FFA Movie Poll - 1982 Countdown Monday! (1 Viewer)

[KarmaPolice]

#26  84pts

4/1

I want my opera house! I want the opera house! This church remains closed until this town has its opera house.

I know I am in the minority when I say this but...

Fitzcarraldo is very over rated. I have enjoyed many movies that people have thought were very tedious to watch. Some of them are 2001, Stranger than Paradise, Down by Law, and Night on Earth. I know I will sound very ignorant to people when I say this, but I will say it as bluntly as I can. Fitzcarraldo was excruciatingly boring. From start to finish.

FITZCARRALDO

 

[KarmaPolice]

#25    87pts

8/1

On the other side of the screen, it all looks so easy.

One-dimensional storytelling in 3D!

Tron reminds me of another one-word titled film that relied on special effects to bring in money: Them! from 1954. Neither film's effects hold up over the years. That is where the comparison fades since Them!, bizarrely, is the only one of the two with a slight focus on dialogue and plot. Tron lacks all the vital elements for a good film and instead hurls us into a nonsensical world of pastel colors and cheesy effects. Dialogue and plot may not exist within the mind of a super-intelligent computer, but any somewhat-intelligent human should be wondering where they are. With shots and ideas stolen directly from Star Wars, something must have gone wrong at a fundamental level to make Tron look like Star Wars's ugly cousin.

TRON

 

[TripItUp]

Tron was terrible....and I’m a sci-fi honk.

 

[KarmaPolice]

#24   89pts

8/1

You Americans, you always assume you must do something before you can be arrested.

The Good and The Bad . . . .

I didn't like the movie. It could only reach three types of people. (1) Those who never heard of a CIA-backed coup in Chile. (2) Those who know all about it and will applaud the condemnation of most of the American values on display. And (3) those who, like me, have a general understanding of what happened, who find the actions of the CIA despicable, and who resent being talked down to as if we were a gaggle of chimpanzees.

Really. Costa-Gavras is going to enlighten me about an American coup of a South American democracy for the advantage of American business interests? Hell, I owned a few shares of Anaconda Copper at the time, whose mines the constitutionally elected government of Chile had just nationalized -- and I wasn't particularly devastated by the loss of a few dollars in order to see democracy at work in one of the most civilized nations of the continent. The tragedy was seeing it turned into just another routine military dictatorship, making sure that pro-American business was carried on as usual.

What the director has done is produce a kind of training film for American jackasses. "See? This is how it really works." Jack Lemon is the proxy for the audience. He represents us. The perfervid but innocent kids that Charlie worked with were putting out a raggedy paper. Lemon is surprised to find that they were spending eighteen hours a day working on it. He thought they were sitting around smoking "pot" or lazing around on the beach, balling each other's girls. And the kids uncover dangerous information, like the US is sending a NAVAL ENGINEER to Bolivia, "a landlocked country." It's presented to us as shocking, but any of us can think of a dozen reasons why an engineer of any sort might be valuable in Bolivia or anyplace else. If Lemon represents us, the director (and writer) must believe our veins run with the blood of Neanderthals.

MISSING

 

[Ilov80s]

Tron was terrible....and I’m a sci-fi honk.

I remember seeing pictures of it in a book when I was a kid and I got really excited to rent it. I’m not even sure I finished watching it it was so bad. 

 

[KarmaPolice]

#23  94pts

7/1

We can no longer live as rats. We know too much.

An utter disappointment

The Secret of NIMH is usually praised as a classic, a masterpiece, and the best work of Don Bluth. I enjoy The Land Before Time, another movie by him, so naturally I had quite high expectations for this movie. However, it was a big disappointment.

Right from the beginning, the story has shown how silly it is. Somehow, the movie's heroine is willing to risk the safety of her three children, and waste a lot of time doing all kinds of dangerous errands just because 'the air is bad' for her fourth child. Why not just find a warm blanket, wrap him up and run? With all those people around, they could even carry his bed with him on it. That whole deal is clearly just a poor excuse to get the story going.

And then things got worse. Characters just keep appearing out of nowhere with dim intentions and unexplained relations. What is the relationship between the Great Owl and the rats? What is the rats' plan exactly? What does the villain really want? How does NIHM know about their hideout? And what's so special about NIHM if normal mice like Mrs Brisby can do what those rats and mice from NIHM do anyway? Questions after questions about the plot keep popping up but never get answered.

The animation, despite being quite good for its time, especially with the special effects, is still not really satisfying for me due to the simple and unimaginative backgrounds. And the sound editing is just terrible compared to Disney movies of the same period.

