The first website my colleagues and I created was for “Batman Forever” (1995, d. Joel Schumacher), starring Val Kilmer. That website changed my life and career. I never saw “Top Gun,” but Val Kilmer made a brilliant Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone’s “The Doors.” Rest in peace.
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I saw Top Gun in the theater when I was on vacation with my family when I was about 9 or 10. We were staying at a cabin on a lake, and it was a rainy day, so it was not beach weather. I think it was the only thing playing, and when they started cussing like crazy and had a steamy sex scene, my mom was wondering if she was a terrible mother. For years afterwards, I would ride my bike around the block pretending I was Maverick driving a plane. It is still one of my favorite movies, even though I mostly like romantic comedies, not action movies. I still tear up when Goose dies. Maybe it only means something to me because of my personal history with the film, but I would still definitely recommend Top Gun (I liked the second one too).
Oh, and another fantastic, yet underrated, film with Val Kilmer is Real Genius, one of his first films, from the eighties, which is about life at a technical university, probably modeled on MIT. Hilarious, yet also thought provoking.