# Odd description for the movie Top Gun **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 21, 2009, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-description-for-the-movie-top-gun/493806 "2009-04-21T02:22:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-description-for-the-movie-top-gun/493806/21 "2009-04-21T16:01:19Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-description-for-the-movie-top-gun/493806/22 "2009-04-21T16:10:39Z")
Aside from the soundtrack, I don’t remember much about it. It’s made for decent parody fodder over the years, though. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-description-for-the-movie-top-gun/493806/23 "2009-04-21T22:49:43Z")
> [@mattomic](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-description-for-the-movie-top-gun/493806/24 "2009-04-21T23:30:48Z")
> [@bengangmo](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-description-for-the-movie-top-gun/493806/25 "2009-04-22T00:07:48Z")
Aerophysicist makes more sense than astrophysicist, although I still don’t see why they needed a civilian aerophysicist consultant to do pilot evals. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-description-for-the-movie-top-gun/493806/26 "2009-04-22T00:16:09Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-description-for-the-movie-top-gun/493806/27 "2009-04-22T00:48:43Z")
> [@Hello\_Again](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-description-for-the-movie-top-gun/493806/28 "2009-04-22T00:55:10Z")
> [@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. They were about 2, no more like 1.5, meters away - that’s plenty of space 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-description-for-the-movie-top-gun/493806/29 "2009-04-22T02:02:55Z")
Homoerotic. …what? You said _odd,_ right? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2009, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-description-for-the-movie-top-gun/493806/30 "2009-04-23T18:59:27Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > 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… ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2009, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-description-for-the-movie-top-gun/493806/31 "2009-04-23T19:11:25Z")
> [@Scissorjack](#): > > 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 😛 ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2009, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-description-for-the-movie-top-gun/493806/32 "2009-04-23T19:14:23Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > 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.” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-description-for-the-movie-top-gun/493806/33 "2009-04-23T19:15:25Z")
Of course you must see this: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd\_-iEv5VDU](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd_-iEv5VDU) ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-description-for-the-movie-top-gun/493806/34 "2009-04-23T20:23:44Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > 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. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-description-for-the-movie-top-gun/493806.md?page=1)