I think all those movies you mentioned have cogent stories, but they're just unimaginative, including Top Gun. Not to say they're boring, just nothing new. Top Gun was bolstered by the awesome jet fighter action and star power, and that it was released in 1986, when Reagan was president, right after the Challenger and Chernobyl disasters, and when the Soviet Communist party was still going strong....and people needed something to get them pumped up.
This movie looks like it will have the exact same elements as the original, but the timing is different.