6. Top Gun: Death of Goose
Anthony Edwards, or Goose to you and me, is a remarkable actor.
Why? Well, Anthony has probably made more men cry than all the tear gas ever used on all the world’s football hooligans. That is a serious amount of tears, especially if you include the tournaments Russia and England have qualified for.
You see, Maverick, Ice Man, even Wolf Man, were what every guy would like to be, but Goose was who we really knew we were: responsible, good natured (if not a bit dim), and never able to grow a proper moustache.
That he ended up smashing his brains against a plane glass window instead of winning Top Gun only made him remind us more of our real place in the universe.
I think his passing really hit home for those reasons and quite possibly because, with the greatest respect, Maverick was an asshole who did nothing but make Goose’s short life a misery. If he was not dragging him from one office roasting to the next and forcing him to play fall guy to his pathetic attempts to seduce Kelly McGillis, Maverick simply ran off when he thought Goose might be MVP during a game of volleyball.
Overall, it was no surprise that Goose was left considering long distance haulage as an alternative career to hanging around his misfit of a pilot.
But, loyal as a spaniel, Goose hung in there and died for his trouble. Much to the distress of Meg Ryan, the audience and long distance haulage firms across America.
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12 Comments
Apparently men didn’t do a whole lot of crying at movies prior to the year 2000 AD.
Someone never heard of metrosexuality.
Nothing surprising about Boromir’s death. I’d put that alongside the obvious ones like The Green Mile or Brian’s Song. You’d have to be made of stone not to be moved by the ending of Fellowship.
Saving private Ryan should have made the list for how sad the film got in the last 20 minutes
The Grey should be up here. Never went into that movie expecting to have an emotional reaction but by the end (which is incredible) I had tears not only in my eyes but also on my cheeks. Very surprised by it.
I would add the end of Warrior. Brilliant scene from Joel Edgerton and Tom Hardy. Definitely brought me to tears the first time I saw it
was expecting the ending of Shawshank to feature here. gets me every time.
Armageddon, as butch and manly as the film is, the Ben Affleck and Bruce Willis scene gets me every time. (I’m a manly manly man).
How about Click. Wouldnt expect it but its actually very sad towards the end.
I would add “Cinema Paradiso”. The scene of the theater going down is one o the saddest ever, in what is, for me, the best film ever. It represents the end of the childhood, fun, love and friendship moments in the life of Toto. All the scenes listed here got me at some point, but that is the only one which actually made me cry (some tears, just a little …)
I disagree with X-Men, not at all emotional in my opinion. But then again I’m a cold robot machine who understands the emotions behind crying but never actual cries. The closest I’ve probably come myself is Philadelphia, the scene where Tom Hanks is translating the opera to Denzel Washington is one of the most emotional scenes I have ever seen.
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