It was released on September 25th 1992 and I coincidentally started the book on the same day. As much as I love the movie, I wouldn't recommend the book. Its just too damn dense and tedious to enjoy.
shareI also love this film which I thought was extremely well made. The acting was great, the direction was top notch, the production was excellent and I really loved Trevor Jones' and Randy Edelman's score.
Unfortunately, I was unable to watch this film on the big screen because it opened one month after Hurricane Andrew destroyed South Miami-Dade County, and none of the infinity-plexes within reasonable driving distances of me had reopened.
I do own the Blu-ray however, which I recently repacked into a dual disc Blu-ray package along with The Last Samurai (2003).
I did see it in a theater and it blew me away. It became one of my all-time favorite films. I have the movie poster (it's huge!) hanging in my living room. I also have that magnificent score, have listened to it constantly through stereo headphones.
shareClassic!
shareA terrific movie. I saw it in the theater and boy was that cinematography simply gorgeous on the big screen!
As several others mentioned I too quit on the novel, I found it poorly written and boring. One of only a few famous books I tapped out on.
We have a little cinema in town that plays old movies. I'm almost tempted to make a recommendation because I've love to see it on the big screen.
The book was a big disappointment. I probably should have read some reviews before starting it, but to be fair, its 200 years old, so I guess the writing style was often different back then.
Oh man, we had a cool little dumpy theater nearby with two screens and they would play fine oldies like E.T. and Jaws and old slasher horror movie marathons, etc. It was just the greatest and tickets were pretty cheap. They were old movies so the audience participation was a thing of beauty, we all knew when to clap and laugh and jeer at the villain…Great times! Sadly, they closed down.
shareThis place is a hoot. The building is over 100 years old and only had have folding chairs, but upgraded to modern seating a few years ago. They mostly play arthouse movies and old classics, but occasionally will have something more modern.
They're becoming a thing of the past, so enjoy it while you can!
Yeah, my local golden-oldie cheapie film house shut down and the drive-ins are very few and far between…it’s at least a couple hour drive to a drive-in around here now.
Such a chunk of Americana gone forever, the cheap oldie house and the drive in theater!
I guess we can’t complain too much, what with the quality of big screen hi-def TVs and streaming these days it’s like we all own our own little movie theaters but the communal experience of being in awe at a gigantic screen with a hundred strangers all feeling the same thing was pretty great.
I saw that new Top Gun movie this past summer, it was my first theater experience in a couple years with all that went on, I thought it was terrific. The whole audience was cheering and whooping it up during the action scenes. Good times👍
On the opposite end were the posh movie palaces with chandeliers, huge screens with multiple curtains which parted when the movie began, red carpets, ushers who showed patrons to their seats with a flashlight, restroom attendants, huge carpeted staircases with gold railings, multiple balconies and private seating sections. Totally different movie experience.
shareI don’t know what any of that has to do with me but I’m willing to work with you.
I had a bad flood in the finished portion of my basement recently, it’s about 750 square feet and two rooms.
The 10 Yard dumpster is now gone and so is all of the carpeting, some of the drywall, a few strips of paneling and
a bunch of wallpaper.
I’ve painted 3-4 coats on all the walls and trim, ordered about $1,000 of flooring, I paid two local young dudes a hundred bucks to carry it it all down to the basement and I have to deal with several Mexican guys in the morning to get the whole thing put back together.
I am making a theater down there! Life goes on.
The opposite of a golden-oldie cheapie film house is a golden-oldie grandiose movie palace:
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I enjoyed going to both. Shame they're both gone.
Kind of ashamed to admit this, but I've never seen at original Top Gun. I suppose I should give it a go before watching the new one.
shareIt was really quite a great action/war movie.
I’m not a war monger but I sure do love AMERICA🇺🇸
We eat everyone’s lunch, Fuck ‘em.
The whole world wants freedom…
who blasts the ever loving shit out of the whole world with atomic freedom bombs and a hundred thousand pounds of TNT?!?
AMERICA🦅💥💥💥
Yup, AMERICA
I hear ya. Top Gun is somewhat of a cult classic and I have no idea why I've never seen it. I'm gonna get on that asap 🇺🇸
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