And if a fighter pilot buzzed the bridge like Maverick did, they'd be grounded and torn a new one the size of Texas.

@@Joreel Actually....case 1 carrier landings have them fly right by the tower starboard side each trip around counter clockwise, going wide on the port side in case they are able to line up and land.. At a prescribed 350 knots, if memory serves. It is completely normal.

Dude what was your rate and what carrier? My hubs was a bird farm sailor too. CVN 74

The danger of insanity...

@@The.Artistic.Squirrel USS Nimitz and USS George HW Bush

I’ve been searching for this comment. He’s describing them based on the seating of their jets. How did he not realize that when the following scene shows that?! Lol

And CS called that sailor a soldier lol.

Every guy in the movie is a Navy guy. That particular Navy guy is a fighter controller.

I was also going to say this...I must be as sad as you!

Not if you believe in the Oxford comma :p

It’s the cinematic equivalent to that old saying ‘anything too stupid to say is better sung’

I fucking die laughing at that part every time

Well I think it’s hot!

That's so sad.

I just learned about this recently. I’m glad you mentioned it here; he should be known and remembered. Apparently he was quite a wonderful pilot. Unfortunately, it’s too easy to forget/overlook the people behind the scenes whose talent contributes so much to the movies we love.

All these years later and I had no idea about this until I read your post.

Goose IRL.

Damn, so he died in the exact way the character dies in the movie, and not even for actual footage of the stunt?! That's the worst way to go out.

Did Iceman cause it, though? Maverick could have just realized he wasn't going to get a fair shot at Viper and withdrawn, thus preventing Ice's jetwash from taking him out in the first place. There's too many improbables here to place blame.

@@nolanboles8492 No actually I think Ice DID kinda cause it. Maverick instructed him to pull off high right and he went left…I believe. I was Top Gun crazy when it came out. I seem to remember he went the wrong way or the A-4 changed direction at the same time…If I am wrong please forgive me.

@@josebrown5961 yup. ice man did pull off the wrong way.

@@nolanboles8492 Yes, Iceman had fallen out of the pocket to properly attack Viper. In training when you have a wingman, protocol is for the Wingman to come in behind and take the place of the lead plane, as they have the ability to properly line up. Iceman had lost his shot, and should have been beholden to Maverick’s calls to move out of position, instead he tried to re-engage, and the jet wash caused Mavericks engines to not have any oxygen for a few seconds, and they failed one before the other, which is what caused the flat spin. TLDR, very much Iceman’s fault.

Nah, Because Iceman didn't intend for it happen. They were rivals yes, but still on the same team

Just disobeying a single direct order is enough for the death penalty in the military during war time. From the Legal Eagle video. They very much would have been technically in war time for a period. And at the very least he'd get 3-4 years in the brig, and be dishonourably discharged

@@kharnthebetrayer8251 Yep, that was my source as well.

From what I understand, simply buzzing the tower is more than enough to get one grounded permanently.

I bet. Dumb move on her part.

Fun Fact Number 2: Matthew Modine was offered the Maverick role, but turned it down because he didn't agree with the pro-military stance of the film.

The fact that I had to Google her supports her reported regret.

Non fact number 3 : Andy Dick was offered the role of Iceman

She would’ve been a better choice. That’s unfortunate.

@@GhostWatcher2024 So, he should have said, "Cougar and Merlin comma Maverick and Goose"? Lol.

thanks for the def of RIO. I had always thought they were saying Rear (the guy who sat in the rear seat. LOL)

@@kevind814 Sometimes they do say rear, as in rear seat. But the movie never showed why they have him.

@@kevind814 Today they are known as WSO or Weapons Systems Officer. (pronounce the abbreviation as Wizzo).

@@icecold9511 The movie repeatedly had RIOs giving info on radar contacts.

same here

Me too

*Radar Intercept Officer*

Isn’t that the model Jett that we see hanging above them for the first few seasons of myth busters? I think it either comes from top gun or the sum of all fears

Cool.

@@bsgtrekfan88 That one is from Top Gun but iirc that's one of the planes shot down in the finale. I don't know if they were reusing the model or if it's a different model just for that shot.

That is a pretty interesting fact, but fun???

Not really, Maverick listened to Goose, they were best buds.

RIO, not a co-pilot

Technically that's correct, since Goose never said a single thing in the copilot seat.

@@Harv72b lol well played. Can’t say anything from the co-pilot’s seat if the F-14 doesn’t have a co-pilot seat.

