Top Gun: Maverick (2022): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: While definitely still a flashy and impressive recruitment film, is a much better film than the original, in that there’s actually a somewhat reasonable amount of plot and character development between money shots. Also lots of entertaining callbacks — the opening few minutes are practically a shot-for-shot redo of the opening few minutes of the original, just with modern equipment.
Top Gun
🎥 Top Gun
Top Gun (1986): ⭐️⭐️⭐️: First time watching this in years. Still fun, but wow, did its lack of plot stand out. It really is basically a cross between a Navy recruitment film and a porn film: just barely enough plot to string together the money shots.
I love this remembrance of an old newspaper summary of Top Gun.
★★ TOP GUN
(Drama, 1986) Trivializes war by turning it into a music video. Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer. (1 hr. 50 min.)