Are you ready for Top Gun 2? …No?

Well, TOO BAD, because Hollywood’s going to extrude it out anyway and put it on a tray:

Tom Cruise has officially confirmed that Top Gun 2 is happening. While appearing on the Australian TV morning show Sunrise that Top Gun 2 has moved past the development stage, and is ready for launch. He added the film is “gonna start filming it probably in the next year.”

There’s video at the link of Tom Cruise saying that, so either it’s true or Cruise is trying for Super-Ninja Grandmaster Troll status.  Fortunately for the franchise – do two films count as a franchise? – Tom Cruise ages well, and it’s all about the planes anyway*. Which could very possibly make Top Gun 2 tolerable, at that.  I mean, how can you mess up two hours of fighter plane combat?

…Don’t answer that.

Moe Lane

*And the homoeroticism. I mean, seriously, that movie was so far in the dang closet it almost reached Narnia. …OK, so, yeah, that particular juxtaposition conjures up some alarming imagery, there; but you know what I mean.

8 thoughts on “Are you ready for Top Gun 2? …No?”

  1. You say “homoeroticism”, I say “eye candy for a majority of female movie-goers” .. and maybe a dig at the Navy .. and yeah, let’s do leave Narnia alone please.
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    That said .. I’m very confused about the timing. “Top Gun” was a tremendous piece of jingoistic propaganda .. it could almost have been written by the Reagan white house .. but *why* do a sequel .. and *why* now?
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    Why, for that matter, is “Dunkirk” about to hit theaters?
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    Does Hollywood have some group in the “tenth man”** role who said “What kind of films should we make if Trump wins?” .. and *made them*?
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    Mew
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    ** as popularized in “World War Z”

    1. Dunkirk is happening because Chris Nolan wants it to happen and he can do whatever he wants at this point. I’m pretty hopeful it will be good, but I have no idea if it will do good business.

      1. Dunkirk looks like it’s going to have an emotional impact like a hammer from orbit, and there’s no way that they can make a sequel to it, so I’m cool if it only breaks even or something.

          2. Yeah, but first they’d have to do Dieppe, which would be a total downer.

          3. Lionel Chetwynd has been trying to pitch his Dieppe project forever. Just saying. Last time they asked him:”But who are the real enemies?” Because Nazi’s aren’t evil enough, I guess? If Branagh wants a sequel.

  2. Yeah, watching it again, the sheer volume of oddly posed shirtless dudes in towels certainly gives one pause… to my knowledge, Tony Scott wasn’t gay and I don’t think the film was trying to be subversive at all, but I think the term “latent” certainly applies.
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    Moving on, I highly recommend Mike Nelson and Bill Corbet’s Rifftrax for the film. Great stuff. http://www.rifftrax.com/top-gun

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