Fun story about Tom Skerrit, I delivered so many pizzas to his home in Seattle that his wife and I became friends. He might be the nicest human on the planet. She is equally as wonderful.
@@mena94x3 if you want to see a great reaction video to Steel Magnolias, watch Awkward Ashley. She had no idea what was coming. Probably the most I've seen her cry during a reaction. Despite not being married anymore, I still quote Tom Skerritt, I make it a habit to never argue with my wife. She is definitely one of the best, and it's nice to learn that he's one of the good guys too.
i've always loved this movie despite the 80s cheese. top gun maverick is everything that can be asked of a sequel. it builds on the original, surpasses the original and even manages to improve the original. just great stuff.
There's one thing lacking in one of the characters. The Super Hornet does not have anywhere near the screen presence of the Tomcat, which does make a visual effects cameo appearance, but it's not the same.
After this movie came out, whenever you went to an airshow that had an F-14 demo, the narrator would always say that he had received a message that the pilot had a need, a need for speed.....and then the F-14 would fly down the flight line conducting a high speed pass. Recruitment for the Navy also increased dramatically after this movie came out.
Fun fact: During filming on the carrier, the captain changed the course of the ship and it changed the lighting. Tony Scott asked the captain to turn back to the original course so he could finish the shot. The captain agreed, but would only do it for $25,000 (1986) dollars. Tony Scott immediately wrote the Navy a check for the amount. The rest of the shot only took five minutes. The reason for the course change is the carrier always has to sail into the wind during launch and recovery operations. The amount was for the fuel needed to keep the aircraft up for those five minutes that they couldn't land.
That 5 minutes was well worth it as we got the best opening scene ever. Tony Scott said in a later interview that he made sure the cheque bounced 😂 Another fun fact is one of the pilots ended up the butt of the jokes because his landing made the final cut… and he caught the first wire. Wire 2 is acceptable, wire 3 is preferable, wire 4 is taking a big risk of going off the front of the deck, and wire 1 is “if you came in any lower you would be a flaming figurehead on the stern of the ship!” So 1 and 4 are the ones you don’t really want to catch, especially when the cameras are rolling, and that pilot did just that 😂
Fun fact: the scene when they were being briefed by Charlie , and she was questioning Maverick on the inverted dive, you hear Iceman say , "bulls#%+!" That was improved by Val Kilmer, not in the script and that was real reactions by the actors when he yelled that out.
Don’t forget that the Captain who was shorter than Maverick was also Principal Strickland in Back to the Future up against the famously short Michael J. Fox.
Lots of reactors doing this movie with the release of the sequel, but none are more exciting than Shanelle covering it on her channel. I can’t wait to watch this!
I watch a lot of reactors. I've seen the thumbnails for many of them reacting to this movie. I have not clicked on them. I don't know why. I just wasn't interested in their reactions to this particular movie. But when I saw Shanelle did it, I clicked immediately. I just think HER reaction to THIS movie will be a good combination to watch. (I haven't watched it yet. I'm about to start.)
As was Danger Zone. The 2 lead singles from the soundtrack, hence why they get the most play throughout the film. Kenny Loggins wrote Playing With The Boys, and then due to another performer dropping out (I think it was Toto?), he was approached to finish writing and perform Danger Zone. It is hailed as one of the best soundtracks ever, and had a lot of people wondering if Top Gun: Maverick would match up. Thankfully they didn’t try to match it, instead they called in Hans Zimmer (and Lady Gaga) to help write a proper film score, and it’s all the better for it.
Interesting fact - There is a video done by an ex-JAG officer who stated that Maverick would have lost his wings and been sent directly to jail in the first ten minutes of this film.
I saw this Movie when it came out, but not in a Theater! I was Stationed on a Guided-Missile Destroyer stationed in the Pacific. We had been underway of 3 weeks and the Captain wanted Something Special for the Crew, so we had a "Movie Night" on the 02 level of the fantail. After a BBQ dinner, We Turned the 50mm Cannon Around, and showed "Top Gun" on the Back of the Turret, With the Ocean on both sides and a Crsecent Moon we saw it.
It will never NOT be impressive when a walking red flag has the ability to consistently make you love their onscreen portrayals. Seems a fitting counterpoint to all those actors who always get type-cast as villains and horrible people...but in real life are bona-fide sweethearts 😄
I don't really get the desire to hate him, tbh. I mean the whole scientology thing is weird, and he's had a couple wacky moments on TV. But that doesn't make me want to hate him. Just makes me think he's a bit weird or eccentric.
If you've been following movie reactors for any amount of time, you notice they all react to the same stuff at around the same time... whether it's because they share Patreons, people just vote for the same stuff, or following the TH-cam algorithm/trends, I'm not really sure... but it's kinda nice to know that you'll usually see your favorite reactor get around to seeing a particular show/movie if a few other reactors watch it.
When I heard the line "You gotta let him go" I always took it to mean that the instructor knows that Mav is holding on to his father and that gets in the way of his progress. That's who he was talking about
I was in the Navy in '86 based in Orlando going through training. I loved the movie but it really was over the top when compared to the real thing. It was the best 2hr recruitment film for the Navy ever.
@@SC457A I don't think he really liked being associated with the movie, rumor is that he did not want to record his lines for the flight scenes until he heard that one of the Navy pilots was going to do the lines in his place.
14:31 This soundtrack ! Yes ! Berlin ! "Take my breath away' .... classic ... cheesy but good !!! isn't it ? or only for 1986 ? 37:18 Love your version of "You lost the loving feeling". Shanelle Your guitar skills are awesome. You reactions and comments on Top Gun (1986) hit me straight into my heart ! Thanks for sharing !
Seeing this movie brings back good memories. My Dad took me to see it on a school night because he was Navy flight crew back in the 60's and he was super stoked to see it. It was one of the few VHS movies he ever bought as well (along with The Godfather and The Dirty Dozen).
A friend of mine in high school got a Navy scholarship because of this movie. He actually made a paper plane like the F-14 that flew with the wings in both positions and entered it in the school science fair and won.
OK. The guitar and singing "You Lost that Lovin' Feeling" to us... I don't even... We do not deserve you. Great reaction. Great movie. Thank you for your work.
Fun fact at the end when Maverick throws gooses dog tags in the ocean the producers had to pay a BUNCH of extra money to have them turn the boat around to capture that exact lighting.
For the most part, Tom Cruise didn't do his own flying in the new movie because the military would not allow it. He did fly at the end in a privately owned plane. All the flying was practical effects with all the actors actually experiencing the G forces.
The callsigns (nicknames) are picked by fellow pilots, usually for something outrageous a person has done or a persistent behavior. Sometimes they change over a (Navy) pilots career. If you'd really like to know more about it, Ward Carroll (former F-14 back seat) has a YT channel and one of his drops is about the callsigns, "The REAL Truth About Aviator Callsigns"
My dad was in the Navy. I was born at Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station, home of the Nighthawks. I have a tattoo of the squad patch on my shoulder. I enjoyed being a military brat. It will make you either a very strong person, or a deeply disturbed one. The military can be a rough environment to grow up. You move every 3 years. You're constantly having to make new friends because even though you just moved there doesn't mean your new best friend won't be gone in a month. You learn to accept, appreciate, and let go of people quicky.
This came out the summer before my senior year in high school and got a few of my classmates to join the navy, only for them to later find out the navy wasn't all cool fighters and volleyball games.
I saw this movie in the theater one week before I went to basic training in the Air Force (not Navy). Didn't fly jets, but guarded them. (Security Specialist aka Military Police). Good times!
Go see the sequel and then watch the behind-the-scenes on youtube. They used 6 Imax cameras in the cockpits. This film was shot in San Diego county in Calif, thus the golden hour lighting.
In addition to leather jackets and tshirts, Shan, the sales of Kawasaki Ninja motorcycles went through the roof. Also, Tim Robbins played "Merlin", Maverick's back seater in the end dogfight. Action movies didn't usually feature very music heavy soundtracks because of cost. I think Danger Zone and Take My Breath Away were written specifically for the film.
I had just graduated from college, I was working at the Orlando Airport Marriott, and five evenings in a row I went to watch this movie, I was infatuated with aircraft, especially fighter planes and jets. This was the number one movie of 1986, and I still top this day watch this movie. Fighter jets are the coolest weapons ever... My call sign would have been "Black Lightening", mainly because when I was young and healthy I ran the 100 yard dash in 9.9 seconds, and the quarter mile in 49 seconds... I am glad you enjoyed the movie....
As much as I would love to see you react to Top Gun Maverick, you should really go see this in the biggest theatre you can find. It is a cinematic marvel and yes, the cameras are in the planes in the sequal. Love your reactions, keep it up.
