Why Tho?!

No. No, no, no, NO! Just,…no.

I LOVED Top Gun. Loved it. I fell in love with loud jets, power, catch phrases, fake coughs while saying “bullshit,” Kenny Logins (that part’s not true). So much goodness!

“Negative Ghost Rider, the pattern is full.” “I’ll hit the brakes, he’ll fly right by.” “Goose, you big stud, take me to bed or lose me forever.” “I feel the need. The need for speed!” Timeless greatness.

I remember being in tights and legwarmers doing some sort of group fitness and how much harder I felt compelled to work when “Highway to the Danger Zone” blared over the boom box in the Evergreen Elementary multipurpose room. To this day, I “du-du-dun dun…” in my head when I see geese or ducks flying in formation.

I tracked the published coast to coast trips of Lockheed Martin’s SR-71 (flying blackbird), back in the days pre-google. I stood outside my parent’s home and stared up at the sky hoping to see it. Or maybe even hear a sonic boom.  I know there weren’t any SR-71’s in Top Gun, but that’s how much I enjoyed all that the movie gave. I even held on to a screw for many years that I believed was from a Blackbird. (I’d found it on the ground at an air show. I was young and wanted to believe. Bwah ha!)

I am that weirdo who will run outside the house this very day if I hear jets. When there’s jets at the air show, I will go there the days before just to stare at them and to feel some of their power. I squeal or shriek with joy when I hear them.

I am fairly certain my love of the nitro dragsters is the result of Top Gun. Feeling the force of those engines thump off my chest as I stand as close as legally allowed is about as close to jets as I will ever come.  

Yup. I loved that movie.

I expected a re-boot. It’s too good of a concept to not. I will watch it. In the loudest format possible. BUT,…really?! Love me some Tom Cruise too, but for fuck’s sake man! Let someone else take this one. You’ve already aged freakishly better than the rest of the cast. I’m betting you’ve got more money than you can spend in several lifetimes. Why? WHY?! If you have inside information that says that he’ll be a supporting character instead of this still being the Maverick show, please let me know. If you think I’m over-reacting,…no need to advise me. I already know, but have decided it’s a worthy tantrum (Bwah ha.)