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@AJvsEverything3 жыл бұрын
The reason Cougar quit is because they're still fresh in the Air Force and that was his first engagement into actual combat scenarios, and it spooked him bad enough to get out...
@wesleyrodgers8863 жыл бұрын
After this?.. Definitely = "Hot Shots". 😆
@iKvetch5583 жыл бұрын
Come on, Mav...do some of that pilot shit!
@christopherrigby21513 жыл бұрын
I saw this movie as a kid when it was released. It was part of a double feature at a drive-in. The other movie was Samar Trek IV
@haileydrey84823 жыл бұрын
"Communicating. Keeping up foreign relations. You know, giving him the bird!"
@cleekmaker003 жыл бұрын
The star of the movie is the F-14 Tomcat. One of the most recognizable airplanes in the World. Retired in 2006.
@themidsouthcyclist88803 жыл бұрын
Except for one, it seems!
@james7275able3 жыл бұрын
What plane has now taken its place?
@Britcarjunkie3 жыл бұрын
@@james7275able The F-18 Super Hornet. Personally, I think they should have kept the Tomcat, because the Hornet and Super Hornet eventually morphed into what the Tomcat was: big, expensive, but worth it.
@kevinjaypattie84383 жыл бұрын
How dare you disrespect THE GOOSE
@Jedi_Mistress3 жыл бұрын
Retired from the US, but other countries still fly them.
@modrenwarefare3 жыл бұрын
The reason Maverick’s plane malfunctioned was because when Iceman pulled away to allow Maverick the shot, he accidentally flew through his Jet Wash. The jet wash from the engine of Iceman’s jet flew into the one of the engines of the plane and disrupted the airflow causing the engine to burn out and malfunction. Therefore the other side of the plane went faster and began to spin uncontrollably to the point where Maverick couldn’t recover the plane and forced them to punch out.
@folkblues4u3 жыл бұрын
Yes and no. The F-14 (in early models) used a Pratt & Whitney TF-30 turbofan engine - originally designed for the Missilier, then went on to power the F-111 and F-14. The engine had a significant problem with compressor stalls whenever the flow of air (heading into the engine) was disrupted. It was so significant that in severe yaw motions (that's twisting left or right) an engine could stall - most notoriously when yawing to compensate for an engine loss, which required significant yaw (even with dual tail/rudder) due to the engine nacelles being located so far apart. This exact phenomenon is attributed to the death of the first female fighter pilot in the US NAVY, who's plane experienced sudden loss of engine due to excessive yaw on landing approach to line-up for touchdown. The early F-14 had a common issue with flat spins resulting from sudden engine loss on one side - then twisting the aircraft enough to cause compressor stall on the other. In later models the problem was addressed with a more powerful turbojet engine and pilot training that cautioned pilots.
@Ivy94F2 жыл бұрын
@@folkblues4u Whoa. I was into every word of this. I’m just flabbergasted at how they can pull these planes out of a flat spin at all after hearing that. Amazing.
@jonesey2513 жыл бұрын
Bruckheimer and Simpson essentially went to the military and said: Give us planes and pilots and we'll give you a 15 million dollar recruiting film
@weldonwin3 жыл бұрын
And it worked, with Navy and Airforce recruitment rates tripling in the movie's opening weekend. Hell, I'm from the UK and I wanted to grow up to fly F-14's as a kid after watching this
@ricardoaguirre61263 жыл бұрын
@@weldonwin Ironically the only other country to fly F-14s is Iran.
@weldonwin3 жыл бұрын
@@ricardoaguirre6126 WHich is why there are no air worthy F-14's anywhere else in the world and all museum examples have been completely gutted, so as to strangle off any possible supply of new aircraft or spare parts for Iran's F-14's
@tigerjonn3 жыл бұрын
It definitely worked... and its not even easy... Many other countries including China tried to make their own films praising the military in hopes to raise the status and image of their militaries to their population.... And not a single one was ever as successful as Top Gun... In fact, all the other ones were made fun of and made their militaries look worse.., and mostly made a meme. It's so much more difficult to make a good film than people realize.
@RyanCarrington2 жыл бұрын
I'm scared of flying, yet I just reacted to this and I wanted to be a pilot so I think it was a good deal 😅
@markus17013 жыл бұрын
Everything on this movie was so incredible cool: jets, fights, sun glasses, kawasaki bike, porsche, music, camera work, action, humor, romance, friendship, tragedy, beach volleyball, insults, and tanks filled with testosterone!
@jp38133 жыл бұрын
Tragedies are cool?
@selfishstockton61232 жыл бұрын
@@jp3813 yes it’s very in vogue
@boxcarhobo7017 Жыл бұрын
@@jp3813 they're so rad. Anybody that's anybody knows that.
@boxcarhobo7017 Жыл бұрын
@@jp3813 all the cool kids are doin it.
@secludedmisanthrope63883 жыл бұрын
I can't even begin to describe how insanely popular this movie was when it released and it had an odd amount of homoerotic insinuation, for a movie in the 80s. Tom Cruise became a main ingredient in a movies recipe for success. Once he had a confirmed role, everyone expected that movie to be perfect and he didn't disappoint. He may be a batshit crazy scientologist but the dude can act..
@RichardX13 жыл бұрын
They added in extra romantic scenes between Maverick and Charlie because they felt they hadn't sufficiently offset the homoerotic undertones of some of the other scenes.
