Top Gun-best film ever

shuttle · 23-05-2006 11:02am #1

probably the best film ive seen,saw it recently on dvd

Karl Hungus · 23-05-2006 11:04am

Not seen many films then, have you?

ferdi · 23-05-2006 11:10am

gayest film ever. volleyball scene anyone?
killer soundtrack though.

wingnut · 23-05-2006 11:11am

You know its all about being gay, right:

http://www.godamongdirectors.com/scripts/sleep.shtml

Vegeta · 23-05-2006 11:12am

tis a great film got to love the naval aviation

also i played volleyball on the beach this summer and couldn't help but think Top Gun.....classic

Sleipnir · 23-05-2006 11:15am

Some great dogfight scenes but the bits in between make your balls cringe with embarrassment.

indiehater · 23-05-2006 12:48pm

gayest......film.......Ever!!

TerrorFirmer · 23-05-2006 12:53pm

I dunno about best film ever, but it definately had the best haircut ever...lol

@Slepnir...thats the second time you've made me laugh inappropriately in the office today, with that honeydripper comment in PI and now this...

ObeyGiant · 23-05-2006 1:33pm

I dunno about "Best Film Ever", but it's definitely up there. Very few movies manage to be "macho" without crossing the line into "chauvinistic". Top Gun doesn't manage it 100%, but it's without a doubt the most macho film ever made (just beating The Wild Bunch by virtue of the fact that it's got SCREAMING JET PLANES).

Noone makes film like Tony Scott.

Scoops · 23-05-2006 1:37pm

Sleipnir wrote:

Some great dogfight scenes but the bits in between make your balls cringe with embarrassment.

Agreed!

Pigman II · 24-05-2006 7:12pm

I prefered its prequel 'Top Secret!'

Although Top Gun does have Michael Ironside (cue more glowering than you can shake a stick at!) so that's one thing in its favour.

Exar Khun · 24-05-2006 7:22pm

That monologue from Quentin is freakin hilarious.

ambro25 · 24-05-2006 7:22pm

Sleipnir wrote:

Some great dogfight scenes but the bits in between make your balls cringe with embarrassment.

re. dogfight scenes, forget Top Gun altogether and cast your eyes on a recent French remake "Les Chevaliers du Ciel" if you can find it.

Not been released in English (yet?), but I hear some subs are out if you are adept at finding, obtaining and combining files

There's a real story (inasmuch as an action film can have a 'real' story), fantastibular camerawork and three times as much 'air time' as in TG.

As for Top Gun *cheap & quick plug* I'm selling the DVD - follo' the sig

[nice, for a change, for Frogs to be making the remakes (better than the original, of course!) instead of the other way around

]

Karl Hungus · 24-05-2006 7:38pm

Pigman II wrote:

I prefered its prequel 'Top Secret!'

Although Top Gun does have Michael Ironside (cue more glowering than you can shake a stick at!) so that's one thing in its favour.

Couldn't agree more, Ironside dominates anything he's in really.

Kingp35 · 26-05-2006 3:02pm

Top Gun is by no means a great movie but its still damn cool.

Retr0gamer · 26-05-2006 6:26pm

ambro25 wrote:

re. dogfight scenes, forget Top Gun altogether and cast your eyes on a recent French remake "Les Chevaliers du Ciel" if you can find it.

Not been released in English (yet?), but I hear some subs are out if you are adept at finding, obtaining and combining files

There's a real story (inasmuch as an action film can have a 'real' story), fantastibular camerawork and three times as much 'air time' as in TG.

As for Top Gun *cheap & quick plug* I'm selling the DVD - follo' the sig

[nice, for a change, for Frogs to be making the remakes (better than the original, of course!) instead of the other way around ]

A french friend tells me it's based on a very famous and old comic book series and isn't a remake at all.

ambro25 · 27-05-2006 7:45am

Retr0gamer wrote:

A french friend tells me it's based on a very famous and old comic book series and isn't a remake at all.

Well, I didn't mention the comic because it was most unlikely any Irish reader of the thread would have ever heard of it (I remember reading every tome as a kid). And I called it a remake (not to be taken in the 'litteral' sense of the word) because -

(i) the story is not inspired from any of the comics, which are closer to the 'Asterix' -type (hard-backed A4-ish size, 50-odd pages, 1 full story per album) than the AD2000 or weekly/monthly-type US affairs, and the characters are actually not that close to or inspired from the original comic at all,

(ii) it's very much the same rousing affair that Top Gun is (the macho thing, then introspection & self-doubting for lead pilot, etc.),

(iii) and the story is mostly redundant and geared towards justitying the (most impressive) dogfight scenes.

Info about the comics here (in French, so get your Babel Fish ready)
Info about the movie here (IMDB)

J.R.HARTLEY · 27-05-2006 9:46am

ObeyGiant wrote:

Noone makes film like Tony Scott.

thank christ or else we'd all have migraines from sylised MTV edits and blurred unneccessary subtitles,
as for being more macho than wild bunch, what do you consider more manly? hiding in a fighter aircraft firing missiles at fleeing migs or walking unshielded down a street firing your pistols while being shot at from every direction.

Retr0gamer · 27-05-2006 8:02pm

ambro25 wrote:

Well, I didn't mention the comic because it was most unlikely any Irish reader of the thread would have ever heard of it (I remember reading every tome as a kid). And I called it a remake (not to be taken in the 'litteral' sense of the word) because -

(i) the story is not inspired from any of the comics, which are closer to the 'Asterix' -type (hard-backed A4-ish size, 50-odd pages, 1 full story per album) than the AD2000 or weekly/monthly-type US affairs, and the characters are actually not that close to or inspired from the original comic at all,

(ii) it's very much the same rousing affair that Top Gun is (the macho thing, then introspection & self-doubting for lead pilot, etc.),

(iii) and the story is mostly redundant and geared towards justitying the (most impressive) dogfight scenes.

Info about the comics here (in French, so get your Babel Fish ready)
Info about the movie here (IMDB)

Well it's just that he was a little upset when I said it was a remake to him

Roen · 27-05-2006 8:09pm

"If they move, kill 'em"
Wild Bunch ftw!

Top Gun-best film ever

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