The Rewatchables: ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ | Gere’s Best Film? | The Mismatch | The Ringer

34 thoughts on “The Rewatchables: ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ | Gere’s Best Film? | The Mismatch | The Ringer”

• There was scenes of Zach mayo’s dad (loggia) visits the camp but they were cut yess you’re right! Never saw three guys together get so excited over foursomes 😅

• Wish they hadn't cut the hilarious transition to Home Depot at the end of most rewatchable scene!

• Inside Moves is amazing

• Can I humbly suggest Marathon Man

• Speaking of Loggia, when will u do Scarface?? It’s on most people’s best 10 movies list of all times

• Louis Gossett followed this up with Jaws 3. Lol

• Richard Gere's best performance was in Internal Affairs, which is a film you guys really need to do.

• Denzel another military movie he is in is “Manchurian Candidate “ which you should cover also. But you won’t Since the whole world has been M K Ultra’d including you Simmons and crew. The secret society you are apart of won’t let you.

• 1:13:43 Wayne Jenkins Stamp

• CR is sounds like hs is on something again. Dude is so loud.

• How many times did CR just talk over Bill in this is episode. They were literally talking at the same time like 5 times. CR needs to dial it down a bit.

• The category for this one should be : Films I watched on HBO too many times in the 1980s because my mom had a thing for the leading man.

• 52:45 holy shit cr, i love that bill just tries to move straight past that

• Every time Chris does his annoying Wayne impression, I thank God for the mute button.

• Nice to see Lisa Blount getting a mention. Sadly she passed away in 2010. Absolutely iconic as the killer nurse in Dead & Buried.

• Private Benjamin: first half is great (for Goldie Hawn, Seems Like Old Times was also released in 1980 and is a better movie)
  Last of her good movies, Bill? You didn't like Overboard?

• 8:00 “This weird white guy race” Wypipo can’t even season their acting 😂😂😂

• Haha… see, now i have seen this movie several times —- and I never had the foursome take. I agree that I think each had a lady but separate chambers.

• To give credit where credit is due — even if you feel that Gossett's part is the easiest in the film, it could have very easily been over-the-top and terrible in the wrong hands. he was very good and deserved his oscar. (typed this response before I heard Bill say it)

• you know Bill wanted to do this movie for Lisa Eilbacher

• Very good movie.

• I'll recommend it again: Barry Lyndon. Unpopular movie from the greatest director ever.

• 52 Pick-up!

• Harold Sylvester- what about 44 episodes of Married with Children as Griff?

• great episode

• "MICHAEL CUTLER IS MY BOY!!!"

• You go Paula!!

• The benefits of landing an officer in the services absolutely incentivise many to orient their social outings to that end. People maneuver to do as much all the time. The benefits are huge. It's not exactly romantic, it's calculative, it's a preference, it's legal, it's permissible (if a bit gauche), it is a thing; whatever.

  Landing a guy like Mayo's dad would have been an absolute domestic nightmare, but Mayo himself would have offered potential because he had grit, determination and an aspiration to get out of the sleazy cave of personality and behavior he had been living in until he was at OCS and successfully comissioned. It may have been the first time in his life he genuinely had a sense of earned self worth. Not stopping there, Mayo took it the next level and claimed his pick, out of the dungeon of numbing going-nowhere labor. He was in love with idea of her, and she was in love with his potential. He was already of a state of mind to commit to the challenges that lay ahead both as an officer and a gentlman, so it is reasonable he would have been ambitious in his career.

  So why not give the couple a win? Show that, at least in story form as an amalgamation of concepts, it can happen.

  A follow up film starring Gere and Winger could be great: "An Officer Now a Gentle Man".

  After a decorated career ala Maverick (but not qute, since this is a contemporary drama), Mayo's Grandson is continuing the tradition of F-ing his life up, but not so far off base he can't maybe (by the skin of his teeth on the edge of a razor) find redemption and social ascent, with Gere mentoring his grandson on the character-side of being a good man in an era of societally endemic [indoctrinated] self doubt, and what it means to be a man willing to defend the nation and its principles in spite of personal demons (to spite those personal demons; so they die). Meanwhile, Winger watches her grandson's back (ha! His wingman) at socials and on social media, instructing him and the audience on how she's seen it all when it comes to gold diggers, good picks, good men and pretenders; genuine friends and pretenders.

  In the end, the grandson graduates, commissions, and walks away with his head held high; clean, sober, principled, ready for more… but with no lady on his arm. That's his future for him to figure out, but the film ends with Mayo and Paula on a freeze frame, watching their legacy walk away, into potential. After all the movie is about their story continuing without them, not neccisarily their grandson as the focus of the film.

• There is no more pathetic a person than those who jump onto a Rewatchable comment section of a movie they don't care about, and use it to bitch about them doing a Rewatchable on it.

• Gosling is the new Gere.

• Richard Gere is a terrible actor.

• My hot take is that Sid was a total fucking idiot in this movie. Lynette, who Bill correctly called evil, tells him she might be pregnant. He wants to make an honest woman out of her which is noble but what does he do? Does he complete his last two weeks of naval aviator training so he can have a stable job for the rest of his life and thus be able to take care of her and the baby? Nope, he drops out, and his plan is to buy a ring, ask her to marry him, and then the two of them with a baby on the way move back to his parent's house in OKC where he'll work at JC Penny. Lynette of is a manipulative piece of shit but Sid was a colossal moron to quit training in the 11th week. Plus he does the thing that I hate that male characters will often times do in movies: quit whatever job they're doing to ask their girlfriend to marry them without consulting her. Why didn't Sid tell Lynette beforehand instead of just assuming she'd be cool with it? Honestly it's infuriating but RIP Sid haha.

• Private Benjamin vs Apocalypse Now 😂

• Harold Sylvester….Uncommon Valor.

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