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We Hate Movies

S13 Ep652: WLM - Top Gun: Maverick (PREVIEW)

We Hate Movies

WHM Entertainment

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.75K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

This month on We ❤️ Movies, we’re talking a blue streak about one of the best Hollywood blockbusters of (at least) the last decade, and one of the best films of last year, Top Gun: Maverick! How refreshing was it to see all of these real-deal sequences caught on film? Couldn’t we have had a few more scenes with—whoa there! This episode is for subscribers only. To access the full show, along with hours and hours of exclusive content you can't get anywhere else! 

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0:00.0

I mean, it does, I think, has a very similar new hope to force a wake in similarity to

0:20.3

original.

0:21.3

It's got very similar story beats, very, very, very similar how it unrolls, but it's

0:26.8

a different kind of movie.

0:28.8

The first one was about infighting in a, like, almost school-like setting.

0:34.2

This is about mentoring.

0:35.7

This is about, you know, an actual mission.

0:39.5

It's like, it's funny, he terraformed top gun to become a mission impossible movie in

0:45.1

a way with this because he added certain elements that are really what makes mission

0:49.4

possible work time and time again, especially, I would say, the runway scene after they get

0:55.6

shot down.

0:56.6

I mean, the, the, the final, you know, 40 minutes or so, like, the whole mission, I mean,

1:03.0

that shit is mission impossible.

1:05.2

And I feel like, I don't know, absolutely, I mean, what I'm saying is absent of some of

1:11.8

those, like, what we're calling, like, smaller Tom Cruise movies, you're going to have those

1:17.2

moments because my theory going is that he's a man who is so desperate, he so desperately

1:25.2

wants to leave Scientology, but he knows how wrapped up he is in it.

1:28.7

So he's like, all right, from here on out, big stunts, and I'm going to roll the dice,

1:33.4

and eventually one of these times I'm going to kill myself, and I'll finally be rid of

1:37.9

miscavage.

1:38.9

I can be up in heaven with Shelley miscavage or whatever, what the fuck happened to that?

1:43.3

No, he just, he gets, he gets to hell and, like, it's just Elra and Hobart, like, thought

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