Chipper might be the least charismatic presence of all the pilots (not that he had much of a chance to shine). It’s fitting that the character is handed such a bland call sign.
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Charles “Chipper” PiperĬhipper is totally inconsequential to the plot-the only meaningful thing he does in the movie is openly wonder why Maverick is missing out on the Top Gun graduation. With Spurt’s stamp of approval, Satan is at the controls. Our ranking, then, is capped at 14, but it contains a memorable and versatile set of names. They are therefore excluded, but not forgotten: Screenshots via Paramount Pictures And while, according to the whiteboard that I will drop in below, there were some incredible nicknames in Maverick’s Top Gun class, we never got to see Psycho, Bubba, Cowboy, or Woody in action. If the call signs from the forthcoming sequel are any indication, Top Gun: Maverick will be a worthy follow-up I can’t wait until we’re introduced to the likes of Phoenix, Fanboy, Slayer, Lardo, Cyclone, Bob (!!!!), Payback, Viking, and “Harvard & Yale.” But before we get to the Maverick call signs-and because it would be premature to judge the nicknames before we know how well they mesh with a character’s personality-what better way to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the original Top Gun than by ranking its call signs? Also, it’s The Ringer: We blog and we rank things.įor this ranking, I’ve decided to include any character with a nickname, not just the pilots-that includes essentially everyone with a line of dialogue that isn’t Meg Ryan. Really, the whole courtship between Maverick and Charlie is outrageously dumb-and it doesn’t help that Cruise and McGillis don’t have any semblance of sexual chemistry.Īll the Tiny Moments That Add Up to Make ‘Top Gun’ Perfect The Subversive Sameness of ‘Top Gun’ Tom Cruise Is the Ultimate Try-Hard-Except in ‘Top Gun’ Not everything about the original Top Gun, which came out in 1986, stands the test of time: The script doesn’t strike the greatest balance between clichés and one-liners, and I’m pretty sure Tom Cruise’s Maverick committed some sort of crime by harassing Kelly McGillis’s Charlie and then following her into the women’s bathroom at Kansas City Barbeque. (Also, a reminder that Berlin’s “Take My Breath Away” won an Oscar for Best Original Song Top Gun is technically an Oscar-winning motion picture.) I guarantee it will take your breath away. What are we and our fellow cinephiles supposed to do without a shiny new paean to aviator sunglasses, homoerotic beach sports, fighter pilot jargon, Kenny Loggins, and somewhat problematic Navy propaganda? Well, there is one solution: Just rewatch the original Top Gun for the umpteenth time. It’s a real blow for America’s most treasured group of workers: pop culture bloggers.
Unfortunately, with experts anticipating that a second wave of the virus will come in the fall, there’s a reasonable chance Top Gun: Maverick won’t see the light of day until 2021 (or beyond). Among the many delays to the 2020 film calendar due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the highly anticipated Top Gun sequel was bumped from a June 2020 release to December. This was supposed to be the summer that we reentered the Danger Zone. Welcome to The Ringer ’s Return to Summer Blockbuster Season, where we’ll feature different summer classics each week. 2020’s summer blockbuster season has been put on hold because of the pandemic, but that doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate the movies from the past that we flocked out of the sun and into air conditioning for.
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