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TOP GUN 2: TOP GUNIER??
Merrick here...
Rumors are swirling that Tom Cruise & The Powers That Be are dancing around a TOP GUN sequel. I'm not sure where this information originated from, although it seems a British tabloid may've had something to do with generating initial reports about the"project"... so consume this news with a grain of salt.
An insider said: “The idea is Maverick is at the Top Gun school as an instructor — and this time it is he who has to deal with a cocky new female pilot.”
...says THIS ARTICLE in UK's publication The Sun.
Okay...seasoned hot-shot pilot meets cocky new female pilot? Do I hear a Tom/Katie vehicle revving its engines? Now if they'd only get Wiseman or Ratner to direct this, all will perfect.
I know a few gay guys who vow to march in protest if this purported follow-up doesn't at least equal the first first film's homoerotic volleyball sequence:
Know anything more? E-MAIL ME! I'd love to hear it.
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Now that's out of the way
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The first was more than enough.
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Jul 22, 2008 12:25:19 PM CDT
because we all know Kelly McGillis became a lesbian between TOP
by the marquis de side 3
TOP THIS!
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Anything but that.
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didnt realize how painfully long that scene was until it was in a clip all by itself. i couldn't even finish 1/3 of it. I need a "crying game" shower now.
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this doesn't even rate as a guilty pleasure.
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Unless this features a zombified Anthony Edwards rising from the dead to seek his revenge (and his dog tags), I don't see why anyone would wanna see this.
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I was never a big fan of the original.
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it will have maverick as an instructor and they have to fight the new menace of global terrorism and figure out a fighter pilot's role in the new world and it will be totally balls-out stupid. either that, or, here you go, they are all stuck on an aircraft carrier, and it rund out of gas. or the nuclear pellets or whatever. and they have to wait three weeks for the gas boat. so they make a play! and all the sailors are putting on this play. but then the fukin terrorists blow up disneyland, where all the other sailors in the world were, so the top gun aircraft carrier has to stop in the middle of the play, and they tie ropes onto the jets and the fighter pilots tow the ship to disneyland and fight the terrorists. that sounds a lot like battlestar galactica, i know. i'm just brainstorming. and maverick is gay in this one.
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no thank you.
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they get to finish the play in the end.
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I like Tom Cruise the actor, but as a person, I want to hit him with a stick. That said, he needs a Pulp Fiction comeback picture. MI: IV would be a better choice for a sequel.
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Under the gun and on the run, Maverick attempts to revive a career that appears ready to crash and burn!
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...as a comedy (without changing the original script) and cast Ben Stiller as Maverick, Owen Wilson as Goose, keep Val Kilmer as Iceman, and add Will Ferrel as the Tom Skerritt character. It could be quite hilarious, actually.
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They retired the Tomcat which was cooler than any existing carrier plane today, so why even bother now?
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...the need to vomit.
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Back when Cruise was doing press for the upcoming release of Days of Thunder, Mary Hart asked him about Tom Gun 2 and he said something like "Tony and I are working on a script and we hope to go into production next year." I have no idea why I remember that or why it has stuck with me, but it's curious that they are now trying to get a sequel of the ground.
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So this movie will be pretty much 2 hours of Tom Cruise doing squats with "obstacles", am I right people? what an audience!
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Uh...is it just me or does that sound like the title of a gay porn?
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I think the guy playing the guitar in he video is Xenu. Geesh look at the hair on that guy. I think alien spirits could reside in there.
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no, man, now they are training for the new stealth fighter called the "dragon claw" or some made up thing, and it's all CG! come on, open your mind. this movie, as well as top gun 3-6, write themselves! part five has them launching from a submarine. part six they're in space. part four they get stuck on an island. this is a license to print money. come on.
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to be followed by Maverick III
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There's all these guys sitting in the bleachers. "Hey, Maverick, can we play? There's plenty of room on the court!" "Screw off man, I'm trying to get laid!"
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Wasn't Collateral supposed to be his "see-Tom-in-a-whole-new-light" role?
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Let's all dump him on the first interstellar flight to Xenu or whatever the fuck it's called
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i loled.
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There I'm done now.
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waste of talk back space. having said that..i'd see this if it were high end. the first one really set the pace for bay/bruckheimer /simpson action, explosions and perfect sunsets.
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So this movie will be pretty much 2 hours of Tom Cruise riding a bike without the seat, am I right people? what an audience!
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porno title 2
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yeah cuz sequels suck..like emppire, godfather 2 and dark knight...pure unoriginal garbage. nice hyperbole pal.
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That is all
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you are not witty like you want people to think you are. i loved top gun. classic.
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I think it's the sequelitis concept of "it's just like the original, except this time ______", that yackbacker objects to.
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If I want your opinion, i'll give it to you.
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So this movie will be pretty much 2 hours of Tom Cruise all over a cockpit buffet, am I right people? what an audience!
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of the Bruckheimer Music Video School of filmmaking that he patented with Flashdance. The plots are identical..the protaganist just has to "follow their dream..."
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I'll believe it when I see it.
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I'm so not ready to have my breath taken away again...
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It's almost certainly bullshit. Especially if it was published in the Daily (Hate) Mail.
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Top Gun couldn't be gayer if it turned into a Tom Cruise Bukkake. Maybe that's the plan for Top Gun 2, just skip all that flying shit and just turn it into a gay porno.
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Seriously, nobody wants to see another half-assed action movie with Tom Cruise + no one wants to see a Top Gun sequel = Paramount hiring a geek favorite to butter us up. And it'll work, sadly.
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Make a King of Kong-esque documentary about people trying to land the plane on the aircraft carrier.
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And Goonies II of course.
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I feel better now.
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What an audience~!
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all you need is a power glove.
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Never played it, actually. I almost lost my marbles finishing the first game (ALT: 200, SPEED 220 to land safely. I'll take that with me - to the grave!) so I gave up. Goonies 2 rocked, actually. I think the concept of video game sequels - aside from the obvious greedy aspect - works quite well. I would have preferred a badass Die Hard 4 on pS3 rather than the shitty Wiseman turd.
