Film Theory: Uncovering Top Gun's HIDDEN Enemy! (Top Gun Maverick)

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Top Gun Maverick was a MUCH better movie than I anticipated. So much so that I felt I needed to do a theory on it. What are we theorizing about? The enemy of our protagonists. You see, they never actually TELL US who they are fighting. So, I'm going to figure it out for myself! Get ready to SOAR into some secrets!
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Writers: Matthew Patrick, Bob Chipman and Forrest Lee
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Комментарии : 6 тыс.

@yasualleonandabunchofnumbers Год назад

Matt: "I'm also going to add China" *Ten seconds later* Also Matt: "We can immediately eliminate China" Love it 👍

@bransonries2774 Год назад

Gotta keep up friendly relations

@TheAverageLobster Год назад

Canada Geo:check Near russia:check Has a coast:check Could possibly get a f 14 from usa:check I know it now it's clear

@Dexter037S4 Год назад

@@TheAverageLobster All US F-14s were shredded in 2006, leaving Iran as the only choice

@TheAverageLobster Год назад

My reply is a joke

@aerospacematt9147 Год назад

@@Dexter037S4 Yeah “Shredded” is a good way to put it!

@ryanfriedrich6634 Год назад

There's no way Matt isn't on the CIA watch list.

@FreakingFrackingNerd Год назад

🤣

@brrrrrr Год назад

He's gonna find classified files for one of his theories one of these days

@unreachablesecretary Год назад

@@Tyrichyrich Exactly, this video just scratches the surface of why he probably IS on the list

@jackofalltradeshermes Год назад

@@Tyrichyrich including the fact he spawned Ash from his imagination

@93Hexer Год назад

If the CIA subscribes to the Channel they can watch so long they want to

@rayvinpister2874 Год назад

I’m really hoping someday we’ll get a theory on how Maverick survived being ejected out of an exploding jet going Mach 10. I’m so certain it shouldn’t be possible but I’d love to have it explained

@zacharyzientko2277 Год назад

At thats high of an altitude the atmosphere prob made it closer to a space walk than anything else

@404cheeseburgernotfound5 Год назад

maybe it ejects the cockpit instead of the seat

@tronam Год назад

It’s a plot hole, but who cares. It was awesome. Not everything needs to make sense.

@carllyngholm5568 Год назад

Surviving being ejected out of a plane going Mach 10 is NOT possible in real life. So... simplest explanation is that it's a movie, and therefore not necessarily chained to the laws of physics. However, (and you may have heard this theory at this point), some people think that Maverick actually DOES die at this point and the rest of the movie is essentially a last dying "fever dream" where he reconciles with two of the people in his life that he felt most ostracized from (Rooster and Peggy), so he can die in peace, basically. Interesting, but I personally subscribe to the "it's only a movie" position.

@tronam Год назад

@@carllyngholm5568 The only time a plot "flaw" takes me out of a movie is if I'm no longer emotionally engaged with it and any sense of verisimilitude is gone. In general I find the pursuit of them to be a pointless intellectual exercise that does nothing to enhance the experience and only distracts from it. Movies are artifice by nature and my suspension of disbelief only works if I can accept them on their own terms. Most of my favorite films are filled with contrived conveniences, unrealistic dialog and impossible circumstances, but I can usually forgive and accept all of that as long as they convincingly resonate with emotional or thematic truth. When watching a magic show I don't want to know how the tricks are done; I want to be tricked because my desire to experience a sense of wonder and amazement is why I went to the show in the first place.

@scaryespacio285 Год назад

When I saw the Arstotzka symbol I was like “GLORY TO ARSTOTZKA” lol

@Vennnaya Год назад

Really want tom cruise to say that now in the next top gun lmao.

@randomgo1238 Месяц назад

were you now 😄😄😄? stfup now 😄😄😄😄😄

@Apollo-zc2rj Год назад

Fun Fact: There is (or at least was) a hot dog stand in the center of the Pentagon, and was one of the busiest parts of the building. It was so busy that the Soviet Union thought it was the entrance to a secret underground bunker, and as such constantly had an ICBM pointed straight at that one hot dog stand.

@dontreadprofilephoto1728 Год назад

Ok dont read my name😑.........

@aBadWizard Год назад

Report all these bots

@okanimator Год назад

@thatkidoverthere2564 Год назад

Yeah reporting bots… understood

@calebfarmer176 Год назад

Episode II: The Bot Wars

@stevemanart Год назад

Fun Fact! The original Top Gun is a movie you will see at least three times a year every year if you are ever stationed on a Naval Aviation base or carrier.

@reentrysfs6317 Год назад

Actually?

@roberthagley9803 Год назад

@@reentrysfs6317 Yeah lol nothing like coming down the flight deck, tired and hot af, trying to watch a movie on channel 3 for chow and Top Gun or Midway is on

@reentrysfs6317 Год назад

@@roberthagley9803 okay

@brrrrrr Год назад

_crosses navy off of the list of possible careers_

@overworkedcat9779 Год назад

@LakehuntistEpic but did I ask

@cerealeggvr6942 3 месяца назад

The fact that they said that f-5s were migs is crazy

@wzthshaahhshbdvdjrg 3 месяца назад

the original top gun used t-5s for the enemy fighters because they cant just go steal a mig-29

@Plan3tMist Месяц назад

@@wzthshaahhshbdvdjrg not with that attitude

@superm2k Месяц назад

The F-5's are called MiG's in the movie

@arbolalto Месяц назад

@@superm2k Well, comrade, even if we discard the fact that they couldn't just get a MiG for their american propaganda movie and had to work with what they have in stock (note that the chopper Rambo destroys in Rambo 3 is neither a Mil Mi-24 but a Puma with masking tape strapped wings), the first clue that those MiGs were fictional, is that, at that time, MiGs were given only odd numbers and MiG-28 was verily fictional. Also, me being mexican, the movie never fooled us because there was a popular video by Luis Miguel, called La Incondicional, where he becomes a fighter pilot and, at the end of the song, he flies, you guess it, an F-5, the best our army had at that time... and still today. Yeah, we don't invest much on military airplanes.

