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I... loved... this movie...... SO.... MUCH. This has to absolutely be one of my favorite movies I've ever watched - it keeps you hype all the way through, it is JUST AS GOOD AS THE ORIGINAL (WITH MY FAVORITE PLANE EVER BASICALLY BEING IN THE SPOTLIGHT THE ENTIRE TIME)
This movie was so freaking good and so much fun to watch. It tied up every story, every loose end, had all the comedy, the sadness, the edge-of-your-seat drama/action, beautiful visual as well as acting that you could ask for... all while keeping its authenticity
I loved it so much. I just want more. I wish there would be more 🥺🥺
Thank you SO incredibly much for watching!!! I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did.

[@VKunia]

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[@CarlosDesmithy]

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[@Elzon1]

Just so you know the F-18 you saw at an airshow didn't break the sound barrier. It's illegal and against FAA regulations to do so. If a jet would've broken the sound barrier it would've broken the glass/windshields of cars in the parking lot and potentially caused hearing loss in some individuals. The vapor clouds on the wings are caused by vortices along the wing or aircraft body due to the humidity in the air. I've both seen and heard an F-14 actually break the sound barrier while onboard an aircraft carrier (U.S.S. Enterprise). You're instructed to wear hearing protection before it happens. Once the F-14 passed you hear two extremely loud booms/cracks that you can easily feel in your chest. Also, during that event on the aircraft carrier an F-14 flew right over me with wings fully extended which was so close that if I jumped a little bit I would've touched it's wing.

[@fabian5813]

Top Gun Is Easily The Best Movie AND Theater Experience In The Last 5 Years

[@Buster-cv4zk]

They are flying for real, 6 IMAX cameras in the cockpitt, you should look at some behind the scenes for Maverick, just in your own time

[@box1877]

They are actually in those jet's

[@dkev001]

The actors were actually in the jets pulling the actual G's. So the face sag is real. Also, Tom for real owns that P-51 Mustang.

[@MatthewPettyST1300]

Owns and FLY'S.. P 51D......My favorite piston powered Fighter and the F 14D my favorite Jet... I got treated right with this movie.

[@prodigalbrock]

And at the end flew the p51

[@tomdean513]

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[@mjenningssmith]

Lol came here to make the same comment.

[@EclecticSundries]

His ex-wife Katie Holmes bought for him as a gift.

[@toxicginger9936]

Fun fact: Glen Powell (Hangman) enjoyed the training and flying for this movie so much that Tom gifted him flying lessons, and now Glen is a licensed pilot. Like Tom.

[@ACMEJackStudio]

That's awesome!

[@salvadormartinez8577]

It’s such a huge bummer that you miss ones like this in theaters. Movies like this are incredible in theaters.

[@thejamppa]

If I were studio executive. I would put this one in the theaters next summer again: "Experience it as it was meant to"

[@praetorxian]

Agreed. Cruise has said numerous times, he waited until Covid calmed down to release the film in theatre, not on streaming as many studio executives wanted.

[@Tien1million]

Mad at myself for not catching it in 4DX.

[@fakecubed]

I have never had as good an experience in theaters as I get at home. Maybe if you're watching on a laptop with laptop speakers, I can understand wanting a theater, but it's really not that hard to get good picture and sound at home these days. And you get to avoid all the other people talking on their cell phones and the sticky floors and so on.

[@neilgriffiths6427]

Pretty sure a theatre re-release would hit number one in the Cinema for weeks...

[@hellowhat890]

19:38 Fun fact: the beach scene had to be filmed twice. After the first day, Tom looked at all the footage and felt it didn't look right. So they had to message the entire cast and announce they were filming it again the next day. Most of the cast were out at dinner celebrating because they finished the beach scene. They all quickly left to go hit the gym so they could get back their beach bodies. 🤣🤣

[@spaghetti9845]

i wonder about that scene. there were 2 women playing but 'phoenix' was the only woman in the group. Who was the other?

[@roshieifra]

​@@spaghetti9845 I think the other female was Halo, she's a WSO. I say think, bc she wasn't on the main cast, so she barely gets a mention. But I'm pretty sure that was the other female in the beach scene.

[@hellowhat890]

@@spaghetti9845 Why did my comment get deleted?? Huh... Yeah, the other woman was Halo. You can see her callsign if you look carefully at when Maverick is shown the roster for the graduates he needs to train and pick for the mission. And she is Omaha's backseater. When Maverick schools them and shoots down Omaha in that scene, just before Hangman and Rooster are partnered against Maverick, you can see her for a few seconds after Omaha is shot down by Maverick.

[@KS-xk2so]

@@spaghetti9845 There are actually 2 women in the 12 pilots that Maverick trains. However, like the half dozen men who's names we barely know or don't at all, the second woman also just fades into the background.

[@LeonardoKlotz]

No green screen in the world can create a more immersive feeling than following the actors on REAL jets, flying FOR REAL

[@ronyrontana9735]

Maybe it doesn't seem realistic because it's NOT REAL.

[@anonymouse6681]

There were dozens of CGI shots in this movie. It's already been proven from interviews, including those who did the CGI. Basically any shot that the Navy doesn't approve of, they CGI. But still the majority of the movie are from real flying.

[@Tacticaviator7]

@@jackmeowmeowmeow2177 Well in the end it is a Hollywood movie so just as some movie gunfights can be plainly unlogical and inefficient same happens to this movie's dog fighting, which are really outdated. A modern realistic fight between jets would be quite anti climactic because it would just be the loser ejecting after getting hit by a missile fired by a vehicle they didn't even know about.

