TOP GUN (1986) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION [RE-UPLOAD]
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0:00 - Intro
1:39 - Reaction
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I originally reacted to this back in October 21, YT claimed copyright and made us take it down, but we re-edited and this is a reupload!
Great I thought I was losing my mind or perhaps over did it on M Mushrooms and imagined the whole thing.
I thought I’d seen this before (but I still watched it all again)
15:43 @Popcorn in bed turns full itialian without realizing it lmao "He's a gonna be fine" lol
I may have recommended it in the earlier upload, if it were live before it were taken down, but now you need to watch the movie Hot Shots, with Charlie Sheen. It is a spoof on the Top Gun movie. And if you have watched the Rambo movies, you can also watch Hot Shots Part Deux, which is a spoof of the Rambo movies.
I love how they are still concerned about copyright (making royalties) on a movie made 36 years ago,
That has well and truly already made it's money back many, many, many, many, many, many, many......... MANY times over.
During Vietnam, they monitored the pilots for stress in a program. They found out, landing on a carrier at night, stressed the pilots MORE than combat.
True.. Very True
Yup, that's why the Navy's newer fight craft can now automatically land on carriers nowadays. They can still land manually but they are usually ordered to set it on automatic landing.
@@walterdayrit675 REALLY?!?! Where would I find data on this?
My father was a Vietnam Marine pilot and he loved carrier landings, said that was the reason he wouldn’t fly civilian because he thought it was so fun. I’m in civilian flight school now and cannot imagine.
@@chucksolutions4579 You can still find something stressfull fun ;)
I've never been in armed combat but I've been in a couple of seriously violent fights and this doesn't surprise me. In my experience with violence it's the before and after that's emotional and stressful. During isn't so bad.
Goose’s death is one of the more realistic scenes in the movie. During a flat spin in an F-14, the pilot would be forced forward, unable to reach the ejection handle. Additionally, the spin creates a zone of low pressure over the aircraft, causing the canopy to remain nearby several seconds longer than during normal flight.
And the stunt pilot actually died
Goose dies?
The fact that the F14 A the one featured in the movie had an issues with the engines experiencing a flame out. The scene depicted in the movies could cause a flame out and sending the plane into a fate spin that you can't recover. The problem was later remedied with the F14 B variant.
@@sgtjohnson Yes, but not as part of this scene. Art Scholl died filming a scene when he went into a spin and didn't recover the pla e before crashing. He was a camera plane pilot, he didn't fly the F14s.
This issue with the F14A and what caused it, was covered by Ward Carroll
@@sgtjohnson I believe it was highly experience and respected aerobatic/stunt pilot Art Scholl who died, unfortunately.
Fun fact
I delivered so many pizzas to Tom Skerrit’s home in Seattle I became friends with his wife and then met him. Let me just say that he is even more cool in person. He is so friendly and down to earth it’s shocking. And weirdly funny 🤷🏻♂️. His wife is also wonderful. She is all heart.
Great story. I met him and his wife at a charity function in Seattle held at CenturyLink Field. Definitely seemed like a nice guy.
LOL I see you make the movie-reaction circuit as well.
@@TommygunNG its a youtuber past-time at this point!
@@TommygunNG Who doesn’t love watching people enjoy the stuff we enjoy 🤣🙌🏼
Very under-rated actor. His performance in River Runs Through It is subtle and brilliant.
Goose's death can be chalked up to a "shit happens" moment. Training can be just as dangerous as combat, especially for fighter pilots. When they ejected the canopy wasn't clear and Goose ejected into it. most likely breaking his neck. Serviceman die in training accident all the time, It is part of the job that we all sign up for. That was one of my biggest fears.
I've never flown a jet but have been around a few. If im not mistaken they have two eject handles. One at the shoulder and one between the legs. The should has a two stage ejection. The airbag deploys over the head. Then the C-4 blows the canopy and the seat rejects. The emergency ejection between the legs just blows the canopy then ejects the seat. Half the time ejecting the pilot through the canopy killing him.
@@roger5322 Was there a reason in the movie he couldn't do the first stage to deploy the airbag?
@@jedijones he was being pressed against the wall by the g-force of the spin. So I'm guessing goose was the one who engaged the ejection.
@@roger5322 in the F-14, the handles above their heads are the only ejection handles, but in later models they added an emergency canopy jettison. Due to flat spins causing the crew being pinned forward and unable to reach the handles, every aircraft built after had the ejection handles between the legs.
Another great film with Val Kilmer is Tombstone. He plays a very unforgettable Doc Holiday.
The definitive movie Doc Holiday.
His best role ever!
@@jamesellis1972 I'm your huckleberry. 😁
For sure !! I gotta say though; Willow, Red Planet, Prince of Egypt, and The Saint are some other great Val Kilmer movies too.
I preferred Wyatt Earp as a movie, but Val's performance in Tombstone is possibly some of the best acting ive seen. He played the role so well.
The main reason this movie remains so amazing over 30 years after it's release: absolutely no CGI
That song is making you happy because it’s awesome.
A fantastic film & the sequel does not disappoint - big kudos to Tom Cruise for getting it right.
Miles Teller is SUPERB casting as Rooster in the sequel.
and especially for insisting Val Kilmer be in the film
@@kj6446 What an emotional scene that was!
The sequel is quite good, though of course it could never be as original, unexpected, and charming as the original (sequels rarely are). It also blatantly rips off of a number of other movies, but you know what they say - if you're going to steal, steal from the best.
I will watch it 2 times more. Nothing interesting to watch. I don't give money to lgtb movies 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸
@@pedrojulio1960 So you're a hate mongering homophobe then. Got it.
