*TOP GUN* is ICONIC
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Can't wait!
Big Trouble in Little China is a movie I think you would have a blast watching. Top tier 80s cheese 😎
Also the movie Apocalypse Now, I think you mentioned you’ve seen that before. 🧐 I think you said Tyler made you watch it once or something and it like….totally wrecked you how dark and “descent into madness” it was 😅 which yeah, fair point. 😂
Plz React to red tails it’s another good fighter plane movie
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Please check out quentin Tarantinos top gun... it's worth your time
Now, Top Gun Maverick.
After that Days of Thunder
Now Top. Gun Maverick now now. Movie react soon please.
I would think that is the plan
One interesting parallel is between TOP GUN: MAVERICK and THE COLOR OF MONEY (which released the same year as the first TOP GUN). Both are sequels released long after the original and has the main character take the mentor-type role to a younger person (Tom played the younger person in THE COLOR OF MONEY). Paul Newman famously won his only Oscar for THE COLOR OF MONEY as well.
@@LeighMet So underrated. Honestly, I love Top Gun (original) but I definitely think days of thunder may be better, the story is tighter and better written.
This is my mom's favorite movie. She has it on VHS, DVD and Blu Ray.
Taking her to see Top Gun: Maverick and watch her getting all giggity and smiling like a teenager is one of my most cherished memories.
Giggity
@@Stark-Raving Giggity-Goo
That's wonderful!
Top gun : It is a story about a man's struggle with his own homosexuality. Fact.
@@lolmao500 Grow up.
“Don’t vote, just go watch it” is the appropriate reaction
Nat immediately resuming her policy of predicting everybody's death. 😂
She's like that girl from The Wolverine.
The way I looked up from my phone in shock when I heard her prediction.
Back in the 90's my dad bought a 53" Toshiba CRT tv and a 1000w Yamaha surround sound system, hooked it all up, threw in Top Gun, cranked the sound system to max and shook the whole house with the opening scene. The guy across the street came over, banged on the door. My dad stopped the movie. Opens the door. Neighbour says "Heard you were watching Top Gun!". Neighbour comes in. They watch Top Gun together. Just two dudes bein dudes. I was like... 8 years old. Still hilarious.
This might be an obscure reference but there was an episode of "Cougartown" that depicted this exact scene. Except it was "Rudy" and "Shawshank Redemption".
@@seanmcdougall9497 that's incredible. Never watched Cougartown but the fact that that scene exists makes me very happy. Great movies, too!
The fact she called goose’s death within the first 3 minutes of the movie is insane.
And then promptly forgot, she really lives in the moment, which is admirable.
This is probably a rewatch
And Cougar, and Merlin...
This movie is over 3 decades old and highly iconic. Odds are she probably has at least heard knowledge of this event in the movie but just didn’t consciously put two and two together until watching it.
Top Gun is a "Manly Man" film. Another example is The Hunt for Red October." In a "Manly Man" film with a bunch of action heroes, the most sentimental, emotional guy always dies. Goose in Top Gun, the Sam Neil character in Red October.
9:23 That man is Rear Admiral Pete Pettigrew, the REAL 'Viper' and technical advisor for the movie. In the Vietnam War, he and his wingman came under attack from 4 MiGs whilst low on fuel. 90 SECONDS later, two MiG's were down, Pete bagging one and the remaining two saw enough, broke contact and ran. Legend.
The man Kelly sits down with after the singing to her? Wow. neven knew that.
@@billallen1307 YUP!
Yes, my dad flew with Viper in San Diego.
Pete and his wife Sue introduced my parents to each other.
We used to take summer vacations and stay at their house back in the early 80's. Great times!!!
I was absolutely obsessed with fighter planes, back in high school. When this came out, my folks took me to see it in the theater. I loved it so much! The next day, my Dad woke me up before dawn, had me get dressed, and took me to work with him. He worked at Naval Air Station Oceana, the East Coast's Navy Master Jet Base. He took me to the flightline, at the control tower. He got me a tour of the tower, then took me to the back porch of the building, facing the flight line. He handed me a brand-new pocket camera, 3 rolls of film, and a big baggie of change for the snack and drink machines in the building. I spent the whole day, taking pics of the planes! Even scored a few patches from different fighter squadrons. Literally the best day of my entire life!!
