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Still one of Tom Cruises best in my opinion, also fairly sure this movie is what sealed his status as a leading Man in Hollywood..this movie also did that for Val Kilmer as well i believe..you might even recognize some other familiar faces playing minor roles, most notably Tim Robbins as the Navigator with the call sign “Merlin” for Maverick in the final scenes…If you love Fighter Planes and anything to do with them, then you MUST watch this..it is a classic in every sense..some of the best Aerial Combat footage ever captured outside of actual combat..also, the F-14 Tomcat is simply a BAD ASS looking Figher Jet..one of my faves anyway lol…This movie inspired me to join Air Cadets with the goal of joining the RCAF (Royal Canadian Air Force) to try and become an F-18 ‘Hornet’ pilot (we don’t use F-14’s here in Canada)..i did my Basic Training in CFB Trenton but failed the eye test..was told i would never fly after that…took me ages to get over that blow because i spent several years of my life dedicated to that goal..anyways, with movies like this, i can still live Vicariously through them LOL..can’t WAIT for the new Top Gun movie to come out this year, with Cruise reprising his role as “Maverick” and supposedly, i hear even Val Kilmer is reprising his role as “The IceMan” though from what i have seen, he is going to have to lose a lot of weight if they want him playing in the cockpit of a plane lol..the only one who looks like he has barely aged out of them all is Cruise, the guy has this perpetually youthful look lol..saw some pics of Kelly McGillis (she played Charlie, Cruises love interest in this movie) not too long ago and HOLY SHIT she did NOT age well..she looks like an 80 yr old methhead..she looked REALLY rough..don’t think there is ANY amount of make-up they could use to make her look her old part as Charlie in this movie..hell, if anything, she would look more like Mavericks great granny then his “wife” or love interest however they ended up after this movie..so i was not surprised when i heard that she would NOT be reprising her role in the new movie..there is only so many miracles they can pull off i guess lol..anyways, Cheers all, thanks for reading my long’ish comment lol..hopefully you are as excited as i am to see the new Top Gun movie!