@superm2k Месяц назад

@@arbolalto Well yeah, I'm aware of that. Was just pointing it out to OP - also, the MiG-6 exists.

@esceneknausicalci 9 месяцев назад

When I saw the Tomcat, I immediately knew it the Hidden Enemy was Iran.

@bread-sm3mv 10 дней назад

how

@LimitlessEntertainment_ 6 дней назад

⁠tomcats are a rare breed nowadays, Iran is the only place that still flys it @@bread-sm3mv

@albertmanafi4854 Год назад

I’m half-Iranian and my first thought after seeing the movie was…”uh yep, that’s Iran all right” glad to know MatPat thinks the same 💀

@user-lk2ex7ng8r Год назад

MatPat is a brain burner!(Правдивое видео🇷🇺):....ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PRtoEFr_HTQ.html

@tommybell3334 Год назад

Yeah I mean this video honestly king of over does it. As soon as I heard they where a nation in the Middle East trying ti create nukes it was sorta obvious

@camharkness Год назад

@@tommybell3334 he's also trying to teach people stuff, along with the theories.

@prinz4279 Год назад

@LakehuntistEpic bot

@Faun471 Год назад

@LakehuntistEpic k

@Gillymonster18 Год назад

The sweat issue in the original is a legit thing: they’re in the middle of the desert and gov buildings that likely don’t have AC or in the heart of an aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean where the functionality of any AC on the boat is definitely questionable.

@haroldb1856 Год назад

The real enemy is humidity.

@unknownnln9172 Год назад

I can attest the desert is hot and government ac sucks... unless you have a bunch of brass then your ac will work well and so will the window unit in their office.

@EEEEEEEE Год назад

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@BastardOfTheNorth Год назад

So that's why Slider stank so bad

@memesfromdeepspace1075 Год назад

No ........the answer is ........ITS introduction to homosexuality

@Matthew-qx3dh Год назад

I thought the enemy was Arstotzka from Papers, Please. The insignia on the enemy 5th gen fighters really looked like their flag and the Eastern European setting of the country can match the setting of the movie

@RewindOGTeeHee Год назад

Matpat is over here proving why the military releases only minimal information for the public 💀

@unknownvariable9239 Год назад

This movie was the first movie in a long time that feels like a blockbuster. Practical really has a difference

@dontreadprofilephoto1728 Год назад

Ok dont read my name😑.........

@Laurenmettke Год назад

I agree! It was the first movie in a long time that was truly amazing!

@kinoirvoidjustice Год назад

preceded by blade runner 2049

@jakeorb771 Год назад

Idk man, Dune was also genius. But that was 2021 so it seems like there is 1 per year

@hippityhoppityyourbrainisn4384 Год назад

I see that you are some guy without a mustache 2.0

@adventurerwithacoolhat2531 Год назад

As someone who works in the theaters: I say that normally movies have a falloff period of 3 weeks where numbers go down. Top Gun had over 2 months before it would even remotely fall off. It’s still going big.

@djramz3 Год назад

Watched yesterday for the 3rd time, still got goosebumps in certain scenes, truly a remarkable movie

@yizzardpalmero Год назад

Yeah I tried to go see it like two weeks ago because I heard it was going out of theaters so I showed up on a Tuesday and the theater was sold out. I was super shocked, but turns out it wasnt going out of theaters yet so I just went the next week. (Bought tickets beforehand this time) the theater wasnt sold out but was still fairly full

@LocalLibertarian Год назад

It’s action and nostalgia charged with patriotism mixed in the only people who wouldn’t like it are far left individuals and a senile high ranking public official whom shall be referred to as “Brandon”

@EEEEEEEE Год назад

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@tundraart2693 Год назад

@@LocalLibertarian i am super far left and loved the movie. My friends who are super far left loved the movie. Its a good movie. Just because i think america isnt a good country doesnt mean i hate everything about it.

@shadowguy321 Год назад

Fun fact for anyone who is unaware. The mission can and would be carried out by 5th gen fighters such as F22 and/or F35. However both of those planes are single seat. Since they had the actors in the Jets literally flying they had to change it to F18s which are 2 seat configuration for obvious reasons

@DerUnbbekante 4 месяца назад

The f22 isn't carrier capable.

@nathanwood868 Год назад

I feel so smart, after watching this movie I was thinking about what country they might have been fighting, and I went through a pretty similar mental checklist and came up with Iran, now I'm watching this months later and feel like I'm way ahead of the curve.

@carso1500 11 месяцев назад

i knew it was iran because of the F-14s, only one of those countries uses those

@HolySoliDeoGloria Год назад

0:55 You missed some "too darn sweaty" scenes from the original that would have been really appropriate to make your point: The personnel in the combat information center on the carrier are all sweating profusely, yet they are in spaces on the carrier that are kept VERY cold (no matter the weather outside) to protect all the computers and electronic equipment.

@meizapple6203 Год назад

People get sweaty when stressed.

@Menno_3 Год назад

@Pastry Imagine misinterpreting a correction as being offended

@thesuperintendent4290 Год назад

@@meizapple6203 Also when they are in the Pacific, is very stressed and some people are just sweaty and greasy all the time.

