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  • Welcome to watch mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 scenes from Top Gun.

  • No, no, ma'am, this is not a good idea, sorry goose, But it's time to buzz the tower for this list.

  • We're looking at the best sequences from this 1986 classic, how do you feel about top gun?

  • Does it take your breath away or take the highway to the danger zone?

  • Let us know in the comments # 10, Buzzing the Tower.

  • It wouldn't be Top Gun without some hotshot pilots and Pete, Maverick Mitchell is one of the best gesture.

  • If I give you a run for your money here during his first training hop, Maverick seeks to make a serious impression and does so at the expense of his instructor.

  • Jester, Jester trails Maverick for much of the exercise, seeking to get a lock and end the simulated dog fight.

  • However, Maverick employs the age old movie tactic of slamming on the brakes, something we'd see him do again later on, jesus christ, let's see what you got now Chester now with the tables turned.

  • Maverick seals the victory.

  • Even if he'd get reprimanded for his flying Later, just after he's denied a clear landing, Maverick opts to take a victory lap by buzzing the tower goddamn son of a number nine.

  • You've lost that loving feeling.

  • The night before Top Gun starts, some of the guys head to a bar in their sharpest navy whites, looking for a different kind of action.

  • After meeting the notorious iceman Maverick spots, kelly, McGillis, charlie.

  • Blackwood, woefully unaware.

  • She's one of his instructors.

  • She's lost that loving feeling.

  • She's like no, she has not lost that look because she's lost it man, come on, I hate it when she does that.

  • Together with Goose and eventually several other navy men.

  • He serenades her with the Righteous Brothers song.

  • You've lost that loving feeling honestly with that many wingman charlie.

  • Never really stood a chance though, Mavericks further attempts at wooing her are not nearly as successful.

  • Are you a good pilot?

  • I can hold my own great then.

  • I won't have to worry about you making your living as a singer charlie plays the actual song at the end of the film to reunite with Maverick and cure his blues once and for all.

  • Hello Pete Mitchell.

  • Mhm I heard the best of the Best.

  • We're gonna be back here, # eight Watch The Birdie Who's Up There.

  • Cougar and merlin and Maverick and Goose.

  • Top Gun never explicitly says who the other bogeys are.

  • But come on, it's an eighties action movie.

  • We know it's the Russians.

  • In the opening scene, Maverick and Goose are flying over the indian ocean with their wingman cougar when they encounter enemy jets though neither side has permission to fire.

  • The standoff is tense as they enter a pissing contest of sorts after one bogey spooks cougar by locking onto him.

  • Maverick one ups him by hovering above him and upside down, flipping him the Bird for good measure.

  • Watch the birdie not one to pass up a Polaroid moment.

  • Goose snaps a picture Number seven, great balls of fire.

  • You break my will For an 80s action movie of sorts.

  • You wouldn't think there'd be so many musical moments.

  • But here we are.

  • In this scene we see Maverick and charlie meet with Goose and his wife and kid at a bar.

  • It's a small moment, but one that makes us appreciate the little things prior to the life changing twists that would come later on.

  • Come to think of it from Gooses, prime piano playing abilities to his adorable kid to being happily married to a young meg Ryan.

  • How did we not know he was doomed to die in any case, this scene always manages to put a smile on our face.

  • Number six.

  • The need for speed.

  • I feel the need made.

  • First.

  • Top gun has a plethora of memorable lines, but that one might just be the most iconic still.

  • That clip isn't long enough to devote a whole entry to it.

  • So we'll be focusing on the training hop that follows immediately after, which is thrilling in its own right, good morning gentlemen, the temperature is 110°. It's viper.

  • Viper's up here.

  • Great, oh ship, great.

  • He's probably saying holy sh it!

  • It's Maverick and Goose.

  • Yeah, I'm sure he's saying that this time out.

  • Maverick goes all gung ho by abandoning his wingman Hollywood to pursue his commanding officer.

  • Viper.

  • Trouble is Viper has him playing directly into his hands?

  • Giving jester the opportunity to swoop in and get a lock on Maverick, bingo!

  • Maverick's dead.

  • You're out of there.

  • Kid Defense Department regrets to inform you that your sons are dead because they were stupid.

  • Great.

  • It's a tough loss for Maverick, but it serves as an important lesson in teamwork and humility.

