the “placeholder”, flew it low and fast, and it actually ripped the roof up! They only shot one take because they damaged the booth… they only needed that one take 😂 Ed Harris took that blast like a boss too. Tom Cruise set up a training program for the cast to get them into shape and to build them up for the G forces that they would take during filming, as he wanted the most real footage as possible. The cast were sat in the backseat of the two-seat version F-18, while an actual pilot flew in the front… he also taught them how to operate the cameras and how to direct themselves, so they are acting and directing while pulling up to 7 Gs (they never went over that, as stated by Rooster, the F-18 isn’t meant to be pushed harder than that, and also it would have caused a lot of actual blackouts). The scenes with the F-14 are all CGI due to there being no active Tomcats anywhere outside of Iran, but the scene where they start it up inside the hangar was an actual F-14 from San Diego Air and Space Museum. Through their time in the actual jets, Miles Teller and Glen Powell gained enough flight hours to take their tests and get their own licenses. Powell revealed that Cruise got him a present for passing his test - a stunt driving session 😂

15 years from now: TOP GUN: ROOSTER

This movie is indeed FANTASTIC!!!

37:26 5 victories is an ace. Erich Hartmann got 352 confirmed. Think about that

Sad thing is the callsign "BoB actually could go to an expecting parent exactly because of what "Hangman" said

The highest grossing movie of the year, $1.4 billion dollars at the box office!

At the beginning of the movie it was not 10.4 g force , it was mach which means speed.

Have you done Collateral yet? It is one of Cruise's best mix of action and acting (he's done great dramatic work). Can't recommend it enough.

Theres a difference between having an advantage and not having disadvantages

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I'm one who watched this one before the first one. I truly enjoyed it anyways. There were times where I thought there is something in the first one that would add to this scene, but I didn't feel lost. I went back and watched the first one and though it was great, and yeah, it would have totally added to it, but not required.

I've seen this a number of times at the theater, and the best is watching it on ScreenX, This is where you have a 270 degree view. So all the flying parts are in 270 degrees and the other parts are just the front screen.

"Hangman" just like in the movie would not have been team leader in real life. Though it would be for different reasons. He'd have been nailed for Disrespecting a senior officer long before. Tom Cruise did a great job of acting annoyed at the disrespectful tone "Hangman" had when he said the line "Even him"

Val Kilmer’s scene makes me cry because his health. He has throat cancer. That is why he rarely acts now. It hurts for him to talk now. Watch his documentary Val on Amazon Prime

thankyou for narrating the whole movie

LEZZGOOOO!!!! WAS REALLY WAITING IMPATIENTLY FOR THIS MOVIE REACTION😍🔥💯

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Check out 2 of my favorite Tom Cruise movies: 'Interview with the Vampire" and 'The Last Samurai'

It doesn’t work on my phone,I watched this in theaters what an experience

#1 movie and best sequel of 2022. #1 movie of the decade (so far). Tom Cruise's biggest film. 2nd film to gross over $1 billion in theaters during the pandemic. A great story with so much nostagia of the original. To be made and to be made as real as possible makes this a great piece of work. Seeing Val Kilmer as Iceman again was so heartwarming, even with knowing what he's really gone through. Top Gun has been a series of video games, 18 in row (1986-2010). Good run for movie to game adaptations. I played the first game as an kid on the NES. Also had the 18th and final game on PS3 subtitled "Hard Lock" (2010). Set years after the first film, Maverick as an instructor and his best student, Lance Webb aka Spider takes on an elite special mission (predates the movie sequel's story, crazy). But in any event, the 3 years of waiting for TG:M was so worth the admission.

Just came back from watching it for the third time in the theater. So good! It's an amazing experience in the theater. If anyone hasn't seen it in a theater with DBox seats, I highly recommend it.

I agree with ya on saying this sequel definitely works out for this film, as if it wasn't for this gap between the years of Top Gun - Top Gun Maverick then it probably wouldn't have made as much sense for viewers to experience as well as the actors. I feel like this is partial why the Karate Kid and Cobra Kai series works out so good as well. You should check them out as well if you haven't.

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Best movie of 2022. And best of the two.

Nice! Easily my favorite film of the year and glad you saw it again in theaters! 😁

Can tell you from experience it's not only fun it's a hell of a lot of fun

11:26…wow sir truer words have never been spoken. My dad just died three days ago and I’ve been so depressed/lost/broken I’ve been trying to distract myself and what you said there at the time stamp spoke to me and compelled me to share my thoughts. Thanks man I appreciate it greatly.

Idk how u can say top gun wasn’t a big movie do u know how many kids joined the navy because of the first top gun? They popularized aviator sunglasses too 😂😂

Nah Top Gun the original was definitely a big movie and helped recruiting for the military

Yes, even though I've seen this already I really want to see this in a theater to get the full experience ✈️😎👨‍✈️🛫

Whoever said Top Gun wasn’t a popular movie is very mistaken.

Imagine if they would of made EVERY legacy sequel with the same heart like MAVERICK??? Jurrasic World? STAR WARS? Would have been VERY different movies

G force is different from mach mach 1 is the speed of sound so going mach 10 is 10 times faster than the speed of sound while the g's are the force of gravity

34:33 That WTF was on point 🤣👌🤟 BRUHHH 😂😂😂

I just watched the reaction for the first movie and was so excited for you to see this!!

All the shots from in the Jets were Practical effects

Mach is a good method for getting the speed of very fast objects, but it's a little imprecise due to how the speed of sound changes based on air density, temperature, even humidity, but at the altitudes most planes operate in it's usually in the high 600's to low 700's. So mach 10 is around 7000 mph, or fast enough to circumnavigate the earth in about three and a half hours!

I hope you see it in a movie theater too, if you have that possibility. Loved your reaction.

Grew up loving the original film. Maverick is a masterpiece. Saw it in theaters 4 times and might just go a 5th. It’s the best film I’ve seen in years.

Here's a thought. The main mission of this movie is pretty much the Death Star trench run from A New Hope: a team of bombers have to run low to avoid turrets/missiles. They have to hit a very small target to destroy a weapon underneath, using the aid of a computer system that Luke/Rooster eventually dismisses, trusting their instincts instead. The only difference is that the enemy in Top Gun Maverick only engages after the mission is complete, and of course the movie goes on lol I think this might be my favorite movie of the year, not even joking.

to answer one of your questions about G's, no. in the beginning he was going Mach 10.3 that's speed, G's are gravitational forces against the body.

I first saw the first movie and then when this came out years (Think it was like 20 something years) later, I saw it in theatres. I thought it was the perfect conclusion.

Gosh. I love this movie.

$1.5 billion at the box office and counting. Longevity🔥

This movie was absolutely freakin awesome!! One of the best movies to come out in 2022