Sardonicast 115: Top Gun: Maverick, The Fifth Element
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Alex has officially mentioned Valerian more in a two hour podcast than in the past 5 years since it was released.
I have no idea why people seemed to be trying to put Dane DeHaan in strong-jawed, romantic lead roles like that around that time. He needs to fire his agent if he hasn’t already.
Valerian was a Jarmedia Meme so Alex talked about it all the time on the Jarcast.
Someone didn't watch the first episode of Sardonicast.
They don't explicitly state who the villains are, but they use the F 14 Tomcat, a plane only Iran uses.
How subtle 🙄
I kind of guessed it was Iran when I saw the mission site was full of mountains.
Timestamps!
0:00 Intro, Ezra Miller on a rampage
8:55 Seth Green NFT show
15:19 Top Gun: Maverick (spoilers)
40:26 Joker 2 news
50:24 The Fifth Element (spoilers)
1:29:30 Pizza Time! I mean Question Time!
1:29:54 What is gayest film? and your favorite queer film?
1:44:27 Do you feel watching films back-to-back can take away from the experience?
1:46:30 Thoughts on artists defending Roman Polanski?
1:53:09 Thoughts on the new season of Stranger Things?
1:56:13 Thoughts reaction videos?
2:06:30 Should Letterboxd add TV shows?
2:09:35 Recommendation for next time: Nobody’s Fool (1994)
Thanks boys! Shrek!
Hell yeah, Right Opinion on Sardonicast! LET'S GO!
Thank you for this, I didn't care about the first two segments
Christian Bale said he based his performance in American Psycho on Tom Cruise. He said he was really nice, but had nothing behind his eyes.
tom cruise actually shows up in the book. he meets bateman in an elevator
When Tom cruise made the little message before the movie started, once he said “we made this for you” my sister went “awww” and everyone in the theater laughed 😂
I remember that
I remember watching The Fifth Element and 12 Monkeys on the same day. It was one of the weirdest experiences in my entire life.
Try La Jetée, from which 12 Monkeys was based off.
When you find out Luc Besson was in a relationship with a 15 year old when he was 31, it really makes you think whether the Epstien money is worth it...
If I remember right, he met her at 13. When he divorced her at 16 she was pregnant. But he wanted to marry milla jovovich
@@michaelmoratto When she was 21, while he was 38. Divorced 2 years later. very strange tastes in women.
I mean next thing you know he's gonna be selling us 5$ footlongs
@@kidchameleon9572 women? The man's a pedo
Plus, he wrote Leon, a movie about a 12 year old girl trying to seduce a 45 year old man. But he's depicted as more childlike than her, so that means it's okay, right?
Lol at the light year kiss being so short and insignificant that Ralph blinked and missed it
My favorite part was when Ralph said Stranger Things 4's high budget isn't reflected in the show before going on to say he didn't actually watch it
lol
Seriously, if he was talking about the first 2 seasons sure, this new season the money was on the fucking screen.
@@cinemasaur Fr, like I took one look and was like "Well damn this must've been expensive" lmao
@ImTooPhat
Many blockbusters don't even have blockbuster quality CGI
Ralph moment
I don't think Ralph is aware that Meg Ryan played Goose's wife in the original Top Gun, who was in fact a different woman than Charlie
Ezra Miller's Instagram posts have serious Kevin Spacey Christmas videos energy.
Can confirm the “ticket for Tom cruise” thing, I also work at a theater lol
Can confirm the "ticket for Tom Cruise" thing, I also say that.
OMG it's hilarious that Ralph mentions making a sequel to Cuckoo's Nest because they actually made a prequel on Netflix called "Ratched"
Why am I not surprised that I've never heard of this?
A perfect example of a beautifully shot pile of "meh."
I tried watching it but had to stop two episodes in. it's just so boring. it's so much style over substance.
Top Gun: Maverick beat a MCU film to be the first film to reach 1 billion this year. No one saw that coming.
Basically the film reunited CBM fans and people who complains "there is nothing good in theatres. I haven't gone to a movie theatre in 6 years"
...
Maybe Avatar 2 will make more money than we imagine.
@@1997residente I hope and pray for avatars 2 to completely bomb
And….. Jurassic World 3 is getting better reviews from fans and audience members than Doctor Strange 2 did for some reason. 🤷♂️
@@N1ght_walk in what planet?