@revimfadli4666 Год назад

Cold sweat that doesn't evaporate due to cold & humid air?

@meizapple6203 Год назад

@@thesuperintendent4290 yeah people just sweaty, I can vouch

@forsakenpath4992 Год назад

As someone who lives in Washington, watching the final battle was pretty funny. I hike a lot in the area where they filmed, and I could actually recognize some of the peaks and the lake (Lake Kachess). Afterwards, my dad and I joked that the "enemy" was Cascadia- look up Cascadia independence if you aren't familiar. 😆

@justduck4504 Год назад

mmmmm project wingman

@grigss3027 Год назад

Oh god just hope that tom cruise wont activate a cordium deposit

@cocobob6025 Год назад

holy you could be in it

@butydoe750 Год назад

@@justduck4504 monarch

@TREX_04 Год назад

Or play project wingman

@dookydealer7334 Год назад

Mav actually has a 3rd mef patch on his jacket, which made the whole korea thing in the first one a little more obvious than you might think. Because the 3rd mef or (marine expeditionary force) is located in Okinawa Japan. Sooo that means it's possible he was on the 31st meu at the period the first movie is set. (I know he is a navy pilot and not a marine, but I figured it's a way to connect the dots.)

@dingusmann3003 4 месяца назад

i like how matt couldve just used the fact they had tomcats as an immediate decider but he makes it more complicated than it has to be. though one detail- matt says theyre using F18 hornets at 10:09, thats not entirely accurate. If we wanna be pedantic, theyre using F/A 18 E Superhornets

@kazanzylo175 Год назад

I had thought Iran was the hidden enemy, not just because of the nuclear facility, but as a kid playing with his toy airplane, my favorite fighter jet: the Tomcat f-14. Iran is the only country on the planet that still has that aircraft in use.

@jaymeister4850 Год назад

The F-14 is STILL my favourite fighter ever. Also, this is the reason why we won't ever get retired F-14 warbirds. Each and every last one has been scrapped, so that Iran can't wangle a way to get spares

@MikeyDL69 Год назад

I knew it as soon as they laid out the conflict. I guess history class wasn’t completely useless.

@kazanzylo175 Год назад

@@MikeyDL69 yeah! 😄

@kazanzylo175 Год назад

@@jaymeister4850 yep, but I'm sure going to miss it

@funveeable Год назад

The Iran Nuclear Deal would allow Iran to enrich the uranium and build every component for a nuke and the only thing it doesn't allow is the final assembly. It's like how California bans automatic weaponry but they allow me to have all the components to assemble the weapon with no problem. Assembly takes a few hours. A nuke, maybe a few days.

@parsashojai6945 Год назад

Watched this movie with my parents (we're iranian). When it got to the scene of them explaining the geography and political situation me and my dad looked at each other immediately and said Iran.

@ASLTheatre Год назад

Sorry to make you feel uncomfortable.

@AdmiralBonetoPick Год назад

@@ASLTheatre Did you write the film?

@ASLTheatre Год назад

@@AdmiralBonetoPick No, it was meant to apologize if Parsa felt self conscious or negative feelings as a result of this video.

@kolinmartz Год назад

@@ASLTheatre but did you do it?

@ASLTheatre Год назад

@@kolinmartz I was simply trying to show empathy.

@itsjustbenji. Год назад

As a Washingtonian, it was pretty cool to find out that some of Top Gun 2, my most favorite movie currently, was filmed in the state I live in!

@burpmcgurp9176 Год назад

The one check box you forgot to account for is pilot training. There is no way Iran has skilled enough pilots to maneuver the enemy fighters they way they did, even if they are 5th generation.

@universalpower419 Год назад

Why not?

@teutonicgroyper6559 Год назад

That, plus the mountainous region of Iran is actually further inland than pretty much all of Belarus, which he ruled out for being too far inland...

@edmardisla8492 Год назад

Skill =/= training.

@OVI-Wan-Kenobi-8 Год назад

You obviously never seen Iron Eagle LOL

@1992AC 11 месяцев назад

There could have been trained mercenaries flying those planes.

@unrealreality232 Год назад

As an Iranian og watcher of the channel and some one who keeps up with news, the moment matpat talked about F-14 and the desire to attain nukes; I was %100 sure that it was my homeland. Great video matpat, you explained it very well for people who don't know much about geo-politics & middle eastern countries.

@mobinmortazavi2726 Год назад

I'm from Iran to and my dad pointed it out to me

@wordchannel972 Год назад

Same here bro as soon as he described it I knew it was Iran lol

@NaughtyNovaroo69 Год назад

yeah, cause when he said all 9 countries that the USA Gov said were rogue states, I knew it had to be Iran cause I knew they had a snowy pine mountain biome similar to the trailers and etc. but if his last comment about the arstoska symbol then that wouldn't work cause they will need to get the rights and somehow make sure the owner of the game and idea makes sure that it makes sense in the timeline. also, why haven't anyone talked about the symbol???

@hresvelgr7193 Год назад

Iran is the only real candidate thanks to it's F-14s. No other country in the world has a flyable F-14

@mehrasmeydani2739 Год назад

Everyone from Iran guessed it the moment they saw the title

@benlondon800 Год назад

Fun fact, the taco bell used to be at the pentagon but currently its closed. The other restaurants MatPat mentioned are still operating though.

@SergeantMcClain Год назад

The was also a Best Buy at one point and a CVS

@anubusx Год назад

Their toilets could not handle it.

@raawesome3851 Год назад

How do you know?

@brittbereading3450 Год назад

So their toilets WERENT, in fact, as strong as their airforce XD

@puppysnuppy Год назад

I’ve been in the pentagon foodcourt and I can confirm that there’s a Taco Bell and other fast food brands

@thetrison Год назад

My theory: Russia is actually broken up to smaller states in the Top Gun universe, and the mission happened in the one that has a Pacific coast near Alaska.