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WHY!!!!!?????????????!!!!!!!!!!
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Which to Tom probably read "tranny in a flight-suit". I'd have more respect for Tom if he'd just go ahead and star in a remake of "Cruisin'". Come to think of it, wouldn't even have to be a remake, it could be a biopic with the same title and just as GAY.
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lol has anyone else seen the ads? they're everywhere, what an ego
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I'VE WAITED MY WHOLE LIFE FOR THIS, JUST WHEN I THOUGHT AFTER THE DARK KNIGHT I'D NEVER HAVE ANOTHER MOVIE TO LOOK FORWARD TO, AND I GET THIS NEWS!!!!!! GET JIM CAMERON! NO CGI!! THANK YOU GOD!!!!
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Seriously, this sounds a lot like a Harrison Ford "my movies suck now, so i'll cash some checks on a sure fire franchise" kind of move. If you needed further proof that Cruise is over and done with, it would be talk of a Top Gun sequel.
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I think its worth noting to point out that the plot the Sun has printed is identical to the plot they were working on back in the late 80s early 90s. Whether that makes the rumour more or less likely is beyond me at this point. Although, I'm leaning towards less at this juncture.
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with Topper Harley, Wall-Eye, Dead-Meat etc...
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Does any one really want one of those?
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not trying to be funny with a made up title. I guaran-fucking-tee you that will be what is called. Which is even more tragic and stupid than some off the ones made up here!!
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Ho Hum.
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Top Gun 2: Impossible to land
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...into the magic of Scientology.
Then in five years, get ready for TOM-KAT, THE OPERA. -
just when he thought they couldnt ride him harder.
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http://tinyurl.com/62bzlg Classic scene from so-so 90's indie flick, Sleep With Me.
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When your restarting a franchise you need this.
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http://tinyurl.com/69ev68
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I don't think Cruise would be willing to appear in such a homoerotic story, he's not even holding on to any credibility with his "marriage" to Holmes, so doing such an openly gay film is going to be out of the question.
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More Elf Cruise, and no new classic Goldsmith score to dump for Tangerine Dream.
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But a Top Gun 2 smacks of DTV.
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I can't make up my mind whether this will be utter shit or utterly amazing. Its got the wankiest pitch I've heard in the 5 long weeks of listening to script girl, but its still A NEW TOP GUN FILM!!!
Top Gun is definitely the most entertaining movie of all time and fuck all this gay talk; none of you watched this film when it originally came out and thought, 'I feel dirty 'cos I've watched a homo flick', you have to blame/thank Tarantino for that -
I think he still can be, but he's at that strange celebrity level and has so much screen presence that it makes people go "Hey, it's Tom Cruise" whenever he's on screen. Harrison Ford almost has that problem, James Earl Jones has it, John Wayne and latter day Brando as well. It happened even before the Oprah! jump, around the time of The Last Samuri. Collateral worked because people kept seeing Tom Cruise up there doing such un-Cruise-like things, and while a good perfomrance it was a little bit of Tom Cruis's Evil Twin. After that, he was always Tom Cruise on screen. He can be good again but he will always be "tom Cruise" or Tom Cruise in a hairpiece.
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Unless it stars Tom Cruise and features a bedraggled Kelly McGillis as a bitter bitch who wasted her youth on a young pilot, only to come home one day find him with a little Iceman up his ass, I can't really see this movie happening.
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You're wrong. I saw this in the 80's when I was 14, and the whole time I kept asking my dad "Dad, are those guys gay?". "No.". Ten minutes pass "Dad, are you sure?"
But all my friends loved it, so I thought I must have been crazy until I saw Sleep With Me, and I knew that if the guy who made Resovior Dogs and Pulp Fiction saw in that movie what I saw, then maybe I wasn't the one who was crazy after all. -
A female pilot? Haha as soon as Americans get word of such PC-mongering, this shit will be DOA. We don't want to see chick soldiers, chick presidents, or most other cases of feminist appeasing stuntcasts. And before you cultural marxists start whining, women won't really care to see it either.
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Tom Cruise was never a good actor. He was a popular movie star, but never a good actor. Please don't confuse the two. Sometimes an actor can be both a good actor and a popular movie star, but Tom Cruise never was and never will be one of those people.
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Best. Line. Ever.
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There goes Stop Or My Mother Will Shoot, Again.
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Only she has the power to resist Xenu!
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Jul 22, 2008 2:08:09 PM CDT
Top Gun II: Cruise Control Fastriouser Tokyo Driftstriouser
by ray gamma
you heard it here first
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That was a Val Kilmer is fat now joke... Oh, who am I kidding, I never looked as good as Kilmer did back then, although I probably look better than him now... If I suck my gut in really hard...
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"Joel, Get off the babysitter" has an entirely different meaning now.
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Jul 22, 2008 2:15:25 PM CDT
Well Tom Cruise is in desperate need of career resuscitation
by troutmaskreplicant
Just look at those bloody ads popping up everywhere with him in the plane. Perhaps they're testing the waters. If people like the idea then they just might.
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That's all Top Gun ever was, with Kelly McGillis as cover. I have no problem with that, but that's what it was. Thrust between the legs and whatnot, dudes playing volleyball and spending an uncomfortable amount of time drinking and singing off-key together with their arms all over each other.
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Flames on the wings
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the gay thing may be a revisionist attitude, but that beach volley scene was still hilariously bad, and remains to this day.
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Top Gun is hardcore gay.
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I think my mom is the last Tom Cruise fan on the planet. God bless her for sticking to her guns. I however can't stand the idea that he was a fool for the past couple of years. Let's hope Tropic Thunder clears that couch jumping fool's image for the better.
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Hmm...Maybe they'll do a cover of the song with Jessica Simpson or something. Ugh...They already did that! D'oh!!!
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Fuck, I'm a brilliant sonuvadonut.
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they put him everywhere these days
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"So's my johnson."
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Have you seen this?
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Soundtrack by Madonna, Marc Almond, George Michael, ABBA, Depeche Mode, The Pet Shop Boys, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, and the Village People.
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Don't tell Xenu!
