WHAT??? you kidding me? wow, lol. I can't believe you never saw the first one. It was a classic 80's movie. Yeah it had some relationship bits in it but no more than any other movie. It had tons of awesome fighter jet footage and some of the best tag lines of any 80's flick. I'm gonna say if you watch the original now you will for sure like it, but you missed out by not seeing it in the 80's when you would have been the perfect age to be blown away by it.
It was a great movie for the time and would still hold up even today. I loved it.