@rafearcher78823 жыл бұрын
It's the most bisexual film ever :D
@edwardvillegas32163 жыл бұрын
I did five years on a carrier. This movie is what all the pilots watch daily and think they can be like them. However it plays 24/7 on our TVs so the rest of us got tired of it after our third day out to sea with nothing else to watch lol
@RichardX13 жыл бұрын
I heard that at the actual school, they charge students a fine every time they quote this film.
@TwistedSisterHaratiofales3 жыл бұрын
I was on Ranger/Kitty Hawk, and Enterprise. Thank You for your service, one sailor to anouther.
@chivalryalive3 жыл бұрын
@@TwistedSisterHaratiofales My greatest thanks to each of you.... It is because of men like you that people like me and my family sleep well each night. --Because we know you are here to protect us.
@TwistedSisterHaratiofales3 жыл бұрын
@@chivalryalive Your Welcome, and Thank You. I'm 58 now and the only Military Action I see now is in Video Games, so the younger generation has to carry the torch.
@chivalryalive3 жыл бұрын
@@TwistedSisterHaratiofales I hope the younger generation is being taught properly so that they too can hold the torch high and proudly. Do you think they /and our military are being taught properly? I am 52 yrs. -- Right before I graduated from high school a marine corps recruiter called me and asked if I was interested in joining the Corps? I told him "Sir. Yes, sir... I'm just not sure I would quite qualify physically any longer, sir." (Brief pause...) "And why would you think that, son?" I quickly replied, "Well, sir.... From the waist down I currently have a lot of metal in my body, sir." He quickly asked "Ooh! Car accident?" "Well, yes sir. One of those too, sir!" He liked that. We both laughed! :-D My junior year of high school, I busted my head twice and broke my legs a couple times. :-)
@MR-yx8hj3 жыл бұрын
I’ve flown many jets, but I always crash into the ocean before I can land. Damn NES Top Gun game.
@osirispluto87823 жыл бұрын
@Sol Tekkaman WHAT!?!? Please why didn't anyone tell me this 30 years ago
@johnnydernberger77953 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@osirispluto87823 жыл бұрын
@Sol Tekkaman Musta been, buncha jerks 😂 Now I wanna play that game again!
@enold4ever3 жыл бұрын
@@osirispluto8782 it was in the instruction manual, but if you didn't have that you pretty much couldn't land.
@osirispluto87823 жыл бұрын
What? Instruction manual!? What is this 'instruction manual' you speak of? Never heard of such a thing :)
@Arrynek013 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Nicknames and callsigns are given to you by your fellow pilots. They are rarely cool, and if they are, it's because there's some other meaning to it. In a world of teamwork and reliance on a well-oiled military machine, you do not want to be the guy called Maverick. In the real-world, Iceman is probably someone who got drunk at the Christmas party and slipped on some ice. They might call you Comet (as in the vomit comet) because you banked so hard your passengers puked. The best one though? Ewan McGregor's brother was a pilot. They called him Obi Two.
@antoinettelopes3 жыл бұрын
This is the movie that really made Tom Cruise a star. It was massive. I saw it in the theater because Val Kilmer was already my favorite. It came as a complete shock to me that Tom Cruise was the one from his generation to become the movie icon because at the time there were all these guys in the "Brat Pack" who were better looking and arguably more talented. I think he was a hard worker and dependable and someone the studios could trust to not create drama. At the time, because of the soundtrack, clips from the movie were omnipresent on Mtv because of the music videos so for a lot of people in Gen X this movie represents a moment in time. He also had a small part before this in THE OUTSIDERS, which is one of my very favorite movies. The most Brat Pack-y movie if you're interested in checking one out is probably ST. ELMO'S FIRE. He's not in that tho. The guy who directed this, Tony Scott, made a lot of great movies. My favorite of his is TRUE ROMANCE which is probably already on your watch list as Quentin Tarantino wrote it. He was Ridley Scott's brother and died a while ago now. 🙏🏼
@dawggirl3 жыл бұрын
You and I have a lot of the same taste in movies. All great ones you named.
@Warlocke0003 жыл бұрын
That bit about Top Gun representing a moment in time, I couldn't have said better. I was in Boy Scouts back then, and every time we got together for something, we tended to have the Top Gun and Footloose soundtracks playing. Those songs felt like the soundtrack of an era.
@antoinettelopes3 жыл бұрын
@@Warlocke000 I totally forgot about it but I think Kenny Loggins was doing some kind of live stream last night. He tweeted about it, then I forgot due to old age. 🤦🏼♀️
@orkloven3 жыл бұрын
This movie made every 14 year old kid I knew back then want to become a pilot. My best friend made in the Air Force and flew for 8 years. I learned how to fly a desk... 😂
@nopewmopan3 жыл бұрын
"You gotta hate on Marty McFly..." Thanks for helping me place that guy.
@mattbeilewech35173 жыл бұрын
Maverick has a real attitude problem. He's a slacker.
@philippkemmesies81683 жыл бұрын
James Tolkan. He'll be 90 on June 20th.
@Menaceblue33 жыл бұрын
@@philippkemmesies8168 Geez.... does the principal ever age????
@bessarion17713 жыл бұрын
The guy next to Goose in the bar scene when serenading "Charlie" was the real pilot who was flying Tomcats for the movie....
