This. Movie.
It’s been months and I can’t stop thinking about it. I can’t stop thinking about the hot fighter pilots but mostly I can’t stop thinking about the relationship between rooster and Mav, which was the driving force for basically the whole movie. It’s so obvious how much Mav loves Bradley. And especially in the scene where they’re in the air in the F-14 deciding what to do once they see the enemy planes.
Rooster: “You’d go after them if I wasn’t here.”
Mav, in a soft voice, terrified to lose someone else he loves, “But you are here.”
I swear the way Mav says that—how his voice gets all vulnerable and soft and shit—killed me. That’s the voice of a dad who is doing his best to protect his child. That’s the voice of a pilot terrified to lose anyone else close to him. Mav is so protective of Bradley and it shows in that scene. Because Bradley is right if he weren’t in the backseat Mav would have already engaged those enemy fighters. But he hesitates. Because it’s not just his life on the line.
And then he precedes to do some of the pilot shit.
The way I still cry when I watch this movie is probably unhealthy. But that’s not gonna stop me from running to target the day the dvd comes out (:
