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This week, on Ridiculous and Often Ridiculously Entertaining:
Tom Cruise refuses to age or stop being the main character of reality itself. He can’t stop, because he has to train a bunch of beautiful people to fly into a weirdly specific trench run that’s totally not the Death Star. This is cinema at its most perfectly ridiculous and ridiculously perfect.
What elevation is the hard deck right now? Is that the biggest American flag ever made in their staff room? Is Ed O’Neal in this movie?? We don’t shy away from the difficult conversations on this one. Does Joe think this movie deserves a Best Picture nomination? (He doesn’t.) Can Greg watch a Top Gun movie without thinking of a Hot Shots movies? (He can’t.) What elevation is the hard deck NOW? Has it changed?? Don’t tell Jon Hamm, who is currently looking out his window while speaking to you.
It’s time to shoot at sunset/sunrise, paint on some sweat, and play football with uncomfortable clothing. That’s right, it’s time for TOP GUN: MAVERICK.
Play along with drinking games and trope lightning rounds as Greg and Joe have the only conversation that needed to happen. Meta drinking game every time we confuse Ed Harris and Ed O’Neal.
Joe’s Back of the Box
When the air force must pull off an impossible mission they turn to one man, Maverick (Tom Cruise). Now he must teach those at the Top Gun academy all he knows in three weeks or the world will be at risk. Can he tame their egos long enough to impart what he needs to? Or will his unorthodox methods get him kicked out of the Navy for good? Strap in as this movie jets towards its explosive finale. Maverick is back… And faster than ever.
The REAL Back of the Box
I think this is a 2 hour commercial for the Navy. Throw in some 80’s nostalgia and them saying “talk to me, ________” every two seconds and you get this retread of a movie. It is a pretty film with some fun air to air combat scenes, but this is a B movie desperately trying to convince you it is highbrow…