[@Mubiki]

@@jackmeowmeowmeow2177 Part of it is that it is slowed down so we can actually see what is happening. That 5 second window would be a0 .5 - 1 second window in real life, and that would just be too jarring to watch.

[@fullmoonprepping4024]

@@jackmeowmeowmeow2177 Well, you argue that with the real Top Guns and the Top Gun pilot that trained Cruise and the others. Because to a man they praise this movie for its realism and use of tactics. Even the only pilot certified on 4 different platfoms -- F-35 F-16, F-22 and F-18 in a lengthy interviewadmits this is as real as it gets. I'll trust their opinions.

[@cytorakdemon]

The students giving Maverick the side eye during his introduction were embarrassed because they threw him out the bar. It's similar to how Maverick was embarrassed when he found out the woman he was hitting on turned out to be his instructor.

[@cypher515]

Someone said that this movie really "rhymes" with the original, basically.

[@Tessmage_Tessera]

@@cypher515 It's practically a scene-by-scene re-shoot of the original. Non-stop fan service. Which I guess explains why it's so great.

[@justsam100]

@@Tessmage_Tessera Fan service done right tho, it's actually better than the OG.

[@Tessmage_Tessera]

@@justsam100 I don't agree that it's better.

[@slobodatom96]

I love how passionate VKunia is with this movie, the planes, and the F-18. Mutual respect from a history/film nerd to a Plane nerd 🤓 Fun fact: The actors are actually in the F-18s in the flying scenes, being flown by real Top Gun Navy pilots! Tom Cruise wanted to fly his own F-18 (he's a licensed pilot) but instead just got to fly the Mustang (cuz it's Cruise's personal Mustang)

[@VanFanwithaPlan]

I have to say, as a fellow aviation nerd, it's really nice watching a reactor who actually knows a bunch of the technical terms beforehand (like Mach) and was able to easily identify most of the planes just by sight. Now I guess I'll drop the knowledge bits that everyone else does on the reactions: All the shots of the actors in the F/18s are real (thought some shots where multiple planes were close together was enhanced with CGI). They really sent all of them up in the back seats of F/A-18s. All the actors who flew went through a three month training course, the only actor besides Cruise who didn't throw up in their plane at least once during filming was Monica Barbaro (Phoenix). Since the only F-14s that are still flyable are operated by Iran, a static F-14 is used for in cockpit shots, and the SU-57s are entirely computer generated. It is speculated that because of the flyable F-14s, the unnamed country the mission is being run against is Iran, however, if you plug the GPS coordinates of the airbase into a map, it directs you to Point Nemo, a spot in the Pacific Ocean which is the farthest point in the world from any land. That P-51 at the start of the end of the movie is Tom Cruise's actual P-51 Mustang. Also, that shot of him and Jennifer Connelly in the Mustang, he is actually flying the aircraft, since he has had a private pilot's license for many years.

[@CDRhammond]

Based on the weather conditions though I would say more likely it is a country like Russia, China or North Korea. Iran does not get snow.

[@Caseytify]

Oh, it's Iran. They just can't say so. That's the only other country that flew the F-14, and is accessible to carriers. They're also the only country known to have an illegal uranium refinement program. However, even Russia only has like, six Su 57s flying. No other country has any.

[@Parallaxus]

@@Caseytify Yeah, other videos on KZbin of Naval fighter pilots and other military who reacted to this movie all said it was supposed to be Iran, but they can't actually state it outright.

[@MrTremewan]

@@CDRhammond Iran does get snow. There are several ski resorts in Iran.

[@fakecubed]

Yeah, it's literally just Iran with some different weather and Su-57s somehow.

[@rsrt6910]

VKunia: "They did a phenomenal job making them look like they're flying." Do you guys want to tell her or should I?

[@miajaimson5862]

who cares.

[@thegunman2841]

​@@miajaimson5862 quite a lot of people. Why?

[@scottirvine121]

​@@miajaimson5862 moby

[@conorknott2683]

Well technically she's not wrong, the only person actually flying a plane was tom in his P-51, the other jet scenes where any character is flying is them in the backseat and a pro pilot flying

[@africanprince1840]

Ejecting can cause you your carrier because of spinal injuries not to talk of ejecting and hitting the canopy. Imagine

[@ssoruk]

In this movie, Val Kilmer, who plays Ice-Man, has throat cancer in real life and can't speak, so they used an AI voice for the part where he talks to Mav. Such amazing acting from Tom to make that scene so real and emotional

[@RoyCyberPunk]

A lot of it wasn't acting he and Kilmer are friends and that was their very last scene together.

[@JamesOO7p]

He HAD throat cancer, but is now cancer-free

[@WheresWaldo05]

Everyone knows. We don't need little nerds trying to enlighten everyone.

[@RoyCyberPunk]

@Elden Wolf Lord Obviously the OP as in the channel owner didn't know any of it smart@$$. Bye 👋🏽...

[@WheresWaldo05]

@@RoyCyberPunk Just cause they did not comment on it does not mean they did not know 🤏✌️ Also youtube own the the channel. Get your facts right.

[@TheRaider8199]

Penny didn't appear in the original Top Gun, but she was referred to a couple of times in the film. Once at the beginning, when Maverick and Goose were getting chewed out buzzing the tower (before being told they're being sent to Top Gin), they make a reference to Maverick messing around with an admiral's daughter. Then later in the film, Goose's wife says "He told me all about the time you went ballistic with Penny Benjamin."

[@stvdagger8074]

The only problem is that in 1986, Jennifer Connelly, who plays Penny was 15. Going after an Admiral's daughter is one thing, but an Admiral's daughter who is still in High School, that takes a Maverick!