@@callumjohnston35 Why do you care?
I believe that Jodorowsky's Dune NFT story was that a bunch of NFT bros paid far too much for an artwork book in an auction, and then said they were going to produce an NFT series with the art because they were under the impression they had actually bought the rights to reproduce and resell the art. When they'd literally just bought a book, which has been freely availble in PDF form for years.
in my country, the gay kiss wasn't cut out from Lightyear, but the film was given a restricted rating as a result... which means that the movie's intended audience of little kids can't see it.
it's insane the lengths these censorship boards will go to over something so harmless.
What country are you from?
@@jarodlechadores4336 I think he or she’s from Singapore.
@@jarodlechadores4336 usa probably 🤣
Indoctrinating kids and fetishizing homosexuality from the very young age is not harmless. It's quite the opposite. One thing is to preach equality and rights. The whole other thing is to actually promote deviancy to kids who has yet to develop their own personality.
The backlash is so odd. It's almost as if these people think we're all closeted gays that just seeing one quick peck on the lips will cause all of us to suddenly come out
Fifth Element is definitely for a specific audience. I really enjoyed it. I'm just surprised all three of them didn't really like it.
Adum needs to do a stranger things watch along just so he can use his goofy voice every time a characters yells Max!
This show has become one of the best on RUclips. Great show for film buffs.
I always thought it was really corny that some shows were on letterboxd while others weren't. Ostensibly, the main thing seems to be whether or not it's just one season long or not, but then you have instances like Love Death and Robots as mentioned in the podcast where each episode is individually available. And then there's stuff like how the anime adaptation of Monster is on letterboxd despite being over 70 episodes long while Breaking Bad is considered unacceptable just because they split it into seasons, and how only Season 3 of Twin Peaks is on the site because they promoted it as a miniseries even though it's literally the third season of a TV show. Just allow TV shows already, Letterboxd.
Man just said "ostensibly" unironically
I was actually anxious going into this one because I LOVE the Fifth Element. It’s like watching a crazy, campy sci fi comic book. I love the visuals and the fact that everything is over the top. It’s probably my most rewatched movie of all time. Plus Zorg may also be one of my favorite villains. Talk about chewing the scenery.
It's an extremely charming 90s sci-fi flick and I adore it everytime I watch it.
It's annoying and poorly made
Zero stones, *ZERO CRATES!!*
@@classactionsteve someone hurt you?
Same. I like it better than Star Wars tbh
Ralph seemed so engaged this episode. Ya love to see it.
Engaged in making bad opinions??
ya he was super good 👌
Engaged in saying shitty things lol. "The badget of sttanger things doesn't reflect on the episodes. No I haven't watched it". And ofc his classic "HAHAHA joker is similar to a scorcesse film I watched so that makes it bad despite it being so much more relevant about modern mental health issues. Im cool cause i have watched an older film".
Would love to hear the three of you talk about Leaving Las Vegas with Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue. Especially since I’m pretty sure Adum hasn’t seen it.
I love Fifth Element and Speed Racer. No regrets
Speed Racer is one of the most underrated and overheated movies of the 2000s thus far. Seriously, it’s so well done and it’s a REALLY good live action anime adaption.
WHEN IS SOMEBODY GONNA RECCOMEND PINK FLAMINGOS!!!!!
I find Alex's comment at 1:02:00 very annoying. The idea that science-fiction has to say something about current life is so pervasive but it's nonsense to me. Sci-fi can be anything, including silly space opera nonsense that doesn't say anything thematically. If that was the author's intent, then it's clearly a success? I get not liking it because it's childish, that's fair. But blaming the movie for not having any theme or commentary when that's not what it was going for seems unfair.
I know, but it’s more annoying to insist it’s bad that a film in the sci-fi genre doesn’t want to include social commentary and deep themes. Sci-fi is pretty unlimited, you can do anything.
And it’s bad that they critique Besson for trying to do a “French Hollywood movie” and that he “stay in his lane and do an art house film”
NFTs are such a joke.
I'm really tired of every video there's a commenter referencing a Pizza Time timestamp but then there's never any goddamn pizza
The Fifth Element is my favourite movie.
