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Our resident leftist film critic Gerald Snotley returns with his review of Top Gun: Maverick:
Apparently, some people haven't got the memo that America has seen it's better days. In Top Gun: Maverick, ultra-cocky Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell (portrayed by Tom Cruz) returns to train a team of equally-cocky, new Top Gun superstars.
Their mission is to destroy a uranium enrichment plant located somewhere in the Middle-East (I'm pretty sure they mean Iran) defended with surface-to-air missiles and advanced (5th generation) fighter jets
I didn't see woke Generals Mark Milley or Lloyd Austin anywhere in this story. There were no mention of preferred pronouns or gender-reassignment surgery or anything like that. There were a shocking number of White men in this movie, and they didn't seem to be full of 'White Rage.'
I am guessing all these Top Gunners voted for Trump.
I saw White pilots, Black pilots, and a woman pilot, yet nobody dwelled on the racism or sexism of American society. The only thing that seemed to matter to these people was 'being the very best.'
What's wrong with these people?????
In one early scene, we meet the new generation of insufferably cocky young Top Guns, as they play pool at a local bar owned by Maverick's love interest, played by Jennifer Conneley. Extremely cocky and annoyingly handsome Hangman (Glen Powell) plays his favorite song on the jukebox, 1976 neanderthal rawker 'Slow Ride' by Foghat. Gerald Ford was the President when this rediculous song was a hit.
Nobody played any tunes by Lizzo, Drake or Beyonce. Obviously, These hot shots are comfortable in their racism.
In the 1986 original Top Gun, Maverick loses his best friend Goose (played by Anthony Edwards) during a training accident. In this sequel, Goose's son (Rooster) wants to follow in his Dad's footsteps. Rooster sees Maverick as stifling his carrer, and Maverick doesn't want to order the son of his dead friend to be part of this deadly, risky mission.
I counted only two Black pilots among the characters. I was under the impression that in 'Woke America' all heroes in TV and film were Black and White men are all stupid villians. There's plenty of White privilege in this film. I wonder if the producers of this movie have ever heard of Groege Floyd.
In another scene, Maverick visits his ailing comrade 'Iceman', portrayed by Val Kilmer. Iceman now looks a little like Stephen Hawking. Later on, Iceman dies from his illness, and Maverick eulogizes him in front pf an American flag.
There's no way Our ChiCom masters will allow this scene on movie screens in China.
In one extremely cool scene, Maverick gains the respect of his young charges by taking part in a simulated training dogfight, and he shoots everybody out of the sky, one-by-one. We hear the theme song of C.S.I.: Miami blasting out as he blasts all the young pups away.
When a pilot gets 'killed' they have to do 200 push-ups. None of these young Top Guns cried to the Generals, and never acted emotionally or psychologically damaged. They all carried themselves with a fun sense of pride and good-natured cockiness.
I hate them. They are everything I'm not!
The mission itself reminds me of the mission against The Death Star in the original Star Wars Success would take a miracle. It was determined that Maverick would be leading the team. He picks Rooster to take part in this dangerous mission.
In another interesting scene, Maverick conducts a team-building exercise on the beach, as the hotshots play football with two footballs in play, Both teams simultaneously play offence AND defence at the same time. Nobody knelt in protest of police brutality, and Colin Kaepernick wasn't invited to play. I was totally offended.
I'm not going to spoil the ending, but I will say that I can imagine right-wing, patriotic moviegoers jumping to their feet and cheering like Tom Cruz on Oprah's couch!
As a dyspeptic leftist beta-male, I would hate to say that I loved this movie, so I won't.
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