What is the 1986 movie "TOPGUN" really about?

What overtones do you mean?

Movies are like onions, they have many layers.

seemed to be a lot of happy locker room scenes.

dudes banging each other. definitely.

(you can be my wingman anyday? hello?)

not trying to start anything here, i was just taken aback how when you see movies decades later, other things are not as though they seemed they were.

@charliecompany34 NO! You cannot say Goose and Viper were, well, Happy with Maverick! I won’t even consider it. :)

no, goose was cool and so was maverick. wait, “maverick!” john mc cain is maverick? wow.

So are you saying Viper was the one? Oh no! He was the coolest.

viper is val kilmer, right? nah, maybe not him either. just seemed like the supporting cast. i don’t know.

to me, the matrix is about spiritual forces that overcome all odds. to others, it’s just a cool dark fick where the hero can do cool stunts in mid air.

little known fact: “iceman” was originally gonna be called “power bottom” and “goose” – “bear”.

my bad: sp.: “flick”

@charliecompany34 you know I am just giving you a hard time. I barely remember the movie. Ok, maybe I have the cast memorized, but that’s all.

@eponymoushipster get ouuta town! really?

@charliecompany34 ~yeah.

The movie was about testosterone and multimillion dollar airplanes with us paying the bills.

Your ego’s writing cheques your body can’t cash!

Such a cool movie!

Er… So what was Brokeback Mountain all about then???

@Sparkie510 It was about cowboys. Period.

brokeback was about cowboys. i concur.
subliminal? probably nah…

Top gun was about promoting the air force.

@Bri_L watch it ONE more time…

@charliecompany34 I would watch it a ton of times. I enjoy the film. I never got any homosexual vibe off of it. Wouldn’t bother me if I did. That wasn’t what the movie was about.

@Bri_L nah, it don’t bother me. i just happened to notice stuff throughout it that i didn’t realize 20 years ago.

This is the alternatively edited version of the movie.

val kilmer so wanted to show tom cruise his afterburner. so bad.

@shilolo hmmmmmm… yes, quite edited

@shilolo Love the alternate version! Just shows what you can do with clips.

@Bri_L Not air force, they were Navy pilots.

@DrBill Right! My mistake. No offense to any of the appropriate armed forces.

@DrBill Movies are like ogers, they have many layers.

Yes, Shrek had many layers also.

uh, duh… The movie was a tribute to aviator sunglasses and how bitchin’ they are.