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Haha! Holy shit! I never saw that! That is dead on.
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Marverick is an instructor, he gets into the pants of the new hot shot lady pilot with his rendition of "You lost that loving feeling!" in a dirty bar with a bunch of young pilots, but she only has eyes for her 20 yrs older teacher; later she ejects her male co-pilot "Mongoose" in mid-turn killing him; Marverick's been there, done that, kill a goose before, he conforts her, screws her again. THey go to war with Iran, they win by shooting down the best of the best; Iran sends in a nuclear missile, Tom goes in and rams it, he explodes, he dies, he's remebered as a hero! She cries, she's pregnant, she's not married to him, she's not getting a dime, Tom's ex played by Kelly McGillis inherits the issurance money, ten years later we see the young female pilot, she's older, saggier, she calls out for Maverick, we see a child coming around the corner, he has a Fighter plane in his hands, fade out... There you have it... Top Gunn II: Battlefield Earth!
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Just saying is all! :p
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Err...I meant flaccid!
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It's getting old, isn't it? Prime example of how people will believe anything they read... namely the tabloids. There is no reason to believe Tom Cruise is gay. No more than any other major actor/actress out there. There's no reason to believe his marriage is a sham either. Except for reliance on the tabloids who make that shit up to sell magazines.
Hell, there's more reason to believe that George Clooney is gay. Regardless, it's all ridiculous speculation and every time anyone spouts it, it's proof that such people have nothing better to do than speculate on someone they've never met, probably never seen, and rely only on what certain bogus media tells them.
And as far as the homoerotic thing with Top Gun. Um, fellas, there's this demographic out there... you might have heard about them in between issues of comic books and Bruce Campbell book signings... women. Studios do everything they can to get as many demographics into those seats, so yeah, placing their stars in sweaty and shirtless situations (volleyball, locker room) offers up something for the ladies to watch. You think studios said, "We really want you to gay this up a bit." No... they say, "We need to bring in the pussy for this action flick too."
So if you see nothing but homoeroticness (is that a word?) when you watch Top Gun, MAYBE you need to ask YOURSELF a few questions about YOUR sexuality. LOL
Give me a break. The guy's a great actor who's in his first slump. His last notable film was arguably Magnolia or Vanilla Sky... oh, and Minority Report. He didn't have a bad run from 1983-2005 as far as box office success. Name anyone who's had that long of a success record in the industry, acting-wise.
And as far as his religious beliefs? Who fucking cares. Most people know next to nothing about the Scientology practices other than what has been speculated in the media (the whole xenu, beings from another planet thing, etc.). Anyone could be deemed crazy, cult-like, or a Jesus freak if they had one snippet of them talking about their respective beliefs. It's old, it's stupid, and sadly enough it is reflective of our society's obsession with celebrity . We love to build up our idols and we crave to tear them down. Because, you know, we're all so perfect compared to them. -
Maverick vs. Terminator
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Did anyone hear how a British newspaper said Stephen Moffat refused to finish the second and third Tintin script in favour of Doctor Who. As it happens he didn't.
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This story is complete BS. The newspaper probobly got that from the IMDB Trivia section for Top Gun. In it, it says
"A script for "Top Gun 2" was completed shortly after the release of the film, but it broke down in pre-production because 1) the military's technology had become updated and they didn't want camera crew anywhere near their new aircraft and 2) Cruise did not want a sequel and finally agreed to star in one for a very high amount that was deemed "unaffordable." The script followed the further adventures of Maverick as an instructor at the Top Gun academy, the twist being a cocky female reminiscent of himself joining the team." -
Maverick goes back in time to destroy Xenu's fleet before he can stack billions of humans around volcanoes and blow them up with hydrogen bombs! YESSSSSSSSS!!!!
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It's a rag.
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Get Bryan Singer to direct. Nothing but lingering butt shots of Cruise's Scientological ass, and fuck all action. Starring Brandon Routh.
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Seems fitting doesnt it? (tee hee)
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What a fucking dumb idea. It'll get made immediately, probably by Bay or fucking McG, starring a very desperate Tom Cruise trying his hardest to raise the tattered remains of his shattered career one last time.
That said, put Megan Fox in the flight suit and I'm there with bells on. Also requires a nude scene with Eliza Dushku towel-whipping Megan's sweet, sweet ass. -
This is gonna be HAWT
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Have you even WATCHED that volleyball scene?
I'm a fairly staunch heterosexual myself, but in my limited experience of watching gay movies, that scene is as homoerotic as it gets. Sorry, it is. Figured that out WAY before that hackneyed Tarantino scene. -
This will be the greatest sequel of all!
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I haven't seen the flick in about 20 years so I don't remember the details, but, young men playing volleyball, shirtless, sweating, while the orange-hued setting sun illuminates their glistening torsos...yea, sounds pretty gay to me.
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I blame Starbuck for this!
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Just out of curiosity, where are any blackbox commenters going to rip on the homophobia running fucking rampant in here? I'm a republican who doesn't support gay marriage and finds this board a fucking sham. Typical of this site - cant wait to whip out their racism/homophobia/misogyny at the slightest excuse.
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Because he had a fucking press conference to deny the allegations. That is someone who has some serious, serious issues with his sexuality and secrets to hide. Otherwise, he would just brush it off. I don't think I've ever seen ANY other actor in history hold a press conference to deflect allegations of homosexuality. EVER.
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No, you're wrong. Top Gun is the gayest movie ever made since My Beautiful Laundrette. Tom Cruise is not a "great actor", he's a popular movie star. There is a huge fucking difference. And if he's "so not gay", how come those rumors have been plauging him for over 20 years now? The only onther guy to have those rumors around him for that long was John Travolta and he's not gay, he just likes to make out with guys! Ask anyone who actually works in Hollywood and isn't a scientologist and they'll tell you: Tom Cruise is gay. Of any male celebrity that pre-out-of-the-closet Rosie O'Donnell could have pretended to have a crush on to prove she wasn't gay, it was Tom Cruise? Isn't that a bit telling? Oh, and Scientology isn't a real religion. It's a confidence operation disguised as a UFO cult. And any member of it or defender of it is either incredibly slow witted, (which explains why Clearwater, Florida is Scientolo-crazy), has an amazingly low sense of self esteem,or is completely bugfuck insane. Or all of the above.
