everytime i watched that movie as a kid i would go out and get a haircut.
crsmal | Homepage | 07.05.07 - 5:58 am | #

wow. your love/obsession of Top Gun is a true 80's TMI confession. Any future underpinnings about the merits of Bad Boys and Footloose as well? as for bad young actor moustaches: didn't Emilio Estevez sport one in St.Elmo's Fire? I also feel the moustache Matthew Broderick sported in Glory as a "civil war field colonel" seemed a desperate attempt to cover up a bad casting choice.
dlee | 07.05.07 - 9:23 am | #

Might I also add Charlie Bronson to the proud stache lineage.
PoCho Pete | 07.05.07 - 10:24 am | #

this is the definitive post-mortem on Top Gun

i do have a question: are we passed the day when guys can take shirts off and play sports without someone playing the homo card?
pbdotc | 07.05.07 - 1:02 pm | #

My first attempt to watch Top Gun was that night in the dorm. I walked out a few minutes into the movie. The acting and dialogue were cartoonish. With nothing to do, I went to a nearby movie theater and watched Dirty Dancing.
bc ny | 07.05.07 - 1:43 pm | #

top gun makes dirty dancing seem nearly heterosexual.

also, Dlee, excellent call on Broderick, exactly the kind of thing I was thinking of. and not sure about estevez stache in "St. Elmo's Fire", but he definitely qualifies for his "Stakeout" stache, one of the all-time most out-of-place furlips.
hans | Homepage | 07.05.07 - 7:05 pm | #

I disagree about Broderick in Glory: he was playing a young guy who was wearing the stache in an effort to look older and more like a tough military man - I think he was meant to look a little silly with it, which he certainly did.

- BJL
Anonymous | 07.05.07 - 7:56 pm | #

leo dicaprio sports a five-a-side stash every now and then.

he isn't ready
q.w. shnausenbongle, m.d. | 07.05.07 - 9:04 pm | #

Sweet Jesus! I am currently watching what has to be one of the all time most stache-full movies: Tombstone

It seems that they threw a stache on every actor in the film. I'm actually surprised that they didn't just throw them on the actresses too.

I think I might sue the producers for the mental agony that the film causes stache-challenged individuals like myself. Those of us who dream of an upper lip full of beautiful, bristley, man-fur. Ah me...at least I only have to shave twice a week.
PoCho Pete | 07.05.07 - 10:14 pm | #

I keep hearing about the "Tombstone" 'stachery, I've never actually seen it though.

BJL, excellent, well-thought-out point re: Broderick in "Glory." I think you're dead on in your analysis. Still, the minute he showed up on screen in that movie, you couldn't help but be like, "Yo, Ferris Bueller's wearing a fake moustache!"
hans | Homepage | 07.05.07 - 10:23 pm | #

I always thought the top three moustaches were:

1. Sam Elliot
2. Burt Reynolds
3. Tom Selleck

I never even thought of Tom Skerritt before.
Ajax | Homepage | 07.06.07 - 12:01 am | #

That Wilford Brimley had a HELLUVA 'stache.
ba | 07.06.07 - 9:54 am | #

I have always been an unapologetic Tom Cruise lover and 'Top Gun' is definitely a reason why, along with 'All the Right Moves.'

Fun fact about the sex scene: it was added later and the reason it's in silhouette is because Kelly McGillis had already dyed her hair dark for her next movie.
Christina | Homepage | 07.06.07 - 3:15 pm | #

Pillow humping is an excellent and safe way to relieve frustration.
q.w. shnausenbongle, md | 07.06.07 - 10:07 pm | #

I'm your huckleberry.
Joe M. | Homepage | 07.07.07 - 12:51 am | #

i've tried to watch women's tennis

but the screaming just ain't right
pbdotc | 07.07.07 - 9:24 am | #

i am rooting for maria bartoli

she does not scream like a psychopath every time she swings racket
pbdotc | 07.07.07 - 9:41 am | #

racist
George Babick | Homepage | 07.07.07 - 7:43 pm | #