Top Gun | 
| Director: Tony Scott
Actors: Tom Cruise, Kelly Mcgillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, Tom Skerritt
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  366 reviews
Sales Rank: 24919
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Array
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 110 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 6305127689
UPC: 097360169270
EAN: 9780792152927
ASIN: 6305127689
Theatrical Release Date: May 16, 1986
Release Date: October 21, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Amazon.com essential video
Jingoism, beefcake, military hardware, and a Giorgio Moroder rock score reign supreme over taste and logic in this Tony Scott film about a maverick trainee pilot (Tom Cruise) who can't follow the rules at a Navy aviation training facility. The dogfight sequences between American and Soviet jets at the end are absolutely mechanical, though audiences loved it at the time. The love story between Cruise's character and that of Kelly McGillis is like flipping through pages of advertising in a glossy magazine. This designer action movie from 1986 would be all the more appalling were it not for the canny casting of good actors in dumb parts. Standouts include Anthony Edwards--who makes a nice impression as Cruise's average-Joe pal--and the relatively unknown Meg Ryan in a small but memorable appearance. --Tom Keogh
Amazon.com Essential
Jingoism, beefcake, military hardware, and a Giorgio Moroder rock score reign supreme over taste and logic in this Tony Scott film about a maverick trainee pilot (Tom Cruise) who can't follow the rules at a Navy aviation training facility. The dogfight sequences between American and Soviet jets at the end are absolutely mechanical, though audiences loved it at the time. The love story between Cruise's character and that of Kelly McGillis is like flipping through pages of advertising in a glossy magazine. This designer action movie from 1986 would be all the more appalling were it not for the canny casting of good actors in dumb parts. Standouts include Anthony Edwards--who makes a nice impression as Cruise's average-Joe pal--and the relatively unknown Meg Ryan in a small but memorable appearance. --Tom Keogh
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 full of themselves July 3, 2009
M. Jensen
wow this is one of the most homoerotic films ever......The boys play volleyball all in their short shorts with the dog tags flying high....macho macho.....mav goose...iceman come on gay gay gay
Wide Screen Top Gun, Collectors Edition June 28, 2009
B. Batali (Oceanside, CA)
This is a great film and the wide screen edition makes it enjoyable. However, as another reviewer mentions, it does not maximize the screen, but provides only a long narrow view of the film.
One of the best features is the 2nd DVD with producers' infor and comments. It is very interesting and well worth the time to view it. It provides an even greater appreciation of the film.
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 I Feel the Need, the Need for Speed! May 24, 2009
D. Sun (Vallejo, CA United States)
Top Gun made so many people want to become fighter pilots. As a movie it was probably one of the best promotional tools the Navy and armed forces ever had and the spike in enrollment for years was measurable. Of course there were very few who became pilots or even RIO's and probably ended up in crap roles and not even on an carrier, but I digress.
It's strange to look at the film now and see the outdated old Ninja motorcycle, know that F-14's are no longer in service, Top Gun itself doesn't exist, Anthony Edwards is bald, and Tom Cruise is a Scientology freak.
People also comment on the 'homo-erotic,' volley ball scene, but I prefer to think that there are many more straight women who enjoyed that one scene in a guy's film vs homosexual males.
Top Gun as a film is out dated, but it is still fun to watch and feel like I'm a little kid again who thinks that one day I could be a fighter pilot. It's a film locked in a period of time in US history that has come and gone, but it still makes me smile.
topnotch May 8, 2009
Robert Keller (Colorado)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Blue ray edition excellent. I am sure that it would really be noticed using a larger than 50 inch display
Blu-ray no improvement here May 8, 2009
WRE (Maryland, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought Top Gun on Blu-Ray as my first BD disc, in part because it was relatively inexpensive, but also because I was excited to see the dogfight sequences in high def.
Unfortunately, it looks to me like only the dialog sequences were improved by the change in format. The dogfights, the carrier take-offs and landings, and the other scenes with the (still cool and exciting F14 Tomcat) look like they are in standard def.
With that disappointment, it was hard to get excited by this movie. The dialog is so painfully cheesy that unless you are are teenager, there was no real reason to watch it in the first place.
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