Top Gun - Group Movie Reaction 

Maturing is realize that iceman was in no way shape or form the villian of this movie lmfao

It won the Oscar for Best Original Song, Take My Breath Away. It made $325 million dollars ($900 million dollars today) against a $15 million dollar budget. It's my dad's favorite movie.

The admirals daughter is someone to remember.

In the final mission, Maverick’s RIO was Merlin, who was Cougar's RIO in the opening scene.

RIP Goose and his dogtags.

Rana stomping her feet during the love scene 😂🤣😂

No green screen. Tom was in the back seat, even in 1986. It inspired him to become a pilot himself.

I am a very traditionally masculine bloke, but I still tear up when Goose buys it. I lost my best mate in my late teens. I totally identify with Mav.

I had great time watching this one...Guys, before watching next Top Gun, please say your call signs in the next intro...

i watched this movie for the first time a day before the sequel dropped and had my MIND BLOWN

Some scenes in the movie are little cringy but you are freaking out about them as if you were in middle school lol

The volleyball scene, aside from its visual appeal for women and gay dudes, was to show how the spirit of competition was in these characters' blood. It even extended outside of their line of work, and into the games they played for fun. In the sequel, a similar scene was instead used to help built a sense of teamwork. Both scenes helped develop the story, and therefore had valid excuses to include some eye-candy for whoever might enjoy that.

Lol this reaction reminded me of a group of middle schoolers watching a rated R movie for the first time trying to make everything funny around their friends.

There was an ex-JAG officer who reviewed this film and came to the opinion that Maverick would be in jail within the first 15mins of the film. Multiple violations.

This movie is such a classic! I remember my dad telling how big this movie was back in the day & how the airplane sequences were some of the best in cinema. He got me to watch the movie so we can go see the sequel in theaters & boy, was it such a surreal experience! Glad y’all are reacting to this amazing movie! Also, R.I.P. Goose 🪦

20:18 FOUR Bogeys The Normies: " FIVE !!!! " 🤣🤣🤣

LMAO!! i did not espect this reaction to be so damn hiiilarious! can't wait to see you guys react to the 2nd one. 😊

Growing up in the 1980s like I did, you don't skip out on what this film meant to the culture. Months earlier, there was a film of similar content called Iron Eagle (loosely based on true events) that had spawned 3 sequels. But Top Gun would eventually outrun, outgross and overshadow that film. Cruise as an leading man on his A-game with a great supporting cast. The late, great Tony Scott (brother of Ridley Scott) with one of his first blockbusters features with producers Bruckheimer and Simpson. Everybody wanted to be a fighter pilot after seeing this and the impact on recruitment was unbelievable. No.1 film of 1986, soundtrack goes platinum and the song "Take My Breath Away" by Berlin won an Oscar & Golden Globe for Best Original Song. There was is a video-game franchise. 18 games in a row. It was in limited re-release for IMAX theatres only in 2013 and it was just as good the second time

Relax guys, you get issued more than one set of dog tags.

I was not going to make this comment until I saw everybody going nuts, but it is instructive to watch Millennials react to movies their parents watched before they were born.

The tags in the ocean thing is a sign of honor

If Iceman wasn't so good, then he and Slider would have died while Maverick was dealing with his ptsd.

Mark 4:29. Hehe! I just noticed for the first time, that "Maverick", saying that line about, "fun", is very much like the line said by the aviator flying the, "F-14 Tomcat", in the older movie, "The Final Countdown", after being told to not fire at the, Zeros!

Just to clarify something because I didn't see it in the comments yet. The "hard deck" of 10000ft. is the "simulated" ground. Maverick saying "I was below the deck for only a few seconds" would mean "I was only under the ground for a few seconds" in a real life combat situation... So RIP.

I can say I am gay and I enjoy the volleyball scene :)

that reaction for the "love making" scene was hilarious 🤣

Top Gun in the 80's was at NAS Miramar, the pilots would fly from there to NAS Falon to dogfight. They did most of the training scenes at Falon, and the air combat over the Pacific Ocean.

This might now be my favorite Normies reaction. Super fun.

really enjoying all these movie reactions lately

naval tradition burial at sea, why he threw the dogtags

I believe Tom did learn to really fly after this movie?

This is the most homoerotic movie of the '80s (and there were a lot)! I'm glad you guys enjoyed it so much!

Holy crap, Spidey at the end "W-wh-whoa you don't, you don't throw those! wh wha?" LMAO LMAO LMAO hahahahahahah

Mark 8:16? It has been so long since I saw the movie in a movie theater, that I'm no longer sure if his big mole and his knitted eyebrows only show up in, HD, or not. They may have, because I remember thinking why would someone be attracted to that. But in the sequel, his eyebrows are now seperated, and only a slight scar bump exists where the mole used to be. 😁

Everyone's been doing a Top Gun 1 & 2 reaction but the first spiritual sequel was actually Days of Thunder (1990), also directed by Tony Scott & starring Tom Cruise. It's basically the same story structure except w/ stock car racing. BTW, Merlin is played by Tim Robbins.

