Top Gun, Top Film: American’s Favorite Non-Woke Film Gets Awesome Oscars News

If you’re anti-woke and wanted to see a new movie in 2022, you didn’t have many options. “The Northman” was excellent, though not for everyone thanks to the violence and dark story line. “Spirited” was pretty good, but only available on Apple TV and it certainly didn’t have a conservative storyline. “The Terminal List” was true to the book and had a somewhat conservative storyline, but was a TV show, not a movie. And then there was “Top Gun: Maverick,” which was non-woke, a movie pretty much anyone could watch, and absolutely fantastic.

Fortunately for the investors that funded it, the studio that produced it, and the actors that starred in it, Top Gun: Maverick has been nominated for six Oscar nominations, including best picture, in one of the few examples of critics and audiences agreeing on a movie in recent years.

Deadline, reporting on the film’s nominations, reported that “Top Gun: Maverick scored six Oscar nominations this morning including best picture, along with adapted screenplay by Ehren Kruger & Eric Warren Singer, sound, film editing, visual effects and original song for the Lady Gaga tune “Hold My Hand”.”

Breitbart, reporting on the success of Top Gun: Maverick in theaters and how it was devoid of the “woke sermonizing” that ruins most movies, noted that:

“Top Gun: Maverick was an unqualified popular and critical success, earning $1.49 billion at the global box office and nearly unanimous praise from critics. The Paramount release notably avoided the woke sermonizing and left-wing preaching that have become commonplace in Hollywood movies, proving that audiences still crave the kind of straightforward entertainment.”

Further, the surprisingly patriotic film was not shown in Russia or Red China, so its box office success came purely from America and friendly nations, which is rare for a Hollywood which has increasingly leaned toward appeasing Red China to gain access to its large market.

In winning 6 Oscar nominations, Top Gun: Maverick actually outperformed the original Top Gun film, which received four nominations.

It also was such an impressive film that even NPR, itself not particularly patriotic or opposed to woke filmmaking, had to admit that the action scenes were impressive and the film had some powerful moments, saying, in its review of the film:

The action sequences are much more thrilling and immersive than in the original. You feel like you’re really in the cockpit with these pilots, and that’s because you are: The actors underwent intense flight training and flew actual planes during shooting. In that respect, Top Gun: Maverick feels like a throwback to a lost era of practical moviemaking, before computer-generated visual effects took over Hollywood. You start to understand why Cruise, the creative force behind the movie, was so driven to make it: In telling a story where older and younger pilots butt heads, and state-of-the-art F-18s duke it out with rusty old F-14s, he’s trying to show us that there’s room for the old and the new to coexist. He’s also advancing a case for the enduring appeal of the movies and their power to transport us with viscerally gripping action and big, sweeping emotions.

Which brings us to the movie’s most powerful scene, in which Val Kilmer briefly reprises his role as Iceman, Maverick’s former nemesis-turned-friend. Kilmer is, in some respects, Cruise’s opposite: a onetime star whose career never quite found its groove, and who’s been beset by health issues in recent years, including the loss of his voice due to throat cancer. His soulful presence here gives this high-flying melodrama the grounding it needs. Cruise may be this movie’s immortal star, but it’s Kilmer’s aching performance that takes your breath away.

So audiences, critics, and the Oscars agree: Maverick was a wonderful film, one that deserves some serious recognition for what it was able to accomplish.

By: Will Tanner. Follow me on Twitter @Will_Tanner_1