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Top Gun
« on: December 29, 2013, 11:05:21 PM »
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Re: Top Gun
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2013, 11:39:12 PM »
Quote from: Jocassee on December 29, 2013, 11:05:21 PM

You know what to do.


 ???  Buy the DVD?
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Re: Top Gun
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2013, 10:09:46 AM »
Quote from: Jocassee on December 29, 2013, 11:05:21 PM
You know what to do.

Play BF4, because I've seen Top Gun too many times?
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Re: Top Gun
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2013, 10:46:42 AM »
Quote from: Jocassee on December 29, 2013, 11:05:21 PM

You know what to do.



Take a roll of quarters to the entrance of a Toyz R Us?
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Re: Top Gun
« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2013, 10:53:24 AM »
An aside...


Did Gizmodo really just put this ad on the side of their article?



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That's really poor model casting, IMO, considering the name of the product they're peddling.
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Re: Top Gun
« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2013, 11:50:47 AM »
Shout "YES, Hallelujah" from the rooftops?

For some reason that movie bugs the crap out of me. Whether it is all of the obvious BS, Tom Cruise, or whatever, I just don't like it.

Story time. The scene where they ejected over China Lake and then drifted hundreds of miles to the ocean, poor Tom did actually get entangled in his chute after they lowered him into the water of Coronado Bay. The SAR swimmer (an acquaintance) went in to pull him out and by his report was treated kindly by every one but the star of the movie. Maybe that's the reason. Well that, and glaring technical inaccuracies.

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Re: Top Gun
« Reply #6 on: December 30, 2013, 12:03:00 PM »
Quote from: BobR on December 30, 2013, 11:50:47 AM
Shout "YES, Hallelujah" from the rooftops?

For some reason that movie bugs the crap out of me. Whether it is all of the obvious BS, Tom Cruise, or whatever, I just don't like it.

Story time. The scene where they ejected over China Lake and then drifted hundreds of miles to the ocean, poor Tom did actually get entangled in his chute after they lowered him into the water of Coronado Bay. The SAR swimmer (an acquaintance) went in to pull him out and by his report was treated kindly by every one but the star of the movie. Maybe that's the reason. Well that, and glaring technical inaccuracies.

bob

The best thing about Top Gun is the stunning aerial photography. Most flying movies, especially of the '80s, had cheesy as hell aerial sequences (think Iron Eagle)...yeah they had to make up the Mig 28 but other than that it was still good IMHO.



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Re: Top Gun
« Reply #7 on: December 30, 2013, 02:44:53 PM »
I didn't much care for Top Gun.

We have it on DVD and I doubt if I will ever watch it again.   =|

Back in 2012, I worked a few months just a few miles from Miramar.
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Re: Top Gun
« Reply #8 on: December 30, 2013, 03:01:10 PM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on December 30, 2013, 10:53:24 AM
An aside...


Did Gizmodo really just put this ad on the side of their article?



 :facepalm:

That's really poor model casting, IMO, considering the name of the product they're peddling.

Obama would've been a better model.
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