You definitely gotta see Top Gun: Maverick now while it’s still in theaters! :)
I'd like to add that you should splurge for the IMAX ticket, because the special effects for the jets look so much better with that larger screen, and surround sound.
14:49
"This is to happy right now. I feel like something bad has to happen." (Cassie)
15:49
"Goose is dead."
This movie was a tremendous hit in 1986. It appealed to guys for the macho-speed-explosion stuff, and to women for the love story, making it a perfect date movie as well as a fun summer movie for teens who just wanted a fun time on a Saturday night.
The summer of 1986 was the one between my junior and senior years in high school. This film and its soundtrack were an integral part of a critical period in my life, and a lot of other GenXers, and any time I watch it or hear the music I'm taken back to those days.
11:07 "WOW! There's some classic songs in here..."
Many of those song became classics *because* they were featured in this film. The soundtrack album is one of the best selling of all time and topped the charts for most of the summer. Take My Breath Away won an Academy Award for best song.
I was age 9 when it came out and didn't care about it at all, LOL. Eventually saw it on VHS and thought it was okay, but never watched it again. The Take My Breath Away song was definitely all over the radio back then, but I don't think I knew it was from the movie at the time.
And the Top Gun theme tune won a Grammy for the great Steve Stevens (Billy Idol’s guitarist) and I believe Harold Faltermeyer.
I was 7 when this came out. I got my mom to buy me the soundtrack and I listened to that tape before every single little league baseball game for years. Pretty much through the entire rest of the '80s.
@@chrisstone5138 Yup, it was Harold Faltermeyer (genius). He also did Axel F, the brilliant synth theme from the Beverly Hills Cop movies and the Theme from Fletch.
@@p-mac8413 I wore out the Footloose soundtrack tape 2 years earlier, LOL.
The “you’ve lost that loving feeling” scene in the bar, the technical advisor, a fighter pilot met his wife that way. ...so true story. Also, he did flip off a another nation’s planes that was forcing him into the water. In international airspace rival nations will mess with each other, but you do not shoot.
I was in the Navy during the end of the cold war, it was common to give the Soviet Union a Full Moon salute If you were passing by a Soviet Ship, it didn't happen often, but the entire crew manned the rails and "saluted" the Soviet ship, it never did happen on my ship, but did happen on other ships.
I didn't know that, that is a really cool story, I figured the whole Loving Feeling serenade was all Hollywood.
No, that's not true. Where in the world did you dig up this BS?
@@eatsmylifeYT TopGun DVD extras.
@@johnnybraccia452 No. They just made that up to make the BS more believable.
"Who's up there?"
"Cougar and Merlin, Maverick and Goose"
"Are those humans?"
"Why are they so sweaty?" I wish I could tell you. In my 7 years in the Navy, I never sweat as much as some of these guys did, even during the physical fitness test.
God I was just wondering that...than I remembered they were also super greased for...Volleyball?
@@ct6852 Sun screen lotion on the outdoor volleyball court, to protect against sunburn, of course.
@@zumbinis Sunscreen was super oily in the 80's for some reason.
I've always wondered why, too. Physical effort from maneuvering the jets, and resisting blackouts or red-outs while experiencing high G-loads on their bodies during those maneuvers? Or they were still wet from showering, or both?
@@zumbinis Well, I can understand the pilots being sweaty while under high stress, but in the areas of the ship that have a lot of important electronics and computer systems, they are usually pretty cold, cold enough to where the personnel in them often wear jackets. I'm gonna chalk it up to Hollywood trying to reinforce to the audience that they are under high stress
Fun Fact - An ex-JAG officer reviewed this and said Maverick would have lost his wings and gone to jail in the first 10mins of the film. Now, that's a short film. Saying that the F-14 is a great-looking aircraft.
You'd be surprised what fighter pilots get away with. They're just too hard and expensive to replace. Most of the time they just get grounded for a while and get their pee pees smacked. You almost literally have to have video evidence of them murdering someone to send them to jail.
Watched this film with my niece , her biggest concern through the entire film was the fact that TOM CRUISE HAD A MONO BROW, LOL
Trivia: Michael Ironside (Jester) stated, in the DVD commentary, that he was so convincing as an officer, that when he heard someone running towards him below decks, he got on to the sailor who was running. The sailor saluted and slowed down until he got out of Ironside's line of sight and started running again. The sailor never knew that Ironside was an actor on the film.
It's Michael Ironside. If he's calling any of us out, we're gonna unfuck our shit while in his line of sight.
All these songs are memorable classics - because this is where they're from, this movie!!! And this was Meg's first time on screen.........
The pilot sits in the front seat, the guy in the back operates the electronic systems, radar and navigation stuff and probably countermeasures. I don’t think there are many 2 seat fighter planes left in the United States military and none in the newest generation of fighters.
there's a version of the Super Hornet that is a two seater (i always get mixed up on the E and the F) and the back seater is now called a WSO (Weapon System Officer)
No, back seats of carrier aircraft don’t have controls; the back seaters ( Radar Intercept Officers) run the radars.
I wonder if it's because it's just too hard to keep both aircrew carrier rated. Air Force WSOs have flight controls.
@@Mike-ul1xn My understanding is that they don't want a RIO to even contemplate a carrier landing if the pilot is incapacitated. Ramp strikes can (and have) killed many sailors. And yes, USAF back-seaters do have controls. I (retired USAF) know several who landed the jet every once in a while so as to at least having done it in case it became necessary at some future point. That said, a USAF jet crashing into end of runway 'only' puts crew at risk; vs an entire aircraft carrier.
Cassie you NEED to watch “Witness” with Kelly Mcgillis and Harrison Ford. ❤️❤️❤️
Yes! I think she'd like that one, too. It's one of my favorite movies of all time. It has the romance I think she'd like, too. It hits all the spots. lol
Good call. Cassie loves Harrison Ford 😁
Did she even watch topgun? This is the same generic cut for another 'reaction' I soon lost interest in.
