What so special about Top Gun?

[Bootes Void]

I have always have heard of Top Gun as a iconic movie that was big in the 80s. However I watched the Top Gun on Amazon Prime yesterday and the movie is really boring and sort of slow.

No disrespect to any Top Gun fans out there, but why is this movie so famous even so that it is even in the National film by the us library of Congress?

Btw I'm still interested in Top Gun 2, I think it might be interesting as it made for today's audiences but I'll wait

[dead0man]

The jet stuff was kind of cool, but the real reason it was so big was nationalism.

[Santander]

It's quotable, has an iconic soundtrack, and starred one of the biggest stars of the era. Nobody thinks it was a great movie, but it was obviously an iconic one.

[Progressive Pessimist]

I don't know either. I never cared for the movie. I find it yet another schmaltzy, dated vestige of an overrated era in American history.

[Never Made it to Graceland]

The jet stuff was kind of cool, but the real reason it was so big was nationalism.

Stupidity and military worship.

But I repeat myself.

[Obama-Biden Democrat]

I am a liberal and I love the chest thumping nationalism of 80's movies like Top Gun, Rocky and Rambo. It's a guilty pleasure.

[Meclazine for Israel]

Top Gun is a great film.

Kelly McGillis was so hot.

At the time, I went to the cinema in 1986 with my girlfriends and mates, this was a world-wide sensation.

The musical score is amazing. The footage was ground breaking.

Tom Cruise was the biggest star in Hollywood.

I wouldn't call it an Academy Award winner, but it is a great film.

[Middle-aged Europe]

I wouldn't call it an Academy Award winner, but it is a great film.

Well, Top Gun did win an Academy Award for Best Music.

[If my soul was made of stone]

It's a strong encapsulation/condensation of so much of Reagan's America from near the peak of his reign, and it's brimming with the homoerotic undertones of so much sweaty machismo: a potent double shot of primal power within the confines of Hollywood corn. I don't care for it personally, but it's easy to imagine the impact of a hard mixture of military posturing, romance, and Kenny Loggins on the audience of the time, and it fascinates me as a cultural phenomenon and period piece.

[CrimsonCommander688]

I think Iron Eagle is a much better movie.

[Squidward500]

Highway to the danger zone

[Alben Barkley]