[@pigs18]

@@stvdagger8074 And Cruise was in his mid-20s. She's playing older and he's playing younger.

[@scottknode898]

@@pigs18 Tom Cruise was 23-24 old when made Top Gun by time the film was released in May of 1986 he was two months shy of his 24th birthday.

[@pigs18]

@@scottknode898 Okay. So if she was playing 53 in the new film when she was 50 during filming, it works out. Ta da. If Harrison Ford could be Jack Ryan, Jennifer Connelly can play a 53 year old Penny Benjamin.

[@DanielS2001]

To answer your question: Penny wasn't in the previous film, but was mentioned (when being grilled by their CO before being told they're going to Top Gun, her name comes up when an "admirals daughter" is brought up, with Goose asking about it). Also fun fact: The way that you see the actors in the actual planes is what Tony Scott originally wanted to do in the first film. It wasn't possible at the time due to the incontrollable lighting, which would have made it impossible to clearly see the actors. So, they used the interior sets of the cockpit and filmed on a soundstage as a result. Due to the advancements in film tech, for this film, they were able to recreate what Tony Scott originally wanted for the cockpit scenes.

[@terryharrow3127]

The reason Iceman can barely speak is because Val Kilmer had throat cancer and can barely speak, Tom Cruise fought for Kilmer to be in this movie

[@JamesJoyce12]

Penny Benjamin was the "Admiral's Daughter" from the first movie - just referenced in passing - a nice little Easter egg - and you get a call sign after you are qualified solo on a fighter at the OTU - you may have to switch careers 🛩

[@CDRhammond]

Did you catch the other easter egg. watch the scene where Hangman goes to the juke box in the bar ;) Glenn Powell was a total sneak and put his own easter egg into the film.

[@CDRhammond]

Also my call sign was used in this movie :D now if only I had left the navy with 2 silver stars on my collar instead of the silver oakleaves.

[@KngOfTheBlind]

@@CDRhammond Was your call sign BOB? jk of course.

[@TheRubberDuck77]

@@CDRhammond Is it true that call signs are usually from something embarrassing or something like that from aviator school??

[@CDRhammond]

@@TheRubberDuck77 Normally a callsign is based off an embarrassing event but it can also be based off the officer's last name / hometown as well as a personality trait. Having a callsign like "Goose" or "Rooster" might be because at one point one of those birds got ticked off and started chasing you around. Callsigns like "Mavrick" "Iceman and "Hangman" are perfect examples of personality traits. Unlike in the movie cast you don't choose your callsign your first squadron will do that.

[@jasongoodacre]

"They did a phenomenal job making them look like they're flying" - They are actually flying. Most shots were of the actors in the actual cockpits performing the manœuvres. They had to undergo pilot training plus camera operator training. That's why it looks so real. IT IS REAL!

[@thatperformer3879]

They were in the backseat of the F/A--18's, being flown by actual naval aviators, the navy wasn't going to let civilians fly their planes. Still incredible immersion though.

[@scottirvine121]

Well in the backseat anyway. Not even Tom was allowed to fly military aircraft

[@gorrammudder1600]

Dang Vicky, never would have taken you for an aviation enthusiast. It's great to see a young lady get as geeked up about planes as me, kudos to you.

[@Ozai75]

Also the move that the bandit pulls off is because 5th generation fighters can do something called "Vector thrusting" which means they can adjust the angle of their thrust on the fly, instead of just pushing straight back. It allows for absolutely insane levels of agility. If you want to see it IRL, watch some F-22 Raptor footage. It literally looks like that plane is dancing mid-air.

[@rsrt6910]

The specific move the SU-57 pulled was called "Kvochur's Bell". An insane maneuver to be sure, but of questionable use in actual combat. Still impressive to watch and a good for letting Maverick know what he's really up against.

[@Ozai75]

@@rsrt6910 yeah we don't know how well it works because there isn't a lot of data on 5th gen fighters

[@marclevesque3147]

@Whispermoon - It is actually called thrust vectoring, the latest generation of fighters have it, enhancing the mobility of the engines exhausts to pivot and enhance mobility past the influence of conventional motions of control surfaces, however they are all controlled by fly-by-wire, the pilots controls the movements he wishes to accomplish but has no physical direct control over the surfaces, flying computers and programmed software decide what to do making decisions easier and safer for the pilots to fly, however like you mentionned F-22's clearly demonstrate fancy maneuvers at air shows but I doubt these would be used in real combat, dog fighting is kind of rare, in reality the airplane with the best targeting and weapons systems will shoot his adversary down with missiles from a distance away, undetected and unseen...

[@crash406]

@@rsrt6910 The Soviets (they were the Soviet Union, not the Russian Federation when they learned how to do it) learned that maneuver from the Isrealis.

[@markymarknj]

@@rsrt6910 the problem with maneuvers like that is that they totally dump all the kinetic energy the plane has built up; while it gives the pilot a better aim, it totally trashes whatever energy he may have had.

[@rbrtck]

Imagine waiting 36 years for the sequel. Some of us, myself included, don't have to imagine. Not that we were expecting it all that time, but the nostalgia hits even harder because of the passage of all of that time.

[@chrismaverick9828]

It was an incredible experience watching this in the theater with so many others for whom it was a dream. We all laughed and gasped at the same spots, especially the small jokes that only the true fans would really catch on a first viewing. I can't have been the only one with a tear in my eye at a few moments in there.

