Who was Targeted in Top Gun: Maverick?

When Top Gun: Maverick was about to be realized, two years ago, I think, there was all trailers, teasers and such to market the American propaganda enough, so it will not become a failure after spending millions of dollars on it. Hollywood was in such a deep shit that Spielberg later said that Cruise has saved it by this movie!

I never was excited by the movie because I knew what it would be and that is why I didn't watch it until just recently, last week! I have to say that I saw the original Top Gun shortly after it came out on VHS in the old country and didn't understand much! As a young man, my English was not to the level to understand what they were saying. So, the story was not clear to me but as a young fella I wanted to show to the others that I, too, have seen this blockbuster and enjoyed that! I didn't even bother watching the movie here now that I've been living for over 20 years. This is despite the fact that I bought many DVDs when they were popular or rented them to re-watch the movies that I had seen them but they were either in low quality VHS or Betamax or I had not understood the plot, completely or entirely. To name, Basic Instinct was the first movie that I purchased and that was in Sunridge Mall back in, probably 2002! There were many more but we're going too far away from the subject. I never watched Top Gun, the original film| because it's not appealing to me and I know it would only be a propaganda that the young beer-drinking, weed-smoking, foreigner-hating, casual-sex-loving, Westerners would like. With that said, I decided to watch the new Top Gun and immerse myself to the world of a backward Baseball cap wearing, McDonald's-lover, weed-seeking Canadian/American teenager or average Joe! 

The result was not too bad, I have to admit. But here's the thing about sequels in Hollywood: The majority of time the sequels turn into shit! Why? Because the stupid writers do not use much creativity or maybe they're all out of ideas! The other possibility is that the producer simply wants to show the new generation what this movie was 25 years or so, ago! But that is not always the case. There has been sequels just a few years apart. Otherwise why the hell would you repeat the same stupid shit?! Let's look at a few examples together: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. An identical copy(!) of the previous one. In fact it was version 1 turned to version 1.00001! Alien Covenant and Pretentious: For years they were advertising on the sequels to the amazing Alien franchise then it was finally here: Despite millions of dollars spent and some good performances, Ridley Scott's new hit was nothing but a disappointment! He even brought the great Charlize Throne to make it more attractive for the movie fans and all she did was a few minutes of appearance and bursting out a few pieces of dialogue such as saying " Shit "! I think she wanted to indicated what the the movie would be eventually! Now going back to Top Gun: Maverick, the story is the exact same stupid shit! They even used most of the characters that they had in the original movie: Maverick, the son of the mustache guy, who was killed in the first movie and looks quite similar to his Dad and is probably even better than him at what he does and few other coloured and non-Caucasian actors, including a cute little girl to say that they are inclusive, probably! The acting are mediocre, mechanical and emotionless! 

This is the moment that Maverick's old F-14 loses the right engine while trying to land on the career

These are all good actors and actress whom I have always enjoyed their performance, though: Cruise was amazing in American Made, Valkyrie, Collateral and a few more. Jennifer Connelly's performance in The House of Sand and Fog and Dark Water is superb but they both was just acting like average performers. The other guys are just extras! The idiot writers even used the scenes of the previous movie here: The football scene, the piano playing scene and the bar beer drinking scene! The character of Kelly McGillis has been completely removed and now Maverick has a new love! 

Then they have a mission which is the start of the controversy and no one, as far as I know has mentioned that: Destroying an uranium enrichment plant! What country has uranium enrichment in process? Iran! I don't know how someone from, for example, China, would feel, if a movie was made to show that they were going to attack Shanghai! What would be the Chinese government reaction be? To confirm that later, when the attack takes place, Maverick and Goose's sun, who are both shut down and magically survived and miraculously find each other, despite being miles far away, in such a short time, they go to the destroyed runway and find an F-14 Tomcat in one of the not-destroyed bunkers! Another miracle which only happens top Americans! But here's another question: What other country, in the history of military, ever had F-14s rather than the US? The answer is Iran! 

I'm no supporter of the Government of Iran but certainly do not like to see the country being attacked by any foreign forces. There was a war once and the country was destroyed so badly but Americans think that every other nation in the region can have nuclear power but Iran, although I doubt that their aim is the bomb. 

The opening scene of the movie is good two. the interior design of the plane and the whole test is great. Also the parts that Maverick teaches them how to fight is filmed very nicely. I would rate the movie a 3.5 out of 5 and that is for the good cinematography and scenes. It's got nothing else.   

(Photo, top: An IRIAF [Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force] F-14 Tomcat, in an unidentified Iranian airport. It is not known what model of Tomcat it is. An F-4 Phantom, a passenger airplane and a Russian-made jet are all seen as well. No doubt that all the F-14 were bought by the Shah of Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution and given to IIAF [Imperial Iranian Air Force] the department which was renamed to IRIAF, later)