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By today's standards, the movie sucks.

What, you mean in comparison with Pearl Harbor? Flyboys? Red Tails?
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In it's day (1985) I think TG was pretty good. I grew up next to Miramar, lived under the flight path and had F-14 pilots as several of my neighbors (including my next door neighbor who was a TG instructor). So I was pretty familiar with the real TG school. Yeah, there was some liberties taken. I loved them being out over the desert when they eject and land in the ocean, which is 100 miles away. By today's standards, the movie sucks.

With that said, I think if they make a sequel, it's gonna be a dog. I can't stand TC anymore and really don't care to see his mug.


Groundbreaking movie for its time (1986). Cheesy? Yes, but it was the 80s. The flying scenes were awesome and that is what probably matters to the majority of us.

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The movie was terrible then and it is terrible now. I suspect that over time the movie will remain as terrible as it was then.

Really not interested in supporting the Religious Snake Oil Salesman Tom Cruise and the Scientology Charlatans.

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Too bad the real star of the movie has been scrapped. I refer of course to the F-14.


Exactly - from an ex-Tomcat maintainer, it was the F-14 that starred in the movie, not Tom Cruise.

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The girl I took to see it the first time got annoyed with me because I kept pointing out the things wrong with it! (And before you ask, no :? ) There was only one star of that film.

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I sincerely doubt that Kelly McGillis is going to play anybody's "hottie" in Top Gun II.

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I like the awareness you display with this observation!

She might play a waitress in the bar, But Leave the hotness to ,................................................................................say Penelope Cruz !
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Cking wrote:
Anthony Svihlik wrote:
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Too bad the real star of the movie has been scrapped. I refer of course to the F-14.


Exactly - from an ex-Tomcat maintainer, it was the F-14 that starred in the movie, not Tom Cruise.

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The girl I took to see it the first time got annoyed with me because I kept pointing out the things wrong with it! (And before you ask, no :? ) There was only one star of that film.

Rgds Cking


Right on, Cking!

Besides, I thought Top Gun 2 had been done already:

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Give me a break. The F-14 turned in a MUCH better performance in "The Final Countdown" than in Topgun.

If anything, it's THAT movie that should be rebooted. Except this time, at the end, Yelland decides to run from the storm and let his airwing engage.
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I love that skit!


HA! I hear you, Jerry! That skit gets a laugh from me every time I watch it!

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so will "Mav" be hauling rubber dog s**t out of Hong Kong in the sequel?
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It's always a bad sign when they're announcing a movie before a script has even been written, regardless of the subject, title, or actors.

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Kelly McGillis isn't looking so good. A little manish infact
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Kelly McGillis isn't looking so good. A little manish infact
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Yeah, she is looking rough these days. She wouldn't do a sequel anyways, she likes girls nowadays.

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