*TOP GUN: MAVERICK* soars at mach speed!!!

[@CDRhammond]

I had the same call sign used by Rear Admiral Cain. Now if only I had shared his rank too and left the USN wearing 2 stars of a O8 on my collar instead of the silver oakleaves of a O5.

[@randyhochstein8455]

Thank you for your service Sir. ✌🏼😎🇺🇸

[@CDRhammond]

@@randyhochstein8455 best thing I ever did was serve in the USN

[@fenner1986]

26:43 "Why are you climbing?" Altitude buys time. Ideally with a situation like that, you wanna get altitude so if you have to, you have time to assess and solve. Pilots have an entire checklist they have to go through and specific actions in specific sequences that they need to be done in, but to do them, they need time. The closer you are to the ground, the sooner the decision will be made for you if you're in a situation where you cannot maintain your altitude. That's what happened to her here, she extinguished one engine and before Maverick could warn her, she tried to spin the other back up and it resulted in another fire, thereby losing both engines and making them in essence, a gliding brick. If she hadn't climbed, she might not have had time to eject.

[@UberDurable]

The students had the same reaction in the original Top Gun when the instructor Charlie Blackwood was introduced to them!

[@kevinmarshall854]

Penny is the admiral's daughter that Maverick got into trouble when he was first became a pilot for the Navy and he got into trouble with her father when they were dating.

[@jerrykessler2478]

The wings of the F-14 were able to extend in order to give increased lift at slower speeds. The biggest flaw in the design of the F-14 was the engines were too far apart so that, if one engine went out, it could cause a flat spin such as the one that killed Goose.

[@rsrt6910]

The absolute biggest flaw was that the early "A" and "B" units had the TF100 engines used in the F111 "Aardvark" were prone to compressor stalls, especially at low speeds and high angles of attack. More than one TomCat has been lost because a gust of wind across the nose caused the plane to lose an engine while approach. The later "D" model TomCats had the new GE--400 engines built specifically for the TomCat eliminating that problem and giving the F14 the performance it was always meant to have.

[@dillonsronce2583]

I watched a show about the best fighter planes in history. It showed the hellcat and they said that was originally supposed to be named the tomcat, but back during ww2 that was too much of a "sexual "name so they said take out the sexuality and put in the profanity. My grandpa was a marine corps vet in ww2 that was based in Guam and had to fix the fighter planes coming into the base.

[@troymash8109]

The biggest travesty was the Navy dropping the Super tomcat 21. That beast should have been built.

[@chemina8541]