@astelius Месяц назад

*i absolutely love these movies, they reignited a small passion I once had for Air Force academy. Love that Mat did a video for this!*

@migueldevera5080 Год назад

Matpat whenever a new movie comes out: "There are movies like you in every generation, and I've theorized with every last one of them"

@NexeL_NKC Год назад

That's the best comment I've read all day lol. Mihaly's line is so perfect like this.

@DasBlarcy Год назад

Was not expecting an ace combat reference here

@TacticalAnthony Год назад

"Those who get untheorized by Matpat start to think they're invincible. I bet you do, too, buddy."

@blu5021 Год назад

@@NexeL_NKC we need a matpat project wingmane video.

@armoturo7578 Год назад

@thewhiteknight6169 Год назад

When I first saw the movie, I had my suspicions that it was based on Iran the second I heard "nuclear enrichment facility," only to seal the deal with the fact that the enemy had F-14s on the front line. Iran is pretty much the only country that currently uses the F-14, so starting with that point would have made this video much shorter. Still, its so nice to see a Top Gun Maverick video, so thanks!

@zacharybaker770 Год назад

not pretty much the only country, the only country. not even the US uses them anymore.

@emlynselene1096 Год назад

I suspected it due to the bit about breaking international treaties (I thought of the Iran Nuclear Deal specifically). A lot of the other stuff MattPat mentioned further sealed the deal

@Lucas-lq9cn Год назад

su 57 means it has to be russia as a part

@Lucas-lq9cn Год назад

russia and iran both

@MichaelRosenblum_Emp500 Год назад

Thought the EXACT same thing nearly to a T, but I first about the F14s being used by only Iran (I’m a military aviation nerd and knew this as background knowledge before watching the film)

@monroerobbins7551 Год назад

12:08 in the most masculine way possible: rock paper scissors.

@Tristan-of1cl 3 месяца назад

That is insane that you figured that out! gonna miss you man

@mohammadshaaban1771 Год назад

I guess the pentagon is developing anti-exploding toilets

@thenextgeneration4303 Год назад

How much money do I have to pay to get that

@brandonotto1461 Год назад

Lol

@brahmkumariekowlessar7347 Год назад

This was a bot zone

@revillus8173 Год назад

@@brahmkumariekowlessar7347 Warzone*

@koc988 Год назад

People who are military aviation geeks and have been paying attention to politica probably picked up immediately that mountains next to a coast and F-14 and a desire to attain nuclear weapons mean it's Iran they are the only nation that has that combo and and especially the F-14 in a *reportedly flyable condition

@RRninja-jq6lp Год назад

They are flying them. They have recently reactivated couple of them with help of 3d printing. Apparently they have 34 flying units. Thanks to russian supply of remanufactured engines and compatible missiles Iranians plan on flying them to 2030's

@josh_jc_cheng Год назад

as a military aviation geek, I thought matt will come up with another answer, but a simple "Iran operates F-14" wastes 14 minutes of my time lmfao

@wavebuilder14udc75 Год назад

Yeahh i don’t wanna sound like a wise-a$$ but i think this one was kinda easy to guess haha, im an avgeek and as soon as i heard they had F14s i immediately thought Iran when i watched the movie. But to those who aren’t in the Aviation community or to those who aren’t familiar with politics, this is a cool way to break it down i guess. Perhaps the enemy in the original movie is a little more elusive.

@mighty_bomber5907 Год назад

Thought exactly the same thing.

@Seastallion Год назад

F-14 was definitely a dead giveaway.

@nicolas2976 Год назад

Quite an interesting video, and well presented. Although, I’m surprised you did not mention the Mi-24 Maverick faces when he crashed. Would it change the potential answer ?

@MichaelNeff-zb8id 10 месяцев назад

I just realized that I've been watching your RU-vid channel ever since you started

@chrisvossler8795 Год назад

When I first read the title, my initial assumption was that the "hidden enemy" would be G-forces!

@Cinkodacs Год назад

Yeah that hypersonic turn Mav did at the beginning... probably way over 10G. More like 20 or 30... at least.

@kalle5548 Год назад

@@Cinkodacs I don’t remember it, but the Swedish JAS39 Gripen has a soft limiter at 9G and allow the pilot to continue to 12G before hitting a hard limiter, so not entirely realistic structurally in a spy plane, the pilot could realistically do 12G at least with proper Gstrain and Gsuit

@jmuench420 Год назад

To me it was incredibly obvious that the answer was Iran as I was watching the movie. Iran has been enriching uranium and the US and Israel have alluded to the possibility of a strike on their nuclear facilities. Then the F-14 was a dead give away. The snowy mountains did throw me off but apparently Iran fits the bill there as well

@MrWarrenRB Год назад

Agreed, it’s not rocket science. Iran has been trying to enrich uranium for a long time.

@frostdeeer Год назад

But how do you explain Su-57 tho? At the moment only russia operates them

@mobiusflammel9372 Год назад

@@frostdeeer The movie doesn't have to be 1:1 with reality. There is no nation on Earth that has both the F-14 and an Su-57. The Russians arguably don't even have production Su-57's. Iran is the closest fit though.

@frostdeeer Год назад

@@mobiusflammel9372 you are right. Also I have questions about S-125 since iran doesn't use them either but yeah, if you look at all the data in the film it is probably iran they are fighting against

@thefolder69 Год назад

@@frostdeeer Russia doesn't operate the Su-57 either, since they aren't in production yet. honestly they probably won't be for quite a while. but movies are less interesting when the antagonists have realistic tech...