You used 11 commas in this comment when only 3 were grammatically necessary
@@casmatt99 don't care.
@@RoGueNavy I know, but bad grammar is easy to fix.
Sounds like you have/had an awesome dad
@@jsizzy3489 he truly is! I really don't deserve him or my Mom.
Natalie, you are now required by the rules of reacting on YT to watch "Hot Shots" from 1991, slightly less drama, but edible romance scenes, and the commanding officer is really on top of things.
I came here to say this
Yes!
Hot Shots. Required.
Couldn't have put it better myself!
They should technically be played as a double bill
After the first cut of the film, the producers didn't think it was sexy enough, so they shot the love scene. Kelly McGillis had changed hair color for another role she had taken, so the love scene was shot in silhouette. Also, the elevator scene to build up tension was added, and she wore a ballcap to cover up her hair color.
Elevator scene was shot in Chicago. Tom was filming “The Color of Money,” and Kelly was still in production for “The Accused.” Her hair was darker, and Tom grew out his hair, so they had to slick his hair down, and had Kelly wear a baseball cap. Tony Scott “borrowed” Tom for a day, according to Scorsese.
And the funny thing is nobody really noticed and the ball cap actually really made her sexier
Maverick isn't just "pretty well received", it's genuinely one of the best action movies ever made. I can't wait
It's rehashed Star Wars with rushed conflict and little character building.
@@jasonsmith6795 we found the "I'm a contrarian, that's a personality, right???" Guy
@@jasonsmith6795what character building do we need. We got everything with maverick, rooster, iceman, penny and hangman.
@@jasonsmith6795 you could also say Star Wars is just a rehashed Dune, Flash Gordon, or The Hidden Fortress. Either way its a good movie.
Maverick is a good movie, but also has a very strange mixture of amazing accuracy and inaccuracy where they even actually show accurate instrumentation, huds, and even hit the right buttons and switches in the aircraft. That said, its also a plodding, contrived story and the mission itself is frankly implausible. The Navy has plenty of 5th Gen stealth fighters that would not have to fly beggers canyon or shoot the exhaust port in the death star trench with a small force. Rather they would use precision ordinance with a full strike package, sam suppression, diversionary attacks, and utterly destroy every enemy position in the area with the cruise missiles to minimize retaliation. A hornet against a felon would be near suicide, even with the felon being overhyped it can still outfly a hornet and is stealthy enough to make a bad day for 6 hornets. A good movie for Navy Aircraft porn but also a disappointment since it could have been a great movie with realistic stakes and more plausible mission I do love the darkstar sequence at the start though, and they included that plane in MS Flight Simulator which is a blast to fly transcontinental flights in less than an hour so I guess I should thank Paramount for that tie in.
Did you notice that Goose's wife was Meg Ryan?
Merlin is played by Tim Robbins ( The Shawshank Redemption)
Before he learned to talk without moving his mouth
Your gonna love/enjoy the phenomenal sequel.
hot take: the sequel is a ripoff of star wars. they have to fly through a long canyon, hit a small target and then immediately pull up?
Yes, she will love it, however, for anyone who didn't grow up watching the original and then seeing it 30 years later, it just won't hit the same...
@@tyjuarez The Star Wars trench run was inspired by many real world events, mainly the Dam Busters raid in WW2.
@@tyjuarezhot take, calling one scene a ripoff of an entire movie is hilarious and ridiculous. Also, Star Wars didn't invent a trench, nor a trench run
it's really astonishing how great that sequel is. I saw it 3-4 times that summer, and it is really a movie with absolutely zero drag or fat. It's a remarkably well crafted entertaining romp.
I was a kid when this came out and it's interesting what still works and what is outdated, specifically the "suck it up" mentality. 80's movies were one reason why gen X have such a hard edge when it comes to how we deal with stress and sadness.
A similar occurrence to the "smile for the birdie" scene happened relatively recently where two Iranian F4 Phantoms deployed to intercept a US Predator drone. A US F22 snuck up behind the Iranians, got close enough to visually inspect their weapons load-out, pulled up to where it could be seen and radioed over, "you should go home now"
The Iranians ran home.