A lot of contemporary reactors watch this and really brace against Viper telling Mav he has to "let (Goose) go", but honestly I was 8 when this came out. The whole idea of let it go and get him flying right away is central to what Top Gun is *for* - they are teaching pilots how to fight in war. In WWII or Vietnam aviators and pilots might run multiple sorties a day as part of prolonged campaigns and have friends die around them, and they won't get a day off or even the rest of that mission off if it happened. I found it to be one of the more important and valid ideas this movie plays with. And, in this case, it happens literally - the climactic aerial battle happens about a day after they left Miramar.
it's also a training issue. You get them back on the saddle as soon as possible and they don't have time to sit and reflect on what happened. In lots of ways it's a good way to help with trauma. That's imo :D
Like everything in life, we shouldn't mourn with the past and move on. We shouldn't stop on our path and feel sorry for our guilt, but instead learn from it and learn how to prevent it in the future. I learned that from Viper.
It's also a product of its time. I'm a bit surprised how quickly we've forgotten the time when "rub some dirt on it and stop crying" was the predominant treatment for most (male) trauma. It persisted into this century, FFS! 1986 is well before mental health was considered important for anything less than crippling cases. As long as he can unfold from the fetal position to report for duty, "get him up and keep him busy" was SOP for non-physical injuries. I have mixed feelings about how incomprehensible "how it used to be" has become. I guess I'm just getting old.
@@jimstanley_49 "rubbing dirt on it" has merit. Is important. Is even part of the critical emotional infrastructure of a functioning civilization. If ye olden days had a flaw it's that they would *only* rub some dirt on it; our modern fallacy though is reproaching the idea that we should *ever* rub some dirt on it, because if you never do, both individuals and the society they comprise trend toward stasis. The next trauma isn't going to wait, you see - certainly not for a fighter pilot. And the movie doesn't judge or condemn Cougar, who ultimately can't 'rub dirt on it' - you can't after all force someone to fly a fighter jet - but in order to have people who can and will fly them, their dirt-rubbing game has to be honed, and ultimately that's how Maverick gets to the end of the movie.
@@danh8804 I never said it didn't have merit. I'm aghast that the concept is so foreign to so many young people that they can't even conceive of it existing in the (very) recent past. I'm almost tempted to think it's a sign we've progressed, but, like you say, it's more likely we've thrown out the baby with the bath water.
Yup, and that's why we go to see the second one on the big screen. Absolutely perfect sequel and excellent on the big screen. TONS of callbacks and references to this one. Hope you go see it, but careful .. you'll lose all your nails in that one!
This is my dad's favorite movie and the first Tom Cruise movie I saw on VHS! It was a box office success, making $360 million dollars ($798 million dollars today) against a $15 million dollar budget. It took home the Oscar for Best Original Song.
Having seen this in the theater when it was released and watching it hundreds of times over my lifetime I can honestly say the sequel is even better. And I've only seen Maverick once. It's so great.
Hello Shanelle! Re: the "nicknames". They are called Call Signs. They replace your actual name on radio frequencies. You don't pick, your squadron or wing assigns you one. If you don't like it, you could request a new one, and that one will always be worse. Call signs tend to try to pull you down a notch or poke fun at you. Since our company pilots are all veterans, they brought the tradition and their callsigns with them. We have a pilot who was handsome but bland. His call sign was "Nima", short for "Nothing Interesting, Move Along". There was "Mental", coz her family home was across from the Institute for Mental Health. There was "Scratch", who took off with too little power on his trainer and literally scratched the paint off the bottom of the trainer clearing the trees at the end of the runway. Since i sometimes go up with them on Medevac runs and flights to our more remote job sites, they gave me my own. The VP of the company told them i had spent time as a CSI and Medical Examiner. So i became "Ducky", as in Dr. "Ducky" Mallard from NCIS. There are a lot of funny example. The (former?) Commanding Officer of the US Air Force, Gen. Michael "Mobile" Holmes, a Colonel who got into the news for Disciplinary Action was Col. Dan "Tess" Stickles, a pilot in the Pacific has the callsign of Blaze for accidentally setting fire to the base canteen, a USN Flight Doctor was "Ford" for Found On Road Dead Drunk after too much partying. Then there was the guy who went around the squadron telling everyone he wanted "Hollywood". One squadron mate answered "You ain't Hollywood, more like Burbank!". So "Burbank" it is. Then there's things like "Blow" Jobbins, "Ghost" Casper, "Kanga" Rew, "Lingus" for an Irishman with a first name of Kenny, and Maj. "Oh My" Ghad. Then there's "Bambi" who hit a deer while on a training flight, "Lamb" who liked to wear dresses cut way too low (Look At My Boobs), "Rotor" (Ran Off The Only Runway), "Utah" (Uptight Ass &$@!), and "Wifi" for the pilot whose wife was from a rich family (Wife Financed It).
If you love 80s films then you really need to do Val Kilmer's film Real Genius. It's nothing deep but it is funny and I love the way that it looks and I love the soundtrack and the score. This is where I became a Val Kilmer fan and have been ever since.
This was the first movie i ever saw on vhs, it was fairly new at the time and I was 8 years old. Rewatched it the second time age 25. Despite not seing it since age 8.. I actually remebered pretty much all the major seance.
I saw Top Gun in the cinema in 1986 and bought the soundtrack afterwards (I also bought the original Terminator soundtrack, which isn't on Spotify ). Trivia: The nicknames are CallSigns and are given to a pilot by the other members of the team. It is normally based on something embarrassing, so no one is likely to get a cool callsign like "Maverick" or "Viper". As an example, one of the real Navy pilots for the movie had the callsign "Bozo" (and was responsible for making Cruise puke). Also, the accident with Goose was caused by a real design flaw in the engines of that plane. And when in a flat spin, the RIO (Goose) could be fired into the canopy by the ejector seat, travelling several hundred mph on impact.
Highway To The Shanelle Zone! The #1 movie for the Memorial Day Weekend of 1986. Cruise was 23, I think, & was the only choice for Maverick. I didn't get a chance to see the film until Labor Day. There was a lot of other films out there that I wanted to see, including an advance screening of Big Trouble In Little China. I thought Top Gun was okay at the time but the movie over the past, almost, four decades has grown on me. During the Great Balls Fire scene, there is a little kid in a cowboy hat sitting on the piano. That, of course, is Goose's son & has a direct connection w/ Top Gun: Maverick. Definitely worth seeing. Love the guitar solo, Shannelle!
I really love your reactions, and this was no exception. I know you'd love to react to Top Gun: Maverick on the channel, but PLEASE see it in the theater. You're honestly missing out, if you don't. Take care, be safe!
And if you can you need to see it on the XD Cinemark screen if still offered as the 11.1 surround sound is so much better. I ended up seeing it twice on the XD screen just because of the sounds.
I was 16 when this movie came out. Lived 3 miles from Mirimar. A buddy of mine was Cruise's stand in for the volleyball scene. I can tell you here and now, leather flight jackets NEVER became a thing after this movie came out. What was big? The hair styles and the sun glasses. And the Kawasaki Ninja.
So glad you did this reaction., The names the guys go by are NOT nicknames- but Call Signs. This harkens back to when America had created its Air Force. This is to keep our soldiers safe. Also, its weird to call this movie “Camp” when its totally not. Camp would be the batman and robin movie, or Harley Quinn.. this movie Top Gun is a love letter to the Air Force and those who serve. The music in the movie may seem cheesy, but at the time and because of the popularity of the movie the soundtrack BLEW UP- the music and songs were created For the movie. But then like Celine Dions My heart will go on- All the songs on this soundtrack went crazy popular.
Air Force? This is definitely a huge recruiting boon to the UNITED STATES NAVY. Air Force didn't fly F-14A's in the mid 1980's, they were strictly fleet defense aircraft.
@@jeffburnham6611 ok.. thanks for the clarification. Either way it still doesn’t change why the use of Call Signs are used., which is for their safety. That was my point of why Call Signs are used. Also, yes it was a love letter to both Navy and Air Force- because believe me after this movie came out the Air Force definitely saw a increase in the amt of people who joined.
Great movie. A great 80s underrated Spy Comedy with the guy who plays Goose is Gotcha! which I highly recommend you see. Another great Val Kilmer movie is The Saint. Also you should try other Tom Cruise movies like Rainman , The Firm, A Few Good Man, Cocktail, Interview with a vampire, Vanilea Sky.
I can't stand most of Cruise's movies, because he usually plays the same brash Mary Sue type A character. That's why the Mission: Impossible movies irk me, because they have nothing to do with the original series. The Oceans movies are far more similar. I did like him in Collateral and Tropic Thunder. In fact one could claim that Ben Stiller's in movie character in Tropic Thunder , Tugg Speedman is a parody of Cruise's usual persona. Cruise is priceless as Les Grossman.
I was 22 Years old in 1986 when I saw Top Gun in the Theatres. It was an exciting Movie. It was amazing seeing the closeups and camera Angles. I loved the Music track as well.
13:37 actually that's usually the point of the call signs in the Navy. Your call sign is usually mocking you in some way for something silly you did or said, or maybe a character trait you get made fun of for. You're really not supposed to get cool call signs in the Navy (unlike the Airforce). The squadron will come up with a bunch of options for you and then vote on them and give you the one that they like the best. The characters in this film have far cooler call signs than you'd typically get in the Navy.
