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Summary: Prop Gun
Review: We've seen it all a million times: Maverick and his buddies, fueled by Reagan-era geopolitics, knocking the Soviet fighters out of the sky; Maverick wearing his shades while riding his bike without a helmet (racing a jet fighter no less). Slick, explosive and full of MTV moments, "Top Gun" is the epitome of 80's movie-making. It's also one of the clearest exercises in plastic filmmaking I've ever seen.In the midst of its 1986 release, the only thing missing from the hoopla surrounding "Top Gun" was any reference to the film's message. The reason is simple: there isn't one. In its place are instantly memorable images that clearly fit the recipe for success repeatedly concocted by producers Jerry Bruckheimer and the late Don Simpson. In fact, "Top Gun" is little else behind a potpourri of slick shots of fast jets and good-looking people. Quentin Tarantino's now classic dissection of it as an introspective study of a man's struggle to come to terms with his own homosexuality gives too much credit to this overproduced and overhyped vacuum of a movie. Tony Scott, who has repeatedly shown that he can make above average Hollywood fare (e.g., "True Romance," "Crimson Tide"), fails to give the story any depth whatsoever. This becomes painfully evident when "Top Gun" unloads its inept attempts at getting us to identify with Maverick's "struggle" via the supposedly moving guitar theme and references to his relationship with his father. Heck, I didn't buy it when I was 13, much less now at 26. Then again, it figures that, being a man, I was immune to the movie's "Tiger Beat" factor, which I can only imagine would help account for its success. Which brings me to the actors. I would give "Top Gun" only one star, but I would like to credit the casting director with assembling a first-rate ensemble, including Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Anthony Edwards, Meg Ryan, Val Kilmer and Tom Skerritt. Sadly, they are ill-served by roles that could easily be played by William Shatner in all his hammy majesty. It's like putting together a team of top painters to do a color by numbers book. The incredible preponderence of style over substance thus permeates the whole movie and, as a reference point, is eerily prescient of Joel Schumacher's 1990's oeuvre. Thankfully, the talent involved in this overlong commercial would eventually go on to do projects far more worthy of their abilities.
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Summary: 4.5 actually
Review: Every thing in this movie is almost real except for 2 things. 1. their was no such thing as a mig 28 (the enemy's fighter plane) ever . they were really F5 freedom fighter.I guess the mig 29 (the most manuevrable fighter in the world and made by the USSR) were not known yet. 2. top gun dont use A4 fighter as mig simulaters they use F-16's{not in the Navy's inventory by the way but uses them at places like top gun}. However the movie itself did a great job
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Summary: Made for DVD - Awesome flying scenes, terrible ground scenes
Review: "Top Gun" is the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of movies. When it's in the air, it's awesome, but when it's on the ground, it's pretty bad. Because you can skip the ground scenes quite conveniently on DVD, I give the movie on DVD 4 stars. Why are the ground scenes so bad? Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis have near zero chemistry, so it's almost painful watching the formulaic antagonistic sparks between them mutate into passion. It happens only because the script dictates that it happen. But when the movie gets into the air, wow! Flying scenes are often difficult to film, because the viewer can lose perspective too easily. Director Tony Scott does a masterful job of always letting the viewer orient himself or herself, so that you understand when planes are climbing or diving. One of the really startling things you can do is to watch the X-wing scenes in "Star Wars" and then watch the flying scenes in "Top Gun." You'd swear that our F-14s could wipe out squadron after squadron of X-wings. In summary, "Top Gun" is a must-have for the DVD aficianado. It's one of the movies (along with "The Matrix" and "Tomorrow Never Dies" that I use when my wife and I have guests over and I'm in "demonstration mode."
