re: Top Gun nitpick

That scene with Viper and Maverick in the bathroom always makes me laugh, Viper puts his arm on Maverick and kind of drags it all the way across while saying "let him goooooooo".

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Nah, cuz irrelevant details like that don't bother me. I couldn't see it anyway...because I was inverted. :doesinvertedhandmove:

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Sid: You want subversion on a massive level. You know what one of the greatest fricking scripts ever written in the history of Hollywood is? Top Gun.

Duane: Oh, come on.

Sid: Top Gun is fricking great. What is Top Gun? You think it's a story about a bunch of fighter pilots.

Duane: It's about a bunch of guys waving their dicks around.

Sid: It is a story about a man's struggle with his own homosexuality. It is! That is what Top Gun is about, man. You've got Maverick, all right? He's on the edge, man. He's right on the fricking line, all right? And you've got Iceman, and all his crew. They're gay, they represent the gay man, all right? And they're saying, go, go the gay way, go the gay way. He could go both ways.

Duane: What about Kelly McGillis?

Sid: Kelly McGillis, she's heterosexuality. She's saying: no, no, no, no, no, no, go the normal way, play by the rules, go the normal way. They're saying no, go the gay way, be the gay way, go for the gay way, all right? That is what's going on throughout that whole movie... He goes to her house, all right? It looks like they're going to have sex, you know, they're just kind of sitting back, he's takin' a shower and everything. They don't have sex. He gets on the motorcycle, drives away. She's like, "What the frick, what the frick is going on here?" Next scene, next scene you see her, she's in the elevator, she is dressed like a guy. She's got the cap on, she's got the aviator glasses, she's wearing the same jacket that the Iceman wears. She is, okay, this is how I gotta get this guy, this guy's going towards the gay way, I gotta bring him back, I gotta bring him back from the gay way, so I'll do that through subterfuge, I'm gonna dress like a man. All right? That is how she approaches it.

Okay, now let me just ask you - I'm gonna digress for two seconds here. I met this girl Amy here, she's like floating around here and everything. Now, she just got divorced, right? All right, but the REAL ending of the movie is when they fight the MIGs at the end, all right? Because he has passed over into the gay way. They are this gay fighting fricking force, all right? And they're beating the Russians, the gays are beating the Russians. And it's over, and they fricking land, and Iceman's been trying to get Maverick the entire time, and finally, he's got him, all right? And what is the last fricking line that they have together? They're all hugging and kissing and happy with each other, and Ice comes up to Maverick, and he says, "Man, you can ride my tail, anytime!" And what does Maverick say? "You can ride mine!" Swordfight! Swordfight! frickin' A, man!

especially when you consider Charlie was probably hot and heavy for Goose's lady friend the whole time. ::mindblown::

Tim Robbins had the best line of his career in this movie: "you're gonna do WHAAATT???!!!!"

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So arguably the greatest movie of all time was on last night on AMC, and I caught parts of it, and I got to thinking

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My biggest gripe with Top Gun was does the US really send it's LEAST battle tested pilots into a conflict like that? Dum Dee Dum I'm at graduation and BAM next thing you know they are in an Ocean about to go to battle.

Oh, you're a:

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Pilot

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That's right, a

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naval aviator

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I love this song. It reminds me of my grandmother.

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It's like they kept giving him shitty reels to see how he handled it. He could've called his boy Cougar...Lord knows he was capable and could've used some redemption.

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But Cougar lost it, turned in his wings...