Top Gun vs Top Gun: Maverick

Top Gun is glossier, more wholesome and more linear than Top Gun: Maverick. Both are familiar in style, linear and big in scale.

Top Gun poster

Top Gun

Type and year
Film · 1986
Length
110 min
Rating
7.0
out of 10 on TMDB · 4,957 votes
Top Gun: Maverick poster

Top Gun: Maverick

Type and year
Film · 2022
Length
131 min
Rating
8.3
out of 10 on TMDB · 6,246 votes

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Characteristics, side by side

Top GunTop Gun: Maverick

  • Pace
    SlowFast
  • Originality
    Tried & testedFresh & original
  • Wholesomeness
    UnsavouryWholesome
  • Weightiness
    LightHeavy
  • Realism
    ImaginaryRealistic
  • Intricacy
    SimpleIntricate
  • Linearity
    SurrealLinear
  • Style and visuals
    GrittyGlossy
  • Scale
    EnclosedBig & varied
  • Emotional punch
    Emotionally undemandingEmotive & stirring

Taste attributes

Both

  • Action
  • Drama
  • Tried & tested
  • Linear
  • Big & varied
  • Complex relationship

Only Top Gun

  • Adventure
  • Vehicles
  • Romance
  • Wholesome
  • Simple
  • Glossy
  • Emotive & stirring
  • All consuming quest
  • Fish out of water/culture clash
  • Human spirit/resilience/survival
  • Injustice/tragedy/vengeance
  • Love conquers all
  • Unlikely connections

Only Top Gun: Maverick

  • Heavy
  • Realistic

Genres

Both

  • Action
  • Drama

Only Top Gun

  • Adventure

Only Top Gun: Maverick

None.

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