Top Gun DVD

Advantages: Very god soundtrack, acting and action.
Disadvantages: A little slow at times

...I never managed to watch Top Gun all the way. However, after my wife watched a few Star Trek movies with me I felt obliged to sit and watch a movie or two that she wanted to see. Tom Cruise plays Maverick, a highly talented but dangerous fighter pilot in the US marines. After the number one pilot on his ship (USS Enterprise - there is a link to Star Trek) encounters a Russian Mig, the pilot loses his nerve and hands in his wings. This ...
...been asked to send its top pilot to 'Top Gun'. 'Top Gun' is an academy for the best fighter pilots that extends their skills to the extreme enhancing their fighting abilities and also instigating a little competition between these top pilots as they fight for the prestigious position of Best in Class. Kelly McGillis plays a civilian astrophysics instructor. During a classic scene Maverick and his co-pilot Goosey serenade Kelly in a bar. This sets ... Read review

Advantages: Some great action scenes, Looks impressive
Disadvantages: The Story is a bit cheesy

...This is one such film. Top Gun has been a favourite of mine for years and although its only a recent addition to my DVD collection, its going to be a well watched addition. It didn’t strike me as my kind of film at first but after watching it for the first time back in the early 90’s I was hooked. On a regular flight through the Persian Gulf two US pilots encounter a couple of enemy MiGs. The MiGs separate and go after one of the US pilots each. ...
...attend the US Air Forces Top Gun flight school. Top Gun is for the best of the best and for Maverick and his Co-Pilot Goose (Anthony Edwards) it’s a big opportunity. Of course Maverick is trying to life up to the reputation of his Dad who had also attended the Top Gun flight School. The main problem with Maverick though is he is cocky and this makes him dangerous. Meanwhile out of the cockpit Maverick has fallen for a woman, one of the instructors, ... Read review

Advantages: Great fun, good flight scenes, chance to see famous actors before they were famous
Disadvantages: Cruise is just too cheesy for words, romance doesn't work too well

...the cheesy whatsit that is TOP GUN. ----------------------------- Top Gun is a film that's getting on a bit now, but it's still good fun and you can get the DVD version really cheaply now, so get a little bit of film history and enjoy. It's not brilliant but (for a Tom Cruise film) it's pretty close. DVD Extras ---------------- The DVD is feature packed with the film and… that's it! No extras whatsoever! Deal with it. (You'd only get smarmy Tom ...
...start to get the impression that I'm not a big Tom Cruise fan?) The Blurb -------------- The blurb n the back of the DVD is worth a mention since it could be the very worst example of blurb writing in all film history. Read it and weep with laughter. An unintentional must-have. "Kelly McGillis sizzles as a flight instructor who teaches Maverick things you can't learn in a classroom…".. oh boy… The Film ------------- "Hey, where's the film review?", ... Read review

Advantages: Great Action
Disadvantages: Bad Sub Plots

...school is known as the Top Gun. And there, I think, you have the basic ingredients of this film, except, of course, for three more obvious factors you get in all films about brave young pilots, these being the girl, the mystery of the fighter pilot father and the rivalry with another pilot. It turns out that Maverick's dad was a brilliant Navy pilot during the Vietnam era, until he and his plane disappeared in mysterious circumstances, it also turns ...
...in between take place at Top Gun school, where Maverick quickly gets locked into a personal duel with another brilliant pilot, Iceman (Val Kilmer). In one combat after another, the sound track resounds, as the impressive looking planes pursue each other through the clouds, in a rather exciting manner. But the love story between Cruise and McGillis is just completely unconvincing. Cruise and McGillis spend a lot of time exchanging unconvincing looks ... Read review

Advantages: A great film
Disadvantages: The film ends

Film Only Top Gun was released in 1986 under the directorship of Tony Scott, who has directed Days of Thunder, Enemy of the state, Crimson Tide and Beverly Hills Cops 2. The Film itself was written by Jim Cash, who also wrote The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas and Secret of My Success. Even though a lot of people did not like this film, it did go on to win an Oscar, Brit Award, Golden Globe and Golden Screen Award. It was also nominated for many ...
...class they were going to Top Gun, which is really where the film really starts. During the film, we find out why Maverick loves to fly the way that he does but to me this is something that you should find out yourself in the film. To be the best pilot, Maverick does step on a few toes and does upset some of the other students at Top Gun. He also loves to do fly bys, causing the head of Air traffic control to spill coffee down him, this happens on ... Read review