I guess that's part of what made him a "Maverick"

I literally just wrote a huge explanation and then saw this comment. Also the Rio did have a Polaroid on board and took a picture of the mig which you can still find. There’s also a picture of a Rio reading a f14 magazine mid flight that he took with a Polaroid

Except the scene as shot was physically impossible. The vertical stabilizers from the F-14 would have impacted the F-5 (er, MiG 28).

True, and he was flying his Pitts Special, filming the scene. Speculated he became disorientated or had a mechanical problem. His body was never found.

Life is dangerous

Yeah. Hate to have to say it, but I wish that the camera footage was crappy CGI or something other than a live shot. If it had been, then Scholl wouldn't have died. Obviously there's no way to know beforehand, of course, and Scholl thought he could pull it off, so it's not like the movie personnel are to blame, but it's still sad.

Also, there's history of the SAME thing happened to Goose as in real life. It has been documented in real life flat-spin F-14, where pilots injured or died because of collision with the canopy during ejection. And F-14 has a history of flat-spins.

Jesus wept!

It's a easier way to release your anger of losing your friend by wanting to kill every enemy jet you see. The hate and anger makes you focus and become a better jockey.

Was gonna come down to say the exact same thing. Also really common with race car drivers when they have a big crash.

Yep, the saying "get back on the horse" comes from exactly this. When I broke my wrist, I got back on immediately and had no issue riding thereafter. When I fell another time, I didn't get back on immediately and had to start back at basics five years later because I'd psyched myself up about it so much in the intervening years.

@@lizzieperlizzie I was in a school bus accident on a stormy day during a side trip at our school's Science Camp and some of the other kids didn't want to get on the bus that came to get us. I told myself "Well, it's the only way to get back to camp because I'm NOT walking."

@@MrMJmusicLover "The hate and anger makes you focus " Palpatine is that you?

Yes, MiG only uses odd numbers to designate their designs, hence MiG 27, MiG 29, and so on. Never a MiG 28.

One of the squadrons I flew the E with was the last squadron to take up the Tomcat in 2006 at that point VF-31 after 2006 to present VFA-31

Same bud same and I hadn't even seen top gun yet I spent 2 years in jrotc for the extra credit out of basic but end of sophomore year I found our diabetes is a nope

Then he pulls up on a Harley in Days of Thunder lol

Did alot of guys have a choice between being test pilots or going instructor? Or was that a whole diffrent deal? I dealt with P-3s and those pilots I always felt like they wanted to be fighter pilots but weren't good enough so many had chips on their shoulders.

@@evilcartmensolo7198 I think the majority were set to be instructors, but there were def test pilots for some of the more advanced aircraft - for instance I was in when the F-35 was beginning trials, so a lucky few got to practice carrier field landing.

Is that about the time they go from flying high-performance jets to flying an office chair? Like, maybe their eyesight and reflexes aren't what they used to be, but their knowledge and experience are still useful? 🙂

@@BennyLlama39 hahaha exactly - all in all it was a really fun experience - for the most part the pilots weren't pricks since they were away from their normal command and could just act normal again.

