I saw Top Gun Maverick in the theater in rehab (we went on a day trip), anyway that movie did NOT age well, given the war, lol (hexbear.net)

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I shit you not, the central hook of the plot is a death star trench run to bomb a yellow cake facility in Iran's mountains. As you could imagine it's epic and Tom "Xenu" Cruise pulls it off effortlessly...but then! He gets shot down, and is forced to hijack an F-14 to fly home (getting gun kills on the way back).

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[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, and one of the main premises is that ChinaRussiaIran has more advanced planes, but because Tom Cruise and the other 'Mericans are so good and heroic, that doesn't matter. Granted, they're flying F-18s (and later an F-14 which actually beats them) which were dated when the movie was filmed and even more so because it was postponed due to COVID, but it's still ridiculous that the premise is that the US is a smol bean underdog.

[-] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 month ago

It still makes absolutely no sense why they had to use the f18s. I know the entire point was to make up a reason to replicate some of independence day but absolutely none it makes sense.

[-] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

It still makes absolutely no sense why they had to use the f18s.

Because top gun is about navy pilots, and the main navy fighter when it was filmed is mainly the F-18. Just like in the first top gun movie they fly F-14s because that was the main navy fighter at the time. It has nothing to do with independence day at all.