To sum up, this movie may be good for the 1980s thanks to having a more complex plot than most other animated movies at the time, but judging from today's point of view, it's a very flawed and forgettable product.

THE SECRET OF NIMH

 

[KarmaPolice]

#22  95pts

8/1

Don't think about the major issues. You do what you can about the misery in front of you. You add your light to the sum of all light.

Flawed, miscast, unconvincing

Writing a two star review for a film that has an IMDb rating of 7.1 must look like spite, but let me make my case. Firstly, the plot line is confusing, quickly ticking off events from the book, without the viewer getting to understand their full significance. So we do not get to understand Billy's love of the Sigourney Weaver character, his bitterness as someone who has not had love reciprocated and thus his spiral out of control. We do not really get to understand Mel Gibson's motivation as a journalist either, only his romance with Sigourney Weaver. So, we do not really understand why he deliberately loses the swimming race with the British military attaché - (this was done to befriend him and get more scoops). This messes with the dramatic impact, meaning that we not only do not get to know the characters, nor the complexity of the political backdrop of Indonesia under a dictatorship with communist revolutionaries and Muslim generals. My second problem is with the casting. Mel Gibson and Siguourney Weaver are the fabulous looking Hollywood stars brought into attract an audience, but Gibson is wooden and wholly unbelievable as a foreign journalist. He overuses a cigarette as a prop as if that is the main characteristic of a journalist. He only comes alive when offended and given a chance for violence, (which explains his future casting in Braveheart/Lethal Weapon). Weaver gives a reasonable English accent, but the role calls for someone with a cut glass voice to emphasise how foreign her posting in Jakarta is. Similarly Linda Hunt does well as Billy Kwan, but why bother? With a billion Chinese on this earth why opt for a white female to play a male half-Chinese man?

THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY 

 

[KarmaPolice]

#21   103pts

13/-

Now get out of my way, Henry, or I swear to God you'll be wearing your balls for earrings!

Eh and Blah

Famous horror writer Stephen King and legendary' zombie director George Romero team up to bring us a series of film shorts in a single package entitled CreepShow. As a fan of Stephen King, I have to say, he's written much better material than what's presented here. The scripts may have worked had the film possessed an audio/visual style that made up for it. Romero, highly acclaimed but ultimately a style-less director with a few sporadic moments of glory in his films, puts the nail into the coffin with his usual display of mediocrity. And this time around, it has no saving points his Dead films have. The end result is very disappointing. An `eh' script with `bleh' direction. Is there comedy and over the top elements? Of course, but nothing works. Many parts are supposed to be humorous but aren't, segments that aren't supposed to be humorous are . . . overall, it's just a mess. The music has nice touches here and there, but beyond that I can't recommend renting either CreepShow or its sequel. A distinct step down from Tales from the Crypt . . . and that's saying something.

CREEPSHOW

 

[KarmaPolice]

Hopefully the bad reviews keep pace as we go on.  There are a lot less reviews for some of these movies than for the ones in the 90s.  Some of those had 3000+ reviews, and a few of these first ones had less than 100, and most of the bad reviews are book and comic nerds complaining about the missteps in the adaptation.  

 

[Yankee23Fan]

Ok so far....

 

[KarmaPolice]

#20   122pts

10/-

If ya don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding! How can ya have any pudding if ya don't eat ya meat?

Self indulgent nonsense

As big a misfire as The Who's Tommy film, The Wall is a 90 minute rock video masquerading as profound art. Perfectly reflecting the orphic personality of Floyd's Roger Waters, we are supposed to feel dreadfully sorry for the terrible burden cast upon rock star Pink, played in heated overdrive by Bob Geldof, another guy with an inflated head. There's tons of overbaked symbolism throughout the film: ooo, schoolchildren going into a meatgrinder! rock concerts as Nazi rallies! How DID they come up with this clever stuff? Even Gerald Scarfe's animated sequences are a disaster.

PINK FLOYD:  THE WALL

 

[otb_lifer]

Geldof's Pink was a pretty badass look

 

[KarmaPolice]

#19  130pts

9/1

We all know most marriages depend on a firm grasp of football trivia.

