If nothing else, it was oddly satisfying watching Cruise’s character die over and over and over…,
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He’s also older than Wilford Brimley was in Cocoon.
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I fucking love Top Gun. It is hard to keep the low rumble of military budgets and malfeasance out of your head, but if you can, it’s closest thing to a live-action 80s anime a-la Robotech. Dead-simple son-lives-up-to-dead-hero-father’s-expectations-in-his-own-way story, jet porn, emotional male friends, faceless semi-alien enemies, musical numbers, a tough, but shiny and ultimately way-cooler-than-the-protagonist rival, beach volleyball. Man, I think I’m done working for today.
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That was going to be my response too!
I’ve only ever seen one other movie where he died. (Oblivion doesn’t count.)
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Tanned, glistening, sweaty, half-naked macho beach volleyball.
“Spike me!”
Dude…
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Something about sound systems?
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His next movie:
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It looks like a bunch of random clips from the old movie put through that new fangled old person filter.
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Kelly McGillis, making a generation of boys* feel funny. Rick Rossovich doing the same. The damn thing had it all.
Also, I was all set to make a joke that one could make a case that without Top Gun, there may not have been an Iron Eagle, and I’m not sure not sure I want to think about having to live in that world, but then I double-checked and Iron Eagle came our four months BEFORE Top Gun. How the hell did that happen!?
*and some girls
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Ah yes, Mave Rick. How will dick sizes compare this many years later? WILL Iceman loose a filling performing his homoerotic jaw snap again? I really (cough) can’t wait.
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Until just now I had forgotten he was in The Doors.
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On the one hand, the bell from the Top Gun Anthem gave me chills.
On the other hand, this does have vanity project written all over it and I prefer the memory of the first movie to an unnecessary sequel.
On the gripping hand, I would totally watch it if they went with @tgarretteaton’s idea and made it about the corruption of the military-industrial complex.
One other thing, the US military’s officer corps, like most professional armed services, practices a policy of promote or perish so officers can’t camp out in one job for twenty years and gum up the promotion ladder. Exceptions can be made, but I’ll be mildly curious if they even bother to explain it or if it’s just “one of life’s little mysteries.”
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The Department of the Army’s Office of the Chief of Public Affairs, Western Region (OCPA-West):
https://www.army.mil/info/institution/publicAffairs/ocpa-west/faq.html
See also the entire Transformers film franchise.
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True Romance.
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Wow, I had to dig deep to recall him in that movie. Elvis, was he?
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They edited his scenes so you never saw his face in the final cut.
I don’t think there was anything wrong with his performance, it was just funnier or more surreal or whatever that way.
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Real Genius was the better movie, but Doc Holiday was the better Kilmer role.
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2 questions, why don’t the tailfins touch, and why are the letters on the cockpit edge reversed weirdly?
More of “life’s little mysteries”…
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Heh, never noticed that before. 
I guessed the image was flipped on the vertical axis before I got a hold of it to make the meme, but I just looked at the shot from the scene on YouTube and it is indeed reversed in the movie. Maybe the film from the shot was flipped in editing?
I originally made the meme because someone here years ago asked what the goose version of the Hang In There meme was. 
ETA: In fact, I vaguely remember having to take the image from a screenshot of the YouTube clip.
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That’s a different kind of movie.
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