The editing in this was great!

The "hard deck", is a simulated ground for training to keep everyone as safe as possible. If you dive through 10k ft. Your "dead" because you hit the ground.

The hard deck simulates the ground, so below the hard deck is dead.

If you watch the commentary on the DVD, they say the volleyball scene and guys in towels was for the ladies that generally don't watch war movie

Now y'all gotta watch the 2nd one. Pleeeeeease make it sooner 😭😭😭

The sequel does a much better job at showing how physical it is to fly these things.

30:00 you could make the same argument about driving! Getting in or being in a near wreck is nerve-racking and rattling. Doesn’t mean you are always nervous while driving

Also remember that whole thing about the lines of the maps was hit while times those kind of battles couldn't range and you kind of drift over things when you're fighting for your life

I remember watching this movie when I was 6 in 2009. Rewatched it again in middle school and my reaction to the love scene was exactly how they reacted, especially Rana lmao. Also, as a straight dude tht volleyball scene was homoerotic af and I love it.

Mark 10:38? Hehe! You're reminding me of this commercial for, "Young Sheldon", that lately, I've been seeing a lot of. His college professor tells the whole class that Sheldon, performed so well that he broke the curve and turned their, A's and B's, into C's and D's. Sheldon, notes that they don't seem to be happy about that. (He would prefer that they be happy for him, and be inspired to do better.) 😆😅

I live near Pensacola, we see the blue angels practicing all time lol

The movie definitely has the 80s vibe of "Nothing Manlier than a bunch of Oily Buff dudes Rubbing each other In the showers 😤"

The Vollyball scene was they probaby figured if men were gonna take their Girlfriends/ Wives to see all these airplanes flying around then they needed something for the women to oogle at..... I don't mind it?!!! 😂🥰

Of course it was like that in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Why you think we have so many Singles today. It was way easier back then. Today you must be so careful when you a guy want a girl.

Can’t wait for you guys’ topgun maverick reaction!

the chris fella chats the most waffle on all of YT 🙄

The Archer parody of this is hilarious. I recommend watching it.

You guys should do a whole 80s series of the cheesy greats!

The Lion King and Top Gun were the two first movies I ever saw in life as little kid. I remember watching both of them bunch times. My dad loves planes and fighter jets (he always wanted be a fighter pilot for Pakistani airforce)

compressor stalls were a common problem in the F-14a as were flat spins due to the asymmetrical placement of the engines.

You guys " lost that loving feeling" when did we become so cynical? that we can't even enjoy a great movie without questioning every single thing, yes it was different times but the message is the same.. Honor, friendship and love!

This might have been your most enjoyable review yet, can’t wait for Maverick.

RIP, Tony Scott.

I'm sure that Goose's wife has her own set of his "dog tags". Everyone is so worried about this. 🙂

21:08 Merlin.... yeah thats Tim Robbins! ... as in Shawshank, War of the Worlds (reunion with Tom Cruise), High Fidelity, Mystic River etc...

Hey, Iceman did that unauthorized flyby, too, and he was on one engine. And he still calls Maverick dangerous?!

Maverick not only learned and grew, he became the best pilot by the end, and shot down three enemy fighters (against Iceman's one), which for the "modern" (post-Vietnam) age is amazing. That's way better than winning the trophy.

DOES THAT MEAN MAVERICK IS COMING SOON

You would have to understand the Vietnam War & Cold War more in depth to understand the crossing the line statement. The US had a secret war in Laos *President Barack Obama was the first sitting US president to visit Laos since the Cold War in 2016, stating that “At the time, the US government did not acknowledge America’s role. It was a secret war, & for years, the American people did not know. Even now, many Americans are not fully aware of this chapter in our history, & it’s important that we remember today.”*

Best reaction to this movie that I’ve seen yet! All the cringe 😂

Their conversation should have gone like this instead: Maverick: "I can hold my own." Charlie: "Good, so I know you won't be completely lonely tonight."

Merlin (Cougar's old RIO) is now Maverick's RIO.

haven’t watched you guys in a minute but navis hair is beauuuuutiful!

Maverick had to fire that missed shot to get that enemy off of Iceman immediately. Real combat isn't exactly like training, is it? Missiles can often be evaded even when they are locked, too.