Hurtful and vile

Look, I'm a guy. I like guy #####. I actually happen to like guys more than just hanging out with them, but beyond liking having sex with guys, I'm pretty much a guy's guy. This movie made me HATE guys. Hate men. Hate every simpering, punchable character who was male. From someone who likes guys (both sexually and platonically), and for a movie full of (at the time) very cute, talented male actors, this movie worked very hard to make me LOATHE each and every one of them. Moreover, I really liked the females. I sympathized with them. From Steve Guttenberg's mother who didn't want to make her piece of ##### son a sandwich, to Ellen Barkin, who was stuck with an idiot as*hole who didn't want her touching his records and actually conned his good friend to fake seduce his own wife (WTF?), to the girl that Guttenberg finally married (and why the F**K any girl would marry a bag of ##### that makes her pass an inane test about football is beyond me). This is incredible. Barry Levinson - who was shockingly (or maybe not so shockingly) nominated for an Oscar for this drivel - should be more than ashamed, he should be flogged publicly. All he managed to do was make me want to eviscerate and choke the life out of every male character in this movie. I'm serious. If the flick ended in a bloodbath with the women killing every man painfully, I would be cheering!

DINER

 

[KarmaPolice]

Ok, now that review was pretty funny.  

 

[Yankee23Fan]

#20   122pts

10/-

If ya don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding! How can ya have any pudding if ya don't eat ya meat?

Self indulgent nonsense

As big a misfire as The Who's Tommy film, The Wall is a 90 minute rock video masquerading as profound art. Perfectly reflecting the orphic personality of Floyd's Roger Waters, we are supposed to feel dreadfully sorry for the terrible burden cast upon rock star Pink, played in heated overdrive by Bob Geldof, another guy with an inflated head. There's tons of overbaked symbolism throughout the film: ooo, schoolchildren going into a meatgrinder! rock concerts as Nazi rallies! How DID they come up with this clever stuff? Even Gerald Scarfe's animated sequences are a disaster.

PINK FLOYD:  THE WALL

That review drips with such self loathing that the person who wrote it probably touches themselves furiously whenever Comfortably Numb comes on the radio.

Glad to see it get top 20 status.  Because it was awesome.

 

[Yankee23Fan]

#19  130pts

9/1

We all know most marriages depend on a firm grasp of football trivia.

Hurtful and vile

Look, I'm a guy. I like guy #####. I actually happen to like guys more than just hanging out with them, but beyond liking having sex with guys, I'm pretty much a guy's guy. This movie made me HATE guys. Hate men. Hate every simpering, punchable character who was male. From someone who likes guys (both sexually and platonically), and for a movie full of (at the time) very cute, talented male actors, this movie worked very hard to make me LOATHE each and every one of them. Moreover, I really liked the females. I sympathized with them. From Steve Guttenberg's mother who didn't want to make her piece of ##### son a sandwich, to Ellen Barkin, who was stuck with an idiot as*hole who didn't want her touching his records and actually conned his good friend to fake seduce his own wife (WTF?), to the girl that Guttenberg finally married (and why the F**K any girl would marry a bag of ##### that makes her pass an inane test about football is beyond me). This is incredible. Barry Levinson - who was shockingly (or maybe not so shockingly) nominated for an Oscar for this drivel - should be more than ashamed, he should be flogged publicly. All he managed to do was make me want to eviscerate and choke the life out of every male character in this movie. I'm serious. If the flick ended in a bloodbath with the women killing every man painfully, I would be cheering!

DINER

This was just on this weekend.  My wife would agree with this synopsis.

 

[wikkidpissah]

when YoLD loses to Creepshow and you know Sophie will be bloodied by Mr T & a Thing that even fanboys didnt like when it came out, the list loses a lot of drama....

 

[KarmaPolice]

#18  142pts

10/-

He's plastered!

So are some of the finest erections in Europe.

I walked out of the theater

I realize that My Favorite Year is a popular movie, and for all of you who enjoyed, it... well, God bless you. I absolutely detested it. It suffered just one problem, but the problem is a pip: as far as I could see, there wasn't an original joke in the film.

I was finally propelled from my seat after Mark Linn-Baker (who reached the zenith of his acting career, I think, in Peter Pan ads) walked out of his room sans trousers (where do they come UP with great stuff like that? Sigh), returned a moment later and actually put his finger in the air (Eureka!) and said, "My pants!" I wanted to cry, it was so awful.

MY FAVORITE YEAR

 

[KarmaPolice]

This was just on this weekend.  My wife would agree with this synopsis.

This was a movie I watched for the first time for this countdown.  I don't think I would go as far as the review did, but I do agree with it's premise.    

