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Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
« Reply #1020 on: February 11, 2013, 09:27:10 pm »
Okay, Top Gun:

Well first, I don't know how much of that I'll be quoting.  And I'm not sure when I'll see it again, but I enjoyed it.  The all-practical nature of it totally paid off (not that you could really CGI it or anything in those days), doing the whole thing in conjunction with the Navy helped lend it an air of authenticity that you can't fake.

Can I say though, what I thought it would be about was a whole gaggle of guys at the school and that they would be balanced, even with Maverick being front and center that everyone, Iceman included, would have their own arcs and failings and so on.  It was really funky when they had the curtain call at the end and I barely knew any of those other guys.

I happened to see the trailer for Monsters U earlier so now I'm actually wondering if they drew any inspiration from Top Gun, I didn't see any but I wouldn't be surprised, with the whole top 1% specialized training and so on.

Also, a little geeky thing, the ship in the flick is the Enterprise, but they also used the Ranger to double for it.  In Star Trek IV, they used the Ranger to double for the Enterprise since it was out of the country when they were shooting.  So little connection there.

 

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