Kelly McGillis was a big star at that time. She was also in Witness, but kind of disappeared after a couple of years.
5:20 That would be Tom Skerritt, a great character actor who's probably best known for this, Alien, and Contact. He's also fantastic in A River Runs Through It.
11:52 Fun Fact: The reason Kelly McGillis looks so different in this scene is because it was a reshoot done several weeks later, during which time she had dyed her hair brunette for another film.
Fun Fact: Ally Sheedy of "The Breakfast Club", "Short Circuit" and "War Games" fame, was offered the role of Charlie, but she turned it down, thinking that nobody would watch a film about fighter jets. She apparently regretted this decision later on.
Apparently she didn't understand the script as it was not about jets. And thankfully Sean Connery also did not understand the script for "The Fellowship of the Ring", so we have Ian Mckellen as Gandalf. In my view if someone does not understand the script, they should not sign the contract.
In Sean Connery's voice: "So do you expect me to talk Sauron?" "No! I expect you to Die Mr. Bond...I mean Gandalph the Grey".
I never heard that. I like Sheedy but she would have not been right for that role. I did hear anti-gun anti-military freak Anthony Edwards later wished he had not done the movie. Of course, it was after he was able to bank other parts because of it and forget that without Top Gun he would have been a nobody.
@@mortimerbrewster3671 Very disappointing to learn that Anthony Edwards is anti-gun and anti-military, and later regrets playing Goose. He was great in the part. Besides playing Goose in TG, I've only ever seen him as Dr Greene in the TV series ER.
@@zumbinis
So you don't remember him
as Gilbert in "Revenge Of The Nerds"?
Another great Tom Cruise movie is "Operation Valkyrie." Definitely one of his all time best films.
"The Firm" is severely underrated, by Tom Cruise. I don't know if it's because the plot is quite complex. I remember the late Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel struggling with following the plot. Another great one "Jerry Maguire"
@@shredd5705 Never heard those... but thanks for letting me know of their existence.
The title of the movie is just "Valkyrie."
@@bluecollartradesman715 Really? Danm, been a while since I watched that movie, definitely need to get back.
@@lalangner2253 I just watched it on a streaming service last week. They had it listed as Valkyrie. The movie is based on a true story.
The F-14 Tomcat, still the best looking fighter ever made along with the F4U Corsair in my humble opinion.
The F14 looks like its gonna fuck someone up for sure!
perfectly said....
I'm a big fan of the F-82 Twin Mustang. The P-51 was so good they 'Stanged it twice. Also the P-38. I think I just have a thing for twin-boom heavy fighters.
I’ll throw the F-4 Phantom in to the mix for Bravo Alpha looking fighters. F4U for sure though, coolest looking fighter in WW2. P-51 is a close second.
@@CxOrillion the P-38 was pretty cool looking. I wouldn’t have minded getting that bird in WW2.
The accident where goose dies is actually somewhat based in reality, similar incidents killed several pilots. The engines on the early F-14s were temperamental and could fail under certain conditions. Due to the how far the engines were spaced from each other the difference in thrust could induce what you see in the movie known as a "flat spin". Because of this it created a low pressure zone over the plane so when the canopy was jettisoned during the ejection sequence it could linger over the plane and since the back seater was ejected first they could hit the canopy.
Good explanation 👏
A stunt pilot even died filming Top Gun when he was unable to recover from his own flat spin.
@@KT-iy9vc RIP, Art Scholl ⚰
Well thats TF-30 for ya
@@KT-iy9vc Not in an F-14 though.
BTW > The guy who was meeting Charlotte ('Perry') at the beginning of the movie is the actual Top Gun Instructor that was portrayed by Tom Skerritt in the movie .. ..
Admiral Pete "Viper" Pettigrew, F-4 pilot, Vietnam Vet, NFWS graduate and instructor, MiG killer.
Your genuine enthusiasm for cinema (combined with the fact that you haven't seen so many classics and get to experience them for the first time on your channel) is so heartening. Keep up the great work. Cassie!
I lived near Miramar when the movie was being filmed and when it came out. I’d hear them screaming down the canyon I lived in and getting even louder as they went out to the ocean. It was a heady time for San Diego as they had this movie and the TV show Simon and Simon advertising the place (and the Navy) Can’t tell you how many times I drove by that overpass where they kiss. They moved Top Gun from Miramar around 1996 and I believe it’s a marine base now.
Yes, my high school crush was a Marine and stationed there like 20 years ago.
Is Miramar near San Diego?
@@ct6852 Yes, in the northern part between the 805 and 15 freeways. East of La Jolla and University City. It’s actually part of San Diego
Yep, all true. I was stationed at North Island from 84-86. Being stationed there as a young Marine were some of the best times of my life!! And then moved up to Camp Pendleton from 86-88. So I've seen all the places that this was filmed at. Awesome times!! Simon and Simon was a GREAT show!!
what happened to Goose: when the lead plane pulled away, the jet wash (engine exhaust) disrupted the airflow into their engines. Because the right engine flamed out first, it cause asymmetric thrust and put the plane into a horizontal spin. That spin while dropping from the sky caused a low pressure area above the plane so the canopy 'hung' in it rather than get ripped away, so when they ejected, Goose slammed into it. Nobody has died to this in real life, but there has been some close calls and injuries. A renowned stunt pilot died shooting flat spin footage for this movie. I always thought this movie was righ tup your alley.. a good bit of romance to counterbalance the planes.... and volleyball
I heard somewhere recently that the filming pilot on Top Gun who died was the legendary Art Scholl, long-time aerobatic performer at air shows in his Shrike Commander aircraft. Scholl successfully filmed the brief scene that simulated an F-14 rolling while the camera sees the aircraft carrier behind and below him
I seem to remember that the legendary Chuck Yeager was badly burned while ejecting out of a flat spin. The seat hit him and cracked his facemask and the propellant fuel ignited his oxygen.