[@rbrtck]

@@chrismaverick9828 Exactly. I never thought I'd get a lump in my throat just from seeing an old leather jacket and Kawasaki motorcycle. I mean, it's a cool motorcycle, but it was *that* motorcycle. And this was before Maverick raced down the road. I already knew from that point (and the intro scene) that this movie was going to do it right--do us right. The filmmakers totally get it. Then on top of that, it turned out to be a darn great movie in its own right. No one could ask more of a sequel, especially 36 years after the original movie's release.

[@MusicMan1965]

The nostalgia is what makes it so great. The more mature Cruise / Maverick have so many parallels.

[@hellowhat890]

The shot of Maverick being launched off the carrier deck is hailed as one of the best cinematic camera shots in movie history. I think they filmed it at least twice and Tom was the only actor that got to be launched for real off the carrier. His head going forward in that dip after the F-18 leaves the deck is realistically what happens which doesn't get showcased in movies/TV as much.

[@MisterW0lfe]

well, he was shot off a carrier in the back seat of an F-18 for real

[@dallasyap3064]

Why don't other actors get to be catapulted off the carrier?

[@MisterW0lfe]

@@dallasyap3064 because it's expensive, dangerous and only Naval Aviators get to do it. Tom is an Honorary Naval Aviator

[@dallasyap3064]

@@MisterW0lfe uhh how is it dangerous?

[@MisterW0lfe]

@@dallasyap3064 two most dangerous things to do in Military aviation are landing on a carrier and launching from one, in that order. Any minor miscalculation, sudden power loss from the engines, drop in wind speed over the bow or change in wind direction can send you off the deck without enough lift and the plane crashes into the ocean in front of a ship moving over 30kts

[@firedoc5]

In honor of your Polish heritage, your call sign "PoleKat". Penny was Penny Benjamin who was mentioned in the first movie as the Admiral's daughter he went "ballistic" over. So very impressed that you knew the P-51 Mustang, my favorite WW II era plane. With the death of Goose, it wasn't just the impact with the canopy but also the speed they had to eject at that increased the force of which he hit with. Much of this movie was passing the baton down to the next generation of fighter pilots which was made even more so with the passing of Iceman. Val Kilmer actually has fought throat cancer and had still been having problems during the filming of this movie.

[@kimleechristensen2679]

Or "Fan Girl" as she is such a fan of the F18. "Hamm Fan" could also be one as she likes John Hamm 😊😊😊

[@kimleechristensen2679]

"Mustang" because she recognized the P-51 "Tomcat" because she also recognized the F14 🤔🤔🤔

[@Ducati121]

Where I'm from Polecat is another name for Skunk

[@firedoc5]

@@Ducati121 Me too. My grade school mascot was a Polecat, the Jasper Polecats.

[@kimleechristensen2679]

@@Ducati121 Well to be fair in the first Top Gun movie reaction, Vikunia's cat did made a smelly fart 😉 🐈

[@nezfromhki]

It's so funny that the whole time you're like "they really made it look like they're flying", when they were :D Having seen some of the BTS stuff before going to the theatre added such an extra layer of appreciation to how everything looked.

[@GrayNeko]

This is one of the rare times when a sequel outstrips the original in every way. This film barely puts a foot wrong. You finally get to meet Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell. and he's kind of awesome. This was the biggest surprise of that year for me!

[@sparkequinox]

Seen this in the theatre with 4D with moving seats, air, water, snow and even rubber/gun powder smells, absolutely incredible.

[@slothhiker]

One thing you missed, the bartender is Penny Benjamin referenced in Top Gun just before Mav and Goose sing great balls of fire

[@fernandodelgado4329]

Not going to lie as I was watching the movie with my friends in my theater where I live, I was starting to cry because the scenes were very emotional, the action was amazing, and of course the performances were so brilliant, Fantastic reaction to this fun film VKunia.

[@XRos28]

You probably know by now, but I'll say it again: The actors were actually in the back seat of real F-18s, they chose their own callsigns, and directed the cockpit cameras by themselves. Watch a behind the scenes documentary on KZbin, it shows the training Tom Cruise put them through. Lastly, the Mustang jet is Tom Cruise's private plane. Great reaction, as usual. :)

[@datdudeinred]

Penny is actually mentioned in the last movie. The fact that they found the only other girl mentioned & brought her to life is genius. Tom mentioned penny to his superior when goose & maverick were called to scold by their superior.

[@TrueVixeus]

The cockpit shots are great because theyre actually in the jets filming them! All the actors actually had to go through training in order to get those shots.

[@VoodooSage]

Before today, the biggest laughs I've gotten in Top Gun Maverick reactions were from watching real fighter pilots dissect the movie. They all love it but also see TONS of detail that we don't, making their commentary super fascinating and at times, hilarious. However, you had me hooting today with that "texting the wrong Iceman" joke...OMG! I had to pause and just let the huge belly laugh out 😃

[@tconlon251]

If you want a laugh, check out the Pitch Meeting Ryan George: “This is a Star Wars…”

[@stevie6868]

Easily the best movie that’s been out in a very long time

[@AniwayasSong]

It took far too many years to see this sequel. I'm forever amazed/impressed, and grateful they *NAILED IT!*

[@altman153]

Hearing you talk about planes and calling them out as you see them makes me so happy. You calling out the P-51 right away made me smile ear to ear xD

[@bensneb360]

One of the best movies I’ve seen in IMAX, the flying landscapes shots are beautiful

[@chameleonvr4]

"Goose came back" best accidental line anywhere! This movie is up there w/ The Shawshank Redemption and A Fist Full Of Dollars! What a great sequel!

[@eliaspeter7689]

Seeing you get so emotional an passionate about the F-18 really was heart warming for me. :) I share same enthusiasm for certain planes and I often get just the looks from people like 'it's just a plane, so what?'...

