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Everyone was beautiful and nothing hurt (Top Gun, Paramount Pictures, 1986 and Top Gun: Maverick, Paramount Pictures, 2022)
Over the weekend I saw Top Gun: Maverick (at the Air & Space Museum annex IMAX, no less). SO MANY THOUGHTS. One, I had never seen the first Top Gun before save for ten minutes at my cousins’ house during a family barbecue sometime in the mid-nineties. You know the barbecue protocol where an adult…
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I can overlook a lot of flaws when your lightsaber doubles as a racing wheel for Mario Kart (Obi-Wan Kenobi, Lucasfilm, 2022)
I am a savant. Even under 5 pounds of Kryolan I recognized Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Grand Inceptor as Peter Quinn from Homeland. Of course I did, you can see those cheekbones from space. Or from earth, because they’re in space. My only problem now is that Star Wars villain voice is mowing down my boner faster…