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Summary: 13 Year Later, Top Gun Still Cool
Review: Top Gun is the movie that defines what cool is. Even today, 13 years after its release, my football team would sing "You've lost that lovin' feeling" on the bus ride home after a win. Some people may find fault with the contrived plot and overall tone that war is good, but this film was never about plot or social messages. It is simply a film made by a director (Tony Scott) and producers (Simpson and Bruckheimer) who know how to seal the deal. This along with the fact that the cast includes some of the top movie stars of the past 2 decades (Tim Robbins, Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Anthony Edwards) who were all but unknown at the time. There is nothing better than to pop Top Gun into the VCR, crank up the surround sound and take a trip to the bars and runways of Fightertown USA.
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Summary: Tom Cruise Starting at 23 years old !
Review: Top Gun really is the best of the best. this film is all about a maverick(literally)fighter pilot making it at Top Gun, the best fighter school around. Tom Cruise plays an excellent character, without doubt the best character ever invented, and he does amazingly. The soundtrack is brilliant and the script is amazing, with quotes to die for eg "i feel the need, the need for speed". This could be called a cheesy film, but it will, always, make the audience feel delightfully happy, and with a great ambition to become not only a fighter pilot, but also to be maverick. Amazing footage of planes. This film is perfection through and through. This is not an exaggeration. If you have not seen this film, watch it now.
- Lt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell: a 23 years old, 5'7'' Tom Cruise.
- Charlotte 'Charlie' Blackwood: a 28 years old, 5'10'' Kelly McGillis.
- Lt. (j.g.) Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw: a 23 years old, 6'2'' Anthony Edwards.
- Carole Bradshaw: a 24 years old, 5'8'' Meg Ryan
- Lt. Tom 'Iceman' Kazanski: a 26 years old, 6'0'' Val Kilmer.
- Cougar: a 25 years old, John Stockwell.
- Wolfman: a 22 years old, Barry Tubb.
- Sundown: a 30 years old, Clarence Gilyard Jr.
- Hollywood: a 27 years old, Whip Hubley.
- Lt. (j.g.) Sam 'Merlin' Wells: a 27 years old, 6'5'' Tim Robbins.
- Lt. (j.g.) Ron 'Slider' Kerner: a 28 years old, 6'4'' Rick sossovich.
- Lt. Cmdr. Rick 'Jester' Heatherly: a 36 years old, 6'0'' Michael Ironside.
- Cmdr. Mike 'Viper' Metcalf: a 52 years old, 6'0'' Tom Skerritt.
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Summary: Reviewer has missed the point!
Review: Top Gun was created, as the producers, writers, and director say, for 'popcorn' entertainment. No, you won't find any diatribes about humanity or politics or such. What you will find is a movie that is entertaining to watch and full of action, but light on statements about crises of the psyche and the world.
The amazon reviewer writes that this movie has 'jingoism' [sorry, I have an MBA from a top 30 school but had to look that word up], defined by websters as : "extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy"
Someone should inform him that if you watch this movie, as the directors, writers, or anyone will tell you, it had no nationalist intent as is obvious in the film.
When I took a film class in college we were taught that the point of most movies is 'escapism': to take a break from the pressure in work or such in our lives and have a couple of hours to live vicariously.
Top Gun is certainly not the reality of a Navy pilot, but it is the fantasy that the film provides that is so strong that scenes and lines from it have become part of our daily language, for a reason. It is the stuff of fantasy, of dreams, to live a life that is certainly no reality yet one that everyone can relate to.
To Tom Keogh, I ask, relax, you'll live longer. Sometimes entertainment is purely entertainment...
Pete
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Summary: Top Gun baby!
Review: TOPGUN..wat can i say. i grew up watchin this film ,its fun, exciting,thrilling and above all SEXY..tom cruise has never looked soo hott...this movie has given a new meaning to the song 'Youve lost that loving feeling' youd be surprised how many pilots, footballers sing this to girls in bars...it has an amazing soundtrack. 'take my breath away' performed by berlin is a wonderful emotional lovesong that truly melts your heart. so if your a fan of a little romance then this will be a movie top of your list. i know a lot of my boy friends have enjoyed this film so its not just a sloppy romance for girls. the boys get a kick out of 'Maverick' the stud played by Cruise who is 'one hell of an instinctive pilot' who learns never to leave his wing man. His best friend 'Goose' is the coolest character hes so entertaining. there are really fun sexy catchprases, such as 'goose ya big stud take me to bed and loose me forever' and 'son your ego is writing checks your body cant cash'
Top gun is a great movie to just chill out with some popcorn on the sofa and watch with your best friends. ill guarantee you will definately enjoy it.
"there are no points for second place in Topgun." (girls checkout the volleyball scene...mmm)
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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: Splendid aerial sequences!
Review: Who can deny the wonderful edition process and set up in this picture ? But seen in sincere perspective the film seems to be a video clip of long duration. The presence of the ever-smiling and inexpressive Tom Cruise with his partner Kelly Mc Gillis reveals an absolute presence of sexual chemistry . It is a film without dramatic structure and you feel the rest of the dialogue is forced to show the aerial gun fights and the overwhelming acrobatic scenes to satisfy a furious audience in that decade hunger for the magic of the Video Clips.
However Anthony Edwards stole the show , Val Kilmer and Meg Ryan in their ascending careers .
Do not search a profound drama . It is absent . But it is a feast for your senses . Good entertainment for the family.
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Summary: Best Anthony Edwards movie from his "with hair" era!
Review: Yeah, Tom Cruise was great in this, but how great was Anthony Edwards as Goose??? Really great! The movie wouldn't have been as good without him in it.
Actually, everybody was great in this movie- Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kelly McGillis, etc.
As for the story, it's a classic. Plus, there's so many cool action scenes in this. I can't see how anybody couldn't like this movie.
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