@@zumbinis same, after recently watching an amazing doco on the making of Top Gun. (lol at the name Peter Pettigrew being the head of Top Gun). I knda feel bad all these years saying RIP Goose when a pilot actually did die shooting that scene. A great pilot at that!
Tom Cruise was 24 when this came out. The "enemy" in this movie was generic (never defined for fear of pissing off the Soviets). Second seat in the F-14 was called the RIO (radio intercept officer). They monitored coms, radar etc.
At that time, action like this was happening with Libya. The Indian Ocean location for the carrier throws that off, but not naming an enemy keeps it timeless in a way and without people trying to nitpick about foreign relations and who's right or wrong or whatever. It's the same with the sequel. It was mostly inspired by Iran, but no one can say "wait, why are they suddenly in a snowy environment" as they come off the gulf?
Weird because Soviets were enemies all over 1980s programs, especially on TV.
I don't know about a "generic" enemy. Calling the planes "MiGs" and the red star on the oxygen masks made it pretty obvious who they were.
@@fubar1217 It was obviously Libya, since it was based on an actual event that occurred in 1981. But the screenwriters had the good sense not to say so explicitly.
@@fubar1217 Of course they're a generic enemy. Not only the Soviets use a red star or MiGs. Thinking about it logically, they wouldn't have been Soviets/Russians as it's mentioned that the Mig 28 can carry the Exocet missile. There is no way on earth that a NATO country would sell weapons to the Soviets.
I watched this movie when I was a very young child. Then I watched it again a few weeks ago to get ready to go see the new one.
I was not prepared for the sheer amount of sweat in EVERY scene.
"We're paying millions and millions for Tom Cruise. If he takes his shirt off it's impossible to lose money."
They say the sweatier you are, the more the chicks get the thirst, eh.....
11:11 *FUN FACT* In the extended version _Maverick_ actually took both showers before and after the meal.
Wait what? There's an extended version?
You noticed Charlie had a different look in the elevator where she's wearing a hat. Because her hair was a different color that was taped after the original shooting & she was already in character for another movie so they had to disguise her look
Those shootings for additional scenes (elevator, et cetera) were apparently at the behest of studio "suits", who thought they were needed to draw more female moviegoers (McGillis had already moved on to film "Witness").
@@bonghunezhou5051 I'd have to look up but it was the elevator & the love scene that was added later that's why it's in silhouette & that's why she's wearing a hat
I've watched a lot of people react to this lately and almost no one noticed that Merlin (Maverick's RIO at the end) is played by Tim Robbins.
I was just asking that in the final scene. Is that Tim Robbins?
He did look familiar, so I read the credits at the end; sure enough, it was Tim Robbins.
5:25 -- Alien.. That's Tom Skerritt.. He played the Captain. Dallas..
I was stationed at the naval training center in San Diego in 1985-86 when they film this. they filmed part of it on our base.
"This music is kind of awesome." Again, the 1980s. The Top Gun soundtrack stayed at #1 on the Billboard charts for five weeks during the summer of 1986 and was the best selling soundtrack of that year. The singles 'Take My Breath Away' and 'Danger Zone' peaked at #1 and #2 on the charts, respectively.
The 1980s were a big time for MTV. They had music videos from Top Gun on all the time.
How did the 80's have so many good pop songs? Half the pop songs now sound like homages to 80's songs.
@@ct6852 1980s music evolved from the music of the 1960s and 1970s. New Wave grew out of the dying Punk Rock and Disco genres of the 1970s, 80s rock music was heavily influenced by the 60s British Invasion and 70s classic rock, 80s Pop music had evolved from 50s Rockabilly and 60s Motown and R&B, and 80s heavy metal took inspiration from Led Zeppelin and 70s hard rock. The 80s became a melting pot of dozens of different styles and sounds, which created a wide variety of different music genres.
@@44excalibur Combining Punk and Disco sounds insane...but love New Wave. I guess some music was only possible with the new technology.
Interesting thing, that ejection accident was a real problem at one point. It was found that the ejection system on the f-14 would not time correctly when subjected to the g force of a flat spin, causing the canopy to be too low with a chance of hitting it when ejecting.
That wasn’t the problem. The problem is that in a flat spin the aircraft isn’t moving horizontally so that when the canopy blows off it just floats above the aircraft. Then when the pilots eject there’s a risk of colliding with the canopy. There was an F-14 modified for spin testing and one of the modifications was to change the ejection system so that the canopy would shatter so the pilots could eject through it minimizing the risk of hitting the canopy.
@@nocalsteve I looked this up and there was a timing issue as well with the explosives when in a spin, though the resource did not specify why. What it amounts to is that there are a series of steps that are supposed to take place in a certain order and time frame, and if the order or timing is wrong, it can cause the ejection to hit the canopy. Also, ejection systems can still work properly at zero airspeed conditions (I seem to recall a pilot ejecting from a plane on a carrier (to escape a fire I think) with minimal injury). Also, contrary to your statement the canopy is moving in a flat spin. The source for some of my information is guy who does "mover ruins movies", a former combat pilot and military thriller writer (think his name is Tom lemoine, might have that wrong). Some of this info is also from an aerospace engineer who does a similar "... Ruins movies" series. My own background is some aerospace engineering, computer science, and physics, with my more relevantent experience involving ballistics and computer science (most of my education is in computer science and a bit of physics, but I took some aerospace engineering courses, and wrote ballistic (fire control) software in a past job). It is possible of course that we both are right partly and we are misunderstanding each other.