If you try to give yourself a call sign (not a nickname) you'll hear about it. Probably by getting an even worse call sign. One naval aviator was awarded the call sign LEX the day he appeared at a new station wearing his emblems backwards. "Are you dyslexic?" Another aviator's last name was Seaman. Call sign SPERM. I kid you not. Call signs are one or two syllable words easily distinguishable in a noisy or chaotic environment, so aviators know exactly who is being referenced.
Yep. If everyone chose their own call sign, there’d be a ton of “Blade”, “Laser”, “Iceman” etc. call signs. My favorite story I read was a guy was given “Shredder”… sounds cool until you realize it’s because he dropped his paperwork in a shredder on his first day.
They are call signs. And I believe in this movie the far away shots were actual pilots pretending to fight,and the cockpit shots of cruise are real but in trainers with the real pilot in the back and cruise pretending to fly
Some of the scenes in the cockpit it's models in a studio. And they're not realistic callsigns, at least not all of them, those that could be would be more unlikely, it would be embarrassing names associated with something they've done (stated by a fighter pilot)
There a no shots of them in a cockpit while actually flying. All the cockpit scenes are shot with a mock-up or actual cockpit but on the ground. And the pilot wouldn’t be sitting in the back, if it had been “in trainers”. For the sequel, they actually have filmed everything in flight. The actors are sitting in the back seat of an F/A-18F, though, not in the front seat where the actual pilot would be.
@@MrFloppyHare none of them are allowed in the planes without a pilot. They were warned not to even touch the plane while it was parked at the premier. Even tom.
17:40 - Yes, they added this later as a crowd-pleaser and they were in silhouettes 'cause Tom had gone off to do Born On The 4th Of July after this and looked entirely different (long hair and moustache).
Actually he was filming Disney’s “The Color of Money” for Scorsese in Chicago (which came out months after “Top Gun” came out in May of 86). McGillis was filming “The Accused,” which she had to wear a ball cap due to her different hair color. Cruise would be booked for “Born on the 4th of July” two years later.
Love your reactions Shanelle! Run don't walk to go see Top Gun Maverick if you haven't already. Seen it twice and my wife and kids loved it just as much as me!
Loved your reactions Shanelle,glad you enjoyed this old,classic film. When I was in the navy,served aboard carriers,I enjoyed it very much.There are moniters all over the ship,so you can watch flight ops,which I did often. I was also in an attack squadron-VF-84 ( Jolly Rogers ) got to talk to a lot of our pilots on ship and shore,they were always nice and polite. VF-84 was a part of the airwing attached to the USS Roosevelt,when the carrier is headed to a port,the airwing flies in 3 days ahead of the carrier. An aircraft carrier is HUGE,lots of places to explore and have some alone time if you want/need it. GO-NAVY !!!! LOL.
33:19 "so its Soviet" - this is a bit misleading. The MiG (there are a number of them over the years, although ironically the one in this film is fictitious) is a Russian developed aircraft but that doesn't necessarily mean the enemy is Russian. And in fact the incident that inspired the events in this film The Gulf of Sidra incident was against Libyan forces. And Libya did fly MIGs in their airforce. But the film went out of its way to not name an enemy for a reason, so technically they're not Libyan either.
@@MrFloppyHare eh, that's more like a generic symbol for some communist/socialist state. Like I said, they purposely left the enemy unnamed. And again, the events that inspired what we see in the film was a conflict with Libya, who at the time just had a plain green flag.
The jets in the Gulf of Sidra incident were Sukhoi's, SU-22's. Sukohoi being another Soviet aircraft bureau (manufacturer) like Mikoyan and Gurevich (MIG).
@@martinwarford1389 The specific ones they engaged with were su-22's. But the Libyans had MiG 25 foxbats and Mig 23s. And they had flown into the area of the naval carriers. The movie is inspired by the incident, its not an exact recreation of it. But the point being that just because the MiG is soviet doesn't mean the enemy is soviet. Other countries flew MiG jets.
@@moonlitegram No argument with you, l got your point. Just threw out some extra info. Two Tomcats shot down two Libyan Mig-23's in 1989, but that of course was way after Top Gun came out. Neighbor Egypt used MIGs at that time too. Still do. Syria, etc
Absolutely love this, watching the second one last week reignited my love for it even more, love the cast, love the music, love the script, just great!
The real tearjerker of a (platonic) love story is between Maverick and Viper, who risked his career to help heal Maverick's heart with some long-overdue closure, and gave him the biggest vote of confidence in offering to fly with him. 🥰
My “call sign” is - SLICE. I first saw TOP GUN on VHS tape, 24” TV onboard the USS CONSTELLATION (CV-64) in the middle of the Indian Ocean. We were on a 6 month deployment, aka WESTPAC cruise. It ain’t no “cruise”. It was my first introduction to working 12-hour days, everyday, whilst between port calls (everyday is Monday). We did 87 straight days at sea, at one point. Sleep, work, eat, repeat. At least I was in an air conditioned (A/C) space. Those BoilerTechs and Enginemen worked 4 hours on, 4 hours off, 24-hours a day in non A/C spaces. I would always c them on the mess decks (where we ate) in sweat-soaked coveralls.
You definitely need to watch True Romance. It's a Quentin Tarantino script that got a big budget and they had Tony Scott (Top Gun) direct. It came out in '93, right in between Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction.
Saw that in the theater when it came out. Even though QT didn’t direct it, it has so many similarities to his later films that I’ve always wondered whether he made suggestions to Tony Scott or whether Tony Scott influenced QT.
YES. This is my all time favorite movie, and I have yet to see anyone react to it. One of the best casts of any movie ever. And Gary Oldman steals the movie with one scene.
Trendyness is a hell of a drug. Other movies that came out the same year: Platoon, Aliens, Stand By Me, Ferris Bueller, Blue Velvet, The Fly, The Color of Money, Manhunter, Big Trouble in Little China, Highlander, Pretty in Pink, Back To School, Heartbreak Ridge, The Three Amigos, Cobra, Maximum Overdrive, One Crazy Summer, The Mosquito Coast, Rivers Edge, The Hitcher, At Close Range, Hoosiers, The Money Pit, Running Scared, Tough Guys, Crossroads, Down By Law, Salvador and Jean De Florette among many other lesser movies. So I wasn't super hyped about Top Gun, it was not the most stellar of a ton of unique content.
First time I saw Top Gun, I had just joined the Air Force and my job was aircraft weapon systems, so when this movie was playing in base theaters everyone in the theater would yell out their job when the planes were doing something on screen tha related to them. For example, my job was aircraft weapons systems so when the planes were on the aircraft carrier deck and weapons were in the shot or when a missile was fired all the people in the theater with the same job as me would YELL "weapons" so on for other jobs, "avionics", "ecm", "crew chief", it was a blast! This movie was an instant classic with active-duty military and is definitely a cultural classic. Wow, I really miss the good ole days of Hollywood.
Saw at the theater! Love just about everything Tom Cruise is in, he been entertaining for decades! And was that Jewel or Shanelle singing a TV the end , great voice Shanelle!
The call signs are Nicknames given to them by their peers. It was explained that Iceman is how he flies(like Pete flying very 'Maverick'), Tom flies cold as ice with no mistakes to capitalize on your mistakes. He's the opposite of Maverick. Not a surprise that he won the top gun trophy (at least when considering going by the book).
20:16 Not a trend. At least not from any of the movies I was watching. I think it was just a choice for this movie to really theme certain moments of the film to a particular song. And I think it really works in this film.
@@Cagon415 No, it had a score and, like many, it had 2 or 3 versions of a particular track. It didn't repeat the exact same piece many times. Also, regarding the songs (the case here) they were played only once.
Why did you have so many chills? Because despite it being camp and cheese and all of that, it earns every moment. This is a movie I loved as a kid, but now that I'm older, I love it even more. It hits every note, pays them off perfectly. And the aerial combat is absolutely incredible.
those are not "nicknames", they are call signs ... normally you "earn" yours by doing something stupid and the call sign is remembering everyone of that
Yeah. The only callsign that seems legit from this movie is Goose. And from the sequel, Bob. ALMOST nobody gets cool callsigns. I did used to know a Raptor driver named Kripto though, so that's pretty dope. Though I don't know how he got it, so I assume it's embarassing if you know the story.
