Russia and China are ahead of the US in hypersonic missile technology and Russia has more nuclear missiles. Fighter jets aren't capable of stopping incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
I get it: Mormon parents these days would take their kids to a porno on main street as long as it affirmed the right kind of gender roles, but back then, Mormon parents were true to their values.
What Mormons are you talking about? I don't know any in my ward like that.
Fighter pilots are modern day warriors, knights in $2 million fighter jets.
And when the Confederates saw Jackson standing fearless like a stonewall, the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
I see dumb movies. As long as they aren't boring, then I am reasonably satisfied. Folk Horror is my favorite film genre for this kind of goofy fun, but I will watch just about anything in the right mood. Tom Cruise does a decent job of this kind of thing.
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.”~Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
Sometimes I watch movies to be left forever changed by them through friend recommendations (Pi, Donnie Darko, Naked Lunch, City of Lost Children). Sometimes I watch movies to reminisce (Labyrinth, Never Ending Story, Sword in the Stone, Flight of the Navigator, Goonies). Sometimes I watch movies to feel (Secondhand Lions, Big Fish, Four Feathers) and sometimes I want to just escape, where a complicated plot, or deeply multi-faceted characters actually ruin the experience (MCU films, etc.).
I imagine with Top Gun, there’s a reminiscence aspect, but also just a simple, much needed moment of escape -- especially when the “real” world is so incredibly weighty.
Sometimes I watch movies to be left forever changed by them through friend recommendations (Pi, Donnie Darko, Naked Lunch, City of Lost Children). Sometimes I watch movies to reminisce (Labyrinth, Never Ending Story, Sword in the Stone, Flight of the Navigator, Goonies). Sometimes I watch movies to feel (Secondhand Lions, Big Fish, Four Feathers) and sometimes I want to just escape, where a complicated plot, or deeply multi-faceted characters actually ruin the experience (MCU films, etc.).
I imagine with Top Gun, there’s a reminiscence aspect, but also just a simple, much needed moment of escape -- especially when the “real” world is so incredibly weighty.
I also feel a heavy dose of nostalgia from some of these plotless wonders. My father had a deep appreciation for some of the most meaningless movies I've ever seen but boy did I enjoy watching them together. When I need to remember some fonder times with him I'm prone to throw on the worst Steven Seagal movie I can find (note that they basically all qualify ). I imagine this reboot will tick a lot of those same boxes when I get around to watching it.
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“If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.”
― Xenophon
Sometimes I watch movies to feel (Secondhand Lions ...)
Secondhand Lions is awesome. Secondhand Lions trivia: the end-credit art is by Berkeley Breathed (of Bloom County fame) and is his take on an alt-universe version of Calvin and Hobbes, which in the film's story is the creation of the young protagonist. The film also features Robert Duvall and Michael Caine, for folks who go in for things not strictly cartoon-related (if such exist).
Top Gun is good fun, but would have benefited from a lion or two.
I don’t plan on watching the movie, but I suspect it has to do with memberberries. GenX is in the hot zone for things like comics, and 80’s movies redux. It’s no wonder with GenX and Millennials things like Marvel and Star Wars are hot. There’s also a low key market appetite for movies with 80’s action heroes where masculinity is framed unapologetically or [the male isn’t] replaced by women. I’m, and again you’ll have to let me know if I’m wrong, but Maverick wasn’t replaced by a woman or a POC, so the movie will resonate with memberberry centrists and rightoids. There’s money to be made in thar hills!
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- Doc
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Hugh Nibley claimed he bumped into Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Gertrude Stein, and the Grand Duke Vladimir Romanoff. Dishonesty is baked into Mormonism.