Actually the movie is competency porn, air combat porn, nostalgia porn. The eroticism factor of the movie is nonexistent in the three times I have watched it.
It reminds me of Star Trek Next Generation Season 6 Ep10,11 “Chain of Command”.
The personality types are very carefully crafted to illustrate complete skill and coming into conflict with each other over style and method while still working towards a goal.
The flying footage is pure aviation grade heroin.
I missed seeing this movie on the last ever IMAX showing today 6/9 12:20 by 5 hours due to mechanical trouble on my last trip.
I made the mistake of watching the film on ScreenX thinking it was like IMAX and was horrified by the kaleidoscope of distraction of having all aviation scenes and only aviation scenes plastered on the walls on either side of a standard screen that was zoomed in too far completely ruining all the flight footage.
Watched it in standard directly after that gimmicky ScreenX dumpster fire and was back to being completely enthralled by the crisp beautiful easy to follow flying scenes in standard correct as intended format.
Tom Cruise learned from Edge of Tomorrow that people love seeing Tom cruise failing, messing up and getting killed and or exploded repeatedly and this movie may or may not disappoint on that aspect.
The last movies before this one that I had to watch repeatedly in theaters were “Lord of the Rings: Return of the King” and “Saving Private Ryan”.
I just wish I could have seen “Top Gun Maverick” in IMAX because I always wanted to only be a fighter pilot and that the movie is a flag waving “America is Awesome” nostalgia fest is great too.
