[SIDENET]

I hope they skip the volleyball scene this time around.

[equaviator]

“What I’m about to tell you is classified. It could end my career.”

[Recon Dad]

After reading the synopsis in the full article it sounds more like a spoof.

[org.whodat]

LOL, good old fake Hollywood. Battle star has better footage.

[Bon mots]

Will they give the main role to a heterosexual this time?

[goodwithagun]

Goose is dead.

[DemforBush]

Ugh, please let this be a hoax. I thought the first Top Gun was a lousy movie, and I don’t foresee the second being any better if Cruise stars and/or Tony Scott directs again.

[TSgt]

Tom Cruise turns hot chicks gay.

[spetznaz]

Quite funny. At the bottom of the article the give a fake 'plot' for the movie, which is absolutely hilarious if you know who Bill Sweetman of Aviation Week and Karlo Kopp of Ausair are - and what they think of the F-35. Very funny.

"Maverick is a test pilot struggling to keep the flight test programme on schedule, even though his better judgment is sometimes compromised by a lifelong, paralyzing fear of vertical landings. Maverick almost throws in the towel after his favourite knee board/test card holder is destroyed in an unfortunate lift fan malfunction. Meanwhile, the programme's enemies, led by the snearing Bill "Iceman" Sweetman and Karlo "Slider" Kopp, take advantage of Maverick's absence to nearly bury the programme in a wave of seemingly overwhelming blog attacks. That's when Maverick's love interest -- a Texas congresswoman strategically placed on the AirLand subcommittee -- intervenes. She gives Maverick her father's last knee board (er, her father was also a test pilot ... just go with it) and literally pushes him back into the cockpit. Maverick straps on the knee board, takes the Block 3 software build out for a spin, hits every test point and -- for the finale -- lands vertically right on top of Aviation Week's building in downtown Washington DC. And that's when Kenny Loggins starts singing."

[Charles Martel]

"Top Gun 2?! God help us!"

[Jack of all Trades]

They already made Top Gun 2. The wife and I call it Top Car aka Days of Thunder. Identical plot, but with stock cars. Young hot shot has a mishap resulting in a crisis of confidence, and is talked back into the game by and old hand. In the end, he wins the challenge and the girl.

That said, Top Gun is great aircraft porn.

[Rappini]

The best part of TG were the F-14 Tomcats.

[Yo-Yo]

Burbage also confirmed that Cruise will not just make a cameo; he will be the star, and he is playing the role of a Lockheed F-35 test pilot!

"Is this bird ready to fly? Tell me the truth!"

"Truth? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"

[Vroomfondel]

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