Nat, we better be covering top gun Maverick!! It’s literally an almost perfect blockbuster
10:04 I love how Goose takes his aviators off and Maverick put his on. LOL
Always loved that they did pair Merlin and Mav got paired together at the end. Maverick helped Merlin survive at the start, and lost his partner, and now Merlin can help Mav. Good story telling, even if done before
Aye. Not heard many people catch that circle.
A few years ago a retired fighter rear named Amy McGrath ran for Congress in Kentucky. Some of her opponents brought up the fact that as the rear, she was not in as much danger as the pilot. They made semantic argument over whether she "flew" missions in Afghanistan, or "flew in" such missions. During one debate someone said there was a difference between being "Goose" and being "Maverick". I pointed out that Goose died and Maverick didn't. That shut him up right quick.
She started off as an NFO, but then became a pilot. We had our tie cutting ceremony (after your first solo) together, along with like 30 other people, in primary flight school.
@@matthewbaur6875 Awesome. Thank you for your service.
You're riding a seat through the air and putting yourself in the path of high velocity explosive weaponry fired by the enemy. Don't matter if you're up front or on the tail gun position.
@@BogeyTheBear Yeah -- a WWII ball gunner was near the rear of the plane, but everyone preferred ANY position but that one.
If she flew F-14s she was a RIO (Radar Intercept Officer). For some planes back then the back seat officer was a WSO (Weapons System Officer). Either way they weren't, strictly speaking, pilots. In either case they went in harm's way, just like a "real" pilot. The back seat didn't include flight controls.
BTW, a good way to annoy a naval aviator is call them a pilot, which has an entirely different meaning in the Navy. If you go back and watch that opening bar scene again, Charlie calls him a pilot, to which Maverick replies "naval aviator" in a nettled tone of voice. She was yanking Mav's chain from the beginning.
“Talk to me Goose”
Me: 😩😩😭😭
One of the first movies I remember friends saying "You need to see it on the big screen. Don't wait to rent it."
And here her boyfriend is watching Maverick on his _phone..._
@@captainchaos3667 Yeah, SMH on that one.
@@captainchaos3667 Considering how excited he was for Nat to watch Top Gun, as well as how long its been since Maverick came out, I'm assuming he was rewatching it.
This movie came out the summer before my senior year in high school. I knew so many people who joined the navy because of this movie thinking it was cool jets and volleyball games before they learned the navy was hard work and scrubbing decks most of the time. good recruiting tool for the navy, they got a lot of volunteers because of it.
The soundtrack is full of bangers. Danger Zone, Mighty Wings, Playin' With the Boys, Take My Breath Away, the Topgun Anthem.
Fun bit of trivia for you about this movie. Shorty after this movie was first released, the Navy & Air Force saw a large increase in recruitments, with the majority of recruits wanting to be fighter pilots. This movie wasn’t just some cool 80’s action film, it inspired an entire generation of Americans to become fighter pilots just like Maverick.
That was partly the Tom Cruise effect. After the Color of Money, billiard halls saw a big jump in business and Cocktail drove a wave of bartender shenanigans
The US Navy was heavily involved in the film because they hoped it would have such an effect on recruitment.
@@steventhrasher3608 Definitely. And hardly the first time. The Final Countdown is another example. But that one only had Martin Sheen and Kirk Douglas, not Tom
20:04 The man Charlie sat with in the bar "seems so much older than her" is the real Viper Admiral Pete Pettigrew he was technical advisor he said on the movie. He said in real life planes would never be that close to each other. For one if you shot another plane it would break apart and you would fly right into the pieces and kill yourself 😊
I learned this the hard way in Star Trek Online. 💥🤣
What he said is true, but the director, Tony Scott, knew that, at realistic distances, the jets would just be small dots to be in the same shots. So, it was artistic license.
@@Rob_F8F yes you are right and he also caved to the actors with the mask. Any time a real pilot is in the air they have their mask on till they land.
@@scottdarden3091 You are right. It also made no sense that Cougar would pull his mask off because he was having a panic attack. The mask is where you get air to breath, not vice versa.
