Iron Eagle VS. Top Gun
Iron Eagle is way better. I DARE anyone to start an argument about this statement, especially if your a guy. I DARE YOU!
shareI'd have to pick Iron Eagle myself because of my childhood. As a kid I watched them both often and as a 10 year old Top gun always seemed like a drama with a subplot about fighting the enemy. Iron Eagle had more action (even though now I can see how fake some of the special effects were) and more quotable lines (I didn't even realize how many until I got the DVD and watched it for the first time in like 10 years and heard so many little lines that I still use to this day that I had forgotten I first heard there) and the big 80s movie staple of kids doing grown up things and being better at it than the adults. Be it E.T.. Explorers, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Flight of the Navigator, ect the 80s were all about having kids in lead roles doing things that normal kids could never do. If I could see the movies for the first time today I might thing diferently but my childhood love for Iron eagle still over rides thoughts about special effects or realism.
shareOKAY here is something you guys dont know
the originaltitle of the film was called junior eagle
second the reason iron eagle used f-16's is because the us air force refused to co-operate with the movie because they showed just how easy it is to blackmail scheme bribe and acquire all that you need from an american airbase
third doug was such a good pilot for a couple reasons one he had a ntural talent pilots are born not made and also if you recall he gets as much training in a simulator as he can any other full fledged falcon driver
and finally the reason they stole a jet and it didnt register is because they inputed a flightplan that said they were going to spain or something like that and they just deviated from the flight plan as they approached the country they were going to
I'll have to go with iron eagle. Every movie is unrealistic in some way, the fact is the movie was made for kids and having a 17 year old protagonist makes it more appealing. The scenes with kids stealing military information are humorous and really added to the film. This film focuses more on the father son relationship, action scenes, the teen's struggles, and less about looking cool. One thing about top gun always has been puzzling me, I remember hearing that naval pilots aren't allowed to drink, so would the bar scenes be realistic?
shareThey used F-16s because the F-16s used in the movie were Israeli, hence the Kfirs being used as the MiGs. The Kfir is/was an exclusively Israeli IAF fighter (with the exception of a few they loaned/gave to the Navy to give them a Mirage-like aggressor aircraft).
And it's rather obvious that they're trying to cast Libya as the aggressor nation, hence the mention of the Meditterranean, they just never mention the country by name - same as Top Gun never pegged the aggressors as the North Koreans, even though the DVD commentary track on the 20th Anniv. Edition reveals it WAS the NKs.
Top Gun was better, it was not AS chessy as Iron Eagle and Top Gun had better songs
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