@@tomarnold7284 It’s not really about a bad reputation. It’s more about sharing something intimate with your brothers/sisters and keeping your ego in check. If someone would return from a training flight, having had to puke during the flight, they’d get called Kermit, for instance. (You know, for turning green from being sick 🤢) Or, after a night on the town, getting drunk, and ending up falling in the water, they’d get the name Splash. Stuff like that. 🙂
This is an iconic classic. But Top Gun: Maverick is not just a great sequel. It’s a stand alone great film. Maybe one of the best in years. See it in the theaters. You’ll be glad you did. Also, remember that name, Penny Benjamin. 😉
This is one movie you really should see in a theater; the opening is amazing on a big screen, and all the flying & combat scenes sound fantastic with the industry grade subwoofers found there. Fun Facts: It's TOPGUN, not TOP GUN. TH-cam Legal Eagle (a real lawyer) did a video with a former Marine JAG on all the crimes Mav committed in the movie. It's not pretty. Tony Scott wanted another shot for the opening sequence, but the ship was over budget (carriers are expensive to run), and the captain told him that it would cost something like $150,000 to do so. Scott wrote him a check. McGillis didn't have a good chemistry with Cruise for a reason. She later came out as gay. MiGs (now Russian, the company still exists) are always odd-numbered, so a MiG 28 is a mythical aircraft. There were MiG 27s and MiG 29s. The planes in the movie are F-5s. Until recently both F-5s and A-4s were used as Aggressor aircraft because they could simulate the speed and agility of then-current era Soviet fighters. ... Recently Ashleigh Burton also watched TOP GUN for the first time. She actually said she was ovulating during the volleyball scene. LOL. By the way, it's naval aviator, not pilot. That word has a distinctly different meaning in the Navy. That's why Mav looked put off when Charlie called him a pilot. She was throwing him shade on purpose. :) I've seen the sequel, and it's 50% Hollywood BS and 50% fun story. Real aviators love it for the air scenes. And, yes, there are cameras everywhere. It's nearly all real. Turn your brain off and enjoy the popcorn. It's fun.
I remember back in the early nineties this movie on laserdisc was used to demo every high-end home theater system. Coolest part was the elevator closing and hearing the sound switch from the left to right channel.
Uh? Kelly McGillis did not come out as gay until way later. She married Fred Tillman in 1989 and got two kids with him, so she obviously didn't have a problem with men per se at the time, but it certainly did not click with Tom Cruise.
@@Caseytify Could be, but seems unlikely. If I remember right, she got involved with Wolfman (whatever the actors name was) during the production of this movie, but it didn't last. I guess Kelly and Tom just didn't really fancy each other.
Talking about cheese or corn there is a quote back in the day that if applied to Top Gun would go as follows: the script for Top Gun has more corn than Kansas and Iowa combined and that’s ok because there is nothing better than good corn. Another eighties film in a similar vein that you might find interesting is Officer and a Gentlemen. 1982 or 3 starring Richard Gere, Debra Winger and Lou Gossett Jr about recruits going thru boot camp to get into navy flight school.
Not familiar with Tony Scott?! That makes me sad; nearly everything he's done is fantastic. And I only say nearly because there's 3 or 4 of his films I haven't seen.
Ya gotta watch all his stuff, N1ghtroad! I think he had such a unique collection of works that's probably still not fully appreciated yet. From vampires to jet fighters, from comic cops to brutal revenge, from stock car racing to rundown cops and athletes, from Tarantino characters to battling submariners, from crazed fans to being chased by the NSA, from CIA to men on fire, from lady bounty hunters to time traveling lovers, from subway hijackers to unstoppable trains, he was truly a king of action films.
Oh my God. When you said, "he's a great runner", it reminded me of when I was in elementary school and the Librarian asked me why I was friends with this kid. I said, he's a great runner, he's almost as fast as me.
Aside from the sappy love story, which almost everyone disliked, and the cheesy dialogue, which is forgivable because it was the 80s, it is definitely one of the best 80s movies. Obviously due to the phenomenal aerial sequences which blew everything away up to that point and has probably never been matched since(especially considering there was no CGI used in the film). I have yet to see Top Gun : Maverick yet so I reserve judgement on that. Also callsigns get picked by your squadron members of the first squadron you are first assigned to. You get no say. Goose for example was probably short for mothergoose because he was kind of a mother hen.
Great reaction to one of the great films of the 80's. I was lucky to have seen it in theaters when it originally came out. What an impact it made on this high schooler, and those of us in Gen X.
The repetitive music was definitely an 80's thing, especially in action movies. In this case there is the "action theme" (Danger Zone) and the "love theme" (Take My Breathe Away) and they are returned over and over and over again each time those types of themes recur in the movie. The actual songs are only 3-5 minutes on the soundtrack, but probably get 20+ minutes of play behind the movie.
So effective. Those two songs and what I'll call the "title theme" can only be associated with Top Gun. Today the Oscar sometimes goes to a song that plays over the end credits. Here the songs are repeated to enhance a story element. And I never like a song the first time I hear it anyway.
Heck, current k-dramas do it too. 1 song endlessly repeated multiple times an episode through all 16 episodes of the run.... But that's Korean tv, not a Hollywood movie, so there's something of apples and oranges.
Shanelle I just want to say you are a very beatiful woman 💜 and you're reactions are amazing I wish you the best for the growth of the channel you're smashing it 💯💯🎉🎉🙌
Fun Fact: The USS Kittyhawk, the carrier that's a part of this film was just recently towed into the Port of Brownesville, TX for scrapping. Video footage of that can be seen from LabPadre's YT channel entitled something to that effect from a static camera at South Padre Island, OR from the NASASpaceflight channel with a similar title with drone footage from up above the rear of the ship. Very cool footage in that video.
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Fun story about Tom Skerrit, I delivered so many pizzas to his home in Seattle that his wife and I became friends. He might be the nicest human on the planet. She is equally as wonderful.
Thanks for sharing that, I've been a big fan of his since Steel Magnolias.
Holy ---- it's viper! I'd make him do the 110 degrees line everytime.
I love him since ALIEN
@@russcarvertruthjedi259 - Amen. I freaking love Steel Magnolias….and Tom Skerritt in it.
“Thanks Ouiser, nothing like a good piece of ass.”
@@mena94x3 if you want to see a great reaction video to Steel Magnolias, watch Awkward Ashley. She had no idea what was coming. Probably the most I've seen her cry during a reaction. Despite not being married anymore, I still quote Tom Skerritt, I make it a habit to never argue with my wife. She is definitely one of the best, and it's nice to learn that he's one of the good guys too.
i've always loved this movie despite the 80s cheese.
top gun maverick is everything that can be asked of a sequel. it builds on the original, surpasses the original and even manages to improve the original. just great stuff.
There's one thing lacking in one of the characters. The Super Hornet does not have anywhere near the screen presence of the Tomcat, which does make a visual effects cameo appearance, but it's not the same.
After this movie came out, whenever you went to an airshow that had an F-14 demo, the narrator would always say that he had received a message that the pilot had a need, a need for speed.....and then the F-14 would fly down the flight line conducting a high speed pass. Recruitment for the Navy also increased dramatically after this movie came out.
The Navy set up recruiting booths outside movie theaters playing the movie. Helped a lot with those enlistment numbers lol...
Also, the sales for the aviator sunglasses went up.
@@stonecoldku4161 I went through 3 pairs over the next decade after that movie came out.
That movie certainly did its part to contribute to today's political climate in the United States.
@@bobbabai Or not.
Fun fact: During filming on the carrier, the captain changed the course of the ship and it changed the lighting. Tony Scott asked the captain to turn back to the original course so he could finish the shot. The captain agreed, but would only do it for $25,000 (1986) dollars. Tony Scott immediately wrote the Navy a check for the amount. The rest of the shot only took five minutes.
The reason for the course change is the carrier always has to sail into the wind during launch and recovery operations. The amount was for the fuel needed to keep the aircraft up for those five minutes that they couldn't land.
That 5 minutes was well worth it as we got the best opening scene ever.
Tony Scott said in a later interview that he made sure the cheque bounced 😂
Another fun fact is one of the pilots ended up the butt of the jokes because his landing made the final cut… and he caught the first wire. Wire 2 is acceptable, wire 3 is preferable, wire 4 is taking a big risk of going off the front of the deck, and wire 1 is “if you came in any lower you would be a flaming figurehead on the stern of the ship!” So 1 and 4 are the ones you don’t really want to catch, especially when the cameras are rolling, and that pilot did just that 😂
Goose’s death always gets me. I’ve seen this movie so many times and it still gets me every time
Take me to bed or lose me forever
@@TexasFury Your uncle was in the same Top Gun class as Maverick and Goose? That doesn’t make any sense.
Fun fact: the scene when they were being briefed by Charlie , and she was questioning Maverick on the inverted dive, you hear Iceman say , "bulls#%+!" That was improved by Val Kilmer, not in the script and that was real reactions by the actors when he yelled that out.
I only planned to watch a minute of this... but you are so watchable I ended up watching like 20. LOL. Well done.
I saw an article once that stated "Top Gun isn't the best 80's movie, but it's probably the most 80's 80's movie"
13:40 The nicknames are given to them by others, usually based on some flub/screw-up or personality trait
Truth. They are almost never as cool as the one's in the movie.
There actually call signs for military pilots
@@zaniq23 although Maverick's would make sense for his rebelliousness and risk taking tendencies.
@@TheRaider8199 I get that. That's Iceman's argument. Through the filter of time it has been rendered cool.
My brother in law was in the Navy and he knew a guy who’s call sign was Skid because he once shit his pants. So yeah, not as cool.
