Fair point - remember one of the guys in Braveheart saying the same thing. Top Gun will always be my favourite film and I've watched enough documentaries and specials on it to know how much went into the original.
But so many films have become CGI fests (cough cough Marvel) .... eventually it...
Check out the trailers. No way any fighter plane flies down a canyon like that let alone two of them abreast. Or when two planes are closer than any real plane would be and Cruise comes up the middle of them? Garbage.
Some films should not be allowed to have sequels. Top Gun.
The original was brilliant because the US Navy let them do all the flying scenes. This one is just total CGI bollcks.
Yet nothing will change. Some of the right-wing Republican supporters I know are already posting comments about having more guns and armed police at all schools.