Top Gun [Blu-ray]
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Movie Reviews of Top Gun [Blu-ray]
Movie Review: I love it!
Summary: 5 Stars
I love it! This is one of my favorite movies and it looks great in blue ray!Movie Review: Details of Blu-ray Special Collector's Edition due out July 29th, 2008
Summary: 4 Stars
Top Gun is the kind of movie that can really benefit from hi-def treatment, with thrilling fighter jet acrobatics and vast shots of earth, sea, sky, and much smaller but still big enough things like aircraft carriers. The filmmakers took great care to achieve realism in some of its technical aspects while letting the plot fly high in typical Hollywood manner. The result is not only a solid mainstream blockbuster, but even for many who flinch at its implausibilities and plot cliches it qualifies as a guilty pleasure.
Tom Cruise is "Maverick," a hot shot Navy fighter pilot with attitude, haunted by the mysterious fate of his father, a Navy pilot shot down over Southeast Asia. Called up to the elite "Top Gun" Navy fighter pilots school, Maverick displays both his outstanding flying prowess and his character flaws, pulling off brave and foolhardy stunts (that would end the career of real fighter pilots), failing to be a team player, and wooing a beautiful woman (Kelly McGillis) who turns out to be one of his instructors. Then a tragic event causes him to lose his nerve. About to give up, and losing the girl, he learns the true fate of his father. Will he live up to his father's example or wash out?
Not everyone likes Tom Cruise (I think he's always been a fine actor), but even his detractors ought to admit he was well suited to this role, easily projecting an attractive but immature cockiness. The flight scenes are great fun, done to popular 80s rock that, with more romantic tunes like "Take My Breath Away," made the soundtrack a top seller. The plot cliches are cliches because they usually work, and they're effectively enough played out here.
The new Top Gun Blu-ray Special Collector's Edition will be full of special features from the 2004 2-disc standard definition Special Collector's Edition:
-- audio commentary by producer Jerry Bruckheimer, director Tony Scott, screenwriter Jack Epps Jr., and Top Gun veterans Captain Mike Galpin (also flew for the movie), retired Admiral Pete Pettigrew and Vice Admiral Mike McCabe
-- Danger Zone: The Making Of Top Gun:
. . . "From The Ground Up--Pre-Production" (30 minutes)
. . . "Playing With The Boys--Production: Land And Seas" (27 minutes)
. . . "The Need For Speed--Production: Air" (28 minutes)
. . . "Back To Basics--Visual Effects" (17 minutes)
. . . "Combat Rock--The Music Of Top Gun (21 minutes)
. . . "Afterburn--Release and Impact" (24 minutes)
-- Best of the Best: Inside the Real Top Gun (28 minutes)
-- Behind the Scenes featurette (5 minutes)
-- Survival Training featurette (7 minutes)
-- Tom Cruise interviews (7 minutes)
-- multi-angle storyboards with optional commentary by director Tony Scott (2 scenes)
-- music videos:
. . . Kenny Loggins "Danger Zone"
. . . Berlin "Take My Breath Away"
. . . Loverboy "Heaven in Your Eyes"
. . . "Top Gun Anthem" (with guitarist Steve Stevens)
-- TV spots
The Best of the Best featurette, about the real US Navy Fighter Weapons School, appears to be new to Region 1, but was included in the 2004 Special Collector's Edition in other regions.
The film will be in its original 2.35:1 widescreen, at 1080p. The sound will be English Dolby TrueHD 5.1, English DTS-HD Master Audio 6.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1, and optional subtitles in English, English for the deaf and hard of hearing, French, Spanish, or Portuguese.
This movie was already released in HD at 1080p, so we should expect the new Blu-ray to be at least as good as that release. The video for the HD was generally praised, especially in comparison to the standard DVD, with new sharpness and detail, better and more saturated though not spectacular color, minor grain in some shots that was due to the original film grain, and some minor dust specs. The sound was also generally well received for a movie of its age, with lots of rear speaker activity and booming bass.
Looks like this should be a fine DVD, if you like the movie.
Movie Review: TOP GUN - Blu-Ray
Summary: 4 Stars
I saw TOP GUN in the theater, owned it on VHS & DVD, this blu-ray I just bought for $10.00 is no doubt the best I've seen and heard. I love this movie even more now than ever before. What really amazed me is how great the surround audio is, the audio on DVD disappointed me big time and thank goodness, this blu-ray made up for it, what a superb upgrade even with the video. I love the aerial and F-14 shots, Tony Scott really made a magnificent job with it, in my opinion, along with the great surround sound, it makes you feel like you're sitting right there inside that cockpit. I love this blu-ray and I highly recommend it, it will make a great addition to your movie library. Thank you, Paramount, for giving this movie the superb upgrade it deserves.Movie Review: Top Gun Blu Ray edition........WHOOOOSH
Summary: 4 Stars
Well, the dialogue is down right corny and the actual "in cockpit" footage isn't all that great given the fact that this is supposed to be about pilots and their machines, the fact of the matter is, if you loved Top Gun when it first took flight back in the 80's it's all the more reason to see this in HiDef. The sound track in any set up outside of plain stereo is great and the sounds of the jet engines swooshing by you from front to back and left to right and so on is just booming. I could do without the sausage fest of the volleyball scene but that was the hook for the female crowd. I could do with more flight scenes and fight footage but I didn't write the script. The videos of the songs are a nice inclusion, too.Movie Review: The Blu wins
Summary: 4 Stars
I hadn't seen this movie in almost 20 years. Whatever passes as story and characters that they put as padding between the flight scenes are so embarassingly formulaic and stupid that I was soon hitting fast forward every time until jets were scrambling again. Apart from the "last fight" scene which is spoiled by terrible missile hit SFXs, the air scenes are stunning in HD. That photography really makes this disc great. That's my first movie purchase that made me fully satisfied of switching to Blu Ray. You've GOT to have a serious sound system hooked on your player too.