@braydenb8401 Год назад

Wow Impressive it’s a very convincing film theory.

@kknnetty Год назад

It cant be Iran. They don´t operate the s-125 missile system seen in the movie.

@LBElbee Год назад

According to a calendar that Maverick taps near the very beginning of the film, the movie takes place Oct-Nov of 2019, which is the year the movie was supposed to be released but was put off until 2022.

@Koda4507 Год назад

Really happy to see MatPat know about Papers, Please. It's a great game. Edit: wow, this is the first time I’ve gone over 50 likes, let alone 300, thanks y’all for the like, it means a lot.

@Koda4507 Год назад

I mean, it’s short and subtle, but it’s there

@jason4443 Год назад

@@fighter_750 Way to show you didn't finish the video before commenting, lol.

@trentacion7603 Год назад

@@Koda4507 definitely not subtle

@Koda4507 Год назад

@@trentacion7603 know what, yeah. I’ll retract my statement

@gamerafton Год назад

he played it before i think since mark and jack played it

@chickaboom163 Год назад

Finally! Ever since watching the movie such a question had been bugging me. Especially when I couldn't identify the tags while watching. Still doesn't fill the gap of finding out the Darkstar wasn't in any way a legitimate plane. Rather by the looks of it based around the stealth plane of urban legend called the Aurora. I would still rather choose that design over the more real SR-72 concepts.

@wolfergaming409 Год назад

Long comments

@wh0_am_152 Год назад

If not related to the SR72 project (which is supposed to be autonomous or remotely controlled) it is probably more related to the ongoing NGAD program. Now likely darkstar is just a one off as they say. P.S. Iran was the only nation that the U.S. sold F14s to.

@110100111000 Год назад

Decided to look up C&C Generals Aurora quotes so I might as well post the link. m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-20oaNPimZuM.html

@jamesrosewell9081 Год назад

The Darkstar was invented for the movie by actual Skunkworks designers and the prop plane actually fooled Chinese spy satellites for a bit

@JoshDownin Год назад

The Darkstar is the SR-72. It has the looks, and both the Darkstar and SR-72 are hypersonic programs

@James_new Месяц назад

This is me rewatching one of my favourite videos from the matpat era😢

@somehighlights2851 Год назад

Having a food court inside the Pentagon kinda makes sense. I remember reading some book (Maybe Clancy) where the bad guys or a journalist finds out there's something going on in the military becauseof a lot of food delivery to the Pentagon late in the evening.

@MGRMoviesLOL Год назад

From the first viewing of the movie i was already convinced it was Iran. But additional fact that makes Iran the enemy in the movie, is the fact that the fictional mig-28s in the first movie are actually F-5s, which Iran ALSO operates to this day. they only reverse engineered them and called it the HESA Saeqeh.

@user-lk2ex7ng8r Год назад

MatPat is a brain burner!(Правдивое видео🇷🇺):....ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PRtoEFr_HTQ.html

@osmosisjones4912 Год назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kqoeQ7R8tsI.html is finally here

@shengkunlin5658 Год назад

I was going to say the same, it’s the only one to operate f14s so it’s a easy pick.

@AICW Год назад

But the F-5 is used by tons of nations. I've read a good theory that the enemy in the first movie was actually South Yemen, a now defunct communist state. It was an Indian Ocean state and flew F-5s. South Yemen today no longer exists after it and North Yemen were united together as Yemen in 1990.

@joecaljapan Год назад

While watching the movie, I always thought (like many online) the nation was Iran. But to have it explained with this amount of detail I wasn't thinking about was a joy to watch.

@wilkgr Год назад

Yeah same. Also had to think of stuxnet haha

@jridew740 Год назад

1:11 an impossible mission or you could say that mission is impossible

@R_operations Год назад

Just a fun fact I wanted to say that has almost nothing about the theory: At the start of the movie when maverick went Mach 10 *he could’ve circulated the whole earth in almost an hour* (Credit to Siri for doing the math)

@bradyhughes4831 Год назад

Me and my brother are both military fanatics. My father was also in the air force to. It was very fun to watch top gun and we loved pointing out some of the things in it like how Maverick flys by the tower, and If you did that in real life, you'd be kicked out of the Air Force. Basically, Maverick actually wouldn't be here

@inorite4553 Год назад

Buzzing the Tower would lead to him being relieved of duty and court martialed

@NightmareShadows13 Год назад

Legal Eagle did a great video on that. Maverick would be lucky if he was court-martialed and dishonorably discharged. If they really were at war, he could have been executed.

@mobius7089 Год назад

@@NightmareShadows13 hahahahah, yeah no

@bradyhughes4831 Год назад

@LakehuntistEpic what

@monroerobbins7551 Год назад

First he defies the odds on the mission, let’s see if he can defy the odds of not getting kicked out of the Air Force.

@Eagle-od1im Год назад

For those wondering how Iran operates F-14s, prior to the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the US-friendly government had managed to arrange a purchase of 80 F-14 Tomcats along with their weaponry and equipment. When the revolution happened they still retained these F-14s to this day but only have around 24 currently active.

@DISTurbedwaffle918 Год назад

It's like how a lot of Al Qaeda's equipment was our from when Osama was fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan.

@Copperkaiju Год назад

@@DISTurbedwaffle918 Didn't we also give a bunch of weapons to Venezuela?

@DISTurbedwaffle918 Год назад

@@Copperkaiju We've given weapons to basically everyone lol

@HarrisonGoldfarb Год назад

Just a quick note: When they launched their revolution, they only got 79 of their jets, and the US canceled the shipment of the 80th plane and kept it. Also, this is why there are no more flying F-14s anywhere in the world except for Iran, because the US government in 2006 when they retired the Tomcat, feared that Iran would get spare parts to keep their jets in service.