 

[KarmaPolice]

when YoLD loses to Creepshow and you know Sophie will be bloodied by Mr T & a Thing that even fanboys didnt like when it came out, the list loses a lot of drama....

 

[wikkidpissah]

feel like a food critic @ Chuck E Cheese

 

[KarmaPolice]

#17  151pts

14/1

What is best in life?

To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

Did I see the Same Movie??

I read the previous comments on this movie, and I am quite shocked. Did I see the same movie as these other folks?

I found "Conan the Barbarian" to be painfully slow. Very little happens until the final twenty minutes, and by that point, I was fighting to keep my eyes open. I enjoy trashy, B-films more than the average film fan, so I was surprised at how much I disliked this turkey. The sequel is much sillier and over-the-top, and consequently, much more enjoyable.

I get the distinct impression that the filmmakers wanted to distance themselves from the oft-mocked "sword and sandal" flicks of earlier decades, so they tried to make this a "serious fantasy" film. I think they failed miserably. Way too much drama, way too much romance, and far too little violence.

CONAN THE BARBARIAN

 

[KarmaPolice]

feel like a food critic @ Chuck E Cheese

 

[KarmaPolice]

#16  162pts

18/-

What's our job? We like drive around and pickup stiffs, or what? Is that what we are supposed to do?

Trash From 'Opie's' Early Days

Here is another of Ron Howard's earlier movies that are on the irreverent side with typical twisted Hollywood values. For the millionth time, we also have the lovable, sentimental women playing hookers (give me a break!) who are helped out in a time of distress by another lovable goof-ball (Michael Keaton) who, of course, has no morals, either. That's why he's portrayed as someone to root for, as is our old pal "Fonzi" from "Happy Days." Yes, Henry Winkler is here playing another creep whom Howard makes look appealing even though he abandons his nice fiancé for a hooker (Shelly Long). Nowhere in all of this does it indicate Winkler or anyone else is doing the wrong thing.

There were some humorous moments in here, but not a third as many as the hype for this film would have you believe. Overall, just a worthless piece of trash.

NIGHT SHIFT

 

[Mr. Mojo]

when YoLD loses to Creepshow and you know Sophie will be bloodied by Mr T & a Thing that even fanboys didnt like when it came out, the list loses a lot of drama....

Gonad the Barbarian over Creepshow and YOLD - now that's a crime! 

 

[Yankee23Fan]

#18  142pts

10/-

He's plastered!

So are some of the finest erections in Europe.

MY FAVORITE YEAR

This movie was ****ing funny and anyone who thought otherwise has no soul.

 

[Yankee23Fan]

#17  151pts

14/1

CONAN THE BARBARIAN

Seriously?

(Although the quote you quoted is the best quote of the movie).  But still.  Seriously?

 

[El Floppo]

Seriously?

(Although the quote you quoted is the best quote of the movie).  But still.  Seriously?

Too high or low?

 

[Yankee23Fan]

#16  162pts

18/-

There were some humorous moments in here, but not a third as many as the hype for this film would have you believe. Overall, just a worthless piece of trash.

NIGHT SHIFT

Disagree and happy to see this movie get some love.

 

[On The Rocks]

Disagree and happy to see this movie get some love.

One of my favorite comedies from this era. 

 

[Yankee23Fan]

Too high or low?

High.  I mean, I like a good Arnie movie but this one wasn't even on my radar for this exercise.  Maybe I'm wrong.  

 

[El Floppo]

High.  I mean, I like a good Arnie movie but this one wasn't even on my radar for this exercise.  Maybe I'm wrong.  

I was a fan and collector of the comic, so I love this movie. But it's terrible. Terribly awesome.

 

[wikkidpissah]

High.  I mean, I like a good Arnie movie but this one wasn't even on my radar for this exercise.  Maybe I'm wrong.  

the only role to which he was actually suited, you mean?!

 

[KarmaPolice]

I think this list, even more than the last, does point to fact that we are rating movies on a fantasy football message board.  There is variety of opinions around here, but I am guessing the votes will come in more on the side of Fast and Furious and less on a serious drama.  

 

[Yankee23Fan]

the only role to which he was actually suited, you mean?!

I might have to think about it in some more detail, but I don't know if I would put Conan in the top 10 of my favorite Arnold movies. Maybe another pole.....

 

[Dr. Octopus]

when YoLD loses to Creepshow and you know Sophie will be bloodied by Mr T & a Thing that even fanboys didnt like when it came out, the list loses a lot of drama....

