Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

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In the store as #572, Top Gun: Maverick (2022).

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Edge of Tomorrow: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. career (career): Edge of Tomorrow ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read). Edge cracked a new era of Cruise; Ethan Hunt and Maverick run on what he learned here.
    “That Maverick is really running on a lot of this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:03:24 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Mission: Impossible – Fallout: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. unmapped (enabling success): Mission: Impossible – Fallout ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read). Fallout's success is what lets Cruise do Top Gun: Maverick.
    “he's not in a position to do what he's doing now with Top Gun 2.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:35:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

The Color of Money: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (legacy-sequel heirs): The Color of Money ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read). Gap-based legacy sequels like Top Gun Maverick, Tron Legacy and Blade Runner follow the template Color of Money invented, though in 1986 sequels were derided.
    “now we get more and more like your your Tron legacies and your Top Gun Mavericks, where it's just casually... 37, 40 years later”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 1:07:05 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Top Gun: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (sequel verdict): Top Gun ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read). Chris says the sequel delivered and is better than the first, and Amanda agrees.
    “It's better than the 1st one”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:26:26 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)

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What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

The Color of Money: 3 lines lineage ×2 contrast ×1

  1. lineage (legacy-sequel heirs): The Color of Money → Top Gun: Maverick. Gap-based legacy sequels like Top Gun Maverick, Tron Legacy and Blade Runner follow the template Color of Money invented, though in 1986 sequels were derided.
    “now we get more and more like your your Tron legacies and your Top Gun Mavericks, where it's just casually... 37, 40 years later”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 1:07:05 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Avatar: 2 lines verdict ×1 contrast ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Avatar → Top Gun: Maverick. Avatar works like Top Gun: Maverick: cliched lines but an emotional rush that works in a crowd.
    “a movie I feel similarly about is Top Gun Maverick, which I also saw 3 times in theaters.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:56:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Charles Parnell: 2 lines people ×2

  1. people (actor credits): Charles Parnell → Top Gun: Maverick. Parnell is remembered from Top Gun Maverick and Dead Reckoning, a character actor getting his chance as a plucked-by-auteurs turn.
    “Charles Parnell, uh, who people remember from Top Gun Maverick, and, you know, Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:33:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

F1: 2 lines lineage ×1 theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): F1 → Top Gun: Maverick. The older ace winning the final race is the same choice as Maverick saving everybody.
    “sunny winning Abu Dhabi, much like Maverick, where Maverick has to be the one who saves everybody's asses”
    The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:55:42 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Gladiator II: 2 lines industry ×1 verdict ×1

  1. industry (industry): Gladiator II → Top Gun: Maverick. Chris expected Gladiator II to be a Top Gun: Maverick-level event with repeat viewings, and is only halfway right.
    “I remember earlier this year just being like, this is going to be Top Gun Maverick.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:13:51 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)

Top Gun: 2 lines lineage ×2

  1. lineage (sequel verdict): Top Gun: Maverick → Top Gun. Chris says the sequel delivered and is better than the first, and Amanda agrees.
    “It's better than the 1st one”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:26:26 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)

Tár: 2 lines unmapped ×1 verdict ×1

  1. unmapped (shared quality): Tár → Top Gun: Maverick. Amanda calls them her two favorites of the year, one for the spectacle of cinema and the other for going for it as capital-C cinema.
    “I have 2 favorites of this year, Top Gun Maverick. For the spectacle of cinema and tar for just absolutely fucking going for it, capital C cinema.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:35:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)

Avatar: The Way of Water: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Avatar: The Way of Water → Top Gun: Maverick. The way into the sequel should be just sit and watch, as with Top Gun: Maverick.
    “I kind of imagine it will be a little bit like Top Gun Maverick in that way where it's like the entry point for this movie is this movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 1:47:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Barbarian: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (ranking): Barbarian → Top Gun: Maverick. Chris says Barbarian was the most fun night of the year at the movies, barring Top Gun: Maverick, which is his number one.
    “Also, just the most fun night. I think I had at the movie is barring maybe Top Gun Maverick all year.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:34:40 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)

Decision to Leave: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (box office): Decision to Leave → Top Gun: Maverick. In Korea it opened number two behind Top Gun: Maverick on its weekend.
    “Um, and it's opening number 2 behind the biggest movie pretty much of 2022.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:54:01 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

