Top Gun (1986) First Time Watching! Full Movie Reaction!!
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Great reaction, def check out the sequel. Got some* suggestions: Stargate 1994 Problem Child 1990 Weird Science 1985 Troop Beverly Hills 1989 Weekend At Bernies 1980 CaddyShack 1980 Big Top Pee Wee 1988 Beetlejuice 1988 The Golden Child (Eddie Murphey) 1986 Flight of The Navigator 1986 Poltergeist 1982 Twister 1996 The Beverly Hillbillies 1993 (trust me, it's really tongue and cheek) The Brady Bunch 1995 (trust me, it's really tongue and cheek) In The Army Now 1994 Bio-dome 1996 The Fifth Element 1997 The Addams Family 1991 Addams Family Values 1993 (What about Debbie?, Great dark comedy) Timecop 1994 I Know What You Did Last Summer 1997 Can't Hardly Wait 1998 Bring It On 2000 Small Soldiers 1998 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective 1994 Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls 1995 Houseguest 1995 Black Sheep 1996 Jury Duty 1995 Clifford 1994 Dick Tracy 1990 (30 seconds, no more Dick!) Interview With The Vampire 1994 Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead 1991 Mrs Doubtfire 1993 -Robin Williams The Birdcage 1996 - Robin Williams Hot Shots! 1991 Serial Mom 1994 The Mask 1994
Jon
2023-03-07 12:44:52 +0000 UTCTheres a behind the scenes documentary about this movie. It's available on YouTube. They took some liberties with how Top Gun actually operates. There is no trophy to be won. The guy who was the technical advisor on the film told the director if such a thing existed, these pilots would be killing themselves to win. They're that competitive. Tony Scott was like, "It's just a movie, we can fib a bit.". Finally the tech advisor let it slide. Also, when they originally shot aerial footage, Scott wanted to be as real as possible. So the pilots flew like they would on missions. Scott said there was nothing exciting about it. Then the tech advisor said that's how they trained, they don't do all the crazy stuff you see in the film. Scott said he needed exciting footage so the pilots were told to do everything they weren't allowed to do in actual training scenarios. That's why the aerial stuff is perpetually engaging and thrilling.
Donna Castellano
2023-03-07 05:09:18 +0000 UTCI watched this for the first time in many, many years. It is well made and much credit to the editor and cinematographer. The flight scenes are gorgeous and the highlight of the picture. Meg Ryan is a standout, and I remember this film being the first time I noticed her. She is that good. The sequel, in my opinion, is superior in every way and I enjoyed it so much more. I canโt wait for your reaction. Btw, the best line from the reaction goes to Daniel: โThereโs a lot of licking.โ Classic!
Robert Boyd
2023-03-06 19:36:03 +0000 UTCyou have to watch the honest trailer its hilarious. https://youtu.be/UxFq16IG_k0
miles
2023-03-05 18:14:11 +0000 UTCI've only watched the review part of this video because the movie is still too cringy for me to watch any reaction to it. Sam and Daniel are more impressive than ever at reviewing films. They always do an outstanding job of pointing out the strengths and flaws of every film they watch. Most reaction channels lack those skills. They should receive Theatre Arts credits from the closest university to where they live. They each deserve Bachelor of Arts degrees in Theatre Arts for their last two years of reviews. No joke. We should start a petition.
Erwin Quiachon
2023-03-05 16:26:10 +0000 UTCThis was my first time seeing this movie. They must have had a low budget, they really milked every song for what it's worth lol. The game that Maverick portrays with Charlie is quite amazing and refreshing. It starts out incredibly cringey with that song but then what sustained him was his undying confidence and the actual patience and building of sexual tension. Going on a date with her and not sleeping with her, but leaving. He does this two or three times. It's refreshing to all the other romances/hook ups you see in movies (even back in the 80s) where they just immediately jump in the sack. The connection becomes more powerful if you let it build instead of immediately jumping in there. I felt bad for Sam during certain part because I knew what was going to happen even though I never saw the movie. Sam's like "That's not gonna happen" Feeling so sad for Sam, I'm thinking "I'm sorry Sam, but it is." This was great and I see all the parts of Carmen's dream montage with Johnny from Cobra Kai. Oh, also: Charlie's car is my favorite Porsche of all time-- the 356 Speedster. Same model (though not the same year) that Dylan McCay drives in 90210. Timeless. But they are incredibly expensive today. $55k and up. (Expensive for a 55-65 year old car)
Alex
2023-03-05 14:24:13 +0000 UTCTaps was the first movie where I started thinking that Tom Cruise could play anyone. He doesn't have many lines in Taps, but he continued to stay in character in the background. He reminded me of Duvall in the Godfather movies.