I love your reaction! What I learned about the F-14 was that while, when it worked flawlessly, it was fantastic; its maintenance was difficult. I'd guess, simply because that's a general law when it comes to mechanics, those awesome wings added a lot of possible points of fatigue and error, as all moving parts do, and as someone else mentioned, the engines did not work as intended. I've watched an interview with one of the pilots and he said that the chances of being called up on the catapult as the reserve were very high while later on the F-18 it happened rarely. All of this made the Tomcat hellishly expensive as well and Grumman upped the cost until the government said 'nope, we'll take the slower, cheaper and more reliable F-18'. When Maverick in the movie says, for example- when Rooster asks him - 'can we outrun these guys': not their missiles and guns' The Tomcat could have escaped the jets theoretically because it is very fast at its highest speed, faster than the F-18, but the acceleration, (the time it takes to reach that speed) is much longer than the 5th gen jets they are up against, never mind their modern missiles. The Tomcat they steal is the sort of plane Mav flys in the first movie. The thing about those is... they were decommissioned by the Navy over a decade before the setting of the movie. There was a variation sold to Iran during the time the US thought they can be allies but that did not work out as intended and led to access to any parts being highly restricted and no working F-14 (or replacement parts) being available anywhere outside those Iranian jets. They never say in the movie who the enemy is here, but the F-14s imply that whoever it is has made a deal with Iran, probably in exchange for weapon-grade uranium. At the beginning the F-14s even show up on that surveillance black and white pic and are commented on; they are supplementary aircraft for the easier stuff the enemy needs with the new 5th gen jets being the main weapons in the air. Those guys meeting them in the air and trying to communicate had no idea that there was some active enemy fighter pilot in the Navy that could fly an F-14, never mind being in that jet and how good Mav can fly it. They totally underestimated the threat level which makes the following fight more believable. it helps that Mav had some recent low-terrain training while the enemy pilot had likely far less. What the movie also implies is that Maverick is to aviation what Mozart is to classical music: he has such an instinctive understanding of his aircraft and high situational awareness, amplified by his training, that he can do risky air tricks without stalling his jet and improvise wildly while still making it work out in his favor. 'The pilot, not the plane' What makes his superiors so understandably upset with him is that such artisan skills have no place in a military setting normally. He is successful, but it is not a reproducible result unless they clone him a few thousand times and that is another franchise entirely. The military is all about coherency and chain of command and Mav is giving other, lesser-skilled pilots the wrong example to strive towards. Top Gun graduates are the top 1% of all Navy aviators and those twelve in the movie are the best of that 1% - in this case, it makes sense to call in Maverick. Especially since those twelve, as Mav says, are more used to dropping bombs from high altitudes instead of flying a trench. They have the potential, but not the exercise. But it still gives Cyclone ulcers. Within the movie universe, everything makes (some) sense while it would not work out the exact same way in real life; most pilots I've seen react say that while a lot of the manoeuvers are real, they would be done with the jets much, much further apart - but that would not work on screen for the movie; but it makes it easier to suspend disbelief and speaks of the quality of the production. Sorry for the long comment! I wanted to share some of my own thoughts and observations in reaction to your questions.

[@BogeyTheBear]

@@rsrt6910The F-14B was the one re-engined into the GE F110, replacing the P&W TF30 engines of the F-14A. The F-14D is the F-14B upgraded with a bunch of new black boxes.

[@thatpatrickguy3446]

