Remember when Tom Cruise was just a cocky-yet-ambitious fighter pilot, trying to earn his Top Gun trophy while getting over the death of his beloved buddy Goose? On screen, of course.
You know, before his public rants on the merits of Scientology.
I had a nice lil' trip down memory lane this weekend, thanks to a "Top Gun" screening on TBS. And, seriously — I forgot how great that movie is.
Between the soundtrack (ahem, Berlin's "Take My Breath Away" (above) and Kenny Loggins' "Highway to the Danger Zone"), the crazy, yet loveable pilots and amazing fighter plane shots, this is a movie that's still fantastic more than 20 years after its making.
And to think studios first told producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson that no one would want to see a movie about planes. Psh!
— Korin