Erwin Quiachon
2023-03-05 01:56:06 +0000 UTCTakes 2 breaths away
Mike Adams
2023-03-05 00:51:17 +0000 UTCTop Gun = good. Top Gun 2 = Kenny Loggins Danger Zone good
Odd Thomas
2023-03-04 22:47:58 +0000 UTCHere's an interesting interview with an F-18 pilot who survived a high-speed ejection into the sound barrier, the fastest ejection in the history of naval aviation... https://youtu.be/3baDgB1LB18
Erwin Quiachon
2023-03-04 20:43:51 +0000 UTCIt truly truly amazes me that when Val Kilmer's name came up in the credits, there was no response. Then you see him... no response. Wow! I guess that's kinda the point! haha! Great reaction, you two!
Philip Alan
2023-03-04 18:25:24 +0000 UTCTop Gun was never meant to be a great film. It only became iconic because of all of the real life war and death that began a few years after it's release.
Erwin Quiachon
2023-03-04 17:31:24 +0000 UTCI remember that Top Gun was intended to be a recruitment tool for the U.S. Navy disguised as a date film. The naive arrogant tone seemed to be intentional, but would be sadly ironic in a few years after it's release. The generation depicted in Top Gun fantasized about combat that did not exist at that time, but but would experience more combat than they could imagine over the next 35 years. It's stunning to see the tone of naive arrogance by Maverick and Ice in the first film replaced by a humble sense of responsibility in the second film. The death of Goose went from being a fantasy death to representing the more than 5000 combat deaths since.
Erwin Quiachon
2023-03-04 16:12:26 +0000 UTCCalifornia
Rob Robby
2023-03-04 15:09:50 +0000 UTCStill a PG rating despite all the tongue action lol, and I don't think I ever noticed until now that there is basically no cursing, one of those things that's just a little unrealistic about this movie, as much as I love it. Yeah the thing is, in the military it's usually more important for someone to be reliable than to be talented, so Maverick being such a maverick isn't ideal, which is why they generally get down on him despite his obvious talent as a pilot. It's like I heard a Navy SEAL once say, in some documentary or something I can't recall, but basically if you drew a graph, with one axis being trust or reliability, and the other axis being performance or ability, the type of person you want as a team member would be a compromise between the two but with trust being the more important aspect. Obviously they have to be able to perform, but between high performing and highly trustworthy, it's better to have a mediocre performer with a high level of trustworthiness, because someone who is high performing but cannot be relied on to put the team and the mission before themselves is basically toxic for the team. That said, I still love this 80s classic, and this is the one that really cemented Tom Cruise as a box office draw and A list movie star. Before this, Risky Business was kind of his breakout part, other than that he'd had minor parts in some good films like The Outsiders. Another of his early films which I highly recommend is TAPS, with an also extremely young Sean Penn (and Giancarlo Esposito).
Joe D. MacGuffinstuff
2023-03-04 09:40:11 +0000 UTCSo I gave you both Top Gun nicknames for the hell of it. lol Daniel "Dagger" Schmitt Samantha "Whirlwind" Schmitt
EdmanXERO
2023-03-04 07:15:54 +0000 UTCThis was such a Great Week!! Love Lethal Weapon 4 and Top Gun !! I'm not a big Cruise Fan, but he is a Great Actor ... You Must Watch "The Firm" from 1993 with Cruise, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris ... Great Film ... Another Great Film with Val Kilmer is "The Ghost and The Darkness" from 1996 with Michael Douglas !!!
