“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.

One question he had before he saw the sequel, said Tarantino, was how you make a Top Gun sequel that’s not directed by Tony Scott.

But I did ask him, I said, ‘How do you do Top Gun without Tony Scott?’ And he goes, ‘I know.

“There was just this lovely, lovely aspect because I love both Tony Scott’s cinema so much, and I love Tony so much that [Top Gun: Maverick is] as close as we’re ever going to get to seeing one more Tony Scott movie,” Tarantino said.

Tarantino reiterated, “It’s the closest we’re ever going get to seeing one more Tony Scott movie, and it was a f***ing terrific one.”