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The flying scenes might be cool in IMAX, but the regular scenes would probably be too much. IMAX is great for sweeping landscapes and big-picture action. It doesn't work well with general people talking scenes.
Good question. Same problem here in the ATL area.
Looks like Jurassic World took over those screens. Sigh. Maybe we will get another crack at it.
I would really like to see the dogfights and aerial manuevers on the big imax screen. Maybe they will bring them back for the 4th of July or other holidays.
Finally saw it today…
The Easter eggs and homage to the first movie were priceless!
Have to admit the scenes involving Ice and his treatment in those scenes definitely brought tears….
Just wow…..!
Have not seen it. Don't plan to for a few reasons.
I'm definitely more old school naval aviation. My favorite part of TG1 were the A-4's. Heinemann's Hotrod was one heck of a plane.
I don't want to ruin it for the folks who haven't seen it, but the vintage Iranian jet twist made the movie for me! Brilliant script writing because they really flew that plane. The details of the plot were borderline cartoonish, just like TC's MI movies. Great movie and, honestly, the idea behind it was perfectly timely based on current events. The tactics and systems employment were ridiculous again (just like TG1), but who cares? 99.9% of the viewers don't know the difference, and they tied it together to make a fun story.
Took me till 2 days after seeing the Movie to realize that Jennifer Connelly was the Admiral's daughter Penny Benjamin from Top Gun 1.
Another interesting point is they show him working on a P-51 which is not a Navy plane. Turns out it is Tom Cruise's personal plane that he flies himself.
@pgjackson My unit(s) were an F-4S training command at MCAS Yuma (VMFAT-101), after that I was in the only RF-4B unit in the Marine Corps, VMFP-3 (now disbanded) after that a US Navy training command of EA-6B’s (VAQ-129) at NAS Whidbey Island, and then my last three years in the Marine Corps I was in MAG-11 with VMFA-323 at (now closed) MCAS El Toro, as the enlisted “Safety NCO” and a QAR in our unit’s QA. I got one F/A-18B (at VMFAT-101) joy ride with my OIC pilot before I got out. Back before that, in the early 1980s when I was at the F-4 101, TOPGUN, back when I was at MCAS Yuma, meant we had to work all weekend long, as the A-4s they had would be at our VAL line, and I was at that unit when the first TOPGUN movie was filmed.
I was the MMCO for the F-18 squadron for 3 years and never got a joy ride. They quit doing those as a money saving thing. Every single flight had to be tied to an actual training "X".
Then you were with one of (when I was active duty) VMFA(AW) units, like for instance VMFA(AW)-121
I was with VMFA(AW)-332 in Beaufort. MAG-31. 94-97.
alright, you two. I lost my decoder ring a long time ago.
BEAUTIFUL BEAUFORT BY THE SEA!
Now THAT I can relate to....!!!
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