Top Gun: Maverick - Group Movie Reaction

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[@Thenormies]

Hey guys! We want to apologize for the comments made about Val Kilmer in our reaction. We had no idea he had throat cancer and it was insensitive to say regardless of that.

[@joshuacampbell7493]

Watch Hacksaw Ridge after this. It's Incredible True Story 👍. Besides you'll see Andrew Garfield for the fourth time 😉.

[@seanwilliams7716]

React to One Piece Film Z movie next

[@white_rabbit_foot2816]

Nice vid guys, you should watch bullet train starring Brad Pitt

[@jay_dave8722]

For those who are Curious about penny. Remember in part one where Maverick was reported for sleeping with an Admirals daughter? Yup, that's the Penny right there. In this Story Penny is the daughter of a retired 1 Star admiral and they both have a history with Pete "Maverick" Mitchelle

[@Orion571]

Watch Fury it’s a tank movie in WW2 it’s a great movie I enjoy your guys videos keep it up don’t stop doing what you love.

[@white_rabbit_foot2816]

Dude I watched this film 3 times in the cinema with my family, first time I watched it people stood up and actually clapped. That just proves how legendary this movie is.

[@kenle2]

It helped that this was the first real post-COVID blockbuster people could actually go out and see. Good film, regardless.

[@Eren-da-Jaeger]

I watched it in theatre and then came home ordered a 7.1 bose surround speakers, setup everything and blasted them full movie for 3 more times. Bloody phenomenal movie.

[@stewies5522]

I watched it 2 times at AMC theater

[@MrStelmacki]

Really? That’s kind of cringe. The movie was entertaining but it wasn’t much more than that.

[@PizzaHutCEO]

That’s also because they landed the plane, and that’s standard protocol for some people 😂

[@kbiz2379]

Penny was only mentioned as the Admiral's daughter that Maverick took for a joyride. However they did use the same house 😂

[@Suddenly-Eggs]

It's kinda creepy if you use real world time lines. Jennifer Connelly was 16 when Top Gun came out.

[@sunnyinstudio5107]

@@Suddenly-Eggs and tom cruise was 24

[@MarkinSandyEggo]

Sorry - not the same house. The original house was a dilapidated wreak. Also, the original house was one story. There are a ton of houses in San Diego that look similar enough to make the people wonder.

[@pogo1140]

Penny's house is in San Pedro California, Charlie's house is in San Diego.

[@edflynn1885]

Charlie’s rental house was located in Oceanside, CA (North County of San Diego) and was moved for newer construction in the area/neighborhood. I think the “cottage” is now a Top Gun themed pie shop!!

[@dmidkif]

Dune and Top Gun: Maverick were two movies that were absolutely unforgettable experiences in IMAX

[@subhashismandal9871]

Intersteller

[@enticingchase4579]

Dune is bad but up to you

[@xstatixtribalelectronicmus2787]

@@enticingchase4579 Dune is amazing!

[@dmidkif]

@@subhashismandal9871 Pretty much any movie scored by Hans Zimmer is gonna be dope in IMAX

[@Quantum_Bluntz]

Wait until Oppenheimer comes out. Christopher Nolan's middle name is IMAX

[@BammerD]

Couple things worth mentioning: 1. Penny was referenced in the first movie a couple of times. Once when Goose and Maverick were being chewed out in the aircraft carrier Captain's room and once by Meg Ryan's character while Goose was playing "Great Balls Of Fire" on the piano. 2. That is actually Tom Cruise's P-51 Mustang at the beginning and end of the movie.

[@johnyd1911]

Believe it was his Porsche too...

[@Baronstone]

@@johnyd1911 Correct

[@dbfro1]

“So you can listen to music backwards?” The look on Chris face at that moment 😭😭😭

[@joshuaballard6013]

“He’s Tom Cruise, he never dies…” All I could think of was ‘You’ve never seen edge of tomorrow then’, he dies more times in that than Sean Bean.

[@bigstevie1690]

Penny was the Admiral's daughter that Goose mentioned in the original that Mav got in trouble sleeping with

[@bodazaphfa]

Lifetime U.S. Naval aviation guy here. Top Gun Maverick was very real as far as flying and coms goes with regard to the Super Hornet. I was also a Tomcat guy too, and the Tomcat start up scene was impeccable….it was accurate and perfect. Thanks for the reaction video. You all are great! Thank you! Edit: if you didn’t know, that’s Tom Cruise’s P-51 Mustang and he’s actually flying it. He’s a great pilot in real life. Again, thanks for the great content.

