Top Gun

Join the guys in the Danger Zone this week as they take a look at the 1986 film Top Gun.

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  • Phil

    My call sign is – Lt. Phillip ‘Sled’ Kingham, though it does give you a diffident result each time

    • http://shortstormtrooper.com/ Lee

      mmmm Sled. I’d try for a different result too.

  • Phil

    Actually I am with Dan on this one, last time I saw this movie admittedly 15ish years ago I didn’t really enjoy it either. I didnt hate it but felt it was pretty meh.

    • Jobless Jonathan

      Phil,

      Right on. Not the best movie as an adult. I rated it a 6.

    • http://shortstormtrooper.com/ Lee

      You just don’t feel the need…

      the need for speed.

  • Jobless Jonathan

    This may be the best episode of Hawk and Iron Crow’s Midnight Movie Club ever. I laughed throughout. It’s weird, when I requested my call sign it came back as “Dumpster Diver?” Not cool.

    I must say, Lee’s paralleling of Top Gun and Harry Potter is BRILLIANT. And Dan’s reaction was equally fantastic. That made me laugh so hard. But Lee’s right! This needs to be investigated further. But Kelly McGillis is so old it’d be like Harry sleeping with Ron’s mom.

    Dan is probably right to rate this film lower than a 9, though. If it were made today it wouldn’t be rated so highly. That being said, it’s one of my favorites from childhood. I fear the sequel is going to be horrible.

    So someone attacked Lee for attacking Boba Fett? I had no problem with Lee’s take on BF, as I found his attack on Simon Pegg to be much worse.

    Guys, I love your show, but a Star Wars marathon? The first two are so horrible! Please review Fletch instead. But I’m a team player and fully support the Midmo Club.

    • http://shortstormtrooper.com/ Lee

      Brilliant in capitals does indeed describe my Harry Potter theory – thank you JJ.

      Everyone repeat after me:

      Lee does not hate Simon Pegg.

      We’ve separated the first two Star Wars episodes up for you JJ so no more whinging.

  • Kelly

    Good podcast this week…..I laughed a lot!

    I think if I had to watch Top Gun today I would agree with Dan on most of it. Maverick is an idiot. Goose is awesome. The sex scene is icky…..could have done without that. As a preteen I loved this movie(may have had something to do with a Mr. Kilmer).

    I do think the jet scenes are still fantastic! In the days before cgi took over, it looks great.

    Besides without Top Gun we would not have Hot Shots!

    Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a fantastic movie!

    On the running theme…..I ran for the first time in ages Monday. Still sore on Thursday. I run at about 4mph(I’m not converting that to kilometers,lol), which means my jog is barely faster than a walk. Good for you Lee, I don’t think I can keep up the run for more than a few minutes before a panting walk has to follow before I continue the run.

    I got Lt. Kelly ‘Banshee’ Beck…..I like it!

    • Jobless Jonathan

      “Besides without Top Gun we would not have Hot Shots!”

      Great point, Kelly!

    • http://shortstormtrooper.com/ Lee

      Banshee! That’s gold. So much Val love – he never really impressed me greatly but then that being said I’ve liked him in a bunch of films so maybe I’m a massive Val fan but I just don’t know it yet

  • Kelly

    Oh! and quit giving Crows a bad rep. They are smart gorgeous birds. :P Think of Jake in Shawshank…..adorable bird. If ever I were to have a pet bird, it’d be a Crow.

    • http://shortstormtrooper.com/ Lee

      smart gorgeous scary freaky birds.

  • SG-3

    Lt. Colin ‘Nutzoid’ Chick signing in, and siding with Dan’s score on this occasion. Another great show guys- I lost count of the number of embarrassing laughter outbursts you produced!

    • http://shortstormtrooper.com/ Lee

      So many people siding with Dan, I hope it’s not catching!!

  • http://fantasymoviepodcast.com Kasey

    I used the website to get my call sign too and it came up “Vandy”. I had to look it up in the dictionary. lol I don’t think I ever liked Top Gun. I guess I was never the right age for it. I also disliked Tom Cruise before that was cool. lol I find him just instinctually unlikable.

    I agree with Lee about Snow White and the Huntsmen… It’s not very good. It’s too bad because there are some really cool and original visual effects in that. I hope the art designer works on a better film in the future.

    Oh man, the Star Wars marathon won’t last very long if you start with Episode 1. If you don’t like Star Wars already… I used to be obsessed with Star Wars, but Episode 1 really killed it. And there’s no nerd rage like the nerd rage you get where you used to love a property. lol

    • http://shortstormtrooper.com/ Lee

      Vandy?!?! What on Earth is a vandy???

      I wonder if the creative team will stay the same for Snow White 2 (although Snow White herself will not be in it)?

      Funny enough if you listen to the Star Wars Ep 1 podcast and then read the post you were completely right, the marathon did not last long but not because Ep 1 killed it.

      We’re doing a special request/themed episode and then back to the Star Wars world.

  • http://dutchnid.blogspot.com Arjan

    So wat was Nicka’s (or what’s her face..) emailaddress, I seem to be a very handsome young man who’s single. Saying I am would be arrogant (the truth of course, but arrogant..so I’ll also go with ‘seem to be’).

    Topgun = Harry Potter…this BEGS for a meme. I will come back to this later this week – keep an eye on the fb page. I’ll just say ‘Mind blown’ for now…

    The baking of the egg..that’s what I remember most. Not sure if it’s fondly or just silly/funny.

    You (think it was Lee?) mentioned that you liked the fighterplanes in the old movies… Réally? My dad, my brother and me always cringed because most of the time they used NF5′s or Mirages as stand-in’s for Mig’s. I know they didn’t have a lot of choice..but still. And don’t get me started on attack helicopters in old movies… And even then it was also quite obvious that sometimes in movies they would just use different planes for the same plane in the movie. They’re flying in F14 Tomcats themselves btw :)

    • http://shortstormtrooper.com/ Lee

      See I guess if you don’t know anything about planes then you can celebrate in blissful ignorance the wonder of the planes in this film. There’s a grey nurse in Jaws as well but you can forgive them that one shot.

      I’m still waiting on the Top Gun Harry Potter meme.

      Also you don’t want Nicka’s email address, trust me on this one. Besides I see you with all sorts of women types on your facebook feed anyway.

  • http://dutchnid.blogspot.com Arjan

    oh and as for the soundtrack…a couple of years back I got some soundtracks (ok A LOT OF SOUNDTRACKS!) from Lee among which was music from Forbidden Ensemble…I guess Lee also knows how they made that music…they were put into a room and they were given some 70′s porn to watch and then asked to make music for it.
    Brilliant stuff btw.

    • http://shortstormtrooper.com/ Lee

      That was a good CD, they probably considered it a good day in the office as well.

  • Skootur_78

    Lt. Scott ‘Fury’ Anderson reporting for duty…

    I’d have to side with Dan. Mainly on Maverick being a complete dill hole. Iceman was right! He is a risk to everyone up in the sky, they’re just lucky he only killed one if his own (Goose) Vs. several Russians (so I guess ratio-wise he’s still ahead)…

    • http://shortstormtrooper.com/ Lee

      Stop saying Iceman was right!!! The only thing Iceman was right about was his hair gel… and that Maverick was dangerous… and that he’d win Top Gun…

  • Arjan

    btw..callsign: Apache
    I can live with that.

    • http://shortstormtrooper.com/ Lee

      Apache Beens! that’s got a good ring to it!