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frustratedpilotFunny thing was I hadn't seen that particular video for that song before. The only one I ever saw was the tie-in to the movie Iron Eagle, and that was the version I thought I had posted. If I find the other one, I may post it anyway. They were kind of clever about using the song in the actual movie.
Background: When word got out in Hollywood that Top Gun was in the works, the Israeli producers Golan & Globus got Iron Eagle together as a relative quickie...and it beat Top Gun to theaters by a few months! I guess I like them both the same. They both have neat soundtracks. They both have cheesy special effects. I give Top Gun the edge on casting because Lou Gossett jr. pretty much carries Iron Eagle himself, in a role that is basically an off-shoot of his Officer And A Gentleman hard-ass authority figure/mentor character.
So in Iron Eagle, the central character is Doug (played by Jason Gedrick), the son of an Air Force fighter pilot and a budding pilot in his own right. When his father is lost on a reconnaissance mission to an Arab nation (Iraq? Libya? You're left guessing...) Doug attempts to get escape from his moods by using the base's F-16 flight simulator, which has been loaded with an air-to-air combat program. (And Doug is using his pocket cassette deck to play his Queen tape.) Only Doug is stealing time from Chappie (Lou Gossett jr.) who is rather ticked off about the idea. Instead of getting mad, Chappie gets even by taking over the control booth and throwing enough digital MiGs at Doug's virtual Fighting Falcon to take him apart. When the song gets to Freddie Mercury's "fried chicken" punchline, Doug's down in cybernetic flames and is about to get a talking-to by Chappie.
Iron Eagle, the first one, was a satisfactory fusion of a standard rock-n-roll teenager movie (of which there was no lack in the Eighties) and combat action movie. The first sequel is a test case on everything you should NOT do in sequels, even though the action scenes ALMOST redeem it. Aces: Iron Eagle III is a FARCE. I haven't seen Iron Eagle IV, but I'm surprised it got made and released at all.
FP (who thinks it's about time the F-22 got its own movie, as opposed to being an object for Marvel superheroes to latch onto in flight)
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Background: When word got out in Hollywood that Top Gun was in the works, the Israeli producers Golan & Globus got Iron Eagle together as a relative quickie...and it beat Top Gun to theaters by a few months! I guess I like them both the same. They both have neat soundtracks. They both have cheesy special effects. I give Top Gun the edge on casting because Lou Gossett jr. pretty much carries Iron Eagle himself, in a role that is basically an off-shoot of his Officer And A Gentleman hard-ass authority figure/mentor character.
So in Iron Eagle, the central character is Doug (played by Jason Gedrick), the son of an Air Force fighter pilot and a budding pilot in his own right. When his father is lost on a reconnaissance mission to an Arab nation (Iraq? Libya? You're left guessing...) Doug attempts to get escape from his moods by using the base's F-16 flight simulator, which has been loaded with an air-to-air combat program. (And Doug is using his pocket cassette deck to play his Queen tape.) Only Doug is stealing time from Chappie (Lou Gossett jr.) who is rather ticked off about the idea. Instead of getting mad, Chappie gets even by taking over the control booth and throwing enough digital MiGs at Doug's virtual Fighting Falcon to take him apart. When the song gets to Freddie Mercury's "fried chicken" punchline, Doug's down in cybernetic flames and is about to get a talking-to by Chappie.
Iron Eagle, the first one, was a satisfactory fusion of a standard rock-n-roll teenager movie (of which there was no lack in the Eighties) and combat action movie. The first sequel is a test case on everything you should NOT do in sequels, even though the action scenes ALMOST redeem it. Aces: Iron Eagle III is a FARCE. I haven't seen Iron Eagle IV, but I'm surprised it got made and released at all.
FP (who thinks it's about time the F-22 got its own movie, as opposed to being an object for Marvel superheroes to latch onto in flight)
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