Such a great reaction and such an amazing movie! The amusing thing for me that almost no one seems to get is that Hangman is Maverick as he would have been if he had been flying one of the typical single-seat fighters instead of the two-seat F-14s used in the original Top Gun. The main thing that kept Maverick from being what Hangman was is that Mav always had Goose, who was his conscience in some ways, riding brakes on Mav's worst impulses and making them not so bad. Mav was responsible to and for Goose, and since Goose was his only family Mav usually held himself in check so he wouldn't let Goose down. Hangman didn't have a back seater to be responsible to and for, so he could go all out to prove he was the best he could be and better than everyone else, which justly earned him his callsign: because he'd always hang you out to dry to prove you weren't as good as he was. Luckily, and thankfully, Hangman learned the important lesson about teamwork through Mav, who uniquely understood Hangman's driven personality. Hangman's character development was a very well done part of the movie too. In an early script, Hangman was to be Ice's son. I'm glad they scrapped that. In the F-18 scenes, professional military pilots were doing the actual flying, but the back seat cockpits were set up to look like the real thing. The tech advances for getting us inside the cockpit with the actor were amazing! And the actors had additional duties to their usual acting as they had to test and make sure the cameras were set and focused properly, that their makeup was good, and that the shots were as near perfect as possible. The director had the toughest time since all he could do was stand around and wait until the day's flying was done, then collect all the day's filming out of the onboard camera systems and take it to watch for the first time then and make notes for the next day's flying. The actors actually had to go through an intensive training program to prepare them for flying in the fighters. I imagine there was some vomit hosed out of the cockpit after some of those maneuvers. Even though the actors, from what I remember, were never taken above 4G, that's nothing to sneeze at. Especially over time. I know the Fury 325 roller coaster at Carowinds near where I grew up in Charlotte, NC is said to max out at around 4Gs, that's just for a short period of time. The WWII plane Cruise was working on at the beginning and flying at the end of the movie is his own personal plane that he is licensed to fly. He took members of the cast and crew up in it for fun in between work. That had to be a blast. Val Kilmer, of course, had been fighting throat cancer in real life, but it was important to have him in this movie and he wanted to be there. His voice in the scenes was a programmed synthesized voice, but it was perfectly his voice as it might be. It was so good to see them as such close friends, and to know that Ice had constantly been Mav's guardian angel, keeping him in the service no matter what Mav did to get himself dismissed. And it showed a lot of how well Ice really understood Mav, and explains a lot of Mav's behaviors in the early movie. Mav is basically suicidally depressed when the movie starts, but he's not the suicidal type, so he looks for situations where he can go out doing what he does best, but he fights to survive anyway because that is his nature. Ignoring how he feels (typical man, I know) he focuses on something else that he can control: flying. All Mav has is the service. He has no family. Even Goose's family he's not close to, though we only learn why as the movie advances. The Navy and the people he works with, best shown in Hondo, are the only family he has. So he pushes beyond Mach 10 because the project is going to be shut down and he'll lose the team/family he's been working with and, knowing as he does that Ice has been fighting cancer, he is aware that his long-term guardian angel might not be able to keep him where he needs to be. His time is running out, and he's well aware of that, so if he stays in pure Maverick mode and pushes juuust a bit more, and a bit more again, then maybe he can go out doing what he loves before that is taken away from him too. So he does. But he survives. And his guardian angel is still able to shift him back to someplace he needs to be. And, whether this was Ice's grand plan knowing who all from Pete's history was there or not, Mav ends up where he needs to be to reestablish a will to live beyond the military. Reestablishment of his old family with Rooster. Rediscovery and, much more importantly, a new appreciation of an old flame (mentioned but never seen in the original movie). And suddenly Mav has every reason to not die in the cockpit. So, of course, he must go and do something that could very easily make him die in the cockpit. In a Hollyweird full of shallow and dull movies and shows with shallow, poorly done scripts and no actual thought behind them and shallow, unrealistic characters who only change in shallow ways if at all, a movie of this great depth made me so happy to see. I can watch it again and again and love it still. So very well done. For all the concerns I've had for Tom Cruise's weirdnesses in the past, he is absolutely a glorious hero for making this movie happen.

[@Pecos1]

Maverick has severe PTSD where Goose is considered. It shows, ironically, how much he truly loved Goose. I'm in a similar boat.

[@Roller-Ball]

This is probably the best sequel ever made.

[@dooyaunastan]

arguably, but there's still Empire Strikes Back, Terminator 2, Aliens, The Dark Knight, BR2049 and others i'm forgetting up for contention

[@DiggitySlice]

​@@dooyaunastanShrek 2, Wrath of Khan

[@parkermudsen1063]

@@dooyaunastanand Godfather II

[@danielnowak2958]

Die Hard 2

[@wingedbuffalo4670]

IMO, the only two movie franchises where the sequel was as good or better than the iconic original would be Godfather - Godfather II, and Top Gun - Top Gun Maverick. Movies that have better sequels to an original movie that was lame (e.g. -- Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan was superb ... but the original Star Trek I "The Movie" was bizarre and it sucked, so that franchise doesn't count IMO).

[@raybernal6829]

Fun reaction... Great comments.... The plane that Tom and Jennifer were flying in is owned by Tom. 😊

[@mothmagic1]

Among his collection of other types, all of which he is qualified to fly.

[@kevinmarshall854]

The plane that Tom Cruise was flying at the end of the movie is one of his own planes that he flies regularly when he goes out to fly for fun. The actors that played Penny is afraid to fly in a small airplane and Tom took her flying in that older plane at the end of the movie.

[@Pecos1]

That "relic" plane is actually Tom Cruise's. He built it, and he really flew it there at the end and "Penny" was with him. Fun fact: "Penny" is the wife of Vision (Paul Bettany). There is a valid reason their "love scene" was fully clothed. For her.

