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Originally Posted by IMJ
Top Gun: Maverick was terrific.... they caught lightning in a bottle with that one. It showed up at the right time, it was counter to all that was "woke", it delivered on nostalgia but also yielded a story that seemed necessary for the character.
My point is that a 3rd one could be good, but the 2nd one felt like it had something special going on that I don't know the 3rd one could have the stars aligned for.
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On the one hand, it might seem like, "Top Gun: Maverick was 36 years in the making!" But it really wasn't. From the actual script to filming wasn't very long at all, maybe a year or two. They could do it again, with the same care, but certainly it'd be less "special" because we
just saw Maverick. And he doesn't really have much to brood about this time, so that's gone. Plus nobody left to kill off except Maverick himself.