Did you notice in the volleyball game Goose, the only married guy was the only guy wearing a t-shirt?

lol i knew they were gonna laugh in the chase scene

Mark 22:20. Hmm. "Chris"? He mentioned, "Hot Shots"! That may have been the movie that gave me memories of models being pulled apart by wires during simulated explosions. If not, then it was the theatrical cut, of this movie. That, or it was both, since the parody was inspired by this movie. Hmm. 🤔

Quentin Tarantino's actual quote on the homoeroticism in Top Gun "You’ve got Maverick, all right?” He’s on the edge, man. He’s right on the f-ing 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…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."

All jokes aside the sequence where goose dies is actually based on a problem that the Navy had to deal with as far as airflow disruption when a fighter is flying close formation and an engine flames out., And the crew has to eject, there is a timing issue in terms of when the ejection seats fire. That actual air flow disruption caused what you saw, The changes were made when new engines were installed on the f-14 tomcat

Lmao I was just watching Top Gun Maverick reaction rn

What is creepy courting behavior today would have been cute and flattering, albeit embarrassing, back in the 1980s. I think the news media has managed to make everyone hypersensitive and afraid of everyone else. Things weren't like that in the 1980s. Bad things happened occasionally, of course, but people weren't so afraid. A guy in the supermarket could ask for an employee's number because he thinks she's cute, and she wouldn't call the police to report stalking and an attempted rape. 😄 "Why don't you go on Tinder like a normal person instead of sexually harassing me at work, you creep?! I feel so violated. 😭 Get me a therapist!"

the hard top of 10,000 ft is what the ground level for that fight. to go below that is to be flying under the ground. that way to keep pilots from getting killed during training by crashing into the ground

Mark 24:28. You probably sensed, Kelly, not wanting to have sexual contact at all with males, and her acting skills weren't enough to hide it, I guess. 🤔

Guys like Iceman and Cougar don't have as much potential as Maverick, though. What Maverick has to do is figure out how to know when to follow the book and when to throw it out. He's learning, and people will make mistakes while learning. That's OK. Who cares about the trophy? What matters is what you do when it counts.

And now for _Hot Shots!_ , which is a hilarious parody of _Top Gun_ starring Charlie Sheen, and it even features a war and a strike mission like _Top Gun: Maverick_ .

Mark 4:50? Too bad that your group doesn't get to see the funny, "Pepsi Cola", commercial inspired by that scene! ⚓

The USSR was extremely dangerous, most in my generation don’t give enough credit to Reagan and other great Americans for taking them down

Im absolutely shocked how few of you had seen this before

So glad This génération of reactor reconize Meg Ryan ! Lol

In the sequel, Tom Cruise actually flies the P-51 Mustang fighter from World War II. He owns this plane in real life.

Iceman should not have obstructed Maverick from taking the shot. Even Goose was telling Iceman to get out of there, and Slider was telling him to hurry up, but winning that trophy meant everything to Iceman. In a basketball game, if you're double-covered, then you pass it to the open man, you don't force a bad shot when there is a better option available.

Now you guys gotta watch top gun maverick!

Mark 3:36. Howdy! 🤠👍. You should be told that back then, movie producers were more interested in still following old movie making traditions, like seeing the faces of the cast members that they paid for, rather than being realistic about whether or not the characters should be able to breathe. So back then, the Enemy was kept "faceless", by being allowed to keep their oxygen masks on! ⚓

This movie is classic 80s cheese. Love it.

The enemy fighters got too close to the carrier group for comfort. Also, the British own at least one island in the Indian Ocean named Diego Garcia (probably owned by Spain previously), and by treaty the US military jointly operate with theirs, so technically some of the territory is "ours" and we will defend it.

This reaction is HILARIOUS LMAOOOOOOOOO

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Your guys reaction has me dead. 😂

Following Charlie into the ladies room was technically conduct unbecoming of an officer and a gentleman and would’ve gotten him a dishonourable discharge. All the infractions combined (taking Penny Benjamin for a joyride in a jet, the fly-by over the tower, turning back to help Cougar back to the ship, etc.,), if it was wartime, he would’ve been facing the death penalty.

I'm waiting for the 2nd reaction it's fucking 🔥🔥🔥

in the 80s, Glam Hair Metal was the straightest thing in the world.

The admiral’s daughter…Penny Benjamin. 😁👍🤩

1.1K Thumbs Up + Mine! 👍. Thanks for the fun, DVR! 🎬 😎🤠🤓🖖✌️🙏⚓ Notes: I used them up. Oh! The, USS Enterprise CVN-65, has been recently recycled. Her replacement: USS Enterprise (CVN-80) will be the third Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier to be built for the United States Navy. She will be the ninth United States naval vessel and third aircraft carrier to bear the name, and is scheduled to be in operation by 2028. Namesake: USS Enterprise (CVN-65) Aircraft carried: More than 80, approx. up to 90 combat aircraft. Identification: CVN-80.

They just shit all over one of my favorites. 😂😂😂