Raging Justice wrote:People can be so strange. I've even seen people say it's an American propaganda piece to get people to enlist, and I'm thinking, "Dude. It's just a fun movie where you get to see jet fighters do cool stuff on a big screen"
This isn't far-fetched. For both the original movie and Maverick, the U.S. Navy (and maybe the Air Force) set up recruitment booths right outside the theaters during showings.
I mean, military recruitment was clearly not the films' only purpose, but they have also clearly been used as recruitment tools.