  • Number five Goose's death at the bottom of the ninth, the score is tied.

  • It's time for the big one.

  • You up for this one.

  • Maverick just to walk in the park.

  • Top Gun prides itself on being a fun ride.

  • But Mavericks character arc would be nothing without the tragic death of his partner at its center.

  • During another training Hop, Maverick and Iceman are going after an A four, however, Maverick begins to suspect that iceman is deliberately stalling to lower his score in.

  • Top Gun.

  • Take a shot right here, I need another 20 seconds impatient.

  • Maverick has iceman clear the area, only to enter a flat spin upon going through his jet wash out of options, Maverick and Goose are forced to eject only Goose is inadvertently thrust into the jettisoned canopy, breaking his neck.

  • The shot of Maverick holding goose's lifeless body in the water is heartbreaking.

  • He was just too good for this world.

  • Number four!

  • Take my breath away.

  • The mig has you in his gun sight.

  • What were you thinking at this point, you don't have time to think up there.

  • If you think you're dead?

  • That's a big gamble with $30 million Charlie's courtship reaches a fever pitch halfway into the movie.

  • My review of your flight opponents in the past was right on in my, I can't hear you peeved about her open criticism of his flying.

  • Maverick rides off in a huff, charlie heatedly gives chase, breaking more than a few traffic laws to let him know how conflicted her love for him has made her.

  • I see some real genius in your flying Maverick, but I can't say that in there.

  • I was afraid that everyone in that tax trailer would see right through me and I just don't want anyone to know that I've fallen The opening notes to the Berlin song.

  • Take my breath away had hitherto been played continually up to this point, but here the song plays in full as we get one of the most iconic love scenes of the 80s complete with silhouettes and a lot of tongue.

  • It's a pretty cheesy sequence, but few movies do cheese better than Top Gun.

  • Number three playing with the boys with all due respect to Berlin between danger zone and playing with the boys.

  • The top gun soundtrack undoubtedly belongs to Kenny Loggins.

  • The ladder comes into play in this scene where Maverick and goose face off against iceman and his R.

  • I.

  • O slider in a game of beach volleyball guys are animals.

  • Does this scene have any bearing on the plot?

  • No, not at all.

  • In fact, it's become the butt of many jokes over the years, but we cannot help but look forward to it every time we put the movie on, everyone's so sweaty all the time.

  • Anyway.

  • Now they've got a reason to be plus we don't mind getting a little female gaze in there in such a testosterone driven movie play on.

  • Okay, stay down.

  • Okay.

  • Number two locker room face off.

  • Val Kilmer makes this movie almost as much as tom cruise and nowhere is that more evident than in this scene after Maverick and goose dispatch of jester, they start wagging their tongues in the locker room.

  • However, their main rivals in top gun, iceman and slider.

  • Take exception and begin to bark back.

  • Right?

  • They won too man.

  • That's not what I heard we did.

  • We got jester below the hard deck does not count my ass.

  • We nailed that son of a iceman who always seems to be chewing gum gets right in Mavericks face and the two hotshot pilots face off.

  • I don't like you because you're dangerous.

  • That's right.

  • Nice man.

  • I am dangerous.

  • They say Love and Hate are simply two sides of the same coin and we can tell there's some romantic chemistry bubbling under the surface here Before we continue.

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  • Number one, you can be my wingman.

  • The climactic scene of the movie sees Maverick assigned to back up iceman.

  • Much to the latter's chagrin.

  • They were accosted by a slew of bogeys only.

  • These ones are not nearly as friendly after one of their jets is shot down.

  • Maverick swoops in to offer support.

  • Things are looking bleak, but Maverick refuses to leave his wingman.

  • Maverick coming around on our tail.

  • We've got to get out of here.

  • I can't leave ice still coming around, He's coming around, he's gonna get behind us.

  • I'm not leaving after iceman shoots the bogey, he's pursuing.

  • Maverick is put in another's crosshairs himself.

  • He deftly draws it in before again, slamming on the brakes, switching spots and ending the conflict.

  • I got a good luck firing despite presumably starting World War Three spirits are high And after learning the value of teamwork, Mavericks finally earned iceman's respect.

  • You can be my wingman anytime bullshit.

  • You can be mine all's well, that ends well, do you agree with our picks?

Welcome to watch mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 scenes from Top Gun.

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