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Top Gun - Watching as a Tribute

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  • #32
    dodderangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Na I'd rather watch top gun in a funny version
    ( puts HOT SHOTS! Into the Xbox)
    Gigity


  • #33
    Motorist
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 892 ✭✭✭Motorist


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    I intend to watch True Romance. Top Gun is as gay as a film can get (and as a gay guy myself - believe me - I know what I'm talking about) without being an actual gay porno. It's also not that great a film really.

    The beach volleyball scene is like something straight out of a TitanMan or HotHouse porn film.:pac:;)

    Trivia - another gay aspect of Top Gun is that Kelly McGillis, the female lead, came out as a lesbian herself a few years back. What does that tell you about TG?:D

    It's a good action film, stunning fighter jets, good dog fight sequences. The sex scenes between McGillis and Cruise weren't all that gay. The beach volley ball game was just to keep the girlfriends happy.

    The movie takes numerous liberties in order to entertain, but the basic setup, in which fighter pilots from the fleet get sent to NAS Miramar, aka, "Top Gun" for intensive training, is 100% accurate. The Navy, back during Vietnam, was getting sick of losing too many pilots in air-to-air combat.

    I don't think that any movie, before or since, has ever rendered air combat in a more convincing and dramatic fashion. For nearly 100 years fighter pilots have been the modern equivalent of olden knights, men who brought a sense of glamour and romance to the deadly art of war, and this movie gives them a fitting tribute.


  • #34
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    Motorist wrote: »
    I don't think that any movie, before or since, has ever rendered air combat in a more convincing and dramatic fashion.

    The inverted Polaroid picture taking, while flipping off the other pilot was the most realistic that I have ever seen.


  • #35
    Biggins
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    Anything with Tom Cruise in it?

    No thanks.


  • #36
    mathie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭mathie


    Biggins wrote: »
    Anything with Tom Cruise in it?

    No thanks.

    Katie Holmes?

    (send this joke to a few months ago)


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  • #37
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Biggins wrote: »
    Anything with Tom Cruise in it?

    No thanks.

    seperate the person from the artist I say, I like a lot of his movies. Mel Gibson too. Batsh1t crazy he may be but he can act


  • #38
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Biggins wrote: »
    Anything with Tom Cruise in it?

    No thanks.


    If I was bothered by his personal life I'd be buying glossy celebrity magazines. Maybe this personal stuff interests you

    But since I don't care I just watch to be entertained.

    And the man is money and can make a film successful

    I want to see the actor, let celebrity fans worry over the other stuff


  • #39
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    mathie wrote: »
    Katie Holmes?
    (send this joke to a few months ago)
    krudler wrote: »
    seperate the person from the artist I say, I like a lot of his movies. Mel Gibson too. Batsh1t crazy he may be but he can act
    mikemac1 wrote: »
    If I was bothered by his personal life I'd be buying glossy celebrity magazines. Maybe this personal stuff interests you
    But since I don't care I just watch to be entertained.
    And the man is money and can make a film successful
    I want to see the actor, let celebrity fans worry over the other stuff


    I think his acting is dire, end of story.


  • #40
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    You clearly have not seen Magnolia

    Masterpiece of acting


  • #41
    JupiterKid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,954 ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Biggins wrote: »
    I think his acting is dire, end of story.

    I wouldn't go so far as to say Tom Cruise is a dire actor - he's very good in Rain Man and Born On The Forth Of July - it's just that his choice of films is not the Mae West.

    I'm certain Tony Scott was taking the p*ss in directing Top Gun. There's just too many homoerotic scenes in that film for it to be just a coincidence.


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  • #42
    Biggins
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    JupiterKid wrote: »
    I wouldn't go so far as to say Tom Cruise is a dire actor - he's very good in Rain Man and Born On The Forth Of July - it's just that his choice of films is not the Mae West.

    I'm certain Tony Scott was taking the p*ss in directing Top Gun. There's just too many homoerotic scenes in that film for it to be just a coincidence.

    Each to their own. I personally find his acting irritating.
    I'm very sure that maybe actors I like - other would dislike too.

    As regards Top Gun by the way, its generally acknowledged that many of the scenes in that film were rehashed previous scene he created for a number of car adverts he did involving a plane flying in them too.
    (Thats NOT a put down for the film or the ads)


  • #43
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,970 ✭✭✭amacca


    I dont give a good god damn how gay Top Gun is

    Top Gun can be my wingman any day!

    its part of the holy trinity of sh1t cheesy action movies that despite all their failings never once fail to entertain

    Top Gun - Point Break - The Rock....amen


    honorable mentions to Days of Thunder (top gun on wheels), Face Off, Con Air, Die hards and lethal weapons


    disliking any of these films because of the quality of acting etc is missing the point entirely - they were never meant to oscar contenders (at least in the best film / best actor type categories)


  • #44
    Colmustard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭Colmustard


    The cruiser is 50, even though he is older from Risky Business to the mission impossible films I somehow feel I grew up with him.

    I think he can act, he has had his moments, my favourite cruiser performance was Jerry Maguire followed by Vanilla sky.


  • #45
    Colmustard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭Colmustard




    The Cruiser wont come out of the closet.

    Scientology is meant to have a cure for gayness (not that it is a disease)

    Obviously it works, Tom Cruise was married to Nicole Kidman, Katie Holmes, and Mimi Rogers John Travolta is married to Kelly Preston all those women are fine things. So they are definitely cured of the gay.


  • #46
    Motorist
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 892 ✭✭✭Motorist


    I read in a newspaper article that Scott was planning to shoot Top Gun 2, that there is a script and that Tom Cruise had been "checking out airforce bases" (for some reason!).

    Is there any truth to this or is it just a bs rumour. Would be dodgy having a sequel to such a brilliant (but ultimately cheesy movie). Worth a look though if it had huge budget and a good script.


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