@Naldo20013 жыл бұрын
The "older guy" that Charlie was with at the club was really call sign "Viper"
@bessarion17713 жыл бұрын
@@Naldo2001 LOL. I forgot. He was from Top Gun and he was the film advisor.
@bessarion17713 жыл бұрын
@@razor75250 yes! Exactly!
@jamesweible53573 жыл бұрын
@@razor75250 Thank god he grew up before Harry Potter
@kenlangston34513 жыл бұрын
I think you would enjoy A Few Good Men. The cast is amazing. Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, and Kiefer Sutherland.
@haileydrey84823 жыл бұрын
Good recommendation
@Kim-hc5si3 жыл бұрын
YES!
@cometogether9993 жыл бұрын
He surely could handle the truth.
@Kim-hc5si3 жыл бұрын
@@cometogether999 RIGHT?! 😆
@frankieb94443 жыл бұрын
Don't sweat not knowing the military stuff, this movie is closer to fantasy than military....just like with Iron Eagle starring Louis Gossett Jr.
@namelessjedi22423 жыл бұрын
I was thinking, would be fun to see a reaction to Iron Eagle also!
@arisucheddar30973 жыл бұрын
Gimme some a'lovin
@CaptCap253 жыл бұрын
Iron Eagle was a documentary about the bravery of Doug Masters and Col. Sinclair!
@stephencoghlan65613 жыл бұрын
Yeah There was a divide when I was in. Some loved it, some realised it as a power fantasy. The nest fly boys Inknew were polite and respectful on the ground, didn't buzz the tower unless we asked them to, but once out of monitoring range they cut lose
@puterbac3 жыл бұрын
Lol...Iron Eagle is about 1000x more fantasy than top Gun.
@LoganFerguson3 жыл бұрын
This was NOT a cult classic. This was a blockbuster hit. Thanks for the reaction!!!!
@FelisDestructicus3 жыл бұрын
It's such a bummer that the F-14 has been retired from service. There's just something majestic about that plane.
@puterbac3 жыл бұрын
Loved it at Airshows. So damn loud. F18 is much quieter. F16 still makes some good noise. Always like the idea of 6 AIM54 Phoenix missiles that could be fired at 6 different targets 100 miles away at the same time.
@jeffthompson96223 жыл бұрын
The F-14 is one of the most beautiful fighters of the jet age. The F-104 Starfighter and Saab Draken are two others.
@Ambaryerno3 жыл бұрын
Also, there isn't a plane that can do its job, and this is a real concern with the rise of long-range anti-shipping missiles, and growing threats to AWACS aircraft. The Super Hornet simply lacks the range and long-range engagement ability, or the multiple target-tracking capabilities the Tomcat had.
@NerrawGnap17 күн бұрын
@@jeffthompson9622 I gotta disagree with you about the F-104, that thing got nicknamed the “flying coffin.”
@BewareTheJabberwock3 жыл бұрын
Understanding the timeframe of this movie is important. We were still in “the Cold War” with the Soviet Union. Top Gun released in 1986, but end of Cold War wouldn’t be until 1991. When the Russians encroached on US airspace, it was a VERY big deal. (This is why the first guy had the panic attack at the start. Shit got real when Russian jets got missile-lock on him.) Also, I’m in my late forties and when I was young, we were afraid of the USSR due to the threat of nuclear war. There are a few good films that illustrate this. Wargames, Red Dawn, The Hunt for Red October etc. - Even a drama like White Nights (great movie) or comedy like Moscow on the Hudson
@danielallen34543 жыл бұрын
Guy at the beginning is James Tolkan. As an actor for the past 40 years it's been his job to hate on people. Because he's very at it.
@nflr923 жыл бұрын
Is he the captain of the boat? Or the XO? Could never tell what his job was exactly.
@Xethuron3 жыл бұрын
@@nflr92 He is the commander of the carrier air wing, not the captain
@Drawkcabi3 жыл бұрын
This was one of the first movies priced affordable "to own" when it came out on VHS. Before this, if you wanted to own a movie on VHS or Beta they usually ran $80 - $100. Most people just rented movies which helped video stores get big fast. Top Gun was priced at ~$27. They sold a massive amount, it was one of the biggest Christmas items that year.
@nopewmopan3 жыл бұрын
I feel the need. The need for speed! 🙏
@dwightherron28383 жыл бұрын
You are writing checks your bodies can't cash!
@osirispluto87823 жыл бұрын
This used to be catch phrase before blowing lines.
@johnlloyddy70163 жыл бұрын
You can be my wingman anytime!
@RyanCarrington2 жыл бұрын
I just reacted to this and I was wondering, if this was the movie that made this phrase?
@EricPalmerBlog3 жыл бұрын
Trivia. The F-14 flat spin risk was real. The extra weight of the swing wing system pushed the center of gravity of the aircraft toward, the center of the aircraft. After they lost a few, it was teachable to the air crew on how to avoid it. Great work as always Mel. Huge fan.
@MrRSCHECK3 жыл бұрын
and they had issues with their engines used from the F111, could stall under certain conditions. They changed the engine by the late 80s.
@joshgoodman56673 жыл бұрын
When they were filming the flat spin scene, they wanted cockpit views, so they hired an aerobatic pilot to do some flat spins. Unfortunately, he actually got in a bind and was killed. Art Scholl was one of the best of his day, and if you watch the credits, the movie was dedicated to him.
