Top Gun (Widescreen Special Collector's Edition)
by Tony Scott
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Actor: Anthony Edwards, Kelly McGillis, Tom Cruise, Tom Skerritt, Val KilmerDirector: Tony Scott
Brand: CRUISE,TOM
Producer: Bill Badalato
Producer: Don Simpson
Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer
Producer: Warren Skaaren
Writer: Ehud Yonay
Writer: Jack Epps Jr.
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Published)
Format: Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-12-14
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
Product features:
- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- Collector's Edition; Color; Dolby; DTS Surround Sound; DVD; Widescreen; NTSC
DVD Reviews of Top Gun (Widescreen Special Collector's Edition)
DVD Review: Playing With The Boys
Summary: 3 Stars
I was in the Navy for 10 years. Ten long years, and I can say I spent at least five of those years in some barracks, in some remote part of the United States, drunk watching a plethora of ever present war movies in the TV room. I hate war movies! I mean it from the bottom of my heart. War movies as a general rule are cliché ridden and rife with recycled plots and dialog and well, cheese. If you were like myself and actually worked on a nuclear submarine you would quickly realize just how god awful fake they are on top of all their other damning traits. But... there were two movies I always liked.
One was 1982's 'An Officer and a Gentleman' starring a young and still good looking Richard Gere before he unleashed Julia Roberts on us in 1990's 'Pretty Woman'. The other was this movie right here. I don't think it was because these movies are about Navy Pilots in particular. Since I have difficulty seeing the great difference between Navy Pilots and Air Force Pilots as far as being some different breed or such. No, there had to be something that maybe I did not quite understand at first glance.
Then came Quentin Tarantino's hilarious monologue in the 1994 movie 'Sleep With Me' where he sums up the plot description of 'Top Gun' with the line "It is a story about a man's struggle with his own homosexuality." I have never ever been able to watch this film in the same way since. I don't know if Quentin was simply coming across with some demented comic jag for effect when he went off on this movie but ya know. If you honestly watch it closely and get beyond the basic music video imagery and listen to the dialog and focus on the subtle actions, it will happen, it will dawn on you.
I'm sure you all know the story or have some idea of what it's about. The movie opens with Tom Cruise and Anthony Edwards playing the parts of Goose and Maverick flying wingman to John Stockwell who plays the bit part Cougar. Cougar gets mentally screwed up after a close encounter with a Russian MiG and barely flies the plane back to the Aircraft Carrier while staring at a picture of his wife and kid. Anyway he gets back and promptly quits stating he loves his wife-and-kid too much. Here's your first clue. I mean, why does "wife-and-kid" suddenly become an issue?
Next thing you know Goose and Maverick are heading off to Top Gun School because it's so realistic to send people with disciplinary problems to these expensive military schools you know. The next memorable scene is the famous bar scene where Maverick starts singing 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling' and all the other pilots in the bar join together to provide what now seems like a gay men's chorus. I mean who does this type of thing?
Then there's the first time we see Viper played by a still good looking "older man" Tom Skerritt talking to the Top Gun students and the pilots are shown sitting paired up in twos in leather love seats. In each seat one guy has his arm draped along the back as if in some suggestive embrace. The pilot Hollywood whispers to his close buddy Wolfman beside him in the leather love seat "This gives me a hardon." Wolfman leans in real close and says, "Don't tease me."
Here it is folks we are down the rabbit hole and don't go thinking it gets any better if you keep watching. Maverick is initially portrayed as a loner. A confused young guy who, unlike the rest of the Navy flyboys, does not seem to fit in, does not seem to understand the intimate relationship the other Navy pilots expect of him. Goose tries to talk to him. Goose tries to make him understand there is something he's not getting. Something about caring for the other pilots, about men being men with men. Maybe he wants Maverick to realize they are all spending an awful lot of time standing around the locker room half naked in towels for more than just plot points and male boob shots. Heh! Then more dialog take us further out into the void.
Charlie (The main female love interest, yeah right.) played by Kelly McGillis approaches Goose and Maverick in a hallway Goose sees her and turns to Maverick saying "Okay, well, don't be late again. You look great honey." Maverick replies "Thanks, dear. See you in pre-flight."
