{"id":6954,"date":"2026-05-19T01:06:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/?p=6954"},"modified":"2026-05-19T01:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:13:07","slug":"top-gun-maverick-by-joseph-kosinski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/05\/19\/top-gun-maverick-by-joseph-kosinski\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Top Gun: Maverick<\/em> by Joseph Kosinski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2705 Highly enjoyable popcorn action movie that hits all the right notes, with impeccable production values, cinematography, performances, pacing, cut.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 Like every good sequel, it\u2019s at the same time a clever remake.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 More emotional beats than expected, and with more depth than the original. (Which isn\u2019t hard.)<\/p>\n<p>Undoubtedly an excellent, technically superior blockbuster, but unlikely to become an era-defining pop culture icon like its <a href=\"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/05\/18\/top-gun-by-tony-scott\/\">predecessor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"spacer20\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ruler\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"epigraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Top_Gun:_Maverick\" target=\"somethingUnique\"><em>Top Gun<\/em><\/a> by Joseph Kosinski, 2022.<br \/>\nWatched at the Atelier theater on May 17, 2026, in its original language.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/05\/19\/top-gun-maverick-by-joseph-kosinski\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Top Gun: Maverick by Joseph Kosinski\"><p>\ud83c\udfac Again I\u2019m late to the party.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-archive","h-entry","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6954"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6965,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954\/revisions\/6965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}