[@carlanderson7618]

I have 3 planes I feel that way about. The AV-8 Harrier, the F-15 Eagle and the F4-U Corsair

[@CDRhammond]

This movie made me miss flying.

[@MichaelScheele]

I was that way about the F-14 and the the F-15. It's definitely one of those, "If you know, you know," things.

[@zackk7175]

I’m so happy Tom can wear his old jacket Despite Chiina’s objection

[@QuantumFlux_22]

It looks like they are really flying because THEY ARE!! There was very little cgi, they all were flying in them the whole movie. In one scene Rooster comes up out of his seat, his actual harness came loose and he said it scared the shit out of him and they kept it in the film for more authenticity.

[@justahologram2230]

My cousins and I all started laughing when we realized the mission they were training for was just the trench run from Star Wars: A New Hope

[@Caseytify]

You aren't the only one; I've seen actual combat aviators laugh about that. ;)

[@kimleechristensen2679]

Dodonna: "The approach will not be easy, you're required to fly down this canyon and skim the surface until this point..." Maverick: "Ahemm... Didn't you use this briefing in another movie?" Dodonna: "I did, but the script writer for this movie was somewhat lazy, so this is the only material I can work with" 😄😄😄

[@Markus117d]

True, But the star wars trench run was kinda inspired by real life low level combat flying during WW2 & Cold war era training. So i guess you can say it's come full circle.. lol..

[@princeoftonga]

The whole mission was kind of taken from the 1964 film 633 Squadron, Flying down the canyon against heavy defences and having to hit an exact point.

[@internetsideshow]

9:18 You want a call sign? You got it. Since you love the Super Hornet so much, from this day forward you shall be known as, "Queen Bee"

[@204154529]

They weren't being judgemental, they realised that their instructor was the guy they threw "overboard"

[@jonnybb]

20:07 - Smoothest move ever leaving the door open.

[@MooreCEJr]

Penny (bartender) is the Admiral daughter that Maverick got docked for giving a ride in his f-14 in the first Top Gun. She is mentioned a couple times in the first movie.

[@jarrettenaope7038]

The Intensity of this Movienand Having His Actors ATTEND FLIGHT SCHOOL..Made it WORTH the 30ish Year Wait!🙏😎🌹👍

[@frokghug]

I feel like Hangman behaves like how Maverick would have if he didn’t have a Goose to help keep him in line.

[@Bobamawesome]

Vkunia always looking like she just got back from an opera

[@michaelmachupa3854]

Maverick was so incredible that I wanted to go back to see it in theaters another few times but I didn't because I wanted to give myself some time to at least forget it a little. So the next time I see it can be like watching for the 1st time again.

[@vodengc520]

12:47 This was my exact same experience when I was a kid, just a year or two after Top Gun came out. Right as the guy on the speakers introduced the F-14 (MY favorite, thanks mostly to the first movie, lol), it came up from below the horizon. I couldn't believe how huge it actually was. He flew off, turned around, and then broke the sound barrier on his second pass. It was one of the coolest things I ever saw, lol.

[@hellowhat890]

13:32 Funny story, almost every Tom Cruise film has a character named Bob.

[@80s_kid]

26:47 They're literally flying. :) That's one of the reasons why this movie is so good.

[@Zombiesnyder13]

Joseph Kosinski was the reason why I went to see this movie I'm a fan of his work, since TRON LEGACY

[@alex0589]

yeah tron was like an underrated fever dream. that and his other tom cruise movie Oblivion had good flying scenes. He was the right guy for the job.

[@WarloyJenkins]

Clearly, he knows how to do near perfect sequels, especially ones with a lot of time between the original and the new movie.

[@davidhoward6254]

Just FYI, almost every scene of them flying was recorded with them in the back seat of a Super Hornet with 6 cameras facing back and 2-4 cameras facing forward so they could composite it all together in post-production to make it look like the actors were flying the missions, but there were Navy pilots REALLY flying the missions. The 'attention to detail' of the face sagging when pulling Gs is because they were actually pulling Gs. Much like James Cameron went to extraordinary lengths to film underwater, Joseph Kosinski went through similar lengths to put us into the plane, feeling the speed, as it were, and the gyrations. When Rooster gets that negative G bounce in his plane in the final mission, it's because it really happened when they went inverted, he wasn't strapped in as tightly as he should have been. This was a great homage film to all who fight and fly. As a former Air Force guy myself, I appreciate your enthusiasm of them and their aircraft.

[@robertcanup4473]

A few comments: My first memory, when I was not quite 3 years old, was holding my dad's hand, he in his AF uniform, in late 1950, (he flew back seat in an F94), we are at Wright Patterson Air Base, and suddenly there in front of me, on the flight line, was a silver P-51, my jaw just dropped. The flight jacket Tom Cruise wears has a 'Marvin The Martian' patch - which is not only a call back to the original "Top Gun", it was the unit patch William Holden wore in 1954's "The Bridges At Toko-Ri". Not only did I see the original "Top Gun" in the theater, I remember seeing the 1954 movie during its theatrical run, at a drive in.

[@JLOFlix]

I absolutely LOVED your reaction to this film! And the fact that you have so much love for the aircraft was such a wonderful delight that sweetened up the entire experience! 10 out of 10 reaction, because it was GENUINE!! Thanks so much, V!!

[@Eisenhorne77]

When you said that's a P-51, I was like, dahum she knows here aircraft. Also, your callsign is Hornet.

