Get your Top Gun on - too funny.. or sad

[slug]

Keep it real, everybody. Anyone on this site who denies having watched this movie more times than any other movie is:
1) a liar
2) under 21
3) over 50, a SWO, and a liar

Yeah, I'll say it: Most influential military movie ever. Anyone who wants to disagree can argue with an entire generation of pilots, or talk to any Navy recruiter from 1986 to today. I'll admit it, I watch it every time it's on TNT or AMC. Sometimes TOPGUN is it's own best parody and I laugh at every line, other times I remember being 9, watching it for the first time and wanting to fly from that point on.



OMG, Goose didn't die and this pic proves it!

...the ejection just blew off all his hair and killed his movie career.

 

[BUDU]

Keep it real, everybody. Anyone on this site who denies having watched this movie more times than any other movie is:
1) a liar
2) under 21
3) over 50, a SWO, and a liar

Plead guity to number 2...I've seen Top Gun one time, and not until last summer.

Call sign is Wookie. WTF? I am neither big nor hairy. And I can't do the noise.

 

[Pepe]

Sadly I will be in SERE school for this.....

See ya there bro.

 

[PropStop]

My call sign is Ping Pong. WTF? I mean, you could stretch it as a reference to the sound of the data link after initialization, but again, WTF?

Never been to Thailand, have you?

 

[Bagadonuts]

See ya there bro.

Makes three of us.

 

[hawkeyeHandler]

Now don't get me wrong, if it wasn't for TOP GUN (yes, I saw it in the theaters when it came out) I wouldn't have spent the better part of my childhood wanting to be a naval aviator. Great movie for its time and hard to outgrow for those who grew up with it.
Just don't like the idea of average joe putting on wings and calling themselves "LT" when the rest of us had to earn it. Chalk it up to blissful ignorace.

 

[MIDNJAC]

Haha nice, we maybe we should start a "what AW's are in SERE next week" thread.

 

[Birdog8585]

The "Where are they now?" was downright scary. Actually just Kelly McGillis was scary. Talk about not aging well.

Well apparently Cougar is still holding on too tight...to something.

 

[stickygdm]

"Nutzoid" I like it! I decree that all Golden Eagle FORM callsigns the week of this great celebratory week shall be generated on this website! I think this page should be linked right in e-brief!

 

[NAVYBM2]

This is going to be the BEST DAY EVER!!!!

 

[chnsx7]

Never been to Thailand, have you?

hehe thailand...

 

[Mr. Blonde]

How appropriate, I just saw this and realized that this was the same day I selected and got tailhook. Not gonna lie I went through two copies of this movie on vhs cause I watched it so many times as a kid that I wore out the tape.

 

[Old R.O.]

I was in the Reserves at VF-301 when they were making the movie. One of the NFOs in the squadron worked at Topgun in a civilian capacity and had access to VHS tapes of the "rushes." (quick edits of the filmed daily shots of the movie as it was in process). One drill weekend we gathered around a TV set/VHS in a small briefing room on the second deck of Hangar 5 at Miramar. One of the scenes on the VHS was the "I feel the need for speed" high-five as they were walking on the line for man-up.
One of the senior ROs called out from the back of the group: "Hey Skipper... Do we talk like that???"
To which the smiling answer was: "We could start."

 

[CUPike11]

Call Sign....."Fuzzy"

Meh.....it could be worse.

 

[BarrettRC8]

Just don't like the idea of average joe putting on wings and calling themselves "LT" when the rest of us had to earn it. Chalk it up to blissful ignorace.

I fear the film industry would be awfully boring if every actor had to "earn" the right to portray the character he/she was acting as. It's not as if they're walking around day-to-day as if they're the individuals they portray.