Top Gun (1986)

Top Gun is a movie that isn’t as good as I remember it being. I love it, but it’s mostly a lot of melodrama, questionable behavior, and aggressive face-sucking squeezed around some really outstanding aerial sequences that are backed by an incredible soundtrack. Every time I rewatch it, I’m sorta disappointed to rediscover this fact. But I keep revisiting it because the fighter jet scenes are so great.

I’m also obviously a fan of the bromances and quotable dialogue.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• How Top Gun made an impression on an impressionable youth

• The incredible soundtrack (minus “Take My Breathe Away”)

• How Top Gun is a High School Sports Movie

• Why Top Gun is a love story (and not in the way you think)

• This is the sweatiest movie of all-time

• Maverick’s problematic elements

• The Tom Cruise of it all

• Favorite call signs

• How Top Gun treats masculinity

Link City:

• All the ‘Top Gun’ Call Signs, Ranked From Worst to Best of the Best