Cgi and voice duplication apparently was used.

I wonder how Val got throat cancer & lost his voice? This would be a very important lesson & reason NOT 2 take up smoking nor vaping, unless u want 2 end up like him, where he had 2 "digitally" recreate his voice. 🙁

Feel like Tom's tears were real seeing val like that.

@@andygm525 100%

Pretty sure they changed his voice to make Val Kilmer speak better than he actually can, the real thing would have been more powerful.

It's funny because it's true.

That's why I turned it off- the play by play of every scene- geez.

Yep Stopped the video at 6:50... decided it was too much of a play by play. I love Ward's Videos!!!

I'm glad I waited to watch this video until after I saw the movie.

Yeah after a couple scene descriptions I skipped to the end to hear the overall review.

Thank you for your service and making us Proud as Americans! I remember!

IMO all of you involved with the operation of the CVWs were kings of military aviation. Thanks for your service.

Tomcatter from '07-'12 here, and lemme tell you, we still rocked it out during the squadrons first tour with Super Hornets.

I also was in the service the Summer 86, however, I was just a ground destroying tank mechanic with THE BIG RED ONE, Custer Hill, Ft. Riley, Kanas ! Nothing cool like a fighter pilot ! 👍🏻🇺🇸😎

Damn! my favorite squadron. awesome song. I got chills. What an amazing thing, not only to witness, but to be a part of! Summer of 86, it would have taken quite a few phone books to get me looking over the controls.

That is great story man!

That is an awesome story

@@ronaldkonkoma4356 might sound as corny as the original film but Top Gun 86 was a defining moment in our future happiness. Can second dates get any better 🤔 Nostalgia is good 😉

@@garrydelday5816 especially take my breath away at the wedding. Those were days of fun, cool hair, cool clothes and general awesomeness! Keep the marriage going strong and enjoy the theatrical release.

Well, Tom has had a lot of work done :0) Don't feel too bad.

I know that my inner adolescent fan boy was most pleased.

100%, I am the same age, August 1973 born

It’s weird. I throughly enjoyed watching it the first time, but I thought I had outgrown the habit of watching a movie multiple times in a week. I found myself watching a second time three days later, and I’m fighting the urge to watch it again. I even watched the original after the second time I watched Maverick. 😂 Society is designed to crush children into cog-shaped boxes to be installed into somebody else’s machine to build another person’s dream. The biggest failing of standardized and formal “education” is that it teaches students WHAT to think and not HOW to think. That process kills the infinite possibilities that exists within the child’s mind. Becoming an adult today means burying your dreams of yesterday. Society falls apart because of that because without imagination, society cannot solve its own problems leaving it reliant and forever dependent on a government that represents the individual less and less.

@@davidfroese8411 June 1978. Cheers 🍻

@@josephcoon5809 Well said/commented

Yeah they got in plenty of callbacks without it being stupidly self-referential. They did what Disney wished they could have done with Star Wars Episode IX: they made it good.

At the end . . . I never thought Danger Zone could bring a tear to my eye, but there i was.

@@ronaldkonkoma4356 I won't lie. I had to wipe my eyes when Maverick was called out to see Iceman and even Maverick had lost faith in Maverick, but Iceman knew his qualities. For a moment in the sequel to a very shallow original film, it was quite the moving moment.

@@nomar5spaulding who is the best pilot had a great response in that scene. I don't think they could have done that meeting any better.

I saw it IMAX first show on Friday...

Can't wait to see what you think, Rick!

Two legends. Thanks to you both for your hard earned knowledge that you make simple, accessible and entertaining for the rest of us. And yes, well worth the wait.

How was the Canuck beaver?

Wow that's crazy ! I remember when the CV 64 came in to Vancouver. I had the opportunity to go on it twice during her visit ! Beautiful !

Now you don't have to leave the ship. They are already there.

@@matthewspaeth4669 most of them have girlfriends.........

@@bozmeg6918 hahaha you must've been one of those ladies OP was talking about

I saw that the pilot who flew Cruise for most of the scenes saw it last night with his family, at a drive in! Gotta wonder if the other nearby cars knew....

@@portnuefflyer I hope he drives a cool car. I mean, he's Maverick's jet fighter chauffer for cryin' out loud.

I saw it with my Dad because he loved Top Gun so much! He liked this one even more, and he's an old Air Force Radar Guy! He was more impressed with the Blue Angels than the Thunderbirds too at air shows in his past. Hmm? I think he just appreciates great flying, full stop.