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Queefer Madness!! Is that a Son Of The Beach reference?? Loved that episode, how it got by the censors with all the queef references is beyond me.
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Because when people are saying that Top Gun is gay, they aren't saying it's stupid, (although it is) they are saying that there are quite a few scenes in the film which seem pretty homo erotic. The vollyball scene is filled with oiled men touching each other. Val Kilmer's "biting" the air at Tom Cruise and the phrase "You can ride my tail!" seem like the kinds of things that men who are physically atracted to each other would do. Is it homophobic to point these things out or to deny their latent homor-eroticism?
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Isn't that a bummer? He seemed like a cool guy, but it turns out he's a fucking retard. Great music, though. Well, you know, he used to make good music. MIDNIGHT VULTURES was his best, and his last good one. Everything after that has been AWFUL. I blame Lord Xenu.
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but now all I can think of is Moe from the Simpsons yelling "I need a Homer-sexual!"
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How many times have you watched Top Gun? How many times did you come whilst watching it?
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Praise him! Lord Xenu is the Lucifer of scientology, so we should support Xenu anbd all his mighty works!
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Calm down, dude. Just because people are cdalling TOP GUN out for the gay movie it is, doesn't mean they're ripping on the fact it's gay. It's just hilarious that, in retrospect, this extremely macho-on-the-surface movie turns out to be a veiled homoerotic epic. Hell, I love the movie. But you cannot deny the gayness in that film!
I'd have though any gay guy on these talkbacks would LOVE the news of a TOP GUN 2! Don't deny them their pleasures... and ours!
Just remember... MEGAN FOX FOR THE HOT YOUNG PILOT CHICK!!! -
No longer "dead", Jester returns as a middle age mercernary working for Hugo Chavez. . . when Chavez decides to align with Cuba for a takeover of Colombia, maverick is called in to lead an eliet fighter unit to take on the Venezuelan-Cuban air armada. Starring Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, John C. Reilly, Billy Drago, and a very special appearance by Chuck Norris
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Jul 22, 2008 3:55:32 PM CDT
Can anybody name an airplane movie that doesn't completely suck?
by pumpymcass
When I was a kid everybody had this on VHS. It bored the shit out of me then and still does to this day. Plus, if the bar is playing karaoke when you're there, you're guaranteed to find some 25-40 year old douche or gaggle of douches singing "We've lost that loving feeling." Thanks, piece of shit movie. You suck, and your sequel will have a Labor Day release date and make 44 million dollars world wide.
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I'm not sure where you stand on all this, that last post was a little vague. What do you REALLY think? ;P
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And stop calling me Shirley!
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When he look sback at some of the work he has done he has to cringe.
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We're not saying it's a bad thing, it's just a gay thing..
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...with the woman I know who swears she say a fairy in a hedge in Lambertville New Jersey. Just not very likely...
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Looks back
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I can't believe that music video. It's all sorts of shittiness!
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I love Top Gun! It's the bestest, most super-duper macho movie ever made without a trace of homoerotic overtones whatsovever! Tom cruise is a better actor than Lawrence Olivier! And he's not gay at all! Scientology is a perfectly reasonable religion that's not out to bleed it's members dry! My sarcasm meter is completely red-lining and I'm spining out of control! HELP!
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"I love Top Gun! It's the bestest, most super-duper macho movie ever made without a trace of homoerotic overtones whatsovever! Tom cruise is a better actor than Lawrence Olivier! And he's not gay at all! Scientology is a perfectly reasonable religion that's not out to bleed it's members dry! My sarcasm meter is completely red-lining and I'm spining out of control! HELP!"
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And now that you have read this post, you are gay too. It's a scientifically testable fact.
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(sarcasm) "I love Top Gun! It's the bestest, most super-duper macho movie ever made without a trace of homoerotic overtones whatsovever! Tom cruise is a better actor than Lawrence Olivier! And he's not gay at all! Scientology is a perfectly reasonable religion that's not out to bleed it's members dry! My sarcasm meter is completely red-lining and I'm spining out of control! HELP!" (/sarcasm)
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And I was a little curious, so I let it play round there a while...
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Technically, having a dude beat you off (if you are also a dude) is gay, right? But if a guy beats himself off, it's his hand- a guy's hand - doing the beating, right? Ergo, by that rationale, masturbation IS gay!
Shit! WE ARE ALL GAY!!! -
Where's my edit button? Do I have to kiss a pee-pee to get an edit button?
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MEGAN FOX MEGAN FOX MEGAN FOX MEGAN FOX MEGAN FOX MEGAN FOX MEGAN FOX MEGAN FOX MEGAN FOX MEGAN FOX MEGAN FOX MEGAN FOX MEGAN FOX MEGAN FOX MEGAN FOX MEGAN FOX MEGAN FOX MEGAN FOX
I feel better. Move along. -
still no funny ones.
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Like it or hate it, new Galactica has covered that ground enough for now, anything it missed I'm sure was pre-emptively swept up by Pensacola: Wings of Gold in this department.
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except aw jeez, while rolling my eyes
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F-14s (I guess F-22 Raptors now) vs giant Xenu mothership... all while singing "You've lost that loving feeling". ok...
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There might have been a call for a sequel somewhere around 1998... but since then alot has changed. We're past sequel time, more into remake time. They really need to lose Cruise entirely, he's too much of a liability give his recent nuttiness. I'd be more apt to watch it with a nobody staring rather than Cruise. Maybe they can make a sequel to ET now, at least then Drew Barrymore is a somewhat sane 'name' to bring in on it.
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I specifically wrote that Tom Cruise should do a Top Gun sequel where he will now play a Top Gun instructor...along with various other details. I am pleased to know that Hollywood is out there listening to good ideas, but it is also interesing to know that they are still stealing ideas from others and not paying for them.