@@nocalsteve just did a quick rough simulation of the conditions, and your scenario is sort of possible (canopy isn't moving in an expected way, nor is aircraft, resulting in unexpected behavior of the ejection seat/canopy/aircraft system). The timing issue isn't caused by a glitch in the system itself, but physics causing the normal timing to not be safe it appears (I swear I did hear that the timing sequence is affected by the forces of a flat spin though). As I stated at the end of my previous comment it looks likely that we are both right (or we are both missing some extra context that I probably heard of but have forgotten).
When I first watched this as a kid, I thought the green dye was Goose's brain juices.
Mad Magazine's take on it had it as yellow dye and implied it was urine
Fun fact: Top Gun is a real program in the US and any pilot in the Top Gun program caught quoting the movie is fined $5 🤣🤣
“They’re adorable. This is too happy right now. I feel like something bad has to happen.” I’ll say.
Are Goose and Dr. Greene from ER the same actor?? I think they are but he looks waaaaay different in the 90's. RIP Greene. And RIP Goose.
Yes
Yes. Same actor, Anthony Edwards.
“I probably would have had him die instead of Goose”. Lol! Make sure to see Top Gun Maverick at the theater and let us know what you think! It’s amazing! Definitely needs to be seen on the big screen.
Honestly, Maverick is a bit of a s**t aside from his relationship with Goose, which is adorable. But I absolutely love him in the sequel. And you can see how this Maverick could mature into him. Still Maverick, but ego better under control
@@jaycievictory8461 - I agree, he grew into a caring, responsible man with a side of cockiness still that I love!
"Who are these people firing at them?"
They never identify the bad guys in either Top Gun movie. I mean, they fly MiGs, so definitely behind the Iron Curtain for the first Top Gun.
When he went ballistic with Admirals daughter Penny Benjamin,she is the second movie,Penny that owns the bar
I haven't seen the new Top Gun yet... but I've heard from sources I trust that it does NOT suffer from the same afflictions that most movies suffer from nowadays... which is why it is doing so well and why it's such a great movie!
It is amazing. You should see it. I wish I had an IMax that was closer than an hour away or I'd have seen it there. It deserves to be seen in imax
It aint woke 💯its awesome!
Its brilliant,
It's good, but not as good as the first... but still good.
I can attest and do recommend it in the theater
Also note! At the end Maverick is flying with Merlin. This is the same guy who was Cougar's partner before he quit in the beginning because he was afraid of what might happen if he died on a mission. So it's almost fitting he be assigned with Maverick to try and pull him through a tough time where he may be shaken.
Imagine being Merlin in that situation though - “why the hell am I always in the backseat when my pilot has a crisis?”
@@CoffeeMatt10 yeah but maybe him having experience with it would help is I think one reason they'd assign them together. Plus they have past fighting experience together even if in separate jets. But yeah lol. Itd be tough to take on someone else with mental problems
So small physics lesson.
Jets plan on moving forward at all times. So much so that when pilota eject, the canopy is blown straight up... this relies on the aircraft forward motion to move from underneath the jettisoned canopy.
In Goose's death, they were in a flat spin, basically dropping, for the most part. So when they ejected, the canopy was still directly above them... that Goose was fired into...
The quick and the dirty of what happened to Goose
Small physics lesson.....Hollywood does Hollywood. Drama is not exact to real life. Just saying. 😊
"Why are they so sweaty??" So funny that I ask that very same question verbatim when this movie first came out in the 80's.
You should go see Top Gun: Maverick in theaters if you haven’t already. It’s actually even better than the original and I don’t say that lightly.
I just realized that with everyone going to see it in theaters, we might not get to see First Time Reaction videos when it comes to home video.
@@Tr0nzoid we can wait 30 years
Top Gun: Maverick is definitely not better than the original dude. Not even close. But it’s a worthy sequel.
@@christophertarango398 Agree with you 120%, character development is thin compared to the original!
Everytime I see the part when Goose dies, you know it's coming but it hits you in the gut. It sucks that the character dies beacause you learn to like him so much, that however is what makes it matter so much.
To this day I have to look away when Goose dies, still can't bear to watch even now.
Fun fact. The Navy allowed one missile shot to be filmed for the movie. They changed the angles and inverted the shot several times to make each shot look new.
11:51. That scene was a re-shoot. She was already filming another movie at the time and had black hair which is why she's wearing a baseball cap.
The original Top Gun is one of the best! I usually don’t like sequel, especially so long ago, but my son wants to take me for Father’s Day.
The sequel is better than the original.
TG: Maverick is even better than the original, IMHO. I hope you got to see it on Father's Day, and I hope you both enjoyed it.
The movie had elements that appealed to both men and women and the soundtrack was full of hits. A true classic and you'll enjoy the sequel for sure.
“I really like their cute friendship, and I really like Goose.” oh noooo 😭
I first saw this in the theater when I was 8 or 9 and it’s still one of my all-time favorites.
"I don't know why this song is making me happy." Yup...
Not just a guy’s favorite movie, it’s always been mine too! I’m glad you liked it!
Great movie. Another 80s romantic drama Officer and And A Gentleman with Richard Gear or Cocktail with Tom Cruse . Also a great 80's spy romantic comedy with the guy who plays Goose who is almost unknown today is Gotcha! which I highly recommend .
Would defo recommend Officer and Gentleman too, similar themes to Top Gun (military training, buddies, romance) but grittier (and made earlier).
Yes, please watch Cocktail. You’ll love it!
Anthony Edwards later starred in the medical TV series ER as Dr Greene.
Loved Gotcha, college students playing at being spies.
