Rev up your engines and watch this supercut of X-wing pilots riding into the “Danger Zone”
The Star Wars compilation shows the series' pilots heading into battle to the Top Gun theme
Film Features Danger Zone
Somehow, despite Top Gun and Star Wars having both existed since the former’s 1986 release, it took until 2020 for the internet to realize how perfectly the two go together. Though we’d have been content just to hear a bunch of assholish Maverick dialogue edited over Han Solo smirking for a couple of minutes or some important character building scenes mixed up to include Luke in the bacta tank, YouTuber Jackson McKay found an even better crossover in a supercut of X-wing pilots flying around to the rousing sounds of Kenny Loggins’ “Danger Zone.”
The video, which was made last year and has resurfaced thanks to a Digg post, understands that there’s no better way to capture the mortal thrills of space combat than hearing a man reach deep into his soul to sing death-erotica about “metal under tension” and “shoving into overdrive.”
McKay uses footage from Rogue One and the rest of the non-prequel (non-Solo) Star Wars movies to show the Rebel Alliance scrambling into their X-wings, flying perilous missions, and dogfighting enemy forces in showers of space lasers. (Sadly, none of them take a Polaroid while doing cool tricks in front of the Death Star.) The combination of music and film is so powerful that somewhere John Williams, sensing a disturbance, trembles in fear for the legacy of his original score.
How it’s taken until now for this video to exist is anyone’s guess. We’ve had Star Wars mashed up with Arrested Development, Back To The Future, Mario Kart, and a seemingly endless list of other songs. That we had to wait nearly 35 years for Kenny Loggins to enter the galaxy far, far away is unfathomable.
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I’ve been a regular poster here for almost 5 (!) years. And all of a sudden I’ve been demoted back to the grays. Can someone please have mercy on me and restore to my former glory?
I don’t know why but I always associate the name Kenny Loggins with breakfast sausages.
Loggins’ Links?
Poor guy will have to remake the whole video when Patty Jenkins’ film comes out.Anyway I always associate this song with Archer now.
Can we get Wedge & The Rogues to sing “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling”?
It just feels like a bunch of Star Wars clips with “Danger Zone” playing underneath it, which I know is what it is. But it just feels random and not really cohesive. I love both but both together? Not for me.
Yeah, I wish they had done more to mimic the actual original Top Gun-Danger Zone video. Give me some shots of Luke riding a speeder bike and whatever the Star Wars version of beach volleyball is.
Carrie Fisher in a bikini strangling Jabba the Hutt.Now all we need is Tom Cruise lecturing us on The Force.
“I feel the need…the need for Theed!”
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Udvar-Azy Annex has an X-Wing undergoing restoration and will be displayed at some point.https://airandspace.si.edu/newsroom/press-releases/national-air-and-space-museum-welcomes-star-wars-x-wing-starfighter
I love Star Wars but I’m not sure it’s the best long-term idea to exhibit fictional props in a museum ostensibly dedicated to real historical achievements in flight.
They have had an Enterprise model on display for as long as I can remember, since I was a teenager in the ‘80’s I think. It was down for a while but put back on display.https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/enterprise-studio-model-back-display
Yep, it’s the original Enterprise studio model from TOS.
Well, we know that there were never X-Wings because Star Wars is completely in the distant past. It’ll be another 240 years or so until we can prove the Enterprise to be fictional.
Looks like the Rise of Skywalker X-Wing. Might as well throw it in the trash.
It really should be Luke’s.
It’s two things
There’s literally no way no one has ever done this before. What an unbelievably unimaginative idea. Who cares?
This just makes me miss AV Undercover even more, and wish those videos were still somewhere on the damn site. Does anyone else remember Calexico’s amazing “Danger Zone” cover?