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    Top Gun: Maverick, Obsession, Project Hail Mary

Those movies might be good, but cinema are they not.

Cinema traditionally has meant movies like, À bout de souffle and Citizen Kane.

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Definitions vary for sure. I just mentioned them because they did well at the box office, which is what will keep "cinema" alive.

No True Cinephile would enjoy a movie like Top Gun: Maverick, Obsession or Project Hail Mary.

A friend at the gym raved about Top Gun: Maverick when it came out, and against my better judgement I watched it on a streaming service. It was essentially Top Gun, again. Absolutely uninteresting and completely predictable. And I rather enjoyed the original.

I liked Maverick a lot, but I've never seen the original or any of its other sequels :P

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