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One of my favorite things about Top Gun (1986) is the volleyball scene. Not only bc of shirtless men running around and the pushing of the IceMav agenda (both very crucial to the plot), but also the way they’re dressed.

Slider is wearing sweats

Ice is wearing leggings?

Mav is wearing fucking jeans like a dumbass

And then there’s Goose, who’s the only one dressed for a random volleyball game in the California heat

I just know Carol packed his bag for him and bc Goose is the only one married, he’s therefore the only one ever prepared. Don’t let Ice fool you. Mans is also a dumbass but better at hiding it

#“Dont let ice fool you. Mans is also a dumbass but better at hiding it” #love that #so true also #top gun #top gun 1986 #tom iceman kazansky #pete maverick mitchell #nick goose bradshaw #ron slider kerner

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The fact the Dagger Squad, Top Gun pilots with 10 yrs exp., don’t know Maverick - an infamous war hero with 30+ yrs - says something about what Maverick’s been involved in.

The man is Special Ops, maybe even Black Ops. He spent his years working with a specific team - With Ice, and then under Ice’s command. He became a ghost. Unknown to anyone except his teammates & high command.

And Bradley wouldn’t admit it to himself, but it made him nervous when he didn’t know where Maverick was. Uncle Tom couldn’t tell him either. He tried not to think about it. Tried not to think about the fact Maverick already bought himself a burial plot next to Goose & Carole. If Maverick died on a secret mission, there wouldn’t be a body to bury. His father wouldn’t want that, and neither did Bradley. He may hate Maverick, but he still wanted his family to be all together in the end.

#top gun #top gun maverick #bradley rooster bradshaw #goose bradshaw #pete maverick mitchell

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So, at this point I have seen Top Gun: Maverick four times and every time I notice something new. 

I tell you, I cannot, cannot (!) believe how emotional Mav gets once Cyclone tells him he’s gonna make him leader for the mission. There are literal tears in his eyes and even though he’s been nothing but composed in front of Cyclone, he basically wants to stutter out his gratitude before Warlock stops him. 

And you know why?! Because THAT’s the moment he realizes he doesn’t have to entrust Rooster’s life into the hands of Hangman and the other pilots. That’s the moment he realizes he’s gonna be up there with him. He knew he had to send Rooster on the mission so he wouldn’t lose him forever but now he can be the one to protect him! He’s the one to make sure he survives and he’s the one who’s gonna bring him home!

#top gun #maverick mitchell #pete maverick mitchell #bradley rooster bradshaw #cyclone top gun

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I love every single one of the Ocean's movies, not because of the acting or writing, but because the plot every single time goes like:

1 guy: Hey guys we should steal a ton of money from this asshole rich person.

10 other guys: Yes

#oceans 13 #oceans 12 #oceans 11 #oceans trilogy #love these movies so much

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Now why is oceans trilogy the most aesthetic movie series

#oceans 13 #oceans 11 #oceans 12 #danny ocean #my fav movie #these movies just give me a feeling #AAAHHHHH!!!! #love this #<333

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linus' parents intrigue me so much. they're ridiculously rich and powerful people who just let their anxious, sweetheart only child run around with a bunch of gay criminals because they know said criminals are sooo protective of him and yet will also teach him independence and confidence and make him a better person and so they are truly just nonexistent in his life unless he's in True Trouble like do they think danny ocean's gang is a summer camp? and also how linus hates how his family fusses over him and it's implied they're relentless mother hens and yet you never see them and truly Are giving him space. but their relationship is also strained because he only ever pretends he's okay with them but with danny and rusty and rueben and the gang they're close enough with him to tease him, encourage him to grow and are attentive enough to know that he'd been crying for example in 13. like even the rough gruff criminal uncle #14 knows if linus caldwell is sad. and yet he barely talks to his parents and yet they also Vaguely have eyes on him at all times personal safety wise yet are so out of tune with him as a person. it's sooooo fascinating. his home life intrigues me so bad. #rants

#oceans 11 #oceans trilogy #linus caldwell #oceans 12 #oceans 13 #you said that so well!!! #love this #why is my sanity always depending on a group of gay men #they eat my brain

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Iceman: *Wearing dark sunglasses in the bar, staring intensely at Mav and Charley on a date*

Maverick: Jesus Christ, he can't let up even when we're off duty, probably gonna lecture me tomorrow about how I'm not following the approved beer drinking regulations, or some bullshit.

Iceman, internally: Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Joooleeeeeeene...

#icemav #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky

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ATTENTION

If you see this you are OBLIGATED to reblog w/ the song currently stuck in your head :)

#Dig Up Her Bones by misfits #WALK ME TO THE GRAVEYARD #DIG UP HER BOOONEES

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One thing I like about Top Gun (1986) is how believable the development with Ice and Mav's dynamic is.

