Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick broke the internet when it came out in theatres in May 2022. People universally fell in love with the film for its glorious script, plot, and cinematography. It was a movie that indeed did justice to the original Tony Scott 1986 classic, Top Gun. That opinion holds true even in the opinion of legendary directors like Quentin Tarantino who went so far as to claim that Top Gun: Maverick was “a true cinematic spectacle”.
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Top Gun: Maverick: A Journey 30 Years in the Making
To say that Top Gun: Maverick was simply good would be an insult to the art of cinematography. The Joseph Kosinski directorial debut won the hearts of the mass with his ingenious resurrection of the Tony Scott classic that had, in its own era, been slow to rise to critical success. Over the years, Top Gun (1986) became an icon for the gay rights movement during the era of Reagan’s conservative America.
The late re-emergence of the Tom Cruise movie along with his rising stardom and the film’s own brilliant sequence all came together to catapult the movie to unprecedented fame and acclaim. Now, the sequel that comes three decades after the events of the original movie, was set up for success with Cruise’s own approval of the plot, the brilliant retention of the central elements of friendship, love, and camaraderie, and of course, the beach football sequence.
Top Gun: Maverick Winning the Anti-Woke Supporters
Unfortunately, a film as brilliant as Top Gun: Maverick is bound to win every arena of the public demography and that includes those who would rather watch reruns of Black Hawk Down than admit Euphoria is a ground-breaking creation of the contemporary time. In the current socio-cultural scenario, ‘wokeness’ that is often confused with political correctness or even ‘activistism’ and it seems that a faction of the anti-woke and apolitical crowd have started to voice their support for the Tom Cruise starrer recently.
Top Gun: Maverick star received an impressive 6-minute standing ovation during the premiere of his film, and was thereafter awarded the Palme d’Or. Tom Cruise’s film which earned over $1.37 billion at the global box office currently holds a 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and has been reported to soon launch on online streaming platforms for the audience to watch.
Top Gun: Maverick will be available to be purchased digitally on Paramount Plus from August 23, 2022, however, the streaming date for the movie has not yet been released.
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