tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post4166614228688752404..comments2024-03-28T11:58:42.109-07:00Comments on Raconteur Report: Top Gun: Whatever...Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-2702319354700709432019-07-23T10:09:47.249-07:002019-07-23T10:09:47.249-07:00Looks like the new Top Gun bows to China’s communi...Looks like the new Top Gun bows to China’s communist party by censoring Maverick’s jacket<br /><br />https://www.businessinsider.com/top-guns-maverick-appears-changed-to-please-chinas-communist-party-2019-7Sandershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17791610798116970807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-63620051624331271042019-07-21T14:00:49.123-07:002019-07-21T14:00:49.123-07:00Aside from the de rigueur history-mangling and fuc...Aside from the de rigueur history-mangling and fucking Danny Glover stinking up the joint like the Phantom Shitter's signature calling-card, "<a href="https://rarbg.to/torrent/1lxrq87" rel="nofollow">Flight of the Intruder"</a> (1991) was an enjoyable romp. (That moldy old Marxist fraud Roger Ebert panned it, so it carries Red Hollywood's inverted seal-of-approval.Bezzlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12752975251705231877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-25934470148145878722019-07-21T13:45:18.136-07:002019-07-21T13:45:18.136-07:00I willing suspended my disbelief for the first one...I willing suspended my disbelief for the first one, and I'll do it again this time. I'm a sucker for plane porn.The Freeholderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09989697995675652792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-38775066668203190002019-07-21T13:40:37.059-07:002019-07-21T13:40:37.059-07:00"Actual USN Top Gun 2020 version? Dogfights? ..."Actual USN Top Gun 2020 version? Dogfights? F-18s on 'burner? Oh, and Jennifer Connelly?"<br /><br />...well, Connelly is 48 years old.<br /><br />Note the cowardice of the new film in studiously refraining from the portrayal of any pre-wall-slammed female in a heterosexually-desirable light. --This is what our high-T entertainment has become now: Grecian Formula heroes who need blue trapezoids to get it up, but wouldn't dream of doing so, at least not such that they'd dare reveal in the trailer. Prediction: Cruise will flash that patented alpha-jerkboy smile of his after some line of shit-testing snark from a commanding butch, and that'll be the extent of cisgender relations.<br /><br />(At least Dwayne "Hobbs" Johnson, 47, and Jason "Shaw" Statham, 51, have made the effort to guzzle enough HGH to still look good with their shirts off, thereby selling the premise of remaining eligible to continue cavorting with early-thirty-somethings AKA Vanessa Kirby. Anything younger would be child abuse, of course, and we can't have that. White men can't chase booty no more, tis the new rule.) <br /><br />In any event, Tom Cruise nostalgia and catapult launch porn can carry only ten minutes of a two hour movie. It's the only 110 minutes that have me worried as to what sort of asinine plot they'll come up. (Probably some loony propaganda rot in which we team up with Putin to take on Iran.)<br /><br />Bezzlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12752975251705231877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-76833279193045382552019-07-21T12:40:14.077-07:002019-07-21T12:40:14.077-07:00That's a thing to do when you've got money...That's a thing to do when you've got money like he does(or should, if he's paid attention). Gotta say with that kinda cash the Mustang would not be alone in my "stable". Ah, to dream...<br />Boat GuyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-46667962330322261722019-07-21T09:30:48.417-07:002019-07-21T09:30:48.417-07:00That's cool to hear Cruise owns and pilots a P...That's cool to hear Cruise owns and pilots a P 51! Papanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-38685339241323023912019-07-21T09:28:49.119-07:002019-07-21T09:28:49.119-07:00I'll have to look up those three titles:
Pony
...I'll have to look up those three titles:<br />Pony<br />Rebel Run<br />A Winters Tale<br /><br />Haven't heard of them.Papanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-41850647442722825392019-07-21T09:22:22.359-07:002019-07-21T09:22:22.359-07:00Good stuff!Good stuff!Papanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-72762786505060885382019-07-21T09:20:18.686-07:002019-07-21T09:20:18.686-07:00That's a cool story!
Thanks for sharing.That's a cool story!<br />Thanks for sharing.Papanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-74980987607552018532019-07-21T07:58:54.679-07:002019-07-21T07:58:54.679-07:00@gwalchmai munn
That may be true now, but back in...@gwalchmai munn<br /><br />That may be true <i>now</i>, but back in the day, Rear Admirals of both halves in service blue wore one wide stripe and one narrow one, and BGens saluting lower half RAdms junior to them happened all the time.<br /><br />And it seriously chapped a lot of asses.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-12876375457671468162019-07-21T05:40:39.639-07:002019-07-21T05:40:39.639-07:00Rear Admirals (Lower Half), (O-7) in the US Navy w...Rear Admirals (Lower Half), (O-7) in the US Navy wear one star and/or a single wide sleeve stripe. Therefore a BGEN would not ordinarily salute a RMDL by accident. gwalchmai munnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17783219023207425060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-35999912959324910572019-07-20T20:19:48.660-07:002019-07-20T20:19:48.660-07:00...and she's Jewish.
