China Uncensored: China’s Weird Fascination With Top Gun

Apparently, someone in the Chinese government really, really likes Top Gun, so much so, that they made their own version of it: Sky Fighters. It’s got all your favorite moments from Top Gun (except for the volleyball scene) just done extremely poorly with badly CGI-ed jet fighters. And instead of Tom Cruise’s ‘ rebel hero Maverick, you get a by the books authority figure that’s a pretty good poster child for the Chinese Communist Party. Welcome to the Danger Zone.