[@Pecos1]

@@SCharlesDennicon I hatedonthate to break it to you, but no I do not assume such. It is something that was specifically mentioned in interviews. Jennifer Connelly did not want to do a love scene even partially, nor assumed partially, naked. Whether it is wrong for a married woman to do an intimate scene or not is a matter of perspective. I'm not judging either way, but it showed her feelings regarding the topic. So get off of your high-and-mighty judgemental horse, and slow your roll. Facts don't change just because your feelings get triggered.

[@johnpearce5168]

Penny was very important in this movie because that was his past love life before Charlie on the first movie

[@arraymac227]

'Talk to me, Goose.' My first twinge.

[@simflier8298]

Great reaction! When Phoenix and BOB had the engine emergency, she pulled up to gain altitude. This gives enough height with their remaining energy to deal with and maybe resolve their issue. Another advantage is the ability to circle back to a near-by field and try a dead stick landing. F-16s, because they're a single engine fighter, typically pull up high when they take off. This is in case they lose the engine. Cheers!

[@okerac8344]

Got to say that lens flare 20:00 and 30:00 is fire!!!

[@jimdetry9420]

I agree with you that this one was the best. Nice job

[@mablungblackhand3618]

A very nice reaction. It became even more enjoyable as you let yourself get more and more swept up in the movie and you let your excitement and nervousness for the characters show. I look forward to seeing more of your reactions in the future.

[@technofilejr3401]

9:50, Bob is played by actor Lewis Pullman. His dad Bill Pullman played the US President in Independence Day.

[@JohnCheng-xj6du]

Fun fact the actor that plays bob is Lewis pull man his dad is bill pull man and Lewis is in marvel playing a character called sentry and Danny Ramirez who plays fan boy is also in marvel as he is gunna be the new falcon

[@technofilejr3401]

6:51, Ed Harris who plays Admiral Caine famously played Mercury astronaut (and later Shuttle astronaut) John Glenn in the movie The Right Stuff. Glenn Powell who plays Hangman also played John Glenn in the movie Hidden Figures. Ed Harris also played a misanthropic billionaire who funds an immersive resort for the 1% in the tv show Westworld. In this resort the ultra rich live out their darkest fantasies with robot hosts and hostesses in settings that match various times in human history. Over time the robots begin to replace the guests. His character liked the park location that looks like the American Old West..Drone Ranger indeed.

[@pmaximus5659]

Great reaction!

[@reconmember4324]

Top Gun 3 is confirmed, and the success of Top Gun: Maverick is perhaps the biggest reason for the third film. Along with the announcement that the movie was happening, it was also confirmed that Miles Teller would return as Hangman and Glen Powell would play Rooster once again as well. Ehren Kruger, the co-writer of Top Gun: Maverick, has been tapped to pen the script, while director Joseph Kosinski is rumored to once again helm the project. The confirmation was also accompanied by news of Tom Cruise's return as Pete Mitchell, further proof that the sequel would be on the way soon.

[@quixote6942]

"Penny" was mentioned in the first Top Gun... SHE was the admiral's daughter Maverick buzzed. This Movie was for Goose just as Ghostbusters:Afterlife was for Egon.

[@scottdarden3091]

The problem I have with this greatly entertaining movie is the completely unrealistic mission. As a Navy veteran I say we never would have sent pilots on this mission. Either the Tomahawks or a Predator drone would have been used. Also we don't have a plane that can even get close to Mach 10 and if we did ejecting would not be survivable

[@chemina8541]

