Copper Mountain (1983)

Too much of everything

Excellent but underrated film

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

So, where do I begin? Copper Mountain. Jim Carrey, Alan Thicke, this should have been good. It wasn't. This movie is an example on how to do everything wrong. I've watched the "classic" bad films, Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) the Beast of Yucca Flats (1960) you name it. These films succeed because they keep bringing me back as a viewer. I know the people involved in making them cared, they wanted to make something great, and they failed. With Copper Mountain. The makers were clearly lazy, and did not care. The film revolves around two friends, they are played by Alan Thicke and Jim Carrey. Normally I would include the names of the characters, but they really don't matter. You won't remember them anyways. The friends are headed on a vacation to a Club Med resort in the mountains. Carrey's character does not associate well with the opposite sex (By not associate well, I mean is a total embarrassing socially inept moron) and Thicke's character is a want to be cool guy who comes across as a pompous ass. The two take on Copper Mountain and learn a little bit about themselves and life [...]Okay, I'll level with you. They don't learn anything. This entire movie is filled with lame plot points about Carrey's attempts to flirt with women, and Thicke's lame (very mean) jokes towards people he feels superior to (which in this movie, is basically the entire world). Aside from this, Copper Mountain is filled half with lame plot, and half with watching people play music at the film resort. This is what kills the film. I can deal with a socially inept main character, or maybe even a pompous one. But, the fact that half the film is really just music videos is what kills it. This is where the director gets lazy. As a film maker myself, I can understand how it goes. You have a demand from a film company, and they want a film of a certain length. So, to fill the time you leave entire musical performances in the film that have nothing to do with the plot. This works for making the film longer, but it kills the film in every conceivable way. Foremost, the film no longer is about your characters. The viewer gets lost in watching the music. Most film goers, want to find out what ends up happening to the main characters, even if it is a bad film. In Copper Mountain, the viewer gets too distracted by the prolonged music videos. I lost track of why I cared about Carrey's character, and why I hated Thicke's (even though I was supposed to like his character). What is boils down to is that I forgot why I even watched this. I like terrible low budget films. I watched this because it was a terrible low budget film. At the end of the day, I was really just watching some lame 1980s music videos, mixed in with some poorly written characters. Lame music videos and lame characters can fit into a world of their own. Mix them together so that the viewers forgets why they cared about either, and you have an epic failure. That's what Copper Mountain is. An Epic failure. I don't recommend it to my worst enemy, neither should you.

I would prefer to staple my fagina (which I would have to grow first), than watch this festering gunt scab of a film (again).I literally wigged out and had to turn it off (with my toe) after consuming marajuana. If I was pregnant, I dare say the child would not have survived the associated noise.Despite this, I have seen the venereal masterpiece several times. I am about to watch it again. Gunt save me.Billy Frankenstein is a movie I have not seen, stay tuned for a review shortly.Copper Mountain 2 (otherwise known as the apocalypse; see "Revelations") is due out my armhole this fall.Seriously, watch this film, it is an absurd (absurb) truth that Jim Carrey's career continued after this atrocity. WHAT PHUCKING MOVIE RUNS LESS THAN AN HOUR (besides bambi, which was totally sweet {and sad}).Ps. I put the bop in the bop shoowop shoowop.Pps. This movie is awesome and you can get it from ebay fairly cheap, and is absolutely a steal if you can score it for under $30

There is nothing good nor remotely redeeming or endearing about this pile of po0py. Sadly, I spent 99 cents (cdn) on it (about 10 cents US). A quick check of the director David Mitchell's other films shows that they are all of the same outstanding caliber . . . The worst part is that I watched this piece of po0py twice. I fell asleep about 10 minutes in, and when I woke up to the ending Rita Coolidge LIVE! segment, I thought "geeze, must have missed the good stuff." Turns out the ending credits are the good stuff.It doesn't even count as ski porn. Basically, this was a p!$$-poor winter-vacation for Canadian "celebrities" that was probably funded by the Canadian tax payers in the form of tax-write-offs and credits. SPOILER WARNING: Here's the summary of this 60 minutes of po0py: 0-10 minutes: Opening credits, done on home computer, over beauty shots of Colorado, with the worst theme song I've ever heard, with singing out of key, etc. She couldn't keep a note if her life depended on it. Some minor banter between the driver (Thicke) and passenger (Carey) about the latter's inability to pick up women. 11-15: Informercial bit. Check in at Club Med. More banter. Check out ski bunnies. Talk to some french ski pro who speaks glowingly of Club Med, and their peculiar take on resorts. Frenchie talks through his resume and trophy list.16-30: Jim Carrey does Sammy Davis Junior impression on an open microphone, and finds that the band is p!$$ed off at him. Band is moments later impressed by his abilities, and decides to play a tune. Actually it becomes 10 tunes. Not much dialogue.31-37: Thicke meets up with some guy who looks like George Hamilton and they take off in helicopter. Not much dialogue. Some big mountain skiing ensues. Only good part of film, other than opening and closing credits.38-50: Back to music video of unknown band, interspersed with some ski competition that Thicke loses. Can't remember details. Was sleeping. 51-55: Jim Carey goes for beginner ski lessons and chases ski bunny onto double-black diamond run. Makes it thru trees without killing self (too bad). People at base are impressed at his prowess. Breaks groin at bottom of hill, and meets two ski bunnies who take sympathy on him.56-60: End roll over Rita Coolidge at Club Med "Bar" . . . Ronnie Hawkins plays himself as backup to Rita Coolidge.

i no that sounds very comic book guy but this really is the worst film ever made its so bad you have to see it and i would even like to see IMDb change its rules about votes cause i really think its that bad. if you think porno acting is and and the story lines in the pornos oh and the music to then you have to watch this cause it really does make any porno movie look good i think thats where they got the band anyway. there is about 90seconds of humor that even rates as funny and compared to the stuff carrey does no the 90seconds wouldn't even make the cut in any of his movies now. if i could have 1 wish i would be to meet the righter of the movie and the people that picked it up. i can understand the cast and stuff crew wanting to do this film it would have been carrey first shot in a lead and its not like he was an A lister at the time and the support cast and crew well money is money, but the 2 people i don't understand are the righter 1 cause could he tell it was crap when he wrote it and same with the producer and stuff i couldn't look at the script and say this is going to make me a star i need to be in this movie. all i can come up with is that maybe they stole mel brooks idea of making a movie that would be a flop so they would make money mmmmmmmm i think I'm on to something