Odd description for the movie Top Gun

[Fubaya]

from tvlistings.zap2it.com

"Top Gun (1986)
A hot-shot Navy jet pilot tangles with MiGs and flirts with a civilian astrophysicist."

I don't remember that.

[Argent Towers]

All I remember was the bodies of sweaty, nearly-naked men writhing around and grasping each other with vigor.

[Hello Again]

from tvlistings.zap2it.com

"Top Gun (1986)
A hot-shot Navy jet pilot tangles with MiGs and flirts with a civilian astrophysicist."

I don't remember that.
More like, "has sex with to the strains of 'Take My Breath Away'" but that's about it. Charlie was the civilian astrophysicist played by Kelly McGillis

[Isamu]

*carefully guides the wheelchair containing The Gay Jokes into the middle of the room*

[madmonk28]

That summary sounds about right to me.

[Fubaya]

I don't remember anything about Charlie being an astrophysicist, I thought that was a strange typo (why is it the job of a civilian astrophysicist to perform flight performance evaluations on pilots?) I guess I was wrong, as googling it shows a lot of hits, although they are all copies of the same tagline.

My bad. Learn something new every day..

[PatriotGrrrl]

It is utterly absurd that she would be an astrophysicist (aerospace engineer would be more like it) but that's Hollywood for ya. They might accept the idea of a sexy female scientist, but everyone knows engineers are nerdy men with high-water pants, thick glasses and pocket protectors. :rolleyes:

[mattomic]

As for tangling with MiGs, I mean, I guess, for about 10 minutes at the end of the movie as a big symbolic plot piece, but I wouldn't call it the focus of the movie. The "others" were intentionally unidentified, but here's what Wikipedia sez:

The enemy aircraft are referred to as MiG-28s. They are painted black, with no NATO reporting name, and of unspecified nationality, but commentary on the movie's Special-Edition DVD release states that they were originally intended to be North Korean. In real life, the MiG design bureau is a Soviet aircraft manufacturer, although they never produced an even numbered fighter model. The MIG-28 in the movie is portrayed by the American Northrop F-5 (E/F Tiger IIs).

Charlie was an aerophysicist and aerial engineer, even though she didn't seem to be particularly good at either or much of a physics-lovin' egghead, so who knows why she was hanging around a Naval base... oh right, as a romantic lead.

Yeah, I've seen this bad boy on basic cable more than a couple times.

[Ale]

The enemy aircraft are referred to as MiG-28s. They are painted black, with no NATO reporting name, and of unspecified nationality, but commentary on the movie's Special-Edition DVD release states that they were originally intended to be North Korean. In real life, the MiG design bureau is a Soviet aircraft manufacturer, although they never produced an even numbered fighter model. The MIG-28 in the movie is portrayed by the American Northrop F-5 (E/F Tiger IIs).


That's odd (heh!), I never noticed that all MiG fighters have uneven numbers. I wonder why is that.

[bengangmo]

As for tangling with MiGs, I mean, I guess, for about 10 minutes at the end of the movie as a big symbolic plot piece, .

Wasn't there also a scene at the start with Maverick and another pilot that ended in an observer / co-pilot getting killed?

[Sauron]

Wasn't there also a scene at the start with Maverick and another pilot that ended in an observer / co-pilot getting killed?

No, the scene at the start was Maverick and Goose flying upside-down over a MiG while giving the other pilot the finger and taking a Polaroid picture.

The "co-pilot getting killed" part happened during their training at the Top Gun facility.

[Kobal2]

That's odd (heh!), I never noticed that all MiG fighters have uneven numbers. I wonder why is that.

Soviet convention (or possibly internal MiG one, Googling doesn't make that very clear) of using exclusively odd numbers for Fighter planes. Even numbered planes are bombers, experimental planes and so on.
Similar to the convention that NATO nicknames for Soviet fighter and fighter/bomber planes should start with an F (Foxtrot, Foxbat, Fishbed, Fulcrum, Fitter...) while strategic bombers get a B (Bear, Backfire, Blackjack...) and helos get an H (Hind, Havoc, Halo...)

[Zany Zeolite Zipper]

Have you seen the Top Gun (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX1sgZVGBUw) remake?

[Intergalactic Gladiator]

No, the scene at the start was Maverick and Goose flying upside-down over a MiG while giving the other pilot the finger and taking a Polaroid picture.