Edge of Tomorrow: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Edge of Tomorrow → Top Gun: Maverick. Edge cracked a new era of Cruise; Ethan Hunt and Maverick run on what he learned here.
    “That Maverick is really running on a lot of this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:03:24 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Fear and Desire: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (comparison): Fear and Desire → Top Gun: Maverick. The unnamed enemy is like Top Gun Maverick's war without a country.
    “it almost feels like a Top Gun Maverick thing of just, like, just let me tell a story about war without, like, being anything.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:43:13 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Harold Faltermeyer: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Harold Faltermeyer → Top Gun: Maverick. Faltermeyer is credited alongside Hans Zimmer on Top Gun Maverick.
    “he's credited with Hans Zimmer on Top Gun Maverick?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:47:31 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Jackass Forever: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (thematic): Top Gun: Maverick → Jackass Forever. Adam says he would give best actor to Cruise and Knoxville alike because the two films are both about passing the torch to a new generation while sticking around.
    “I think they're kind of the same film. all about. like passing the torch to a new generation, but also sticking around.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:08:46 · Adam Nayman (0.80 sure it was them)

Jurassic World Dominion: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Top Gun: Maverick → Jurassic World Dominion. Trevorrow's Dominion interviews: give audiences what they expect but do it well, the Top Gun way.
    “why don't you give them what they expect and want, but do it really, really well?”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:58:13 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Led Zeppelin: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (analogy): Top Gun: Maverick → Led Zeppelin. Chris says the movie is what happens on the one in 137 listens when the second half of Stairway to Heaven hits.
    “This movie is what happens when the 2nd half of Stairway to Heaven hits”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:29:20 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)

Mad Max: Fury Road: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Mad Max: Fury Road → Top Gun: Maverick. Fury Road dispenses with franchise mythology while Top Gun: Maverick is the opposite, built on the original's story.
    “Top Gun Maverick is the opposite.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:38:11 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (dad-movie): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Top Gun: Maverick. Offered, with Ford v Ferrari and Sully, as recent examples of dad-audience movies that still succeed in theaters.
    “Top Gun Maverick, but that doesn't totally count, but it still counts.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:27:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Mission: Impossible – Fallout: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (enabling success): Mission: Impossible – Fallout → Top Gun: Maverick. Fallout's success is what lets Cruise do Top Gun: Maverick.
    “he's not in a position to do what he's doing now with Top Gun 2.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:35:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Nope: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (ranking): Top Gun: Maverick → Nope. Sean puts Nope at number one over his number three Top Gun, arguing Nope makes you think while Maverick deliberately does not; he says you can love one without knocking the other.
    “It is like, I loved Top Gun Maverick, but it doesn't ask you to think about a single goddamn thing.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:30:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Oblivion: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career arc): Oblivion → Top Gun: Maverick. Oblivion has a football scene mocked as Cruise loves sports in films; Sean rewatched it to prep for Maverick.
    “I did just rewatch oblivion to prep for Maverick”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:50:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)

Sean Fennessey: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): Top Gun: Maverick → Sean Fennessey. Top Gun: Maverick is the communal 'hell yeah' experience Sean misses.
    “It's kind of dumb.”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:58:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

The Truman Show: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): The Truman Show → Top Gun: Maverick. Powell contrasts the first AD's nightmare on Truman Show with Top Gun: Maverick, the biggest people-count movie he made, with Navy briefs.
    “Top Gun Maverick was probably the that was probably the biggest, most amount of people movie you made.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 0:15:31 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (3)

  1. career (career): Harold Faltermeyer → Top Gun: Maverick. Faltermeyer is credited alongside Hans Zimmer on Top Gun Maverick.
    “he's credited with Hans Zimmer on Top Gun Maverick?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:47:31 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career arc): Oblivion → Top Gun: Maverick. Oblivion has a football scene mocked as Cruise loves sports in films; Sean rewatched it to prep for Maverick.
    “I did just rewatch oblivion to prep for Maverick”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:50:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Edge of Tomorrow → Top Gun: Maverick. Edge cracked a new era of Cruise; Ethan Hunt and Maverick run on what he learned here.
    “That Maverick is really running on a lot of this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:03:24 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

contrast (4)

