An Officer and a Gentleman ( (DVD))

A classic of semi modern day and a great love story.

O.K. I realize I'm one of the FEW (no disrespect!) that thought this movie was a soggy sack of state fair cheese curds! I've seen (almost) every movie Richard Geer and Debra Winger ever made and this (to me) stinks like royal blue--cheese.It isn't Geer,Winger,Lou Gosset Jr. or the supporting cast, it's the story and the script. You don't have to be a supernatural sleuth to figure this out-from the first scene you got 'it'--along with every predictable 'salty tough',more sap than a syrup truck 'scene' the actors 'telegraph'. Its better than a game of childhood 'phone tag' --listen for a couple minutes and you'll (I'll) figure out the next....oh......HOUR! Minus the paper cups,string and a whole lot of mumbling......The women in this movie are hyperactive (if you know what I mean;) twits and the men are lonesome enough to cavort with them..and cavort and cavort. Not one woman around town who isn't 'pension obsessed?' YOURS---not hers---and most of them want to wear the dress whites too! I disliked (almost) everyone in this dopey movie and mistakenly HOPED Lou Jr.would throw em' all in a pit with a rope ladder and a jug of stale water. Years ago I watched this movie with the only women who would KNOW-who MIGHT make me feel less like a 'traitor'--traitor to a hit movie I was SUPPOSED to weep with!!! I watched An Officer and a Gentleman with 4 Air Force pilots wives--I was the only 'civilian' in the house. (We lived in a subdivision that was located very close to a large Air Force base back then) Instead of weepy sniffles I heard giggles.In the end ---the factory 'rescue', the upchuck inducing theme song--the most outspoken of the pilot's wives said--laughing--"Heck! If Bob* would have run through Shakey's (a defunct chain of pizza parlors) he'd have found me in a clown costume looking like a Ringling Brothers reject! If he carried me past 40 pitchers of beer and a drunken birthday party it would have been the END of his career!!" BEST LINE (to me!) that summarizes this dare I say'CAPTAIN OBVIOUS' movie! Thanks and I apologize..