Top Gun Maverick — How to Make a Movie Without a Villain | Film Perfection

Top Gun Maverick brings back Tom Cruise as Maverick to once more fly fighter jets in a visual marvel. The movie became the biggest box office success of the year, even more so than the MCU, and everybody seemed to like it. Which is crazy because this movie is missing a proper villain. Somehow it just manages to make things work without one. So in today's Film Perfection let's try to figure out what you can do when the villain is missing. Not to say you shouldn't include a villain, because unless you're Christopher McQuarrie it might go badly wrong, but more so what you can do on top of your villain.

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Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), call sign: “Rooster,” the son of Maverick’s late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, Top gun maverick flying scenes top gun maverick mistakes top gun maverick dogfight scene enemy fighter ending fight ending battle lady gaga top gun maverick only action honest trailer best movie top gun maverick bad movie top gun maverick best moments funny moments live die repeat edge of tomorrow top gun maverick full movie watch online free 4k clip hd top gun maverick official trailer top gun maverick dog fight training aka “Goose.” Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of his past, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.

[Filmento]

Sorry this video took so long, guys. Paramount tried real hard to block it (they still might).

[ItsIntelligentDesign]

Bad writing advice: all stories need a villain. Good writing advice: all stories need a *conflict*. Some of the greatest stories are the ones about characters needing to overcome themselves

[bonuz]

When you realize Top Gun: Maverick shouldn’t be a masterpiece. It should be the standard for the industry.

[MoonWielder]

I know that this is going to sound weird to some people, but this movie felt like an actual movie and something that is worth experiencing at a movie theater. They knocked it out of the park with this one, and the ending of the movie brought actual tears to my eye. The best part of this whole thing is that they managed to revive an old franchise without screwing it up. Top-notch film!

[peterfrank]

Generally speaking, it's celebrated because of how thoughtful the movie was made. Not as a thought-provoking art piece, but a very well constructed blockbuster entertainment. There's sincerity in it that other blockbusters today don't possess.

Tom Cruise didn't buzz the radio tower, he buzzed through his competition.

[ramonabdiel]

As a person who had never seen the original Top Gun in it’s entirety, Top Gun: Maverick was and still is the best movie i’ve seen this year

[Lapeno]

The fact that a sequel of an "average" 80´s movie released 40 years ago is doing way better than other huge franchises is hilarious

[JetstreamSam]

I was half way through the movie when I noticed there was no villain
I thought they'd either introduce a generic boring villain, or make a "villain" out of the struggle and objective they had

In the end, it worked out perfectly

[ldragon]

Whatever Matrix Resurrections did wrong as a sequel, Top Gun Maverick did right. Seriously, this is easily one of the best legacy sequels of all time.

I wouldn’t mind seeing you compare the two films to demonstrate in detail why one works and the other doesn’t.

[LordStarscream]

Amazing how a film so simple and character-driven can have such emotional impact and kill it at the box office. Looking at you Multiverse of Madness.

[haroldb]

A note of caution: it is common in some movies to make the male and female leads former lovers who reconcile by the end of the film. I have seen this fairly often in low budget disaster movies. Contrived pre-existing conflicts between characters is also common, and was lampooned in the movie Hot Shots. Top Gun Maverick did these things properly, in part because of character development in the first movie. There are plenty of examples where it was not handled well.

[DJMarcO]

I was impressed with how they handled the "enemy" part of the story. I'm not actually a big Tom Cruise fan, but I was a kid when the original Top Gun was out, and of course loved it, so I had to see this one. I was pleasantly surprised with how well it continued from the 1st movie w/o completely copying it.

[Casual_Cthulhu]

My favorite moment in the movie is after it’s established that maverick “wanted to be the father rooster didn’t have”, we see roster say “talk to me dad” in the final act. We then cut to maverick telling him to “don’t think, just do.” Masterful storytelling.

[IN-tmmw]

The film is essentially PVE "Player versus environment", like a platformer or dungeon, where we as the audience, watch a team or pros do something even they think is a massive fail. Its something i always liked about OG Star Trek where the "Villain" is the problem of the week and the crew spends the whole episode finding ways to solve it.

[HAXAD]

My mom saw the original back in 1986 as a teenager and lived to see its sequel with her kids 36 years later.

In her own words this was the first time she's ever seen a Hollywood revival of a pop culture classic that compliments the original instead of spitting on it.

From my POV I never saw the first movie and I still loved this one because it successfully appealed to the modern audiences.

[hiattgrey]

I remember me and my dad going into this movie to finally get it over with after three years of waiting and anticipation. Then all the sudden, this huge crowd of people came in and filled in every single seat. And when the movie was over, they gave the movie a standing ovation.

[BoredTAK]

Another thing about this film is that 90% of the film is just setting up how impossible the mission is. Which then creates one of, if not the, most intense finales every.

[SpareMango]

I wish Tom Cruise was young again so he could keep cranking out bangers for decades more to come

[niskanen]

what makes this 10000x better is that i had no expectations for this, i was almost mad they made a 2nd TG movie, but this for once proved that sequel movie can be better than the original…

[isaacmartinez]

Top Gun 2 is really the best movie to beat the original. Rare accomplishment.