I’ve been watching all of these old episodes and I love/prefer the original intros with the montage of the ticket counter and the concession stand or the one where they sneak up to the balcony. It really reminds me of my love for the theater, not just film.
i use to love "Night Shift" i wont say its a great film or anything and i havent seen it in 30 something years but i use to watch it all the time on cable. i also always think its sort of funny how many films Shelley Long played a crush girl in back before she was uptight snooty Diane on Cheers. yeah prostitution is not the best thing to center a comedy around, but the nest year it worked out really well for "Risky Business" which i know is not exactly a comedy and a few years after that did really well for "Pretty Women". NO Roger, no not the dog of the week. not "Enter The Ninja". us kids of the time LOVED that film.
I felt it was worth seeing once; though not as good as _Bachelor Party._ I still think of the line from the latter, "Hi, come on in! Drugs to the right; hookers to the left" when I see couples split up to use respective restrooms on opposite sides of the room.
. I couldn't agree more !! Really strange how these guys could choose to come down on some fun, admittedly lightweight movies like this, but every once in a while they would then decide that they LOVED some other equally lightweight movies.......for instance, Home Alone 3, which Roger Ebert actually gave a thumbs up to, saying it was the BEST of ALL Home Alone movies (and if you've actually seen this one, you know just how ridiculous this is!), and Gene Siskel giving Starship Troopers a thumbs up (not a favorite of mine, but I know it does have its fans) !! LOVED these two guys, but sometimes they just BLEW IT !! .
Had Ron Howard been an established director at the time, I imagine they would have loved "Night Shift". They probably just figured "Richie Cunningham" was directing his first major film and cast his friend, The Fonz.
While I liked An Officer and a Gentleman very much I truly disliked Louis Gossett, Jr.'s performance - one of the worst Oscar winners ever. Blech! But Gere and Winger are wonderful.
They gave away the key line of the movie. "I got nowhere else to go!" Funny that the guys all thought the ending was cornball, but all the women (including the extras) loved it that he showed up at her work in his dress uniform and carried her out.
An Officer And A Gentlemen is a movie as dated as something from the 1940s, despite the profanity and sexual explicitness. Reagan era pro-military propaganda at its most shameless.
Yes, it's an old fashioned melodrama and pro-military but so what? The film is well done and special because Gere doesn't just get the girl, he becomes a better person.
