to think Top Gun was a bag of arse?

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Having a discussion with DH who is properly appalled that I fell about laughing when he suggested that Top Gun was a "brilliant" film. He has now banned me from discussing it with DS in case I "spoil" it for him.

Is it me??

I like to judge films on their own terms. Top Gun does what it wants to do very well indeed, so it gets a pass from me - it's a flashy, entertaining, superficial blockbuster with lots of action. It's not Ingmar Bergman but then it never claimed to be

I like the theory posted by a PP that with some films you need to have seen them at an impressionable age to appreciate them. I saw Dirty Dancing and Lost Boys as an adult and they left me totally cold.

After rerading this thread I feel I want to order Top Gun on DVD so I can really re enjoy it :)

re reading

Aye, I agree. Pile o' shite

Top Gun is just Days of Thunder but with planes not cars.

Very gay in parts.

Iceman is fucking gorgeous though

Jesus Christ, I'm stunned at some of this blasphemy..

7.62 x 51 , has the hitting power , they don't get up. The AK round 7.62 x 39 is punchy but not a guaranteed stopper.The 5.56 is for joke effect ...........

It were a right bag of old arse !

And weirdly gay in parts - I suppose in those days in neo con America one could only suggest homo erotica.

Um ... Days of Thunder is just Top Gun but with cars instead of planes, actually! Top Gun came first.

Definitely not one for your DH, OP

Truly, Madly, Deeply from 1990 with Alan Rickman. It was never a huge moneyspinner, but it's a film that is well worth watching again, or for the first time. It's era is irrelevant, it's just a great movie with awesome acting.

I don't care if it's shit cos Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer are fit fit fit in that film

Father that trailer was so wrong.

Yet..

Officer and a Gentlemen, it also on my list.

Duran Duran

I really didn't get on with the 80's which is a shame as that's when I was a teenager.