Top Gun Movie Details
Top Gun taglines:From the Producers of Beverly Hills Cop and Flashdance [UK Theatrical]
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| Directors: Tony Scott | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IMDB Rating: 6.5/10 out of 75,722 votes |
“Top Gun” 1986 by Tony Scott – Movie Goofs
“Top Gun” Plot Summary
The macho students of an elite US Flying school for advanced fighter pilots compete to be best in the class, and one romances the teacher.
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“Top Gun” Goofs List
- Revealing mistakes: The F-14 crews were filmed in a discarded Navy cockpit that was not attached to the rest of the plane. This is why you can never see the wings or vertical stabilizers in the background when they show the actors “flying” in this cockpit.
- Factual errors: There is no plane called the MiG-28 – all Mikoyan-Gurevich aircraft have odd-number designations. The planes used in the film to simulate the MiGs are Northrop F-5E Tiger IIs.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Navy rules state on tactical jets, oxygen shall be worn from takeoff until landing, a rule broken throughout the movie. Real Navy/Marine Corps pilots break this rule all the time as well.
- Continuity: In the elevator, Charlie’s ear alternates between being tucked under her cap and being untucked between shots.
- Continuity: The distance between the aircraft after Goose takes the picture.
- Factual errors: During most flight sequences, safety pins and star wheels on left top head box of MBU GRU-8 ejection seat are installed. Thus the seat is not armed and in any inverted maneuvers, seats would slide off ejection gun rails.
- Continuity: The squadron markings on both Iceman and Maverick’s Tomcats change a few times. Both of the original markings are not real Tomcats squadron markings.
- Continuity: Maverick’s wristwatch changes several times during the training flight.
- Revealing mistakes: Several times you can see missiles that are supposed to be live for combat hanging from aircraft wings. The missiles have a blue band around them indicating they are inert training missiles. Live missiles would have a yellow band as a warning of the live high explosive warhead.
- Revealing mistakes: During some of the training hops, you can clearly see that Merlin, not Goose, is Maverick’s RIO.
- Continuity: Throughout the film in various dogfight scenes, the wrong pilot can be seen in the RIO seat of the F-14. For instance, in the initial carrier scenes, Sundown can be seen briefly as Maverick’s RIO. In the training Hops, both Merlin and a blue-helmeted pilot can be seen in Maverick’s RIO seat.
- Continuity: In close-up facial footage of Sundown, he has the word “SUNDOWN” on the front of his helmet. When you see him in the background of Maverick footage, and on the ground, he is wearing the same helmet, but without the writing on it.
- Boom mic visible: In Viper’s office (visible in the top right as Jester and Viper converse following Maverick leaving the room.)
- Continuity: In the mission when Maverick has Sundown as his RIO, Jester’s plane alternates between a plain gray paint job, and a camoflauge one.
- Continuity: The plane in the background of the hangar during the briefing for the first Hop changes between shots. In some frames it’s an A4, in some it’s an F14.
- Continuity: In the elevator scene, Charlie’s hair is noticably darker than in other scenes. This is because this scene was shot after principal photography, and Kelly McGillis had already dyed her hair for another film role. The filmmakers tried to hide her darkened hair with the cap, but it’s still noticable.
- Continuity: During the final dogfight, we several shot of Goose in the co-pilot seat when obviously he is dead and Merlin is Maverick’s “RIO”.
- Continuity: The champagne bottle during Maverick and Charlie’s dinner at her house.
- Factual errors: When Maverick destroys the first enemy fighter in the final battle, it plummets straight down. A fighter jet traveling at close to the speed of sound would not fall straight down when struck, it would continue on its previous course and then begin to fall downward.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the command deck officer informs Stinger that the catapults are broken and that they can’t launch aircraft, the officer’s lip movements don’t match what he says.
