Top Gun - Best high flying movie...ever??

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Personally, there were a couple of things about the movie that really bugged me. One was the female love interest who looked so much older than Cruse that their love scenes looked like child molestations. What bugged me most about her is that we are supposed to believe that this woman in high heels who has never been in military service nor--if I remember correctly--has ever flown military fighters herself is somehow an expert on not only US but Soviet fighter aircraft. Think about it: You're about to strap on a jet that flies 2-3 times the speed of sound and in sudden manuvers pulls maybe 20 times as much Gs as you'll ever experience on earth's surface and you're going out to face another highly trained pilot in a high performance jet and match rockets in a do-or-die fight to the death. And your instructor says, "Trust me--I've read every book ever written about these airplanes and have memorized all of the theories." I don't think so!

The other thing is that their Top Gun training is rushed up at the end and they don't even have time for a graduation ceremony because they've got to rush off for a major confrontation with--the Lybians???? A country whose only enemy aircraft kills came from putting a bomb on a civilian airliner? Besides, what was so special about this particular graduating class, other than it had Tom Cruse? Where were the pilots from the 999 other classes who had already been through the Top Gun school? Maybe they had all crashed trying to fly the lady instructor's theories.

I can't wait till its cool to nit pick a movie like Star Wars because you know; it's just so totally unrealistic dude. Space station indeed...

Another thing to remember is that we were not at war in 1986, even if we had some incidents with the Libyans. The enemy in Top Gun is never identified, although they fly MiGs and have something resembling Soviet insignia on their helmets.

I can't wait till its cool to nit pick a movie like Star Wars because you know; it's just so totally unrealistic dude....

The film actually begins "somewhere in the Indian Ocean", and the carrier is the U.S.S. Enterprise. At the end, they refer to a disabled ship trapped in enemy territory, but they never get specific about where.