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How was Top Gun an attack on formulaic films?
by chmod600 4y ago
How was Top Gun an attack on formulaic films?
- noufalibrahim 4y agoI felt that it went against several of the popular things in movies these days. It was comparatively low on CGI. It had a prominent male lead character without a female character supporting in the main plotline. Someone else mentioned on this discussion about Chinese funding. They took a decision than angered the investors there and, I believe, caused them to pull out https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/02/media/top-gun-maverick-taiwan-flag-reinstated-intl-hnk/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/02/media/top-gun-maverick-ta... Maybe I'm overthinking it. I saw the first one as a kid and spent a lot of time doing dogfights with my toy planes since. The nostalgia hit me quite hard and it genuinely felt like a nice sequel which retained the macho 80s spirit of the original. I've never felt that with other modern movies.
- actionfromafar 4y agoI think you are overthinking, a bit. IM is very formulaic, but maybe a dying breed of formulaic.
- chmod600 4y agoMaybe it would be better to say that it bucks the trend of modern movies?
- yourusername 4y ago>It was comparatively low on CGI That was the marketing line. There's CGI in almost every shot there are aircraft on screen.
- throw0101a 4y ago> I felt that it went against several of the popular things in movies these days. It was comparatively low on CGI. Low-CGI / practical effects is part of the Tom Cruise formula though. You go to his movies to see him do crazy things (with a requisite running scene). Kind of like OG Jackie Chan movies: you watch them for his stunts.
- philwelch 4y agoI sort of assumed Top Gun doubled back on appeasing the Chinese censors because the Chinese censors wouldn’t really be interested in a movie that glorifies the US military in the first place.