I love Gotcha. Watched it with a couple of buddies when we were around 14. It also got me suspended from school for 2 weeks for neatly giving a teacher a heart attack. Paintball had just started kicking off where we lived and we had started getting into it. My buddy and I decided a good prank would be me "terminating" him (we'd just watched T2) in music class.
He went running into the class screaming and I slowly walked in after him (shades on) pulled my paintball pistol out from under my school jacket and popped him 2x in the back and saying"Hasta la vista, baby!"; before turningaround and calmly walking out, he collapsed into the teacher while biting a fake Halloween blood capsule.
Teacher nearly died.
We got suspended and my dad nearly died laughing as he was trying to ground me.
I was a loadmaster on C-130 transport aircraft for the Marines and Air Force. That sound, the missile warning system alarm IS the scariest sound you'll hear when flying. Our crew was flying back from Afghanistan and flying thru the Persian Gulf along the Iranian coast when we started getting painted. My station was the right paratroop door, and my aircraft commander immediately told me "it" was coming from my side and asked if I could see "it", 'it" being a missile. Instinctively I grabbed the chaff and flare manual trigger and I look out my window scanning everywhere for a missile. Missiles have a very distinct smoke trail, so you KNOW when you see one. I don't see any smoke trail at all, all the while that warning tone is going off and I let the pilots know. They begin doing defensive maneuvers and basically turn the plane in the direction of the attack. Essentially having the exhausts (of the 4 engines) face away from any heat seeking missiles. Never did see a missile so we don't know if the Iranians were fucking with us or not, but we were definitely being targeted. Scariest moment in my military career, and i went thru some ground attacks too.
Slider : Remember, boys, no points for second place.
Goose : You're a lot brighter than you look.
Now you HAVE to see Top Gun Maverick!!! Top Gun Maverick is amazing!!! A lot better than the first IMO
People may hate “him” .. but T Cruise has so many good films . One of my fave actors , still kicking butt ( despite that crap Mummy film ).
People only hate him cus he's in that evil cult. But I don't think he's really in it. They just use celebrities for propaganda, and in return, the celebs get a tax write off int the form of donations that aren't really donations, cus it comes back in other ways. It's a massive money laundering scheme at the highest level. At the lowest level, it's just an abuse cult
He also does amazing stunts (Pretty much the Jackie Chan of USA) and does some flying on his own, not the F-18s, but helicopter and P-51 Mustang.
Remember people hates Anne hathaway as well. That's ridiculous
He's a legit movie star. But Scientology is also legit scary.
@@ct6852 That's my only negative about him.
Maverick: I feel the need...
Maverick and Goose: ...the need for speed!
(Maverick and Goose high fived each other)
Goose: OW!
14:50 - "This is too happy right now. I feel like something bad has to happen." What a prediction!
By the way, the scene in the elevator, she wore a baseball cap because they shot it weeks after they wrapped filming and her blonde hair color was brunette for another film. She couldn't go back to blonde so they threw a baseball cap on her but you can clearly see the color difference.
I think it's by far her best look in the movie
thought i was losing it for a second. i remember seeing Cassie watch this, but after a search of previous videos and it not being there, i was sure my brain was broken.
Edit: decided to rewatch your reaction... worth it... excellent as always.
Yeah It’s a reuploaded video
Did she even watch topgun? This is the same generic cut for another 'reaction' I soon lost interest in.
Goose died by breaking his neck on the canopy during ejection, due to a mechanical failure of the canopy not coming off correctly.
"I didn't dislike him" high praise indeed. 😀
"Bogey" is usually unidentified. When Identified they become either friendly, Hostile, or sometimes bandit.
This would be so much more fun with Carly there. They have a working dynamic that is unmatched.
Carly? The sister is Carly, Cassie is the channel owner
@@shredd5705 so right. I better change it before I get thrashed, lol.
@@shredd5705 Yes. And Carly sometimes joins Cassie to view and comment on a film.
Those of us who saw this in theaters in 1986 are still mourning Goose. We never fully recovered from that loss, a weird generational wound (for a lot of us).
Also the same year Optimus Prime died! Two blows in one year. 😀
It still hurts
Legend has it the volleyball scene was actually unscripted. The actors were just blowing off steam after the shooting day had wrapped and the director decided this was a great eye candy scene and started rolling the cameras
4:42 = "Son, your ego's been writing checks your body can't cash."
Me = The most bad ass line!!! 😎
Between the 2 movies Maverick becomes an Ace. Lol. The MIG 28’s the foreign aggressors (Russians) were flying were fictional planes for their military.
This film made the F 14’s Americas favorite fighter and was a huge recruiting tool for the Navy.
Im sure it played some small part in my decision to join the USN two years later but I ended up on submarines instead.
In the military, a callsign is a nickname given to pilots that becomes their professional name throughout their military career. Callsigns are based on some embarrassing story or something from boot camp.
Legal Eagle recently made a video going over this film and said in real life, Maverick a) would not have a callsign that awesome and b) would have so many charges of conduct unbecoming an officer or gentleman, reckless operation of aircraft, etc... that he would either be imprisoned or dishonorably discharged from the US Military.
For Val Kilmer, I recommend The Prince of Egypt and The Ghost and the Darkness.
The Saint for Kilmer.
Willow and Thunderheart for Kilmer. I think she's already seen Tombstone.
@@davidpackard8575 I can’t find one for Tombstone.
Back then I guarantee you the military would’ve covered up and protected a pilot of that caliber. Truth is no pilot was that good and those maneuvers would never be attempted anyways
I saw that Legal Eagle video too, I can defiantly see in this movie where those call signs actually could have been embarrassing, or meant to be. Throughout the movie people are putting down Maverick for being a loose cannon in the air, so I think it was meant to be embarrassing, but he just ran with it which made it cool. Speaking of cool, the other cool callsign is Iceman's which he could have gotten that for freezing up some where, maybe in an exam, or in boot camp at some obstacle, or it could be literal ice and some prank involving ice was played on him during bootcamp or aviator school
"I really like their cute friendship. And I really like Goose." Awwwwww, I'm so sorry!
