Confession time: I’ve never seen TOP GUN. At least, I’ve never sat and watched it start to finish. And unlike DIE HARD, which I’ve also never sat and watched start to finish, I’ve also never seen the entire movie just in different chunks or sequences at various times throughout my life. So, for the most part, I have just vague notions of what it’s all about.
Risky air force fighter plane training. Tom Cruise plays Tom Cruise, but in an air force fighter plane combat training program. Something like that. If the plot of HOT SHOTS! is close to what the plot of the movie it’s parodying, then I get it, because I saw HOT SHOTS!