Mav: If someone threatened you, I'd hunt them down to the ends of the earth to make them pay.
Ice: If you asked, I would frame everyone in this room for murder without a second thought.
slider, questioning his life choices: You guys know normal couples don't say these things to each other, right?
(after fidget spinners become a thing)
Iceman(about Maverick):...Slider, did you have to get Maverick so many fidget spinners for his birthday AND Christmas?
Slider: Well, you told me I wasn't allowed to get him chew toys or balls of yarn anymore, so I figured this was the next best thing!
I love how the Navy made Top Gun for propaganda purposes and the fandom went like… tough luck, it’s gay now. (But for real how can anyone look at a single interaction between Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer and think to themselves “Jupp, that’s a perfectly heterosexual thing to do”?!)
I think we as a community need to talk about how pleasing both Top Gun '86 and Maverick were to look at.
All the blues,
Golds,
And mixes of reds, oranges, and various other colours.
It's all so unbelievable gorgeous to look at just from the cinematography, how all the colours envoke different emotions especially when you pair them with the the specific scores from the soundtrack.
Please someone tell me what makes it feel so comforting and almost like nostalgic??? But I've never been there personally with all these pictures???
okay I'm pretty sure this isn't a new concept but this whole idea is the reason I've made this godforsaken tumblr, so I humbly present for your consideration...
top gun/marauders parallels
mav and sirius
complicated family background
pretty boy turned dilf
short
little bit too up himself for his own good
motorbike/leather jackets
goose and james
would die do anything for his wife and baby boy
adopts a mouthy short twink into his family at the drop of a hat
class clown
burns bright and dies young
"why is it always you two"
. . .
I'm sorry
moving on!
rooster and harry
the prodigal son
looks scarily like his father, down to the shared iconic glasses
shares his father's sense of humour, but is more reserved and angry because he only knows his father in memories (deeeeeep)
must reconcile with his godfather due to a misunderstanding (if you want to go really far here you can argue both of these misunderstandings stem from his now dead mother trying to protect him)
hangster and drarry
a man and his arrogant blonde boyfriend rival
I have 100 more here including icemav/wolfstar and dagger squad/golden tro era characters but Tumblr has that stupid 10 image limit. if this gets one (1) note I'll make a part two
watched hot shots! recently, and what a fucking fever dream that was. absolutely insane. but what was even more insane was whatever the film's equivalents of Maverick and Iceman had going on, because the vibes there were far from straight.
conclusion: even if you're making a parody you cannot escape the inherent homoeroticism of top gun.
Why hasn't anyone pointed out the parallel between Oliver's and Val's acting decisions yet?! (At least I haven't seen anything about that so far)
I mean "I'm gonna play Buck bi anyway" and Val's "Ice was my first gay role" is basically the same!
I'm pretty sure the US Department of Defense didn't want to have gay subtext in their propaganda movie, just like FOX didn't want to have a bi character and both Val and Oliver were like "Fuck it, I'm gonna do it anyway!"