When Viper said he would fly with Maverick. I was like damn that is a very honorable thing to say...
My husband is a pilot and he loves this one...saw the new one it is GREAT i cried 3x
Don’t forget that the Captain who was shorter than Maverick was also Principal Strickland in Back to the Future up against the famously short Michael J. Fox.
Beat me to it! Mr Strickland was about the same height as Marty I think?
Yeah and he basically called Maverick and Goose “slackers”.
James Tolkan. He was also in "Dick Tracy" and a regular on two short-lived Stephen J. Cannell-produced shows, "The Hat Squad" and "Cobra".
@@Madbandit77 I’m almost positive his real name is now Mr. Strickland. 🤪
@@Madbandit77 He was also a regular on the "Nero Wolfe" series, which was amazing.
Lots of reactors doing this movie with the release of the sequel, but none are more exciting than Shanelle covering it on her channel. I can’t wait to watch this!
I watch a lot of reactors. I've seen the thumbnails for many of them reacting to this movie. I have not clicked on them. I don't know why. I just wasn't interested in their reactions to this particular movie. But when I saw Shanelle did it, I clicked immediately. I just think HER reaction to THIS movie will be a good combination to watch. (I haven't watched it yet. I'm about to start.)
“You know, the finger.” (flips her off)
“Yes, I know the finger Goose.”
“I’m sorry. I hate it when it does that.” 😂😂😂😂😂
At least “Take my breath away” was actually written and created specifically for this movie. The movie made it famous.
As was Danger Zone. The 2 lead singles from the soundtrack, hence why they get the most play throughout the film.
Kenny Loggins wrote Playing With The Boys, and then due to another performer dropping out (I think it was Toto?), he was approached to finish writing and perform Danger Zone.
It is hailed as one of the best soundtracks ever, and had a lot of people wondering if Top Gun: Maverick would match up. Thankfully they didn’t try to match it, instead they called in Hans Zimmer (and Lady Gaga) to help write a proper film score, and it’s all the better for it.
You've got to watch Taps. Tom Cruise, Tim Hutton, Sean Penn.
Interesting fact - There is a video done by an ex-JAG officer who stated that Maverick would have lost his wings and been sent directly to jail in the first ten minutes of this film.
I saw this Movie when it came out, but not in a Theater! I was Stationed on a Guided-Missile Destroyer stationed in the Pacific.
We had been underway of 3 weeks and the Captain wanted Something Special for the Crew, so we had a "Movie Night" on the 02 level of the fantail. After a BBQ dinner,
We Turned the 50mm Cannon Around, and showed "Top Gun" on the Back of the Turret, With the Ocean on both sides and a Crsecent Moon we saw it.
It's too funny how you described Tom Cruise. Like you, I want to hate him - but, with every movie he does - he nails it!
For real. When it comes to his movies it's very very hard to say he isn't good.
It will never NOT be impressive when a walking red flag has the ability to consistently make you love their onscreen portrayals.
Seems a fitting counterpoint to all those actors who always get type-cast as villains and horrible people...but in real life are bona-fide sweethearts 😄
I don't really get the desire to hate him, tbh. I mean the whole scientology thing is weird, and he's had a couple wacky moments on TV. But that doesn't make me want to hate him. Just makes me think he's a bit weird or eccentric.
@@moonlitegram Right? It’s weird how everyone goes out of their way to hate on him. Bunch of sheep, man.
Shanelle and Ashleigh reacting to Top Gun at the same time...🤔 I guess such cosmic coincidences do exist...and they're awesome!!! 😁
Cosmic coincidences. Or the sequel setting box office records. Take your pick :D
Ashleigh and Shanelle have no equals. Ashleigh melting down during the volleyball scene is one of the funniest things I've seen in a while.
If you've been following movie reactors for any amount of time, you notice they all react to the same stuff at around the same time... whether it's because they share Patreons, people just vote for the same stuff, or following the TH-cam algorithm/trends, I'm not really sure... but it's kinda nice to know that you'll usually see your favorite reactor get around to seeing a particular show/movie if a few other reactors watch it.
When I heard the line "You gotta let him go" I always took it to mean that the instructor knows that Mav is holding on to his father and that gets in the way of his progress. That's who he was talking about
I was in the Navy in '86 based in Orlando going through training. I loved the movie but it really was over the top when compared to the real thing. It was the best 2hr recruitment film for the Navy ever.
Oh I am SO in on this reaction. Also, Merlin was played by Tim Robbins!
Something that is rarely mentioned in reactions, just do not see him much.
@@SC457A I don't think he really liked being associated with the movie, rumor is that he did not want to record his lines for the flight scenes until he heard that one of the Navy pilots was going to do the lines in his place.
This was 1986 Shanelle, grieving and PTSD were concepts in their infancy. The prevailing wisdom was to TOUGHEN up.
14:31 This soundtrack ! Yes ! Berlin ! "Take my breath away' .... classic ... cheesy but good !!! isn't it ? or only for 1986 ?
37:18 Love your version of "You lost the loving feeling". Shanelle Your guitar skills are awesome. You reactions and comments on Top Gun (1986) hit me straight into my heart ! Thanks for sharing !
Seeing this movie brings back good memories. My Dad took me to see it on a school night because he was Navy flight crew back in the 60's and he was super stoked to see it. It was one of the few VHS movies he ever bought as well (along with The Godfather and The Dirty Dozen).
A friend of mine in high school got a Navy scholarship because of this movie. He actually made a paper plane like the F-14 that flew with the wings in both positions and entered it in the school science fair and won.
You should ask him to make it again an post on TH-cam, model lovers like myself will go viral!
@@tomarnold7284 I've not seen him since we graduated back in 89.
Perfect, now she's prepared for "Hot Shots!" - 1991.
And "Top Gun - Maverick", I guess. 🙄 😁
OK. The guitar and singing "You Lost that Lovin' Feeling" to us... I don't even...
We do not deserve you. Great reaction. Great movie. Thank you for your work.
ahha thanks!!
I’m so glad I came across this channel. This girl reactions are fire 🔥 Love her energy and passion on films.
I saw this in college at the theater and yea, even in 1986 we all thought it was cheezy but we all loved it anyways.
Fun fact at the end when Maverick throws gooses dog tags in the ocean the producers had to pay a BUNCH of extra money to have them turn the boat around to capture that exact lighting.
Goose’s death is based on actual story from a naval fighter pilot of how someone died.
For the most part, Tom Cruise didn't do his own flying in the new movie because the military would not allow it. He did fly at the end in a privately owned plane. All the flying was practical effects with all the actors actually experiencing the G forces.
No miniatures, all practical effects.
The exploding plane shots were miniatures. But that was it. She read about that in the trivia part after the movie.
The callsigns (nicknames) are picked by fellow pilots, usually for something outrageous a person has done or a persistent behavior. Sometimes they change over a (Navy) pilots career. If you'd really like to know more about it, Ward Carroll (former F-14 back seat) has a YT channel and one of his drops is about the callsigns, "The REAL Truth About Aviator Callsigns"
My uncle’s last name is Campbell, so you can guess what he got stuck with for his entire career: Soup!
I love Ward Carroll’s channel.
My least favorite part of Top Gun: Cougar loses it!! Goes on too long, and takes me right out of the story every time.
My dad was in the Navy. I was born at Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station, home of the Nighthawks. I have a tattoo of the squad patch on my shoulder. I enjoyed being a military brat. It will make you either a very strong person, or a deeply disturbed one. The military can be a rough environment to grow up. You move every 3 years. You're constantly having to make new friends because even though you just moved there doesn't mean your new best friend won't be gone in a month. You learn to accept, appreciate, and let go of people quicky.
Having seen "Top Gun," you are now fully prepared to check out the cinematic masterpiece that is "Hot Shots! (1991)"
Yes, but Dances with Wolves beforehand would also help.
LOL 😂🤣
This came out the summer before my senior year in high school and got a few of my classmates to join the navy, only for them to later find out the navy wasn't all cool fighters and volleyball games.
Do you mean, that every recruit isn't issued a hot girlfriend with a cool vintage Porsche?
I saw this movie in the theater one week before I went to basic training in the Air Force (not Navy). Didn't fly jets, but guarded them. (Security Specialist aka Military Police). Good times!
Go see the sequel and then watch the behind-the-scenes on youtube. They used 6 Imax cameras in the cockpits. This film was shot in San Diego county in Calif, thus the golden hour lighting.
I have seen the sequel three times. It is an awesome movie.
In addition to leather jackets and tshirts, Shan, the sales of Kawasaki Ninja motorcycles went through the roof. Also, Tim Robbins played "Merlin", Maverick's back seater in the end dogfight. Action movies didn't usually feature very music heavy soundtracks because of cost. I think Danger Zone and Take My Breath Away were written specifically for the film.
Tom still has that bike.
