Heroes are also deviants, people who dare to defy social norms in pursuing the “right” thing to do. Maybe to appreciate Maverick, we must return to the dictionary definition of maverick: “an unorthodox or independent-minded person.” When you compare this to the definition of a hero, there’s definitely overlap. Baby Boomers and Gen-Xers everywhere are cheering about the laws of nature being violated here. Yet there is Maverick, not just smarter and stronger than everyone else, but also without a single gray hair. The idea that Tom Cruise, at age 60, can keep up physically with 25-year-olds, and even surpass them, is pretty ludicrous. What this is telling me is that more than anything else, Top Gun: Maverick is a film about denial. Personally I can’t wait until 2052 when he’s 90 and still running, perhaps with the help of cybernetic implants.
Cruise may be 60 years old but he’s one of these Hollywood heroes who has an eternal physicality. Now here we are in 2022 and Tom Cruise is still sprinting from bad dudes, this time in a faraway unnamed country. Tom Cruise's face is never shown in the trailer, and likely won't be in Flight Simulator itself due to licensing, but that's hardly a deterrent to fans of the film, especially considering that the expansion will be free.Greg, thirty years ago, in a nice 1992 film called The Firm, we saw a young Tom Cruise sprinting down the streets of Memphis, trying to get away from the bad guys. But a footnote to the gameplay trailer opens up on a carrier ship in the open ocean, ostensibly the now-decommissioned USS Enterprise, or possibly the USS Abraham Lincoln or Theodore Roosevelt where Top Gun: Maverick has been filmed, and shifts to a F/A-18 Super Hornet with Mav's call sign emblazoned on the side, with the man himself at the controls, wearing his familiar flight helmet. Related: Microsoft Flight Simulator Gives Away Free Pizza Paint JobĪt today's Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase for E3, developer Asobo Studios showed off some of the stunning gameplay and graphics that the powerful Xbox version of Microsoft Flight Simulator will be boasting, and players will be excited to note that the game's notoriously wonky water effects seem to have been fixed.
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