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the below the hard deck thing is hilarious "I was only below it for a few seconds" a hard deck in flight operations simulates the ground, so what maverick really said was "I only smashed into the ground for a few seconds"

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1. An old shipmate of mine was on the Enterprise when they filmed this. 2. Gooses death was not Maverick's fault. Iceman was bogarting his LOS approach and they got caught in the jet wash. 3. I spent 24 years in the US Navy. 6 on "bird farms" (Carriers). I have seen 1000+ launches and landings without a single crash. These men and the men working the flat tops are doing the most dangerous job in the world (for the good guys). Shout out😎 4. Kelly McGillis/Charlie was in a great movie with Harrison Ford "Witness" that's seriously worth a first time/share HINT HINT 5. Tom Skerritt/Viper not only played Dallas in "Alien" he also played Strawberry in "Up in Smoke" with Cheech and Chong. 6. Val Kilmer/Iceman has a long list of movies including but not limited to: "Willow", "The Doors" and "Tombstone" 7. The officer(Goose) is the RIO (Radar Intercept Officer) radar, communications and navigation. 8. Onboard the ship the Squadron leader would not be smoking a cigar in that operation space. 9. Meg Ryan is my honey. A great overlooked movie with her is with Tom Hanks called "Joe vs the Volcano' She plays 3 parts. HINT HINT 10. Onboard the ship/aircraft all the perspiration is Hollywood(not the pilot). There is AC onboard. 11. The TOP GUN school is no longer located at Miramar near San Diego. It's now at NAS Fallon, NV. 12. In 1991 I was stationed on the USS INDEPENDENCE (CV-62) and they made a movie onboard called "Flight of the Intruder". It was seriously cool. Brad Johnson, Willem DeFoe and Danny Glover. I'm actually in it for a very brief period of time. HINT HINT. You will be the first. 13. Watching/sharing the new "Top Gun Maverick" is a must. The ariel work in that movie makes this one seem like they were practicing. It even has a plot.

I love this movie. Probably seen it a hundred times. I was one of those 80s kids who almost went into the Navy because of it. I think my favorite call back to this film from the new Top Gun is Penny Benjamin, the admiral’s daughter who Maverick did the flyby for, just barely referred to by Goose, then later by his wife during the diner scene.

I've never really loved Top Gun, but I love you guys and decided to watch this. Your reaction was awesome. Now, you need to watch the parody of this, Hot Shots. That is hilarious.

Now you need to watch "Hot Shots" while this movie is fresh in your mind

This was the first Tom Cruise movie I saw on VHS when I was 5 years old! The film was a box office success making, $360 million dollars ($900 million dollars today) against a $15 million dollar budget. It took home the Oscar for Best Original Song, Take My Breath Away.

The drinking hemlock line in the bar is a reference to poison, as though he killing himself, not an actual drink haha

“Ferris Bueller in flight school” the most apt description of Maverick ever 😂

couple of cool facts The purpose of top gun was to train instructors, it was to teach them the dogfighting skills they mention but it was so that these elite pilots and WSO could return to their units in the fleet to pass along the information they had learned and make the whole squadron better. The film was filmed at top gun in miramar, the flying you see in the film was performed by top gun pilots in their intro briefing they mention that they use F5's and A4's at topgun to simulate enemy aircraft, this was true at the time of filming, however all the aircraft shown flown by the topgun instructors were A4's and thats because the F5's were the "mig 28's" in the film. also the reason that they dont make more "jet pilot movies" is because if done accurately it would be boring. Most jet engagements are radar only beyond visual range. the distances shown in this movie would be suicidally close. even the missiles they actually use in the film (aim9 Sidewinder heat seeking missiles) have a 22 mile range and these are considered "short range" missiles.

After watching this and Top Gun Maverick you REALLY need to watch Hot Shots! It’s a 90’s spoof of Top Gun!! Airplane style humour. Just goofy fun!!! 👍👍

Wife: What you watching? Me: Oh... I'm just "Hangin' With The Boys" (Spikes Volleyball)

Everyone is going to say react to TG Maverick, but the Top Gun parody "Hot Shots!" is a must while this one is still fresh!!

You guys should absolutely do a Top Gun: Maverick reaction. That movie retroactively makes the original Top Gun better.

My brother in law had just joined the Navy when this came out. He said it was like freaking crack to almost every dude alive. Fun side note: the guy carrying the tray of coffee the control tower officer ran into? He served on the same ship as my BIL. Said he was a really cool guy. Didn't let that cameo go to his head. 😊

Tony Scott was a masterful director like his brother, but with this inherent ability to inject the viewer into the scenes making you feel like you were the one strapped to the outside of the F-14 Tomcat. Top Gun as far as I'm concerned, is one of the top 5 movies of the 1980s, with the others being Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Ghostbusters and Back to the Future. What gets me now after having gone back and watched it is just how revered it is by the creators of Maverick with the number of small character traits they zone in on, like the hug, down to the way Maverick even checks the time on his watch.

