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When the action film Top Gun hit the big screen in 1986, critical reviews were mixed, but audiences were delighted. The film grossed $358 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film of that year. Its success spawned several video games and a sequel to the blockbuster 2022, Top Gun: Maverickand high-flying flights boosted the US Navy’s enlistment numbers. The pictures are still very good top gun, forty years later.
(Spoilers below because it’s been 40 years.)
The film was inspired by a 1983 California magazine article about the life of airmen at Naval Air Station Miramar in San Diego (a.k.a. “Fightertown USA”) and featured extensive aerial footage to accompany the story. Producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson wrote Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. to write the play, in which Epps lives in unfamiliar classrooms at the school and flies in an F-14.
