I was trying to watch it on a 9-hr plane ride, and couldn't get past the first 30 minutes. I have to give it another shot.
I really dig multi-verse type of stories.
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I really dig multi-verse type of stories.
It took me 3 times. I kept losing interest. Maverick once snd then watched it sgain the next day. Riveting!!
Movies are too subjective. With EEAO I was pretty hooked from the get go. Not that I wasn't hooked with Maverick from the get go... that Darkstar flight was pretty awesome. why didn't he just stop at MACH10 that idiot?! Everyone was probably fired because of him. But EEAO kept taking weird unexpected turns while I knew exactly what was gonna happen 10 minutes into Maverick. I was surprised no one died though... no one. And maybe someone should have.
This. And then when Maverick sneaks into the enemy air base and steals the old airplane...come on man!
De gustibus.
Maverick got nominated for Best Picture which I don't think it deserved, and it got nominated for some other categories.
It's not like Box Office has no tangible rewards. It has all the tangible rewards in some ways. Personally, I'd rather have the money than the trophy so I'm not crying for Tom Cruise.
Regarding relatively recent Best Picture nominees/winners, the ones I've seen, the vast majority of them are more deserving than Maverick IMHO.
Ford v Ferrari, 1917, The Post, The Big Short, American Sniper, Grand Budapest Hotel, Zero Dark Thirty, Argo, Moneyball, The King's Speech, Up in the Air, The Blind Side, Juno, The Departed, Master and Commander...
I love the LOTR so kind of disqualify them because of my fandom, but I don't think those were necessarily best picture worthy. Master and Commander was as deserving as Return of the King and Gangs of New York was better than The Two Towers. I can see some people unable to stand Grand Budapest but for whatever reason I liked it.
Avatar, Inglorious Basterds, The Revenant, Les Miserables, and Dunkirk I can see being on a par or not as good as Maverick although I liked some of them as much or more.
The canyon flight, nostalgia easter eggs, and pacing of Maverick was very good. It cost a fortune and was logistically unpossible.
The King's Speech was short on explosions but was still an incredible move from where I'm sitting.
It's not like Box Office has no tangible rewards. It has all the tangible rewards in some ways. Personally, I'd rather have the money than the trophy so I'm not crying for Tom Cruise.
Regarding relatively recent Best Picture nominees/winners, the ones I've seen, the vast majority of them are more deserving than Maverick IMHO.
Ford v Ferrari, 1917, The Post, The Big Short, American Sniper, Grand Budapest Hotel, Zero Dark Thirty, Argo, Moneyball, The King's Speech, Up in the Air, The Blind Side, Juno, The Departed, Master and Commander...
I love the LOTR so kind of disqualify them because of my fandom, but I don't think those were necessarily best picture worthy. Master and Commander was as deserving as Return of the King and Gangs of New York was better than The Two Towers. I can see some people unable to stand Grand Budapest but for whatever reason I liked it.
Avatar, Inglorious Basterds, The Revenant, Les Miserables, and Dunkirk I can see being on a par or not as good as Maverick although I liked some of them as much or more.
The canyon flight, nostalgia easter eggs, and pacing of Maverick was very good. It cost a fortune and was logistically unpossible.
The King's Speech was short on explosions but was still an incredible move from where I'm sitting.
unfortunately saw this is in the theater - couldnt wait for it to be over. pitt and and cast were good and it was well acted - just a mess of an over indulgent movie.
I aint crying for Cruise either. Im whining about EEA receiving a Sappy Reparation we feel sorry for you award with Best Picture. Yeah its been a hard year and a long road for Orientals. I hope this makes it all better. I will say again Yeoh, Huan and The Daniels deserved their awards. Just not Best Pic or JLC.
I agree with you but at the same time I don't think the other contenders were that deserving either. Ok I didn't watch all of them but I think we can all agree it's been a while since we got a really memorable movie.
All Quiet on the Western Front and Tar were not memorable?
Belfast wasn't memorable?
Thought these might be good.
I saw Ford v Ferrari; it's only a couple years old - that one wasn't memorable?
Surely not everything is unwatchable art house or a filmed musical like Les Miserables?
Belfast wasn't memorable?
Thought these might be good.
I saw Ford v Ferrari; it's only a couple years old - that one wasn't memorable?
Surely not everything is unwatchable art house or a filmed musical like Les Miserables?
Kind of the point, right? All the shitty parts of war and unlike Thin Red Line, Private Ryan, Enemy at the Gates, etc. their side lost.
Before watching Maverick, we decided to watch the original Top Gun with the kids last night as we thought they'd like it. I hadn't seen it in many years.
They thought it was SLOOOOOOOW.
Normally I'd say it's because they've been improperly marvelized against my will but I kind of agree - I can't figure out why that movie was longer than 25 minutes. A ton of filler, minimal story arc, and too much Berlin Loggins.
Is Maverick going to be another Coming 2 America/Dark Tower where they just threw together a bunch of Easter Eggs and hoped that would be enough? Don't think any of us are feeling nostalgia today...
Get off my lawn!
They thought it was SLOOOOOOOW.
Normally I'd say it's because they've been improperly marvelized against my will but I kind of agree - I can't figure out why that movie was longer than 25 minutes. A ton of filler, minimal story arc, and too much Berlin Loggins.
Is Maverick going to be another Coming 2 America/Dark Tower where they just threw together a bunch of Easter Eggs and hoped that would be enough? Don't think any of us are feeling nostalgia today...
Get off my lawn!
yup. totally get that was the point. still depressing to watch though haha
Yeah there's no denying the better a tragedy is, the worse the tragedy is.
All Quiet on the Western Front was pretty awesome. but would they really give the award to another WWI movie? It was pretty fucking awesome though. Didn't watch Tar. Ford vs Ferrari was good stuff.
I probably could have done without the sausage fingers bit.
... and they even managed to have an emotional love scene between the sausage finger people.... Now that I think about it If that's not best movie award worthy, I don't know what is!Wasn't the last WW1 movie to win Lawrence of Arabia, and the last one before that was the OG All Quiet on the Western Front?
Master and commander is one of my personal goats. Never understood how they never made 6 more- they only have 20+ novels loaded with adventures to put on camera
just read that a prequel, based on the very first novel, was in the works as of 2021, but, that is 2 years ago now. Who knows
love the age of sail
just read that a prequel, based on the very first novel, was in the works as of 2021, but, that is 2 years ago now. Who knows
love the age of sail