@tastyneck3 жыл бұрын
I grew up in SD when Top Gun was still there and we'd go to the airshows at Miramar. And I lived near Coronado where the Seals had their recruit training school and my best friend's dad was a real life Navy Seal Master Chief we'd hang out there all the time. I fucking lived an 80's film plot as a kid. lol
@MG-jv7pe2 жыл бұрын
Lived in mira mesa and was in middle school when this came out. So many memories attached to this movie, the nostalgia of living in the 80s, the anxiety of living during the cold war.
@poolhall96323 жыл бұрын
This soundtrack is prime 80s hype.
@TheTitandog703 жыл бұрын
Mel sporting that Captain America shirt. You are a man of class and style. I saw this on VHS. Back in the 80s as young boy. Great reaction my man
@jeremyodwyer92323 жыл бұрын
Classic film! The soundtrack is so 80's. It's great! Glad you're watching this in preparation for Hot Shots because it will make that one even funnier.
@TheSaxcat3 жыл бұрын
Top Gun's late director Tony Scott is criminally underrated. People are more familiar with his brother Ridley Scott's more famous movies. My fave Tony Scott movie is 'Man on Fire' (2004) starring Denzel Washington. Denzel plays a flawed but badass body guard to a little girl in Mexico City. Denzel Washington and Tony Scott have done about four or five films together. They really worked well together. I wish more reactors would watch 'Man on Fire," it is Tony Scott's masterpiece. RIP Tony Scott.
@e.l.norton3 жыл бұрын
The movie was inspired by a picture. The writer saw a photo taken from the cockpit of an F-14 in article about Top Gun. He was a general aviation pilot himself, and was interested in the aviation aspect of it. When the Navy allowed him to go for a ride in a fighter jet as research for his script, the experience of the flight changed everything. He was blown away by the athleticism of the flying, the crushing force of gravity under high-g loads and the ability of pilots to perform at peak levels of excellence under physical strain that would crush most people. He landed drenched in sweat and exhausted and realized the movie needed to be a competition movie because air combat is every bit a sport. So, he shaped it as a competitive sports movie around the history and role of Top Gun.
@Kensei0073 жыл бұрын
Favorite Tom Cruise moment in this movie is after the final battle, when Mav and Iceman land back on the carrier and Mav sees Hollywood and Wolfman are still alive and he's like 'AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and he picks them up and hugs them.
@eldeano99643 жыл бұрын
Tom cruise movie: he's a hot shot at doing a thing, pilot, bartender, nascar driver, groundhog day man... Then he had a crisis of faith in his life/abilities, then he meets a woman and becomes better than ever at the thing.
@nitrokid3 жыл бұрын
He's an ultimate Gary Stu.
@RobertSmith-kb3jl3 жыл бұрын
Too bad her treated her like shit.
@46sn293 жыл бұрын
Dude, love your Captain America shirt!
@haileydrey84823 жыл бұрын
It's fire
@andrewharden26193 жыл бұрын
"I'm not keen to the military" *wearing a Captain America shirt*
@drakeloki42143 жыл бұрын
I don't know when you're taking suggestions again but just in case you are I recommend The Crow. The one with Brandon Lee.
@jeffthompson96223 жыл бұрын
Great suggestion!
@jlrush3163 жыл бұрын
Excellent choice
@osirispluto87823 жыл бұрын
Thirdid'did'a 😜
@joshgoodman56673 жыл бұрын
I agree!
@namelessjedi22423 жыл бұрын
After 30 years nothing truly needs a sequel, it’s mainly for nostalgia at that point. But more cool jet footage is always appreciated!
@menolikey_3 жыл бұрын
Agreed and it seems they took the realistic flight footage to max with the sequel. Should be an experience.
@jettanderson3972 жыл бұрын
Just keep talking now😏
@danishhald3 жыл бұрын
It’s a pretty fun movie. I like the end credits and how The Righteous Brothers kick in. I do think it’s corny at the end how Maverick has his moment but retreats and Iceman is like “I knew it Maverick!” Then Maverick is like, “Psych! I’m back.” Then the day is saved.
@Rikard_Nilsson3 жыл бұрын
2:45 If they fly close enough to each other, the radar is fooled into thinking it's one plane. Sort of how if you look at a landscape in nature you might see just one bush from far away, until you get closer and see it's two growing on top of each other.
@haileydrey84823 жыл бұрын
CVN-65, USS Enterprise, that's the carrier I was stationed on. The Navy was all in on this movie, as it was used for recruitment. The last F-14 squadron was detached from Big-E when I first got there. Glad you enjoyed the movie, glad we could enjoy it with you.
@haileydrey84823 жыл бұрын
@@theshavingcyclist8006 Appreciate that you could recognize her. Appreciate your dad for his service. ^_^
@Ambaryerno3 жыл бұрын
@@haileydrey8482 The Big E was pretty easy to pick out from a crowd. There wasn't another carrier in the Navy that had that square-shaped island. I got to see her in dry dock once on a high school trip. That tower rising above the surrounding buildings was impossible to mistake for anything else.
@renehouse20153 жыл бұрын
11:00 "Damn, why you gotta be like that man, c'mon" Well... because Iceman is trying to save lives and what Maverick did (abandoning Cougar) cost Cougar his edge. Cougar was so shaken up over the incident he struggled to bring his F14 back and if it weren't for Maverick nursing him back reassuring him along the way, there's a pretty good chance Cougar would have lost his life trying to get back on his own. Regardless, Maverick's choice to abandon Cougar, instead of staying to protect him, and go out on his own cost Cougar his confidence, his career, and very nearly his life. That's why Iceman "gotta be like that", so it won't happen again to another pilot who's relying on Maverick to watch their back.
