There’s a quip by the beloved humourist Dan Nilsen, who compared satire to pornography by evoking Supreme Justice Potter Stewart, who himself famously said (of the latter): “I know it when I see it” – and in the centuries that we’ve been analysing the subject, there are few descriptions more appropriate when it comes to…
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Top Gun (1986)
When it comes to films that are ordained as classics of cinema, you get two general groups – there are those that earn their reputation (either exceeding expectations or simply meeting them), and then there are the ones that are unfortunately overpraised to the point where eventually watching them is disappointing to say the least….
