An Officer and a Gentleman

BUMP!

Does anyone know why this movie seems to have really been forgotten after it was once so “endlessly quoted” in the media and among film fans, had such a famous (possibly iconic?) ending scene, and was such a massive hit?

(I know it’s now an “older” film, but so many people still remember movies like “When Harry Met Sally” and “Sleepless In Seattle” and film critics still mention them...)

It was a very good “Mid-budget” studio film made for adults—the kind of movies studios simply refuse to make anymore.

Now it is only: comic book/superhero/Marvel movies, Disney remakes, remakes of almost every (even only semi) popular film released before 1999, and the purely Oscar bait “prestige” films (which also now *must* include a socially conscious /relevant “social justice”, preachy, or sanctimonious “message” being the center of the storyline for it to have any chance at all of being considered for a possible Best Picture win.

And it doesn’t matter to me if it’s a “good issue” that I actually *really*, really agree with (which is generally the case), it is the lecturing and sanctimonious tone/attitude these films take on , and how the films act like they’re doing a huge service to the audience by “educating”/preaching to them (the little guy) about *this* “important issue” or that one, that is a *huge* turn off; it’s like a stern school lecture *disguised* as “entertainment”—which it isn’t even that.

Another thing is that all those same few allegedly “quality” Oscar bait films are now all only being released *right* at the end of the year.....

There are no more decent (well made—with talented casts and expert crews and craftsman) “mid-budget” studio movies with real stories and characters as the main focus of the project being created anymore by studios and aimed specifically at the adult movie going audience—which is a shame.

It’s like Hollywood lost its mind over the past 15 (to 20?) years and willfully forgot for some reason that they once made genuinely good films with real stories and characters, good direction and acting, and *no* robots or CGI needed in them—CGI now being used in almost every movie released these days in order to distract the audience from, or to cover up how awful the movies themselves are—which is the only thing CGI can actually kind of “help” with at all...

It’s sad and I think it (the obliteration of the mid-budget studio film in favor of 24/7 superhero and CGI fest movies) has been steadily helping to destroy the U.S. film industry and its reputation, with films like “Terms of Endearment”, “Fatal Attraction”, “Urban Cowboy”, “Working Girl”, and “Ordinary People” (among many others)—all traditional mid-budget studio movies Hollywood once made with some regularity, now being examples of bygone era in Hollywood: examples of reliably solid films that audiences enjoyed, all made in a sector of the film industry that has now all but disappeared...

“An Officer and a Gentleman” would *never* be made today (and, yes, *I know* that it’s not a “masterpiece”—but it *was* entertaining, well acted, well directed, and had some great lines in the script; audiences also loved it too...).

That is more than I can say for most new films these days—and I don’t see any sign that that will be changing anytime soon.

It’s also not a superhero/comic book movie adaptation or a remake or a franchise, so the screenplay for “Am Officer and a Gentleman” would have been rejected on sight.....

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