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Show Park Cily News Thursday, December 30, 1982 Page B.I yT-i-r -1E.CS (R.-L. by Hick Brough , yt 41 srgi Jr v,fr Park City Soupe Kitchen open daily- catering -private parties - take-out 442 Main St., Park City, Utah (801)649-7687 Ken Ashburner, owner 11 a.m. - midnight 7 nightsa week Drill instructor Louis Gossett, Jr. reviews and reviles the line-up of new officer candidates he will be responsible respon-sible for over the next 13 weeks in "An Officer and a Gentleman." The best and the worst of '82 The Year's Best 1. E.T. 2. Shoot the Moon 3. Das Boot 4. Diner 5. Fitzcarraldo 6. Gregory's Girl 7. Cannery Row 8. Poltergeist 9. Christiane F. 10. Four Friends The Year's Worst 1. Private Lessons 2. Megaforce 3. Lookin' to Get Out 4. Wrong Is Right 5. Monsignor 6. Inchon 7. Halloween III 8. Jimmy the Kid 9. Firefox 10. The Best Little Whorehouse Whore-house in Texas The summer season of 1982 movie block-busters was just about to open, and according to industry reports, Universal Univer-sal Studios was hoping they wouldn't lose any money on their latest release a Steven Spielberg film about outer-space creatures. It might make money the first few weeks, insiders thought, until audiences discovered it was a comedy. The picture was called "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial." It was a unique movie year... When the Rocky Balboa saga was finished (hopefully) and they finally made a good "Star Trek" movie... when Jim Henson turned semi-serious for "The Dark Crystal"... when Richard Pryor solidified his hold as a box-office champ (he's next up co-starring with Christopher Reeve in "Superman III")... when the producers of "Annie" found out there was no "Tomorrow," "Tomor-row," because the picture was only a modest success... when there were not one, but two, Christmas movies about people slowly, dramatically dying ("Honky Tonk Man" and "Six Weeks"). It's not often that the Critic's Choice for Best Picture is also the year's most profitable movie. Last year our No. 1 choice was "Prince of the City." How much moolah did that make? Our list also includes some under-appreciated films you might not have seen. "Cannery "Can-nery Row" was faithful to the spirit of author John Steinbeck but flopped with audiences. "Four Friends" was an opera tically compelling compell-ing look at America in the 1960s through the eyes of an immigrant, but the time it spent in theaters could be measured in days! The German film industry was well represented on the list with three items: "Das Boot," a riveting story of World War II sub warfare; bizarro director Werner Her-zog Her-zog actually dragging a steamship over a mountain to film "Fitzcarraldo"; and the story of modern drug addiction told in "Christiane F." Inevitably there are two or three film titles that never contend for our Best Film list, simply because they haven't played in the Utah area yet. This year, the absent movies, already being praised by the New York-Hollywood set, include "Sophie's Choice," the Meryl Streep drama from the William Styron novel, and the epic "Gandhi." When the time came to choose the year's worst, our cup runneth over. Most of the titles will live in infamy, but you might have missed some of the following: "Jimmy the Kid" put Gary Coleman on the Worst List for the second year in a row ( Keep up the good work!)... "Wrong is Right" was a confused, badly directed Strangelove comedy with Sean Connery as a globe-trotting TV newsman... news-man... And "Lookin' to Get Out," a Las Vegas comedy-drama, comedy-drama, was highlighted by Jon Voight overworking every Method-acting mannerism man-nerism in the book. These are only the major-league major-league fiascoes. It would take us too long to list the Grade-C movies. But among the worst we could list "Great White," which was slapped with a court suit for blatantly copying the "Jaws" movies; "The Seduction," Se-duction," with that kittenish-ly kittenish-ly bad actress, Morgan Fair-child Fair-child as a TV anchorwoman pursued by a crazy fan; and "Slumber Party Massacre," which featured a psychotic killer with a phallic drill. The "mad-slasher" cycle of movies typified by "Friday "Fri-day the 13th" was petering out. But horror was still popular with Hollywood filmmakers, film-makers, and with the younger crowd who make up most of the paying audience at theaters today. Paul Schrader remade the classic "Cat People" but his mixture mix-ture of subtlety, eroticism, and explicit special effects didn't work. "H.'How- " IT" took a garbled premise about Druid sacrificial rites and turned it into spiders-and-snakes nonsense. The gory special effects of "The Thing" unbalanced that picture, pic-ture, and in a similar fashion, "Blade Runner"'s breath-taking sets overwhelmed over-whelmed the characters in an honest attempt to bring literary science fiction to the screen. Any new copycat trends in Hollywood? Well, the wonderfully won-derfully detailed and crafted "Quest for Fire" didn't start a wave of caveihan pictures. But "Conan the Barbarian" brought out a flurry of sword and sorcery epics. The worst of these, "Sorceress" was only good for the moment in the story when a horde of undead warriors leave their graves and run straight for the unclad dancing girls! "They've been buried for ten thousand years," shrugs the hero. Disney Studios tried to grow up in 1982. Two efforts the Berlin Wall story "Night Crossing" and the teen drama "Tex" were bland, but "Tron" satisfied with it mix of adventure and computer wizardry. Movies grew up in general, as several tried to handle the theme of homosexuality. These renewed efforts, unfortunately, un-fortunately, were flawed. The best of them, "Making Love" suffered from creeping creep-ing conscientious liberalism everyone in the story was educated, well-bred, and ultimately, sooooo understanding. under-standing. "Personal Best," the story of lesbian Olympic athletes, started out well, but finally you were not drawn into understanding or caring about the main characters. And "Partners," about a gay-straight cop team, went way overboard into limp-wrist limp-wrist stereotypes of gay life. Besides "E.T.," two other movies were surprise hits in 1982. "Porky's" was in the raunchy tradition of "Animal "Ani-mal House" a well-played movie, even if the actors did look seven years too old to be playing high-school students. Another big hit was "An Officer and a Gentleman" which benefited from some dynamite acting by Richard Gere, Debra Winger, and Louis Gosset. This made the picture worth seeing. But Gere's loner hero found the pathway to self-realization strewn with Hollywood cliche. He finds himself via (a) "This is the Army now" camaraderie, (b) the death of his best friend, and (c) a confrontation in which Gosset Gos-set beats the tar out of him. The song may talk about "lifting you up where you belong," but ol' Sarge straightened Gere out by kicking him where he lives. Finally, I'd like to make a personal complaint. There were too many movies this year with embarassing titles. For instance, a roman-Ji.c roman-Ji.c comedy last spring had the title "A Little Sex." So you know what you said when the usherette in the six-plex asked you what your ticket was for? In addition, I also stepped up to my local box-office with my trusty theater pass and asked, "Can I use this for 'Making Love,' please?" It's just as well 1982 is over. Tie he welcome mat is out. Your friends and neighbors at Holiday Village Mall invite you to discover Park City's neighborhood shopping mall. Inside and out, vje offer shopping, services and entertainment just right for you! 8te Park City Paper Case All your office needs Park City Optical Eyewear : fn Cinemas III -I- V I i ommy i.nucfcers Jewelry and gifts, repairs ' I 'Lts ' I '- ,1 r. . J)l J -J r lit', Travel agency Karly nn's Women 's fashions, 14k gold and gifts Village Photography 649-FOTO Park City Flower Box Pizza by Davanza r -t a. 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