797: Iceman Was Right

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Tv & Film, Arts, Leisure

4.7 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Kilmas comes but once a year! This year we’re climbing into the cockpit and revisiting 1986’s “Top Gun,” starring some airplanes, Val Kilmer, and Tom Cruise. It’s a very subtle movie. Were Tony’s parents right in protecting his young mind from it? And most importantly, why do we remember Val Kilmer’s character being the villain when he’s actually the conscience of the entire film?...

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 797, December 2025.
0:10.0	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:12.1	It is the most wonderful time of the year.
0:13.7	It is Kilmiss, our special season, where we honor the great actor, Val Kilmer, and very special Kilmiss this year because
0:24.0	since our last Kilmiss, we lost Val Kilmer.
0:28.0	And we're going to honor his memory.
0:30.1	As we do, we honored his presence.
0:32.2	And now we honor his memory by watching a movie he was in.
0:35.8	In this case, I have wanted to talk about this movie
0:37.8	for several years,
0:38.8	and every time I brought it up,
0:39.9	people are like,
0:40.3	yeah, how about this other Bell Kilmer movie?
0:42.0	And this year I was like,
0:42.7	this is the movie we are doing.
0:44.3	I have seen this movie so many times on VHS,
0:47.8	on a standard deaf TV.
0:50.0	It is 1986's Top Gun,
0:59.4	a movie in which an elite fighter pilot teaches an important lesson
1:02.5	to a cocky fighter pilot
1:04.6	who's a little mixed up.
1:06.9	The elite fighter pilot, of course,
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