  1. contrast (baton-passing contrast): Top Gun: Maverick → The Color of Money. Cruise keeps making baton-pass movies where he refuses to pass the baton; Maverick saves Teller instead of elevating him.
    “Also, the fact that Cruz keeps making baton pass movies where he refuses to pass the baton.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 1:31:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): The Truman Show → Top Gun: Maverick. Powell contrasts the first AD's nightmare on Truman Show with Top Gun: Maverick, the biggest people-count movie he made, with Navy briefs.
    “Top Gun Maverick was probably the that was probably the biggest, most amount of people movie you made.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 0:15:31 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Mad Max: Fury Road → Top Gun: Maverick. Fury Road dispenses with franchise mythology while Top Gun: Maverick is the opposite, built on the original's story.
    “Top Gun Maverick is the opposite.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:38:11 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. contrast (contrast): Top Gun: Maverick → Avatar. Top Gun starts with a known franchise; Avatar has to set up everything and pay it off.
    “Avatar does have to one set everything up, which is a huge challenge.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:59:28 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

industry (2)

  1. industry (box office): Decision to Leave → Top Gun: Maverick. In Korea it opened number two behind Top Gun: Maverick on its weekend.
    “Um, and it's opening number 2 behind the biggest movie pretty much of 2022.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:54:01 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Gladiator II → Top Gun: Maverick. Chris expected Gladiator II to be a Top Gun: Maverick-level event with repeat viewings, and is only halfway right.
    “I remember earlier this year just being like, this is going to be Top Gun Maverick.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:13:51 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)

lineage (5)

  1. lineage (legacy-sequel heirs): The Color of Money → Top Gun: Maverick. Gap-based legacy sequels like Top Gun Maverick, Tron Legacy and Blade Runner follow the template Color of Money invented, though in 1986 sequels were derided.
    “now we get more and more like your your Tron legacies and your Top Gun Mavericks, where it's just casually... 37, 40 years later”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 1:07:05 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Top Gun → Top Gun: Maverick. Maverick's dogfight football is compared with the original's volleyball scene, which hides its doubles in wide shots.
    “I mean, I went back and watched the volleyball scene from the original Top Gun.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:19:41 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage): F1 → Top Gun: Maverick. Same director and a broadly similar story of an aging star in the cockpit.
    “this movie gets compared to Top Gun Maverick a lot, same director”
    The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:14:21 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (sequel verdict): Top Gun: Maverick → Top Gun. Chris says the sequel delivered and is better than the first, and Amanda agrees.
    “It's better than the 1st one”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:26:26 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (legacy sequel): Top Gun: Maverick → The Color of Money. Top Gun: Maverick is doing the Eddie Felson-style return of an older character.
    “Obviously, he's doing that with Top Gun right now.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:10:40 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (actor credits): Charles Parnell → Top Gun: Maverick. Parnell is remembered from Top Gun Maverick and Dead Reckoning, a character actor getting his chance as a plucked-by-auteurs turn.
    “Charles Parnell, uh, who people remember from Top Gun Maverick, and, you know, Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:33:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. people (same actor, different mode): Charles Parnell → Top Gun: Maverick. Parnell is very different here than in Maverick or Mission: Impossible.
    “he's very different in this than he is in uh, uh, Maverick”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:56:56 · unknown (host) (0.30 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): Top Gun: Maverick → Sean Fennessey. Top Gun: Maverick is the communal 'hell yeah' experience Sean misses.
    “It's kind of dumb.”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:58:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

theme (4)

  1. theme (theme): F1 → Top Gun: Maverick. The older ace winning the final race is the same choice as Maverick saving everybody.
    “sunny winning Abu Dhabi, much like Maverick, where Maverick has to be the one who saves everybody's asses”
    The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:55:42 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. theme (thematic): Top Gun: Maverick → Jackass Forever. Adam says he would give best actor to Cruise and Knoxville alike because the two films are both about passing the torch to a new generation while sticking around.
    “I think they're kind of the same film. all about. like passing the torch to a new generation, but also sticking around.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:08:46 · Adam Nayman (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. theme (analogy): Top Gun: Maverick → Led Zeppelin. Chris says the movie is what happens on the one in 137 listens when the second half of Stairway to Heaven hits.
    “This movie is what happens when the 2nd half of Stairway to Heaven hits”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:29:20 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)
  4. theme (comparison): Fear and Desire → Top Gun: Maverick. The unnamed enemy is like Top Gun Maverick's war without a country.
    “it almost feels like a Top Gun Maverick thing of just, like, just let me tell a story about war without, like, being anything.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:43:13 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

unmapped (3)

