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[Gulo Blue]

I watched it as a kid, and remember it turning my older college-educated family members into drooling rednecks "Hurr Maverick shot down three MIGs, wow durrr. We're winnign teh cold war"

My grandma made my brother and I leave the room during the PG-13 sex scene between Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis. I wonder what she would have said if we knew back then that both of them were Bi?

I watched it many years later and couldn't get past the dialogue. I can't believe it wasn't written by a computer as some kind of Cold War DARPA domestic propaganda project. It's unbelievably terrible. I went back found Roger Ebert's review of it and he agreed:

"Movies like "Top Gun" are hard to review because the good parts are so good and the bad parts are so relentless. The dogfights are absolutely the best since Clint Eastwood's electrifying aerial scenes in "Firefox." But look out for the scenes where the people talk to one another."
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2 1/2 stars.

You are such a communist.

 

[Michchamp]

You are such a communist.

 

[byco42]

I watched it as a kid, and remember it turning my older college-educated family members into drooling rednecks "Hurr Maverick shot down three MIGs, wow durrr. We're winnign teh cold war"

My grandma made my brother and I leave the room during the PG-13 sex scene between Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis. I wonder what she would have said if we knew back then that both of them were Bi?

I watched it many years later and couldn't get past the dialogue. I can't believe it wasn't written by a computer as some kind of Cold War DARPA domestic propaganda project. It's unbelievably terrible. I went back found Roger Ebert's review of it and he agreed:

"Movies like "Top Gun" are hard to review because the good parts are so good and the bad parts are so relentless. The dogfights are absolutely the best since Clint Eastwood's electrifying aerial scenes in "Firefox." But look out for the scenes where the people talk to one another."
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2 1/2 stars.

I've never seen it all the way through, which is why I call it a "classic".

"And if you screw up just this much, you'll be flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong!" That's just so...good.

 

[sggatecl]

Top Gun is good in the way Road House is good.

Perhaps not AS good. But they would be together on a Venn Diagram.

 

[Spartanmack]

Top Gun is good in the way Road House is good.

Perhaps not AS good. But they would be together on a Venn Diagram.

how could it be?

 

[tinselwolverine]

how could it be?

It couldn?t be.

As far as seething of genuine, organic, chiseled icy coolness, Roadhouse and Point Break solely occupy a category of their own.

 

[Spartanmack]

It couldn?t be.

As far as seething of genuine, organic, chiseled icy coolness, Roadhouse and Point Break solely occupy a category of their own.

exactly. Pain don't hurt - maybe the best line of dialogue ever written.

 

[tinselwolverine]

exactly. Pain don't hurt - maybe the best line of dialogue ever written.

I think we can agree to agree.

 

[sggatecl]

how could it be?

It couldn?t be.

As far as seething of genuine, organic, chiseled icy coolness, Roadhouse and Point Break solely occupy a category of their own.

I think we can agree to agree.

Look, I didn't want to make assumptions on something subjective. Some people have awful taste and I try to respect that. Road House is obviously superior.

 

[byco42]

You are such a communist.

That's what I said!

Link

 

[Spartanmack]

Look, I didn't want to make assumptions on something subjective. Some people have awful taste and I try to respect that. Road House is obviously superior.

this post and meme would be apt if we were talking about opinions but we're not, we're talking about an objective truth.

 

[Michchamp]

That's what I said!

Link

he was agreeing with you, I think. he never misses a post.

 

[Gulo Blue]

he was agreeing with you, I think. he never misses a post.

I think you being such a communist might a point of board consensus.

 

[Michchamp]

I think you being such a communist might a point of board consensus.

No, really?

 

[Gulo Blue]

No, really?

How many do we have? You're such a communist, Princess Bride is good, and Devin Gardner was a wasted raw talent that could have been much better under different circumstances?

 

[byco42]

How many do we have? You're such a communist, Princess Bride is good, and Devin Gardner was a wasted raw talent that could have been much better under different circumstances?

Avila is a bad GM.

 

[Michchamp]

Avila is a bad GM.

I'd have to take your word for it.

I never get into pro sports debates, because I have a hard time caring about the toys bone-headed billionaires inherit.

It seems to me like -overall - professional teams are more poorly managed than when I was younger, which would be consistent with the theories of generational wealth and ability I'm familiar with (in many cases we're on the 3rd or 4th generation past the originator of family wealth).

 

[tinselwolverine]

Avila is a bad GM.

Not every M board poster is a Tiger board poster.

 

[tinselwolverine]

I'd have to take your word for it.

I never get into pro sports debates, because I have a hard time caring about the toys bone-headed billionaires inherit.

It seems to me like -overall - professional teams are more poorly managed than when I was younger, which would be consistent with the theories of generational wealth and ability I'm familiar with (in many cases we're on the 3rd or 4th generation past the originator of family wealth).

Monoghan and Ilitch were both the originators of their empires that purchased the Tigers.

 

[Michchamp]

Monoghan and Ilitch were both the originators of their empires that purchased the Tigers.

Monoghan... one of the shining examples of the theorem that wealth =/= intelligence OR sound decision making.

Illitch was more sensible. His kids though... that's I'm talking about.