I loved The Fifth Element, but I was also high when I watched it.
So basically Ezra Miller was method acting for We Need To Talk About Kevin and never stopped!
I would defend the original Top Gun in that its flight scenes really well made for 1986. Iirc it was the first film based around fighter jets that didn’t almost entirely revolve around stock footage from the Vietnam War, and they still look good today. Top Gun Maverick blows it out of the water, but that aspect of the original was still really good. Figured I’d toss that out because when the original was talked about those scenes weren’t brought up.
Its kinda like comparing the road warrior to mad max fury road. Road warrior will always have a place in my heart as my first real post apocalypse film and the stunts were mind blowing, but fury roads car crashes are ASTRONOMICAL
1:18:27 ...it makes sense. so Luc Besson was known as the guy who changed the idea of "artsy fartsy movies coming from Europe" with La Femme Nikita. It was an action movie but also had some good character work and even an ambiguous mature ending. Also happening in the 90's Hollywood noticing and brining over director like John Woo with reasonable success. I can see the European financers being like this is our big chance to get in there and compete with the big boys. Whats that...we can get Bruce Willis for _____amount more? Ok lets do it. I totally see how Luc Besson was at the right place at the right time.
And where do you leave italian genre directors such as Sergio Leone and Dario Argento?
@@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 I would consider Dario in that wave that came in with Luc Besson and John Woo with Trauma which I believe came in 94’. Italian movies were made with American audiences in mind back in the day, hence you see a lot of American actors in giallo films and the like. I think that was a special “it’s own thing” case. By that I mean they would record both English and Italian language, sometimes in the same scene! You’d have the English actors say their lines in English with the Italians responding in Italian. Wild stuff
I’m convinced Ezra is just looking for every reason to get fired and simultaneously sour the reputation of DC even further.
It’s just *too* whacky
I was over Stranger Things but this new season really surprised me. I can’t wait to see how the show ends next season.
16:32 makes me laugh so hard because when my brother and I saw M:I Rogue Nation back in 2015, the guy buying tickets in line in front of us literally said “Two for Tom Cruise!” And we reference that and say it to this day
You REALLY should rewatch Arthur and the Minimoys. It stars Freddie Highmore and Madonna as animated troll elves who are romantically interested, Snoop Dogg, David Bowie, Robert De Niro, and the American cut of the film was distributed by the Weinstein Company. It's really funny to think about in retrospect.
might've taken a decade, but I think "French Hollywood movie" thing was perfected in "Taken"...written and produced by Luc Besson. Dude wanted it
8:08
Adam: Oh, director of American Psycho.
Me: So... we have the director of American Psycho and an actual American psycho. Nice.
I love the Fifth Element so much. It's one of my all-time favourite movies. Perhaps younger generations see the film with a different set of eyes, but for me the charm is not lost.
I saw the 5th element when it first came out and I absolutely love it. I can’t really explain why but I watch it every year. I guess maybe because I’m older I like it more. Honestly, I love it more than any major Hollywood Star Wars or stark trek films in the past 20 years.
All the reasons why they disliked the fifth element is why I like the film. The film is purely escapist to me. I don't watch the fifth element because it's profound or particularly fleshed out narrative or tone wise. I like it cuz it is over the top, silly, and all over the place. It's campy as all hell. I love the aesthetics, the odd fashions, the prosthetics. It's truly style over substance but I have a taste for that sort of media as pure entertainment. The opera scene, to me, is of the more iconic scenes of the film. The alien singing in a stage overlooking the earth, the synced fight scene. Again, the story or main narrative (simple and as they've said, better executed in other films) isn't what I'm looking for or getting out of this film. Part of the charm of the film is how "gauche" it is. Funnily enough (I dunno if this is a good analogy), if space opera films were people, The Fifth Element would be a drag queen and I love to witness it.
By the way, total missed oportunity to riff on the film for being Captain Planet with how it treats the elements and just for that this episode gets a 4/10.
Closer to a 3 than a 5, bye-bye.
Wonderfully put, dude. It's spectacle. Fuckin' kino. Every aspect is so far over the top that calling it annoying or being surprised that it isn't secretly smart is missing the point.
Yeah they really missed the mark on this one... Maybe they weren't in the mood or right mentality for it or idk...
