Good luck.’” From personal experience, I can say that is a truth that extends to no matter when you first saw it.īut it wasn’t just the volleyball scene. “If you were a certain kind of teenage boy in 1986, the beach volleyball scene in Top Gun spoke directly to you,” he went on. As one of my favorite writers, Dave Holmes, recently wrote in Esquire, “The Top Gun volleyball scene isn’t homoerotic. To some, it’s aged into a pop-culture joke.
It is of glistening biceps being flexed during a game of shirtless beach volleyball. I speak confidently on behalf of a sizable segment of the population when I say that, when one thinks of the 1986 film Top Gun, the first thing that comes to mind is not a person in a fighter jet.