The "co-pilot getting killed" part happened during their training at the Top Gun facility.

How come the tail fins didn't bang into each other when they were flying upside down over the MiG?

[garygnu]

How come the tail fins didn't bang into each other when they were flying upside down over the MiG?
F14 Tomcats have two tail fins, the 'MiG' had one.

[Intergalactic Gladiator]

And the tiniest little crosswind or turn, shift, slide, bank, stall, lift, or anything else didn't happen to either aircraft? uh huh.

[Hello Again]

How come the tail fins didn't bang into each other when they were flying upside down over the MiG?
I understood the Mig-28 to be an entirely mythical plane, so it can have any shape it wants, no?

[Ethilrist]

It is utterly absurd that she would be an astrophysicist (aerospace engineer would be more like it) but that's Hollywood for ya. They might accept the idea of a sexy female scientist, but everyone knows engineers are nerdy men with high-water pants, thick glasses and pocket protectors. :rolleyes:

So, did you also have a problem with Denise Richards playing a nuclear physicist bomb-defuser in The World is Not Enough?

[engineer_comp_geek]

everyone knows engineers are nerdy men with high-water pants, thick glasses and pocket protectors. :rolleyes:

Hey! I don't even own a pocket protector.

[Intergalactic Gladiator]

I understood the Mig-28 to be an entirely mythical plane, so it can have any shape it wants, no?

Well you have a point there.

Do you have to think Russian when you fly the mig-28s as well?

[Kobal2]

So, did you also have a problem with Denise Richards playing a nuclear physicist bomb-defuser in The World is Not Enough?

I can buy a female nuclear physicist. I can buy a hot nuclear physicist. I can buy a nuclear physicist in a sweaty tanktop and camos.

But expecting me to believe there are nuclear physicists called Christmas Jones ? Pull the other one, it's got quarks on.

[Bryan Ekers]

Aside from the soundtrack, I don't remember much about it.

It's made for decent parody fodder over the years, though.

[Scissorjack]

Charlie was an aerophysicist and aerial engineer, even though she didn't seem to be particularly good at either or much of a physics-lovin' egghead, so who knows why she was hanging around a Naval base... oh right, as a romantic lead.

With a guy's name.

[duality72]

Wasn't there also a scene at the start with Maverick and another pilot that ended in an observer / co-pilot getting killed?

The incident you're thinking of is probably when Maverick's wingman freaks out (sorry I can't think of how to put this more artfully at the moment) by the encounter with the MiGs and has to be talked down by Maverick.

[Fubaya]

Aerophysicist makes more sense than astrophysicist, although I still don't see why they needed a civilian aerophysicist consultant to do pilot evals.

[ElvisL1ves]

How come the tail fins didn't bang into each other when they were flying upside down over the MiG?

I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.

[Robot Arm]

I understood the Mig-28 to be an entirely mythical plane, so it can have any shape it wants, no?Yes, but for the purposes of making a movie, it's probably easiest to get some existing planes and a shitload of black paint.

[Darth Sensitive]

And the tiniest little crosswind or turn, shift, slide, bank, stall, lift, or anything else didn't happen to either aircraft? uh huh.

They were about 2, no more like 1.5, meters away - that's plenty of space :D

[Uncle Brother Walker]

Homoerotic.



...what? You said odd, right?

[Elendil's Heir]

I can buy a female nuclear physicist. I can buy a hot nuclear physicist. I can buy a nuclear physicist in a sweaty tanktop and camos....

Really? :eek: Where are they for sale?

I'll have one of each, please....

[Kobal2]

With a guy's name.

You know, I'd never picked up on that. Ye gods... as if the volley-ball scene wasn't clear enough :p

[ElvisL1ves]

Yes, but for the purposes of making a movie, it's probably easiest to get some existing planes and a shitload of black paint.Which may explain its close resemblance to a T-38.

Great movie line, in "Jet Pilot": When Janet Leigh, as the defecting Russian fighter pilot, brings her T-33 with a red star painted on it into the American base, John Wayne gets to say "So that's the new MiG, huh? Sure looks like one of ours."

[Elendil's Heir]

Of course you must see this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd_-iEv5VDU

[Sauron]

How come the tail fins didn't bang into each other when they were flying upside down over the MiG?

There was a lot of upside-down tailfin-bangin' going on among the pilots after the volleyball scene ... if you get my drift.