Ah.. somebody who uses common sense. Thanks for confirming or adding to own personal thoughts, it's really what I kept thinking watching this CSins vid as a fully grown adult where in ways, watching even these scenes, a lot of this is "new" it's been so long. Like 3 decades or more. Happens to everyone or seems to at 1 point or another, even with books where all you recall are small flashes if anything at all. To me it was only cool as a kid, planes! rebels in the "system" against authority getting away with it! Pfffffft. Only clearly remember "Goose! Talk to me GOOSE!!!" and still use it very frequently talking to people; if they pause for no reason at all, maybe thinking for more than 1 second or are suddenly busy perhaps with something else even for a moment on their cell, it comes out naturally real loud and excited; just lightly playing with them since they always laugh back. Most people seem to know it - even young brother and sister still in school know it from me (they never watched it or wanted to) and from memes or jokes which is fantastic to keep alive and going strong imo. It means pay attention or hurry up in a joking yet serious way. Even thought Charlie was played by a completely different actress until 20 mins ago; all this time had confused her with a different movie. It's been that long. Haven't seen this movie since.. _too_ young a kid so a lot of those odd, uh.. yes odd "intimate"?? moments - if that's what you can call it - parts I didn't understand (and with Tarantinos modern take mentioned that I have no idea about or heard before now but but can sort of infer by what's been said here and from childhood memory that it _is_ or could be that way; even when a kid kid) since I couldn't understand who turns down being with an attractive woman he's been chasing to play volleyball with pretty boy dudes with shirts off that you could hang out with anytime including in the locker room naked, face to face close enough to kiss? LOL on this side I always found that a little gross, no offense to anyone swear on life. But a date, especially first one, you don't want to mess up unless a true emergency so it's even _more_ weird looking back now as adult so is probably main reason why it didn't make sense even at that age with huge mixed signals as Cinema S. points out. At that time in life and even now, I'm against the things the movie glamorized, like treating women like pieces of sh67. Making commitments and never keeping them, etc. These characters were not good to take as role models for susceptible kids at the time as what happened to lots of people I knew. Sorry so long but this movie when released was a big deal to SO many people (parents, little friends, everyone) and with new one out or coming out that I won't watch even for free, it brought many many memories back which is the only reason they made a part 2. It's nostalgia even I'm victim to; but won't pay for.. and I quit watching all prequels and sequels after The Thing prequel. That was too much. My imagination was superior and it was perverted by their cgi that is hard to forget since it was frustrating to ruin the images in my mind that had been there since 1984, just 2yrs before Top Gun and remembered everything from that film and still watch it every few months today it's _that_ good. I had parents who knew horror was my thing and helped encourage it so any movie at the time had been seen multiple times including Alien and more. I don't want everything explained though. That's the problem with movies today that likely includes nuTop Gun Part II. Gotta wrap things up right? Wrong. You don't have to but they sure like to, for the money that rolls in like a tsunami from those who don't like the mystery of it all. Like I want to know what happened to Goose's family. His kids, did they become fighter pilots, drugged out alcoholics, tax accountants, pool cleaners? Who doesn't want those answers after nearly 35-40yrs trying to forget this movie even existed??

Gotta get those scientology referrals to get on the spaceship

I believe the correct answer to your question is, "yes".

you. are. everywhere what

@@Wolfencreek enough

How tf can you have 300k subs and only 1 vid 😂

Well spotted

I rewatched it recently after watching TG Maverick. I agree about Goose, I was surprised by how likeable the character was, specially compared to the others. It also struck me how Iceman is always mentioned as this great pilot and the #1 and all, but the one time we see him in action during the Top Gun school he is ineffective and virtually causes the accident that kills Goose. The movie should have been a fierce competition between him and Maverick, but we never get that.

@@samuelperezgarcia Yeah I agree, there isn't much of a rivalry between Iceman and Maverick that is apparently set up.

Its Top Gun. You're not supposed to analyze it, you're supposed to just enjoy the hell out of it.

I was wondering this too!!

Both the Russian and American jets were designed with special Polaroid compliant cockpit glass as that was the most effective way for each country to spy on each other. I though everyone knew that

And THAT’s the reason he doesn’t show the photo

Navy issue Uber polarized strobmaton 7000

@@athirkell Wow, got some extra time on your hands have you? I mean you must have if you had the time to harass me over a simple comment :D

Actually there are controls and the RIO or WSO depending on what you refer, CAN take control in emergency situations, but it's rare

@@lukereyes6266 in the backseat of an F-15E yes the WSO can take control of the aircraft. But the backseat of an F-14 at least the early models such as the ones shown in top gun do not have a set of controls in the backseat for the RIO. So they would not be able to fly the plane. The stick in the back is for radar controls.

@@lukereyes6266 Michael is right , that’s why Merlin was getting so nervous when Cougar lost it.. he was unable to do anything from his seat and if cougar did not snap out if it would have been a passenger on a death flight.

His major gripe with Goose's role though, was not its official function, but the fact that Maverick chose to disregard his suggestions and pleads so often and so completely. You want to have a highly efficient team manning these aircrafts, but here it was one pilot and one casual passenger.

Yeah almost everything is slower than the f14 except the f15, mig25/31 and SR-71

Named my Son Jesta after this movie, woo woo

Same. That movie was hilarious! XD

@@cartooncritique6625 Yep, it's one of the best parody movies ever made!

Never seen it but I'd like to check it out. I wonder if it's streaming anywhere.

@@loganbigmo The sequel is good too. "Hot Shots: Part Deux" is a parody of Rambo movies.

Same! :D

Not if he was... inverted! 😅

And also why she wrote 5:30 meaning A.M. and not 17:30 !!!