@inarar53343 жыл бұрын
There's nothing cult about the success of Top Gun. It was a legit blockbuster. The Navy set up recruiting stations outside theaters and shit.
@DP-eo5xd3 жыл бұрын
Ha too bad the vast majority of recruits would never get close to the cockpit of a naval fighter. Maybe they could be one of those guys that moves the ladder so the pilot could get in. 😂
@jp38133 жыл бұрын
Another film related to this one that you might wanna check out is Days of Thunder (1990), which is basically Tom Cruise & director Tony Scott making a spiritual successor to Top Gun.
@jsharp31653 жыл бұрын
It is Top Gun. Just with cars.
@jp38133 жыл бұрын
@@jsharp3165 Hence, spiritual successor.
@jsharp31653 жыл бұрын
@@jp3813 Hence knockoff.
@jp38133 жыл бұрын
@@jsharp3165 By their own creators.
@lisliaer79993 жыл бұрын
Every single person when he said "can't they just eject? Do they not have the technology " 😳😳😳
@Daywalker_273 жыл бұрын
At $30 mill each they save that as a last resort, also ejecting in itself does carry risk
@eddavis97043 жыл бұрын
And as fast as things happen in combat, you don't always have time to react.
@osirispluto87823 жыл бұрын
Val Kilmer's the man. If you're ever tryin' to do more of his movies (or just 80's movies in general) Real Genius gets my vote. Val Kilmer in his prime, it's hilarious and slightly cheesy in the best possible way.
@Ambaryerno3 жыл бұрын
Don't forget Willow. He was great in that one, too.
@joshgoodman56673 жыл бұрын
Tombstone!
@movethecarsal50263 жыл бұрын
Just wanted to say Mello is the man. Really love your reactions and thoughts about films. You are so funny and genuine! Thanks for all that you do.
@xxraddrummerxx3 жыл бұрын
"You've Lost That Loving Feeling" is a song from the 60's.
@danracz62973 жыл бұрын
I hate when she does that!!
@BusyBadger3 жыл бұрын
Mello, since you're liking snappy dialogue and Val Kilmer, I'm going to recommend Spartan (2004) and Heist (2001), both written & directed by David Mamet. Heist is an overlooked gem with outstanding performances from Gene Hackman, Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay (RIP), Danny Devito & Sam Rockwell. Can't recommend this movie enough.
@haileydrey84823 жыл бұрын
The Ghost and the Darkness, is my favorite Val Kilmer movie after Tombstone and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Heist is underrated.
@gregall21783 жыл бұрын
For another David Mamet film I'd suggest House Of Games.
@linusa29963 жыл бұрын
Jester went below the hard deck so he's "dead", Maverick followed Jester below the hard deck so he's dead too. Yes the hard deck is an artificial limit, if there was no limit, then both Jester and Maverick would be smoking holes in the ground. And yes, a lot of Navy pilots have died in that area where they were flying. Every Navy fighter pilot can name someone in their squadron or air wing who died in training accidents
@menolikey_3 жыл бұрын
Before you ask, this was one of the first vhs movies my family owned. My brothers and I watched it about 500 times.
@TheWakeUpArtist3 жыл бұрын
Sweet. Now I don’t have to ask if you had the VHS. 😉
@Rondog.3 жыл бұрын
Damn, I was just about to ask you that too. Thanks for clearing it up.
@menolikey_3 жыл бұрын
Come on gents.. We know our brother asks in each of his vids.
@jp38133 жыл бұрын
I was just gonna ask what time it is.
@cheeseburger123 жыл бұрын
Yes it needed a sequel. And that sequel is called Hot Shots and Hot Shots part Duex.
@elsievickie3 жыл бұрын
I'm 66 Women, I was in the Navy, and in 1974 was lucky enough to fly in the back set of a A4, similar to what they fly in movie. Actually in movie they mentioned Beeville Tx, that's where pilots get their wings. Out of 50 new students maybe 20 become Jet Pilots, training is intense It was the most exciting thing I have ever done. I flew whenever their was a backseat open. Feeling those Gs,, Wow
@CursedMusicbox3333 жыл бұрын
Goose survived and moved to a town in Maine known for its sinister and notorious Pet Semetary. ;)
@CrimsonRoseDancer3 жыл бұрын
But not before he spent time as a Doctor on ER. 🤣
@CursedMusicbox3333 жыл бұрын
@@CrimsonRoseDancer Right!! Lmao! Goose just kept faking his death to move on to different professions!
@LunaticLK473 жыл бұрын
@@CursedMusicbox333 Goose apparently fathered John Connor in the process.
@CursedMusicbox3333 жыл бұрын
@@LunaticLK47 I was going to mention that to lol but Pet Semetary 2 has recieved so much hate I didnt think many people would know what I was talking about anyway . 😆
@kbob96253 жыл бұрын
I think Val is in Top Gun 2 and the only other person returning other than Tom.
@korie41983 жыл бұрын
As an Army air traffic controller, I used Charlie Lima as my call sign because of this movie.
