Amph TOP GUN 2 (now with 100% more jon hamm)

He could have. During WW2 he spent a long time test flying fighters away from the front lines, and he used to practice low-level aerobatics while strafing ground targets. One of his favorite maneuvers was flying over the bullseye, pulling up into a loop, and shooting the target as he was pulling out of the loop. Two meter exhaust port? Piece of cake for Bob Hoover.

 

I can't remember a movie having better legs (staying power) than Maverick. Not in years anyway. Dances with Wolves? I know Raiders played in my local theater for well over a year.

 

I heard E.T. was in theaters for over a year and Star Wars was in for 44 weeks or something.

Would Rocky Horror Picture Show count as the longest ever cause that gets shown in a theater somewhere every week right?

It is very impressive that Maverick is still being screened; wish that happened more often.

 

Titanic

 

I believe it has been in theaters continously since 1975.

Feel sorry for whoever gets to clean up after those midnight showings, tho.

 

@Guidman Good call and surprised nobody brought up the original Top Gun. That came out in mid-May 1986 and was in the Top 10 until December of that year. But to me @dp4m is correct. Titanic just seemed to kept going and going has it's original theatrical run went from basically Christmas 97' (think it open a week or so before it) to Fall 98'. That whole movie was just like a cultural phenomenon that really seems unmatched in modern times even with films like End Game and TFA given not only how long it ran for but also how popular the song was obviously that just feed into that cultural phenomenon. Didn't help either a girl I was seeing at time loved the film and Leo therefore I heard on that end too. It should been a sign we weren't meet for each other which included free admit, she was way too attractive for me. To the point my wife still teases me I dated her for awhile going "I still cannot she dated you, she must have been slumming!".

 

If memory serves Raiders played from summer to the following Holiday season nearly a year and a half later. In a 2 movie theater in my town. We were so sad when it finally was pulled.

 

Yeah but that was pre Home Video. Titanic was in the era of VHS and the beginning of DVD.

 

In some theaters, "Star Wars" ran for at least a year.

 

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Doesn't go quite like in the movie.

 

Japan Unveils Top Gun 2 Themed F-15 Eagle | The Drive

This is funny cuz the F-15 is a purely Air Force plane; there's nothing at all Navy about it, and Top Gun is all navy. It would be like painting a Ford Mustang to look like a Chevy Camaro.

 

@Kenneth Morgan Yep and not only did ANH have an entire year run at the box office but so did ET has it came out in June 1982 and ran until the following summer has it was ROTJ that kind of help push it out the door.

@Sarge I had a former AF pilot tell me at a party over the weekend that the final battle between Mav/Rooster in the F-18 vs the two Su-57 was like pitting an early 1950's fighter jet against two F-18. Thoughts?

 

@Luke02, did you mean Mav & Rooster in the F-14?

I don't know much about 5th gen fighters in general or the Su-57 in particular, but if we look at the age gaps, the first F-18s flew in the early 80's which is about a three decade gap from the early 50's. The first F-14's flew in the early 70's and that's the version they stole, so it was almost a five decade gap from the Tomcat to the Su-57.

I just remembered, the movie F-18's were Super Hornets, which resemble the original Hornets but are actually almost a completely new design that first flew in the mid-90's, so that makes the age gap from the 50's over four decades, which is much closer to the F-14 vs Su-57 gap.

That said, fighter technology was advancing very rapidly during the 50's and 60's, and slowed somewhat in the 70's and 80's, and slowed more after that. Anyway, I'd say that analogy is probably in the right ballpark. I'm sure air superiority experts could argue the point all day, and if you ask 3 pilots you'll get at least 6 opinions.

Something else I just remembered is a friendly encounter between US F-4 Phantoms, late 60's era jets, that got suckered into a dogfight with Australians flying early 50's F-86 Saber jets. The Aussies suckered the Yanks into a slow-speed turning contest and the old Sabers were all over the high-tech Phantoms. High tech has lots of advantages, but old planes often have their own strong points that a smart pilot can exploit.

 

Top Gun 3 (2058)

 

Retired F-18 pilots Mover and Gonky have made a 6 part reaction video now that TGM is out on video. And they obviously had a lot of fun with it. This is the first part that got approved by Youtube, more should follow soon.

 

Here's a better video, more cinematic and less "enemy dot on the horizon".

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It took them 8 separate videos to appease the copyright overlords, but Mover & Gonky finally finished their commentary on TGM. Of course they tore the movie to shreds, their status as professional fighter pilots requires it, but they still liked it a lot.

 

TGM has finally left my local theaters. I'm feeling at a loss. Now what do I do on days when I'm bored?

 

Laugh at gravity. Hahahahaha. Gravity