“Top Gun (1986)
A hot-shot Navy jet pilot tangles with MiGs and flirts with a civilian astrophysicist.”
I don’t remember that.
All I remember was the bodies of sweaty, nearly-naked men writhing around and grasping each other with vigor.
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
carefully guides the wheelchair containing The Gay Jokes into the middle of the room
That summary sounds about right to me.
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…
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:
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:
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.
That’s odd (heh!), I never noticed that all MiG fighters have uneven numbers. I wonder why is that.
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.
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…)
Have you seen the Top Gun remake?
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.
And the tiniest little crosswind or turn, shift, slide, bank, stall, lift, or anything else didn’t happen to either aircraft? uh huh.
I understood the Mig-28 to be an entirely mythical plane, so it can have any shape it wants, no?
So, did you also have a problem with Denise Richards playing a nuclear physicist bomb-defuser in The World is Not Enough?
Hey! I don’t even own a pocket protector.
Well you have a point there.
Do you have to think Russian when you fly the mig-28s as well?