  1. unmapped (dad-movie): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Top Gun: Maverick. Offered, with Ford v Ferrari and Sully, as recent examples of dad-audience movies that still succeed in theaters.
    “Top Gun Maverick, but that doesn't totally count, but it still counts.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 0:27:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (shared quality): Tár → Top Gun: Maverick. Amanda calls them her two favorites of the year, one for the spectacle of cinema and the other for going for it as capital-C cinema.
    “I have 2 favorites of this year, Top Gun Maverick. For the spectacle of cinema and tar for just absolutely fucking going for it, capital C cinema.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:35:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (enabling success): Mission: Impossible – Fallout → Top Gun: Maverick. Fallout's success is what lets Cruise do Top Gun: Maverick.
    “he's not in a position to do what he's doing now with Top Gun 2.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:35:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

verdict (7)

  1. verdict (verdict): Gladiator II → Top Gun: Maverick. Gladiator II will do well but not drive the repeat business Top Gun: Maverick did.
    “I do not think this is the repeat business.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:16:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (ranking): Barbarian → Top Gun: Maverick. Chris says Barbarian was the most fun night of the year at the movies, barring Top Gun: Maverick, which is his number one.
    “Also, just the most fun night. I think I had at the movie is barring maybe Top Gun Maverick all year.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:34:40 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)
  3. verdict (ranking): Tár → Top Gun: Maverick. Sean says his number two Tar and number one Nope are close, as electric moviegoing experiences, while his number three is Top Gun: Maverick.
    “This, my number 2 and my number one are just, I almost did one and one and then I didn't do it”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:13:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. verdict (ranking): Top Gun: Maverick → Nope. Sean puts Nope at number one over his number three Top Gun, arguing Nope makes you think while Maverick deliberately does not; he says you can love one without knocking the other.
    “It is like, I loved Top Gun Maverick, but it doesn't ask you to think about a single goddamn thing.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:30:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  5. verdict (verdict): Avatar → Top Gun: Maverick. Avatar works like Top Gun: Maverick: cliched lines but an emotional rush that works in a crowd.
    “a movie I feel similarly about is Top Gun Maverick, which I also saw 3 times in theaters.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:56:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. verdict (verdict): Top Gun: Maverick → Jurassic World Dominion. Trevorrow's Dominion interviews: give audiences what they expect but do it well, the Top Gun way.
    “why don't you give them what they expect and want, but do it really, really well?”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:58:13 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. verdict (verdict): Avatar: The Way of Water → Top Gun: Maverick. The way into the sequel should be just sit and watch, as with Top Gun: Maverick.
    “I kind of imagine it will be a little bit like Top Gun Maverick in that way where it's like the entry point for this movie is this movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 1:47:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Top Gun: Maverick: David's theory for its worldwide success: no country is the villain.
    “Because no country was the villain in that movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:54:24 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Top Gun: Maverick: Craig carefully watched the dogfight football game hoping an athlete would be bad but they were compelling.
    “I really wanted one of the athletes to be bad, but it was actually like pretty, pretty compelling athletic.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:19:37 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Top Gun: Maverick: Chris says the last 30 minutes, until the final 10, are perfect cinema, from leaving the battleship through the coffin run.
    “the last 30 minutes up until the last 10 minutes are perfect cinema”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:29:58 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Top Gun: Maverick: Chris sat in another room watching it with Amanda's son while they dealt with power loss during the fires.
    “you sat in the other room with my son watching Top Gun Maverick while we figured out what to do.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:30:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Top Gun: Maverick: Val Kilmer showing up made them cry; the film worked for even the most anti-Tom-Cruise cynic.
    “man, when Val Kilmer shows up, I fucking cried.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:38:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Top Gun: Maverick: Sean on Cruise: the film is a beautifully designed vehicle and every viewing he slips into the passenger seat.
    “every time I watch it, I slip right into the passenger seat and I let it take me on a ride.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:06:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Top Gun: Maverick: Chris saw it twice in theaters, twice on planes, once with two ex-naval pilots doing YouTube commentary, plus clips, and says it still rocks. A guy in the audience shouted a line of praise to Jon Hamm at the end.
    “I'm never going to forget like the screenings I saw this, especially the dude at the end of this movie who went, great job, John Hamm.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:26:34 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Top Gun: Maverick: Jennifer Connelly acts like she has been at the bar the whole time; the hosts joke that her Porsche is safe parked on the street in Miramar as an admiral's daughter.
    “And the idea that she just acts like she's been there the whole time is the funniest thing.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:28:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Top Gun: Maverick: Chris says the Who training sequence is what the song is for, not car commercials, and that the film is the one-in-137 time Stairway to Heaven's second half hits.
    “It's not for a fucking car commercial.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:29:18 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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