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).
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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.
