Starring: Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, Tom Skerritt Directed By: Tony Scott Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: HD DVD Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled Label: Paramount Home Entertainment Number of Items: 1 Release Date: October 02, 2007 Running Time: 109 minutes Theatrical Release Date: May 16, 1986
Product Description: Paramount Top Gun (HD-DVD) "Top Gun" takes a look at the danger and excitement that awaits every pilot at the Navy's prestigious fighter weapons school. Tom Cruise is superb as Maverick Mitchell, a daring young flyer who's out to become the best of the best. And Kelly McGillis sizzles as the civilian instructor who teaches Maverick a few things you can't learn in a classroom.
Amazon.com essential video: Jingoism, beefcake, military hardware, and a Giorgio Moroder rock score reign supreme over taste and logic in this Tony Scott film about a maverick trainee pilot (Tom Cruise) who can't follow the rules at a Navy aviation training facility. The dogfight sequences between American and Soviet jets at the end are absolutely mechanical, though audiences loved it at the time. The love story between Cruise's character and that of Kelly McGillis is like flipping through pages of advertising in a glossy magazine. This designer action movie from 1986 would be all the more appalling were it not for the canny casting of good actors in dumb parts. Standouts include Anthony Edwards--who makes a nice impression as Cruise's average-Joe pal--and the relatively unknown Meg Ryan in a small but memorable appearance. --Tom Keogh
Amazon.com Essential: Jingoism, beefcake, military hardware, and a Giorgio Moroder rock score reign supreme over taste and logic in this Tony Scott film about a maverick trainee pilot (Tom Cruise) who can't follow the rules at a Navy aviation training facility. The dogfight sequences between American and Soviet jets at the end are absolutely mechanical, though audiences loved it at the time. The love story between Cruise's character and that of Kelly McGillis is like flipping through pages of advertising in a glossy magazine. This designer action movie from 1986 would be all the more appalling were it not for the canny casting of good actors in dumb parts. Standouts include Anthony Edwards--who makes a nice impression as Cruise's average-Joe pal--and the relatively unknown Meg Ryan in a small but memorable appearance. --Tom Keogh
Nice Transfer to Blu I enjoyed this movie when it came out years ago, enjoyed it more in Blu Ray format with Hi Def sound! Very nice transfer to Blu Ray! And you get your pick between Dolby Digital 5.1 TrueHD or 6.1 DTS Master Audio, can't go wrong.
Navy Pilot This product was described and delivered here in timely fashion,drama with action this makes for a seriously good movie.
Aerial Antics With Cheese Recently released on Region A Blu-Ray, I watched this film again for the first time in several years.
Top Gun is not a movie that has aged well - particularly since release the novelty of seeing F14's in close combat and training exercises has been overtaken by flight sim games that let you do it yourself and the CNN/Discovery Channel imagery of real warfare in Desert Storm etc. Despite the premise that "Top Gun" teaches close air warfare, the real military doctrine is to avoid closing within gun range in the first place and rely on "Beyond Visual Range" methods to engage the enemy. If that fails, evade or retreat to save the plane (and pilot) to fight another day.
The plot and dialogue seems even more camp, cliched and dated than even just a few years ago, not surprising as they have been lampooned to death. Stand out cliche has got to be "Goose" - who really has disposable-comic-relief written on his forehead from the first scene.
I seriously doubt that any pilot with the attitude problem and disregard for orders that Maverick displays, would in reality be allowed anywhere near a Navy jet.
Focus on the flying scenes and make the tea when the cringeworthy romance interludes or oiled bare 'pecs are on. It's more camp than Priscilla, Queen of the Desert...
Three stars really for the cult classic status and the crystal clear Blu-Ray picture and sound but it's not hard to see why they never made a sequel. If you want a more realistic, down to earth story about naval aviation watch "Flight of the Intruder" - a much better movie.
Top Gun HD is #1 I am personally rating Top Gun HD as a must have. If you watched it many years ago like I did then you were watching it in a state that gave it no just dues.
The sound track in HD is wonderful, and the details in the picture gave me chills! I recommend this classic to anyone who in joys this film, but have not gotten to the point of true HD.
It is worth you money!
Get the older version I bought both DVD's, the new Widescreen Special Collector's Edition (which contains two discs), and the older 1998 DVD, on a single disc. The newer version seems to have altered the movie. In the newer version, when they are in the flight school and Jester is giving a lecture, one of the pilots says, He is giving me a "headache", whereupon Slider says, Don't tempt me. But in the 1998 DVD, the line is, THIS is giving me a "headache".
These days, with media content in digital format, old movies can be altered. Profanity can be inserted, entire scenes added or deleted. Which is the one true version? I don't like seeing great art tampered with. As another example, how many versions of Mona Lisa, or the Last Supper, are there? How can you determine which is the original?
So, if you want to watch 'Top Gun', get the 1998 DVD, which I think contains the movie audiences saw in the theatres. The new DVD version does not seem to have the exact same movie as found on the 1998 DVD. The original movie appears to have been tampered with, and altered.
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