[@SulliMike23]

Thank you for your service sir.

[@zimvader25]

@@SulliMike23 lol there are no “lifetime naval aviators” or any other kind of lifetime aviator. Service for pilots is usually less than 5 years then you get grounded most of the time due to rank advancements. Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. People like to make up stuff.

[@donnyfortino5579]

@@zimvader25 actually, you’re very wrong. 5 years won’t even cover the amount of carrier deployments you’d be required to embark. The majority pilots in today’s navy are in their late 30s, having graduated flight school in their early 20s. Also, many pilots are “life timers”… meaning their father was a naval aviator and they were raised around aviation. I was born on base and spent a good portion of my childhood on base. I made the decision to be a fighter pilot at a very young age, committed to learning everything I could throughout my teen years. Unfortunately, for medical reasons, I wasn’t able to live that dream. However, most pilots I know have a similar story. I think that’s what he meant by “lifetime”

[@thedeep6570]

I mean they really did this all practical. The actors all learned how to fly F-18, and almost all maneuvers are real. Crazy the studio signed of on this

[@bodazaphfa]

@@thedeep6570 they weren’t flying. They were in the WSO’s seat.

[@fyrebirdd]

this movie made me cry, not because it was sad, but because at the end i looked over to my dad and he was bawling. He watched the first movie when he was in his teens and he said he felt like he was back there.

[@july24pictures]

When hangman saved Maverick and rooster at the last second, the whole audience stood up and cheered like a baseball team

[@sleepyghost4994]

My dad helped make the f-14 and he taught me so much about jets so seeing the f14 go against the su57 go against my dad's f14 had me a little emotional

[@fubar1217]

My uncle worked on the F-14 radar systems!

[@Tenchi707]

🆒

[@J_JetClips]

Grumman iron works....American steel...twin blowers baby

[@NneonNTJ]

That's so awesome

[@Neurodivergent-j1f]

You must’ve had an incredibly unique experience.

[@Senpapii_]

Probably the best sequel made to a movie imo

[@okedoke1234]

Tough decision. Empire Strikes Back....Godfather 2.....and Aliens are right there too.....

[@KurotsuchiDClown]

Geez you guys laugh at everything when you're in a group lol. And yes Val Kilmer has been having health issues for a while now. "He underwent chemotherapy and two tracheotomies. In 2020, he revealed that he had been cancer free for four years, and that he uses a feeding tube because he can no longer eat. In 2021, his voice was able to be re-created through AI technology using archival audio of his voice" Surprised with 6 of you, none of you guys knew that. But just makes jokes about the poor guy ig lol Loved the reaction btw! Just my little nitpick that irked me for a few lol. I just feel bad for Val 😭🔥

[@defletcher2902]

I heard Val Kilmer's son helped with the voice scene for Ice Man.

[@julieeverett7442]

@@defletcher2902 me too

[@williamhu6941]

Watching this in theatres in the summer was an unforgettable experience. Tom Cruise’s hard work and dedication to making movies like this is undeniable and unarguable.

[@TheDCism93]

I watched this movie in IMAX when it came out and my jaw was literally on the floor the entire time. I'm not much of a movie buff, but this film is the perfect example of pure cinema. It's also refreshing to see a film dominate the box office without it being a superhero movie.

[@MatthewPettyST1300]

Tom Cruise...........Maverick..........Not a superhero?

[@julieeverett7442]

LOTR

[@Romero817]

Y'all remember this: Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash. You've been busted, you lost your qualifications as section leader three times, put in hack twice by me, with a history of high speed passes over five air control towers, and one admiral's daughter! Goose : Penny Benjamin?

[@ripLunarBirdCLH]

Wow. Totally forgot about that. Now THAT's what I call a fucking sequel. Referencing things in original movie most people don't even remember were there. That's a brilliant move. Tom Cruise takes no prisoners I guess.

[@Darkphoenix007A]

And you, asshole, you're lucky enough to be here!

[@gpaje]

Penny Benjamin was a mention in the first movie, as one of the things that Maverick did a fly by and got in trouble for.

