I just watched Top Gun.
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Chance Abattoir
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01-29-2006 03:19
It was much more surreal than I remembered it as a kid. It was almost hard to watch (why didn't we laugh all the way through movies like that? Damn, thing have changed).
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Nolan Nash
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01-29-2006 03:28
Ugggh. What a terribly formulaic movie that never deserved the accolades it got in it's day. It was only rendered more pathetic when Days of Thunder came out... I remember wanting to jam pointy objects into my eardrums everytime I went to some party or club and heard some pack of drunken people sing "You've lost that loving feeling!" *gags*
I guess all the good scriptwriters were unavailable in those years, because there were a lot of overhyped crappy movies then, IMO.
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Lucifer Baphomet
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01-29-2006 03:32
Top Gun.............. the only good thing about it was the fact it spawned parodies of it.
If i was Ridley Scott, id have killed my younger brother over producing that crap as a directorial debut
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Torley Linden
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01-29-2006 03:34
I liked Hot Shots a lot... too funny... like that scene with the boiling egg... hahaha.
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Tod69 Talamasca
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01-29-2006 10:18
Q: Name the Tom Cruise movie where he plays the cocky young guy!
A: All of them!
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Chip Midnight
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01-29-2006 10:25
Who was the US bombing when that movie came out? It must have been someone. There always seems to be a direct correlation between periods of creepy nationalistic fervor and crap ass movies that exploit it. Anyone seen previews for Annapolis? *shudder*
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Joy Honey
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01-29-2006 10:28
From: Chip Midnight Who was the US bombing when that movie came out? It must have been someone. There always seems to be a direct correlation between periods of creepy nationalistic fervor and crap ass movies that exploit it. Anyone seen previews for Annapolis? *shudder* I saw previews for Annapolis - I told my husband "Lookie, they remade Top Gun!" (I think we were bombing Libya in 1986)
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Leilany LaFollette
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01-29-2006 11:04
I never watched Top Gun  Even back then the simple thought of Tom Cruise made me want to run away screaming. Leilany 
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Felicity Sneerwell
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01-29-2006 13:10
Oh I watched it, several time, but not because of Tom Cruise. I had a thing for Val Kilmer then. If it weren't for the Kilmer eye candy, I doubt I would have watched it.
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Chance Abattoir
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01-29-2006 15:30
Fitting that I would watch Top Gun (1986) one the anniversary of the Challenger disaster.
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