BLOCKBUSTER Top Gun Shatters Records: Maverick’ Is America’s Desperate Cry for Help, Sick of Woke

America is sick of woke. This, from of all places,  Politico. Pigs flying…..

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‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Is America’s Cry for Help

The nostalgic blockbuster’s unexpectedly massive success reflects a desperation to feel good — together, for once.

By Derek Robertson, Politico, June 3, 2022:

decade is always more than its cultural signifiers, but one could be forgiven for musing that the 1980s are back: inflationary politics, fast-and-loose financial markets, a Russian military quagmire.

Add a triumphant Tom Cruise to that list, as his latest star vehicle Top Gun: Maverick dominated the Memorial Day box office — setting the weekend’s all-time record, and netting Cruise his biggest opening ever to the tune of $126 million.

Yes, Cruise is arguably America’s most famous movie star of the modern era, and yes, the film surely benefits from the nostalgia effect. But Cruise’s films over the past decade have rarely opened to such massive audiences. The Mission: Impossible franchise generally makes its money on steady word-of-mouth, other recent efforts like American Made and The Mummy have disappointed, and Top Gun: Maverick is a sequel to a nearly four-decade-old film that was released before much of today’s audience was even born.

So what gives? Why are we once again in collective thrall to Pete “Maverick” Mitchell and his unquenchable, near suicidal need for speed?

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