@AA-xo9uw Год назад

~40 in flyable condition with the IRIAF. They lost one back in June near Isfahan.

@moviesgalore9947 Год назад

Biggest Plothole is we would never ever send jets to blow up this installation it would be taken out by cruise missiles flying in low the same canyon route curving and slamming into the target. Planes with pilots would never even be considered for this.

@picklechin2716 5 месяцев назад

I went in with iran, and came out with iran.

@xTriniT Год назад

When I saw the movie I originally thought it would’ve been China, but Iran would also make sense given the terrain. As always great video Matt 👍

@user-lk2ex7ng8r Год назад

MatPat is a brain burner!(Правдивое видео🇷🇺):....ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PRtoEFr_HTQ.html

@osmosisjones4912 Год назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kqoeQ7R8tsI.html is finally here

@BullGator-kd6ge Год назад

China already has nukes so no dice

@ramonandrajo6348 Год назад

I am in favor of Iran having nuclear weapons; It is always good to defend yourself from the bad guys, that is USA and Israel.

@Frontier327 Год назад

@@ramonandrajo6348 Nukes are bad for anyone to have.

@SilverViper219 Год назад

As an Iranian native, as I saw the movie I immediately knew where this was supposed to be! You're right on the money Matt! Just one correction, although it's written as IRAN, it is NOT pronounced "I-Ran", the correct pronunciation is "E-Run". I know, confusing... but that's how that is!

@shturm602 Год назад

TIL that Iran has terrain like that

@heatengine9283 Год назад

More like 'E-raan'

@willarterberry3392 Год назад

@@shturm602 it's a common misconception that the mid-east is all just a big hot desert with lots of camels

@alahsiaboi8909 Год назад

Showing the appropriate pronounciation is not confusing dude

@dolphingoreeaccount7395 Год назад

Wait THAT'S how you pronounce it? And of all people I should have guessed- I have an "a" in my name and often pronounce it that way (American) Then again, I don't speak Farsi

@garyhill529 Год назад

It's great to see more and more people recognizing the stereotypes. The Middle East is really nothing like we in the west have been taught. This video pointed out even basic geography is misunderstood. The big one in recent memory was Genshin Impact and its new Sumeru region.

@r3l1csvk Год назад

that Papers,please end was golden

@miloisacat292 Год назад

My favorite scene from this movie is when they are both on the ground after crashing: Maverick: Are you even thinking? You could be killed down here! Rooster: YOU TOLD ME NOT TO THINK! *heavy breathing*

@tomasmillen Год назад

Don’t forget, *Dramatic arm movement*

@TotallyNormal347 Год назад

@@tomasmillen HA!

@godismyjudge4964 Год назад

I’m a fan of the F-14 primarily because of Top Gun. I instantly fell in love with the transforming wing design and fortunately for me just about every Ace Combat game has that jet as an unlockable! When I finally get some spare change I’m definitely buying Maverick on blue Ray. Hopefully there will be a bundle with the original too!

@gramiticallyuncorrectchann6416 Год назад

There’s also a top gun dlc

@lukereyes6266 Год назад

and project wingman has an F14 but it's not called the f14 due to copyright

@Sekir80 Год назад

I liked Top Gun, of course, but for a Tomcat film I'm always falling back to Final Countdown.

@jfd9616 2 месяца назад

Fun fact: the "migs" in the first Top Gun, where not actually Migs, these are F5E "tigers", the only reason why they didn't use actual migs was well, for obvious reasons they couldn't get there hands on them. But in the new top gun, is CGI Sukhoi su 57.

@joaoluccatorchettifernande1179 9 дней назад

I was so confused when they say MiG-28 in the first movie, but then show an F-5

@silent1547 Год назад

I still think Matt Pat failed to answer the question “Why does it matter if we know who the enemy is?” In their review of the movie, Chapo Trap House comes to the conclusion that the anonymity of the enemy is essential in order for the studio to create a nostalgic unifying feeling that calls back to simpler times when most Americans were not very informed about our government’s foreign opposition, and rather were willing to accept a blind patriotic stance against those they believed to be threats to the nation. In obscuring the enemy, the movie is able to recreate this we against them divide where we the viewers are all forced to be on the same side due to the simple fact that we do not know enough about our enemies to question how they are being presented to us by our leaders.

@ballofmayo5132 Год назад

It really is interesting that to enjoy something like this, we have to blind ourselves to what is happening. Ignorance is bliss sometimes.

@Jaspperr Год назад

genocide denier says what

@metronomemusic7165 Год назад

well said.

@Lawrence330 Год назад

In the modern era, it's better for worldwide release to NOT specifically alienate a foreign audience. IIRC, the remake of Red Dawn was going to use China as the baddies, then decided against it for globalization reasons, i.e. to sell tickets in China.

@athleticguybuzz1520 Год назад

That worries me cuz the studio who made the movie where bought out by china

@5years16dollars6 Год назад

Dude, you would be a legend if you mentioned the meme "Bruce its been five years, you still owe me sixteen dollars"

@dontreadprofilephoto1728 Год назад

Ok dont read my name😑.........

@Sentinel_SCP 3 месяца назад

After that ending, I now use that logo on all aircraft In Ace Combat 7 and pretend to be an Arstotzkan air force pilot. The game already takes place in an alternate universe with different countries, so it works pretty well.

