Top Gun: Maverick

The original Top Gun is something of a divisive movie. Depending on who you ask, Tony Scott’s action classic is a shallow tale of exaggerated chauvinism or era-defining military metaphor. Regardless of which camp you fall into, though, it’s hard to question the film’s enduring impact on both western cinema and American culture at large (lest we forget the $357 million it made at the box office, a figure amounting to well over $900 million in today’s money).Paramount Pictu