The F-14s hitting afterburner flying into the sunset will forever be one of the greatest endings to a film
Oh! I looked this up.
At the beginning when you asked about "The Back Pilot", Goose and everyone you see riding in the back seat is called a Radar Intercept Officer. Today, I believe they're called "Wisso's" They are specialists with specific types of equipment depending on what kind of mission the pilot needs to do. In the newer movies [don't worry, no spoilers], these people are the ones who use the lasers to "paint" their targets so the smart bombs can hit them better.
Now, after watching this movie, dozens of times since childhood, I have come to the conclusion that.
A. Ice is right, Maverick is at fault for Cougar losing his edge and quitting in the beginning of the movie. Maverick could have targeted the mig and scared him off of Cougar's tail, but instead says, "Eh, he would have shot already if he was going to, let's mess with this guy instead" before doing the upside down stunt.
B. I think Iceman knows, and blames himself for Goose's Death, because he very much was at fault because:
1. Maverick Called the ball on the shot.
2. Iceman cut him off, and as a "cold as Ice" pilot who never makes a mistake, he also knew Maverick wouldn't have backed off like some other pilot. He would have known Maverick would have pressed him to regain the initiative on the target, and not pulled back out of position,.
3. Maverick tells Iceman to pull up Hard -Right as they are pursuing the front most plane bearing left, and Iceman pulls up first, and then out to the right, arguably making a movement that put his jetwash somewhere other than the direction Maverick assumed it would go.
This is a fantastic movie. The recent follow up (Top Gun 2) has some excellent flying scenarios that are extremely realistic but the first one is far more about character relationships than the second and that's what gives it the edge.
15:54 -- Goose's accident is based on a real event. Although unless I'm mistaken, that pilot lived but was badly injured.. Same thing though.. The canopy wasn't clear before the ejection seat fired...
1. An old shipmate of mine was on the Enterprise when they filmed this.
2. Gooses death was not Maverick's fault. Iceman was bogarting his LOS approach and they got caught in the jet wash.
3. I spent 24 years in the US Navy. 6 on "bird farms" (Carriers). I have seen 1000+ launches and landings without a single crash.
These men and the men working the flat tops are doing the most dangerous job in the world (for the good guys). Shout out😎
4. Kelly McGillis/Charlie was in a little-known movie with Harrison Ford "Witness" that's seriously worth a first time/share HINT HINT
5. Tom Skerritt/Viper not only played Dallas in "Alien" he also played Strawberry in "Up in Smoke" with Cheech and Chong.
6. Val Kilmer/Iceman has a long list of movies including but not limited to: "Willow", "The Doors" and "Tombstone"
7. The officer(Goose) is the RIO (Radar Intercept Officer) radar, communications and navigation.
8. Onboard the ship the Squadron leader would not be smoking a cigar in that operation space.
9. Meg Ryan is my honey. A great overlooked movie with her is with Tom Hanks called "Joe vs the Volcano' She plays 3 parts. HINT HINT
10. Onboard the ship/aircraft all the perspiration is Hollywood(not the pilot). There is AC onboard.
11. The TOP GUN school is no longer located at Miramar near San Diego. It's now at NAS Fallon, NV.
12. In 1991 I was stationed on the USS INDEPENDENCE (CV-62) and they made a movie onboard called "Flight of the Intruder".
It was seriously cool. Brad Johnson, Willem DeFoe and Danny Glover. I'm actually in it for a very brief period of time. HINT HINT. You will be the first.
13. Watching/sharing the new "Top Gun Maverick" is a must. The ariel work in that movie makes this one seem like they were practicing.
Jetwash refers to the rapidly moving gases expelled from a jet engine; it is extremely turbulent but of short duration. Wingtip vortices, however, are much more stable and can remain in the air for up to three minutes after the passage of an aircraft.
Love this movie. It was my favorite as a kid, and I wanted to be an F-14 pilot until getting glasses killed that dream.
Just saw the sequel a few days ago. Excellent follow-up. It was written by people who understand how to write sequels. Instead of trying to "recreate" the magic by hitting all the same story beats as the first one, they wrote it to hit echoing beats, allowing it to be a great film on its own, while still building on the foundation of the first movie.
@KJ10 A couple of weeks ago.
@KJ10 You're welcome. Hope you enjoy it. I thought it was great.
Same here my whole childhood and teen years was prepping to fly in F-14s and I graduate highschool and get rejected by the navy for vision. It was bad enough that the only branch that would take me was the army.
"The backseat pilot can't do anything?" - He generally handles weapons and radio, leaving the front seat pilot to do the flying.
This chick made me sing that song to her in a bar during fleet week in NY. I was in my dress whites of course. I tried to explain to her that I wasn't an officer, nor a singer, but I was pressured into it by the whole bar anyway. I was saved by everyone in the bar just like in the movie. Spent the rest of the night explaining all my chest candy to the ladies.
As a kid and even just watching it now, it always pisses me off that Jester reprimanded Maverick and Goose for going below the hard deck. He went below it first, they just followed him. If instructors can just fly below the minimum altitude to avoid losing, it's nonsense.
Don't you know though that the A-4 is rated for subterranean ops, while the -14A wasn't.
Incorrect, Maverick drops below first to intercept. Goose says “let’s get down there first and nail him”, and then they have to wait for Jester to drop into the hud.
@@CoffeeMatt10 Regardless, Jester still dropped below the hard deck as well.