I've seen a lot of the "Rivals suddenly become buddies after traumatic event together" in media, but I don't think I've seen it done better than in Top Gun. Mostly, I attribute it to how much build up it has.

Most of the time, the 'Rivals' hate each others guts throughout the entire movie/series and then they go through an extremely traumatic event that binds them for life and shifts their entire concept of each other. Ice and Mav never once changed how they saw each other, it just changed their understanding of it.

Ice saw Maverick as dangerous and Mav saw Iceman as stuck-up and commanding. And they weren't wrong, by any means.

From the beginning, they have tension between them because of how different they are. And it ends up in the audience seeing Ice as the 'Antagonist' because that's how Mav sees it, and we're seeing it from his perspective as the protagonist. But Ice was never inherently wrong, in fact he was right.

Other than his first scene, Iceman always has a point in what he's saying. He's criticizing Mav, not insulting him. Sure, he does it in a brash way because masculinity, but he's not trying to insult him, he's trying to knock him down a peg and wake him up to reality. All Ice wants is that he starts to act as a team player, start caring about everybody's safety AND his own, rather than being reckless for the sake of being reckless. But Mav sees it as an insult because he can't process criticism in a healthy way (due to how he grew up). The same thing happened with Charlie, for the record.

And so the strife between the two begins. What I like about it is how it bleeds out of them over time, becoming more settled as the movie goes on. In the locker room "You're dangerous" scene, the tension is palpable. It's obvious they're agitated by each other, and feel the need to prove they're the correct one.

If you pay attention, this whole... demand for superiority goes away as time progresses. They're fine with each other's presence, it's not like they're constantly at each others throat all the time. In the shower scene, Ice dropped all of the aggression and competitiveness from his tone and is instead just laying out what he thinks. He's not undermining Maverick, he's not lecturing him like a child. Iceman is just telling Maverick exactly how he sees the situation in hopes that it would make him realize what the fuck he's doing, but with little hope that it'll actually work.

That doesn't mean Ice is always correct either, he doesn't understand why Mav acts the way he does, thus fails to take into consideration the emotional trauma behind it. Which only causes even more strife.

The entire time, Iceman isn't being a dick for the sake of it, he just wants Mav to stop being stupid (by his standards). And Maverick doesn't understand it because all he gets from what Ice says is insults.

Maverick isn't good at understanding what people mean to say if it's implied, you need to say it to his face. This is the reason he stayed quiet in the shower scene, because Ice finally laid everything out in simple words that he can understand without making it sound like a dick-measuring contest.

Thing is, the tension mellows out. At the beginning, you could see the tension and cut it with a knife. By the middle you can see them getting used to each other without jumping to constantly trade jabs (namely: the volleyball scene, it's just a bunch of guys being dudes, and the scene where Charlie says that Mav flew recklessly in front of the whole class, Ice doesn't comment on it in any way). Over time, they've settled down into their tension without needing to address it all the time.

Then Goose dies.

And the tension between them is still there.

Just because Goose isn't there anymore, doesn't mean their whole dynamic vanishes all of a sudden. You can see their hesitation towards each other (especially Ice), and that's great! It demonstrates that Goose dying doesn't magically resolve their problems with each other in solidarity.

Ice tried to give his consolations to Mav, and is awfully awkward about it. You can see on his face that he wants to say more, but doesn't because he knows it's not his place given their history. And not much is said, but a lot it communicated. (Val Kilmer is a killer actor for this, OH MY FUCKING GOD BLESS THAT MAN)

Even in the graduation scene you can see how out of their depts they really are with each other. A stilted congratulations, that was it. But they're trying, and that's what matters.

A scene I think gets overlooked a lot is the scene right before the Layton, where Ice expressed his worries about Mav to Stinger, and Mav heard him. Because I feel like that was a shift that was more drastic than the Layton itself for them.

What Ice was doing in that scene wasn't doubting Maverick's flying abilities, it was his mental health. Sure, he passed the psych eval, but that means next to jack shit when in a real combat situation so close after his backseater dying. And Ice might be worried that he's gonna be left hanging, but with the way he was speaking I'm more inclined to believe he was more worried about Maverick's wellbeing than himself. Ice almost looked resigned. He knew it was gonna get dismissed because that's the military for you, but he still wanted to try to vouch for Mav to stay groundside, if only to keep his mind at bay.

But Maverick heard him, and as usual, he read it as an insult. He wasn't wrong to assume Ice didn't believe him capable of flying the mission, which wouldn't be a lie, but failed to realize that he had more than one reason to want Maverick on the ground rather than in the air. And for the first time, Maverick believes him.