Adum seems like he lacks any type of whimsy in his heart so it makes sense for me that he wouldn't like it
5th Element is unfortunately also not really my cup of tea but everything it is for you is Lucy for me. Also a very goofy, schlocky, bonkers, naive spectacle movie but with a certain kind of empathy, especially because of ScarJo's partly quite intense performance. There's a Besson movie for everyone
16:55 I literally said "The Mummy" the exact same time Ralph did XD
There is a Letterboxd equivalent for TV-shows called Serializd. But yeah, they should merge.
There's also TV Time. They also added movies on this one.
Criticker has both
Oh my god, how many of these are there?!
Ezra Miller’s a living South Park episode!
To answee why Besson gets financement nowadays: He is the writer/ producer of the transporter and TAKEN franchise.
Also, having Scar Jo as an action hero sell tickets.
Sex appeals sells since the golden age of cinema.
(By the way, Adum. Tank Girl was released in 95 amd that had a lesbian kiss. But that was R rated so yeah : The child market inside the toy story universe is more progressive than our 1995 and 2022)
and inevitable controversy is gold.
It's so hilarious that the upcoming 'The Flash' movie is supposed to be the big jumping off point for DC's cinematic universe going forward, to revive things after Zack Snyder flushed everyone's good will down the tubes, and now they're stuck with Ezra Miller as the lead. DC can't catch a break lmao, it's just one major f*ck up after another for them.
In all fairness, Joss Whedon and the first Suicide Squad probably did their part in destroying the DC Universe. I really don't care for Zack Snyder's grim dark "all characters are different levels of poorly written asshole" aesthetic, but Warner Brothers not commiting to any one idea or tone or even continuity also made sure the DC Universe was dead on arrival.
@@Joe90h It did help ruin DC's image some more. But people were already getting fed up with it beforehand
The funny thing is that the only good film they've made so far, Shazam, wasn't connected to any of the DCEU crap. That should tell them all they need to know.
@@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 it's also the most similar to a Marvel formula. Bright + funny but also heartfelt + action = instant win
@@nailinthefashion yeah... but it didn't have the unnecessary post credit scene setting up the sequel. So I liked Shazam way more because of that.
I thought for sure they were goofing around when they first mentioned "Joker 2: the musical, starring lady gaga", that is a surreal collection of words.
I thought the opening sequence to Maverick, where they try reaching mach 10, was fucking awesome, I was so prepared to love the movie after that, but the rest of the movie paled in comparison to that. It was a by-the-numbers legacy sequel with moments of greatness.
Tired of the whole “this movie is not as good as this other movie” point and this review is full of that
"All over the place" describes 5th Element pretty well. A collection of wacky scenes, but I still like it. Very quotable.
It was over the top in a most charming way, seriously can't understand how would someone find this movie not enjoyable.
The reason I love the 5th element is watching it so many times with my mom and sister as a kid. there is a ps1 game for it too we all played and beat together too. It's not for everyone and I don't hate anyone for not liking it. I would rate it, childhood memories/10
With Everything Everywhere and Top Gun Maverick, 2022 is the first year to have two 10/10 movies for me in a very long time.
What about Morbius?
11/10
Top Gun 2 by now is within the Top12 highest grossing movies in the US.
NFTs are trash🤮
NFTs and cryptocurrency are useless speculative assets that destroy the environment.
and a failure in design.
The Fifth Element is a VERY whimsical movie, and if you enjoy its whimsy it's great and lots of fun. I enjoy it quite a lot but I can see how if it doesn't click it doesn't have much else to offer.
edit: also I think the guys were trying too hard to pin point where it belongs in big movies Sci-Fi canon which doesn't do it any favours either, because it doesn't belong there much at all, it belongs in European comics, specifically BDs, which are at times weird, needlessly sexual, kinda outdated, campy and, well, whimsical. This conversation just was from a wrong perspective. I do wish there was a person who liked it as a starting point for a better discussion.
There was no discussion at all. They just puked on the movie entire time. Didn't even try to find anything positive about it. Sounded like a review of a random new Steven Segal movie not a campy, epic, weird comedy.