Ummm....... While I agree with the old school cinematography. That bag guy "runway" was CGI - all the way.

@@graemejwsmith certainly there was CGI, the Dark Star sequence for starters. But I subsequently went to see the new Jurassic Park film and I found it to be boring despite having my senses assaulted. Seeing real airplanes maneuvering and real humans pulling Gs is much more thrilling

Me too!

Um, nothing can beat The Battle of Britain! Way before computers

@@lockheedskunkworks5687 Think they used RC models in making Top Gun Maverick like they did in The Battle of Britain?

@@lockheedskunkworks5687 Try "DEVIL DOGS OF THE AIR", staring James Cagney. Best aviation line of all time, "I can fly the crates they come in".

Spent £35 on two imax tickets and boy was it worth it.

Went on Friday 11 am to an IMAX front row dead center avoided the crowds.

I call _both_ my daughters Goose! But only when they do something silly.

I've read of several other's commenting on getting misted up at times, as did I, makes me feel like less of a wuss!

Call your wife Goose and your daughter Rooster :)

Thank you for your interview with your father. As a Marine A4 pilot I get it.

Red Light Green Light anyone!

So Pete Mitchell, who was the red dress lady again...

@@s.porter8646 CAG's daughter? Maybe Penny Benjamin.

"You should be at least a two-star Admiral by now, yet here you are. Captain." says the two-star admiral (Ed Harris) who appears to be about 80 years old!

@@galaxytabs8.446 broken service...um, wavered, um, to much westpacs= advanced age...divorced 4 times...just a movie

Cool. You may have written some of my TEI / REQ authorizations at some point. 👍

Same, I did start this review a few days ago but as soon as he started describing the roles and ranks of the characters I thought ... naaah, I'll check back after watching. Took the kids on the first night (my dad took my brother and I to the original). I'm glad I saved watching this review until now, it does give a bit too much plot information, better to let it unfold before you. Other than that though, great review, and good to get expert opinion, I'm subscribed and will definitely be checking back in to the episode with Jello et. al. for more.

@@timstewart2468 I have to agree, it's better to "let it unfold before you." I figure that's how stories are meant to be told. One of the best movie experiences I had was a friend asking me to see some random movie. Neither of us knew what it was. Turned out awesome, and we had zero knowledge beforehand. After that, I try to stay clear of spoilers once I make a decision to see a movie. I want to save any possible chance of being surprised... I was always very good at guessing what gifts I'd receive as kids when my parents dropped hints. lol. No more. Now that I've seen the movie, I am definitely looking forward to the purposely spoiler-filled reviews from real pilots, including Ward! :)

Yeah holy shit.

Come on, the movie is more than mere plot!

Scene setter, not spoiler.

@@WardCarroll Rgr that! Ty for this video. I pre-ordered tickets to the opening on May 24th. right after seeing your video. Top Gun has been HUGE part of my life since high school. I even wanted to be a Naval aviator after seeing it with my Air Force father. I had my Tom Cruise haircut, aviators, bomber jacket with all the patches, and even a Kawasaki Ninja. Folks used to call me Maverick back then as I was so obsessed. Those were the good days!

Giving away the plot is still a spoiler. I was alright no spoilers. Now I already know what the movie is about. Having no knowledge of the plot and learning it as it goes is just as exciting to see how the plot plays out. You definitely misled people and spoiled it. 😑

@@MagnumChris See the movie and come back and tell me I spoiled it.

@@WardCarroll , saw the movie last night. You spoiled it.

"they have chemistry" .... lol

Thank you, Juan!

dammit! You spoiled it!!

@@TFT-bp8zk Dr. John Taglieri from ER. Never watched a complete episode, but my wife used to watch it all time.

What's odd about it is that, prior to (or during) production, Rick Rossovich expressed an interest in doing a cameo in at least one of his social media posts. Maybe he just wasn't available when they "filmed" the funeral scene.

GREAT call-out!

@@TFT-bp8zk i got it

Same here Geoff. Though my son's a couple years older.

@@patrickhamblin3393 a much needed escape this year...cheers Patrick.

Dude, that's so good to hear. Now I can be properly excited for it.

true

The entire story line could have been a single USAF B-2 Bomber using standoff cruise missiles to hit a target in the mountains. 😂🤣😂😉

Enjoy, Cuz!