Hi! *waves* I agree with you^^ not in any way military background - just a history nerd with a tendency to fall into research holes. What I thought was that the movie universe in itself made sense with logical deviations from real life. I've heard it said that most of the aerial stunts were not made up and were something aviators might execute, just not with the jets in such close proximity. But they had to be CGiied that way for dramatic purposes and to fit into the frame. It makes it less accurate but easier to follow for audience members like me who have little understanding of fighter jets. Same, I was told with the absence of 'chaff' (which should have been used additionally to flares to intercept missiles?) because they are not visible, it would have required an explanation for the audience and would have eaten up precious movie time. What I loved most about the movie is that it did not treat the audience like idiots. There was tons of stuff like how they included the F-14 that was enjoyable but even more fascinating after some research. I'm from Europe and I knew, before seeing the movie, that a Tomcat was not something the Navy had used since 2006 (?) and when Mav and Rooster were confronted by those sleek enemy jets, I thought: huh; those bandits are probably wondering what miracle it had taken for those two bozos with their colorful helmets to even get that jet into the air; because it should be common knowledge for those enemy pilots that the US Navy has no active duty pilots that can competently fly that 'bag of ass'; I knew, consciously, that Mav should have no chance in hell to win that fight but it did not break my immersion because the bandits must have underestimated Mav by a lot - and the second one must have been deeply embarrassed to be shown up by their own old and inferior craft - and went for a close personal kill while still not taking Mav as seriously as he should have. But for someone who has a deeper understanding it must have been a lot harder to buy!

[@elvisibra]

The "fancy" ones, are Su 57

[@wiseoldman53]

What you said about both films is exactly how I feel about them. I watched the first one in the theater when it first came out (I was in high school). I really liked it and of course everyone went to see it. Had to get the soundtrack as well (tape cassette, lol!). But this movie was definitely ten times better. Totally agree with everything you said about it. I'm glad you enjoyed both films. I'm a new subscriber, and I also wanted to say great reaction!!!

[@tomaskennedy]

3:10 I love that name - DARKSTAR!! 🔥🔥🔥

[@Nimbus1701]

The 5th gen aircraft represented in this movie is a real plane. It is a Russian SU-57 "Felon". In real life there are very limited number of them, as the correct engines to make them truly 5th gen stealth (low observable) aircraft are difficult to produce. As of January this year, it is estimated there are between 3 to 5 SU-57 aircraft that are truly 5th gen. There is a total of approximately 15 aircraft, with many speculated to have Chinese engines, which makes them more of a very advanced 4th generation aircraft, and some in the military consider this a non-operational fleet since there are so few aircraft and are difficult to replace, and do not feel they would be risked by Russia in a true contested air space fight. They fall somewhere between demonstrator aircraft and something referred to as "hangar queens" as the ones that aren't fully 5th generation are usually jept grounded so parts can be scavenged if necessary to replace parts on the few actual 5th gen aircraft, if that is required. In real life, the United States and China are the only two countries that have operational fleets of 5th gen aircraft. In December 2023, the US publicly unveiled the first ever 6th generation bomber, called the B-21 Raider. From the front, the canopy windshields look very much like the Darkstar aircraft in the beginning of this movie. It reminds me of old pictures of the eye slots in an executioner's hood.

[@feudist]

"Where am I?" "Earth."

[@hansikursch484]

03:56 they didn't. It was a blooper. they were flying the stunt plane close to the ground during the shooting when it happened, thought it looked funny/cool so they kept it in the movie.

[@dryfie]

This is the first reaction I have seen of yours...I enjoyed it. I hope you do well

[@XRos28]

I like your reaction, it's cool!

[@dillonsronce2583]

A top gun 3 has been confirmed

[@ewoe21]

Great review. You should do Tombstone. Thanks

[@Pecos1]

Although this film is a dramatization, REAL Navy pilots flew the F-18s. Tom Cruise was forbidden to fly an F-18 solo. Every time you see them in the cockpit (box office for the female), they are in a two-seater training F-18.

[@devinminar3089]

The two-seater F model is not a training hornet. It just has a different role in the Navy. They took all the remaining Tomcat squadrons.