@requitedhail8953 Год назад

The SU-57 doesn't actually qualify as a Fifth-Generation fighter, because its radar signature is roughly the same as an F-18

@NexeL_NKC Год назад

With this theory on Top Gun, it makes me want a theory on Ace Combat 7 from you, but considering how passionate and knowledgeable the fanbase of Ace Combat is, I fear it turning into another Dark Souls type situation where Matpat is scared off from ever trying to tackle the series again. There's some great theory fodder in Ace Combat that could use an analytical mind like yours, Mat, I just hope that if you do end up making a theory on it, you familiarize yourself very well with the universe and be careful. I don't want any more shade thrown your way.

@maj.romuloortiz7832 Год назад

We won't crucify him, just catapult him off a carrier, jk he should team up with Ace Combat Fan

@trevorm0329 Год назад

Playing that right now, boutta finish the campaign. Absolutely love it

@Seth9809 Год назад

I heard it's a lot better than "HAWK" or whatever.

@NexeL_NKC Год назад

@@Seth9809 it is better than Tom Clancy’s HAWX, but HAWX is a decent game on its own, same for its sequel. I own both and loved them before I got into Ace Combat. I just don’t have a PlayStation so I can play the old AC games.

@spasitel1889 Год назад

yes yES YES!!! i need this. i literally bought a ps2 to play the "holy Trinity" games. i love ac and matpat makeing a vid on it would be sick

@smalltime0 Год назад

The first had the soundtrack, Maverick had the nostalgia. The first film was obviously NK, back in the day I argued in bars with my friends about it. But the Iranian Tomcats have been heavily upgraded to the point that Maverick couldn't fly it. Also a lot of them are missing replacement parts. He'd have a better chance flying in a MiG-25. Which would indicate Syria. It is Iran though, obviously. Also the film lacked "Danger Zone", it should have been on loop.

@chazchoo99 Год назад

Danger Zone is literally the first song that plays in the movie, during the montage of jets taking off from and landing on a carrier.

@PUNISHERMHS_2021 Год назад

Danger Zone played in the beginning, first song

@alekostrovsky9212 Год назад

Syrian no have Mig 25

@smalltime0 Год назад

@@chazchoo99 AND IT WASN'T ON LOOP

@DrumickD Год назад

@@smalltime0 And? You said it lacked it. But it didn’t.

@babch0 Год назад

I think if there will be another top gun, maybe it will be about the pilot that they were fighting against because that Dodge was sick lol

@iwanwebb6333 9 месяцев назад

Just had a thought. Did Matpat take into account the drop tanks and how they increase the range of super hornets?

@leafwart18000 Год назад

For some reason I have it embedded in my memory, that they explicitly state that the mission is targeted at Iranian territory. Now I see this, where everyone is agreeing that they did not ever explicitly state who the enemy really was. So, if they really didn’t, I had somehow subconsciously figured out it was Iran, and then tricked myself into thinking that they just say it in the movie

@josephchristie3814 Год назад

i remember that scene too, it was while they were on the carrier, i thought i was going crazy lol i'm glad that somebody else heard it.

@Polarniji Год назад

Yep, I heard them stating the location then as well.

@chazchoo99 Год назад

Or, more likely, you slipped into a parallel universe where one of the minor differences happened to be that they didn't mention it in the movie. #MandelaEffect . . . . . This is sarcasm btw.

@kevinsiu3769 Год назад

@@josephchristie3814 WAIT WHAT

@ChucksSEADnDEAD Год назад

Many people misheard "uranium enrichment facility'" as "Iranian enrichment facility".

@whatsthematter8767 Год назад

0:23 the tank in the logo is actually a ZSU-23-4 "Shilka", a Russian SPAA

@Amikhan457 Год назад

And the guns are russian PKMs too

@SelfAwareSaga Год назад

ur mom

@whatsthematter8767 Год назад

@Hovoverse 🅥 I wish there was a day I could say "Finally it's here, the youtube update that removed comment bots"

@EvanRustMakes Год назад

Fellow war thunder player?

@whatsthematter8767 Год назад

@@EvanRustMakes yes my friend

@Obiwankenobi-vr9ur Год назад

Fun Fact: The "Mig-28" doesn't exist. Instead the enemy planes from the original Top Gun were Northrop Grumman F5 Tiger just painted in a dark colour

@cybersupreme5711 Год назад

Well done man!

@Froggo11 Год назад

I love the effort Matpat puts in his videos (Tysm for the likes.)

@tripplordofinconvenience9953 Год назад

@AlmyTheAlien Год назад

Everyone always says, "finally it's here!" Nobody ever asks, "why is it finally here?" 😥😭

@Froggo11 Год назад

Why is everyone replying with “Yes it’s here.”?

@dion9876 Год назад

I haven't even watched the movie. But I'll support Mat Pat.

@xcaliberjah Год назад

Yes

@yuumc3030 Год назад

You should it’s amazing

@lolaglowwe Год назад

@tom thats true

@tripplordofinconvenience9953 Год назад

@yumeno_. Год назад

You NEED to watch it it’s sooo good

@kennethjohnson4280 Год назад

No, the sweaty is not very unrealistic. I think every Navy classroom I ever sat in was situated over the boiler room. If you were lucky enough to have A/C in the room, it worked badly. Things may have improved over the last 20 years, but no, that part was spot on.

@aviationgeek21886 Месяц назад

I have proof that the enemy in Topgun maverick 2 is Iran 🇮🇷 #1: Even though they’re using Russian SU 57 felon fighters in the movie, Maverick finds an F 14 tomcat, which is operated only by Iran.

@Telepelort Год назад

Your theory’s are the most detailed things on the whole of RU-vid and you always have evidence to back you up. If I have a bad day your videos always cheer me up within seconds and I would like to thank you for that matpatt. Love your work

@osmosisjones4912 Год назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Nne56dnPtu8.html is finally here

@Av-te7ze Год назад

This is a very ignorant comment, just straight up wrong..

