8 Inherently Annoying Movies That Everyone You Know Seems To Love

3. Top Gun

People often talk about Top Gun like it's a great movie, but unlike with a lot of the movies featured on this list, they do it with a sense of knowing irony that they won't admit to. Like, "Top Gun is awesome! How can you not love Top Gun?" But as those words leave their lips, there's a momentary acknowledgement in their eyes that suggests they don't really believe what they're saying - like they know that Top Gun isn't that far away from Cocktail. "True" fans of Top Gun probably saw it when they were in their formative years, and even now they still turn to one another and say things like, "Hey, Maverick" and "I feel the need... the need for speed" without even cracking so much as a smile. Top Gun is a dumb movie. Dumb plot, dumb script, dumb characters. If it were released now, the masses would laugh themselves silly with regards to everything that it stands for, but for some reason it has cemented itself as an '80s classic - despite the fact that it's about a group of smug a*sholes whose only purpose in life seems to get naked with one another. Why is this so popular? Maybe it's because it plays into a sense of male camaraderie in a way that other movies just have not. It's hard to deny that, looking over Top Gun now, it's insanely dated and super cheesy - and not in the same way as something like Labyrinth, which is still a great movie, but in the same way as something like... oh, Patrick Swayze's Roadhouse.