When you're having a panic attack you don't always do things that make sense though
Your reaction to Goose dying is the same as ours back in 1985. Well done, Natalie!
(Also, loved the Caruso sunglasses bit.)
Jimmy Stewart "buzzed the tower" for real when he was a bomber pilot in WWII, in a bomber he and a friend took out against regulations. He spent the rest of the day getting chewed out by his commanding officers, but it never went on his record -- or even in the unit history -- and wasn't known until a unit reunion 40 years later.
Top Gun is great and iconic. But the sequel is even better.
No
It's good, but not that good
People saying no are probably nostalgic, the sequel is objectively a better movie. Watched it like 3 times within a week after it released on digital because I couldn’t get sick of it.
@@Nice_Guy3012No piece of art is ‘objectively’ better than another.
@@jojo_ranjanAvengers: Infinity War isn't objectively better than Avengers: Age of Ultron? Starwars episode 3 isn't objectively better than Starwars episode 8 or 9?
High way to the danger zoooonnne! 🎶
Natalie, this was a great reaction. 'Tom Gun: Maverick' is a must see as it's completes the story, without giving any spoilers, it's good on the action but also very emotional.
The Navy did studies during Vietnam where they monitored vitals signs of pilots during entire missions. They were stunned to see the most stressful time for pilots was not while being shot at but while landing in a carrier especially at night.
Another GREAT 80s movie with Val Kilmer you need to watch is Real Genius.
Has she also seen Top Secret?
TS, and RG were Val’s first two one a three movie contract… this became his third.
Point out the very young 1980s actress who starred in Sleepless In Seatle, You Got Mail and When Harry Met Sally.
I went as Maverick for Halloween as a kid. The haircut, aviators, bomber jacket and all. This was the first movie that ever made me cry. I've still never fully let Goose go, I can't lie. "I think she's lost it. "I hate when she does that..." Lets see if she spots Andy before he goes to Shawshank at the end...
Shout-Out to Tyler👋Thanking Him for this Reaction! 😎👍
1986 was in more ways than one the breakout year for Tom Cruise. In addition to this film, he also appeared in the Martin Scorsese directed film THE COLOR OF MONEY in the same year.
THE COLOR OF MONEY also co-starred Paul Newman (the voice of Doc Hudson in CARS), who ended up winning his long overdue Best Actor Oscar for that film.
Yeah, but if you're going to watch The Color of Money you really need to watch The Hustler so you get Newman's back story.
Fun fact: The Mav & Charlie elevator scene was filmed months after the movie wrapped. Tom had started filming Color of Money already, so his slicked back hair in the scene was meant to hide his "Vincent" hair growth.
Goose's death made Natalie go through the 5 stages of grief in the span of an hour.
My dad was an aviator in the US Navy and this movie dropped the year before we moved to Key West Florida.
I distinctly remember riding out to the flightline and watching F-14s do touch-n-goes with my dad...while Top Gun soundtrack played in the tape deck.
I know everybody likes this movie a lot, but I think military brats have of a certain age hold a special place in their heart for Top Gun.
Also, that NES game was savage.
Navy vet here-
I was in for only about five or six years, but this movie is always a damn good watch for people who want a good story (and maybe some enlistment/officer school motivations)…
There’s lots of good and lots of cheesy with this movie that I never understood, and now today it’s just funny that I see how Top Gun 1 and 2 have similarities but also really funny juxtaposition to real life Naval activities.
And for the record Nat-
Accidents and critical failures happen a lot more than you think. I’ve seen a few.
Top Gun moved to Fallon Naval Air Station (in Nevada) around the time this was made. A lot of training happens out there, then and now - open space with no one to watch. Further, it's close enough to Tonopah for working with a top secret unit that operated actual MiGs (purchased surreptitiously, borrowed, etc).
A few of those MIGs came from defections, from what I remember.
The MiGs in this movie were not actually MiGs. (There is no such thing as a MiG 28.) They were Northrop F 5s.
"Why do I feel like Goose is going to die?"
Because you have the gift of prophecy.
