Top Gun: Why Iceman is the real hero

[CommuterBob]

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For years, you may have watched the epic Navy aviator movie Top Gun thinking Maverick was the hero. Well, you're wrong. Iceman was the real hero. He's the guy who really saves the day and tries to bring the unit together. Oh yeah, and it's totally a gay movie.

 

[goodknightfl]

UHHHHHHH OK

 

[LittleMissKnight]

People have been joking about this for years- yeah, if it was real life, Iceman would have been the only one actually trying to follow rules and have pilots fly safely so no one gets hurt. Also, if it was real life, they would have started making out right after this:

 

[KnighttimeJoe]

Jesus, that was Val Kilmer about 250lbs ago and Tom Cruise right around the time he went crazy with the Scientology loons.

 

[UCFKnight85]

Top Gun is a great movie but full of inaccuracies.

Here's a good rundown of 79 of them:

http://www.wearethemighty.com/79-cringe-worthy-technical-errors-in-the-movie-top-gun-2015-03

My favorite is when Maverick starts sharing classified data in an open hangar to a bunch of people that may or may not be cleared to receive that data.

 

[LittleMissKnight]

Jesus, that was Val Kilmer about 250lbs ago and Tom Cruise right around the time he went crazy with the Scientology loons.

That movie made me appreciate how hot Val Kilmer was. WAS.

 

[LittleMissKnight]

Top Gun is a great movie but full of inaccuracies.

Here's a good rundown of 79 of them:

http://www.wearethemighty.com/79-cringe-worthy-technical-errors-in-the-movie-top-gun-2015-03

My favorite is when Maverick starts sharing classified data in an open hangar to a bunch of people that may or may not be cleared to receive that data.

I love this detailed list.

What I hate is every SINGLE time I watch this movie with Dingy, he will whisper most of these facts to me during the movie, which the cockiest smile on his face. I get it Dingy, YOU WIN AT TOP GUN.

 

[UCFKnight85]

Maverick explains, “We weren’t below the hard deck for more than a few seconds. I had the shot. There was no danger. So I took it.” The hard deck simulates the ground, so basically Maverick is saying, “We didn’t hit the ground for more than a few seconds . . .”

 

[UCFWayne]

Friends told me the movie was awesome, so we all watched it. God that movie is gay.

 

[Good Knight Sweetheart]

That movie made me appreciate how hot Val Kilmer was. WAS.

Ahhhh ...the good old days: when Val Kilmer and James Spader were hot, and Tom Cruise wasn't batshitcraycray.

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[jetsaholic]

Friends told me the movie was awesome, so we all watched it. God that movie is gay.

That's fighting words for dingy, bro. He might go ginger rage on you next time he sees you. I am predicting this. I will not expect you to acknowledge or apologize.

 

[KnighttimeJoe]

That's fighting words for dingy, bro. He might go ginger rage on you next time he sees you. I am predicting this. I will not expect you to acknowledge or apologize.

I've never seen Top Gun and won't acknowledge or apologize for the fact that it's probably a shit movie.

 

[jetsaholic]

I've never seen Top Gun and won't acknowledge or apologize for the fact that it's probably a shit movie.

I GOT SOMETHING YOU CAN ACKNOWLEDGE RIGHT HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[KnighttimeJoe]

I GOT SOMETHING YOU CAN ACKNOWLEDGE RIGHT HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YEAH YOU DO!!!!!

 

[jetsaholic]

YEAH YOU DO!!!!!

 

[ChrisKnight06]

Top Gun is the GOAT and fuk you if you disagree .

 

[KnighttimeJoe]

Top Gun is the GOAT and fuk you if you disagree .

FUK YOU FOR THINKING THIS WAY ABOUT A MOVIE IVE NEVER SEEN.

 

[NinjaKnight]

Where is the love for Goose?

 

[Bob the Citronaut]

Goose was weak and died.

 

[crambone]

85, thank you for that link!!

 

[ChrisKnight06]

Where is the love for Goose?

 

[UCF w00t]

Never seen it. Sounds lame.

 

[sirdingydang]

GOAT. Fuk all y'all. Inaccurate? Um hell yes. First of all, these guys would never get in a dogfight because they had the AIM-54 PHOENIX missile system and could take the nonexistent mig 28 from over 50 miles away.

But who cares! #murica and this film was just ahead of its time by acknowledging gays in the military. Proof that gays can get the job done.

 

[Game_Day_Sports]

I don't know about GOAT, but still a damn good movie. I don't know that it would play as successfully now, but at its time it was amazing.

Now, Michael Bay would have that flat spin caused by an EMP from some kid in a trailer park in New Mexico and instead of air to air combat it would be flying protective detail for Air Force 1 who was under control of a terrorist group and they had to decide whether or not to shoot down the president. They do, with a fireball that could be seen from space and there goes a little safety capsule out of this Hiroshima type explosion that just floats away safely for the president all the way to splash down. The helicopter would rescue el Presidente and bring him to the carrier that Maverick lands on and the prez says, "YOu can be my wing man any time". Then the pres gets into the back seat and Maverick's plane becomes air force 1 and he flies the president back to DC doing a barrel roll off of the catapult and giving a white house presidential fly by..

 

[UCFKnight85]

Top Gun is an awesome movie, but one you need to just sit back and enjoy and suspend your attention to reality to a large degree. So what if there are a lot of inaccuracies? Maverick is doing a fu*cking fly by.

What's amazing is that this movie was made in 1986 on a $15M budget and grossed $360M worldwide. That's a 2,300% ROI.

I feel like that was way more common in the 70s and 80s. Jaws was made on a $9M budget and ended up grossing over $470M worldwide. Today, studios make shit movies with HUGE budgets (see: Tomorrowland at $200M) that suck and barely even make a return.

I'm just hoping that never end up making the talked about sequel, Top Gun 2. Buckheimer has been talking about doing this for 5-7 years and Tom Cruise apparently wants to as well. It would surely end up being an overproduced piece of crap and would tarnish the TG legacy.

 

[USFSucks]

Where is the love for Goose?

Goose is dead