Everyone is gonna ask for Top Gun Maverick but I'm gonna suggest doing Hot Shots. Especially after having seen Top Gun

I am so surprised that you didn't even mention the director Tony Scott. He is in my top 5 directors. That cinematography is Tony Scott. You know that it's a Tony Scott movie. Beverly Hills Cop 2 and Days of Thunder, to name a couple. Keep up the awesome work! 🤘

Seeing this in the theater when it was released was a little surreal. It was a great movie and a great soundtrack. I love Val Kilmer so this was awesome. Yes, definitely react to Top Gun Maverick.

The parody of this, called Hot Shots (starring Charlie Sheen), is well worth a watch. The sequel, Hot Shots: Part Deux, is a parody of the Rambo films and also hilarious.

Dudes, gonna enjoy their need... Their need for speed

So you like Val Kilmer ehhh? Have you seen Tombstone?!?!

Its only inevitable that Hot Shots be done after this

I remember when I first saw this I was waiting for Maverick's commanding officer to call him a SLACKER! 😂

This is my favorite movie of all time. Seriously have watched probably 100 times and own the VHS, DVD, 30th anniversary DVD and Blu Ray also saw Top Gun: Maverick opening night and now own that Blu-ray. So glad you guys have finally watched this on your channel! The F-14 Tomcat will always be my favorite fighter plane

I snuck into the cinema when I was 9 (1986 in Austria) to see this movie. Love it. To you see "Das Boot". Would like to see your first time watching reaction. Or after "Top Gun" of course "Hot Shots!"

Loved the reaction. As a kid my parents took me to "the show" as my Mom called it almost every weekend. This is the only movie we went to twice in the theater. Good memories 😊

This is a movie I can recite word for word. Ultra cheesy, ultra amazing. I love it!

Something I never noticed until now: Maverick constantly refers to Iceman by his actual last name as a slight, until he learns to respect Iceman at the end.

I was stationed on the USS Carl Vinson as a plane captain (directing the pilot and doing final checks on the aircraft before a flight) when this movie came out. The flight deck is incredibly noisy and busy and your head has to be on a swivel, but it really filled me with pride watching the flight ops with Danger Zone blaring in the background. It made my job look super cool and the next time I was working on the flight deck, I would be playing Danger Zone in my head while I was working.

1:55 Actually, _Iron Eagle_ opened first just mere months before _Top Gun_ . _Top Gun_ went with the US Navy F-14 Tomcat while _Iron Eagle_ went with the US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon still used today. Both films used LIVE dogfight air choreography for action sequences and high adrenaline music. 17:45 Directed by Tony Scott.

Val Kilmer is one of my all time favourite actors. You should catch a few of his other movies.

NOW you dudes need to watch Hot Shots!

I like your reaction. And you are right. every scene could be a postcard. The strength of many 80s films is the interaction between pictures and music. That shows emotions. And that's why movies stick in our minds

You guys should watch another great movie with Val Kilmer called "The Ghost and the Darkness." It's really underrated.

“Why aren’t there more jet pilot movies?” Looks like you guys are gonna have fun with the ‘Iron Eagle’ franchise!

The actor who played Tom Cruise's Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) after Goose died, is Clarence Gilyard, Jr. He's also known for playing Theo the hacker in the first "Die Hard" film, and also for playing Chuck Norris's sidekick on the "Walker: Texas Ranger" TV series.

The "Hemlock is it?" was a subtle joke. Hemlock is a poisonous plant, famously drank by Socratese at his execution. She was referencing that he probably was punishing himself internally.

i've always found Top Gun to be a weird movie, i can't say i'm a fan because i've never purposefully chosen to watch it(generally i see it if someone else chooses to watch it) yet i've always enjoyed it each time i have watched it. the Maverick film on the other hand i'm a huge fan off and have watched it a few times, i hope you react to it soon.

Okay, you guys got this out of the way. Time for HOTSHOTS!

Seriously, don't wait. Just make Top Gun: Maverick your next movie. You know, while Chris is on the 80's high of the first one.

Okay, now you guys need to watch the spoof movie Hot Shots

now that you guys've seen Top Gun...how about Hot Shots....I grew up on this, not understanding half of the jokes

4:17 Tom Cruise is really good at those “what can I tell ya?” non-verbal side-eye facial looks

When are these guys gonna watch the castle?

When Charlie asks if he's drinking hemlock she's implying that he's suicidal. Hemlock tea is an ancient poison.

