Finally saw the original Top Gun - UPDATE! Now I've seen the sequel, too

Somehow I had gone all this time without seeing Top Gun. Just watched it on cable. Tom Cruise is not my favorite person but it was pretty decent. Big takeaway, those fighter pilots were KIDS.
Hopefully I'll see the sequel soon. I read a review that said it was better than the original.

UPDATE: Saw the sequel today and I'm glad! Good job.

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dancingtongue · 80-89, M

And that is reality -- we turn these billion dollar pieces of machinery over to kids to fly. But then they have the required reflexes to do what needs to be done at those high speeds. There aren't many old fighter pilots, and the Chuck Yeagers of the test pilot world are far between as well. As I recall there was a cameo appearance by Chuck Yeager, or a fictionalized version of him, in the original Top Gun.