Yep was a stretch but a nice Easter egg for all the old Tomcat family, sort of identified the country if you know the aircraft history to

because it was the one thing that defined TopGun 1 and they had to at least get some of that glory back. god knows you can't do that with no damn super bug

They should re-release original Top Gun movie with all the F-5's replaced with CGI (or real) Mig fighters.

@Matt Hooper there was nothing wrong with F-4s in Iron Eagle 2. They shouldn't have called them MiG-29s, but they could have gotten away with designating them MiG-25s or 31s since those airplanes are brutes like the Phantom, i.e. living proof that given enough power even a brick can fly.

what´s the song, hangman plays on the jukebox??? can´t find it in the credits

@@alvarodelaorden8901 Slow Ride by Foghat.

Ha! I see what you did there...................

Best comment.

Not even close.

CAGs, DCAGs, and Carrier Strike Group COs are all Captains and Admirals and all fly missions with their airwings

@@jmeds_jammin This person's dad was a Naval aviator. Since you contradict him, what's your experience?

@@kevinzhang6623 I was a carrier Aviator.

Lol

The saying goes: “We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are.” So…YMMV.😉

@@merlesmith6794 Is that like "Takes one to know one?" or "He who smelt it dealt it?" :D

@@merlesmith6794 And there's truth in every joke. But, these maxims aren't imperatives and I think Tarantino made a pretty good case.

@@LostAnFound no matter how many times i watch i don't hear anybody say ride my tail. Maybe Tarantino sees things as he is

A more realistic story and easy to accept by the viewers would have been to make rooster an O-5, place him under Maverick direct order's and make him the guy that's always 2nd guessing his superior, kinda turning him into what Maverick was in the 1st film.

@@nicolaeionescu6538 I would actually love to see the iterations of the movie script as it was being developed. I wouldn't doubt that might have been an early story line.

It's not that important

Sit back, suspend Uber-Judgment, and just go with the airflow. Looks like a lot of IMAX eye-candy fun. If it passes Ward’s high standards, and he enjoyed it to the point of tearing up at the end, then this will be a great ride.

I have long thought, and recently discovered that Quentin Tarantino agrees with me, that the James Bond oeuvre should be reshot as a series of period pieces, faithful to the letter as possible to Ian Fleming's novels and chronology. The first one could even be in black and white. Incidentally, remember that the book started being written about 10 years before the movie started being made. 007 is an early 1950s character, having served at a very young age in the Second World War. Fleming in fact referred to Bond Having the gambling experience documented from an episode going against a Roumanian syndicate before the war, which seems like it makes Bond at least 10 years older than he was ultimately recast by Fleming later. Some wonderful British detective and spy thriller TV was made before color television, the film could be shot in that style, like early The Avengers or The Saint or Danger Man. Anyway... I wonder that a hundred film students haven't done this. Easy money and certainly for Casino Royale, the SFX demands are modest but for one scene (I did like how the 2006 redid it). Other than that, all dialogue, card playing, a little fighting, beach, bed, a grand casino establishing shot and some spare footage. You'd rarely have 10 people on the screen at one time.

Agreed!

He is Han Solo at the end of Star Wars

Pew pew pew 😆

Go see it and come back and tell me I spoiled it.

@@WardCarroll just watched tonight and I stand corrected! You did not spoil it completely! What a movie! I think I liked it better than the original!

Rock on,@@pnayeri!

Did Ward also mention at the beginning that the enemy was a generic one and then contradict this by saying something about the "Iranians" bringing the subterfuges on line earlier than expected ? Or am I dreaming...

Me too, exactly at the 9th minute.

@@Nostrafatu Ha, ha, I thought the same, so I replayed it. He said "uranium", lol.

@@Nostrafatu Subterfuge regarding a centrifuge? Watch it again.

If you've watched all of the trailers then you'd realize that anything he mentions that you consider a "spoiler" was in a released trailer. Quit your whinging.

I assumed the F-14 was one used in airshows. As for the Su-57s: were they disguised F-22s or CGI?

@@jliller Since the only flyable examples of F-14s remain in the Iranian air force, the airborne sequences most likely used a CGI model, but wow, what quality! As for the Su-57, a CGI manipulated actual F-22 or other aircraft sounds interesting. Don't know. This was like my first experience watching 1993 Jurassic Park ("How'd they do that?!?).

@@jliller They have to be CGI...cost per hour too much.

The F-14 on the ground and when they're first in the cockpit is real. They got one from the Naval museum down in San Diego and towed to a couple of locations for shooting. In flight is total cg.

Agreed!