“Top Gun: Maverick”

I can highly recommend “Top Gun: Maverick.” It continues the great action from “Top Gun,” as well a great storyline and character development.

As an aside, the original “Top Gun House” in Oceanside, California (my pictures below from November 6, 2017) originally was scheduled to be destroyed along with the neighboring historic beach cottages from the late 1880s. Public outcry caused it to be saved while a huge resort was built around it. The house then was moved two blocks from its original location and renovated. There were historic photographs of the house that helped restore it to its late nineteenth glory.

The renovated house (last picture, from the Internet) has been christened High Pie, a “Top Gun”-themed restaurant on the grounds of the Mission Pacific Hotel-JDV by Hyatt. You can see at the bottom left of the last picture a refurbished Kawasaki Ninja ZX900 motorcycle as homage to the Kawasaki GPZ900R that Tom Cruise rode in “Top Gun.” The exterior of High Pie has been painted as it looked in the movie, including the red door.