[@charlessoliman3151]

Im sure someone has told yall by now but...Penny is the Penny Benjamin that Goose mentioned at the beginning of the first top gun movie. The admiral's daughter brought up by "Principal Skinner" when they got back from helping Cougar get back to the ship.

[@Baronstone]

Dude asked if you can listen to the music backwards. I think someone should let him know that keeping pace with the sunrise/sunset line is not the same thing as traveling at the speed of LIGHT!

[@gjhoward]

The cinematography of this movie was absolutely top tier. Haven't seen a movie this good in a long time.

[@sirjohnmara]

Clearly "Phoenix" is the BEST pilot. During the bird strike, she gained altitude (a pilots best friend) all things possible and made sure that BOB ejected first, before ejecting herself. Also: "Nice."

[@crash406]

That's pretty much standard throughout the military.

[@crash406]

@bob ashby ???

[@prashantgurung2635]

Best Pilot Was Hangman in The Movie he did'nt get selected because of his cocky attitude

[@okedoke1234]

Phoenix was spot on brilliant. Walked, talked, and looked like a fighter pilot. She had several female fighter pilot mentors she worked with.

[@bodazaphfa]

F/A-18 Super Hornet guy in real life here. The aviation physics in this movie were pretty much dead on. Bravo!

[@lathspell87]

In regards to Maverick's ability against the other pilots, there's a great interview that Jocko Willink did with an actual former lead instructor at Top Gun. He specifically asked how realistic it is for an instructor to just ace everyone, and he actually said that is very realistic. These instructors just spend so much time practicing dog fights and focusing on that one aspect of combat that they wreck students.

[@joeeybs]

I went into this movie not thinking i was gonna like it. But its become one of my favorite movies!

[@randy_n]

I'm so disappointed that Suraj was not here to tell us that this 12:55 was Not Penny's Boat!

[@strider9184]

@@summerrunner1755 easy dude 🙄

[@mandalore1089]

@@hasan_1888 Boohoo, she has a different political opinion than you.

[@fedwyn]

@@hasan_1888 god forbid someone has a different opinion than you

[@mandalore1089]

@@hasan_1888 Sorry my dude, you're the one triggered by a random KZbinr espousing their political opinion. Please grow up.

[@Nxrth2001]

I'm like 20, but I watched the Top Gun movie - and it really had a lot of charm, and when Maverick came out this year I was SO HYPED the entire time. First day, IMAX, no regrets. absolutely phenomenonal

[@Bozbaby103]

Retired Navy here. Much of this movie is pretty spot on. Yes, some inaccuracies are present, but usually for dramatic flair, from the flight scenes all the way down to the bar quirks, strong personalities and all. (I did roll my eyes at the inaccuracies, but I know they’re a necessary evil.) Maverick was always Active Duty. The beginning scene was of him on special assignment or special project. It is a thing for members who have special skill sets. Sometimes through volunteer, sometimes through voluntold. “They’re called orders, Maverick.” Usually the voluntoldees are excited to be chosen for a particular set of orders. Yes, drones are becoming more and more present, but the need for human pilots in the seat overrides any autonomous tech. Pros and cons to both. All three actors who played the Admirals were perfect. If I didn’t know better I’d say they were the real deal. No joke. Yes, we play some…interesting sports in the military. Rooster’s problem with Mav is the paper-pulling, not his dad’s death. Yes, the net/barricade is a very real part of emergency landing procedures.

[@jstanek333]

A fun Easter Egg for this film is: In the bar scene, David Bowie is playing in the background! Jen's first Megahit movie Labyrinth!!!

[@AnotherScribbler]

My wife grew up with a pilot for a dad, learned to fly, and loves planes & jets. She LOVED this movie. When the part where the fifth-generation fighter cut engines and floated to dodge the missile had her whisper, “Holy f-k” in the theater.

[@bradbecker8212]

Penny was the Admiral’s Daughter mentioned in Top Gun one.

[@Awkwardstefan007]

I’m so glad Chris called pat out at the end because that was INSANE 😂😂😂

[@waRr3nxx]

With all the divisiveness we've had in this country the past few years, this movie did a good job to make people feel united again, even for a little while.

