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The Mission Impossible films have maintained high quality despite an absurd number of sequels. I’d also compare _Everything Everywhere All at Once_ favorably a
by jamesgeck0 4y ago
The Mission Impossible films have maintained high quality despite an absurd number of sequels.
I’d also compare _Everything Everywhere All at Once_ favorably against a lot of old blockbusters.
Modern technology aside, Top Gun: Maverick feels like it could have come out thirty years ago.
- pjc50 4y agoEEAO is very unusual; it's an "indie" "arthouse" film that's stuffed full of references to other bits of non-Western cinema, as well as having lots of SFX action sequences. It had a budget of under $15m (per wikipedia), which is much less than the $170m of Top Gun: Maverick. I'm very glad that somehow it got made, but there's a real drive to not make any middle-budget movies like that any more. > Top Gun: Maverick feels like it could have come out thirty years ago. I've not seen it, but to what extent is that because it's a remake of a film that came out 30 years ago?
- jonhohle 4y agoI never liked Top Gun, but when others spoke fondly about it, a Maverick-like movie was what I always wanted. Reasonable character arc, lots of practical effects, good story. It is a script that would have worked in the 80s and fits in that style of concise, well paced action movie, but it’s far superior to the original, imho.
- CuriouslyC 4y agoIt would have been concise if they hadn't wasted 30 minutes of screen time trying to milk top gun nostalgia.