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that guitarists hairstyle in the video is tha awesome!. no need for a sequel its done. tom has moved onto other things. He just needs a fricking awesome blockbuster movie to get back on track and stop with the zenu bullshit a
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FAR superior to TOP GAY in every way. Including:
Jason Gedrick > Tom Cruise. Styles from TEEN WOLF was the best mate, not Anthony fucking Edwards. The music was BETTER - why no Twisted Sister in TOP GUN? Shawnee Smith was in IRON EAGLE! There was the gratuitous use of ONE VISION by Queen in IRON EAGLE. Sidney J Furey > Tony Scott, except obviously in the film-making stakes.
And the coup de grace:
LOU GOSSETT JR > EVERYONE IN TOP GUN. THE MAN IS A BONA FIDE FUCKING LEGEND IN CINEMA HISTORY!!!
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all the gays wanted him gay, but he never was. poor bloke. anyways. he needs a blockbuster or a "team movie" to get his cred back. an oceans 11 type thing with some other popular actors would work for him. or, a monster blockbuster. tom cruise = hal jordan = green lantern? i dunno.
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Top Gun was easily the most homo-erotic movie I have ever seen.
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We need:
Jason Gedrick in the Lou Gossett Jr role.
Anyone except fucking Shia LeBarf in the kid pilot role.
Shawnee Smith as the mom.
Christian Slater as the shot-down-POW Dad.
Set it in Iraq and give Sidney J Furie the reins again - SJF gotta eat!
Seriously, though. TOP GUN has kitsch 80's value, but IRON EAGLE would definitely be remake material. Make it so!
Oh, and Steelheart's "We All Die Young" on the soundtrack please. If it's good enough for Wahlberg in ROCK STAR, it's good enough for IRON EAGLE: REDUX. -
Watch 300 or TOP GUN. Either way, you're curious, bi the way.
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Is the public really clamoring for him to return? He needs to make more movies like Lions For Lambs and then go fuck himself.
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In this amazing second installment to the worlds gayest movie that isn't either a) gay porn or b) West Side Story, the power-tops at Power Top Gay Jet Academy penetrate the most dangerous anus of all... THE ANUS OF XENU!!! Thrill to the collective prolapse of the cosmic sphincter as Xenu sends his phalanx of space DC-10s to shoot hydrogen bombs into all the worlds volcanoes! Furrow your brow in confusion as the clearly homosexual Tom Cruise continues to pretend he's not gay as he swaps semen samples with his lover, Iceman!!! Run for the exits as various military recruiters try to sign you up for the Endless War!!! Run even faster when you run into the Village People and they want to give you a mustache n' chaps ride!!! JUST RUN!!! RUN AWAY UNLESS YOU WANT XENU TO PENETRATE YOUR ANUS!!! AIEEEEE!!!!
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Clearly 300 is SUPERGAY, and is a contender for the top spot (get it?). but TOP GUN is just a little bit gayer. Its the "You can ride my tail anytime" thing that puts it over the top and grants us all a reacharound.
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He fucked Ally McBeal in a car wash in the series. That's, like, actor necrophilia.
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I've never seen the original, so I don't know how smart or dumb it is to sequel this one. Probably ought to leave it.
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As an alien?
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Maybe you should sue them for 700 grand.
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knew it would be big in theater. I saw it in a screening back in the day (like the name says, cranky and old and a guy). Buncha music/film industry people, then in come all these girls teen or college age, can't remember. And they love the volleyball, which was one of the worst scenes, meaningless in a meaningless film only redeemed by Kelly McGillis, so hot then, and her overbite mouth to be chewed on. Think lil' Katie can match that? that would be no.
A sequel to so avoid. What's next, Risky Business, the next generation, Tom as the dad? -
An Officer and a Gentleman, another piece of '80s your-date -made -you-see -it -- and you still loath it when it turns up on TV. Richard Gere was awful in everything, once he found out he was 'Richard Gere." He was pretty good in Yanks, though.
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doesn't change her pure f-me appeal in Top Gun. Okay done now. You may resume slamming this concept at Cruise control.
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Its actually a pretty good movie too.
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Yes, that's it. Wait, was Lou Gossett Jr. confirmed as an alien in An Officer And A Gentleman?
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I played a Top Gun slot machine over the weekend, and Cruise had not licensed his likeness to be used in it. Kind of weird, but McGillis, Kilmer and Edwards did. Not surprisingly, I might add.
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I too loled, and I never lol. Please, keep 'em coming; way more entertaining than the movie will be. Top Gun 2: The Top Gunnening.
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I smell another Ben Stiller/Owen Wilson vehicle. Kilmer and Cruise have to train both of them in the "art" of Air Force volleyball :D
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That was named after an airplane and it didn't [totally] suck. I mean the Clint Eastwood movie, not the browser.
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I slurp it up! (Tom's Oscar clip)
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Hey Tom, your not working right? Great, well we have been writing this script for the last 15 years and we think it's finally ready, its provocative and original, all things a script taking this long should be. Ok, so YOUR the instructor (didnt see that coming did you?) And you have a new spunky wild pilot...WHOSE A GIRL. Whoa the original twists just keep coming!! when will theyy stop???
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Well, that's your opinion as far as it being a "gay" movie and Cruise not being a "great actor". He was excellent in Rain Man, Color of Money, Born on the Fourth of July, Jerry Maguire, The Firm, A Few Good Men, and Magnolia. Nominated for an Oscar for three of those films.
Your assessment that everyone in the industry knows he's gay is speculative. I've worked in the studio system for years and heard nothing of the sort. Most people in the industry that you'd know speculate just as much as the public so that's a mute argument. From the studio I worked in he's known for being a dedicated family man as well as one of the hardest working individuals in the business.
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Enough said. It's BS. Cruise wouldn't attach himself to this crap and has always said he wouldn't. He once commented tongue in cheek that DAYS OF THUNDER was his Top Gun sequel.
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Would be a great gritty pic, directed by Scorsese, seeing where Vincent ended up just like we saw where Fast Eddie ended up after The Hustler.