Florian Meier
2023-03-04 07:04:51 +0000 UTCI was like 11 when this movie came out. It's definitely a lot cheesier watching it as an adult. But it was a huge part of 80's pop culture and wasn't cheesy at all for a kid that age. It's also interesting watching a jet (f-14) that is no longer in service. I don't think the US has any planes that are strictly for air to air combat anymore like the f14 was. Technology has changed drastically since then. Can anyone who was in the military explain why it was a two man aircraft? Also, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but modern fighters are now much faster, have more advanced targeting, and longer range missiles, making dogfighting like that sort of a thing of the past. So in some ways that movie kind of marks the end of an era.
Ed R
2023-03-04 07:02:33 +0000 UTCI was 15 when Top Gun came out and Goose's death was the tragedy of 80's cinema. People were devastated. Movie seems hokey now and Maverick is kind of a cocky prick, but it was epic in the 80s.
Jen Barnes
2023-03-04 05:34:20 +0000 UTCTop Gun is both a cult classic and a beloved film but also it was the highest grossing movie of 1986 and the movie that cemented Tom Cruise as the superstar we know him to be today. My brother was in the Navy at that time and we drove to San Diego this summer and I got to go on the USS Kittyhawk, so to be on an Aircraft Carrier the year Top Gun came out was super cool (although at the time my dad was in the AF so I lived on base for the first 12 years of my life and was around aircraft like this my whole life growing up.
Jason Dolan
2023-03-04 04:41:04 +0000 UTCIncidentally, Take My Breath Away won the OSCAR for best song that year
Jason Dolan
2023-03-04 04:40:06 +0000 UTCWhat's great about the reveal regarding his dad is that this is just realistic - the military doesn't share things with family / civilians / dependents that are classified.
Jason Dolan
2023-03-04 04:38:16 +0000 UTCOh no, I'm almost 40 years old! Top Gun was definitely present in pop culture when I was a kid. I LOVE Predator which is full of over the top characters, but Predator is self-aware and knows it's almost a satire of action films. To me, Top Gun felt like they were swinging for the fences with the performances, but still wanted me to take the serious parts real seriously and I just couldn't do that.
Jeffrey Miller
2023-03-04 04:20:40 +0000 UTCFar and Away, Oblivion (underrated IMO), American Made, Edge of Tomorrow, The Firm and Taps
James
2023-03-04 04:10:28 +0000 UTCunderstandable if you didnt grow up with it. i grew up watching this with my Dad, this is the pinnacle of 80's movie cheese. You can't watch it from a realistic point of view, its meant to be over the top like most 80's action films were. I am looking forward to them watching Maverick: Top Gun a much better movie and i think if you looking for less over the top hamming it up, Maverick is more your style
James
2023-03-04 04:06:53 +0000 UTCThe characters are just far too over the top for me and I couldn't really get emotionally invested. Also, this is coming from a guy who is almost 40 so Top Gun was very present in pop culture when I was a kid. I get why many people like it, it just doesn't work for me.
Jeffrey Miller
2023-03-04 03:55:32 +0000 UTCThis was my first time watching this film in it's entirety and....I'm sorry, I just couldn't get into it. It has some great cinematography, but the characters are just so over the top that I couldn't get invested in any of them. It's like they know they're in a movie, but in a bad way and they're hamming it up.
Jeffrey Miller
2023-03-04 03:43:54 +0000 UTC๐ Me with a grin on my face waiting on Schmitt/Samโs reaction when Kenny Loggins Danger Zone starts.๐
Tristan Durant
2023-03-04 03:40:56 +0000 UTCI've never seen a reaction to Born on the Fourth of July. Such a great movie.
David Murray
2023-03-04 01:35:19 +0000 UTCI forgot how amazing that final battle is. Incredible filmmaking.
David Murray
2023-03-04 01:32:57 +0000 UTCNot a spoiler for the sequel, but the aerial shots and shots of the pilots inside the cockpits in Top Gun: Maverick was real aerial footage. The actors had cameras in the cockpits(they were in the backseat obviously), they had to operate themselves and the director said he filmed over 800 hours of actual aerial footage for the sequel.
David Crabtree
2023-03-04 01:17:18 +0000 UTCthe 1980s was full of romance in the movies
Terry Lee
2023-03-03 23:32:56 +0000 UTCTalk to me Goose. Talk to me.