- Factual errors: During both the training missions and dogfight scenes, the sound effects for the targeting system and the radar/missile warning are nearly identical. In reality, those two sounds would be completely different so as to give the pilot no doubt as to what’s going on (as evidenced when Maverick appears confused when he hears a “lock on” tone when Jester “kills” him while Maverick’s chasing Viper).
- Continuity: In hop 19, Hollywood and Maverick are chasing Jester while Viper gets away. Hollywood’s plane is in front of Maverick’s but when Maverick breaks away to go after Viper, it is the F-14 in front that pulls away.
- Continuity: Maverick’s watch before and after the training flight.
- Continuity: Maverick’s tailhook retracts too quickly when he decides to rescue Cougar. Additionally, it is visible in a later shot.
- Continuity: Charlie gains her folder when she exits the ladies room.
- Continuity: Iceman suddenly appears next to Wolfman in the locker.
- Continuity: Maverick’s hair during the elevator scene.
- Continuity: In the scene on the carrier after the last dogfight, Ice gets in Maverick’s face and they discuss being each others wingman. When the discussion starts Maverick takes off his sunglasses. At the end of the discussion, others lift Maverick up in the air on their shoulders. His sunglasses are already on.
- Continuity: When Maverick is cruising on his motorcycle right after arriving at Miramar, it is high noon. In the very next shot, the sun is setting.
- Continuity: In the elevator scene, Maverick walks through a “closed” elevator door.
- Continuity: Maverick’s arms alternate between on his cheek, in his lap and folded between shots during Viper’s lecture at the beginning of the picture.
- Continuity: First date between Charlie and Maverick, level of wine in bottle goes down then up and down then up and then some before the first drop is poured.
- Continuity: During the initial flight scenes with the MiG-28’s, when Maverick is visible on the screen, Sundown’s helmet (orange and white stripes) is reflected on the cockpit canopy. This is noticeable above and behind Maverick on the upper left side of the canopy.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): After Iceman says the alternate trophy for the runners-up is in the ladies room, Goose starts to laugh. In one shot, his hand isn’t on Maverick’s shoulder, but when he finishes laughing, it is.
- Continuity: Numerous positional inconsistencies during the volleyball game.
- Continuity: Through most of the first class at Top Gun, Slider has his arm behind Iceman, but right before he says, “The plaque for the alternates is down in the ladies room,” Slider suddenly disappears.
- Continuity: Maverick Leaves the volleyball game with no belt on. He arrives at Charlie’s house with one on
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: While all Navy pilots must have NOMEX flight gloves with them, they are not required to (and in fact, do not always) wear them.
- Continuity: Amount of ice in Maverick’s glass in the airport bar.
- Continuity: Viper’s sunglasses after Maverick’s first landing after the accident.
- Revealing mistakes: When Maverick is riding his motorcycle along the runway, you can see the tie-down straps that hold him onto the trailer, visible on his front fender.
- Continuity: Supposedly the final dogfight happens over water, yet a mountain is visible in the corner of one shot.
- Continuity: The lettering on the front of Sundown’s helmet disappears once he and Maverick are back on the ground after their first flight together.
- Revealing mistakes: The signal that Maverick is given before he takes off for the final fight scene is not the launch signal, but rather the “remove power” signal. This signal is given early in F-14 launch procedures, not right before launch.
- Continuity: Maverick’s sunglasses are (not) on when Slider picks him up after they return to the carrier.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: “Ladies Room” sign on the window of the toilets isn’t inverted when Maverick goes inside. That’s because we’re looking in a mirror.
- Revealing mistakes: In the bar scene when Goose is playing “Great Balls of Fire, ” the movement of his hands does not match the music.
- Continuity: Position of the wine bottle at Charlie’s place.
- Continuity: Toward the end of the movie, when Maverick is waiting on “Alert Five, ” the camera cuts between Maverick in the cockpit and outside, where carrier crew are working on “his” plane. The plane they are working on is actually an A-6 Intruder, not
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