"Top Gun: Maverick"

Was it really necessary to make a second "Top Gun" movie. Somehow the death of original director Tony Scott killed the idea for me. It misses out on a lot of the...superficiality. Believe it or not. Instead, it seems to have wanted to fix what was wrong. And for a pre-pubescent child, watching sexy Kelly McGillis walk in was boner inducing. In this one, you get butched out tough gal Jennifer Connelly. Which seemed to age into an androgynous blah than that sex kitten who rode on the mechanical horse in a loop in "Career Opportunities" She hides her chesticles like they were a detriment. Whilst true, she is now a mother and an adult, no one goes to movies to see or identify with wrinkly people having sex. Ideally, the female pilot with have massive cans with big doe eyes, if it were truly a Tony Scott/Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer joint. At the VERY least big hair. Those days are gone and what it left me with is sadness. I do recall going over to my friend Eric's house and watching the VHS of the original "Top Gun" And just mindlessly enjoying it. This flick made you have to consider backgrounds. Which is really dumb (in this movie). Movies in the 80's were really surfaced. Who gave a fuck about how Iceman felt about anything. He was the blonde teuton who hated Maverick simply for being good at what he does. And the simple...having to live up to Dad's expectations was enough to fuel his anger. Remember when that was enough. Instead, we're in some psychiatric spiral which has Maverick reigniting some weird relationship with a towny bar hag who the present day filmmakers felt needed to have a hobby which makes her as cool. Yeah, they have over 60 hours of footage, and this is what came of it. I'd love to see the dailies to funnel out what could've been. This is that type of movie where you know the tune but you hate the band. They literally re-do Giorgio Moroder/Harold Faltymeyer tune! This movie just saddens me to what could've been. Missing characters, missing glam, missing balls.