massive astroturf they're literally giving tickets away and every movie that isn't complete fucking dogshit gets eaten up by a credulous yankee
also its nostalgiabait for the most reactionary corners of society like of course no-one watching it isn't cheering for jingoism
I think one other factor is critics desperate for blockbusters that aren't marvel. I think there's been a ton of sort of just decent movies in recent years getting a ton of acclaim mostly because they're like the only high budget non-marvel option. MI: Fallout comes to mind. Like fun good blockbuster, but an 86% on metacritic? Come on now.
You're spot on with this but also without getting too specific that scene of Tom Cruise running across the train station roof in MI:F paid half my rent last year. So I'll take it.
I know you probably work in the film industry, but I want to believe this is part of an awfully specific bet.
I actually don't. Tangentially related to that (award winning) station project.
If it was a bit I'd claim I was a specialist roofer paid to replace the tiles shattered by Tom Cruise's tiny lifted shoes.
(And I just realised you said bet, not bit. Doh.)
there isn't much of a critic "industry" now that the newspapers are mostly dead. same story as like MiC or video game circuits, all thats left are people who have to be mostly positive or they'll be cut off and get scoops same time as the public and get drowned out
and the public's standards are even lower than even a complete shill critic's
astroturf unless the new top gun is honest about its extreme homosexual eroticism
i am tired of being queerbaited by tom cruise’s fat clapping buns
when you spend over 100 million on marketing in 2022, this is what it feels like
How much of that is multiplied by the airforce too. They know exactly how big a recruitment / America-washing opportunity this is.
When you got movies like Tom Cruise in them, you can't lose!I've seen a lot of early morning tv hosts praising it, and I remember early screeners praising it highly (on tv)
It's just a big advertisement for the navy I think, and we're one bad day away from starting a war with at least 3 countries, so the state has a good reason to astroturf it
I vote for AstroTurf. My boomer parent generation unit were underwhelmed and half of them really like those military bro movies in general.
Besides that they told me it got good clean shots. But isn't noteworthy.
I know right? Twitter is literally putting it at the same level of Everything Everywhere, how?!?
It's 80's American nostalgia. It's a very cheap and not very sincere, americans are grasping for anything self-assuring, the movie will be forgotten in a few months relegated to Trivia questions of how 'Top Gun' had a sequel 40 years later.
There's free promotional expansions in both MSFS 2020 and Ace Combat 7, so I'd put money on marketing.
Bright side is that my patience paid off and I got Ace combat for 11 bucks.
It's pretty boring ultimately. Kenny Loggins is good, the volleyball scene is good, but they can't carry it.
There is no new Top Gun, comrade. It was all just a dream.
That will come down for sure. A good movie generally gets around a 7.5 on IMDB, a great movie is 8+. No fucking way top gun holds above a 7.0
It's still at 8.7 and now it has 39K votes.
I didn't notice this before...
Top rated movie #69
I haven't even watched the original lmfao, weak yankee propaganda.
who are they fighting with now?
"the enemy." Who they are is never stated. Somehow said enemy country is both developing nukes but also has modern jets. Perfect propaganda.
They've spent a LOT on marketing I assume. When I went with my family to see Doctor Strange, in the middle of the trailers there was an entire 5 minute scene from the movie shown in place of the trailer. Imo, it wasn't even good. The editing makes it very difficult to follow the action.
How was doctor strange? I heard it was pretty terrible
I liked it quite a bit, but I might just be weird cuz my family was lukewarm on it. I guess I'd say it's insubstantial, but it's very stylish. It's WAY more of a Sam Raimi movie than I was expecting, so I might just appreciate its novelty. If you are either a Sam Raimi fan or a Marvel fan I think you'll enjoy it well enough, but if you're neither I wouldnt recommend it.
Name recognition of both the Movie and the Actor probably helping the AstroTurfing of this.
I saw ads at Applebee's. I'm pretty sure there are ways to make a movie universally palatable to liberals. The MCU figured that out years ago.