True Story: When I was a kid, I was at my dad's friends house with him to watch a Mike Tyson fight. Overheard a conversation between two men and one uttered, "The Princess Bride was a good movie.. I mean it was no Rocky III or anything but it was good". 

I always wondered how Rocky III became the standard for this guy to judge all movies against.

 

[KarmaPolice]

I might have to think about it in some more detail, but I don't know if I would put Conan in the top 10 of my favorite Arnold movies. Maybe another pole.....

Good God - there is a Twins sequel in the works?

I haven't seen Conan, but I love some Arnie flicks:  Terminators 1 and 2 (Ok, I kinda liked 3 as well), Predator, True Lies, Total Recall.   

 

[Brony]

One of my favorite comedies from this era. 

One of my favorite Kevin Costner movies. 

 

[Yankee23Fan]

Good God - there is a Twins sequel in the works?

I haven't seen Conan, but I love some Arnie flicks:  Terminators 1 and 2 (Ok, I kinda liked 3 as well), Predator, True Lies, Total Recall.   

Definitely those 5 - plus Commando which is the cheesiest cheese every cheesed on screen and is awesome in every second.

 

[shuke]

This was a movie I watched for the first time for this countdown.  I don't think I would go as far as the review did, but I do agree with it's premise.    

I don't think they were being portrayed as heros.  

 

[Hov34]

Some #### movies so far.  No offense.

 

[KarmaPolice]

I don't think they were being portrayed as heros.  

No they weren't.  I just didn't find any of them overly interesting, relatable, or funny either.  Like I said, I wouldn't go as far as the reviewer did, just that I agree that they were a bunch of dudes that I would hate spending much time with.  Heading into my list of movies I hadn't seen for '82, I assumed that Diner would have been ones of the new ones that I liked the most too. 

 

[KarmaPolice]

Definitely those 5 - plus Commando which is the cheesiest cheese every cheesed on screen and is awesome in every second.

That is how I would describe The Running Man. 

 

[KarmaPolice]

#15   163pts

12/-

Couldn't they have just found a Polish actress?

I'm baffled by the write-ups here. This is pure middle-brow soap opera, "quality" Hollywood at its dreariest. The writer-director and actors take themselves way too seriously, the three main characters and their interactions don't add up, and the ending comes out of nowhere. Holocaust-ploitation is too strong a word only because this is just too earnestly boring to tread those waters.

Streep? It's a stunt, not a performance. We watch her to see whether her accents slip up, not for any warmth or magnetism or emotional intensity, like the kind that presumably captivated the two men in Sophie's life, because it's not there. Maybe a Polish actress could have brought some quality of a life actually lived to the character.

Kline, who I've always found an overbearing presence, can't do much with a character whose antics probably made as little sense on the page as he does on the screen. "Tragically glamorous"? More like cornily theatrical. As for MacNichol, an actor of no magnetism whatsoever, someone forgot to tell him that even when you're playing a boring nebbish, you have to bring something to the character that'll make the audience want to watch him mope around for two hours. He doesn't.

The story is contrived, the various points of development - the revelations about Nathan from his brother, the denouement after Sophie leaves Stingo - feel like they exist only to move the plot along. Sophie's account of her tragedy in the camps feels like something trumped up to goose a wan story about a romantic threesome. Maybe this is Holocaust-ploitation after all.

SOPHIE'S CHOICE

 

[Yankee23Fan]

#15   163pts

12/-

Couldn't they have just found a Polish actress?

I'm baffled by the write-ups here. This is pure middle-brow soap opera, "quality" Hollywood at its dreariest. The writer-director and actors take themselves way too seriously, the three main characters and their interactions don't add up, and the ending comes out of nowhere. Holocaust-ploitation is too strong a word only because this is just too earnestly boring to tread those waters.

Streep? It's a stunt, not a performance. We watch her to see whether her accents slip up, not for any warmth or magnetism or emotional intensity, like the kind that presumably captivated the two men in Sophie's life, because it's not there. Maybe a Polish actress could have brought some quality of a life actually lived to the character.

Kline, who I've always found an overbearing presence, can't do much with a character whose antics probably made as little sense on the page as he does on the screen. "Tragically glamorous"? More like cornily theatrical. As for MacNichol, an actor of no magnetism whatsoever, someone forgot to tell him that even when you're playing a boring nebbish, you have to bring something to the character that'll make the audience want to watch him mope around for two hours. He doesn't.