Tomas
2023-03-03 23:32:26 +0000 UTCOh yeah! Top Gun was an inaugural movie to an oblivious kid back in the early 90s and it made me fall in love with high performance military aircraft for the rest of my life. Thanks to this movie I made it to the filming locations around the San Diego last spring and I've had time of my life with the real TOPGUN instructors aboard the aircraft carrier as a bonus attached to my trip. I'm gonna savor this reaction to 100%.
David Lengyel
2023-03-03 23:13:37 +0000 UTCI like "Gluten Allergy"
Warren H
2023-03-03 23:13:26 +0000 UTCI'm taking "Meat Wagon" or "Cupcake" as my call signs.
Erwin Quiachon
2023-03-03 23:03:02 +0000 UTCEyes Wide Shut, Magnolia, The Color of Money, all in the same week!
Future Boy
2023-03-03 23:00:47 +0000 UTCHe did indeed break his neck on the canopy--the standard ejection would throw the canopy into the air and the wind speed would of course make it whip clear behind the plane (because the plane would still be driving forward with engine power where the canopy no longer has thrust) but in this case, having lost engine power (because of flying through the jet wash/exhaust of the other plane which means taking air into the engines that was actually carbon monoxide, sulphur and other compounds) the plane wasn't moving forward but falling straight down, so the canopy popped up and was right over them when they ejected. Flying jets is indeed dangerous, landing jets on carriers is MEGA dangerous. Your landing strip is tiny and it's moving up and down by several feet with the waves. I was never a pilot but a guy I went to school with was (I went Army, he went Navy), and he says even after 14 years of it, landing on a carrier is freakin' terrifying. And yes, they do lose people in training.
Warren H
2023-03-03 22:45:46 +0000 UTCIt would have been lame not to have that scene in the second movie. If the Navy is ok with it, why should anyone else have a problem with it?
Erwin Quiachon
2023-03-03 22:41:50 +0000 UTCI've never had a problem with it. It stayed the #1 pilot movie for me over Flight of the Intruder and Iron Eagle 'til the sequel came out. And no spoilers for the Schmitts, but there's a character in the sequel who's pretty much the '86 Maverick in spirit
ShadowVessel ฯ
2023-03-03 22:39:27 +0000 UTCIt actually has aged very well. As cringy as it is, it's very nostalgic. It's the most clever element of the first movie. The best part about it for me is knowing that the Navy signed off on it!
Erwin Quiachon
2023-03-03 22:34:58 +0000 UTCIt always makes me laugh how Val Kilmer is the one who started that joke. ๐คฃ
ShadowVessel ฯ
2023-03-03 22:31:38 +0000 UTCRisky Business?
Erwin Quiachon
2023-03-03 22:25:21 +0000 UTCPeople who were in the Navy at the time of that recruitment boom still laugh about all of the cringy people who enlisted and walked around acting like Maverick and Ice! Never underestimate the power of homoerotic suggestion.
Erwin Quiachon
2023-03-03 22:19:59 +0000 UTCWhat are your call signs, Dan and Sam?
Jason Dolan
2023-03-03 22:05:23 +0000 UTCHallefuckinglujah
Jason Dolan
2023-03-03 22:04:35 +0000 UTCI feel the need. The need for Kenny Loggins! Goose may be one of the most likable characters ever. Thx TBR and Sam! Let's wear our Ray-Bans and go play volleyball!
Ellie Miller
2023-03-03 22:04:20 +0000 UTCMust see Tom Cruise.. Cocktail (1988) Born on the 4th of July (1989) Far and Away (1992) Interview with a Vampire (1995) Jerry Maguire (1996) Magnolia (1999) P.T Anderson Vanilla Sky (2001) The Last Samurai (2003)
Jonathan Patrick
2023-03-03 22:04:00 +0000 UTCWoo-HOO! I saw this in the theater with my brother. Navy recruitment shot through the roof after it came out. Lol ...and produced one of the greatest sequels ever. ๐๐
ShadowVessel ฯ
2023-03-03 22:03:48 +0000 UTC