[@cjpatz]

The reason it looks so real is because it is. Most of it was filmed with actual jets. The actors/pilots in this movie were actually in the Hornets when flying. The cockpit shots were shot with specialized cameras. The actors actually had to go to flight school and a little navy training. Of course the there were actual Topgun pilots flying, but they were in the jump seat. Also the actor who played “Hangman” actually got the hours to get his pilots license making this movie. And last Tom cruise actually flys his own Mustang in this movie.

[@bobapjok4241]

I love how Hangman's helmet is missing letters. that's genius

[@hellowhat890]

Fun facts: The F-35 that Maverick references as his first choice for the mission is featured in the opening carrier sequences. But the story had to be written for the F-18 because... the cockpit was built so that the actors could ride in the backseat and it had enough space for the special camera rigs to be outfitted in there. The F-35 is only a single seat fightercraft. Also, the inside of the F-35 cockpit and many of its parts are classified so the interior couldn't be shown in the movie.

[@rowaystarco]

Yeah, they wouldn't be allowed to film in real F-35s. In the real world the F-35 would obviously be a choice if they had to do this mission, and with way more of them involved as well. So very unrealistic scenario, but so damn exciting on the big screen. This one really surprised me!

[@rsrt6910]

Eh, call China. I'm sure they already have all the technical details on the F-35 and could build a couple two seaters if Hollywood asked for some.

[@rowaystarco]

@@rsrt6910 Building something that looks similar and flies similar wouldn't be too hard. They have already made copycat planes.

[@TheOtherGuys2]

What I love about this movie is that it helps complete Maverick's character arc. It looks back at the growth he had in the first film, and instead of making the typical mistake of just doing the same thing again, they took the next step and that's why it works so well. Mav had a movie, and had character growth, but he's still not perfect, and that's okay, because he's still growing. So in this movie, they give Maverick the chance to do the one thing he failed at in the first movie, and gave him the closure he needed: He brought Goose home.

[@markymarknj]

The biggest growth Mav had was that his focus shifted from himself to others. For example, he continued the DarkStar flight to help save the jobs of his friends and colleagues on the ground. He also wanted to prepare his students so that they'd all come home. Then, in the attack, he took the missile for Rooster.

[@TheOtherGuys2]

@@markymarknj Yes, but that was his character growth in the first movie. He started as arrogant and selfish, and dangerous to himself and others. When he was forced to realize that via Goose's death, he was struck with a guilt that he couldn't let go of. He had to internalize the lesson, that he needs to fly to help others, not just think about himself, and he carried that into the second movie. But he also carried his guilt over Goose's death. That was what haunted him all that time, and that's what he was able to redeem in this movie.

[@markymarknj]

@@TheOtherGuys2 true, Mav's growth started in TG1, but he really took it to the next level in TGM. In TG1, he put himself at risk to save Iceman; he never left his wingman (Ice), even though there was a MiG coming around on his tail as he went to help Ice in the final dogfight. In TGM, he put himself at risk on multiple occasions, all to help others. You have a good point about Mav internalizing Goose's death and not letting go. I think that's another thing that drove him to risk death. RADM Cain said it best when he was chewing out Mav: "...despite your best efforts, you refuse to die." It's as if he held himself responsible decades later, which is another reason he put himself in harm's way; I think he felt as if he had to atone for Goose's death. That's why he pushed DarkStar until it broke apart; that's why he did everything to lead the mission; and that's why he took the missile for Rooster. It was all an effort to atone for Goose's death.

[@TheOtherGuys2]

@@markymarknj Yeah. But what I was saying was that he wasn't properly able to atone for Goose's death, wasn't able to accept himself, until he fixed that one glaring failure in his life, that he couldn't bring Goose home. When he brought Rooster home, that was the closure he needed.

[@markymarknj]

@@TheOtherGuys2 okay, that makes sense. I thought we were saying the same thing, albeit in different ways.

[@CDRhammond]

The two Foxtrot teams were made to look like they were flying the F/A-18F which is a two-seater variant while the one "Mavrick" and "Rooster" were made to look like they were flying was the E model which is a single seat version of the hornet. An aviator hornet qualified is capable of flying either model, it all depends on the squadron they go to.

[@theredarmy4884]

Had no idea you were so into planes like that! Your excitement was infectious, it honestly brought a smile to my face. Possible Kunia callsigns: *Flygirl* is maybe too on the nose, but makes sense. Something with movies or shows, given your KZbin career, maybe *Showtime* ? Feels too flashy? My favorite I came up with was *Yellow Jacket* , since the F/A-18 is your favorite - it's a close family member of the common hornet! Loved watching this one, it was really fun with you! Thanks for your time and effort!

[@SandmanGotBeer]

As impressive as the Hornet is, it still isn't the same as a TOMCAT!!!!!!

[@CoffeeMatt10]

TOMCATS! 🫡

[@ABeastG]

I seriously can't stop rewatching this movie! It's just so fricking good!!! It's this movie and it's prequel that made me interested about Air Force. Btw if you didn't know, Tom does own the plane he works on in this movie. 11:31 this was a callback to the first film and I loved every part of it! 29:36 imagine Goose actually came back (which is impossible) and said something like, "you SOAB, that kill is mine."

[@MrLivewire1970]

My brother had just joined the Navy when my dad took me to see the first Top Gun movie. He wanted me to follow my brother, it didn't work, I joined the Marines. I still love both of these movies.

[@davidgard6699]

The love interest in this one is the admiral's daughter briefly referenced in the 1st top gun

[@ToobaTime06]

Been a follower for awhile now, and you just gained major points for being a fellow aviation nerd! My first time seeing an F-18 was seeing the Blue Angels at our local air show. Several years ago we had the F-22 demonstration team here and the maneuvers that plane can pull are insane to witness firsthand!!! Keep up the good work on your reactions!

