Ever notice that every blockbuster movie has the same fundamental pieces? A hero, a journey, some conflicts to muck it all up, a reward, and the hero returning home and everybody applauding his or...

Miramar, California, a.k.a. Fightertown, USAMost of Top Gun takes place in Miramar, CA, an area just north of San Diego, CA. We know San Diego is awesome and all, but why set the film here? Well, w...

Top Gun is a pretty frenetic film at times. The camera switches from cockpit to cockpit, goes upside down, leaves the cockpit to show us planes zooming by, and so on. The story itself, however, is...

Fasten Your SeatbeltsHmm. Let's see. There are fighter jets. Combat sequences. And one slick motorcycle.Action much? Okay, so Top Gun isn't the kind of action movie that Michael Bay would make, wit...

The title says it all folks: Top Gun. The film was based on an article called "Top Guns" written by Ehud Yonay and published in California magazine in 1983. Paramount Pictures bought the rights to...

The ending of Top Gun is really comprised of three big scenes, which wrap up the central storylines and give us that happy ending we've been craving. Ending #1First, Maverick and Co. (but mostly Ma...

PGHmm, PG makes us think of movies like The Lion King and the Little Mermaid, not action-packed, high drama Navy movies. There's no way this movie should be rated "R" (there's a few swear words, bu...