@@satoramaciej yeah, true. Probably cause all three tend to get tunnel vision when they really like or dislike a film. Especially Adam, and he's usually the one that sets the tone. So they end up just venting about how "great" it is or how "awful" it is and that's it
@@satoramaciej they probably think they're cool for not liking it. Adum is a contrarian whether it makes sense or not
Adum calling it “cringe” is all you need to know about how he views movies like this
And how Adum views movies in general. He seems to really hate sincerity even though I know he’s like plenty of sincere movies
This was the moment when Top Gun became Maverick or something
Before-trilogy would be great! My personal favorite trilogy
There is a letterboxd for TV shows I've been using called Serializd
I can't believe I hadn't seen The Fifth Element until recently. This is one of the most original films I've ever seen. It has everything we all could possibly want in mainstream movies:
* It's an original IP, meaning it's not a sequel, reboot, or based on a book.
* This movie has excellent world-building, and I love how futuristic both Earth and other planets look.
* Corbin Dallas is a stoic badass, and Bruce Willis actually looks like he cares.
* Zorg is a great villain, and Gary Oldman plays him just over-the-top enough. Plus his gun, the ZF-1, has 5 different functions.
* Ruby Rod is an awesome side character, and he reminds me of Prince.
* Leeloo is a great example of a strong female character. She's an indestructible, badass fighter, but she's also sexy and ready to fall in love with the first man who saves and protects her.
* All the costumes are great, and all the unique aliens.
* It pulls off multiple genres at once: action, melodrama, physical comedy, and farce.
* The sets are all real, so it looks great to see them all destroyed, unlike if it were all CGI and green screens. Plus, the action and shootouts are awesome, and the VFX still hold up to this day.
* It's a rare movie where the hero and villain don't meet each other, but it doesn't matter anyway when the fate of the universe is at stake.
* This movie is really horny, and that might be because everyone behind the movie is French.
I miss insane big-budget movies like this, and it's a shame many people haven't even heard of it yet. Go watch it if you have the chance!
Bruce Willis’s illness probably heavily influenced his “not caring” Think it’s in poor taste to cart around the “he didn’t care” card now.
Also whilst I agree with a lot of what you said, I take issue with one point. It’s not bad that this movie is “horny”, but how it’s “horny” is kind of an issue that contributes to it not having aged well. Korbon romances a womanchild and even basically sexually assaults her at one point. If anything it’s proof that toning down sexuality can be a benefit as long as it’s creepy sexuality that’s being removed/not included. I’ll admit that I haven’t seen the movie in a while but the main romance comes off very creepy now, but please tell me if I misremembered anything that makes Leeloo a more active character in the romance.
The thing is there already are Letterboxd-esque sites for TV shows and video games: Serializd and Backloggd respectively.
For Joker 2 i imagine New York, New York is going to be the formula
I would also like to say that if they did Harley similar to the Batman the Animated Series counterpart I would be very happy
I would love for you guys to review the TV comedy series Inside Number Nine, there are so many great episodes and is such a creative show, from episode that just use security footage, to episodes where no one talks. It is described as some to be the successor to Black Mirror (early Black mirror with it's physiological bent).
I would also recommend The League of Gentlemen, such a bizarre, surreal but fantastic dark comedy (Series 1 and 2).
(By the same people plus Mark Gatiss)
@@kodexi2761 if you like mark gatiss, can’t recommend the film “an adventure in time and space” enough, easily the best thing he’s ever been apart of
Thank you for reminding me that it had been roughly a year since season 6, so a quick Google told me the next one had already finished airing.
Although, if I'm honest, I wasn't overly keen on the sixth season. Hopefully it was just me being too critical and the seventh season holds up. If you haven't checked it out, and I wouldn't blame you as it's sort of awkward to get hold of, the live Halloween special is especially fun.
Play at half speed and it sounds like they’re all toking it up
you guys gotta do crash 1996
For fuck's sake, Adam. Just watch the Mad Love episode. It will take you 20 minutes
I like Fifth Element, sue me you three weirdos!
Because it's good. It's more or less what George Lucas wanted to create with Star Wars, a campy space adventure like Flash Gordon or Valérian et Laureline … But unlike Luc Besson, George Lucas injected the monomyth into his movie and thereby elevated the material.
Maybe I will!