@NiceDudeMovieNight - Just found your channel, and you guys have the best and most authentic reactions I've probably ever seen. I would love to watch you guys watch "Top Secret". It's in the same genre as "Airplane" and "Naked Gun" but is a little less known. And it is Val Kilmer's big screen debut.

Fun fact: One of the songs under consideration was “Reckless” by metal band Judas Priest. The band denied its inclusion because it wouldn’t have been on the “Turbo” album, and they regret that decision due to how well “Danger Zone” did on the charts.

Of you guys haven't seen it yet I would recommend Joe vs The Volcano for some Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan comedy gold.

yeah this movie increased enlistment by quite a bit. I even went into the service just to be a fighter pilot. sadly I was too big (6'8") for the cockpit so I had to settle for fixing aircraft instead of flying them. I went in as an Aviation Electricians Mate though I did get a specialization in H-60's because a guy in my class wanted to be stationed in CA to be near his family so we ended up swapping first assignments which had me stationed and going into an extra training in roughly the same location.

i cant wait for their reaction to the most 80s bromance ever

At 3:30 , when Cougar is trying to land, reminds me of the Top Gun video game on the NES. Great game for it's time.

the opening of the movie is the perfect 'save the cat' moment

I wish there were more fighter pilot movies... Iron Eagle has entered the chat 🤓

One thing about this (and other movies about pilots)... No one gets a cool call sign. That's how pilots troll each other. I ended up as a Navy Corpsman in a Marine Corps squadron. Some of our pilots' call signs: Gaysian, Cumster, Bukkake (he had a Hungarian name that kind of sounded like the word bukkake), Bundy (he looked a bit like Ted Bundy), Chimmy, and our Commanding Officer's call sign was "S.H.O.E." (Stupidest Human on Earth). A lot of them are inside jokes, word play, or point out something embarrassing the person did.

I'm not a dude and I'm a pacifist so I never thrilled to this movie like so many did. I think Tom Cruise is up there with the best actors who have ever lived, too bad it seems he is such a total AH as a human being. I think he should have won an Oscar for his performance in Rain Man (1988). If you haven't seen that movie it's a must. Dustin Hoffman did win an Oscar for his part in it. A friend of mine lives just up the street from that little house by the beach that they used as where the Kelly McGillis character resides.

Another Jet movie is Flight of the Intruder. It has some story issues, but the flight scenes are really good.

After watching Tarantino explain this movie, it's hard for me to watch this movie without seeing his view lol. Great movie though. I feel you guys should react to Hot Shots. It's a parody of this movie.

Way to be Humanitarians, Nice Dudes🙏🏼

If you want another jet fighter movie. Before Top Gun there was two big military movies. The final countdown what happens when a top of the line navel vessel is time warped to December 7, 1941. Hell's Angels it's the movie that helped George Lucas make a lot the cinematography and edits for star wars.

This movie sparked a childhood love of planes, and though it never scaled up to being a real pilot (only a half hour of actual stick time in a prop plane), let alone a Navy pilot, I am quite good at flying in Digital Combat Simulator and love flying the F-14. BTW, at the beginning when Cougar is on approach and the jet is swinging back and forth left and right, THAT is a very real condition the aircraft can get into and it is freaky as hell to experience (simulated) and to fix without going around on the approach. I can't imagine being half-panicked and trying to do an approach, at dusk, on a carrier. Yuk.

Now is the perfect time for you to watch Hot Shots!

I was 14 when this came out and I've see it a LOT. it wasn't until a few months ago that I noticed a set dressing error. The scene where Cougar turns in his wings and Maverick gets the notice he's going, there's a picture of an F-5 nearly in the center of the frame. The F-5 is the plane used to "play" the MiG-28s. They make a big deal about how no one has ever seen one up close later in the movie.

"React to that movie sometime" You gotta do it sooner rather than later. Hell, it should be your next video :P This movie was s staple growing up, I'd rent it out a lot as a kid, and then recorded it on VHS to watch whenever I wanted. It was one of the first movies we got on DVD, and just like every other kid who watched it, made me want to be a fighter pilot. Couldn't do it in the real world, but I love flying the F-14 in every flight simulator I have...

little known fact...Merlin (Mavericks rear in the final scene) is played by Tim Robbins (Shawshank Redemption)

Dam that star wars talk made me think of the Second movie lol

I hope you guys can do a reaction to "Dracula: Dead and Loving it", it is directed by Mel Brooks (The guy who made "SpaceBalls" Movie), and is another hilarious comedy to watch, one of my all-time favourites. Would love to see a reaction to this! :) Thank you guys for uploading all of your wonderful reactions to movies for us 😊

I saw that aircraft carrier opening scene and all I could think about was "Hot Shots"... if you haven't seen it, please react to it :)

Just in case you missed it: Merlin (the guy who replaces Goose at the end and was flying with the guy who quit during the opening) is Tim Robbins. He's the actor who played Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption.