[@cluster_f1575]

It was an unexpected surprise to see VKunia gushing over the F-18 & I'm totally here for it. As a kid, one of my favorite hobbies was building model jets. Out of all the jets in my collection, the F-18 was (still is) my favorite.

[@lukeball4937]

You'll never see a better team flight demo than the Blue Angels.

[@wabals]

Your eye roll of ecstasy when the F-18 is mentioned .

[@christianeckert8573]

When someone ejects from a fighter the seat has propellent beneath it he was going up with some force, so when he hits the canopy he breaks his neck from the force of being shot upward, because of the flat spin the canopy was directly above, in most ejections the canopy ends up behind you. By the way, Penny Benjamin is Sara from Labyrinth

[@elreyes78]

This is the only movie I’ve ever seen in the theaters twice. It was that good.

[@stevehobbs9312]

It’s the only movie I’ve ever seen more than once in the theater, and I watched it 7 times in the theater including, IMAX and DBox, not to mention countless reactions, it’s THAT good, IMO!

[@epa316]

4:03 Holy ****, she knows the P-51 Mustang!! 😍 Edit: Wow, she knows a whole lot about aircraft! Probably more than I do about the F-18. Respect!

[@paulfeist]

I love that she nailed the "classic" WWII warbird without even having to think about it... 🙂

[@johnortega4502]

Call sign "Gorgeous " fits like a glove

[@jasonpratt3970]

When the enemy spun mid air that was thrust vectoring, new skill, but new equipment too.

[@PlasticMacele]

I never knew you were such an aviation enthusiast. We should get you your private pilot's license. Thumbs up from me! 👍

[@jxstified7558]

Jason Bourne series and Mission impossible series need to be seen by you!

[@johnquinn7794]

Perfect mix of story and nostalgic call backs.

[@matthieuzglurg6015]

just for the people that are still not believing that Goose broke his neck against the canopy in the first movie : a fighter pilot can only do 3 ejection in his life time, cause if he does a 4th, the only thing he'll be able to pilot is a wheelchair for a few month and then never be air worthy ever again. The ejection rockets under the seat are giving enough G forces to tamp your spine and doing that 4 times is causing irreversible lesions. Now, that's taking in account that everything goes well, that the only thing you meet during the ejection procedure is air. Goose met a solid canopy and the impact point was the top of his head

[@RM-qj8cs]

@VKunia You have to watch Mission Impossible (1996) to catch up with that franchise

[@Zombiesnyder13]

I wasn't into the first movie because of how technical everything was. Since I don't know anything about aviation, it was hard to understand what the characters were doing This movie on the other hand was a lot easier to understand. They had a mission and they had to know how to perform each stage to complete it.

[@RM-qj8cs]

@Kyle Campbell The first is a classic compared to certain current movies

[@peterlenihan1613]

You were wondering how much an F 18 costs. This is what i found. "The advertised flyaway cost of the F/A-18F is about $65 million. With an expected life of 6,000 flight hours, the amortized capital cost of the asset is $10,800.Feb 15, 2023"

[@EclecticSundries]

Penny was not the love interest from before, but she was mentioned, she was a admiral’s daughter that him and Goose had referred when they got in trouble.

[@OneKillQuota]

You know what I love about watching sonic booms? Everyone's clothes. Next time you get a chance, try to remember to look down at everyone's clothes. They shudder simultaneously with the boom. It's so cool looking. :)

[@scottdavis3198]

They were flying lol. They had cameras in the cockpit with the actors. Face distortion was real

[@justbuz]

Your swooning over the F/A-18 Super Hornets (especially at 12:20, and again at 25:25) is my favorite part of this reaction. Thank you for caring so much about aircraft.

[@colinz24067]

the real experience is sitting in the front row in theaters. literally looking from left to right as they fly their jets

[@Luciphell]

26:47 They don't "look like" they are flying. They are ALL flying. In co-pilot seats, but it's still 100% real flight!~ 31:45 That is one the things Maverick was talking about when he mentioned going up against 5th gen fighters. That is called thrust vectoring. It's not a move but a feature of the plane itself. Scary shit.

[@MrTjonke]

F18 Superhornets are from the 90s. First flight in 95, but wasn't put into service until 99. So 20+ years old planes put up against 5th generation fighters, and even worse in the F14 that was built in the 70s

[@RabbitWhiteThe]

I'm absolutely shocked that you were unaware that they were actually flying... I thought everyone knew by now

[@wildbronco038]

I love you nerding out about the planes. I was the same way when I was younger....going to airshows and spending hours playing flight sims.. I could name technical specifications of almost all the USAF and USN planes

[@MrWCramer]

Excellent choice for your favorite aircraft. A couple of things you might not know, the P-51 is actually Tom Cruise’s own aircraft, $4,000,000,plus. The cockpit scenes were actually taken in the back seat of an F-18, as it was flying. They had a special camera developed with an arrangement of six cameras filming at once, while the planes flew g plus maneuvers, so it not CGI, but the real deal. On You Tube, look up, The Filming of Top Gun Maverick, it’s very interesting. By the way, my favoring military aircraft is the SR-71, cruising at 80,000+ feet at 2300 mph+, you got to love it. I always enjoy your reviews🛫👍

[@christiananstes4161]

Watching you react to this movie nearly brought me to tears this is such a great movie. 2 days ago i visited the R.A.F museum in North London, there were no f-14s or f-18s there but when i stood in front of the British Tornado, i couldnt help but hear the Top Gun song Danger Zone play in my head. Great reaction as always x

[@PeteBirdsong]

"Such beautiful Super Hornets being... lowered." HAHA! This cracked me up!

