Top Gun: Maverick
The original Top Gun from 1986 is one of the most classically eighties films that’s still much loved although also mocked. There are some crazy lines of dialogue and the relationship between insubordinate pilot-genius Pete “Maverick” Mitchell ( Tom Cruise ) and his instructor Charlotte Blackwood ; and also the love between him and his copilot “Goose”—and rivalry with Tom “Iceman” Kasansky ( Val Kilmer ) which ends with hugging. Shot like a music video, and with a brilliant score, wonderful soundtrack some incredible flight scenes, it has its place—it is more awesome than it has any right to be, and better than anything that tried to recapture its recipe. The sequel doesn’t mess about: it’s full of nostalgia, of course, but also a modern movie. Cruise put the cast through a flight-school so they could look authentic in the cockpit. The film begins in exactly the same way (and all the music is intact except the Berlin song) but we suddenly cut to a The Right Stuff style test fli...