The principal from back to the future is indeed in this

When I saw the pixelated thumbnail, I thought this was Hot Shots. Super disappointing, hopefully you guys can do that next

19:09 Feels like you guys missed the reference. Hemlock isn't alcohol, it's a poison associated with suicide (see Socrates). I think what she's implying is that at this point, Maverick is committing career suicide.

That was awesome! Please do Maverick! You guys are my new favorite reaction channel! :)

It'd be funny to see your reaction to Iron Eagle (the first one) that came out at the same time as Top Gun. Cessna racing a dirt bike through the mountains, F-16s fighting the standard 80s middle-eastern bady guys, cool old retired air force guy helping out. Pretty fun and a little campy, but then some of the best F-16 footage ever. Real footage, they paid the Israili Air force to use their jets and pilots (the US would not allow it). Anyway.. neat movie.. just not as "mature" as Top.Gun. oh.. and it has Loius Gossip Junior in it so... 😎

Flying through jet wash can disrupt the flow of oxygenated air into the engine intake and cause a stall. The F-14 is such a big plane with their engines so far apart that it really freaks out when it suddenly has thrust coming from only one side

I would guess that they precise "Present Day" to oppose to the fact that the school was created in 1969 as explained a bit earlier 0:44.

Tom Cruise is a runt. In order to hide the height difference he Stands on Fruit crates, Leans on every surface or they use close up shots. Anything that will get him at eye level with his fellow cast. In reality, he's the perfect height to be a fighter pilot. The box was not built to seat giants.

Top Gun and Rocky IV... the ultimate fucking soudtrack on those movies.. Never to be outdone.

"Should we watch Top Gun Maverick?" Trick question, right?

17:46 the fact that she doesn't blame him always get me.

I have binged all your videos... LOVE THEM! LOVE YOU GUYS!!! I truly hope that one day - if you can find the movie 1. God's Must be Crazy 2. Cool Runnings 3. Ghost and the Darkness. I truly hope at some time these cross your paths, or maybe they have, but hearing your insight about any of these would be amazing!! Come whatever... You guys remind me how much fun 80-90s movies were... I miss them so MUCH!!

Seeing this movie as kid, for the longest time I was very confused about what the MIG-28 was, but it's not real. Plane that portrayed MIG-28 in this movies was actually a USAF F-5. This was so confusing back then :D

And at the end Maverick and Iceman got married and lived happy ever after with their one cat and two dogs.

My dad was in the Navy when this movie came out. I had a sick jean jacket with a bunch of Navy patches on it. My dad took me to see the movie at the base theatre a year or two after it came out😅 Covered my eyes during the sex scene.

Gotta follow this up with Hot Shots

There’s not a lot of fighter movies because this and Iron Eagle,Firefox and Blue Thunder set the bar really high so a lot of the movies that tried to do the same couldn’t match the quality.

Iron Eagle & Firefox are the other two pilot movies I can remember.

You guys really need to react to "Iron Eagle" which is, in my opinion, the quintessential 80s fighter pilot movie.

You cut one of the best lines. After the volleyball game, when someone shouts, "Mother Goose you 🐱!"

Now you guys have to watch the parody, Hot Shots, but don't watch the sequel Hot Shots: Part Deux until after you've seen Rambo 2&3!

Something I had thought of is that Goose should not have hit the canopy under those circumstances. My thought is that the aircraft was in a flat spin. When ejected, the canopy would not stay perfectly with the plane. So, even with Goose being ejected early or however that happened, he should have been shot out next to the canopy, not under it. Anyone have any thoughts on this idea?

Yes, please do Maverick!

In Maverick Top Gun Tom Cruise was really flying

@NiceDudeMovieNight @19:07 Hemlock isn't booze, it's poison... commonly used for the big s.

Yes yes please do Top Gun: Maverick! It can't just stop there!

Now you guys need to watch Hot Shots hahahaha

you guys should watch the goonies, and monster squad it is like a bibel for anyone who was born in the early 80ties lol.. perfect child hood movies.. top gun was for like older kids, but we younger wtched it ith older kids.. every boy wanted to be a pilot, to my country movies came like a year to 2 later, so i was like between 6 to 8 when i first saw it. sadly in 1991 war begun and many of us learned that jets pilots are not always good guys and many so many of us, changed our minds and never wanted to be pilot again, coz pilots drops bombs... insane how kid's brains works...

Watch Hot Shots now, perfect follow up

I wanted to be a fighter pilot so nad because of this movie. I was heart broken as I got older and learned the height cut off was 6'2" and I was projected to he over that. What a gut punch