[@thatpatrickguy3446]

Such an amazing reaction and such a great movie! I do like the Super Hornets as well. I like the Tomcats a bit more for the versatility of their variable angle wings, but they are both really nice planes. It makes absolute sense that Great Balls of Fire would be important to Rooster as it was the fun song his dad sang with him. It's him spending time with his dad again, and it would all but become his theme song as he'd play it often to feel close to his dad again. I lost my dad almost a year ago, and I've got some things that I'll always do and a couple of phrases I'll always say that were his originally, just for the ability to feel close to him again. Like you, I didn't think that Goose broke his neck when I watched this in the 80s. I thought the impact more likely cracked/crushed the parietal and/or the occipital bone(s) of his skull (those helmets are protective, but not THAT protective) and caused traumatic brain injury. I know it was said that his neck broke, but I didn't see it that way at the time. Now, knowing a bit more about cervical spine injuries, it makes sense not so much as an actual break, like what you see where the head lolls at an odd angle, but a compression fracture where the upper end of the cervical spine is compressed along its axis and crunched instead of being a clean sideways snap, and the crushing is responsible for destroying the spinal column in the process. 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. So there were no FX causing the actors to have the look of people fighting G forces, they just were fighting them. Since one's Navy callsign is given to them by other people and not chosen for themselves, it is usually based on some trait of the pilot or weapons officer. Apparently Bob stood out in no way in his training, much like he was all but unseen by the others in the bar, so he just became Bob. 😀 Bob's family connection also amuses me. Lewis Pullman, who played Bob, is the son of Bill Pullman, an actor who played a retired F-18 pilot who climbs back into the cockpit again in one of his roles. 😀 The amusing thing for me is that few people really get that Hangman is Maverick as he would have been in this era of single seat warplanes. The main thing that kept Maverick from being what Hangman was is that Mav always had Goose, in some ways his conscience, 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.

[@RichardinNC1]

Great reaction and love your enthusiasm for the F-18 and P-51. I've seen both at air shows, but not the Super Hornet yet. As mentioned, yes the actors are actually flying in the back seats. That had to go through extensive training to do so.

[@rbrtck]

Actually, that strange "high-alpha" maneuver the Su-57 pilot did is supposed to be a function of the plane, which is a "fifth-generation" fighter. It's something the plane can normally do that most other fighters cannot (the F-22 can and maybe the F-35, along with Flanker variants with thrust vectoring), so it's not about the pilot in this case. In combat, though, you wouldn't want to do that because it costs too much speed, but of course this is a movie, so it actually worked. The same pretty much goes for the "cobra" maneuver that Maverick keeps doing.

[@technopirate304]

That was my thought. Pulling that move looks cool but the 5th gen plane is almost standing still in the air during that maneuver. Had Maverick and Rooster had a wingman they could have sprayed them with cannon fire.

[@duanelavely5481]

Back in Viet., we lost pilots & R.O.'s who were ejected into their canopy due to lack of air speed blowing the canopy out of the way. In "Top Gun", Maverick & Goose were in a flat spin which allowed Goose to eject up into his canopy. The Martin Baker ejection seat in the F-4 in Viet. had 7 small rockets fastened to the bottom of the seat. It was a zero alt. ejection seat, i.e., your chute would open even if ejected from the ground. However, you had to have enough forward speed to get that canopy out of the way. I personally saw a R.O. die that way prior to take-off, i.e., due to head or neck injury. Quite often someone who successfully ejected would still suffer back injuries.

[@Destyn2b]

Years ago I worked on updating the planning books for several planes including the F-15 and F-18 E/F. My favorite part was going down to the hangar to watch them do test flights after the updates were done. It was so cool because my grandparents lived by the airport and we would always watch the planes take off and land. It was 1,000 times cooler seeing them up close.

[@keithcharboneau3331]

I spent 11 years in the U.S. Navy and i worked on the F-14 for 7 of those years, you want to know the force of a person during an ejection hitting the canopy the ejection seat comes out of the cockpit at 450 Feet Per Second, or half the muzzle velocity of a pistol bullet, hitting the canopy at that speed causes more than enough blunt force trauma on the human body to pulverize internal organs such as the liver, kidneys, heart, lings, spleen ECT. it was included in the first movie because in the early days of development of the F-14, there was a crew that did get into a flat spin, and while trying to eject, because of the aerodynamics the canopy hovered above the plane and BOTH crew were ejected into the bottom of the canopy killing them both, after that incident, Grumman redesigned the canopy and added a pair of rocket motors in the canopy rails to throw the canopy away from the plane no matter the circumstances, when the original top gun was filmed, this change had already been 100% installed in every F-14, even the earliest planes had their canopies replaced, it was put in the movie as a tribute to the 2 men that lost their lives while testing a new fighter plane.

[@les4767]

Penny Benjamin wasn't seen in the first film, but she was mentioned twice. Once by the Aircraft Carrier commander when he's chewing out Maverick "With a history of high speed flyby's over 3 air control towers and one Admiral's daughter!"-...Goose *whispers "Penny Benjamin?" Maverick nods. And then by Goose's wife. "Goose told me all about the time you went ballistic with Penny Benjamin!"

[@mediablindspots]

I love watching a reaction to this stupendous action film from someone who actually understands the aircraft! Thank you so much for the running commentary on the types of vehicles and their respective advantages and limits… it helped me to get my head around the nuances of the military operation.

[@mrwidget42]

When I was in high school I learned to sail a 12 foot racing dinghy across San Francisco bay. Green swells like that are good water to sail. I usually got steel gray swells about 45 deg. With sharks all over the place.