That'd be a warranted sequel... a great character study. And hell yeah, it'd be cool to see Shia as the next young pool hustler. I don't care what TBers say about Shia... he's a talented kid. I see Cruise's Vincent as a burnt out hustler past his prime who sees this kid playing pool with great skill. Wanting to capture his old glory days, he wants to take the kid under his wing only to use him to pay off some debt. But in the end, he sees himself in the kid and risks his neck in one final game. -
Gossett was indeed in Enemy MIne, which wasn't a great SF movie, but wasn't bad, either in a decade that also gave us the video game Last Starfighter (which did feature the definitely great Robert Preston).
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I love Top Gun. One of my favorites. Tom has really fallen off the rails in recent years. Nothing like resurrecting a beloved character. I wish he'd leave the Scientology behind, but whatever. Bring Maverick back in a believeable way, and watch the career repair!
Do it Tom!
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Jul 22, 2008 7:29:27 PM CDT
I can't believe so few people noticed the alterations to my Dang
by kaitain
Really, how blatant could it be? All the little military geeks just rattle on about how great the planes are.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2MeX45Kk6Q
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Same comments apply.
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a new Kelly McGillis movie.
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Yeah, someone just touched my Dang. That was supposed to be "to my Danger Zone video".
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Does this board always fuck up posted links by adding spaces? Is there some special trick?
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Fine. I'll shut up now.
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Summary - As Gotham creeps closer to the edge of chaos, her citizens must decide if they will fight to keep their home, or give in to despair.
ACT I - After being hunted for one year, Batman has become a ruthless pessimist. Even those closest to him (Alfred, Fox, Gordon) fear his losing hope. His only achievement; a complex security system that allows the Batman to become 'Big Brother' to Gotham City.
But a new criminal has discovered Batman's system, and is attempting to use his genius to crack the system and unlock the mystery of the Batman
ACT II - Bruce Wayne is introduced to a beautiful foreign diplomat who hopes to encourage the wealthy and powerful to save their city. Bruce Wayne becomes intrigued by her motives, and sees his lost ideology in this mysterious woman.
Meanwhile, his security system is being hacked, with the attacker(s) leaving strange riddles. A jewelry thief dressed as a cat says she wants to help Batman find this 'Riddler', but he doesn't trust her.
ACT III - The Riddler unlocks the secrets of the Batman, sabotaging his entire operation. The Batman is forced to retreat to his shelter in the city.
He captures the Riddler with the aid of Catwoman. The Riddler refuses to cooperate, but the Batman out-wits him, making him reveal the truth - The Riddler is working for the beautiful foreign diplomat.
Batman confronts her and realizes she is the daughter of Ra's al Ghul, who has somehow restored his health and has returned to destroy both Batman and Gotham once and for all.
Cast: Batman - Bale
Catwoman - Scarlett Johannson
Riddler - Hugo Weaving
Talia al Ghul - Monica Bellucci
Ra's al Ghul - Liam Neeson -
Gay.
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It turns out that Maverick and Goose were both from the planet Zeist, and Mav can resurrect Goose by calling his name after shooting down a mig. Michael Ironside returns as "Jester" Katana, who wants to dismantle the shield over San Diego, or something.
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is as an SNL skit, if Tom Cruise hosts
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That this movie WON'T happen..
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at all.
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A cocky female pilot? There are no combat women fighter pilots. They run bombing missions and that's about it. Top Gun is a school, so i guess it's believable, but how freakin' corny.
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yeah!
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Why is this a fad? I don't want women saving the world, especially a 110lbs. anorexic model. If you're going to sell me this shero bullshit, at least give me a woman who looks like she has a pair!
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to be filmed under the working title...'Katie Gets Her Gun'
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The hooker is now a grandma
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and he was in Mad Max, godammit
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She was raped when she was young, maybe it turned her against men?
She did an Australian film a few years ago, The Monkey's Mask, or something like that in which she did a ton of lezbo scenes and was naked a lot. makes sense. -
The new TOP GUNS are a bunch of button jockeys that commute from Las Vegas to Creech Air Force Base near Tonopah every day. They sit at a computer with a joystick and pilot remote controlled aircraft in Afghanistan. The story they're going to tell though is that Mav's a retired tomcat pilot that's runnin' turns between Burbank and Las Vegas. Miserable, divorced, and into the kinky Vegas sex scene, he wishes he could have his old life back. Meanwhile his daughter (Katie Holmes) has been trying to get him to come out to Nellis for an air show where she's going to demo the new JSF-- she crashs n' burns, but ejects safely. The two reconcile, join Scientology and lives happily ever after in Xenu's loving embrace. God I need to stop huffing paint thinner before I get on talkback.
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This movie will succede or fail on what ever long, slow, lingering, sweaty shot of the boys playing some sort of sport. I nominate Lawn darts as the sport and I'm Too Sexy For My Shirt as the song for this updated crapfest. Of course Mavs gay, besides being played by Tom Cruise, It's about people in the Navy so they are at least Bi-Curious at the very least.
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Bring back Joel, who is married to Lana, and they have a son named Ralph who is trying to get into an Ivy League school...and guess who Lana runs into at the supermarket: Guido the Killer Pimp. Also featuring cameos by Curtis Armstrong and Bronson Pinchot.
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It was called Stealth, with Jessica Biel. ...sweet sweet Jessica Biel.
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There is a cutaway where Val Kilmer chomps his teeth.
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They are now saying that the story is bogus on Access Hollywood but whoever put the story out there, perhaps a trail balloon or simple gossip lifted it from what I wrote on Perez Hilton. As you may or may not know Bobo, you can't copyright an idea. I only hatched the idea to help Tom Cruise fix his career...but whoever came up with the hotshot female pilot bit is an idiot...as it sounds like a forced Political Correct version of the original movie.
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Give it to Bay, then this will be MOVIE GOLD!!!I*HEART*MichaelBay
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As has already been pointed out. An almost identical concept was frigging pitched to Tom Cruise while the original Top Gun was still showing. So what is the more likely idea (a) That the story is based on the pitch that was reported back in the 80s and is well known in Hollywood or (b) your post on some gossip blog?
