Post by rabid on May 28, 2022 22:18:14 GMT -7
I enjoyed this movie more than I have any in a long time, and it's hardly an 80's throwback.
As I watched It I couldn't help but ask myself why I enjoyed it so much. I guess I got a some post-modernism hammered into me lately. But this movies is great and if I had to sum up why, I would ask...what's wrong with being a hero?
Nothing.
That said, Maverick deals with some real life concerns, he is an aging expert in a rapidly vanishing field, a relic of a bygone age, but he is still through sheer love of his craft and years/decades of determination, the best there is at what he does. He cleans up, but still a showboat and as one would suspect, a terrible teacher.
If this had been a disney/marvel movie, we would have seen Maverick embarrassingly deconstructed. Thankfully we didn't get THAT (only 4 year old but already tired as hell "bait and switch".). Alas Maverick isn't as good as he once was, He can't pull up, his life is a flack spin, a younger, ruder upstart gets the best of him or worse yet teaches him how to be a better pilot because she stuns him with her audacity and sincerity. Or he woudl have landed his tomcat in the ocean and drank green whale milk for like 40 years.
Thankfully, no. This movie hinges on Maverick's passion for flying and the need to put the mistakes of the past behind him. He loves to fly planes, and the film carefully shows (not tell's) Maverick's development into a mature and well crafted technical expertise married with experience. The retina detaching stunts he pulls off are nail biting thanks to practical effects and suspenseful because the movie shows (not tells) how his years and combat memories are catching up with him.
Also Jennifer Connelly is an ageless beauty if there ever was one.
I don't usually mistake love of a performance for love of the actor, but Tom Cruise really stuck the landing on this one. I had to hand it to him.
Go see it, he might be the last big movie star and the last "MALE" that will be allowed to be awesome on film (not deconstructed, neutered and humiliated) for a long time to come. Looking at you, Thor and Dr. Strange.
Tom Cruise opens it with a bit of a love letter to the fans and I had to respect him for that. I hope this brings back the era of practical effects. You can see the color draining out of their faces and the concentration on Maverick's face is impossible to fake.
Yeah it's a derivative star wars plot but they put all the heart into it, and just enough pathos to make it real enough to matter.
But watch for the mistakes...they keep calling him "Captain" Maverick as if that's a bad thing. But he had Lieutennant bars on for most of the movie (Army Captain?) See if you notice it. I think the production crew had the Army captain rank in mind until nearly the end of the movie.
As I watched It I couldn't help but ask myself why I enjoyed it so much. I guess I got a some post-modernism hammered into me lately. But this movies is great and if I had to sum up why, I would ask...what's wrong with being a hero?
Nothing.
That said, Maverick deals with some real life concerns, he is an aging expert in a rapidly vanishing field, a relic of a bygone age, but he is still through sheer love of his craft and years/decades of determination, the best there is at what he does. He cleans up, but still a showboat and as one would suspect, a terrible teacher.
If this had been a disney/marvel movie, we would have seen Maverick embarrassingly deconstructed. Thankfully we didn't get THAT (only 4 year old but already tired as hell "bait and switch".). Alas Maverick isn't as good as he once was, He can't pull up, his life is a flack spin, a younger, ruder upstart gets the best of him or worse yet teaches him how to be a better pilot because she stuns him with her audacity and sincerity. Or he woudl have landed his tomcat in the ocean and drank green whale milk for like 40 years.
Thankfully, no. This movie hinges on Maverick's passion for flying and the need to put the mistakes of the past behind him. He loves to fly planes, and the film carefully shows (not tell's) Maverick's development into a mature and well crafted technical expertise married with experience. The retina detaching stunts he pulls off are nail biting thanks to practical effects and suspenseful because the movie shows (not tells) how his years and combat memories are catching up with him.
Also Jennifer Connelly is an ageless beauty if there ever was one.
I don't usually mistake love of a performance for love of the actor, but Tom Cruise really stuck the landing on this one. I had to hand it to him.
Go see it, he might be the last big movie star and the last "MALE" that will be allowed to be awesome on film (not deconstructed, neutered and humiliated) for a long time to come. Looking at you, Thor and Dr. Strange.
Tom Cruise opens it with a bit of a love letter to the fans and I had to respect him for that. I hope this brings back the era of practical effects. You can see the color draining out of their faces and the concentration on Maverick's face is impossible to fake.
Yeah it's a derivative star wars plot but they put all the heart into it, and just enough pathos to make it real enough to matter.
But watch for the mistakes...they keep calling him "Captain" Maverick as if that's a bad thing. But he had Lieutennant bars on for most of the movie (Army Captain?) See if you notice it. I think the production crew had the Army captain rank in mind until nearly the end of the movie.
