Re: Naval movies that deserve remakes: on cable this week


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Ray O'Hara wrote:
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Matt Wiser wrote:


Run Silent, Run Deep, Turner Classic Movies, Saturday January 13, 2pm
EST
Sink the Bismarck!, American Movie Classics, Tuesday January 9, 12 pm
EST
Top Gun (?), Family, Sunday January 7, 330 pm EST
Wake Island, Turner Classic Movies, Thursday January 11, 4:30 am EST


top gun is ighly over-rated.

That's why it got the question mark

Almost painful, sort of like a hangnail, but it's difficult to disagree with
NOCAPS ray here. "Top Gun" was either a really bad movie or made by folks
with their tongues dug well into their cheeks.

On the other hand, set at the wrong location, an imaginary West Coast NAVCAD
school, and moved ahead in time to 198 or so, "Officer and a Gentleman"
actually (with exception of Delbert Dunker), approaches matching some of the
feeling and attitudes of NAVOCS, NPT in the 60s. Those of us who recall
dabbling in the Duck Pond of the "Fall River Industrial Debutantes" will
have no trouble recognizing Deborah Winger's (and the other sprites therein)
role as muy autentico. After all, after a few weeks out there on that
frozen peninsula in Baffin Bay, even the smell of a woman was liable to set
me into hormonal frenzy, and the "babes" who hung out at the Moorings, the
bar at the Viking and some of the other local hangouts were veritably
vulpine, perched on the wire, looking for a husband with a commission and a
prospective duty assignment far from Pawtucket, Fall River or New
Bedford....

TMO


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