We're way behind on movie trailers. So here's another Yes No Maybe So courtesy of Tony Ruggio...
The interwebz collectively threw shade a year or two ago when Tom Cruise, Jerry Bruckheimer, and director Joseph Kosinski (Tron Legacy, Oblivion) announced the twenty-years-too-late sequel to Top Gun, complete with some premise about sons and legacies and an aging Maverick. Sounded like the same ol’ routine any time a long-dormant brand or franchise suddenly decides to reboot or, in the case of Top Gun, sequelize for the very first time. It’s somethin’ else what a good trailer can do...because all of that is here and more in the first trailer which dropped on Thursday, and yet it’s one of the best teasers this year...
YES
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DAT SCORE. Top Gun’s original tunes have always been iconic, but Hans Zimmer’s updated melody here mixes triumphant and melancholy to really, truly stir those nostalgic feelings.
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CRUISE IS A MANIAC, and I love him for it. Based on the eye-catching aerial photography (getting M:I - Fallout flashbacks, a great thing), looks like Cruise found a way around those pesky rules that say civilians can’t fly military aircraft. That or they’ve done a tremendous job disguising it.
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Miles Teller. Coming off the quietly mesmerizing Refn joint Too Old to Die Young, Teller is on a roll again. Great mustache on board, he’s a dead ringer here as Son of Goose.
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Glen Powell. The man defied expectations in Set It Up and has proven himself a charm factory. Might they be taking advantage of his slightly smarmy screen presence and making him the new Iceman?
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Speaking of Powell, shirtless beach sports FTW. Another “I see you” throwback.
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Ed Harris was born to play military commanders and he’s presented here like the authoritative legend that he is…
NO
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Not a thing.
MAYBE SO
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Dialogue’s iffy. Ed’s intro monologue sounds cliched, but the legend sells it anyway. Hope it’s not a sign of things to come.
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Cruise on motorback. Another throwback to the original with Cruise chasing a jet on a Kawasaki bike. Too many of these and it might feel like they’re just trying to relive the glory days. We’ll see.
I’m firmly a YES. How about you?