[@TheZenyaNova]

When it comes to the type of person who usually pilot fighter jets, and even weaponized rotary aircraft, tend to be Type A personalities. Achievement-oriented, workoholic, competitive, fast-pace, aggressive, dominant, and impatient. My husband is an AH-64 Apache pilot, fits this personality, along with the majority of his fellow pilots in his field. It is very competitive, from flight school to stationed assignment you are constantly testing your skills against others. So hangman’s personality definitely fits here.

[@henryvandeventer2457]

"Who is Penny again?" Penny was a love interest both pre and post Charlie. She is referred to by Stinger, Goose and Carole in Top Gun. In the scene where Stinger is chewing out Maverick: Stinger: "a history of high-speed passes over five air control towers and one admiral's daughter!" Goose, leaning over to Maverick: "Penny Benjamin" Later when Carole and Bradley arrive at the airport Carole mentions that time that Maverick "went ballistic with Penny Benjamin" and again in the diner scene with Charlie, Carole adds "Goose told me all about that time you went ballistic with Penny Benjamin" It's really great how they took a few off hand references to someone in Maverick's love life and turned her into a fully fledged character with a believable history and some real chemistry with Mav.

[@CarlosCasanova9]

"so would you be able to listen to music backwards" 🤣

[@k.delpino1124]

Tom Cruise's biggest movie ever, the #1 movie of the year, best sequel of the year, #1 movie of the decade, the 2nd film to gross over $1 billion in the movie theatre re-booming during Covid-19. A great story with so much nostagia of the original. To be made and to be made as real as possible makes this a great piece of work. Seeing Val Kilmer as Iceman again was so heartwarming, even with knowing what he's really gone through. A series of video games (1986-2010) was good run for movie to game adaptations. I had the 18th and final game on PS3 subtitled "Hard Lock" (2010) and it's set years after the first film, Maverick as an instructor to an new generation of pilots. But his best student, Lance Webb aka Spider takes on an elite special mission (predates the movie sequel's story, crazy). But in any event, the 3 years of waiting for TG:M to was so worth the admission.

[@prodigalfraudaddy]

Moreover a great star wars movie storywise and deathstar destruction and characters and dynamics ..so yea a great story

[@boosuedon]

Just so you know, the F-18 has a top speed 1090, or mach 1.8. The F-14 had a top speed of 1544, or mach 2.34. Most gen 5 fighters have a top speed between 1100 and 1300 MPH. The F-14 smokes them all in speed!

[@crash406]

The F-14 was a single-role aircraft. The F-18 can be configured for multiple kinds of missions.

[@josephD32]

Btw, that's Val Kilmer's actual voice. That's why you don't see him in any new movies. Sadly, he actually has had throat cancer. I LOVE that Barricade trap! I participated in one back in 1997.

[@scottdarden3091]

Top Gun one. They're talking about Vietnam, we were not supposed to cross into Cambodia or Laos, but we had to. The Viet Cong kept doing it. That's how Mavericks dad died.

[@CDRhammond]

Every student that goes through that school in real life becomes a teacher. They take back all the experience they got at the school back to their CVN's and pass it on to the other pilots. I had a wingman that graduated from there. That girl knew how to fly that's for damn sure.

[@SentinelGiga]

Props to Navi and Mickey the only two folks I've seen watching this so far who get that Hangman is the Maverick of the bunch. All the others bods I've seen doing videos on it seem to think he's an Iceman analog, presumably more based on his looks than anything else. Anyway, class film. really surprised me how much I enjoyed it.

[@Narutoanime16g]

This is 10/10 love this film! This is how you do a sequel after years right🔥 Val Kilmers scene was so damn good & this was tense most of the time the flying scenes were incredible wonder how much training the actors did for it

[@prodigalfraudaddy]

Moreover a great star wars movie storywise and deathstar destruction and characters and dynamics .awesome

[@TooEagerr]

22:31 "so you could listen to music backwards" their reaction ahahahahahaha

[@phoenixwing5133]

I got to watch this for the first time at the Drive-In, which I HIGHLY recommended. It was a breezy summer night so the atmosphere really contributed to the experience. Absolutely incredible movie.

[@lamelyss]

My girl fangirling over BOB is SO me Loved this movie one of the best this year glad y'all reacted to it !!!!