Perhaps, but only after seeing this lame movie.

Was she impressed you knew sign??

@@tcanders123 I bet you’re extremely fun at parties

@@tcanders123 If by lame you mean, "totally freakin' awesome", you'd be right.

@@maryroberts8787 did they crash and burn, or…?

To be fair there's like a dozen times Maverick should have been arrested and thrown in the brig. He's weirdly immune from legal consequences.

@@missolympiabinewski Oh, definitely. Him going AWOL is just the one that really stood out for me, even when I watched the film as a kid in the late '80s. I had an uncle (by marriage) go AWOL in the early '80s because he didn't want to go on his remote assignment to Alaska for about a year without his family. He decided he'd just take off. Hitched rides back to Indiana and came wandering down the driveway at my grandparents' house on Thanksgiving. The MPs showed up about an hour later looking for him. He was arrested and eventually slapped with a dishonorable discharge. Dude was a cook and had been in the Army for about 15 years. Lost his pension and had a hell of a time finding work for the rest of his life. And all of my dad's brothers (this uncle married one of my dad's sisters) called him AWOL for the rest of his life. So that's why I was always puzzled by Maverick going AWOL ave not being arrested.

They certainly can’t force you to fly, but you sure just can’t get on a plane and just leave the navy if you”quit”

@@frocat5163 Maverick is a Lt. (officer.) Depending on how long he's been in, he can resign his commission.

@@agent_skully I'm well aware an officer can resign their commission. Maverick clearly didn't since he left the base immediately and didn't lose his flight status. He was most definitely AWOL.

That's also what "Maverick" means!

_Over the Top_ was probably pitched as _”Top Gun_ on 18 wheels” 🛞🛞🛞🛞🛞🛞🛞🛞🛞🛞🛞 *I feel like Michael Bay un-ironically thinks both movies are prequels to his Transformers movies*

@@iamskippy I luv Over the Top too. You can basically count me in for some cheesy 80s movies.

Yes, great movie. I didn't realize that Cinrmasins hadn't done this movie already. I thought he'd done all of the big name 80s and 90s movies a while ago now

@@iamskippy why would anyone think they're prequels to Transformers?? 🤔

At least it is more realistic than CGI plot armour mustang.

Glad I'm not the only one about to sin his sin. I remember driving by this place all the time from the 32nd St Naval Base into downtown seeing the Top Gun neon lights in the window.

Yep. Once, back when I worked downtown, my department had lunch there. I’ve never been a bbq fan, but lots of people love the place. 🍗 🍖 🍗

100%. so glad somebody else was thinking that, too

@@x5992 I attempted to go there twice when I was living in LI in SD, and walked out both times. Place was a mess and the staff had no interest in cleaning, so we left

The Kansas side is where the good BBQ is.

I'm pretty sure they don't use a Polaroid camera.

I know Air Force F-15 guys get polaroids of Soviet Bears. I guess they have a place to strap the camera in.

Also explains why he’s not carrying the photo around with him later when Maverick is bragging about his inverted dive and nobody believes him

Odd. I was told by a USN F-4 RIO that they were issued small 35MM cameras for that purpose.

@@davidhoffman1278 Yeah. A Polaroid is a lousy camera. It isn't as if they need an instant print.

And? Several other countries also have an air force. It probably wouldn't be the end of his duty.

@@mariuszmiroslaw2290 How would he join if he was in Leavenworth?

Poor you

Sigonella by chance? Probably ate in the chow hall together.

Especially if "the pattern is full." Note that the last flyby of the carrier tower, if done correctly, is standard case 1 recovery.

@@icecold9511 the pattern is full? I'm hard of hearing and for years.......I thought it was..... Negative Ghost rider, the pattern is closed. 🤔😅

Srisly guys - it's a movie. it was done _deliberately_.

The breaking of the hard deck. I want to know what the fudge plane can fly below the hard deck.

@@OldSkullInn it’s a plane that can also function as a bulldozer.

True but it's entertaining to hear his role minimized

Sure, but they couldn't risk letting the audience think that the woman has any real power. It was the 80s, after all.

@@jasonblalock4429 I think it was just intended as a goofball way of passing on military etiquette to us civilians. He did say pay attention because the pentagon listens to her.

@@jasonblalock4429 it was probably less about that than Hollywood just assuming people in the 80s were really stupid or ignorant when it comes to military protocols, customs and courteseys.

