It is indeed a great popcorn flick, with outstanding aerial photography and maneuvers. I don't share everyone's unbridled enthusiasm for this film. Rear Admiral: The end is inevitable, Maverick. Rear Admiral: You are dismissed, Captain. for reasons known only to the Almighty and your guardian angel, you've been called back to Top Gun. Rear Admiral: Call came in with impeccable timing, right as I was driving here to ground your ass once and for all. I want him on the road to North Island within the hour. Rear Admiral: Escort this man off the base. The future is coming, and you're not in it. All you did was buy some time for those men out there. Pilots that need to sleep, eat, take a piss. Rear Admiral: These planes you've been testing, Captain, one day, sooner or later, they won't need pilots at all. Rear Admiral: Well, the navy doesn't see it that way. Maverick: It's one of life's mysteries, sir. You should be at least a two-star admiral by now, if not a senator. Rear Admiral: 'Distinguished.' 'Distinguished.' 'Distinguished.' Yet you can't get a promotion, you won't retire, and despite your best efforts, you refuse to die. Only man to shoot down three enemy planes in the last 40 years.