It was okay. I guess it was better than the original movie, but that isn't saying much. I never understood what all the hype was about with the original movie, not even when I was a kid and it was brand new.
This new movie has smug characters, and smug people are about as annoying as you can get (busybodies are the only type of people I can think of who are more annoying than smug people). There's no excuse for putting smug characters in a movie, unless it's a villain who gets their comeuppance eventually.
Also, they kowtowed to the Chinese by changing the patch on the back of Maverick's jacket, and the contrived-sounding, PC-fueled dialog that never calls "the enemy," nor even their "fifth-generation" plane, by name, was annoying too.
The "trench run" was lifted from Star Wars (1977), and the "Don't think, just do" advice was reminiscent of Kenobi's advice to Luke to use "the force" rather than the targeting computer.
The old movie looked way better because it was shot on film.
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Seperatrix (1094)
2 years ago
"I never understood what all the hype was about with the original movie . . "
Same here. I tried to watch it for the second time recently, just before the new one was coming out, and I was bored bored bored.
"This new movie has smug characters, and smug people are about as annoying as you can get (busybodies are the only type of people I can think of who are more annoying than smug people)."
Not to mention, the overall acting was horrible. Save for the Rooster character, Cruise and Kilmer (what little he was given and could do).
Funny you should mention Star Wars. I was thinking of how this film mirrored The Force Awakens, in that it was basically a carbon copy of its predecessor.
The only part of this film I found remotely interesting was the flight footage toward the end. But my enjoyment was muted as my brain was numbed by the mileage I had to slog through to get there. Not to mention, the predictability disallowed any real suspense. It's like watching a T-Rex chase kids around in a Spielberg Jurassic Park film -- does anyone really believe those kids aren't going to make it?
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