Up until this point, Mav dismissed all of Ice's so called 'insults' because he was certain in and of himself. But now he isn't anymore.

And it affects his performance in the air. I'm not saying he was as shitty as he was at the start of that combat because of what he overheard, but I am saying that it certainly didn't help matters in the slightest.

So their weird 'stepping-on-eggshells' situation is all over the place by that point. Because they started to care about each other despite not being what one would call proper friends yet. It's establishing a potential friendship by implying that 1. Ice cares about Mav's wellbeing and 2. Mav cares about what Ice thinks.

On the ground, they have the wingman exchange, and their suddenly buddy buddy. Thing is, it wasn't sudden at all.

They've been setting this up the entire fucking movie.

Going back to what I said at the beginning: Ice thinks Mav is dangerous and Mav thinks Ice is stuck-up and controlling. After the Layton, they still think those things because they weren't wrong to begin with. What changed was that instead of seeing it as something that pitted them against each other, it was seen as something that simply was about the other, and that there was no changing it. It could be good.

Mav being dangerous could be good and Ice being stuck-up and controlling could be good, because those were just traits of who they were. By the end of the movie they didn't change how they saw each other, just how they interpreted each other.

And it was built up during the entire fucking movie.

There was a reason to why they acted the way they did with each other because of the stilted interpretation they had of each other. From rivalry to friendship (and perhaps more later down the line), it's glaringly obvious throughout that it wasn't a sudden shift, it was exponential.

That's why I think it was so well developed, because you could see it coming.

#!!! #explained so well #i love them so much #maverick mitchell #pete maverick mitchell #iceman kazansky #tom iceman kazansky #icemav #top gun 1986 #top gun

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“If you think, you’re dead,” - Maverick

#this is sooo good!!! #love it #top gun 1986 #top gun goose #top gun #top gun fanart #maverick mitchell #iceman #tom iceman kazansky #nick goose bradshaw #ron slider kerner

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How come I've never noticed this before?!

Look at this scene first:

-> Ice is looking at Mav's eyes first but then his eyes flicker down to Mav's mouth for a tiny moment.

Then look at this scene:

-> Roo is looking at Hangy's eyes first but then his eyes flicker down to Hangy's mouth for a tiny moment.

IT'S THE SAME!!! Like literally the same!

#top gun #top gun 1986 #icemav #hangster #sereshaw #pete maverick mitchell #top gun maverick #tom iceman kazansky #bradley rooster bradshaw #jake hangman seresin #hangman x rooster #iceman x maverick #val kilmer #miles teller #glen powell

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If I ask nicely will people reblog this and tell me what their most common breakfast is? Not your favorite necessarily, just what you have for breakfast most frequently? 🙏🏽

#sandwich with stuff on it #like cheese and tomatoes #it varies

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How well do you know your Menace?

~Charlie and Mav are arguing over a flight maneuver~

Maverick: Alright then, if you know me soooo well Charlie, what's my middle name?

Charlie: Please Peter, you can do better, thats a trick question, you don't have a middle name and for-

Iceman, murmuring in the doorway: It's Micheal. And he prefers Pete.

Mav: *turns to meet Ices eyes, breath catching and rose petals fluttering around the room as the gaze at each other.*

~Ice and Mav proceed to maintain eye contact, cause wingmen~

🎵Careless Whisper starts playing🎵

#~TAKE MY BREATH AWAY~~ #love this #<3 #icemav 4ever #charlotte charlie blackwood #iceman x maverick #maverick mitchell #top gun 1986 #icemav #top gun maverick #tom iceman kazansky #top gun #pete maverick mitchell

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Incoming soft hangster headcanon:

Bradley’s love language is physical touch and Jake’s is quality time, which works out perfectly for their relationship.

Jake loves that Bradley is always attached to him because it means they’re always spending time together, even if it’s just a lazy day around the house. Bradley loves that he and Jake are always hugging, kissing, cuddling, or stealing innocent touches, and that his boyfriend never seems to mind🥰

#love langauges #hangster #sereshaw #bradley rooster bradshaw #jake hangman seresin #top gun maverick #headcanons

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(i Will go back to everlasting haitus if that GFM slows down too much btw, seeing it to its goal ASAP is my primary focus right now)

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@lupuslikethewolf I FUCKING DID IT HAHAHAHA

Also, this is all from the same person. All of these iconic phrases, came from the same person.

#real #top gun goose #tom iceman kazansky #top gun #tg86 #iceman kazansky #ron slider kerner #goose bradshaw #pete maverick mitchell #nick goose bradshaw

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#caiman would definitely #he is ally #caiman #dorohedoro