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Summary: Mind-Numbingly dumb
Review: Someone down the line said this is a movie for people"into aircraft and dogfights." If anything, it's foreveryone else. All of the dogfights in this movie are completely contrived and utterly preposterous. The action sequences are predictable and boring the first time, irritating the second, and disgusting the third. The drama? What drama? All this movie contains are a few annoying one-liners, some ... 80s-qua-80s music, a pseudo-Romance, and a Tom Cruise who is playing impeccably himself. That is to say, he's doing absolutely nothing for the part. Which might not neccessarily be bad. I'm not sure if there's anything that can be done with the plot. It's pathetic and boring from start to finish, a few arrogant two-bits strapped into paper-mache F-14s doing impossible tricks and fighting lame enemies. Yawn!
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Summary: The REAL review for TOP GUN
Review: Okay, since the main reviewer for this movie obviously knows squat about this movie, someone else needs to give the movie credit for being a pretty damn good film. First of all, he was wrong about the pilot, Maverick, who is played by Tom Cruise, when he said he was a trainee. Well, if he knew anything about the Navy and its pilots, he would have known that only fully qualified pilots, who have gone through numerous hours, days, and years flying their aircraft can only go to Top Gun, the Navy's training facilty for the top 1% of its fighter pilots. Also, he was dead wrong about how the aircraft fighting sequences at the end of the movie, it was totally real, all done by real aircraft with real persons flying them, not something someone did on a computer or did with little models. How can someone who knows very little about a movie and what its about say anything negative about it? I am still wondering about that one...... Anyways, the movie was good, not great, but I still love it, because it's about hotdogging, showboating, getting the girl, and revenging your buddy's death and getting all the glory at the end. So if you haven't seen this, I would give it my full support for anyone to watch it, and more than likely I would sitting right next to them watching it too.
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Summary: Top Gun
Review: This movie is an awesome hit from director Tony Scott (also directed Beverly Hills Cop, Enemy of the State,and much more) dense with fun and excitement that will keep you FLYING for as long as you like. Tom Cruise (Days of Thunder, Jerry Maguire, etc.) stars as hotshot fighter jet pilot "Maverick" Pete Mitchell, who is elected with his partner "Goose" (Anthony Edwards) to enter the Navy's very competitive "Top Gun" program, where many comparible opponents challenge him to win the top rank, including "Iceman" Tom Kusansky (Val Kilmer) and "Slider" (Russ Rossovich). Stars Kelly McGillis as Mitchell's girlfriend, with appearances by Michael Ironside, Clarence Gilyard Jr., Meg Ryan (as Goose's wife), and Tim Robbins. A great action film.
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Summary: The Best of the Best!
Review: This is the BEST movie! If you have never seen it you are missing out BIG! I rented the movie after playing the computer game (it's great too.) Anyway, when I heard that there was a movie for this great game I just had to see it, and I wasn't disappointed! This movie has lots of action, great funny parts, and some romance. I finally broke down and bought the movie and have watched it more time then I can count! This has been my favorite movie for years, rent it, watch it, see what you think!
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Summary: When you talk about the new classics,you're talking Top Gun!
Review: There is a new era of classic films. These films bring out words that enter your vocabulary (ballistic, crash & burn) and bring out feelings with classic characters. Here is one of the new clssics of the '80s! Absolutely must-see!
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Summary: A Modern Classic Movie
Review: I have this movie on VHS and when I got my DVD and Home Theater system it was the first movie I bought. The sound is excellent and you can feel the jet fighters flying across your room, and with a subwoofer is awesome, you can note some extreme light noises that you never heard before in the VHS version. Quality in images is better than VHS, of course. But the DVD version failed in include some kind of extra movie things, like the theatrical trailer and that stuff. Anyway, a very good movie for your DVD and home theater systems.
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Summary: Great Movie - Where's the Pepsi Add?
Review: I have Top Gun on Laser Disc and VHS, and thought it would be great to get on DVD. What a mistake. This DVD does have great sound and picture (better than the laser disc), but the extras are missing. Paramount Studios released a DVD without the great Pepsi commerical. There are NO production notes or making of. I will be very disappointed if Paramount Studios releases this movie again without the extras. They should have done it right the first time.
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