![]() ![]() A six-part documentary "Danger Zone: The Making of Top Gun" runs nearly 2.5 hours long and should tell you pretty much everything you'd need to (or want to) know about the film. Still I found it to be an interesting track, well worth checking out. It's a rather technical commentary, focusing more on the flight training and aerial sequences, and less on the film making process. First up is a spliced-together commentary with producer Jerry Bruckheimer, director Tony Scott, screenwriter Jack Epps, Kr., and three technical advisors on the film. The supplements are pretty solid as well. Overall, a reference quality track for a catalog title. Dialogue is clear and general ambience is well established. The audio pulls you in and, during some of the dogfighting sequences, punches you in the gut with the roar of the engines through the subwoofers. Not only does it have an English 5.1 Dolby True HD track and French/Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital tracks, but it also includes an English 6.1 DTS Master Audio track. Surpassing all expectations is the audio. It's got a bit of grain, which adds to the presentation, and overall it's a very good image. Showcasing the filtered shots, natural looking lighting and strong saturation, the image of the disc looks very film-like. First up is the transfer, which seems to be the same one used for the HD-DVD. Released back in 2004 as a "Special Edition" DVD, the HD-DVD release didn't have any of the extras included, but now the Blu-ray release makes up for that by providing nearly everything from the DVD and a few new goodies as well. Still, there's a fun quality to the film that makes it an enjoyable watch and the Blu-ray release lets you do so in luxury. Berlin's Oscar-wining "Take My Breath Away" feels overplayed even though it's not used that much. The Kenny Loggins songs feel like they're from a bygone era and Harold Faltermeyer's score feels overworked at times. ![]() The action sequences are just close-ups of the actors intercut with models or second unit footage (a trick that Michael Bay uses to excess, especially in The Rock). The dialogue comes off as incredibly cheesy and the overt slow-motion stuff seems like over-glorified showboating. #Mighty goose ost movieIt's just that when looking at the movie in the context of the past two decades of film making, it doesn't have the same level of excitement as it once had. Not that it's not an enjoyable filmit's got a kind of kitsch quality to it. The movie made over $350 million worldwide, but if the question of how well it aged twenty years later comes up, the answer is. Top Gun was one of those films that, when it came out, was very well received both by critics and fans alike. While he lives under the shadow of his dad (who died in a classified accident), Maverick stumbles his way through the school, breaking some of the rules and ultimately leading to a disaster that affects him to his corehopefully changing him in the process. ![]() Maverick ends up falling for his female civilian instructor, Charlotte "Charlie" Blackwood (Kelly McGillis). While there, he and his partner Nick "Goose" Bradshaw (Anthony Edwards) strike up a rivalry with Tom "Iceman" Kazanski (Val Kilmer) and Ron "Slider" Kerner (Rick Rossovich). Produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, and directed by Tony Scott, the film starred Cruise as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a cocky Navy fighter pilot who goes to the elite US Navy Fighter Weapons School (a.k.a. When it came out in 1986, Top Gun helped propel Tom Cruise's stardom even further into the stratosphere. Performed by Giorgio Moroder featuring Joe PizzulaĬourtesy of Atlantic Recording Corporationīy arrangement with Warner Special Productsīy Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil & Phil SpectorĬourtesy of PolyGram Special Projects, A Dvision of PolyGram Records, Inc. Larry Greene courtesy of Camel/MCA Records, Inc. Records Inc.īerlin courtesy of Geffen Records and Phonogram B.V. Performed by Harold Faltermeyer & Steve Stevens Miami Sound Machine courtesy of CBS Recordsīy John Dexter, Paul Dean, Mike Reno & Mae Moore By Michael Jay, alan Roy Scott & Roy Freeland ![]()
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