I had just graduated from college, I was working at the Orlando Airport Marriott, and five evenings in a row I went to watch this movie, I was infatuated with aircraft, especially fighter planes and jets. This was the number one movie of 1986, and I still top this day watch this movie. Fighter jets are the coolest weapons ever... My call sign would have been "Black Lightening", mainly because when I was young and healthy I ran the 100 yard dash in 9.9 seconds, and the quarter mile in 49 seconds... I am glad you enjoyed the movie....
As much as I would love to see you react to Top Gun Maverick, you should really go see this in the biggest theatre you can find. It is a cinematic marvel and yes, the cameras are in the planes in the sequal. Love your reactions, keep it up.
im going on the biggest imax screen I can find!
@@ShanelleRiccio living large!!! The only way to go into the....danger zone! 😊
It's one of my great regrets that when this movie came out my father, a retired Navy carrier pilot, was too ill with cancer to see it.
You are really going to enjoy Maverick! Go watch it in the theatre though… it is unreal. And nostalgic, which is what movie lovers like 😉
A lot of contemporary reactors watch this and really brace against Viper telling Mav he has to "let (Goose) go", but honestly I was 8 when this came out. The whole idea of let it go and get him flying right away is central to what Top Gun is *for* - they are teaching pilots how to fight in war.
In WWII or Vietnam aviators and pilots might run multiple sorties a day as part of prolonged campaigns and have friends die around them, and they won't get a day off or even the rest of that mission off if it happened. I found it to be one of the more important and valid ideas this movie plays with. And, in this case, it happens literally - the climactic aerial battle happens about a day after they left Miramar.
it's also a training issue. You get them back on the saddle as soon as possible and they don't have time to sit and reflect on what happened. In lots of ways it's a good way to help with trauma. That's imo :D
Like everything in life, we shouldn't mourn with the past and move on. We shouldn't stop on our path and feel sorry for our guilt, but instead learn from it and learn how to prevent it in the future. I learned that from Viper.
It's also a product of its time. I'm a bit surprised how quickly we've forgotten the time when "rub some dirt on it and stop crying" was the predominant treatment for most (male) trauma. It persisted into this century, FFS! 1986 is well before mental health was considered important for anything less than crippling cases. As long as he can unfold from the fetal position to report for duty, "get him up and keep him busy" was SOP for non-physical injuries.
I have mixed feelings about how incomprehensible "how it used to be" has become. I guess I'm just getting old.
@@jimstanley_49 "rubbing dirt on it" has merit. Is important. Is even part of the critical emotional infrastructure of a functioning civilization. If ye olden days had a flaw it's that they would *only* rub some dirt on it; our modern fallacy though is reproaching the idea that we should *ever* rub some dirt on it, because if you never do, both individuals and the society they comprise trend toward stasis.
The next trauma isn't going to wait, you see - certainly not for a fighter pilot. And the movie doesn't judge or condemn Cougar, who ultimately can't 'rub dirt on it' - you can't after all force someone to fly a fighter jet - but in order to have people who can and will fly them, their dirt-rubbing game has to be honed, and ultimately that's how Maverick gets to the end of the movie.
@@danh8804 I never said it didn't have merit. I'm aghast that the concept is so foreign to so many young people that they can't even conceive of it existing in the (very) recent past.
I'm almost tempted to think it's a sign we've progressed, but, like you say, it's more likely we've thrown out the baby with the bath water.
Shan, you should see Anthony Edwards (Goose) in Gotcha! which came out the year before this movie.
Yup, and that's why we go to see the second one on the big screen. Absolutely perfect sequel and excellent on the big screen. TONS of callbacks and references to this one. Hope you go see it, but careful .. you'll lose all your nails in that one!
This is my dad's favorite movie and the first Tom Cruise movie I saw on VHS!
It was a box office success, making $360 million dollars ($798 million dollars today) against a $15 million dollar budget.
It took home the Oscar for Best Original Song.
Highest grossing movie of 86
"Your dad's favorite movie" I feel so old😭😭
Seriously, Shanelle's squeals are the best. I think any other TH-camr, it would get old fast, but you can tell she's really excited.
Having seen this in the theater when it was released and watching it hundreds of times over my lifetime I can honestly say the sequel is even better. And I've only seen Maverick once. It's so great.
Hello Shanelle! Re: the "nicknames". They are called Call Signs. They replace your actual name on radio frequencies. You don't pick, your squadron or wing assigns you one. If you don't like it, you could request a new one, and that one will always be worse. Call signs tend to try to pull you down a notch or poke fun at you. Since our company pilots are all veterans, they brought the tradition and their callsigns with them. We have a pilot who was handsome but bland. His call sign was "Nima", short for "Nothing Interesting, Move Along". There was "Mental", coz her family home was across from the Institute for Mental Health. There was "Scratch", who took off with too little power on his trainer and literally scratched the paint off the bottom of the trainer clearing the trees at the end of the runway. Since i sometimes go up with them on Medevac runs and flights to our more remote job sites, they gave me my own. The VP of the company told them i had spent time as a CSI and Medical Examiner. So i became "Ducky", as in Dr. "Ducky" Mallard from NCIS.
There are a lot of funny example. The (former?) Commanding Officer of the US Air Force, Gen. Michael "Mobile" Holmes, a Colonel who got into the news for Disciplinary Action was Col. Dan "Tess" Stickles, a pilot in the Pacific has the callsign of Blaze for accidentally setting fire to the base canteen, a USN Flight Doctor was "Ford" for Found On Road Dead Drunk after too much partying. Then there was the guy who went around the squadron telling everyone he wanted "Hollywood". One squadron mate answered "You ain't Hollywood, more like Burbank!". So "Burbank" it is. Then there's things like "Blow" Jobbins, "Ghost" Casper, "Kanga" Rew, "Lingus" for an Irishman with a first name of Kenny, and Maj. "Oh My" Ghad. Then there's "Bambi" who hit a deer while on a training flight, "Lamb" who liked to wear dresses cut way too low (Look At My Boobs), "Rotor" (Ran Off The Only Runway), "Utah" (Uptight Ass &$@!), and "Wifi" for the pilot whose wife was from a rich family (Wife Financed It).
Another video I clicked fast on lol now you gotta watch the sequel. Probably the best sequel of sequels
If you love 80s films then you really need to do Val Kilmer's film Real Genius. It's nothing deep but it is funny and I love the way that it looks and I love the soundtrack and the score. This is where I became a Val Kilmer fan and have been ever since.
This was the first movie i ever saw on vhs, it was fairly new at the time and I was 8 years old.
Rewatched it the second time age 25. Despite not seing it since age 8.. I actually remebered pretty much all the major seance.
When this movie was filmed my Uncle who served a very long time in the Navy was stationed on the ship they filmed on.
I saw Top Gun in the cinema in 1986 and bought the soundtrack afterwards (I also bought the original Terminator soundtrack, which isn't on Spotify ).
Trivia:
The nicknames are CallSigns and are given to a pilot by the other members of the team. It is normally based on something embarrassing, so no one is likely to get a cool callsign like "Maverick" or "Viper".
As an example, one of the real Navy pilots for the movie had the callsign "Bozo" (and was responsible for making Cruise puke).
Also, the accident with Goose was caused by a real design flaw in the engines of that plane.
And when in a flat spin, the RIO (Goose) could be fired into the canopy by the ejector seat, travelling several hundred mph on impact.
Highway To The Shanelle Zone!
The #1 movie for the Memorial Day Weekend of 1986. Cruise was 23, I think, & was the only choice for Maverick. I didn't get a chance to see the film until Labor Day. There was a lot of other films out there that I wanted to see, including an advance screening of Big Trouble In Little China. I thought Top Gun was okay at the time but the movie over the past, almost, four decades has grown on me. During the Great Balls Fire scene, there is a little kid in a cowboy hat sitting on the piano. That, of course, is Goose's son & has a direct connection w/ Top Gun: Maverick. Definitely worth seeing. Love the guitar solo, Shannelle!
I really love your reactions, and this was no exception. I know you'd love to react to Top Gun: Maverick on the channel, but PLEASE see it in the theater. You're honestly missing out, if you don't. Take care, be safe!
Yep... it's better than the original
And if you can you need to see it on the XD Cinemark screen if still offered as the 11.1 surround sound is so much better.
I ended up seeing it twice on the XD screen just because of the sounds.
I was 16 when this movie came out. Lived 3 miles from Mirimar. A buddy of mine was Cruise's stand in for the volleyball scene. I can tell you here and now, leather flight jackets NEVER became a thing after this movie came out. What was big? The hair styles and the sun glasses. And the Kawasaki Ninja.
So glad you did this reaction.,
The names the guys go by are NOT nicknames- but Call Signs. This harkens back to when America had created its Air Force. This is to keep our soldiers safe.
Also, its weird to call this movie “Camp” when its totally not. Camp would be the batman and robin movie, or Harley Quinn.. this movie Top Gun is a love letter to the Air Force and those who serve.
The music in the movie may seem cheesy, but at the time and because of the popularity of the movie the soundtrack BLEW UP- the music and songs were created For the movie. But then like Celine Dions My heart will go on- All the songs on this soundtrack went crazy popular.
