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    <em>The Review</em>: Top Gun

    <span>How does the classic work of propaganda hold up? And can its sequel, </span><em>Top Gun: Maverick</em><span>, deliver decades later?</span>
    by David Sims May 26, 2022 7 minutes
    Source: Paramount / Sunset Boulevard / Corbis / Getty; The Atlantic

    Top Gun: Maverick is out soon! But can any movie with fast planes, Tom Cruise, and beach volleyball truly compare to the classic fighter-pilot movie about, as writer Shirley Li puts it, “cute boys calling each other cute names”? And do audiences have an appetite anymore for what Megan Garber called an “infomercial for America”? Find out with Shirley, Megan, and David Sims, and explore the moral (but fictional) simplicity of an earlier era: the Cold War ’80s.

    Listen to their discussion here:

    The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity.

    The movie , the sequel to , is finally coming to theaters after getting delayed many, many times by the pandemic. Its initial scheduled release date was July 12, 2019. They delayed it ’til June 2020, more for genuine reshoots and production reasons. And then, of course, because of the coronavirus pandemic, it got kicked to July 2021, and then it got kicked to November 2021, and then it got finally moved to when it is actually being released: May 27, Memorial Day Weekend 2022. So this is one of the last delayed-by-COVID movies to make it to the big is. It really feels like a movie that was made before the pandemic. Megan, you wrote about it for the magazine, and I think the headline in your piece was “ is an Infomercial for America.”

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