All that aside, it's a shame to see him go. Whether you admit it or not, Top Gun did inspire a lot of people to join Naval Aviation or at least got them interested. In all its campiness and lack of realism, it's still an entertaining movie to watch and has an endless amount of one liners. Still today when I tell people I'm a Navy pilot, their first instinct is to say Top Gun (yes, being a P-3 pilot is exactly like Top Gun). Not only that, he made my favorite movie ever, one Days of Thunder. RIP Mr. Scott.