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With year ending. My love letter to "Top Gun Maverick" the year's biggest film winner and my choice for Best Of 2022.
What truly stands out is just how "needed" the film was...
Movie theaters being closed was the norm and then TGM brings the crowds back. It was a deep heart felt moment for me to personally see.
This era of film-making is not a great one, to be sure. We ruin franchises at almost every turn. We constantly ignore fans and target audiences just to satisfy some nobody Hollywood producer or team's political axe to grind. Very few films stood out this year as true art and enduring. TGM surely did and gave us box office numbers we may never see again for a long while.
The film's structure is iconic. We have a pilot return 30+ years after his hero efforts in the skies, and its like he never skipped a beat. The supporting characters are also just that- actual "characters" each with weaknesses and personalities. Not a single moment in the life is wasted as the film's structure is tight and concept driven. They make it look easy, but the accomplishment of such a cinematic act structure in the modern arena is truly special.
Tom Cruise himself really nailed the appeal of TGM in the brief clip he filmed that showed before many of the first TGM showings... he said this was a film "to be experienced on the big screen," and it wasn't meant as a insut to streaming and such, it was just that- an epic story needing the biggest screen possible.
Man I can't thank the film-making team behind TGM enough for that. Officially TGM is my number one film of 2022....
Happy film season.. HSX.ers....
With year ending. My love letter to "Top Gun Maverick" the year's biggest film winner and my choice for Best Of 2022. Dec 29, 06:37
Agree!! {nm} Dec 29, 13:08
