Remember the shirtless volleyball scene in Top Gun (1986)? Who doesn't? In an era when you rarely saw men's bodies on screen, except maybe a glimpse of chest while they were schtumping ladies, we got closeups of perfectly chiseled men, with no women anywhere around. The Daily Beast says: "If you were a certain kind of teenage boy in 1986, the beach volleyball scene spoke directly to you. And what it said was 'You're gay now. Good luck.'"
In 2022, a sequel, Top Gun: Maverick, featured some of the original cast and actors playing their children. The guys are still written as straight, with a hetero-romance as the main plot, and Tom Cruise is still aggressively homophobic. Nevertheless, The Daily Beast calls it the "gayest movie of the year," due to a shirtless football scene. 40 years have passed, and we still get nothing but beefcake?
Ok, then, let's look at the beefcake.
1. Tom Cruise as "Maverick," the focus character in the original, now a flight instructor teaching other Top Guns.
2. Miles Teller, left , as "Rooster," son of his best friend in the original.
Miles sock dick
3, Jon Hamm as "Cyclone," the commander.
4. Glen Powell, left, as "Hangman," a pilot
5. Ed Harris as "Hammer," Maverick's superior officer.
6. Val Kilmer, left, as "Iceman," Maverick's former rival
More butts and bulges after the break
7. Lewis Pullman, left, as "Bob," a pilot.
8. Charles Parnell as "Warlock," the Big Boss
9. Bashir Salahuddin as "Hondo," Maverick's friend.
10. Danny Ramirez as "Fanboy," a pilot.
11. Jay Ellis, left, as "Payback," a pilot
12, Greg "Tarzan" Davis, left, as "Coyote," a pilot.
13. Manny Jacinto as "Fritz," a pilot.
14. Chido Nwokocha as Mission Control.
15. Jake Picking as "Harvard," a pilot.
16, Raymond Lee, left, as "Yale," a pilot
Raymond Lee's butt.
I got tired of searching for nude pics and finding only butts, usually while the guys are sexing ladies.. No dicks. And the only beefcake in the actual movie is in the shirtless football scene.
Sorry, it's been 40 years, and I'm not a teenager anymore. I want to see some gay romance.
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I saw it on the big screen and it was fun- maybe it was the nostalgia angle I was a teen when the original was released - but I found some of the scenes with Val Kilmer surprisingly moving- the beef cake was fine
ReplyDeleteNever actually saw either one. In 1986, I thought "a war movie," not interested. I imagine that the new one has a lot of call-backs, making it difficult for newcomers to catch everything.
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