7/17/21 Goose Shouldn't Have Died? (Movie)

     I love seeing movies with Baby A, he is such a passionate boy and he does not hesitate to let you know what he thinks as the movie is progressing.  We saw Top Gun last night and he reacted very differently than I expected.  He is very much a "by the rules" type of guy and he was pissed from the beginning fight scene which showed Maverick (Tom Cruise) acting like the reckless kid he is supposed to be.  Within the first five minutes and when Maverick and Goose are told they are going to the Top Gun school, he had a problem with rewarding them with the opportunity because Maverick was an ass who didn't follow rules.

    He saw himself as more of the Ice (Val Kilmer) type of character, does everything right, doesn't make mistakes, and makes himself the best by being the best, not by showing emotions and acting recklessly.  Then there was the gratuitous amounts of guys being way too comfortable in each other's spaces.  He didn't like every time they got in a heated discussion and they would talk to each other with their mouths 4-5 inches apart.  We all wondered why they were all constantly sweating, there is no way I could do that job or even read radar in the depths of an aircraft carrier while sweating like a can of cold soda on a hot day.  In almost every scene Maverick is all moist with sweat profusely coming off his face.  If that was real, he would be short circuiting electronics in the cockpit all the time.  Did we need to see them playing volleyball all shirtless and sweaty or in the locker rooms in underwear all the time?

    He absolutely hated that Goose had to die and 30 minutes into the movie he started saying "Goose better not die for this Jackass. He's a good family man, Maverick is just an asshole who doesn't follow orders."  At that point, Baby A actually turned off the movie and said he didn't need to see any more.  He was mad that he should have gotten his shit together after the first time they were yelled at by the leaders of Top Gun, he shouldn't have been getting his shit together after causing his friend to die.  I did kind of have to agree with a lot of what he was saying.

    We finally got to the end sequence where they are in a real dogfight and again, he was complaining because there is no way that Maverick would be in fighting after just having lost his partner, it wasn't real.  Ice was the real hero and would have done better and not need to be saved by Maverick who was shooting all the bad guys down.

    I thoroughly enjoyed watching the movie again with different eyes in the room.  Mijo is very different and he doesn't really buy into the hero being this lone person who needs space to grow up.  He was mad that the Navy or whoever would give him so much leeway and allow him to be such a jerk just because he was a good pilot.