[@Pecos1]

@devinminar3089 understood, I didn't know that about the F model. I only knew of previous models that had two seats being training models. Been a few years since I was active duty in the Navy. 🫡🫤

[@devinminar3089]

@@Pecos1 yes the F/A-18B was the trainer. The D was used for specialty missions. Where did you serve. I served for 7 plus years in the Navy. Aircraft carrier, helicopter squadron and Seabees

[@Pecos1]

@devinminar3089 I served 10 years. Iceland, DC, Hawaii. In Hawaii, I was in a Special Projects squadron. When the Blue Angels came to MCBH, they parked their F-18s right behind our hangar. We tried to tag one of their jets, but those guys guard the jets 24/7. We couldn't get close, even late at night. They wouldn't even give us up close tours. But we tried anyway. It would've been quite the feather in my cap had I succeeded. We had the perfect sticker to hide on it too. We tagged many different aircraft, but the Blue Angels are the ones that got away. LOL 😆 🤣 🫡

[@tfpp1]

38:28 - Yeah, you CAN’T do a Jen Psaki. 😂

[@ethanvilla4418]

"She's a useless character." Jennifer Connelly's character was mentioned in the first Top Gun film.

[@eatsmylifeYT]

What does that have to do with her being a useless character?

[@ethanvilla4418]

@@eatsmylifeYT Relax internet warrior, wasn't sure if she knew that the character wasn't completely made up specifically for this film.

[@eatsmylifeYT]

@@ethanvilla4418 Penny is really a useless character. Take away the love angle and the story still works. She doesn't inspire Maverick to do anything. That makes her a useless character. You don't know anything about storytelling, do you?

[@Diablo22967]

​@@eatsmylifeYT If you actually paid attention, you'd know that they have history baftwr the first movie (her daughter knowing Mav is the clue, she isn't older than 25), if you go with that theory, you could say that Penny is the one that got away so she's definitely important to Mav maturing, also she is the only one he tells about they real reason behind Rooster papers being pulled, that's mature

[@Diablo22967]

3:55 Gate scene was 💯 real and this jet was scene by the Chinese and scared them because they thought it was a real jet

[@arraymac227]

'Good morning, aviators.' with The Who music from _CSI: Miami_, another Bruckheimer project.

[@AzBeautyFull]

5 seconds in...❤

[@ross8884]

Haha, it's a great movie but liked your comment about Penny...reminded me of Grandpa Simpson "I felt the romantic sub plot was tacked on" lol

[@b.c.5003]

Landing on a carrier, is pretty hard on you, I’ve been there before, 160 to 180 knots, to full stop, in about 2.5 seconds is rough. You can look it up, KZbin has several videos.

[@rsrt6910]

The key thing is, if you have the right moustache you can nail a carrier landing with ease. Without the right facial hair though... you need luck.

[@CoffeeMatt10]

Not to mention you have to accelerate in case you miss the wires or they snap and you have to take off again.

[@Maymin_Animations00]

43:50 an F-14 isnt designed to handle the maneuver. if they were in the same jet as the enemy they would easily do it.

[@arraymac227]

Remember, the first two minutes of the _Star Wars_ films were mostly the same. #overture

[@bessarion1771]

Please tell me you saw the first Top Gun? Otherwise you were missing 50% of the context of this movie...

[@arraymac227]

(Lens flare at around 30:00)

[@eatsmylifeYT]

Mav shot first.

[@ronaldmillner6387]

OMG every 5 secs your cutting the flight scenes to talk, damm

[@ronaldmillner6387]

You have to learn to stop cutting the flight scenes to talk. That's the movie , the flight scenes. Your missing to much dialog talking

[@eatsmylifeYT]

If you want to watch the flight scenes, watch the movie. She's REACTING to what she's seeing. That's the whole point of the reaction video, to WATCH THE REACTOR'S REACTIONS.

[@xzyda]

they climb when the engine is on fire to have more time before impact obviously