Just gonna steal a comment to show why its good
"Great film. Also lots of esoteric meaning behind it. Characters was just wonderful."
and the other one mentioned its *goofy* fun
Joquer: Folie a Deux will be Cabaret, Gone Girl, and Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.
When do these go up on Spotify?
"the studio system... it just makes sense to me"
You first mistake was criticizing The Fifth Element like it's a serious movie... Fun, visually creative silly meme movie with some decent and creative action scenes. Nothing more.
Seriously they take everything so seriously. Some people need to learn to take life less seriously
@@sammybear7100 I mean they are movie critics so their brains are probably nueroplasticised to be critical by default, so I cut them some slack, probably hard to keep it in check... but yeah I agree.
You know I've heard you guys keep saying Paul Verhoevens name wrong, I personally don't care but in case anyone want to know, it's pronounced as P-auw-l V-air-who-ven
Ralph's gay little "mhm"s make the rockin world go round
I feel like joker 2 if they were to include harley quinn its gonna be her origin story type thing where she meets joker in arkham asylum since shes like a doctor so she would be a more normal character
I wouldn't even agree its a financial thing for dinsey because most of the time when its comes to anything animated Disney cuts it out and the artist and storytellers have to fight to keep it in then I don't think we can agree on that its financial thing at this point
Maverick is better than Battle of Gods and even The Force Awakens. It’s the best fanservice blockbuster I’ve ever seen.
I mean in a movie theater the movie is just a file that Disney streams in that you cant really edit.....
I read a meme that went something like Ezra Miller is if Tumblr created a terrorist and I can't stop thinking about it
Oh fuck, it's my question!
Wow, you tore The Fifth Element a new one.
Always happy for a Sardonicast pop up.
At least Adum can tick of Joker 2 off the movie poster he got for his birthday.
Does anyone have a link to that info Adum mentioned about movie theaters in the States cutting scenes out of movies? I can't seem to find it but I'm not surprised.
I dont know the link but it happens. I remember going to see the first Kingsman movie mainly because I heard amazing things from a church scene, only to find out it was removed from the cut I watched. I was left so confused that night.
@@invoicequaint thats insane
The schrodinger's kiss
Top Gun Maverick was really good. But I’m surprised at how well it’s done both critically and commercially. There’s definitely a market for the anti superhero blockbuster that needs to be tapped in more
It’s kinda hard though, it’s still honing in on the nostalgia and that makes the big money too 🤷🏼♀️
Well it’s interesting that Top him did well on all fields, but the new Jurassic worlds did not fare well.
It struck the sweetspot of having great action, solid story AND being a crowdpleaser, but especially one that mobilizes middle america, which doesnt usually go to the cinema anymore. Boomers and conservative types love it as well
"Anti superhero" as if Cruise isn't a stand in Capn Murica, as if action movies with straight cis white male leads don't exist everywhere. Go see the Grey Man or whatever 🙄
Top Gun: Maverick was decent imo but I don't understand how they felt the story was unpredictable. I felt like it was so obvious where the arcs of the characters were going.
ooooo my sardonicast sense was THROBBING!
Good to have you back boys
I miss animated series Harley Quinn, not just the old design although I do much prefer jester Harley Quinn to hot topic Harley Quinn, but also as a character she was more interesting imo, especially her backstory and relationship with the Joker, she's even interesting in what little screentime she has in Batman Beyond.
Agreed, some modern interpretations of her just feel like an attempt to be female deadpool
I find her more annoying now.
she was also actually funny back then, too, lol
1:11:33 He's supposed to be a tweaker...Do they not have drug addicts in the UK?
Weird you three are better at talking about Ezra being they/them than 90% of media about them atm. "They are a menace to society" was the most correct take by Ralph lmao.
Half their audience is gay so they're not gonna push the wrong buttons.
You all need to look up Besson's previous spouses, Might clear up some things...
tony scott referring to top gun (1986) as really rock and roll is very hilarious.
i could have used ONE more danger zone in maverick though
also he was 100% right when he said maverick is what people thought the original top gun was like, i rewatched it as well and god damn is it bad.
Top Gun: Maverick is every bit like much of the recent “legacy sequels” that have been released-but with one key difference.
