Please,
Let me know when they start showing Cruise videos in 120FPS, 8KHDR12 on a 840" Screen w/ 18,000w Peak Audio across 65 Speakers.
LOLā¦ I love that real pilots wrote this. ^-^
79 cringeworthy errors in āTop Gunā - We Are The Mighty
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if they did everything by the book, it would not be a decent movie as they would not have been able to get 90% of the shots they wanted.
Well itās not about that really- itās mostly how the errors a person in-the-know can tell do make perfect sense to the average Joe.
Most of those indeed donāt bother me.
Such as the ridiculous hangar briefing or the maneuvers which they had to do that way to make the planes fit in the shot.
But for example Maverick using the throttle wrongly does. I know it is silly but it does. It makes me cringe hard.
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Iām hip. I mean, how hard would it be to get it [more] right?
Itās always bugged me that Hollywood, when it comes to more ātechnicalā-like topics in films, appears to think people are stupid - they dumb things down to the 8th grade level, keeping them stupid. This got really bad in the 70ās/80ās, with a very few exceptions.
Make airplane noises periodically throughout a film and the un-initiated (to aviation) will likely go, āoh cool, airplaneā. Replace that with something deeper and they might, just might, wonder, āwhat did that mean?ā. And then go find out - tweaked their curiosity - stimulated something more than just a base response.
The emotion feeds the dramatic; human interactions. When you overly-simplify the technical you essentially make all movies the same: [insert some airplane noises]ā¦boy meets girl/things are goodā¦[more airplane noises]ā¦boy loses girl/things go badā¦[insert some more airplane noises]ā¦boy gets girl/things work out.
Whatās that anecdote from TG1 again? Where (was it Dan Pederson? I forget - a real aviator) tried to ākeep it from becoming a musicalā. To which the director replied along the lines, āI donāt make movies for fighter pilots, I make them for movie-goersā. You can have both.
However, I am looking forward to the reviews of TG2 from this crowd, to see how Tom & company did.
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Well he failed, Top Gun is pretty much a Rock Concerted from the Beginning to the End.
As someone who gets science, watching most SF films and shows leaves me shaking my head as they miss all sorts of things. It usually consists of me being pulled out of the moment, stating āthat could never happenā, and then willing myself back into immersion. There have been almost no instances I can recall where it hasnāt happened at least once.
Iām happy when people watching other sorts of shows get peeved when they miss accuracy.
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Tough crowd. I mean, I watched Iron Eagle to the endā¦well it did have F-16ās in it
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Just dont watch Iron Eagle, II, III, and IV
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Why not? They are SO hilarious!
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Pretty much every American fighter pilot alive has seen TG*. They quote it constantly still. The filmās kitsch was the very thing that gave it such an enduring impact with that community. A technically correct film would probably have disappointed pilots just as much as it would the general movie-goer.
FWIW, TGM got a five minute standing ovation at Cannes.
*I canāt back that up. But Iāve yet to meet the pilot who hasnāt.
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I am with you on that 
That is a completely unfounded generalization!
Now, anyone got the number toā¦
I think I might need that.
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@Elby and i are going to start that company.
Specialist rubber dog turd movement from Hong Kong to miramar.
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Brilliant! Youāre going to be like the Steve Jobs of Dog Turds.
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Also every bloody Airedale* Iāve ever met. As nauseam. No matter how unfunny or worn out the reference may be.
*Airedale: Navy types who work in aviation ratings, but usually arenāt flight crew.
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Kinda like āAirplaneā. Or āPushing Tinā (ATCās version of TopGun, ugh, but the quotes from it in control rooms flowed freely for a while). Itās all fun.
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Makes me wonder if Iām a little salty because Iāve only ever worked in careers that never have movies made about them (I can think of three Nukes in popular Hollywood movies, and donāt even get me started on the lack of engineers- insert long rant about Hollywood writers and all the career fields they donāt understand).
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Iām not gonna lie, Iām very greatful that there are not a bunch of movies about US Navy Nuclear disasters or that feature engineers doing engineer stuff.
There are a bunch (I can think of at least 3 off the top of my head) about Soviet nuclear sub disasters, for reasonsā¦
That said, thank you for your service. I think everyone is very much aware that the boats donāt move (much less fight) without engineers and four dozen other ratings doing their jobs expertly.
ETA: Iām not .mil, but I know that I and my fellow pilots value and appreciate our line guys and MX personnel like theyāre made of gold, because we canāt do our jobs without them doing theirs well.
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