@Phaota3 жыл бұрын
Tom Cruise is a great actor, but not a excellent human being, especially since he is one of the top Scientologists in the world, which makes him exceptionally nuts. But if you just enjoy him as an actor, his movies are amazing.
@RugNug3 жыл бұрын
Afghanistan Vet here. Most military people don't get upset by civilian "ignorance". Not everyone is cut out to be military. That doesn't mean that we're better than you. My friend is a middle school teacher. No Fn way I could do that job. Doesn't make her better than me. Different people are fit for different things. That's what makes this world a beautiful place.
@INSEIKYU013 жыл бұрын
All of sudden I feel like having a double viewing of Cars and Days of Thunder. Good reaction
@themidsouthcyclist88803 жыл бұрын
This movie was the greatest recruiting tool the Navy ever had (peacetime). I saw this in theaters and subsequently found myself in uniform.
@primeribviking36883 жыл бұрын
Gotta watch that Val Kilmer classic opposite one of the best actors ever, Warwick Davis, in "Willow"
@rkstevenson54483 жыл бұрын
So, I did six years in the Army. Combat Engineer. They expect you to follow the rules so that they can predict what you're doing and plan accordingly. The guys who break the rules (like Maverick) make the battlefield less predictable, and therefore more dangerous. This cuts both ways: the enemy can't predict you, but neither can your friends. And that can get people killed if they go left expecting you to go right, and you decide to do something different and leave them without a wingman (or "battle buddy," as we jokingly called it in the Army). It doesn't matter how skilled you are in your given MOS or rate or whatever the fuckin' Chair Force calls it: if you can't be relied on to act in a disciplined, predictable manner, your chain of command is going to have issues with that. They aren't climbing up his ass because they don't like him; they clearly recognize that he's a skilled pilot. They're climbing up his ass because his behavior is dangerous to the unit.
@warwolf1163 жыл бұрын
Was hoping you'd get to Top Gun here sooner or later!!! Also, rocking that Cpt. America shirt!!!!!!
@joelwillis20433 жыл бұрын
This movie is literally a 90-minute commercial to join the Navy. I know, I was in the Navy.
@martinbraun12113 жыл бұрын
Love the Soundtrack !
@erichfellehner74493 жыл бұрын
please react to A Few Good Men with Tom Cruise and Demi Moore.
@02michellemybell022 жыл бұрын
Tom cruise said he wasn't going to make top gun 2 maverick without Val Kilmer. They have been friends all these years thays so nice. I hope Tom and the actor who played " goose" are friends too.
@ThomasSoles3 жыл бұрын
Saw this movie in the theaters when I was 14. I was working on a flight deck six years later. They got me.
@BigMateo243 жыл бұрын
It's your first time watching? Damn, it's my 101st. I've seen it so many times every line of dialogue is burned into my brain, along with the wicked Steve Stevens guitar licks.
@kraven44443 жыл бұрын
I forgot about the ending that He chose to be an instructor at Top Gun. I wonder if that's where the new movie will pick up.
@MrRSCHECK3 жыл бұрын
The last decade of the cold war with USSR had a huge influence on movie maker choices in the early & mid 80s. Top Gun, Red Dawn, Spies Like Us, Rambo 2 & 3, Iron Eagle 2 etc
@FeaturingRob3 жыл бұрын
From what I remember....Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, who were the major up-and-coming producers at that time, found an article about Fighter Weapons School in Miramar. They thought it might make a good movie, and they developed it from there. Simpson (who died in the early 90s) and Bruckheimer had a formula for their films, one that served them well. Find a splashy concept, hire a director with a real visual sense (in this case Tony Scott, brother of Ridley Scott, fresh off of the vampire film 'The Hunger' with Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie), and package the film with a sizzling soundtrack of top of the charts music artists. I remember this came out my freshman year of high school...and I must have gone to see it about four or five times. I also had the VHS video for years. I still like the movie...but, when you can quote the damn thing verbatim when you see a scene on TV, you know you never need to see it again. However...watching you react to it was a blast!!! Thanks, Mellow!!!! BTW...The Captain America shirt was rockin'!!!!
@JamesASharp2 жыл бұрын
Great reaction bro! I saw Top Gun: Maverick yesterday in IMAX. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Tom Cruise is a legend! You're going to love it bro. I'm looking forward to your reaction to it.
@fenner19863 жыл бұрын
My favorite movie of all time, made in the year I was born. I cannot ever get enough of this, nor can I wait for the sequel, which they need to stop delaying.....It's been over 30 years, c'mon hollywood! The cast in 1986 was star studded and made a lot of peoples careers. I'll be seeing the sequel 2-3 times in theaters at least.
@jeanine63282 жыл бұрын
Another fantastic, criminally underrated movie of Val Kilmer is The Saint from 1997. It’s my second favorite performance of his, second only to Tombstone as Doc Holiday. It has a similar feel to a Bond film but it’s filmed filmed differently with a different tone.
@NerrawGnap17 күн бұрын
2:49 the second plane was flying almost directly behind the first, hiding from the carrier’s radar. As the angles changed the jets’ own radars were able to detect it.
@stardustwolfstadt37173 жыл бұрын
I watched you review Terminator, and was waiting for that moment you realized that "Slider", Icemans co-pilot (REO), was the same person that played Sarah Conner's roomies boyfriend. :D
@Tehui19742 жыл бұрын
Sad to hear about Val Kilmer. I didn't know that he's had a tough time with his health the last few years until the bro mentioned it during the reaction.
