New movies undeserving of their own thread 2: The Night It Came Home

[Matt]

TOP GUN: MAVERICK is the real deal. I'd argue that it's possibly better than the original film. The flying footage is just awe inspiring.
Fun to see Val again.

You need to see this in the theater. Also, without spoiling anything, you are going to want to watch the first 5 minutes of TOP GUN first...just the credits through 'Danger Zone'. Trust me...just watch that, you won't regret it.

[Martin]

Cool.

Do we have unrepentant homoeroticism?

[Matt]

No, unfortunately. If there's a gay subtext to the film, it flew over my head. Literally.

[Anderson]

No, unfortunately. If there's a gay subtext to the film, it flew over my head. Literally.

There is no subtext.


This is 2022's version of The Green Berets. The reviewers comparing it to Fury Road are fucking jokes. God, they will let any jackoff write shit as long as you slap he/him or she/they/aardvark on your social media and jump whenever a blue checkmark looks your way.

Maverick isn't bad at all, it's a great spectacle. But, fuck...it's a very 2D movie.

[Matt]

It's a crowd pleaser. At the end, my theater clapped.

[Abraham Smashington]

It's a crowd pleaser. At the end, my theater clapped.

All I can ever think of now when I hear people clapping during a movie:

FWIW Ari said it was pretty good as well when I talked to him. I told him when he buys it on 4k he can send me the digital code lol.

Nothing is a theater movie me for me anymore UNTIL Avatar 2 but only cause of the 3d AND only if cases aren't spiking again.

[Anderson]

It's a great theatrical experience, but not a great movie.

People are like it's so much better than the first movie. Well, it's the first movie updated for people that think the world began in 2014.

It's a great watch, but it has the shelf life of raw milk.

[Abraham Smashington]

I was planning on watching the first one this weekend after checking that RRR movie as I don't think I've legitimately seen the first movie all the way through since it released in the 80s.

[Martin]

We’re knee deep in Stranger Things, but RRR jumped on my immediate watchlist. It just look insane.

[Matt]

we just started ST S4 as well. Episode 1 was pretty great.

Hurry up and watch RRR, though. Can't wait to hear what you think of it.

[BillyG]

Someone told me Maverick's premise is that the USA has worse tech than Iran so America has to be better pilots? Is that true? I told them that shit is more fictional than fucking Hogwarts.

[Matt]

Someone told me Maverick's premise is that the USA has worse tech than Iran so America has to be better pilots? Is that true? I told them that shit is more fictional than fucking Hogwarts.

The 'Enemy' of the film is never named specifically...they're simply referred to as 'the enemy'.
But yeah, for some reason they have '5th generation fighter aircraft' compared to what we have. It's never clear how they surpassed us in the tech.

[Martin]

Especially that I hear it’s a SU-57 clone…. gee…. i wonder…

[BillyG]

The 'Enemy' of the film is never named specifically...they're simply referred to as 'the enemy'.
But yeah, for some reason they have '5th generation fighter aircraft' compared to what we have. It's never clear how they surpassed us in the tech.

So Maverick's plot is that Rome is truly in decline and the barbarians have gotten into the gates. That's cool.

[Captain Russ]

It's Ace Combat: The Movie from what I hear. And I fucking love Ace Combat.