The story is contrived, the various points of development - the revelations about Nathan from his brother, the denouement after Sophie leaves Stingo - feel like they exist only to move the plot along. Sophie's account of her tragedy in the camps feels like something trumped up to goose a wan story about a romantic threesome. Maybe this is Holocaust-ploitation after all.

SOPHIE'S CHOICE

Who the #### wrote that, Hitler?

 

[KarmaPolice]

#14  167

8/4

I'm gonna work 50 times harder, and I'm gonna be 50 times more famous than you.

Then you're gonna have idiots like you plaguing your life!

"Fans Suck." 

I rented this on the strength of the cast and all the 4 and 5 star reviews on this site. I tolerate schlocky film pretty well, but this movie was SO bad I found myself angry at the waste of time. It certainly makes me question the review system on Netflix. the best way I can describe the tone of the film is like this: imagine that a couple of Hollywood actors got together some time and exchanged stories about how terrible their lives were from constant fan problems. Well into their cups, they come up with a great idea! Let's make a movie about psycho fans! "King of Comedy" is relentless in its portrayal of Hollywood folk as honest, hardworking, and put-upon; every single non-Hollywood character is some kind of nut or grifter. And they play it straight: Jerry Lewis, for example, has NO comedic lines. His role is to offer sensible, straight-forward career advice to all the low-life fans who won't accept it. The plot is entirely predictable. There's a supposed "surprise ending" that you can see coming from a mile away (with disgust), and finally unfolds in fewer than 60 seconds of screen time. None of the characters is developed - they are all hollow stereotypes performing scripted roles without motivation. At one point an explanation for De Niro's character is tossed up: an abused childhood (along the lines of "Daddy didn't love me."). There's some kind of weird love interest with a female bartender that goes nowhere. Ugh - just writing this makes me feel like the movie is wasting even more of my time. If this is "one of Scorcese's best films", then Scorcese ain't the director people seem to think he is.

THE KING OF COMEDY

 

[KarmaPolice]

KoC was the movie that I hinted at as not getting a ton of votes, but they were all pretty high.  I think it would be in the top 5 if we did average points/vote since it's at 20+pts/vote that way.  

 

[Ilov80s]

#19  130pts

9/1

We all know most marriages depend on a firm grasp of football trivia.

Hurtful and vile

Look, I'm a guy. I like guy #####. I actually happen to like guys more than just hanging out with them, but beyond liking having sex with guys, I'm pretty much a guy's guy. This movie made me HATE guys. Hate men. Hate every simpering, punchable character who was male. From someone who likes guys (both sexually and platonically), and for a movie full of (at the time) very cute, talented male actors, this movie worked very hard to make me LOATHE each and every one of them. Moreover, I really liked the females. I sympathized with them. From Steve Guttenberg's mother who didn't want to make her piece of ##### son a sandwich, to Ellen Barkin, who was stuck with an idiot as*hole who didn't want her touching his records and actually conned his good friend to fake seduce his own wife (WTF?), to the girl that Guttenberg finally married (and why the F**K any girl would marry a bag of ##### that makes her pass an inane test about football is beyond me). This is incredible. Barry Levinson - who was shockingly (or maybe not so shockingly) nominated for an Oscar for this drivel - should be more than ashamed, he should be flogged publicly. All he managed to do was make me want to eviscerate and choke the life out of every male character in this movie. I'm serious. If the flick ended in a bloodbath with the women killing every man painfully, I would be cheering!

DINER

That's a very accurate review 

 

[KarmaPolice]

#13  179pts

15/-

You know something, you ain't nothing special. You got no manners, you treat woman like whores and if you ask me you got no chance of being no officer.

textbook Hollywood crowd-pleaser, circa 1982

One of the big hits of 1982 offers a perfect example of the artfully packaged hokum passing for entertainment in Hollywood at the time. The story supposedly relates the triumph and transfiguration of white trash Richard Gere into the naval aviator of the film's title, following his introduction to the usual hazards of cadet life: punishing training exercises, antagonistic drill sergeants, conniving debutantes, and so forth. Debra Winger is one of the latter, and the uncomplicated blue-collar appeal of her character helps to alleviate the often tortured exposition of the hero's rite of passage. The film's most obvious shortcoming is its unfocused script (which needs to develop a second, parallel love story to throw the first into relief), followed by Richard Gere's total inability to appear sensitive or insecure. The enormous success of the movie can be traced to the marketing skills of its producers, who wisely sold it as a slice of glossy, inspirational junk food. Enjoy it as such, but don't expect the memory to linger.

AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN

 

[TripItUp]

Ok so far....

Sans Tron.