Ah, Hollywood....and she's Jewish. <br /><br />Ah, Hollywood.OvergrownHobbithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15683596916721077471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-17250887857766371102019-07-20T20:18:53.352-07:002019-07-20T20:18:53.352-07:00Wait for the DVD release. Watch the holds-to-copie...Wait for the DVD release. Watch the holds-to-copies ratio at your local library. Say 20-to-one for a Big Hollywood Deal (Don't know? Call and ask) once it drops below that number by a bit, place your request.<br /><br />That way you don't give one extra penny to the people who hate you. And yes, I just watched the sweet, funny, brilliantly-animated sugar pill of "White men suck: Losers. Evil. Pervs" DVD "Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse*." Why do you ask?<br /><br />Save your dollars for when they screen something like Ponyo, or A Winter's Tale, or Rebel Run.THEN turn out in droves.<br /><br />Meanwhile, my dad was Navy, and my bro-in-law a top gun pilot in Gulf 1. Not even on library DVD.<br /><br />*Hilarious moment: They made Doc Ock a woman who was actually manipulating the dumb evil fat white Corporate oligarch, King Pin.... And sh<br /><br />OvergrownHobbithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15683596916721077471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-39406560575621405212019-07-20T19:29:30.773-07:002019-07-20T19:29:30.773-07:00I always appreciate these posts.
TGM sounds like ...I always appreciate these posts.<br /><br />TGM sounds like a pass to me.<br /><br />Poor use of military details for a modern military movie is unacceptable to me in the Internet age and a nearly 50 year old Jennifer Connelly is just OK nothing special just like the first one, or Iron Eagle for that matter. <br /><br /> A.B. Prospernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-26521793312413635552019-07-20T19:20:00.043-07:002019-07-20T19:20:00.043-07:00I was in sonar school in San Diego in 1974 and my ...I was in sonar school in San Diego in 1974 and my homie was in VF124 at Miramar. Once when he was on watch on the flight line, I got to sit in a Tomcat cockpit. The next year I was on a ship that transited east through the straights of Gibralter, the first time the F-14 entered the Med. "Away the snoopy team" about every hour. 1975 saw a lot of Tomcat action in the Med. Just my experience.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-49902057323244502072019-07-20T19:14:41.920-07:002019-07-20T19:14:41.920-07:00I was gonna make a joke about why he wouldn't ...I was gonna make a joke about why he wouldn't be flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong, but it's probably been done to death by now...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-34721463113682002622019-07-20T19:13:49.438-07:002019-07-20T19:13:49.438-07:00Speaking as retired USN, enlisted, all I would eve...Speaking as retired USN, enlisted, all I would ever call a 2 star Admiral is, "Sir!'<br /><br />Incidentally, I used to interact with one such 2 star Admiral, now retired 4 star Admiral Timothy Keating was the <i>Kitty Hawk</i> battle group commander after we went over to Japan in 1998. I worked at the Air Transportation Office for my last 2 years aboard, and I got to see him all the time when Distinguished Visitors flew on or off.<br /><br />I agree about Top Gun being mostly hogwash, the radio conversations while in flight are all bogus, and some of the shots, while pretty, just aren't right.<br /><br />I'll be seeing the second one, though. The trailer look pretty cool.Unknownsailorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10384464603647986681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-3470867147958750632019-07-20T18:15:51.191-07:002019-07-20T18:15:51.191-07:00Oh, and yes, I DO have the pics to prove it. The a...Oh, and yes, I DO have the pics to prove it. The aforementioned backup guitarist's wife sneaked in a camera, which had been specifically prohibited. Best part? At that time, Duvall was making a serious effort at learning the tango, and had also brought his lovely young dance instructor along (some of those verboten pics have Cruise shaking a leg on the dance floor with her). Somebody cleared the dance floor for Duvall and the young lady to provide a nice little demo, and then he got up onstage with us to sing a tune from that country music flick he was in, can't remember the name of it.<br /><br />But nah, on second thought that was <i>second</i> best. The absolute BEST, the moment I will never ever fucking forget my whole life long, was when Johnny Cash stepped up to the stage, took my hand, and said in that rough, craggy Johnny Cash voice: "Ya sound reeeaaaal good son, just like we did forty years ago." We spoke, I invited him up with us, and then here comes ol' Waylon to humbly, almost shyly say, "Umm, uhh, I'm Waylon Jennings." By then, I was well past stroke level and edging into outright delirium from breathing all this rarified celebrity/legend air, and just said, "Well, NO SHIT." Heh. Good times, good times.Mikehttp://coldfury.