[@520_jaaqc]

My dad was in the navy and I was looking through one of his what it seemed like a photo book of one of the ships he was on. The pictures were actual photos of them during work, so it would make sense that the photos you asked who was taking at the end actually could've happened.

[@CK-tn2fh]

Hi Normies! Great video! Let me clear up some confusion about Mach speeds and G forces and Gravity. PS: I'm knowledgeable but not an expert, so I might not be 100% correct, so this is based on my knowledge which may be incomplete. So an aircraft has 3 measures of speed. Ground speed is how fast you are travelling over the ground. Generally speaking this isn't used for basic navigation but is useful for determining how soon you will arrive at your destination and can be tracked via GPS. Airspeed is how fast you are travelling through the air and if you are travelling against the wind your airspeed will be higher than flying with the wind, this is why airplanes take off and land into the wind because they use up less runway that way. Mach is speed of sound through the fluid (in this case air) you are currently flying through. This is variable depending on atmospheric temperature, which generally gets warmer as you get lower and colder as you get higher. The number of G's you are pulling is less about speed and gravity and more about inertia. It is a measure of force equal to the pull of Earth's gravity, multiplied based on acceleration and changing direction. But it's not a measure of gravity itself. When you are in a car and you step on the gas, it takes awhile for your body to catch up, and you get pushed back into your seat. When you pull up in a jet it takes a while for your body to catch up, and your body (and organs and blood) gets pushed down into your seat, and at very high G's your blood drains from your brain and you black out. If you suddenly go nose DOWN there is the opposite effect, a red out, where your blood rushes to your head. This doesn't just affect your body, it effects every part of the airplane as well. The effect of earth's gravity is equal to 1g all the time, but the force of gravity doesn't diminish that significantly until you get VERY (very) far away from the Earth. The reason why astronauts feel lighter is because they are going very very fast. Like when you drop a ball, it just falls, and when you throw it, it falls slower. In space, with so little air friction, you can go VERY fast, fast enough to counter gravity completely, and as a result you feel weightless. You're not escaping gravity, you are just in a state of freefall, like the feeling you get when you jump in an elevator going down except way more noticeable, and you are going too fast to fall. It's the same reason why the moon doesn't crash into the Earth or fly away into space (actually it is, just very very slowly), and is why all the planets don't go crashing into the Sun. Everything in the solar system formed from swirling clouds of particles and clumped together, and formed balls as they swirled around the central mass that got ignited into the Sun. That motion translated into how planets orbit and how they achieved equilibrium once all the small stuff clumped together into planets. Hope that helps! And there might be someone smarter than me that can chime in if I got something wrong. Thanks for entertaining us!

[@datboidego]

I literally watched this movie 3 times within 2 days of releasing, and fun fact: most of the plane scenes are real planes and they are really in those planes acting, that’s why it feels so real and exhilarating. I love this movie, I think it’s the best movie in the past years

[@strbrrymochii]

What I actually love about this is that Tom actually made the actors train like military and they did fly their own planes. Like them flying is actually real

[@bobmiller9967]

No you DUMBASsS they rode in the back of two seat f18's - geez what a bunch of idiots !

[@3shyammenon]

They didn't fly. But they did train. They were in the WSO Seat of the jets.

[@strbrrymochii]

@@3shyammenon Oh I see I thought they were actually the ones piloting the planes. They still did well

[@JamesHatfield1981]

Yeah the shots withe Phoenix and Bob, or Payback and Fan boy were actual composites, as they were both in the back of the jet.

[@3shyammenon]

@@strbrrymochii Dont think the US Navy would trust a group of actors who only trained for 3 months to fly their jets to that extent. It takes years for regular fighter pilots to reach that stage of competency.

[@F-18Super]

When you realize Tom Cruise owns the P-51D and actually flies it both irl and in the movie.

[@theawesomeman9821]

Give Cruise more credit, he was 60 when he filmed all that.

[@F-18Super]

@@theawesomeman9821 well that’s commonly known, gotta add the stuff ppl don’t know about.

[@david_2364]

Watched this 6 times in theaters. I cry every time. Including now.

[@WheresWaldo05]

I dont trust anyone that doesn't cry during this movie.

[@richb313]

When I saw this in theatre the first day it opened the crowd was cheering louder than you guys were and yes it was the trench run on Star Wars.

