Top Gun. ITV now..

[Vintage Paw]

It's so Eighties.

Macho yet sensitive men. Sweat, action, little bit of lovin', a touch of angst, will he pull through? Will he do the right thing? Will there be redemption at the end?

Cor, that's what movies should be like.

 

[Vintage Paw]

And everyone clap. We got 'em, chaps!

 

[Vintage Paw]

"You! You're still dangerous. But you can be my wingman anytime."

"Bullshit. You can be mine."

lol

 

[stretchy18]

TG is the crack/pringles of the film world

 

[Strumpet]

 

[Vintage Paw]

TG is the crack/pringles of the film world

Very astute. I felt so tired I was about to drop at about 10pm. Yet here I am gone midnight watching this shite

I'd like to add my personal favourites of Pretty Woman and Grease to the old MSG-coated mix, if I may.

 

[ajk]

That was ace. And I'm at work, so I got paid to watch Top Gun.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Man, you don't even get to see them snog at the end. FFS.

Aw though, what a great fucking film

 

[Vintage Paw]

Right, now that's all over and done with it's time to hit the sack for little old me.

Night urbs.

 

[rennie]

I fucking love this film. Wish I'd seen it again.

 

[The Octagon]

Quentin Tarantino got it right on the money -

QT: What's a film about, what's it really about? What genre does it take?

[Duane: What, like the spine? Like one sentence?]

QT: No, I don't, fucking boy meets girl, I don't give a shit about that. Fuck boy meets girl, fuck motorcycle movie. No, what is really being said? What's really being said, that's what you're talking about. 'Cause the whole idea, man, is subversion. You want subversion on a massive level. You know what one of the greatest fucking scripts ever written in the history of Hollywood is? Top Gun.

[Duane: Oh, come on.]

QT: Top Gun is fucking great. What is Top Gun? You think it's a story about a bunch of fighter pilots. [Duane: It's about a bunch of guys waving their dicks around.] It is a story about a man's struggle with his own homosexuality. It is! That is what Top Gun is about, man.

You've got Maverick, all right? He's on the edge, man. He's right on the fucking line, all right? And you've got Iceman, and all his crew. They're gay, they represent the gay man, all right? And they're saying, go, go the gay way, go the gay way. He could go both ways.

[Duane: What about Kelly McGillis?]

QT: Kelly McGillis, she's heterosexuality. She's saying: no, no, no, no, no, no, go the normal way, play by the rules, go the normal way. They're saying no, go the gay way, be the gay way, go for the gay way, all right? That is what's going on throughout that whole movie...

He goes to her house, all right? It looks like they're going to have sex, you know, they're just kind of sitting back, he's takin' a shower and everything. They don't have sex. He gets on the motorcycle, drives away. She's like, "What the fuck, what the fuck is going on here?" Next scene, next scene you see her, she's in the elevator, she is dressed like a guy. She's got the cap on, she's got the aviator glasses, she's wearing the same jacket that the Iceman wears. She is, okay, this is how I gotta get this guy, this guy's going towards the gay way, I gotta bring him back, I gotta bring him back from the gay way, so I'm do that through subterfuge, I'm gonna dress like a man. All right? That is how she approaches it.

All right, but the REAL ending of the movie is when they fight the MIGs at the end, all right? Because he has passed over into the gay way. They are this gay fighting fucking force, all right? And they're beating the Russians, the gays are beating the Russians. And it's over, and they fucking land, and Iceman's been trying to get Maverick the entire time, and finally, he's got him, all right? And what is the last fucking line that they have together? They're all hugging and kissing and happy with each other, and Ice comes up to Maverick, and he says, "Man, you can ride my tail, anytime!" And what does Maverick say? "You can ride mine!" Swordfight! Swordfight! Fuckin' A, man!

 

[London_Calling]

For pot luck, I switched over for 30 seconds and caught the changing room scene - which really didn't have a single parallel with the NYC roman bath culture from the same era. AIDS changed all that, of course.

 

[kyser_soze]

I wish they'd all got pwnt by MIG's

That annoys me most about this movie - they're clearly not MIG-21s (or indeed any kind of MIG), but rather the CESM plane, the Mirage...

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

When I was in primary school, my class got taken for a day out in London to go to a private cinema and watch Top Gun and Short Circuit and pre-review them. It was about six months before the films actually came out in the cinema, and they wanted to guage children's reactions to them.

Imagine that, when you're 10! Getting the day off school to go into Central London (always dead exciting in itself whn you're a nipper), to watch two films that nobody else will be able to see for ages, and get a free McDonalds for lunch!

That was probably the best day of my entire primary school years.

Anyway, Top Gun was an appallingly bad choice of film to show 10 year old kids. It actually turned out to be a 15 IIRC and had quite a raunchy sex scene in. I remember sitting there thinking "Hmm, am I meant to be watching this?"

I liked Short Circuit, though.

 

[ajk]

That annoys me most about this movie - they're clearly not MIG-21s (or indeed any kind of MIG), but rather the CESM plane, the Mirage...

Northrop F5 Tiger 2's akshully, standing in for the fictional MiG 28.

 

[Bakunin]

Northrop F5 Tiger 2's akshully, standing in for the fictional MiG 28.

This is true.

***MOVIE TRIVIA ALERT***


Although, in an entirely unrelated piece of movie trivia, the supposedly mythical MIG-31 'Firefox' (as seen in the film and book of the same name does actually exist.

It is, however, only a moderately updated version of the MIG-25 'Foxbat', is known by the NATO codename 'Foxhound' and has neither Stealth capability or a thought-guided weapons system.

It's really rather a crap aircraft, and woefully outdated compared to modern fighters these days.

 

[rollinder]

Quentin Tarantino got it right on the money -

wasn't he supposed to've nicked that whole monologue from somebody else?

 

[DownwardDog]

Northrop F5 Tiger 2's akshully, standing in for the fictional MiG 28.

The worst cinematic MiG impersonation ever had to be the Israeli F-4s in Iron Eagle II. I also have a vague memory of Super Puma with bits of cardboard taped to it masquerading as a Hind in one of the Rambo movies.

Ironically, now there is no demand for this type of film you can get just about any Sov hardware you want dirt cheap.