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Top Gun=Gay

 
 
Quantum
10:22 / 13.09.05
Top Gun. Gay. Can anyone deny it? 'Goooose!', she has to dress like a man to seduce Tom, lotsa male bonding, unchained melody, powerful manly imagery...

Remember Val Kilmer saying to Tom Cruise in the end scene "You can ride my tail anytime!"?


This meme featured in the rubbish film 'Sleep with me', Quentin Tarantino has a bit part explaining how gay Top Gun is to a guest over the course of several parties- genius
 
 
uncle retrospective
11:04 / 13.09.05
Is there any point? Top Gun is as gay as gay gets, I didn't notice any subtext.
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
11:15 / 13.09.05
It even features a leading man who changed his family name spelling from 'Cruz' to 'Cruise'.
 
 
Ganesh
11:42 / 13.09.05
It's as gay as Ben and Steve.
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
11:55 / 13.09.05
Cripes, this thread is a real livewire of hot and passioned debate, eh?

Powder Keg!
 
 
Lord Morgue
12:07 / 13.09.05
The Ruthless guide to 80's action movies (Top Gun)

Finally, a guide to 80's action movies that rates them by the important things- homoeroticism, Stupid Chiefs, bodycount, novelty death, post-mortem one-liner, and if a nuke goes off at the end.
 
 
Jub
12:14 / 13.09.05
People seem to get angry for me when I suggest that Maverick killed Goose. Not intentionally admittedly - but through his errors he killed his rio.

Maverick is responsible for the plane and he just doesn't care about poor Goosey.

**** ****

Also, and if someone could explain this to me I would be very happy: Kelly McGillis comes into the outside lecture looking all 1940s - Jester: "call sign Charlie; she is a civilian so you do NOT salute her"

Maverick and Goose then tell the story of how they were in a 4G negative dive with a mig. "at what range?" asks the incredulous charlie. About am metre, meter and a half she's told - and so on. He not beliving it and them explaining it to everyone - - and THEN!! - - she says at the very end:
"so that was you...."

What the fuck do you mean!? Of course it was him - he's been telling you for the last 10 minutes you dumb bint!

* * * * * * * * *

Lastly, why is it that after Cougar couldn't handle the heat and handed in his wings (making Maverick and Goose number one) - everyone made such a production of them going to Miramara?

The training course at Top Gun lasts for 12 weeks (or something - Viper says at the introductory lecture) - so every 12 weeks the same number of "the best of the best" go throught the training. There's what about 40 people in there? That's 160 people go through top gun every year?!

And THEN(!) just after the graduating class finishes their champagne they're off to fight the migs again?! Why not get someone who hasn't been drinking? Is nearer? And also a Top Gun graduate.

Fucks me off.
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
12:37 / 13.09.05
Put it in the bin.
 
 
Jack Fear
15:42 / 13.09.05
It even features a leading man who changed his family name spelling from 'Cruz' to 'Cruise'.

Umm.... no. Birth name: Thomas Cruise Mapother IV.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
15:49 / 13.09.05
Why have we ever talked about anything else?
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
15:54 / 13.09.05
I know Jack. But...do you...ffffffffffffffffffff.
 
 
Jack Fear
16:03 / 13.09.05
I know Jack.

Truer words have never been spoken.
 
 
Ganesh
16:52 / 13.09.05
I know Jack. Biblically. In my miiind.
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
17:45 / 13.09.05
Wahey! Grammatical typo reverse pun fu. I bow to your mastery of pithy repartee.
 
 
diz
22:33 / 13.09.05
What the fuck do you mean!? Of course it was him - he's been telling you for the last 10 minutes you dumb bint!

She's clearly heard about his studly maneuvers elsewhere, in another context, and now she's realizing that he's the guy she's read about in some Pentagon briefing somewhere.

You know, in some air-conditioned office, which made her nipples all hard, where one of her stuffy colleagues was talking to her in disapproving tones about this hotshot pilot doing this 4G inverted dive with a MiG. Oh, sure, she talked about it like she disapproved, but beneath her convservative exterior she was getting all hot and bothered...

Good god, but this is really the ultimate 80s movie. Seriously, if you want to understand what it was like to grow up as a boy in America in the 80s, watch this movie.

But, back on topic, yeah, this movie is teh gay. Soooooo teh gay.
 
 
Aertho
00:12 / 14.09.05
Hell yeah, Diz. I remember wanting to play volleyball and not really sure why.
 
 
diz
00:53 / 14.09.05
You, too? That and the locker room scenes. I was like 11 and I so wanted in on the sweaty male bonding for reasons I couldn't put my finger on, but which jived so well with huge powerful phallic jets soaring around and firing missiles at each other.
 
 
Aertho
01:40 / 14.09.05
There were planes in Top Gun?
 
 
Quantum
16:20 / 14.09.05
So the big question this thread is *really* about- is there, in fact, a movie even gayer than the mighty Top Gun? Gayer than teh gayest gay in gaydonia? King of TEH GAY?
 
 
Jack Fear
16:51 / 14.09.05
RESERVOIR DOGS = the homoeroticest. Tim Roth and Harvey Keitel, as Messrs. Orange and White, respectively, are star-crossed lovers on opposite sides of the law. Passion unfulfilled, gun as penis-substitute, a death's-door confession of betrayal. Is very, very gay.
 
 
Aertho
18:38 / 14.09.05
I was going to suggest "Out of Athens".

But, as usual, Fear wins out.
 
 
A
11:46 / 19.09.05
Is it true that applications to the US Air Force doubled or tripled or something after Top Gun was released? If so, then that's some pretty damn effective homoeroticism right there. I tip my hat, figuratively speaking.
 
 
Aertho
12:11 / 19.09.05
That's a LOT of volleyball.

Figuratively speaking, of course.
 
 
Quantum
10:25 / 20.09.05
Point Break? Even more blatantly gay than Top Gun? Reservoir Dogs *is* like a gangster Romeo and Juliet admittedly, but less obviously than Canoe and the Dirty Dancer getting wet...

I watched Top Gay just the other day and was bitterly disappointed to notice that Val says to Tom 'You can be my wingman anytime'.
I was gutted, I was sure he said 'ride my tail', now I'm leaning toward Point Break as gayer.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
16:49 / 20.09.05
Ah, but if the Steve/Ben thang taught us anything, it is that there is no love more beautiful than that of a wingman for his Top Gun.

White Men Can't Jump, aside from being one of the best films ever made (and I'm really not taking the piss here) is incredibly gay.

It's just that it's about dirty balls instead of gleaming shafts.
 
  
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