Clearly it’s about not wanting to piss anyone off and be able to show the film in places like ChinaFilm Top Gun: Maverick
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Clearly it’s about not wanting to piss anyone off and be able to show the film in places like ChinaThe John Wick franchise, the Matrix franchise and Speed are some of the defining action films of the last couple of decades. He's massively underrated, imo.
Yeah... So? In terms of storytelling it's poor. I don't really care about the marketing of the film.
Did you like the suspense? I can't agree about Speed, we mostly made fun of that one in the 90s. I couldn't think of anything besides Speed myself to add to The Matrix movies and John Wick, i don't think he's an action star in the way The Rock is, did a lot of drama, date movies, more like Tom Cruise.
The Rock is like Wednesday and I think his worth dropped significantly when he decided to enter the Fast and Furious world. Keanu does not need anything other than John Wick. That is enough to solidify him as a legit action hero.
The first matrix is a perfect movie but the star of it is Laurence Fishburne. Speed is great fun but it’s down to Denis Hopper and the best John Wick film stars Charlize Theron.
Keanu Reeves seems like a cool guy but isn’t anywhere near the like of Arnie, Cruise or Chow Yun-fat.
Keanu Reeves seems like a cool guy but isn’t anywhere near the like of Arnie, Cruise or Chow Yun-fat.
Johnson brings the audiences, his movies seem to be pretty consistent winners as far as making money. In the action game that's all that really matters, even if a few bad action films might squeak through as successes for whatever reason.
Keanu is an action hero, but it's he top 5? Not for me.
Who would you consider top 5?
I like him because he's believable and not too over the top.
Dante quoted my top 5 list and replied with "Keanu".
Speed is brilliant!
You see I like when my action heroes are also capable of forming sentences. It's all preference I guess.
I'd throw Matt Damon in there along with Chris Hemsworth. I'd keep Tom, Bruce and Stallone. Daniel craig and Pierce are also a good shouts. I'm not all just about a muscled up gun toting guy. That's pretty much what action heroes are supposed to be but I like mine with some character.
@Beans Dwayne Johnson isn't even top 10. I'd have:
And as to @Pogue Mahone the best thing that Maverick has going for it - and the reason that everyone needs to go see it - is because it's voting with your wallet to go back the hell away from boring CGI atrocicities. As Scorsese said, Marvel Movies are not cinema. And Mad Max Fury Road was FANTASTIC, speaking in modern terms - I loved it for the practical effects, lore, characters, and general storyline, but I can think of quite a few 90's films that smoke it, and that's sort of the point I think - there used to be a movie better than TG:Maverick come out every single year, and we've just not seen one since... I can remember. Practical effects, character driven plot (I don't care if you say it's simple, it did surprise me a few times), and it took itself seriously for once - unlike seemingly every other blockbuster of the last decade which are endlessly 4th wall breaking, and somehow smug about themselves - like endless Deadpool clones.
- Arnie
- Tom Cruise
- Sylvester Stallone
- Jackie Chan
- Jean Claude van Damme
- Bruce Willis
- Nicholas Cage
- Sean Connery (is it debateable that he's an action movie star, I wonder?)
- Mel Gibson
- Keanu Reeves
And as to @Pogue Mahone the best thing that Maverick has going for it - and the reason that everyone needs to go see it - is because it's voting with your wallet to go back the hell away from boring CGI atrocicities. As Scorsese said, Marvel Movies are not cinema. And Mad Max Fury Road was FANTASTIC, speaking in modern terms - I loved it for the practical effects, lore, characters, and general storyline, but I can think of quite a few 90's films that smoke it, and that's sort of the point I think - there used to be a movie better than TG:Maverick come out every single year, and we've just not seen one since... I can remember. Practical effects, character driven plot (I don't care if you say it's simple, it did surprise me a few times), and it took itself seriously for once - unlike seemingly every other blockbuster of the last decade which are endlessly 4th wall breaking, and somehow smug about themselves - like endless Deadpool clones.
Jason Statham is a terrible terrible actor.
He used to have hair and he was an Olympic diver.
He still can’t act. I’ve seen cabinets in IKEA with more emotional range.
When they were casting Peaky Blinders, they were thinking of Statham as the lead role as Cillian Murphy was not seen as your typical hardman. Murphy’s response was “remember, I’m an actor”.
What a cinematic treat this was, genuinely brilliant.
Phoenix is kinda cute as well.
Haha yep. I won't argue with this.
John Wick,Speed and people seemed to like The Matrix films for some reason so that puts him there.
As for the Rock let's be honest just by him raising good eyebrow that makes him more talented than Arnie ever was.
Obviously this board is run by Arnie's number one fan club so not expecting anyone to agree with just how absolutely crap Arnie was
I really enjoyed it, was it cheesy? Yes.
Was I expecting for the sequel to Top Gun to be in any way serious? No.
Really enjoyable movie experience.*
*And I say that as a self aware pompous
Wes Anderson fan boy arsehole.
Was I expecting for the sequel to Top Gun to be in any way serious? No.
My only complaint is the music choices , they should have went all in with the nostalgia fest because none of the new songs felt memorable
Really enjoyable movie experience.*
*And I say that as a self aware pompous
Wes Anderson fan boy arsehole.
Just back from the cinema in a year or so, what a fecking movie!!
I liked the first one, but this one was much better, action is great, I would say it's easily one of the best movies I've seen.
Crowd who think the likes of Licorice pizza, Jo-jo rabbit are masterpiece won't like it though, who would have thought?
I liked the first one, but this one was much better, action is great, I would say it's easily one of the best movies I've seen.
Crowd who think the likes of Licorice pizza, Jo-jo rabbit are masterpiece won't like it though, who would have thought?
Just got back from IMAX and I enjoyed the sh*t out of this, and I've never been a fan of the first one. There are elements to the movie that you could look back on and find fault in, but what would be the point of that?*
It's not arthouse, it's popcorn entertainment and it was probably one of the finest experiences I've ever had in the cinema.
*though having said that I did get slightly annoyed at single mum Connelly owning a bar, a sailboat and a vintage Porsche.
It's not arthouse, it's popcorn entertainment and it was probably one of the finest experiences I've ever had in the cinema.
*though having said that I did get slightly annoyed at single mum Connelly owning a bar, a sailboat and a vintage Porsche.
Her bar was stacked tbf
I was thinking about this - but I assume that being an Admiral’s daughter could account for her being able to ‘afford’ them.
Penny is a daughter to an admiral, which is a fact that was mentioned in the early stages of the first movie. As such, she probably grew up knowing plenty of people associated with the Navy and then did more than enough to own all of those while living at North Island.
It was the idea she was single that ruined any pretense of realism for me.
Just got back from cinema, enjoyed, glad to have seen both in a cinema. We all knew the story would be weak, thats not what its all about.
No helmets on the bike was strange to see.
No helmets on the bike was strange to see.
Its Iran
https://www.theringer.com/movies/2022/6/3/23151745/top-gun-maverick-enemy-country
Never seen it, I'll check it out
Amazing.
Not on the scale of the others worldwide. Barring Rush Hour and Rush hour 2 his non-Hong Kong output has been hugely underwhelming.
If that turd can break even anything can.
Doesn’t rule out Statham being better than the Rock, to be fair.
Chan was never an action hero, he's more of a comedy fu
Stopped watching him like 15 years ago, his last watchable movies was Shinjuku Incident, anything after that was a tired grandpa doing "not so funny after 20 times" stunt