Quote from: Slim on May 28, 2022, 10:24:26 AMQuote from: dom on May 28, 2022, 10:13:58 AMI went to see Top Gun in a cinema in France and thought it was a load of tripe. In hindsight I can see the filmography was stunning but at the time i couldn't get past the awful glorification of the US war machine. The Cold War was at its most frozen at the time so just who were they supposed to be fighting ?
I think they were supposed to be Libyans. Carrier-based F-14s had shot down two Libyan Su-22s in 1981 off the Libyan coast, and actually three years after the film came out, Navy F-14s splashed two Libyan MiG-23s over the Med.