I refuse to fly online again unless we have a briefing longer than the flight which will comprise of plinking undefended technicals using a full rack of GBUs.
And thatâs the fun part. First, we spend 2 hours trucking around, getting gas in the air, flying in circles, before finally going in and dropping bombs. Also, only one guy gets to drop bombs.
UNSUBSCRIBE! UNSUBSCRIBE!
This is starting to smell a lot like work⊠AND THATâS FOR COMMIES!
Youâre also a huge contrarian (this from a fellow contrarian).
On itâs merits as a movie? no, Top Gun is pretty crap. Itâs essentially a sports movie (dude thinks heâs good, gets shot at the pros, finds out heâs held back by his inability to work as a team, suffers loss, must work as a team, works as a team totally makes out with iceman goes on to teach others how to team). Still, the sheer a e s t h e t I c created by Tony Scott was enough to position the movie as a generational touch stone. It is the definition of what was cool post Vietnam aviation, and is still referenced today.
Also Hot Shots has some funny bit, but it is the direct pre-cursor and herald of the deluge of [Adjective] Movie franchise (Scary, Spartan, Romantic, Super Hero, whatever) of low effort parodies, and that is unforgivable. Change my mind.
So⊠Not goinâ to Disneyland?
While Hot Shots had its moments, I thought it was missing something overall. Compared to the gold standards of Airplane and Naked Gun, I figured out what it was: while Airplane and Naked Gun played it straight with all the absurdity going on around them, Hot Shots tried too hard to make jokes. And it was those jokes that heralded in the low-effort parody franchises.
That plus the amount and quality aerial photography is pretty nice.
I have to disagree. The chemistry between Cruise and McGillis wouldnât rate a first graderâs lab assignment. I thought the scenes between them were awkward and painful. Meg Ryan and Anthony Edwards showed a lot more chemistry in their brief scenes together (as did Meg and Tom when heâs packing Gooseâs stuff, even though this isnât âtypicalâ chemistry).
At the time, my interaction with girls often were awkward and painful⊠Maybe thatâs why I felt that their acting was so sincere?
But seriously, I kind of like how they act. Like they both know itâs a really bad idea.
The scene in the elevator was done in reshoots after principal photography when it was decided the relationship as filmed was too thin. So imagine the film without that scene and that was the original extent of their chemistry.
The fact that it was filmed many months later meant both actors had different hair. So they put her in a goofy cap to cover hers and slicked his back so you couldnât tell.
Airplane!, Naked Gun, Kentucky Fried Movie, Top Secret, Amazon Women on the Moon, the Mel Brooks filmsâŠall were brilliant. By the time of Naked Gun 3(3 1/3), aptly subtitled Beating a Dead Horse, it was over. The last standouts were the early Scary Movie films and Not Another Teen Movie.
Still, I think Final Countdown gets too little attention compared to Top Gun. It came out first, and Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen were great. Also footage of an RA-5 which Top Gun failed to have, not to mention some A6M2s!
And why the sex scene only shows silhouettes.
OhâŠI just thought you meant the musical piece.
Thought maybe you wanted us to play it as background music when flying MPâŠmy bad.
Now my mission for the next fly-in will blast âInto the Wild Blue Yonderâ on repeat across all frequencies for the duration.
Better than this one. Even 18 years later, it brings a shudder.
That has to be the single biggest perk of making flag rank- literally having your own soundtrack to follow you around.
âŠyou do realize thatâs the wrong service, rightâŠ?
Wouldnât be insulting if I went with the right oneâŠ
These last 20 or so posts were an emotional rollercoaster.
Iâm now unsure of my music taste, movie taste and sexual orientationâŠ
Sounds like the typical male specimen.
Have you ever noticed that the Navyâs Song, âAnchors Aweighâ is the only service song with a reference to drinking beer? âThrough our last night ashore, drink to the foam,ââŠjust sayân
Iâve been searching on Youtube for the last 20 minutes, and Iâve only found ONE version that gets that line right, and then it doesnât get the âfarewell to foreign shoresâ bit right.