@TemperYourExpectations3 жыл бұрын
First time I saw this was in Spanish class in high school. The teacher just put on Spanish subtitles.
@vwlssnvwls32623 жыл бұрын
I think that actor always plays angry people, because he is pissed at anyone with more hair than him. :p
@danielallen34543 жыл бұрын
First time I ever saw this movie was around 1997-98. In our Intro to Tech course. Our teacher showed it one day.
@nflr923 жыл бұрын
Viper was previously the captain of the Nostromo so he's got flying experience
@joecatoe30273 жыл бұрын
The movies "Top Gun" and "Firebirds" were the primary inspirations for me joining the military in 1990.
@Daywalker_273 жыл бұрын
I AM THE GREATEST!!!
@reesebn383 жыл бұрын
I saw Top Gun in 70mm when it came out in the summer of 86 .Every summer in the 80s had great movies.1986 had Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Back To School, The Karate Kid, Part II, Labyrinth, Ruthless People, Big Trouble In Little China, Aliens, Stand By Me, The Fly, Manhunter. All great movies that hold up today. An underrated forgotten gem from the summer of 86, Running Scared with Billy Crystal and the late great Gregory Hines.
@bigjay1233 жыл бұрын
At the time this was the closest to realistic Fighrer Jet movie out. Being missle locked is like having a gun to your head.
@PorscheRacer143 жыл бұрын
Final Countdown has still some of the best Tomcat photography to date.
@danielwalker15383 жыл бұрын
Final countdown is a great movie!
@arisucheddar30973 жыл бұрын
Still trying to get the fiancee to watch Final Countdown...
@verbalassassin57373 жыл бұрын
You wanna appreciate Kilmer Mel...you gotta check out his role as legendary front man Jim Morrison in the movie "The Doors"....his portrayal of Morrison is scary good and extremely accurate. Plus the Doors are 1 of the greatest bands EVER.
@obiwanpez3 жыл бұрын
Cougar broke. It's basically PTSD. Merlin is played by Tim Robbins. I didn't know until my teens. Multi-million dollar aircraft aren't just ejected out of. It's kind of last-resort.
@NathanWolke3 жыл бұрын
I loved this movie when I was a kid. Saw it back when I was like 10. Wanted to change my name to Maverick! I’ve also served in the Navy on an aircraft carrier. Didn’t do anything with the aircraft but maintained and operated a self defense missile system. But crazy to see those planes take off on such a short runway. LOUD too.
@AFMountaineer20003 жыл бұрын
If you're watching this for Hot Shots, then you need to watch the first 3 Rambo, mostly the third one, for Hot Shots part Deux.
@radwolf763 жыл бұрын
This was my dad's go-to film for showing off the surround sound on his home theater setup in the 90s, at least the last half hour of it. Because of this, I can quote every line from that last combat sequence.
@gojiberry72013 жыл бұрын
We had the Top Gun soundtrack on cassette tape growing up. Was a popular selection during road trips 😁
@RidgeR53 жыл бұрын
I've heard that at the real Top Gun school, they have something like a $5 fine every time someone makes a Top Gun quote or reference
@LordHoth_903 жыл бұрын
Movie helped but hurt them so can’t really say I blame them
@powerbad6963 жыл бұрын
GOOD movie,haven't watched it in years but it did bring back memories.Did 4yrs US Navy,6yrs US Army and 4 tours of duty in Iraq with National Guard.I volunteered for all 4 tours.HOO-RAH!!! In the navy I was stationed aboard aircraft carriers(USS KittyHawk-ships company and USS Roosevelt-VF-84 attack squadron)GREAT times!! Got to go to TOP GUN school in support roll with members of my squadron-they asked for volunteers.I regret leaving the navy til this day,my chief po warned me not to leave but I did.FUN TIMES.
@katemccrea69633 жыл бұрын
So fun story. When I was younger, I competed in horse shows and we had to come up with shownames for the horses. I loved Top Gun and Val Kilmer so much, I named my horse Ice Man because he never flinched on a jumping course.
@babymammoth342 жыл бұрын
"He's on my Tail, COMIN' HARD!!!!" LMFAO!!!! I see....
