Letterboxd — Your life in film

I spent most of this movie wondering why the main character was wearing pajamas meant for an 8 year old boy.

One of those cases where you start watching a film on a streaming service and realise once you're well into it "Oh no, I've seen this! And I didn't like it!"
However, I decided to keep watching anyhoo, and I liked it a lot more this time around. I really dug the atmosphere and melding of folklore with modern times, despite some of the characters seemingly being made out of cardboard.

Pure, glorious beautiful fantastic trash of the highest order. It is impossibly magical how bad Paz de la Huerta is at acting. There are times where I think she's actually just unlocked some crazy new form of acting and in thirty years we'll all look back and think how foolish we were.

That's how good Nurse 3-D is: it makes me think Paz de la Huerta might be Advanced. And that's real.

"Top Gun has two reputations, one positive and one negative. Some regard it as a harmless—if guilty—pleasure, a cheesy artifact of 1980s blockbusterism. Others see it as ugly American propaganda, a militaristic exercise in rah-rah nationalism. How much pleasure you derive from it may depend on how much you enjoy Berlin’s “Take My Breath Away” (it’s pretty good). As for the propaganda charge, a close watch of the film reveals that the patriotism is underplayed and the notion of the lone American hero is actually undermined."

Full review here.