[@ChiefAWES0ME]

Saw this movie in theaters twice and once in imax. Absolutely amazing! Didn't want a love movie either, but with Jennfier Connelly. Yeah, I would see that. Lol. Mavericks inverted move over Rooster was awesome, and those 5th gen fighters against the f-18's was epic

[@johnyd1911]

Same....

[@samsignorelli]

Smartest thing Mav did in the dogfight was to rake that first MIG....turned a 2v1 into a somewhat manageable 1v1 fight.

[@justinsullivan8040]

You guys need to watch the behind the scenes ! The amount the actors themselves had to go through . Insane

[@kalancosta7650]

Fun fact the f-18’s in the movie are actually slower than the F-14s in the first movie lol…..f-18 max speed Mach 1.18 and the f-14 is Mach 2.5

[@Kabuki986]

Any pilot during the current Top-Gun sessions; including Red Flag -- pays a penalty of $5 per instance -- for each movie quote uttered during the training period. However, the sound-track, you know all pilots love and have memorized!

[@jimwilson7528]

You guys are a lot of fun. Star Wars took their idea of "trench run from the Military and added their twist. The Air Force and Navy has been doing "trench/canyon runs training since the 1960's. As far as Penny goes... from the first movie: "a history of high-speed passes over five air control towers and one admiral's daughter," with Goose mentioning her name ( Penny Benjamin) under his breath. Later, Goose's wife Carole Bradshaw mentions to Maverick that he had told her all about "the time you went ballistic with Penny Benjamin. :)

[@artboymoy]

The movie is incredible seeing it on the IMAX screen. Yes, like the original and The FInal Countdown, this movie is kinda like propaganda for the armed forces. But it is supercool as entertainment. Props to Tom Cruise for getting the Navy to allow cameras inside the cockpits and actors to be in there for even more realism. Also props because he pushed for a theatrical release and I'm so glad he did. FANBOY's helmet font is the one used for the Star TRek TOS.

[@leo2nd261]

i remember when the original movie came out and was great, hard to believe its been almost 40 years since and now, just finished watching T.G Maverick and i would say it is superb from the acting, action, and effects. I enjoyed this sequel much more than i thought i would bringing something fresh but also nostalgia feeling back from decades ago. This is a sure fire winner, a great movie and would be great to see Top Gun 3. Big thumbs UP. A great follow up where sequels usually fail but this did not. Want to also say it was great seeing Iceman again despite his real life cancer battle but he was great in the short time on screen and Miles Teller, fantastic as the son of Goose, great job on performance and on screen chemistry. The perfect ending to the story of Pete "Maverick" Mitchell./ Tom Cruise.

[@cbrbruce7161]

Did you get the Easter egg? When Maverick first meets Penny(Jennifer Connely) in the bar!! Music by David Bowie plays in the background, with whom she filmed Labyrinth when she was 16.

[@jada6848]

The group's immediate love for Bob lmao same

[@riphopfer5816]

Regarding humans travelling at high Mach: astronauts on the space shuttles re-entering the atmosphere regularly travelled at approximately Mach 20. This is why the space shuttle had heat shield tiles built into the underside of the craft.

[@vickster5001]

Just finished watching this alongside your full length reaction and that was fun. I LOVE this film. Saw it a ridiculous amount of times in the cinema in IMAX and still love it every time.

[@jp3813]

Please consider reacting to Days of Thunder (1990), also directed by Tony Scott & starring Tom Cruise, since it's very similar to Top Gun in terms of plot structure. BTW, Maverick is also a 1994 western comedy starring Mel Gibson based on a 60s TV show.

[@aka_themilkman]

I watched Days of Thunder after seeing Top Gun for the first time just cause it was called "Top Gun on wheels" lol loved it!

[@jp3813]

@@aka_themilkman To be fair, even aircraft have wheels. lol

[@SinjunSands]

That's why this is actually named Top Gun: Maverick

[@jp3813]

@@SinjunSands Pretty sure the real reason is that the first movie is called Top Gun.

