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[raYne]

"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,"

..with sexy results.

 

[sky]

As much as many of you hate Tom Cruise the man, Tom Cruise the actor is fucking brilliant.

I agree... still not really feelin' this one though. But, who knows!

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

So if The Guardian is Top Gun-lite, what will Top Gun 2 be?

 

[nomster]

Buddy comedy with Maverick and Iceman as 747 co-pilots on an international flight over Russia. Things get zany when the two invert their plane and buzz Moscow International.

 

[Mau ®]

I kinda feel bad for Cruise. Not the best of actors but he picked great roles in great movies. It was like having a seal of quality, if Cruise was on it you would know it'd be at least a good popcorn flick.

 

[TOM f'N CRUISE]

the story needs to be in Irac and he needs to fly the

f22 raptor

 

[thesoapster]

the story needs to be in Irac and he needs to fly the

f22 raptor

Wow...next-gen

Valkyrie is already coming out...and that could definitely be interesting. I like him as an actor.

 

[Cobra84]

Top Gun 2 would suck, as the F-14 Tomcat was retired. I don't want to see a bunch of shitty F-18s flying around.

 

[Laughterjones]

please no

 

[master15]

Valkyrie is already coming out...and that could definitely be interesting. I like him as an actor.

Valkyrie is getting pretty bad buzz though isn't it? Was delayed and push back with rumours of Cruises accent being 'off'. I really like him as a performer and always look forward to what he does, although wish he would choose more off kilter parts like Magnolia or Collateral.

 

[JavaMava]

I really don't care about an actor's real life personality when watching a film. It's only if they can't act do they need a bad ass personality to be interesting in a movie.

 

[Warm Machine]

Funnily enough that is the plot I thought up years ago. There have been female fighter pilots but unfortunatley most have died in accidents.

 

[DeadTrees]

Buddy comedy with Maverick and Iceman as 747 co-pilots

This sounds...somewhat familiar.

 

[nomster]

This sounds...somewhat familiar.

Damn it, I thought I had an original idea for once

 

[MIMIC]

I can see this working.

 

[afternoon delight]

WRONG

Legend was the movie of the forever

I guess so.

 

[whytemyke]

Knowing Hollywood there will be some mysterious terrorist faction that somehow has control of billions of dollars of aircraft that need taking out - and somehow it is being run by Goose. He faked his death to take America's military secrets and join the terrorists/Russians/Chinese .

so basically you're thinking this is gonna be 24 season 8?




anyways, cruise was awesome in Interview with a Vampire, as well. and A Few Good Men. and The Last Samurai. bah. cruise is awesome.

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

This sounds...somewhat familiar.

I need video of this. :lol

 

[DeadTrees]

I need video of this. :lol

http://www.usafitz.com/SupportingPages/iceman.htm

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

http://www.usafitz.com/SupportingPages/iceman.htm

:lol that's awesome, thanks for the link.

 

[Jamesfrom818]

http://www.usafitz.com/SupportingPages/iceman.htm

Wait...did he just take off his sunglasses and reveal another pair of sunglasses?

:lol

 

[DonasaurusRex]

Top Gun is such a relic of the '80. I remember watching it when it came out on vhs. I wonder if theres's actually a demand for a sequel

i demand to see f14's plowing thru the sky wings swept back. Alas the day of hte interceptor is over. Too much has changed since the original imo, while id still go see a sequel just because ...i have to, the planes are different, top gun aint in Miramar anymore *think its a marine base now*, no more cold war, Val Kilmer is fat, and Tom Cruise is a nut well more of a nut.

 

[Jamesfrom818]

Since resets seem to be the in thing nowadays, I think they should change the premise to a skills competition between the Air Force, the Navy, and the Marines.

 

[Lucky Forward]

Since resets seem to be the in thing nowadays, I think they should change the premise to a skills competition between the Air Force, the Navy, and the Marines.

The Air Force have an equivalent to Top Gun called Red Flag:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_(USAF)

RED FLAG is an advanced aerial combat training exercise hosted at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada and Eielson Air Force Base Alaska. Since 1975, air crew from the United States Air Force (USAF) and other U.S. military branches and allies take part in the exercises, each of which is six weeks in duration.

The Red Flag exercises, conducted in four-to-six cycles a year by the 414th Combat Training Squadron of the 57th Wing, are very realistic aerial war games. The purpose is to train pilots from the U.S., NATO and other allied countries for real combat situations. This includes the use of "enemy" hardware and live ammunition for bombing exercises within the Nevada Test and Training Range.

The origin of Red Flag was the unacceptable performance of U.S. Air Force pilots in air combat maneuvering (ACM) (air-to-air combat) during the Vietnam War in comparison to previous wars. Air combat over North Vietnam between 1965 and 1973 led to an overall exchange ratio (ratio of enemy aircraft shot down to the number of own aircraft lost to enemy fighters) of 2.2:1 (for a period of time in June and July 1972 during Operation Linebacker the ratio was less than 1:1).

Among the several factors resulting in this disparity was a lack of realistic ACM training. USAF pilots were not versed in the core values and basics of ACM due to the belief that BVR (Beyond Visual Range) engagements and equipment made maneuvering combats obsolete, and nearly all pilots were unpracticed in maneuvering against dissimilar aircraft because of an Air Force emphasis on flying safety.

An Air Force analysis (Project Red Baron II) showed that a pilot's chances of survival in combat dramatically increased after he had completed 10 combat missions. Red Flag was created in 1975 to offer US pilots the opportunity to fly 10 realistically-simulated combat missions in a safe training environment with measurable results. Many aircrews had also fallen victim to SAMs and Red Flag exercises provided pilots experience in this regime as well.

 

[Ether_Snake]

Oh my god, I managed to complete the story's description before I finished reading it!

So will it have lesbian overtones? I hope so!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHklGtW3rwU

And how about this Ice Man tribute?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bqt2Xhwg1g

Or I could say how about some cock?