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-89806018122261840462019-07-20T18:07:22.676-07:002019-07-20T18:07:22.676-07:00I met Tom Cruise once, and hung out with him for a...I met Tom Cruise once, and hung out with him for a bit, when he selected my band out of a pool of over a hundred to play the wrap party for Days Of Thunder here at the Charlotte Motor Speedway years ago. He was nothing but an exceptionally nice fellow, in circumstances where there was really no reason he had to be and, if the rumors of an inflated ego were true, wouldn't have been. Paid us good too; the most we'd made for a single gig at that early stage of our careers. Our rhythm guitarist still has the canceled personal check framed and hanging on his office wall. Robert Duvall was there too; he had invited Johnny Cash, June Carter, Jesse Coulter, and Waylong Jennings to the party as a surprise for Tom (it was also Cruise's birthday, if I remember right), and they all got onstage and sat in with us for a good, long while. News of that leaked out thanks to our having smuggled a local indie-weekly music writer in with us, eventually getting us a front-page writeup by Karen Schoemer in the NYT Sunday entertainment section. From there, we never had trouble getting gigs again--had 'em for the asking after a mention of all that, all over the country. Tom's picking us for his party pretty much made us, in other words. So yeah, the boy's all right by me, and probably always will be.Mikehttp://coldfury.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-44441563063599241082019-07-20T17:22:04.913-07:002019-07-20T17:22:04.913-07:00I was only 13 when the world first became aware of...I was only 13 when the world first became aware of Maverick and his F 14, so I had no idea of the inaccuracies that were appearing on the big screen in front of me! Later in my life, I spent more than 10 years in uncle Sam’s Canoe club. I might only directly address flag officers by their proper titles such as rear admiral or vice admiral, but amongst conversation with my fellow shipmates, the soon to arrive visitor was referred to as “the two star” or “three star” etc... not sure what may be rattling around loosely between my ears, but the trailer got me excited for whenever I can see Tom Cruise reprise his role as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell !<br />-carolinaTURTLE Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-72591544163980080702019-07-20T16:53:41.441-07:002019-07-20T16:53:41.441-07:00Movies for 2019,I actually enjoyed the on going (i...Movies for 2019,I actually enjoyed the on going (improbable) antics of John Wick and thought the flick Alita:Battle Angel was very good.That said,just streamed both on net,Hollywood has seen the last of my monies at least directly for a long time.I see a film I really like will by the dvd when inexpensive,last time/movie i did that for was The 13th Warrior in the 90's. Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-61862645878202471692019-07-20T15:39:27.413-07:002019-07-20T15:39:27.413-07:00@Anonymous 10:46A
I saw that horrible p.o.s. fresh...@Anonymous 10:46A<br />I saw that horrible p.o.s. freshly crapped in the theatre, and I still haven't gotten over it.<br /><br />@RandyGC<br />Even better: one fighter @ Red Flag forgot the C-130 he was fixin' to splash was simulating an An-22, which also has a tail stinger.<br />The loadmaster had rigged up a pistol timing light, and before missile lock, the gun camera confirmed that the crew chief, pointing it out the tail ramp, had in fact zapped the Eagle driver, who was ruled DRT by the exercise referees.<br /><br />That loadmaster probably never bought his own beers again in the E-club just on that feat.<br /><br />I was also told there was a 100MPH tape F-15 silhouette temporarily affixed on the side of that C-130 for the balance of that Red Flag.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-24125536666469661862019-07-20T11:19:48.395-07:002019-07-20T11:19:48.395-07:00Next up in the rehashing of tired old ideas and ac...Next up in the rehashing of tired old ideas and actors: Terminator Dark Fate with Arnold and Linda Hamilton June Jnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-45042327617567083612019-07-20T11:04:17.576-07:002019-07-20T11:04:17.576-07:00Oh, and I can confirm that just about any Naval of...Oh, and I can confirm that just about any Naval officer I ever heard comment on the movie (Aviator and Black Shoe) that Maverick would have been at least busted out of Aviation, if not the Navy.RandyGChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758726126424011542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-7813074859618458102019-07-20T10:54:36.934-07:002019-07-20T10:54:36.934-07:00Used to love being deployed to the Nellis range. S...Used to love being deployed to the Nellis range. Sitting in simulated SAM sites engaging strike packages and dueling with Weasels. Watching 2 F-15's try to jump a B-52 in low level (couldn't get missile lock due to ground clutter and reflected heat from the terrain) and listening when one of the Fighter God's was reminded that BUFFs (back then) had tail guns (actually 20mm Gatling guns) and that he was the kill in that engagement.<br /><br />The Navy does like their rank games. As a 2nd LT at a base with Navy students, we had decided the Naval emblem on the right side of their flight caps (where O's of every other service wears their rank) was just there to provide a splash of silver so that Ensigns would get saluted by 2nd LTs.<br /><br />Course I didn't mind when I called China Lake for quarters during a conference there and did not mention the fact that I was an _AF_ Captain. ;-) (Nice bungalow. _Almost_ felt sorry for my cohorts in the Q)RandyGChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758726126424011542noreply@blogger.com