'Top Gun: Maverick' Breaks Box Office
Records and Hollywood's China Chains
Red State,
by
Sarah Lee
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
5/29/2022 12:28:54 AM
Things have been pretty bleak and heartbreaking of late, so here’s some good news.
“Top Gun: Maverick” has been lighting up movie screens and — based on my own personal social media observations — is routinely inspiring clapping and cheering from American audiences. And that’s not even the best part. The second installment of the 1986 Tom Crusie classic is achieving its success without the help of a formerly very vocal Chinese investor, internet and tech giant Tencent. Remember the flight jacket, scrubbed in the 2019 trailer of certain flags to appease Chinese censors? My how things have changed.
To the joy of Taiwanese audiences hitting the theaters this week, Top Gun: Maverick features
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Dreadnought 5/29/2022 12:30:07 AM (No. 1169079)
Ten hours ago the OP was siting in a purveyor of PG13 and adult beverages minding its business by reading the referenced weekend WSJ's digital paper TGM/Tencent article when a stranger 2 chairs over broke my concentration with an enthusiastic "You absolutely must see that movie!" That's the best marketing there is 'cause word of mouth is free. A clear sign the movie will mint money. People want something better for the country than what they are experiencing now.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Catherine 5/29/2022 12:53:03 AM (No. 1169092)
I just can't watch Tom Cruise. He actually thinks he's a god. He's treated like one by the cult he's part of. He had nothing to do with his daughter because she's a subversive or something in the cult because she left. His cult demands he have nothing to do with her. So if he made a good movie, fine. The cult needs the money. But I'll have to take a pass.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 5/29/2022 12:58:58 AM (No. 1169093)
I can't wait to download it and watch it for free,
I'm still not giving Hollywood a single dime.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bedub 5/29/2022 3:33:53 AM (No. 1169104)
I saw the movie at the first morning showing on the first day. I sat in the relaxing lounge seats, eating movie popcorn. The theater was filled, all ages. Everyone was enjoying themselves. I enjoyed myself! No message, just great entertainment! Husband was a Navy pilot, we recently spent a weekend at NAS Fallon where Top Gun training is now done. Tom Cruise has aged well (IMHO). What a wonderful way to start the weekend! What more can one ask for?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 5/29/2022 5:54:59 AM (No. 1169129)
I love suspension of disbelief. Tom Cruise I just tolerate, his underlying affect is just too weird.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 5/29/2022 7:35:06 AM (No. 1169197)
No, thank you.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ruhn 5/29/2022 7:48:04 AM (No. 1169213)
Good to hear that the Taiwanese flag is back on Mav’s Navy G-1 leather flight jacket after it was airbrushed off from the trailers a few years ago. I’ll take that small victory.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
downnout 5/29/2022 9:05:46 AM (No. 1169271)
We’re looking forward to seeing the movie. Tom Cruise? Not so much.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mifla 5/29/2022 9:10:29 AM (No. 1169276)
Sorry, Hollyweird. My money stays in my pocket.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
dave wright 5/29/2022 9:27:22 AM (No. 1169294)
I don't belive in conspiracies but it seems more than just a coincidence that this movie would come out and tout the superiority of our Hollywood military when the Chinese just held a secret meeting on May 14th to finalize their plan to invade Taiwan. I hope the real Navy is as good as Tom when the real, not movie, version de uts.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
AltaD 5/29/2022 9:31:46 AM (No. 1169299)
Decades later I'm still baffled as to why 'Top Gun' was so popular. My roommates and I went to see it because we all had a bit of a crush on Tom Cruise after 'Risky Business'. But 'Top Gun' was so corny and predictable that towards the end of the movie we debated about leaving early. It didn't help that Cruise had more chemistry with his rival pilot than he did with female instructor.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Muguy 5/29/2022 10:18:27 AM (No. 1169339)
There were cheers and loud applause at the end of the showing my wife and I attended!!!
It was made in 2019, before all this woke crap and attempts to break this country down against itself by demonrat socialist marxists and their co-conspirators in the press and social media creating hysteria with Covid-1984 and fake news to bring down a President.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 5/29/2022 11:06:43 AM (No. 1169425)
I'll go see it. I've lived in a USN pilot family my whole life. Most of my family, father and two siblings were USN aviators, and two of the next generation were/are USMC aviators. And I am a pilot of civilian aircraft, although I did get a rare chance to fly a two seat version of a USN attack jet and even do some aerobatics with myself flying. THAT was very special for me.
I have done aerobatics in a WW2 USN training aircraft, also. Flying casual aerobatics is one of my favorite things, and I always wanted to be a USN aviator....but my eyes wouldn't pass their ultra stringent testing.
I'll watch it, and enjoy it, I'm sure. And some of it will be over the top, and probably a bit silly for those who know what USN aviation is actually like, but it still should be fun.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 5/29/2022 11:44:40 AM (No. 1169453)
Just a bit of observation for all you non-Tom Cruisers which I have to agree with you. In the Reacher series Cruise is much more mature and better he carries that persona in this movie. I only watched the trailer and the making of the new movie. Cruise is better in this movie from the 1988 Top Gun. I'm looking forward to seeing it but in my home not in a theater. It's about time a good movie comes out with all the garbage being thrown out there with mysterious messages like Disney is known to do.
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