Top Gun: Maverick is turning serious adult men into fangirls, not bad for a movie that echoes a movie loved by women.
Something big is happening. You can feel it in the atmosphere. We are on the highway to the danger zone.
You may have even heard it, probably talking to fellow colleagues at the Zip Tap office.
Everyone talks about the new Top Gun film.
Tom Cruise’s latest blockbuster is reducing respectable adults to teen fans.
The film has grossed more than $ 1 billion globally and more than $ 64 million locally. Very good for a movie that is basically Bring it for adult men.
Okay, that’s not entirely accurate. So is it Bring it for adult women.
Even with the musculature, the jets, and the action sequences, at its core is simply a tale of the classic 2000 animated film that brought Kirsten Dunst to fame.
In Top Gun: MaverickTom Cruise is Take it Torrance. Bold, confident. He thinks he knows everything.
The fighter pilots Tom is forced to contend with are the rest of the animation squad, offering sarcasms and sarcasms with reactionaries aside.
Can’t you continue with this analogy? You should be ashamed. Bring it is in cinema what The great Gatsby is in the literature. Learn your canon.
Both films have the same basic setup: a group of people who hate each other come together to achieve a definitive mission. But to succeed in this mission, they must learn to put aside their differences and work together.
And how do they do that? Playing shirtless football on the beach, of course. Well, that’s not accurate either. In Bring itthe team came together while putting on a sexy bikini car wash.
Either way, it can be related. I’ve lost count of the times I’ve been dragged into HR to try to resolve my differences with a brutal colleague ripping off his shirt and forcing him to play with me as the sun sets.
Once the installation of both films is established, the fun and games take place. There is a small romance that begins and ends in the space of about three scenes. Still it is satisfactory. A mixture of passion and blow. Lots of smiling and cheeky looks.
When the credits are ready to be thrown, the enemies have become friends and the mission is a success.
Top Gun: Maverick -a sequel to the 1986 original that established Tom Cruise as a true movie star- is a film that proudly relaxes from the time it originated, a time when films they could only be fun.
This is a film that is based on charisma and a killer soundtrack. It’s basically a two-hour video clip. And this is not an insult.
It is a film that will be seen again for years, if not decades. Already, even with the film still in theaters, superfans are queuing up to see it again.
Readers, Know Case Study 1. Case Study 1 is an acquaintance who will remain unnamed to preserve his dignity.
Case study 1 loves Top Gun. They have seen the original countless times. And when the sequel premiered just a few weeks ago, they saw it immediately. Then they saw him again. The next morning, they talked about it non-stop in the Zip Tap office.
“I even listen to the soundtrack while I’m walking,” they admitted, before imitating a superhero stance. “I play the main theme as I walk into the gym.”
Case study 1 is not alone.
Ladies and gentlemen, know about case study 2.
“Tom Cruise’s childish charm is alive and well,” case study 2 stated. “He shows his pearly whites on camera and your heart melts, and you think,‘ Here he is, the guy who it was before everything went crazy ‘”.
But some of us struggle to see how Tom Cruise went from those years when everything went crazy. There was only one thing to do: tag with case study 1 while attending their third screening Top Gun: Maverick.
The line meandered down the escalators of the cinema and out onto the road. Everyone was there Top Gun. Several theaters had been assigned to screen it at once.
Before arriving, Case Study 1 sent an unsolicited briefing on a text message detailing key points about the first installment of the 1986 film. The text reads like a mission assigned to Maverick himself.
During the film, the case study 1 continued to look to see if my facial reactions expressed an adequate level of admiration.
In the final scene, the case study 1 was crying, just like the first two times they saw the movie.
me? Not so much.
But I heard the soundtrack on the way home.
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