Quentin Tarantino really loved Top Gun: Maverick. The Kill Bill director gave a rare rave review about the Tom Cruise-led sequel that has been breaking box office records all summer.
"Normally I don’t talk about new movies that much because I’m only forced to say only good things, but in this case I f***ing love Top Gun, the Maverick movie," he told CinemaBlend’s ReelBlend podcast. "I thought it was fantastic. I saw it at the theaters. It was, as our good mutual friend Brett Easton Ellis says, that and [Steven] Spielberg’s West Side Story both provided a true cinematic spectacle, the kind that I’d almost thought that I wasn’t going to see anymore."
"It wasn’t so much concern," Tarantino revealed of his conversation with Cruise. "I figure if he was going to do it he has a good handle on it. But I did ask him, I said, 'How do you do Top Gun without Tony Scott?'" Cruise told him at the time that they’d worked out a way to do it – and most importantly that they had a good story.
Tarantino branded the callbacks to Scott "lovely". "It’s the closest we’re ever going get to seeing one more Tony Scott movie," he added. "And it was a f***ing terrific one."
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