8 Responses to “Throwback Tuesday: Top Gun (1986)”

  1. Dan says:

    Is it possible to like Top Gun Re-Mix “Days of Thunder” more than Top Gun?

    As much as I like Top Gun, the tragedy that takes Goose from us always detracts from the fun aspect of the movie for me. Days of Thunder has tragedy but it makes it all well again by the end.

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  2. says:

    Ahhh…so you’re the reason behind this trip down memory lane!

    I almost want to go back to my post and leave a little addendum now, stating that while I firmly believe it’s a horrible movie, and that nobody who hasn’t already seen it should hunt it down…that I still love it and will never apologize for it.

    Indeed, it is one of those movies that I will stop on every time if I’m flipping channels.

    Know what gave me a bit of a laugh though? Cue up the graduation scene…is it my imagination or do Ice Man and Slider hug just a little too close??

    While your 3/4 rating is far kinder to it than I would ever be anymore, I have to thank you for this swell trip down memory lavne.

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    • Heather says:

      Especially since as Maverick pointed out………Slider stinks. Hahhahaha…….

      I do have a place in my heart for Top Gun, and it’s great to sit back and watch laughing at it instead of idolizing it. I just like it differently now. I remember playing it at work in college (I worked at a blockbuster) and my friend Joe always yelling at me to turn it off. That was ten years ago, so it was the first time I saw in a decade a few months ago. Wine helps make it more funny as well.

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  3. alfindeol says:

    You’re right, the movie is fun. I would rather watch it over a lot of movies just because of that. The score seems a little high, but who am I to judge. I don’t have any of the nostalgia that others have attached to this movie, it came out the year I was born, so, for me, it just remains an exercise is looking back at our mistakes and hoping to god we never repeat them.

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    • Heather says:

      I wouldn’t discredit anyone who claimed this was a load of rubber dog shit…….teeeheee……….and I’m more than aware that my affection for it is solely based on a nostalgic attachment. Watching after not having seen it for a decade did make me realize how terrible it is on most accounts. At the time, it was great, and in that part of humanities timeline Maverick and Iceman were actually straight. We may know better now and anyone watching it that didn’t experience it in that timeframe probably won’t get it, and I completely understand that. I saw on 1001 I was the only one that rated it above 5!!!!!!!!!! Hahahaha……..I still stand by my omission that it’s awesomely bad. After a few drinks it’s hilarious…….for all the wrong reasons, but hilarious nonetheless.

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  4. Jimbob says:

    “Hiiiighwaaaaaaaaaaay toooooooooooooo the dangerzone!” I’ve never heard gayer lyrics in my life! I’ve never seen this movie until recently so no attachments or nostalgia or anything. I just don’t get how people could have loved this all those years ago. Surely the same rules to life applied back then, and people would’ve realised that it was terrible???? Kelly McGillis tries to talk to Maverick while he’s on his cool motorbike and he just revs the engine saying “Can’t hear you, can’t hear you!” and drives off!!!! Who does that!!???

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  5. me says:

    Bad acting….bad script….then they kill off Goose…..just plain BAD!!!!!!!! But the volleyball scene was nice ;-)

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  6. This film is what it is… in that regard, it’s fantastic!
    The 80′s soundtrack dates it but is also perfect for it so I don’t care… and, you all ready called it but, I’m always down for shirtless beach volleyball in jeans!!!

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