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Last night for our Catch Up Movie Night, Kristin and I rented Top Gun. Again, it’s probably been at least ten years since I had seen it and I feel like I actually understood more of what was going on. Like what actually happened to Maverick’s dad, and why seeing a MiG was such a big deal. A lot of that slipped passed me when I was a kid.

We didn’t fast forward the volleyball scene, so Kristin may have stumbled a little, but spent most of the scene making fun of the fact that the song in the background was called “Playing With The Boys”. Another thing that went unnoticed when I saw this as a kid.

Has anyone ever noticed how many times throughout the movie, the song “Take My Breath Away” starts? It must have been six or seven times. And while we are talking about soundtracks so much, (or maybe just I am talking about soundtracks so much) how come movies that are coming out now don’t have that anthem song that causes you to instantly think about that movie. In my opinion, that’s what made these movies so memorable. You can be sitting in some Chinese food place and hear a certain song, and your brain automatically goes to The Breakfast Club, or Goonies.

Which happens to be our next Catch Up Movie Night choice. Goonies. Who’s ready?