Air Force? This is definitely a huge recruiting boon to the UNITED STATES NAVY. Air Force didn't fly F-14A's in the mid 1980's, they were strictly fleet defense aircraft.
@@jeffburnham6611 ok.. thanks for the clarification. Either way it still doesn’t change why the use of Call Signs are used., which is for their safety. That was my point of why Call Signs are used.
Also, yes it was a love letter to both Navy and Air Force- because believe me after this movie came out the Air Force definitely saw a increase in the amt of people who joined.
"Am I crying or laughing?" nah girl, you are straight feeling it lol love the channel and keep up the good work
Great movie. A great 80s underrated Spy Comedy with the guy who plays Goose is Gotcha! which I highly recommend you see. Another great Val Kilmer movie is The Saint. Also you should try other Tom Cruise movies like Rainman , The Firm, A Few Good Man, Cocktail, Interview with a vampire, Vanilea Sky.
Days of Thunder too.
For VK I would recommend "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" with Robert Downey Jr.
TC is Meh, but "Interview with a Vampire" is Great.
I can't stand most of Cruise's movies, because he usually plays the same brash Mary Sue type A character. That's why the Mission: Impossible movies irk me, because they have nothing to do with the original series. The Oceans movies are far more similar.
I did like him in Collateral and Tropic Thunder. In fact one could claim that Ben Stiller's in movie character in Tropic Thunder , Tugg Speedman is a parody of Cruise's usual persona. Cruise is priceless as Les Grossman.
Jerry Maguire, Minority Report and Collateral too.
Anthony Edwards (Goose) also rocked it out in the Television series ER.
OMG she plays the guitar and sings?
I just fell in love. This exact moment. It just happened.
Tony Scott was the director. When mentioned the lighting. You really see Tony and Ridley Scott rely on lighting for some great movies
I was 22 Years old in 1986 when I saw Top Gun in the Theatres. It was an exciting Movie. It was amazing seeing the closeups and camera Angles. I loved the Music track as well.
13:37 actually that's usually the point of the call signs in the Navy. Your call sign is usually mocking you in some way for something silly you did or said, or maybe a character trait you get made fun of for. You're really not supposed to get cool call signs in the Navy (unlike the Airforce). The squadron will come up with a bunch of options for you and then vote on them and give you the one that they like the best. The characters in this film have far cooler call signs than you'd typically get in the Navy.
If you try to give yourself a call sign (not a nickname) you'll hear about it. Probably by getting an even worse call sign.
One naval aviator was awarded the call sign LEX the day he appeared at a new station wearing his emblems backwards. "Are you dyslexic?" Another aviator's last name was Seaman. Call sign SPERM. I kid you not.
Call signs are one or two syllable words easily distinguishable in a noisy or chaotic environment, so aviators know exactly who is being referenced.
@@Caseytify Good points.
Yep. If everyone chose their own call sign, there’d be a ton of “Blade”, “Laser”, “Iceman” etc. call signs. My favorite story I read was a guy was given “Shredder”… sounds cool until you realize it’s because he dropped his paperwork in a shredder on his first day.
I watched it for the first time at my best friends house on VHS...and the 127 times after that. 🤣 Also: Good enough? That was AWESOME! 🤩
They are call signs. And I believe in this movie the far away shots were actual pilots pretending to fight,and the cockpit shots of cruise are real but in trainers with the real pilot in the back and cruise pretending to fly
Some of the scenes in the cockpit it's models in a studio. And they're not realistic callsigns, at least not all of them, those that could be would be more unlikely, it would be embarrassing names associated with something they've done (stated by a fighter pilot)
There a no shots of them in a cockpit while actually flying. All the cockpit scenes are shot with a mock-up or actual cockpit but on the ground. And the pilot wouldn’t be sitting in the back, if it had been “in trainers”.
For the sequel, they actually have filmed everything in flight. The actors are sitting in the back seat of an F/A-18F, though, not in the front seat where the actual pilot would be.
@@MrFloppyHare none of them are allowed in the planes without a pilot. They were warned not to even touch the plane while it was parked at the premier. Even tom.
@@crankfastle8138 That's understandable, for safety and security reasons.
17:40 - Yes, they added this later as a crowd-pleaser and they were in silhouettes 'cause Tom had gone off to do Born On The 4th Of July after this and looked entirely different (long hair and moustache).
Actually he was filming Disney’s “The Color of Money” for Scorsese in Chicago (which came out months after “Top Gun” came out in May of 86). McGillis was filming “The Accused,” which she had to wear a ball cap due to her different hair color. Cruise would be booked for “Born on the 4th of July” two years later.
@@charlesnyckd Interesting. I was commenting out of memory of an interview he gave long ago. Thanks!
Love your reactions Shanelle! Run don't walk to go see Top Gun Maverick if you haven't already. Seen it twice and my wife and kids loved it just as much as me!
cant wait!!
Loved your reactions Shanelle,glad you enjoyed this old,classic film. When I was in the navy,served aboard carriers,I enjoyed it very much.There are moniters all over the ship,so you can watch flight ops,which I did often. I was also in an attack squadron-VF-84 ( Jolly Rogers ) got to talk to a lot of our pilots on ship and shore,they were always nice and polite. VF-84 was a part of the airwing attached to the USS Roosevelt,when the carrier is headed to a port,the airwing flies in 3 days ahead of the carrier. An aircraft carrier is HUGE,lots of places to explore and have some alone time if you want/need it. GO-NAVY !!!! LOL.
33:19 "so its Soviet" - this is a bit misleading. The MiG (there are a number of them over the years, although ironically the one in this film is fictitious) is a Russian developed aircraft but that doesn't necessarily mean the enemy is Russian. And in fact the incident that inspired the events in this film The Gulf of Sidra incident was against Libyan forces. And Libya did fly MIGs in their airforce. But the film went out of its way to not name an enemy for a reason, so technically they're not Libyan either.
The adversary planes have a big, red star on them. It’s pretty obvious.
@@MrFloppyHare eh, that's more like a generic symbol for some communist/socialist state. Like I said, they purposely left the enemy unnamed. And again, the events that inspired what we see in the film was a conflict with Libya, who at the time just had a plain green flag.
The jets in the Gulf of Sidra incident were Sukhoi's, SU-22's. Sukohoi being another Soviet aircraft bureau (manufacturer) like Mikoyan and Gurevich (MIG).
@@martinwarford1389 The specific ones they engaged with were su-22's. But the Libyans had MiG 25 foxbats and Mig 23s. And they had flown into the area of the naval carriers. The movie is inspired by the incident, its not an exact recreation of it. But the point being that just because the MiG is soviet doesn't mean the enemy is soviet. Other countries flew MiG jets.
@@moonlitegram No argument with you, l got your point. Just threw out some extra info. Two Tomcats shot
down two Libyan Mig-23's in 1989, but that of course was way after Top Gun came out. Neighbor Egypt used MIGs at that time too. Still do. Syria, etc
Regarding "I was actually _second_ best in my class" at the end, think back to when they said there are no points for second place.
Absolutely love this, watching the second one last week reignited my love for it even more, love the cast, love the music, love the script, just great!
Shanelle..so good to see you back...!!..With your knowledge of the workings of film.
.and also just reaction of a viewer...I truly love. ..
Long time, no see. Glad to have you back. I'm very excited to see your reaction to Top Gun.
The real tearjerker of a (platonic) love story is between Maverick and Viper, who risked his career to help heal Maverick's heart with some long-overdue closure, and gave him the biggest vote of confidence in offering to fly with him. 🥰
Not a Tom Cruise fan but love to watch, your perspective and commentary.
My “call sign” is - SLICE.
I first saw TOP GUN on VHS tape, 24” TV onboard the USS CONSTELLATION (CV-64) in the middle of the Indian Ocean. We were on a 6 month deployment, aka WESTPAC cruise. It ain’t no “cruise”. It was my first introduction to working 12-hour days, everyday, whilst between port calls (everyday is Monday). We did 87 straight days at sea, at one point. Sleep, work, eat, repeat. At least I was in an air conditioned (A/C) space. Those BoilerTechs and Enginemen worked 4 hours on, 4 hours off, 24-hours a day in non A/C spaces. I would always c them on the mess decks (where we ate) in sweat-soaked coveralls.
You definitely need to watch True Romance. It's a Quentin Tarantino script that got a big budget and they had Tony Scott (Top Gun) direct. It came out in '93, right in between Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction.
Hell yes.
Saw that in the theater when it came out. Even though QT didn’t direct it, it has so many similarities to his later films that I’ve always wondered whether he made suggestions to Tony Scott or whether Tony Scott influenced QT.
YES. This is my all time favorite movie, and I have yet to see anyone react to it. One of the best casts of any movie ever. And Gary Oldman steals the movie with one scene.
Count me in for it
@@orbislame TBR Scmitt did a great reaction to it. They are fantastic reactors too.
