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Time to watch some movies, yesterday. Seemed like a Top Gun day. As luck would have it, recommendations included "Top Gun" and several listings of it being free with a subscription. The cinematography is awesome and a good enough chick flick too. Noticed it was dated 1986. However, we went up the hill see it at Leighton Barracks in Wurzburg Germany in 84. Hmm . . . maybe it was being screened by military audiences before being released?
Dunno about the Top Gun sequel. I looked at a trailer a number of months ago it didn't seem interesting. I suppose close to two generations after the first Top Gun it is a good enough stand alone film.
Had to watch one more after all that adrenalin and "happily ever after" ending. The Guardian (2006). It provides some good insight into the Coast Guard rescue swimmers lives. Like the Wikitree entry says: "it's certainly one of the finest Coast Guard pictures you're likely to see anytime soon." Loosely modeled on real events.
It did not seem to get a lot of interest that I recall. So I wanted to watch it again after seeing it many years ago because it is well worth watching. It is about the Aviation Survival Technician (AST) program of the Coast Guard and its training i.e. "rescue swimmers". Kevin Coster's does a good job in his role as the top rescue swimmer who, while recovering from an injury and devastating loss of his colleagues, is assigned to teach the AST rescue swimmers. It is a very sad story line. The rescue swimmers repeatedly do what few would or could.
The cinematography certainly did a good job of looking like the Bering Strait in bad weather.
"Some of the scenes that were supposed to be filmed in Kodiak, Alaska were actually filmed at CG Air Station Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Sixty thousand pounds of ice were needed on the set. The training pool used in the movie was LSU–Shreveport's natatorium. The wave scenes were filmed at Louisiana Wave Studio, Metropolitan Ave, Lynbrook, Shreveport."
Dunno about the Top Gun sequel. I looked at a trailer a number of months ago it didn't seem interesting. I suppose close to two generations after the first Top Gun it is a good enough stand alone film.
Had to watch one more after all that adrenalin and "happily ever after" ending. The Guardian (2006). It provides some good insight into the Coast Guard rescue swimmers lives. Like the Wikitree entry says: "it's certainly one of the finest Coast Guard pictures you're likely to see anytime soon." Loosely modeled on real events.
It did not seem to get a lot of interest that I recall. So I wanted to watch it again after seeing it many years ago because it is well worth watching. It is about the Aviation Survival Technician (AST) program of the Coast Guard and its training i.e. "rescue swimmers". Kevin Coster's does a good job in his role as the top rescue swimmer who, while recovering from an injury and devastating loss of his colleagues, is assigned to teach the AST rescue swimmers. It is a very sad story line. The rescue swimmers repeatedly do what few would or could.
The cinematography certainly did a good job of looking like the Bering Strait in bad weather.
"Some of the scenes that were supposed to be filmed in Kodiak, Alaska were actually filmed at CG Air Station Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Sixty thousand pounds of ice were needed on the set. The training pool used in the movie was LSU–Shreveport's natatorium. The wave scenes were filmed at Louisiana Wave Studio, Metropolitan Ave, Lynbrook, Shreveport."
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