Happy Birthday Tom Skerrit! Described as ruggedly handsome and only improving with age, Tom Skerritt was first noticed in the UCLA production of Rainmaker before his debut in film in War Hunt (1962). His most well known role (on this page at least) is as Capt. Dallas of the ill-fated commercial towing vehicle Nostromo in the 1979 Alien. Other notable roles include his participation in The Dead Zone (1983) and Steel Magnolias (1989). Skerritt continues to work in TV and film, and remains an iconic figure in the Alien series. Happy birthday Mr. Skerritt! "[observing the Space Jockey] Alien life form. Looks like it's been dead a long time. Fossilized. Looks like it's growing out of the chair. [climbs up for a closer look] Bones are bent outward, like he exploded from inside." #alien #dallas #tomskerrit #thedeadzone #steelmagnolias #happybirthday
Reposted from @thatsclassic (@get_regrann) - The last 7 mins of the classic #1980s movie “Maid To Order” 1987!! . . . . #maidtoorder #allysheedy #beverlydangelo #tomskerrit #80s #80sclassic #icanstillshine #yesterdaysmistakesareallinthepast #ivebeenlivintoofast #fairygodmother #fate #wishuponastar https://www.instagram.com/p/B1B6hJ8Bo6Y/?igshid=18rae5vdw7ojt
Alien (1979) Dir.: Ridley Scott La tripulacion de la Nostromo termina en otro planeta ajeno a la tierra despues de recibir un aviso de rescate o similar. Aquello provocara que un hombre de la tripulacion cargue con un extraño ser alienigena que pronto sera la mas grande pesadilla que podran enfrentar. El origen de la mitica saga, la segunda mejor del lote y un ejercicio de suspenso y atmosfera sublimes para una de las obras maestras de Ridley Scott. Amen al alien y todo su increible universo diseñado impresionantemente por los grandes maestros de la epoca como H.R Giger. 9.3/10 #Alien #ridleyscott #sigourneyweaver #tomskerrit #johnhurt #ianholm #scifi #movies
On March 3, 1969 the United States Navy established an elite school for the top one percent of its pilots. Its purpose was to teach the lost art of aerial combat and to insure that the handful of men who graduated were the best fighter pilots in the world. They succeeded. Today, the Navy calls it Fighter Weapons School. The flyers call it: TOP GUN.
Top Gun is a classic 1980s film which despite being set during the Cold War and having elements of us versus them and a few dodgy 1980s computer graphic scenes stands the test of time.
Which is why I chose to review it as my final 1980s film, having decided that it was unfair to the decade of big hair, big ballads and trickle-down economics to end with Krull the Crappy.
Top Gun is the story of Pete Mitchell (Tom Cruise) a hot shot Navy pilot whose father was also a Naval pilot before his mysterious disappearance in the 1960s. This has spurned on Maverick, as he is known, to be the best of the best.
To do this he must go to Top Gun school, the premier training facility for the top Navy pilots. While there he and his ROI Goose (Anthony Edwards of ER and other things but none as big as ER) encounter other hot shot pilots (Val Kilmer as Iceman and Rick Rossovich as Slider) as well as scenes of a very homoerotic nature.
There are lots of sweaty guys in locker rooms. Sweaty guys in towels. Sweaty guys in tighty whities. Sweaty guys playing beach volleyball.
You can all but smell the Brut aftershave. Phwoar!
Sadly while undergoing the training, despite the perk of shagging his civilian instructor Charlie, Maverick has to come face to face with his own hubris and the worry that his hot shot antics are what caused the death of his best friend Goose. Eventually he is cleared of any wrong doing, it was a malfunction he could not have forseen, but his heart is broken with grief and he walks away. Charlie, who is older and wiser and getting a bit of cougar action, brings him back from the brink and a local airport where he was drinking ice water.
Maverick goes on to graduate from Top Gun school and fly again, in fact he’s sent to a coincidentally just happening right as they graduate situation in the Indian Ocean. There he is reunited with his earlier commanding officer and gets a new ROI, the barely in it at all Merlin (Tim Robbins). They take down those pinko commie bastards and save the day and Iceman and Slider too in the process. Maverick is so awesome and amazing that he gets his choice of assignments after that and he chooses to go back to Top Gun and become an instructor.
There are also some great iconic lines:
Iceman: You can be my wingman anytime.
Goose’s wife Carole (Meg Ryan): Take me to bed or lose me forever.
Maverick: I feel the need…
Goose:…the need for speed.
Slider: Goose, whose butt did you kiss to get in here anyway?
Goose: The list is long, but distinguished.
Slider: Yeah, well so is my Johnson.
Charlie: Where did you see this?
Maverick: Uh, that's classified.
Charlie: It's what?
Maverick: It's classified. I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.
And one of the most iconic 1980s scenes too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLzVbz2HHzo
It’s still possible despite all of this to find a bit of cheese however. There are also some noticeable continuity errors – like how Tom Cruise is sweatier in some shots in the lift scene with Kelly McGinnis (Charlie) than in others. Or how his hair is longer in the sex scene (this is because it was actually shot after the film finished).
What can we ultimately learn as girls from Top Gun?
All Navy pilots are hawt.
The married ones don’t cheat, but help their friends get girls by singing soulful classics.
It’s not at all wrong to enjoy the bent over the sink pose which Tom Cruise has during the entirety of his conversation with Tom Skerrit after Anthony Edwards’ character dies.
We all would love to have a hunky guy in uniform sing to us as a pick-up line; sadly it only ever happens in movies.