"Iconic" is absolutely the right word for this movie! This is the movie where, if I was channel surfing (when that was a thing) if I came across it, I had to stop and watch! I couldn't tell you how many times I've watch most or all of this movie! I still remember the first time I saw it, when it first came out! 1986, the summer before I started high school! I grew up in a small, Midwestern town. I went with my older brother and a couple of his friends to the one local 1-screen theater! It was rare getting to hang out with my older brother and his cool/older friends; he had just graduated HS, and was heading off to college in the fall! I still remember parts of the conversation, and just the fun of riding around in my brother's friend's Mustang! And Top Gun was just the perfect movie experience for that kind of night!
I also had the soundtrack on cassette, which I pretty much wore out, that summer! I had a mid-sized boom box that I carried with me everywhere, and 98 times out of one hundred, that cassette was playing! I loved every song on there, and used to know them all by heart! AS much as I loved the others, possibly my favorite was a bit under the radar, is the Top Gun Anthem!
31:22 was hilarious. Well done, editor!
There's news reports all the time of our soldiers being killed in training accident whether it's a mechanical malfunction or pilot error in planes & helicopters
grew up in the 80's loved this movie... at the time. But now I cant watch this movie without hearing Quintin Tarantino talk about how this movie is one man's battle with his own sexuality
21:57 when you experience something like that, especially for pilots, if you don't go up flying the very next day, some people never fly again in their entire lives. They can't shake it off. They need to go up again to break them out of their mental state, get them back on track.
I'm saying this as both a combat vet and a pilot who has experienced moments that made me not want to go again, and I've had to force myself to go anyways, and I've seen it happen to others as well.
Give your editor a raise! That was funny!
SEQUEL IS EVERYTHING
Her reaction to "Goose is dead" is priceless lol
"He NEEDS THERAPY!"
"Sending him up" WAS the "therapy". For Maverick (& the others) "flying" is their "happy place". It is comforting, familiar. (even healing)
That's (one of) the reason he kept 'sending him up'.
Also, I always took the "talk to me Goose" thing, as him gradually coming to the realization (acceptance) that Goose was gone & wasn't going to (give him the) answer. And he had to find the answers/ decisions himself. Culminating with him FINALLY "letting him go" by throwing the tags into the sea. (THAT is why they DIDN'T have Goose "speak to him" in his head.) It was all about, "letting go" of his pain & loss. (Can't do that, IF you STILL "hear" the person.)
Eh, some movie spoilers just become part of our cultural zeitgeist. I think everyone and their dog knows Goose gets cooked in Top Gun.
I can assure you that I in fact had no idea Goose was dying
I appreciate you and thank you for making content.
YOUR EDITING CREATIVITY SKILLS ARE NEXT LEVEL! The whole "Spin'n and spin'n and spin'n" thing with about 1/2 second of You Spin Me Round (by Dead or Alive, because, you know, we are all wondering if they'll end up... dead or alive) is frikin brilliant!
My own re-edit here niw, the CSI Miami sunglasses thing, I almost wet myself.
You're really good at listening and being intuitive about where a movie is going.
Top Gun Maverick must be next ✌️
Tyler is our hero lmfao
That guy plays for the Miami Heat.
Thank you Tyler!
"Merlin" was played by Tim Robbins... "The Shawshank Redemption"!
Top Gun and Top Gun Maverick are Amazing movies.
I don’t think he overcame the trauma completely, he is learning how to live without his best friend and wingman while fighting through the struggle.
Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it.
I was in the Air Force and the amount of importance they put on looking out for your Wingman is CRAZY! When I was in basic training, I wrote my name wrong on my clothing tags. Before an inspection, I told my sergeant I messed up. He made me grab my wingman and come to his office. This man SCREAMED at me. He said what if I messed up packing my Wingman’s parachute and it malfunctioned because of me? He then made me write an apology letter to her parents for kxlling her. I wasn’t even a pilot 😅 I was a dental laboratory technician. I can’t imagine what actual pilots go through. Being a good Wingman is so important. Someone can dxe if you’re not always focused. Anyway, I have PTSD and social anxiety because you are berated every time you mess up. You have to be PERFECT 😅
I have SO many other stories but it would be a novel. The military is a crazy place. A lot of us come out disliking civilians and only being close to other veterans because civilians complain about the dumbest things. Even as a non-combat airman… they break you down. Not to mention I was a Black woman in an all White Male squadron during Trump era. The things I’ve dealt with would have to be heavily censored. Movies like Top Gun are approved by the military… it’s not chill like this movie at all! 😂
All cool except making you send and give a letter to parents is def extreme and creepy a.f.