[@SinjunSands]

@@jp3813 I get that but you're the one that brought up that there was another movie named Maverick as if the movies had the same name. That's all :)

[@simpl.tea1073]

Lol, love how Navi was like, "but it's tom cruise, he can't die" Literally

[@plasmatic5593]

Watching this in the cinema was an unforgettable experience

[@trev9168]

So glad she saw the same thing I saw. Rooster is iceman and hangman is maverick. But people keep calling hangman the new iceman and it’s irritating

[@TheOnlyHawkeye666]

Fun fact, everything in the hanger in the opening and last scene Tom Cruise owns. Also as a Top Gun fan that has literally been waiting my whole life for a sequel.......this movie did not disappoint in any way shape or form. Prefect sequel; Also for those that didn't catch it Penny Benjamin was the one's Admirals daughter from the first movie.......which is an absolutely amazing call back

[@fubar1217]

When Maverick says " Penny?" I was like "holy sh!t! Penny Benjamin?" lol

[@TheOnlyHawkeye666]

@@fubar1217 I just instantly replayed the scene in my head and smiled in the theater when I saw it the first time

[@azzifyy5988]

Another fun fact. Radar guided missiles were defending the mission which aren't affected by flares. Quite a big oversight considering how many things they got correct.

[@fubar1217]

@@azzifyy5988 Don't they dump chaff when they dump flares? Flares are definitely cooler to look at than bits of foil though. :D

[@Cleron_O_Andarilho]

To me this is the best movie of the decade.

[@JamesASharp]

Easily the best film of 2022. Great reaction Normies! 👍🏿

[@prodigalfraudaddy]

Best indeed, Moreover a great star wars movie storywise and deathstar destruction and characters and dynamics

[@janicelucas8561]

Saw Top Gun Maverick in July 2022, in Loveland, CO. Saw original 36 yrs ago. This one was not just a movie, but an EXPERIENCE!! NO ONE but TOM CRUISE could have pulled this off!! He is the BEST EVER!!

[@douglasskeens1959]

Really missed you guys. Thanks for the reaction

[@l_e3eau]

I gotta say I’ve seen this film several times already and that was the first time I recognized the reference to Rooster and the Slow Ride - Song, nice call out!

[@michaelskidmore5086]

If you were curious, Rooster blamed Maverick for what happened to his dad “Goose”. In the early stages of the film, Rooster didn’t like Maverick for what he did, then later on in the film, he respects him and saves his life. At the end, Rooster said: “It’s what my dad would say.” That is a reference if Goose was in the same cockpit as Maverick, he would’ve saved his life. Penny Benjamin is Pete’s love interest. She was only mentioned in the original film. Now we see her in the second film.

[@gmac9987]

Rooster wasn't mad about his dad. He was mad because Maverick pulled his application packet for the Naval Academy and he didn't know why. Maverick tells Penny that Rooster's mother made him promise that he wouldn't let him become a fighter pilot.

[@williambranch4283]

The test plane is the SR-72, successor to the wonderful SR-71.

[@kencrusejr3014]

No penny is the admiral's daughter he did a flyby on in the first movie its mentioned after he saved cougar at the beginning

[@cosmosofchaos8044]

Hey! About that “border thing w/ some imaginary line somewhere”… It wasn’t the movie attempting to be ambiguous about who the enemy was. There are always disputes between nations and even provinces within nations as to where borders are. He was speaking to that phenomenon in which SOME map that SOMEBODY made is saying a border line is SOMEWHERE and that they had crossed it unknowingly. It happens all the time, and if Americans knew how often this happens, and how often little conflicts like that occur, jaws would hit the floor. -retired pilot

[@cavtiger]

Actually, the F-14 was quite a bit faster than the F/A 18 of either generation.

[@sparrowlt]

In top speed..but thats largely irrelevant.. you need a lot of time to get above MACH 1.5 and for sure it cant go beyond 2 unless its clean with nothing hanging .. thats actually one of the reasons why the Hornet top speed is 1.8 and nobody (except armchair pilots) care.. in the gulf war it was found that the top speed of any allied fighter was an F-15 doing M1.3 .. The hornet is optimized for perfomance arround the transonic area. thats why its "slower" than other similar designs..its a bit of a trade off but it had an even better thrust to weight ratio than a F-14A (the B/D would be arround that) so its an excelent dogfighter and climb/aceleration performance

[@CarlyMcc]

I think you guys might be the first reactors I’ve seen mention that Hangman is like Maverick. Everyone is so quick to jump on “he’s the new iceman”. But no. He’s cavalier and arrogant, just like maverick was in the first movie.

