#all the critiques of the movie as a l*ckheed m*rtin ad are true and there is MUCH to discuss in how mav is positioned as both

[beggingwolf]

mav whump mav whump mav whump! yes!! also when i first saw top gun i was not prepared for how homoerotic it really was like i thought people were exaggerating?? but no. it’s really Like That. it’s like 50% homoeroticism 30% flying planes 15% shoehorned in het romance 5% sunsets and golden hour and 100% military propaganda

I know, I know 😅 I think when the movie first came out, I read a REALLY scathing letterboxd review about how it was pure, undiluted military propaganda (complete with "the enemy somehow possesses military tech the USA doesn't, but they're so incompetent at using it that our heroes kill them while flying cold war relics" and "brave lone ranger stands up to military bureaucracy to prove them wrong, which is absolutely not how the military would actually allow that to go" lol) and I agreed and snorted and said "I'll never watch that" and then the day of the pens' equipment sale I was bored, drove past a movie theater with my geno stick wedged over my center console, and I thought: ah it's a matinee, why not.

and the damn hoomeroticism got me in the end

#all the critiques of the movie as a l*ckheed m*rtin ad are true and there is MUCH to discuss in how mav is positioned as both #an authority figure and someone laid low by higher-ups who want to outmode him #BUT... I came to this fandom for the sticky roomav feelings not to critique the american military machine. ethically dubious of me >:3c #on all accounts lol #I picked the ''hey wait they shouldn't be together'' ship for the movie that has ugly politics! spicy #hahaha #also they really couldn't have put another woman on the flight team? #that's very ''WHAT ABOUT WOMAN DRONE PILOTS'' of me so I don't mean it like that lol #just that I think phoenix's character had to do WAY too much heavy lifting and penny is removed from the battleground #anyways. ANYWAYS. head full many thoughts about this movie from many angles #also it just really is a well-made movie. it's fun it has good pacing and it's got solid stories. effective propaganda loltgm #tgm