@@SimonRiley752 I'm pretty sure you're White 😅 please don't tell me about my experience and the things I had to hear and just act like it wasn't racist
Chrlie's "date" was the film's technical advisor, Pete "Viper" Pettigrew.
Your videos make me feel safe, love them!
Fun reaction. Can't believe you hadn't seen Top Gun. Definitely looking forward to your Top Gun Maverick reaction.
It's total nostalgia/heart with the right amount of cheese.
“80’s cheesy” = better than any movie made in the modern era
STAR TREK is ICONIC too. 🖖
We're SO excited to watch along with you!
Best recruitment video for the Navy ever made. Worked on me.
Wait til Maverick….psa: you are lucky Tyler is a forgiving man. I would have asked for at least a trial separation
Editing was spot-on in this video
I adore this film. The opening scene is a perfect opening. Also one of the best tests of a sound system
Growing up in the 1980s like I did, you don't skip out on what this film meant to the culture.
Months earlier, there was a film of similar content called Iron Eagle (loosely based on true events) that had spawned 3 sequels.
But Top Gun would eventually outrun, outgross and overshadow that film.
Cruise as an leading man on his A-game with a great supporting cast.
The late, great Tony Scott (Ridley Scott's bro) with one of his first blockbusters features with producers Bruckheimer and Simpson.
Everybody wanted to be a fighter pilot after seeing this and the impact on recruitment was unbelievable.
No.1 film of 1986, soundtrack goes platinum and the song "Take My Breath Away" by Berlin won an Oscar & Golden Globe for Best Original Song.
There was a video-game franchise, 18 games.
Longest running series of games based on a film.
It was in limited re-release for IMAX theatres only in 2013.
I saw it for the first time and enjoyed it.
At that time, that's when the sequel was starting to take shape.
RIP to Clarence Gilyard as LTJG Marcus "Sundown" Williams.
Top Gun Maverick today also 😝💯😝👍💯👍
Please give the Star Trek franchise a chance. 🖖🖖🏻🖖🏼🖖🏽🖖🏾🖖🏿
I love the fact that if you convert Top Gun into a video game, most of the movie is the tutorial, and the climax is finally getting to play the first level.
Great video as always Nat! Im a Navy Brat, raised around planes and boats my whole life. There are many accidents, some the public doesn't hear about, some they do. For example, there was a Blue Angels air show in Beaufort, SC many years ago. Blue Angel #6, aka Kevin Davis, lost consciousness during a maneuver. Instead of ejecting, he stayed with it long enough to put the F/A-18 Super Hornet down in empty neighborhood. Ensuring no injuries to innocent people. Sadly, he was killed. RIP Kevin Davis
I FEEL THE NEED; THE NEED FOR SPEED!! 🔥🔥😎
This movie came out just as I was getting out of bootcamp and starting my Naval Avionics schools. My best friend was stationed at Miramar while they were filming. All of the enlisted people in the movie are Navy men and women stationed either at Miramar or on the Enterprise.
This is my mom's favorite movie; she has seen it so many times she can recite it. She also loves Top Gun: Maverick, and so do I. The second one is so good; I highly recommend watching that one, too.
AHHH DIDNT KNOW YOU STREAMED!!
I love the CSI stingers for the glasses 😝😝
The bar that they filmed the Piano scene at is still open in San Diego. Its called Kansas City Barbecue and they have some really cool things dealing with the movie
Theme is still incredible!
Adding the "Did you know", the dangerous maneuver that Maverick pulls off was discovered and perfected by swedish fighter pilots while flying the Draken jets which initially had a tendency to stall in mid air. They later used it against russian MIGs during intercept missions over the Baltic Sea where adversaries would entertain themselves with impromptu "dog fights" (minus the killings obviously). The russians took it and adopted it as their own and through the grapevine it turned up in Hollywood. It's called the Cobra maneuver.