Hint the answer is (a). If you need further help, you only have to ask Script Girl... -
= MOVIE SUPERGOLD!!!
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= MOVIE ULTRAGOLD!!!
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Well, Alonzo...if you are correct, I'll take your word for it, but this seems timely considering I placed my post within the last two months.
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Dammit thank god we don't have blockbusters like that any more. Talking about War Porn; glorifying jets my having big haired dorks playing guitar on their wings. It would be funny if it wasn't so terrifying. Tom Cruise was just a kid at the time and has since made amends with the likes of Lions for Lambs etc. But Bruckheimer and Tony Scott should forever be ashamed of themselves. They should withdraw this film Kubrick-style. Looking at the first clip now, I can well see why the more intelligent filmmakers of the 70s were choking on their cornflakes. SHI-I-I-IT!
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"you can ride MINE!" and thus is the gayest exchange ever in this movie ender.
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In which a gangsta rap mogul hangs Val Kilmer out a building by his ankles 'til he signs a form releasing all his future royalties to the mogul. But kilmer's too fat, and he gets dropped.
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In which a gangsta rap mogul hangs Val Kilmer out a building by his ankles 'til he signs a form releasing all his future royalties to the mogul. But Kilmer's too fat, and he gets dropped.
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But we do still have shit like that. Remember ARMAGEDDON? PEARL HARBOR? BAD BOYS II? TRANSFORMERS?
Yep, take a bow, new Master of the War Porn Movie, Sir Michael "Fucked the Fox" Bay. This man is doing almost as much to fuck up American foreign policy and the way the US is viewed outside the country as Dubya*.
*(This was brought to you in association with Tongue-In-Cheek productions. In the name of the Cruise, PLEASE don't let this talkback get political!) -
No, but seriously I loved Estelle Getty in Mannequin and the Golden Girls, great lady will be missed.
My old boss used to love Top Gun until he heard about it's raging homosexual following now he doesn't even acknowledge it exists! Hilarious stuff! He knows who he is! ; ) -
Commonly misquoted, this line is. Actually it's : ICEMAN - "You are still dangerous. You can be my wingman any time!" MAVERICK - "Bullshit. You can be mine!"
My hetero credentials are dissolving into the ether even as I type this... -
The more I think about it, the more gay ARMAGEDDO actually is. That's going to be the movie the gay community acknowledges is their favourite 90s action movie, like 10 years from now :D
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No more please Mr.Cruise. Don't do it. Please. Unless, of course, it focuses on Michael Ironside whooping your ass. Then i'm there.
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...when he really want to. I found him amazing in "Born a 4th of July". I can't wait to see him older (but when???) and drop the all action packed movies and show more respect to his talent. He had done enough movies where his great Strength of persuasion created the illusion of a great performance but was not.
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It is virtually a word for word direct lift from the Trivia section for Top Gun on IMDB.
I would bet my life, my house everything I own that this BS. -
Hallelujah!
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...you know, the television/net version of The Sun.
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theres nothing wrong with showing war as exciting and glorifying it to the max. War, my friends, is the single most impressive human achievement ever. its the accumulation of all human knowledge mixed with instincts. we should be proud.
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C'mon, that was a no brainer.
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That's how you get ass.
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I could see The Iceman as the tight-ass flight instructor. Kilmer's probably hungry enough to do it. But I don't think Cruise is that desperate, yet.
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Don't ask!
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...but Top Gun doesn't come close to being the gayest movie ever. That dubious distinction belongs to Fight Club.
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My favorite title, if ya ask me.
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where each time the cocky student from the previous one becomes the strack instructor the next time. And yeah, go with Katie Holmes for this one. She was awesome in The Dark Knight, the way she looked like Maggie Gyllenhall and all was really impressive. And we need Scott Adkins as the new Ice Man!
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Harold Faltermeyer or Terri Nunn?
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she's the best star pilot in the galaxy
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and I'm in!
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I'm going to be in the minority here and say that this is not a horrible idea for a remake. It's been long enough for this movie to have skipped and entire generation...and despite the eighties required haminess of the first one, it had some pretty memorable moments and a good story.
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Get rid of the Tom Cruise as instructor to female pilot plot line. THAT IS A HORRIBLE IDEA! Just do a straight remake, with new actors.
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Christian Bale plays Mavrick / Seth Rogen plays Goose / Scarlett J. plays the love interest. Then the title can be TOP GUN 2: YET ANOTHER MOVIE THAT FEATURES THESE ACTORS-ALOO.
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Will Tom Cruise be running in the film? Because if he is, I AM SO THERE!
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But he will be jumping up and down on the seat of the fighter jet.
Is anyone really caring for something like this? -
Exactly. 10-14 dollars an hour future and yes I want my damn fries with that.
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"with sexy results"
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"...with his cock."
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Koks will bang.
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It's been a while since I've seen either one, but I think Helsing might be even gayer than Top Gun. Top Gun is the straight man everyone thinks is gay; Helsing is the gay man who's the only one who doesn't know he's gay.
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Maverick is an instructor - yes, but no female pilot. Have Goose's son hit Top Gun. Make him just as cocky as Maverick was. Have Maverick estranged from his own son. And maybe make Goose's son have a slight grudge against Maverick.
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...with Billy Crystal joining the cast.
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Did anyone check film sources? Imdb.com has this rumor listed after the original movie was released.
"A script for "Top Gun 2" was completed shortly after the release of the film, but it broke down in pre-production because 1) the military's technology had become updated and they didn't want camera crew anywhere near their new aircraft and 2) Cruise did not want a sequel and finally agreed to star in one for a very high amount that was deemed "unaffordable." The script followed the further adventures of Maverick as an instructor at the Top Gun academy, the twist being a cocky female reminiscent of himself joining the team."
visit the site look up Top Gun go to the area under trivia -
Aliens are on a mission to conquer earth. Only one can save humanity. Tom Cruise. Xenu. TOP GUN 2: Maverick in Space!
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Just because it's what we want to see.
"Tom Cruise. You need to Come out of the Closet!" -
Yes, a pretentious French word in the title, but it fits.
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Stevens owns as a guitarist.