Trendyness is a hell of a drug. Other movies that came out the same year: Platoon, Aliens, Stand By Me, Ferris Bueller, Blue Velvet, The Fly, The Color of Money, Manhunter, Big Trouble in Little China, Highlander, Pretty in Pink, Back To School, Heartbreak Ridge, The Three Amigos, Cobra, Maximum Overdrive, One Crazy Summer, The Mosquito Coast, Rivers Edge, The Hitcher, At Close Range, Hoosiers, The Money Pit, Running Scared, Tough Guys, Crossroads, Down By Law, Salvador and Jean De Florette among many other lesser movies. So I wasn't super hyped about Top Gun, it was not the most stellar of a ton of unique content.
Yes Tony Scott is the brother of Ridley Scott they are two amazing directors
Were....Tony is sadly no longer with us
First time I saw Top Gun, I had just joined the Air Force and my job was aircraft weapon systems, so when this movie was playing in base theaters everyone in the theater would yell out their job when the planes were doing something on screen tha related to them. For example, my job was aircraft weapons systems so when the planes were on the aircraft carrier deck and weapons were in the shot or when a missile was fired all the people in the theater with the same job as me would YELL "weapons" so on for other jobs, "avionics", "ecm", "crew chief", it was a blast! This movie was an instant classic with active-duty military and is definitely a cultural classic. Wow, I really miss the good ole days of Hollywood.
Saw at the theater! Love just about everything Tom Cruise is in, he been entertaining for decades! And was that
Jewel or Shanelle singing a TV the end , great voice Shanelle!
The call signs are Nicknames given to them by their peers. It was explained that Iceman is how he flies(like Pete flying very 'Maverick'), Tom flies cold as ice with no mistakes to capitalize on your mistakes. He's the opposite of Maverick. Not a surprise that he won the top gun trophy (at least when considering going by the book).
20:16 Not a trend. At least not from any of the movies I was watching. I think it was just a choice for this movie to really theme certain moments of the film to a particular song. And I think it really works in this film.
Yep, I think this is the only movie I can remember that did this.
Didn't Beverly hills cop do this?
@@Cagon415 No, it had a score and, like many, it had 2 or 3 versions of a particular track. It didn't repeat the exact same piece many times. Also, regarding the songs (the case here) they were played only once.
Why did you have so many chills? Because despite it being camp and cheese and all of that, it earns every moment.
This is a movie I loved as a kid, but now that I'm older, I love it even more. It hits every note, pays them off perfectly. And the aerial combat is absolutely incredible.
those are not "nicknames", they are call signs ... normally you "earn" yours by doing something stupid and the call sign is remembering everyone of that
Yeah. The only callsign that seems legit from this movie is Goose. And from the sequel, Bob. ALMOST nobody gets cool callsigns. I did used to know a Raptor driver named Kripto though, so that's pretty dope. Though I don't know how he got it, so I assume it's embarassing if you know the story.
I never knew that call signs were given under bad reputation until Top Gun 2 commentators pointed it out. It's so interesting.
@@tomarnold7284 It’s not really about a bad reputation. It’s more about sharing something intimate with your brothers/sisters and keeping your ego in check.
If someone would return from a training flight, having had to puke during the flight, they’d get called Kermit, for instance. (You know, for turning green from being sick 🤢) Or, after a night on the town, getting drunk, and ending up falling in the water, they’d get the name Splash. Stuff like that. 🙂
@@MrFloppyHare they're basically inside jokes.
@@crankfastle8138 Yes, basically.
This is an iconic classic. But Top Gun: Maverick is not just a great sequel. It’s a stand alone great film. Maybe one of the best in years. See it in the theaters. You’ll be glad you did. Also, remember that name, Penny Benjamin. 😉
This is one movie you really should see in a theater; the opening is amazing on a big screen, and all the flying & combat scenes sound fantastic with the industry grade subwoofers found there.
Fun Facts: It's TOPGUN, not TOP GUN. TH-cam Legal Eagle (a real lawyer) did a video with a former Marine JAG on all the crimes Mav committed in the movie. It's not pretty.
Tony Scott wanted another shot for the opening sequence, but the ship was over budget (carriers are expensive to run), and the captain told him that it would cost something like $150,000 to do so. Scott wrote him a check.
McGillis didn't have a good chemistry with Cruise for a reason. She later came out as gay.
MiGs (now Russian, the company still exists) are always odd-numbered, so a MiG 28 is a mythical aircraft. There were MiG 27s and MiG 29s. The planes in the movie are F-5s. Until recently both F-5s and A-4s were used as Aggressor aircraft because they could simulate the speed and agility of then-current era Soviet fighters.
... Recently Ashleigh Burton also watched TOP GUN for the first time. She actually said she was ovulating during the volleyball scene. LOL.
By the way, it's naval aviator, not pilot. That word has a distinctly different meaning in the Navy. That's why Mav looked put off when Charlie called him a pilot. She was throwing him shade on purpose. :)
I've seen the sequel, and it's 50% Hollywood BS and 50% fun story. Real aviators love it for the air scenes. And, yes, there are cameras everywhere. It's nearly all real.
Turn your brain off and enjoy the popcorn. It's fun.
I watched Ashleigh’s video too, love her!!
I remember back in the early nineties this movie on laserdisc was used to demo every high-end home theater system. Coolest part was the elevator closing and hearing the sound switch from the left to right channel.
Uh? Kelly McGillis did not come out as gay until way later. She married Fred Tillman in 1989 and got two kids with him, so she obviously didn't have a problem with men per se at the time, but it certainly did not click with Tom Cruise.
@@sillbit sorry, didn't mean to imply that McGillis "had a problem with men," only that was one possible reason why there wasn't more chemistry.
@@Caseytify Could be, but seems unlikely. If I remember right, she got involved with Wolfman (whatever the actors name was) during the production of this movie, but it didn't last. I guess Kelly and Tom just didn't really fancy each other.
Talking about cheese or corn there is a quote back in the day that if applied to Top Gun would go as follows: the script for Top Gun has more corn than Kansas and Iowa combined and that’s ok because there is nothing better than good corn. Another eighties film in a similar vein that you might find interesting is Officer and a Gentlemen. 1982 or 3 starring Richard Gere, Debra Winger and Lou Gossett Jr about recruits going thru boot camp to get into navy flight school.
Not familiar with Tony Scott?! That makes me sad; nearly everything he's done is fantastic. And I only say nearly because there's 3 or 4 of his films I haven't seen.
Ya gotta watch all his stuff, N1ghtroad! I think he had such a unique collection of works that's probably still not fully appreciated yet. From vampires to jet fighters, from comic cops to brutal revenge, from stock car racing to rundown cops and athletes, from Tarantino characters to battling submariners, from crazed fans to being chased by the NSA, from CIA to men on fire, from lady bounty hunters to time traveling lovers, from subway hijackers to unstoppable trains, he was truly a king of action films.
Oh my God. When you said, "he's a great runner", it reminded me of when I was in elementary school and the Librarian asked me why I was friends with this kid. I said, he's a great runner, he's almost as fast as me.
Aside from the sappy love story, which almost everyone disliked, and the cheesy dialogue, which is forgivable because it was the 80s, it is definitely one of the best 80s movies. Obviously due to the phenomenal aerial sequences which blew everything away up to that point and has probably never been matched since(especially considering there was no CGI used in the film). I have yet to see Top Gun : Maverick yet so I reserve judgement on that. Also callsigns get picked by your squadron members of the first squadron you are first assigned to. You get no say. Goose for example was probably short for mothergoose because he was kind of a mother hen.
Great reaction to one of the great films of the 80's. I was lucky to have seen it in theaters when it originally came out. What an impact it made on this high schooler, and those of us in Gen X.
The repetitive music was definitely an 80's thing, especially in action movies. In this case there is the "action theme" (Danger Zone) and the "love theme" (Take My Breathe Away) and they are returned over and over and over again each time those types of themes recur in the movie. The actual songs are only 3-5 minutes on the soundtrack, but probably get 20+ minutes of play behind the movie.
So effective. Those two songs and what I'll call the "title theme" can only be associated with Top Gun. Today the Oscar sometimes goes to a song that plays over the end credits. Here the songs are repeated to enhance a story element. And I never like a song the first time I hear it anyway.
See Beverly Hills Cop
Heck, current k-dramas do it too. 1 song endlessly repeated multiple times an episode through all 16 episodes of the run.... But that's Korean tv, not a Hollywood movie, so there's something of apples and oranges.
Danger Zone gets all of the attention, but the Top Gun anthem is the greatest 80s movie song. The first note gives immediate chills.
Shanelle I just want to say you are a very beatiful woman 💜 and you're reactions are amazing I wish you the best for the growth of the channel you're smashing it 💯💯🎉🎉🙌
Fun Fact: The USS Kittyhawk, the carrier that's a part of this film was just recently towed into the Port of Brownesville, TX for scrapping. Video footage of that can be seen from LabPadre's YT channel entitled something to that effect from a static camera at South Padre Island, OR from the NASASpaceflight channel with a similar title with drone footage from up above the rear of the ship. Very cool footage in that video.