@@mikeh720 When you say subterranean, how literally do you mean...?
@@chrissonofpear1384 it was a joke. The "hard deck" is simulated ground level, to go below would be underground.
You may like An Officer And A Gentleman much more than Top Gun. Top Gun stayed number 1 for many months when it was released. It set a standard in the industry. Rocky was made with thousands of dollars. Top Gun was made with a 15 million dollar budget and cleaned up at the box office. Its success made it more unlikely for a movie like Rocky to be made again. All producers are now wanting that same kind of success as Top Gun.
The ROI for Rocky was great and as a franchise, Top Gun can't catch it.
@@757optim I agree. Rocky is a much more amazing story on and off screen considering how well it did. It also made Silvester Stallone a household name and took him from rags to riches overnight. Rocky's message of never giving up on yourself is also more inspiring. However, Top Gun and back to the Future are the two Hollywood movies that kinda changed everything. Top Gun for inflated budgets with grand payoffs and Back to the future for product placement.
@@lexwells4763 You've reminded me - My youngest was a hoot watching the VHS of "Back To The Future" over and over in his underoos. Reciting all the dialogue and substituting for the "bad" words", "driving" the Deloren with his Fischer-Price toy steering wheel/gear shift, accelerating to 88 mph and shifting when Marty shifted, shooting a toy machine gun when the "Livians" shot, playing guitar with Marty. A major regret is not capturing that on video. And that trilogy might be the best ever. But six Rocky movies and three Creeds from such humble beginnings? The Rocky saga ran so long that no makeup was needed to "age" Stallone. : ) All beginning with a script written by some unknown actor with poor diction and the audacity to demand that he play the lead role or the movie not be made. You can't make it up.
It's nice to have a second Top Gun. And Tom Cruise, though perhaps a little weird, must stand at the top of the heap of "movie stars" today. His filmography speaks for itself. "Mission Impossible" for instance is up there as a franchise. The guy is, as they say, "box office".
@@757optim Are you his agent?
@@lexwells4763 Which one? Stallone or Cruise? I'll take 10% of either. : )
4:14 -- The second seat is the navigator and weapons officer. (more or less.) -- It also depends on which aircraft you're in..
"some classic songs on here" this movie is the reason they are classics.
Fun Fact: In combat drills like they are doing the "Hard Deck" is set to represent the ground, it's usually still thousands of feet in the air, its to give the pilots room to move around safely. When Maverick chased Jester below the hard deck, had he pulled up before going below he would have won there by technically simulating chasing Jester into the ground. I am sure they had Naval advisors for this movie that would have explained tho, so the fact that Maverick still chased him below the hard deck just to get the missile lock was VERY stupid and un-necessary. And was really about bragging rights and not points. Since be broke the ROE, or Rules of Engagement, he probably got 0 points for that instead of getting points for a win. Possibly winning by forcing your opponent to "crash" is less points than a missile lock, but he should have known breaking ROE would disqualify him. but either way he REALLY didn't need to do that.
Didn't someone say Jester would've been the one in trouble because he broke the rules first?
@@toob1979 Yes. For an instructor to breach a hop safety rule would have been a big deal. Never saw it happen though so I can't say.
@@toob1979 Hmm, I have no idea if he would have, he was an instructor too, and technically that just simulates him crashing, And i think someone told me when i was younger, don't know if it's true, that the jet jester was in was able to handle lower altitudes than the jet Mav and Goose were in.... In any event Jester was chased below the hard deck Mav chose freely to go below it and didn't have to.
Once Jester reached the hard deck, the exercise should have been terminated. Maverick and Goose would have been credited with a maneuver kill over Jester. Jester would not have breached safety rules if he called terminate, rolled wings level, ceased tactical maneuvering, and climbed to begin egress procedures from the training area. The debrief would have covered that. But when Maverick went below the hard deck, he "killed" himself and Goose. When Maverick continued tactical maneuvering below the hard deck, he broke procedural and safety rules. It was completely unnecessary for Maverick to have done that. Both the A-4 and F-14 handle just fine below 10,000 feet, they do have to land.
@@tumbleweed9977 thanks, was trying to say that but you worded it way better than me lol
Two movies that star Val Kilmer are "Top Secret" (a Comedy), and "Tombstone" (a Western).
Both are a must-see.
Val kills it as Doc in Tombstone. I'd add Real Genius for a must-see Val Kilmer movie. Everybody's Skeet Surfing!
Saw him first in Real Genius. I liked Thunderheart too.
“I know a little German. He’s sitting over there.”
The Saint is also a great movie by Val
15:43 @ Popcorn in bed turns full italian without realizing it lmao "He's a gonna be fine" lol
For reference, the cockpit canopy (the glass part that blow off before the pilots can be ejected) probably weighs anywhere from 800-1000lbs+. And the rate at which those ejection seats launch the occupants out of the aircraft is fast enough to literally make most people pass out. I'm honestly surprised that Goose wasn't any more mangled than he looked.
I really love the bromance between Maverick and Goose, it made this movie for me. You could also buy Miles Teller as Anthony Edwards' son, they look so alike, down to the moustaches!
Fun fact about both actors - during filming in both, the cast were taken up in the jets to get a feel for what it’s like being in a fighter jet, Anthony Edwards was the only cast member to not throw up in the first one, Miles Teller was one of only three cast members who didn’t throw up during the second one.
I’m glad you’re starting to watch Top Gun, I hope you’ll get to watch the second one, and you should also watch other classic movies like: Gone With The Wind, Lawrence Of Arabia, The Godfather Trilogy, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Citizen Kane, West Side Story (1961), Goodfellas, The Adventures Of Robin Hood, and The Princess Bride
One of my favorite movies of all time
When there were still video stores Top Gun was the most rented movie of all time