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First Tomcats have since been decomissoned. Secondly, Dog fights now a days consist of radar lock on miles away, and I mean MILES away, no "I'm switching to guns!" Correct me if I'm wrong but in the missle firing sequences, it's the same jet firing the same missle every time?
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Katie holmes is going bact to tv. She is starring in somethig called Eli Stone. We dont get that program in ireland. Her braodway career bombed. I wonder if she is going to divorce tom. anyone see that tom returns to oprah interview. Katie was there and gone in about 5 secs.
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"Would you rub some lotion on my back?"
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McDonnel-Douglas sendin' Tom Cruise a little money to build a little movie buzz for their Joint Strike Fighter, cuz a movie in 2008 about F-14s seems a little anachronistic. Besides, when was the last time anybody ever heard about jet fighters dogfighting anymore? When a US aircraft is taken down these days it's from a surface-to-air weapon, ain't it? No cinema magic to be had there. If the movie's war is in the middle-east the enemy's planes would get blowed-up-real-good while sitting on the tarmac. What other enemy has the ability to mount air-to-air combat against the US Navy? China, but if that ever happened it wouldn't be no little skirmish in the Indian Ocean - the movie would need Michael Caine teachin ol' Maverick a little something about 'escalation'. Maybe the plot will be Maverick testifying at some House or Senate committee begging for more funding for pilot training and less money for UAVs. Silly, silly, silly.
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- Endless Love 2: The love Katie Holmes' parents fear.
- Taps 2: Tom Cruise returns as the new headmaster of Bunker Hill Military Academy, just as it starts admitting girls as students.
- The Outsiders 2: Gangs of teen girls are fighting in Tulsa, and Steve Randle shows one girl how to love.
- Losin' It 2: While in Mexico with her friends for spring break, a young girl falls for a local bartender named Woody.
- Risky Business 2: Joel Goodsen owned the best escort agency in Chicago, until she walked through the door looking for a job.
- All the Right Moves 2: Steffen Djordjevic is now an engineer working for Nike and designing football equipment for girls. All he needed was a young model... -
- I just found out I've been a member on these boards for over a year, completely forgot, I've got an account, go figure... oh and Spacelord Tommy's thinkin' about making a sequel to Top Gun, that sucks, unless they can get James Tolkan back in, slackers!
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Or God Hates Us All. My personal favorite.
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Movies like Top Gun should be left alone...don't redo it, don't prequel it, don't make it a sequel. Come on Hollywood, lets be creative and make New movies!!!
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The school is run by a clone of Admiral Kane.
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can't believe I joined in on this, I feel so dirty and cheap
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He flies a single combat mission then becomes an instructor for 24 years? What exactly will he teach? Will it be like the scene in Police Academy 4 where Zed is teaching civilians the correct way to eat donuts? Don't you actually have to know how to fly without offing your own navigator? Don't you actually have to have flown more than one mission without wetting yourself and disengaging before you qualify to teach at Top Gun? just saying. Maverick as a character was a complete loser.
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http://www.fat-pie.com/thursdaywithdevvo.htm
Worth a peek -
Aug 07, 2008 7:31:37 AM CDT
Top Gun Episode V: The Bogie Strikes Back
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
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Aug 07, 2008 7:33:15 AM CDT
Top Gun 2: He's Got That Lovin' Feelin'
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
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first off, The Sun. it's a right royal piece of shit, and as long as the showbiz section is filled, the editors don't care what fabricated tales are in it, in particular if they are of a nature that "excites" readers and they cannot be sued for. a story like this fills up a few precious inches.
secondly, inserting "Tom Cruise" into an article gets you more google hits, therefore more advertising revenue, more "hits" to brag of in the competitive world of trashy tabloid newspapers.
thirdly, Sun = owned by Murdoch. unless the Cruiser has signed for Fox and i missed it, no gain for Murdoch in this story at all. more importantly, no damage to the Dirty Digger's Empire, so no likelihood at all of it being true.
fourth - Top Gun, like Heartbreak Ridge, comes from an era when America made films that accepted military mistakes in the past but triumphed their skill and might in the present day (the 80's), emphasizing the nation's status as the free world's protector in the cold war and the big brother all could trust to win a war within a few minutes. it's a bit of a different story now, and no one in their right mind is going to fund a film intended as a blockbuster that is either realistic and spends a lot of time moping about America's abject military failures, or dishes out a whole load of bullshit about how great they are.
fifth and final - the character development of Maverick. in the present day he would either remain as a fighter pilot, retired, joined the space program, died of an AIDS related illness after an en masse bumming festival after some volleyball or been blown out of the sky by an Iraqi / Afghan / badly targeted "friendly fire" US missile by now. there's no way he would have kept alive, got all old and mature and become a teacher.
i have no quarrel or ill will for the former Mr Nicole Kidman. i wish him well and hope that this nazi thing he has made turns out OK. it's just like, unlike McClane, Rocky, Rambo et al, there's really no need or cause or interest in returning to Maverick. rather cock about with a follow up to Colour Of Money or Legend or something else. fuck, even a sequel to Risky Business would be a wiser move.
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along with another one: "why did Harry's Clone Wars review disappeared?"
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Really, like 99.9% of the attempts at humor with these mock titles are not even close to funny. Try again, or just kill yourself and be done with it.
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I know, I know...[puts shotgun in mouth]
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My heart bleeds for you, Tom
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Bank on that as the title
I see the story surrounding Cruise as a TG instructor and he has to deal with the anger and hatred aimed at him by the son/daughter (I forget which one) of Goose who is now enrolled in the TG School.
Then the action shifts to the Middle East where Mav has to come to the rescue of said "spawn of Goose" in a triumphant finale.
Done right, and this might not be bad. But bank on it being a cheese-fest of grand proportions. -
No Im serious, dead serious.
GOOSE DEAD SERIOUS! -
Harry. Two words: CLEAN HOUSE!
How is this still on here?!? I mean, July 22? And it's not even true!
No Val Kilmer = THIS PROJECT IS DEAD TO ME! DEAD, D'YOU HEAR?!?!? -
Seriously
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