[@capowable]

First one was the first movie I ever saw and I man-cried in this one 😢

[@boosuedon]

FYI, The country of Iran has been at odds with the world community for decades about developing nuclear technology, They say for energy but we believe they want to develop a nuclear bomb. Iran also is the only country on the world that has serviceable F-14 Tomcats in its' Air Force. Not even the United States has any flyable F-14 aircraft! Both the flying Dark Star and the flying F-14 in this movie were CGI "deepfake" over a actual F-18 in flight. All other flying in this movie was practical/ REAL! The Navy has a flight training range in Washington State where they train their pilots in low level evasive techniques and that is where the flight sequences were filmed. They really did fly through that valley!

[@Trapper50cal]

"You could send him in alone, apparently..." - Best line of the reaction!

[@jimglass995]

I've watch this movie at least 30 times, and I still love it❤💪

[@kenjaminbuttonz]

Penny is the “Admiral’s daughter” that they mentioned in the beginning of the original movie - “Penny Benjamin”

[@johnmagill7714]

Makes me miss my Navy days. I was a Tomahawk operator in my early days, then became a AIC ( Air Intercept Controller ) on the Constellation CV-64. The one on the radar talking to the pilots. Quite a bit of some bogus stuff in here. But A lot of accuracy to. Good movie. USN, OSC ( SW ) AIC Retired.

[@relientkenny]

the BEST movie of 2022. i saw it a few weeks after release but i demanded to be seen on the big screen

[@grndpagaming]

Penny was mentioned in the first Top Gun when Mav buzzed trhe Admirals home Penny was the Admirals daughter.

[@migiplayz91]

This is basically the Avalon Dam Mission in AC Zero. Fly down near the river, sending people above the radar to distract the A.A guns

[@moviereedviews]

Movie is about a military mission = "military propaganda"

[@hopeforhobixo5142]

Well, it is a U.S.-funded and Pentagon-cleared propaganda film. So yeah, it is military propaganda.

[@ClipsArchive69]

Please don't reproduce.

[@kevinmatthew1050]

Saw this movie in IMAX and I was blown away. It was better than the original. Miles Teller was perfect to play Goose son.

[@thedominion6643]

Top Gun is still running in the only non-digital Imax theatre in my country. Imma have to go watch it again

[@Rfcfan1996]

Penny was mentioned at the beginning of the last one. When the Captain was listing all that he had done wrong

[@mycroft16]

The friction generated by a hypersonic jet going through the atmosphere is insane. It doesn't light the air on fire, it ionizes the air, strips the electrons off of the atoms and turns the air into plasma. It's what happens on re-entry with the shuttle and any spacecraft really. For the Darkstar jet, they actually hired the Skunkworks... the guys that designed the F117A nighthawk and other stealth aircraft, the SR-71, etc. They worked with the production team on the film to design the jet to be functionally capable of Mach 10, but also look cool for a movie. And then they built it. Just a mockup, it can't actually fly, but when they roll it out of the hangar and taxi it... that's a real fullsize, non digital, built by the wizards at the Skunkworks themselves prototype. That's just a freaking awesome level of detail.

[@dipankarjoshi3828]

Movie of the year by a mile 😍

[@louhillen8254]

10/10 sequel - kudos to Tom Cruise for nailing this. Tom insisted on the actors going through Navy Seal underwater training - Miles Teller is just superb casting in this.

[@bobmiller9967]

No, oh God the dumbass is strong with this group ! It's water survival training , geez !!!

[@crash406]

Their training with the water was more in tune with what they would need to know how to do when they 'landed' in the water. They did NOT go through what SEALs do. SEALs get damn near hyopthermic as part of just the basic BUD/S course. Naval aviators learn how to get out of their aircraft in the water before they deal with cold water.

[@chitoryu12]

"That was a good movie." "No. It was a phenomenal movie."

[@kriztronikplays159]

On November 16, 2004, NASA made history by launching the X-43A, the first-ever air-breathing hypersonic vehicle, into the atmosphere, achieving Mach 10 speed. The X-43A separated from its booster and accelerated on scramjet power at nearly ten times the speed of sound (7000 MPH) at roughly 110,000 feet.