On the surface, it's every bit like the "legacy sequels" from franchises that are being released decades after the original. It has a similar plot to the first movie with direct callbacks to specific shots and scenes, it shows the MC having to teach a new generation of students his old tricks, and the good guys win in the end while our original hero gets the girl, with some lessons learned along the way about teamwork and humility. There are even characters who are stand-ins for those from the original. Yet there’s a degree of restraint and maturity not seen in many modern blockbusters. In short, **Top Gun 2 is a legacy sequel that was actually made for adults.**
What I mean by that last statement is that it feels like an intimate drama disguised as an action movie. It doesn't feel at all like it was made for kids and teens. There are real conversations about life, and every emotion feels genuine, instead of winking at the audience. There's no pop culture references or meme-able lines, nor are there stupid-looking clips that someone on Twitter could post to prove that it's objectively bad. The OG characters are treated with respect. And there is no forced political messaging, just a timeless story about a dude who likes to fly some planes and takes down an unnamed foreign enemy, all while playing by his own rules in the US military.
All of these reasons place TGM above crap like the Star Wars sequels, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Disney's live-action remakes of animated movies, and even Pixar's recent decade-later follow-ups (Incredibles 2, Finding Dory, Toy Story 4). Those were made by an evil corporation in Disney that owns all the IP and treats its audience like babies with each installment. Meanwhile, Top Gun 2 was made by Paramount, a small indie studio that hasn't had a real hit in years and really cares about its franchises, so they deserve success.
I'd say TGM is closer in spirit to something like Blade Runner 2049, which also expands on the original in new ways. Rather than relying on famous quotes and scene recreations to understand the story, you actually need to have seen the original movie in its entirety to understand the sequel. I still think BR2049 is noticeably better because it's slower and more explicitly philosophical, which is why it's so brilliant and also why it made less in total than Maverick did in its first weekend.
Maverick is everything that people could ask for, whether you’re a critic, a fan of the original, or a casual audience member. And the fact that it’s the highest-grossing movie of the year so far is a testament to its qualities. It proves that people like timeless stories and strong characters and real filmmaking instead of green-screen and references like in most MCU movies. I'd even defend it as a Best Picture nominee, depending on how the rest of 2022 goes. But if it doesn't get awards recognition, I will gladly recommend this as the best of the year and shame the Academy for not recognizing greatness.
Paramount, the studio that gave us Transformers, and also has a streaming service named after it, is a small indie studio?
It’s one of the rare legacy sequels that’s actually better than the original lol.
@@bryceburns7425 I’m still wondering whether or not that’s sarcasm. They own multiple studios and IPs like Disney, for instance they literally own Nickelodeon. And they even produced phase 1 of the MCU
Adums radical centrism schtick is funny sometimes but Scientology doesn't have to attack aborition to be awful. They're not buying up all the real estate in your home and using it to push low income and homeless people out. NFTs beyond being a laughable waste of money are harmful to the environment and teach people that they need another useless commodity in their life. You say it's not harmful Adum but the perpetuation of this absuive relationship people have with the production and consumption of goods is bad. People being alienated from the things they make and buy is what turns workers into mindless idiot consumers who eat up all the movies you despise. The profit incentive and capitalist mode of production IS bad and it's not some harmless thing that exists outside of society.
Abortion* apologies on YT through a browser so I can't edit. Show is still great just adding my thoughts:)
Yes, thank you. Current events don’t negate all the negatives about scientology.
Too long didn’t read
@@NeverSaySandwich1 rare Scientology W
Disney has a problem with Barry Keoghan (he was apparently in Eternals, although I don't remember him), since he got arrested for being drunk in public, but he was also cast as Tha Jokah Baby in Da Batman, so....
That barry situation is so over exaggerated. He was just being loud on a balcony so the cops escorted him back home. He wasn’t arrested or charged with anything
@@firesaint4569 Okay. Thanks for the context.
Bada-boom boom, smack
I really appreciate the Toy Story and LEGO Movie talk back to back lmao… Lightyear is awful
Yep yep
Little does Ralph realize that they did in fact do a prequel series of Nurse Ratched from One Flow Over the Cuckoo's Nest and it's on Netflix.
…i need to sit down a minute…
If the Joker sequel is actually a musical, I'm in either way. It'll be an abslute garbage fire or actually good, there is no inbetween and I'm down for both scenarios
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