Then the big bare chested volleyball scene. Poor Goose, the guy's won't let Goose play volleyball without his shirt on. While all the rest are proud to show off their sweaty pecs and trim abs. All the while the music bumps and grinds its way through Kenny Loggins (Yeah there's a butch guy for ya) singing 'Playing With The Boys'. I loved the scene where Goose pleads. "One more game, Please, For me?" If this were any other movie wouldn't Goose know where Maverick was going? He probably does and is just unwilling to let Maverick go that easily. I mean all the guys are there and they're all sweaty and maybe tonight...
Maverick and Charlie have their first date and basically Maverick eats and runs saying he needs to get a shower. Does she not have a shower there? Plumbing problems perhaps? Not the right equipment? Next up is the elevator scene where we see Charlie decked out in a very masculine ball cap and leather flight jacket. That'll get him to notice her. Then Gooses wife-and-kid show up to present us with the fact that gay guys can have covers, I mean "families" too without conflicting with their most important relationship, the other Top Gun pilot. Carol, Goose's wife, seems to be trying real hard to sell Charlie on how fun it is to be married to a gay guy, I mean a Top Gun pilot.
So I hope I am not spoiling anything by mentioning that the big drama in this movie is that Goose dies. Yep, that's too bad really because I think Goose was just about to get his way with Maverick on some sleepless night. Oh well, Viper poignantly consoles Maverick telling him about his valiant daddy and saying he would fly Maverick, I mean "fly with Maverick" anytime.
Now, here's where I disagree with Quentin Tarantino and allot of other commentators. At the end of the movie, we may have gotten that big scene between Val Kilmer who plays Iceman and Mavericks main competition, the all around humpy, critical, fly-by-the-book type to Mavericks rebel-without-a-date. Yes, Iceman and Maverick do have a brief moment at the end of the film, after the gay Navy guys beat the Russians with their joy sticks, where Iceman finally indicates to the rest of the pilots by hugging and making doe eyes, that Maverick is finally now one of them.
But...
What does Maverick actually do? He runs back to Top Gun school to become a flight instructor and work under that stud daddy Viper. Yeah, you can think all you want that Maverick is gonna be with Iceman or even that oh so remote chance of ever happening, Charlie. That is, if you ignored everything I just pointed out to you. But in my twisted mind its Tom Cruise and Tom Skerritt flying off into the sunset mano y mano. That humpy older guy showing the young guy the ropes deal. Because as we all know if it was good enough for dad, then it's good enough for Maverick.
The thought of Tom Cruise being Tom Skerritt's sex toy should make Brooke Sheilds feel a little bit better.
Description of Top Gun (Widescreen Special Collector's Edition)
In Top Gun, Tom Cruise stars as Maverick, a talented training pilot in an elite U.S. school for fighter pilots. When he stumbles upon some MiG's over the Persian Gulf, and his wingman panics, Maverick cleverly talks him through the situation to safety. Consequently, he is moved up in rank and sent to the Top Gun Naval Flying School. There he has several conflicts with other students while trying to live up to his deceased father's reputation. Unable to cope with the death of his best friend, and fellow pilot, Goose, Maverick contemplates dropping out, but follows through with his dream and ultimately becomes one of the "best of the best."Jingoism, beefcake, military hardware, and a Giorgio Moroder rock score reign supreme over taste and logic in this Tony Scott film about a maverick trainee pilot (Tom Cruise) who can't follow the rules at a Navy aviation training facility. The dogfight sequences between American and Soviet jets at the end are absolutely mechanical, though audiences loved it at the time. The love story between Cruise's character and that of Kelly McGillis is like flipping through pages of advertising in a glossy magazine. This designer action movie from 1986 would be all the more appalling were it not for the canny casting of good actors in dumb parts. Standouts include Anthony Edwards--who makes a nice impression as Cruise's average-Joe pal--and the relatively unknown Meg Ryan in a small but memorable appearance. --Tom Keogh
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