@@jasonblalock4429 as i miss spell courtesies

You do salute civilians who are in the chain of command, though. Not applicable in this situation, but still.

On top of that, there likely would have been a tanker option airborne for Maverick to access.

His math is wrong for the Tomcat anyway. The gauge shows 2200lbs and the F14 with two tanks has 21000lbs of fuel... so call it a tenth of the total fuel. Made worse by the F14 fuel system trapping 300-500lbs of fuel on the tanks. So his 2200lbs is like 1900lbs of you are optimistic. Given a burn rate of 5500lbs/hr per engine at low altitude and he's got a pretty short amount of flight time left.

The Movie makes no mention of a refueling aircraft supporting either airplane after both Pilots make known their fuel status. 5 points

They had recruiters in the cinema lobbies when the film made its orginal run.

Yea how many wanted to fly and ended up swabbing a deck😀 I remember Bobcat Goldthwait had a joke about TOP GUN getting lots of kids to join the Navy.

They are having recruiters take potential recruits to see the new movie.

The top admirals and Secretary of the Navy got what they wanted. The rest of the USN was very disappointed in how procedures, rules, and regulations were casually violated.

I did join the Navy not too long after the film was released (about 4 years). But I would say Hunt For Red October had more of an impact for me. Oh, and Hot Shots. :-)

His counter was way higher than that in this one. It's a real nitpicky one, and about a topic he has no experience with.

@@micahphilson yea at the time they had enough fuel to get back but they would of been really low and thats without the extra time it would take to help get the other guy back, i forget his name, I didn’t do the math I’m just going off what Jeremy said about them being 250 miles away from the carrier and them having 200 something miles of fuel left. I also don’t know the fuel specific limit for low fuel/emergency fuel for the jet I only know it for a cessna lol

People still nitpick cinemasins?… that’s so pathetic.. it’s like how can you not understand how this channel works?..

@@SPFLDAngler people still can’t understand a joke that also relays interesting information to others that might not know it, based on context from a video? Yikes

@@owlkage7700 Jokes are meant to be funny. A lot of the technical shit cinemasins tries to nitpick isn't funny on this occasion - it comes off as ignorant and stupid.

Therefore allowing them both to land without taking on ⛽️ should be a huge sin

It isn't that he's just shaken up. His aircraft was pitching and yawing to such a degree that it's a statistical improbability his tailhook could have actually caught the wire. And even if it did catch the wire (which, yes, it did), there's no way he wasn't smacking a wing on the deck. (For those unaware, carrier decks are obviously incredibly short landing strips. When carrier-based aircraft land, they have what are called tailhooks... literally a hook at the tail of the aircraft. These hooks catch arresting wires, four of which are strung across the beginning of the landing strip. If you fail to catch the wire, the pilot has to do a missed approach and try to get the jet back up in the air, or they're likely going over the side unless they are already at such low speed that they can stop the aircraft without the assistance. At least, that's my limited knowledge on it, any NAS pilots or deck crew reading this feel free to correct me if I'm wildly off base.)

@@rcslyman8929 The landing areas aren't as short as you'd think -- 500 feet or about a football field and a half (including endzones). If you hit the #4 wire (aka "sissy wire" or "COD wire"), you've got plenty of room. Hit the #3 wire (competent pilots), not so much. Only the best aim for the #2 wire (fighter pilots). But... if you grab the #1 wire, you stop with you nose looking over the edge into the drink, so you're either a shitty pilot, a lucky pilot, or a psychopath who did it on purpose.

Muscles don't have "memory", although your point is understood.

@@samuelperezgarcia you don't know what muscle memory is? it means that you've done something enough times that you don't even have to think about it to do it, an example would be playing an instrument; I play guitar, and there's a few solos that I played enough to be able to play them with my eyes closed and while thinking about something else. It also applies to things like driving or typing on a keyboard. Here's the wikipedia page about it if you want to read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_memory#:~:text=Muscle%20memory%20is%20a%20form,used%20synonymously%20with%20motor%20learning.

@@johnpauljones9310 Some incorrect things about the carriers wires here. The wires are number 1-4 starting from the trap closest to the stern. The #1 means you're too low and are close to hitting the deck, while the #2 wire is the optimum one to trap on. The #2 and #4 wire are acceptable, but naval aviators need to consistently trap third to be promoted.

Yea I kinda thought they would have Maverick and Kelly M. be Archer and Lana…or Laaaanaaa!

