Top Gun

[Master Scottb]

Review and discuss

[A Marvel Fanboy]

B+

[DAR]

Today it's a little hokey and cheesy. And that volleyball scene is just weird. But this is the film that made Tom Cruise a star. And I was 11 the summer this came out and must have watched 15 times. And Goose's death still makes me a little misty eyed. Plus the aerial scenes still hold up. It's got a great soundtrack, Harold Faltermeyer doing the score, hell yes. And it contains maybe my favorite line from Tom Cruise in a movie.Goose has just died, but the instructors at Top Gun want to keep sending Maverick up. So they pair him up with Sundown. And Maverick has Jester one of the instructors in his sites. Sundown thinks it looks good. Even Jester is like "come on kid engage." But Maverick says it's no good and lands the plane.As they're walking down the runway, Sundown keeps pestering Maverick, telling him they could have had Jester, they could have had him. Maverick drops his stuff, pulls Sundown by the scruff looks him in the eye and says "I will fire when I am goddamned good and ready. You got that?" Awesome. A

[Thrylos 7]

Everything that was wrong in film making in the eighties is in this movie. Dreadful .

[narniadis]

C

[John Marston]

This movie awesome in IMAX 3D. The picture looked great and crisp but not too "new" looking. And the sound was absolutely killer

[tommycruise]

This one is one of those Tom Cruise movies I don't care for, I watched it when I was like 7 and I absolutely hated it and Ive never watched it since

[Master Scottb]

I've always liked Top Gun, it is a movie that was popular when I went to school and to this day I still enjoy watching it. It is a fun movie and the kind that gets me pumped. Before Mission Impossible, Top Gun was the movie Tom Cruise was known for.

[BiffMan]

Sigh...  Tony Scott could craft a hell of an action film back in the day.  Great, great stuff. 

 

RIP Tony.  Hope you're doing better now.

[Webslinger]

Oh man. I agreed to playing Drunk Gun, where two of the rules are drinking every time a call name is used and every time something even mildly homoerotic happens. Half an hour in, we're well on our ways to being destroyed.

[RobinHood26]

B+ (89)

 

No real villain or enemy keeps it from being an A. 

[superstancer]

B-

Jus a passable entertainer

[darkelf]

The comedy in this is great, even if unintentional at times (khm, khm, volleyball ) and it hits the emotional notes reasonably well for this type of movie. Anyway, great soundtrack and action is all you need to know before entering the danger zone

 

9/10

[Goffe]

dat homoerotic vibe

 

unintentional humor and likable characters can't save this movie from weak script and pacing. Tom Cruise does the charming parts very well, but he struggles really hard when he tries to be more dramatic. 40/100

[TheMovieman]

I actually saw this before but it's been at least 20 years so seeing it again, just all around thrilling and one of Cruise's best performances, perhaps second only to Magnolia. The action scenes were so well directed by Tony Scott and although it is formulaic, there wasn't a moment I wasn't entertained.

 

****¼/*****, (A-, 8.4/10, 3.25/4)

Edited April 24, 2016 by TheMovieman

[John Marston]

Happy 30th anniversary 

[Catty]

On 6/24/2014 at 1:39 PM, Jay Hollywood said:

B+ (89)

 

No real villain or enemy keeps it from being an A. 

At that time the USSR was a big enemy of the US so to us watching it there is a real villain/enemy - just some context.