@81stCommander Год назад

This video could have been about 30 seconds long. I knew the answer by only looking at one aspect. I actually looked it up after I watched the film. Question: Which military still use the F14 Tomcat? Answer: Only Iran. OK the enemy is Iran. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@inorite4553 Год назад

Yup! Lazy theory

@texasball5847 Год назад

@LakehuntistCool cool,a toxic person because he is jealous of mat pat being better.

@ethanengelking2492 Год назад

Outside the box, Rolling Thunder, Overload you really have to appreciate how countries name their operations

@Biily2314 Год назад

Loved the video! Super accurate but one very small correction. Operation Outside the Box wasn’t the mission the movie was based on. It was an Israeli mission in the early 80’s called Operation Opera where then brand new f-16’s bombed a nuclear factory in Iraq.

@IGOTBEERZ Год назад

Matpat , we need a hellva boss theory, the 1st season 2 episode dropped and it has so much lore to the series 👏

@Seastallion Год назад

I literally knew most everything described in this video as I was sitting in the theater watching the movie. Having operational F-14 Tomcats was a dead giveaway right off the bat. I actually said as much in theater, telling the people I was with that Iran was the only possible candidate.

@201hastings Год назад

Sucks to be next to the guy talking the whole movie

@Seastallion Год назад

@@201hastings Wow, like 5 whole seconds out of the entire movie. Bummer. 🙄

@RaphaeLoh01 Год назад

There's another plothole that bothers me... when Maverick reaches Mach 9, Hondo claims that he's the "fastest man alive". But anyone who's been to space has gone Mach 23... which is required the break orbit

@loafyXD Год назад

MattPatt: seem mocking bird symbol for the hunger games. MattPatt:(some reference that 1.253451 people get)

@joshgerber718 Год назад

Mat Pat’s descriptions of both Top Gun movies was 100% SPOT ON! 😂

@geokou7645 Год назад

Matpat talking about geography and geopolitics? This is like a dream come true.

@lordbloxify Год назад

( The movie didn't took place in Iran By the way!! ) The sequel to the 1986 classic that featured breathtaking fighter jet sequences and launched the career of Tom Cruise has landed more than three decades after Maverick felt the need for speed. Like its predecessor, Top Gun: Maverick was filmed primarily in San Diego, California, but also in Nevada and Washington State.

@LH44EVER Год назад

i feel like rainbolt would be able to identify the country within 0.1 seconds

@chriskopp1361 Год назад

Now he just needs to figure out why they didn't load B1s with ground penetrating munitions and use them in the attack.

@vladstr100 Год назад

Conveniently explained away by "gps" blocking in the area preventing lock-on

@cobalt3738 Год назад

@@vladstr100 Conveniently ignores laser guided bombing systems, y'know...the kind the F/A-18 Super hornets used in the film. Love the movie though.

@fadelsukoco3092 Год назад

Mostly because the entire operation in the film is being run by the Navy, and the B-1 is owned by the Air Force.

@TheRealPhantomStalks Год назад

Fun Fact: Top Gun: Maverick Premiered at the USS Midway Museum, and one of my mom's friends works there! (my mom told me her friend got to meet Tom Cruise himself). I also heard there was some trouble getting it to premiere there, but I might have to ask my mom again on that one lol.

@AA-xo9uw Год назад

There were three "premieres" on May 4th in San Diego. #1 was at the base theater on North Island. #2 was on the Midway and #3 was at the Civic Theater.

@jan554cro4 Год назад

The fact you neded 14 mins to confirm the theory while i new it before the vid cuz of f14 is just funny

@Trey_816 Год назад

My nickname from my brother is "Goose" after Goose. So I say, "People know me as Goose." So, people know me as Trey 'Goose' Byers.

@TheTrueMorse64 Год назад

0:44 My complaint about the original Top Gun is that the dog fighting is pretty hard to follow, Top Gun Maverick fixes that!

@piplup10203854 Год назад

I felt the same exact way about this movie, I didn't really like the original but my dad and I watched this one and we loved it, we reminisced about our time in service and it became a good movie for us and we ended up loving it.

@ajk635 Год назад

MatPat, you should relook at top gun but remember that Iceman is the hero not Maverick. Iceman is always doing what he should be doing and even tries to help Maverick on several occasions. Maverick is more of a Malfoy

@random.comment Год назад

Need a high level security clearance or some shi to work at a taco bell lol

@LordVader626 Год назад

3:38 totally missed the opportunity to say "I feel the need, the need to know!"

@rafaelalodio5116 Год назад

Iran was what I thought pretty much after I left the theater, the mountainous terrain ads up, the F-14 ads up and the nuclear tension definitely ads up. Besides that, Iran has allegedly being developing their own 5th gen jet, although it might be just propaganda.

@wumpa6597 Год назад

I couldve sworn in the movie they said iran one time but not really in reference to the mission but kinda hinting it

@OVI-Wan-Kenobi-8 Год назад

The Iranians could have easily bought them from the Russians

@justanormalgermanboy9269 Год назад

There 5th gen program is one ice but there are plans to get Su 57 or 75 from Russia if they ever get past the 100 mark

@PrussiaAustriaConfederal 5 месяцев назад

The UN, “MATPAT knows too much.”

@zachwatkins05 Месяц назад

Fun fact, the US stopped F-14 operations because of the fact that Iran still flies them. The American brass wanted to prevent Iran from being able to maintain its fleet of tomcats, and the way they went about it was decommissioning all of them and stutting down production of every single part required to keep them in the air.