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LANA! LANA! LAAAAAAAAAANAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

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LAAAAAAAAAANAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Lana: What Danger Zone!!!

Yeah, I'm not even a Navy man and I had to avoid yelling at the screen every time he said co-pilot. They even use the term RIO in the movie!

You mean at any moment Goose, NOR Merlin couldn't just grab the stick and fly with their firm forward view of the back of the pilot's seat? PREPOSTEROUS!!!

Only time co-pilot is exceptable is in a support or transport plane.

I'm pretty sure they even use the correct term IN the movie. Cinemasins got really lazy with this movie lol

Cinema Sins don't do no stinkin' research.

I believe I watched that video.

But a tomcat has twin tails and the fake mig had one which would fit inside them. It’s still BS but physically possible.

@@GhostWatcher2024 Ward Carroll kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a5uRgdZpltW9g40.html

*(that's the tail to those not into air porn) *aircraft,

I was thinking he would take a sin off. Maybe like 5. I’m sinning him for this.

Normally I defend Jeremy's bullshit.... but this is a bridge too far.

Danger Zone rocks. Next then you know he'll say he doesn't like Eye of the Tiger.

Sheer blasphemy, I tell you. The first soundtrack I ever had was Top Gun. Jeremy want to get checked for ED if he can't get it up for Danger Zone.

Awful song. Always an awful song.

Yes but back then they were called Radar Intercept Officers

Best me to the punch

They guy in front drives, the guy in back kills people.

@@DeliveryMcGee and keeps the guy in front, alive

@@christopherandersch1299 Well, it's really more keeping both of them alive, because aircrews are basically married couples.

@@DeliveryMcGee in F4 phantoms they were called "gib's" or Guy In Back

I actually think the fact Jester chickened out to avoid a loss and then blamed it on the rookie is a realistic character thing to do in the chain of command, where winning is everything.

@@RettMikhal Civil servant... always looking to cover their own asses.

@@Cyril29a See the movie was trying to prepare us for real life and we didn't listen.

@@RettMikhal IT'S A FQN MOVIE!

Jester is a cheat and a coward. He saw he was going to lose and essentially went to the Safety Zone to avoid it, like a 3rd Grader in a game of tag.

More accurately: LAAAANNNNNAAA, danger zone

Lana call Kenny Loggins cuz you're in the Danger Zone

You mean K -Log…

Fun fact, the carrier in the movie is USS Enterprise

Agree, air control/catcc also looks similar. Rest of the video was a letdown, was really looking forward to CS roasting top gun, too.

Was looking for this. Was based on a Navy ship that was built in the 70s and looked very similar to what is in Top Gun

@@jeremya-k4196 I can understand the sin though, if you didn't work in CIC or CDC it would look kind of fake. On newer ships they are a little more spaced out with more advanced tech but for the 80s that was about as fancy as it got.

@@battleship6177 exactly why I mentioned it :)

There is NOTHING wrong with Iron Eagle!!! It is PERFECT!!! I'll fight you to the death!!!

at least sinny didnt break

@ Krizwatcher LOL

@@cmdraftbrn you mean like in Home Alone 2? 😂😂😂

@@danielleking262 poor sinny

The enemy pilots were all Topgun instructors, but none were actually Iranian. Also......they don't let Iranian pilots be real Topgun instructors. That has never happened.

spitting FACTS

8:58 _TOO SOON, MAN!_

Ditto, I grew up watching this movie, and while it's cheesy as heck, it has a very likable charm to it.

And now they're overpriced pieces of garbage made in sweatshops.

Saw it when I was 6...but then again I grew up in Europe, we're less fuzzy about what's appropriate and what isn't.

I saw it on it's release in 1986, at the drive in. The 2 of us girls in one car, the boys in the other. Absolutely loved it. Now it's so cheesy that I could slap it on a cracker for dinner and have leftovers for breakfast (still love it though)

Inappropriate? Lol wut. I saw it in theatre the year it came out, I was 8 and my 13 year old sister was alone with me.

Yeah, they got unprecedented access to the Navy for this film, so I guess much of the shots are 'real' in and around the carrier.

You'd think they would launch a KA-6 or KA-3 and give him some juice, but in the situation happening in the movie, cougar probably could not have pulled off a mid air refueling anyway

Also.... said no CO ever.

Crazy gay but wont just say it 😂

The bar was/is Kansas City BBQ.