“I feel the need. The need for speed.” Whether you love it or just really, really like it, the movie Top Gun has survived as an iconic pop-culture sensation for 30 years. The highest grossing film of 1986 and definitive summer blockbuster captured the zeitgeist of the era through a high-octane mash-up of Cold-War fueled, Reagan-era fighter jets and all the definitive hallmarks of a late-80s classic: infinite cheesy quotes, a highly-synthesized soundtrack, and multiple intense hard-work montages. Like a time capsule caught on VHS, the movie permanently time-stamped the hottest trends of those years in the minds of the … Continue reading Top Gun at 30: A Retrospective from Two Naval Aviators
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Top Gun at 30: A Retrospective from Two Naval Aviators
“I feel the need. The need for speed.” Whether you love it or just really, really like it, the movie Top Gun has survived as an iconic pop-culture sensation for 30 years. The highest grossing film of 1986 and definitive summer blockbuster captured the zeitgeist of the era through a high-octane mash-up of Cold-War fueled, Reagan-era fighter jets and all the definitive hallmarks of a late-80s classic: infinite cheesy quotes, a highly-synthesized soundtrack, and multiple intense hard-work montages. Like a time capsule caught on VHS, the movie permanently time-stamped the hottest trends of those years in the minds of the … Continue reading Top Gun at 30: A Retrospective from Two Naval Aviators