@anjero863 жыл бұрын
I spent a large chunk of my childhood on Miramar and my dad worked with these planes. I'm glad you reacted to this movie, it brings up good memories :DDDD
@richgoebel8823 жыл бұрын
You get a lot of comments and I'll hope you'll read mine. I might write a lot. I was in Navy Boot Camp when this movie was in theaters. Didn't even know about it until I went to my first ship, a carrier in Mayport Florida. I arrived the day before it came back from being out to sea for a week or two. There were about ten of us, and we were positioned on the pier in advance to do crowd control. It seems that even two weeks out to sea, the wives really wanted to get back with their husbands. A young lady was chatting me up. She wasn't one of the wives, but she was an off-duty sailor who knew a couple Sailors on board. She told me I reminded her of Goose in Top Gun. That summer, when we did go out to sea, it was only training aircraft which are so much smaller and lighter than warfighting aircraft. Late that summer, we deployed to the far north Atlantic off the coast of Norway. It was then that I saw Top Gun for the first time while out to sea on the carrier Forrestal. There were aircraft takeoffs and landings the whole time we were at sea, so I'll always associate that film with being on a carrier. There are shipboard aromas that you never forget, plus the smell of jet fuel and exhaust that's unique to being on a carrier. A year later, it was the Indian Ocean. We came from the east coast, the Enterprise (CVN-65) came from the west coast. For one morning, we sailed side by side, two magnificent carriers. I have photos but they don't do justice to how it felt to be there to witness that. About five years later, I was stationed ashore and one summer there was a Blue Angels air show which included a lot of other aircraft including models of the bi-planes that fought in WW1. As they demonstrated aircraft that were going through time eventually to the F-14 Tomcat. The Blue Angels had gone to the FA-18 Hornet. They used the Tomcat to show it's unique shift-able fixed wings. When flying slow, including takeoff (launch) and landing, the wings are swept wide. To go to high speed, including supersonic, the wings would be swept back. One of the demonstrations was to show how slow it flies when coming into land on a carrier. The pilot flew it in the typical at-sea pattern that's an oval resembling a race track, turning left to go back around. While he turned to fly by the audience, I was able to imaging what it's like on a flight deck when a Tom Cat is preparing to land. They played the Top Gun Theme that's played right after the final dogfight (you can be my wingman) scene. I got serious goosebumps at that moment. A decade after that, I was stationed ashore again in Virginia Beach near NAS Oceana. We knew about the impending retirement of the Tom Cat and many of us were outside when the last F-14's flew home from their final East Coast deployment. I got to sail on a Carrier one last time in my final months of my career. I was an inspector for a computer electronics system on the Harry S Truman, and I would ride with them for two days, testing things like full speed with full rudder turns. I observed that from the fan tail to see the wake we left behind and just how far we were leaning for a full 360° turn to port, following by an immediate shift to opposite rudder to do 360° turn to starboard. No flight operations however. This is just a Cliff-Notes version of my carrier at sea experience with Tom Cats.
@TrainmakerPL3 жыл бұрын
-Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell! -What?! -Danger zooooone!
@pleutron3 жыл бұрын
After watching Top Gun... the "adult" air combat movie... If you haven't seen it, then you should check out the more "kid/teenager" air combat movie that came out the same year... before Top Gun... called Iron Eagle. I love both movies.
@nicholassmith79843 жыл бұрын
This was my favourite movie growing up. I would watch it almost every weekend, right up to my teens.
3 жыл бұрын
23:50 “Shit, that was close” that's pure choreographic drama because you can't dodge missiles. Fighter's missiles kill by high range expanding explosions, it means even if a missile is far from you it still destroys your plane, the missile doesn't need to reach you, there are videos on youtube showing you this, the fighter's missile expanding explosions are very long range, when it explodes the expansive wave still reaches you from very far.
@TwistedSisterHaratiofales3 жыл бұрын
I was stationed at NAS Miramar when they filmed this movie. The motorcycle was owned by an enlisted sailor on base. They borrowed it on a whim on a Saturday and filmed Tom riding on the service road that was by the runway. The road is actually for security and emergency transport, and regular traffic is not allowed on it. It made a great shot though and so they paid to rent it for other shots in the movie. The Black Porch that Kelly drives belonged to my commanding officer. He owned a black one, a white one, and a red one. They liked the black one and so rented it from him. They put a plaque in the car, and I think on the motorcycle stating that they were the ones filmed in the movie. My commander sold the car for IDK how much but a good little chunk I imagine, about 2 months after the movie came out which was about a year after they finished filming it. It was cool and a slight pain in the ass at times while they were there on base. I did get to meet Anthony Edwards and Meg Ryan to, and at the time had no idea who they were and they were so like their down to earth characters. Tom Cruise was always walking around with 20 people who had their heads up his butt. I thought he was cool, and not impressed with him all at the same time. (LOL) I guess I would have liked to have met him, but at the same time, I wasn't really star struck and felt a little sorry for him that he couldn't get 2 minutes to himself either. I also got to meet and talk to the REAL, Pappy Boyington a year before that at an airshow there. That was one time I was more Star Struck. I also climbed into his Corsair. Ah those were good times. If you do get to meet some Movie Stars, I hope its before they are to famous, and if not remember the crews, and supporting actors are a blast also.
@MrROKinROK3 жыл бұрын
Fun facts: This movie created a boom in military recruitment. In fact, it was reported that military recruiters set up shop in the lobby of the theaters during the run of this movie. 2:44 It seems like you picked up on it later, but the enemy pilots were flying in a tight disciplined formation so that they'd appear like a single bogey on radar. That's how it seemingly "came out of nowhere." 3:51 You're right about Cougar. His life flashed before his eyes because the enemy pilot had missile lock on his plane. A guided missile had radar lock on his plane meaning that had the enemy pilot decided to actually fire his missile, his plane would've been destroyed and he likely would've died. To him, it was tantamount to having a gun put to his head in the line of duty. That's why he wigged out. 8:27 While it's not clear whether the origin of the term "wingman" (as it pertains to the dating scene) originated from this movie, it definitely popularized it and turned it into a household term. 15:56 "This branch" of the military is the navy and in this branch, the "naval aviators" featured in this movie are a very, very, very rare breed. Most of the rank and file are sailors on ships or subs which I'm sure you're vaguely familiar with. 20:30 While it wasn't technically (or legally) anyone's fault, the implication was that Iceman waited too long before letting Maverick take the shot. And when he finally peeled off, his plane created the jet wash that messed us Mav's engine. Thank you. I enjoyed your reaction.