I just shed a tear... watching the trailer for Mavrick

"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
07/18/2019 at 18:43 • Filed to: Mavrick

Nostalgia , I have it.

DISCUSSION (32)

Gerry197 > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
07/18/2019 at 18:57

Awesome trailer, I had my doubts when I heard about this movie, but they turned up the practical flying stuff on this one and seem to be hitting all the classic Top Gun beats while moving it forward, can’t wait!!!

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
07/18/2019 at 19:00

Pretty

Hope it's not as slow as the original

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
07/18/2019 at 19:07

Kinja'd!!!

McMike > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
07/18/2019 at 19:09

Say what you want about the movie, this App is amazing.

Kinja'd!!!

random001 > McMike
07/18/2019 at 19:11

I see what you did there...

Phyrxes once again has a wagon! > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
07/18/2019 at 19:12

The trailer didn’t have enough Kenny Loggins!

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
07/18/2019 at 19:13

‘ Top Gun’ was the first movie I ever purchased on VHS and I wouldn’t be surprised if I still have that copy around somewhere. This looks like a decent follow-on.

In my high school days I used to be mistaken for Tom Cruise, especially around the time ‘Risky Business’ came out , although I’m a bit taller than him . I have put on a few pounds since then, but I don’t look nearly as old as he looks in this preview. Is it makeup or just time? I’m blessed with good genes and don’t look nearly as old as I am...

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
07/18/2019 at 19:15

Will the girl died? And then Maverick will feel all guilty and get out of the Navy?

lone_liberal > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
07/18/2019 at 19:34

Or as dumb. The flying sequences were great but the plot (what there was of it) was epically bad.

DipodomysDeserti > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
07/18/2019 at 19:44

No Val?

Kinja'd!!!

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
07/18/2019 at 19:51

I appreciate the irony of Ed Harris calling someone else a dinosaur...

DipodomysDeserti > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
07/18/2019 at 19:59

Damn, you look like Tom Cruise but aged better. You must suck at acting. ;)

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
07/18/2019 at 20:05

My dad was a pilot so it was already jet mania when the first film came out, my dad thought it was ridiculous haha.

imadick > lone_liberal
07/18/2019 at 20:28

It’s a military propaganda film, I wouldn’t expect much from the plot. But it will make the Navy look cool, gotta drive those enlistments!!!

Chariotoflove > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
07/18/2019 at 20:54

I’m crossing my fingers for this one. There is a huge danger in invoking nostalgia of making the character look like a has-been dinosaur that didn’t grow with the times. The later Star Trek movies had this problem. Sure it was great to see them back on the bridge, but bittersweet to see them not moving up and on like high achievers normally would.

In other words, t here better be a decent explanation why Maverick is still a captain.

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > Chariotoflove
07/18/2019 at 21:01

As opposed to the end of Star Trek IV where kirk is demoted back to captain as a non-punishment punishment, so that he can do what he really wanted to be doing the whole time... not everybody wants to be a desk jockey administrator. Some people who are desk jockeys aren’t all that enthused about it.

“You know you’ll never be happy unless you’re going Mach 2 with your hair on fire...”

merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
07/18/2019 at 21:04

Talk to me Goose. Yeah I’ll have to watch this one when it comes out. I could probably quote the entire original we used to watch it so much.

lone_liberal > imadick
07/18/2019 at 21:10

I was in the Navy when it came out. The only part they got right was the Navy Exchange coffee cups.

Chariotoflove > BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
07/18/2019 at 21:21

We loved ST IV, one of my favorites as a true fan. T hat was a pretty thin rationale for keeping Kirk in the command chair for future adventures, but it worked well enough . It doesn’t work at all for the other crew members. Of them all, only Sulu do we see moving up and on in The U ndiscovered Country . And Spock, of course, has another course to follow. The rest, not so much.

But really, the galaxy is a big place, and the possibilities for exciting stories to be told with a character like Jim Kirk were out there without needing to stick him in a nostalgic position.