The bar in the film is called Kansas City Barbecue and is near the Marina in downtown San Diego. Been there, it's nice.
Yeah, been there several times myself... pretty good BBQ. They have a sign up inside that tells that they were the "Sleazy bar" from Top Gun. 😆
I saw this movie on my first ever date when I was 14. ‘Take my Breath Away’ was our song. For the whole month we dated.
fun fact:
i worked on the carrier in top gun, and top gun maverick.
i worked on the later version of the plane in top gun the f-14D, and the plane in top gun maverick the fa-18E
i was the last person in the american navy to become a plane captain (maintainer) on the f-14d before it was decommissioned. i also set a base record for becoming a plane captain on the fa-18e in 42 days.
top gun was released on my birthday. top gun maverick was released on my birthday.
The desert scenes were shot in Yuma, AZ and Fallon, NV. Fallon is also where the real TOPGUN moved to when Miramar changed to a Marine Corps base.
This is my all time favorite movie. Mostly for sentimental reasons. This was released in the summer of '86 and I was 11, visiting my mom in Wyoming for the summer. She had to work every day so I had to find something to do. I went to the movies. I saw this 7 times that summer. When I was in the Air Force, I had the pleasure to fly into Miramar, CA. As I was looking out the window during landing, I saw the top of the hangars...they had FIGHTERTOWN USA painted on them.
Now you can watch Days of Thunder which is basically just Top Gun but in race cars.
31:19 good job putting that in there. lol I instantly was like, is she trolling?
34:25 Same, Natalie. SAME! I remember Josh Hartnett had the same thing going on when he started, and I was like, “…why? WHY?”
"I guess there's no A/C for any of these sets" The scene where Maverick and Goose get the news they're going to Top Gun and the scenes in the CDC (Combat Direction Center) during the final battle were filmed on board the aircraft carrier USS Ranger while it was docked in San Diego. The ship's A/C was broken, so everyone had to sweat.
Which from what I’ve read from people who served on carriers during that era wasn’t overly uncommon for the ac to be subpar on carriers.
I was an OS where my job was to sit in the CIC to man the radar and sonar equipment. It was the USS Saipan, Marine Amphibious Carrier, which is about the size of a WW2 Aircraft Carrier. The CIC was like a meat locker to make sure the equipment didn't overheat.
In an amusing irony, this makes two iconic movies of the 1980s where the USS Ranger stood in for the USS Enterprise. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (also known as "the one with the whales) has the crew of the original series travel back in time to 1980s San Francisco in search of a pair of humpback whales. Their ship was damaged in the time travel jump and they needed to effectively jumpstart it by use of some particles that in this era could only be collected from a nuclear reactor. So some of the crew sneaks aboard the nearby aircraft carrier to collect the particles from her reactor. That carrier, in the story, is the USS Enterprise in a cute little moment for one Enterprise to help out the crew of another. But the real Enterprise was out on maneuvers at the time and the scenes filmed on the carrier were instead shot aboard the USS Ranger which was in port at the time.
@@VegetaLF7 "Where are da noo-clear wessels?"
Fun Fact: This came out in 86 (Navy). I went in the Airforce 89. After leaving basic I went to my first school. There was a club that most of my new friends went to on base. I'm a down low mischief maker..... So, friends and I pulled lost that loving feeling on a female from our squadron. And yes the whole place was singing along.
My family loved this movie growing up. It played non-stop and was one of the few movies we had that was outright purchased and not recorded off TV. Never knew why until a few weeks ago.
Originally, my parents recorded it on VHS and when my brother got home from KINDERGARTEN, mind you, he went to watch it only to find out the last air fight was cut off by the evening news. He burst into tears and had my mom call my
Dad at work. They had a five minute conversation where a little five-six year old berated my dad for not getting to see the end. Finally-my mom gets back on the phone. Dad: “Buy the damn vhs.” 😂
Nice editing!
21:15 is the funniest thing I have seen in quite a while. 😂😂 Outstanding reaction and editing, Natalie!