What the actual morality fucking tale just happened.

I’ve waffled on this film a dozen times during its aggressive runtime — but this last episodic, grotesquely violent transgression may have finally broken me.

I tend to be very accommodating to Wright’s cinematic POV.

Exactly so.

I don’t know that it was perfect — but I loved it.

This made me guffaw.

I haven’t read the King book, but it could also be more faithful to the text? A few possibilities. All disappointing.

As one of the biggest James Bond fans, I fully support this idea. The spirit of James Bond is fully and completely dead.

This ending seems to be a common complaint among most reviews, and it’s rather baffling because Wright has been so so good at sticking the landing.

Upon many years of reflection, I’ve decided that Maverick was the hero and the villain and the whole movie is Man vs. Himself. Superficially, Ice is an antagonist, but he’s only a “villain” of Maverick is only a “hero.” Top Gun becomes something else once you allow it this kind of reading.

Yeah. I liked Blue Gardenia. I enjoy Conti — and this one has a nice twist on the amnesia noir trope. It doesn’t stick the landing, but I give it credit for trying something.