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  Columbia Sportswear Men's Cougar Peaks Jacket By: Columbia Sportswear Average Rating: 4.0 Total Reviews: 32 More Information Decent for what it is  On: 2008-11-13An inexpensive, non-breathing, light raincoat. I keep mine in my car for light or unexpected rain. Works well. Nicely sized (2xl) for me. Buy it on sale and be happy with the deal. Probably much less so at retail price. Not bad  On: 2008-10-30I thought it would be thicker & warmer,but it turned out to be a really basic, no frills, somewhat flimsy outdoor jacket. Otherwise, it looks fine, but its not a jacket for cold weather My review  On: 2008-09-27I needed a jacket for the chilly weather and went on Amazon looking at all types of jacket and found the jacket i am now wearing. Great jacket light and warm just what i needed. So i order more jackets, nice styles and looks. Functional Jacket and Light On: 2008-09-03This jacket does the job quite well and is really light and folds up quite compactly. Great for storing in your bag. Works quite well as a wind-cheater too. Great for fall... On: 2008-08-24I like this jacket.... Looks good, fits well and the hidden hood is nice. Fall would be the best time to wear it... Nice windbreaker. Buy it! On: 2008-07-08very nice, light weight and compact. Exactly what I needed to tuck in my office cabinet or computer bag for rainy days. would be good only for protection agaist the rain... not the cold. You'll be sweating after 15 min. but it is waterproof  On: 2008-07-02Id say Im an average "sweater" but this jacket will make anyone sweat like a pig. At first I liked the jacket. It does an outstanding job at repelling water but at what costs? You still get wet! The fabric is similar to a tent. If it says "breathable" anywhere in the description, dont believe it! I ended up giving this jacket away. Because of this jacket, I ended up forking over $100 for a Northface. (Which is far superior to this jacket and doesnt make me sweat). Im done with you Columbia! When I told a friend about this jacket he laughed at me and said "Buy cheap and buy twice". Great price, great product, great merchant On: 2008-06-19Jacket was described perfectly, fit was great and overall, product was better than I thought. Delivery was fast. Lightweight, attractive, zippered jacket On: 2008-05-17Comfortable, lightweight, rain resistant, perfect for traveling. You can easily stuff it between the handles of your carryon. It has two large, deep, inside pockets and two zippered outside pockets keeping items secure; has a hidden zippered hood, handy in a sudden rain, and keeps you warm without feeling any weight at all! Nice Jacket On: 2008-05-12Lightweight jacket to be worn in fairly warm weather (since has no lining), excellent protection against the rain, and good quality for the price. Exactly what I wanted On: 2008-05-08I just got this jacket today and it is exactly what I wanted. I havent rain tested it yet but other than that I really like it. I will be using this on my trip to London so I imagine I will probably get to use it. It fits perfectly into an outside pocket on my backpack. I saw some pictures elsewhere and was a little confused about the hood. Some pics had the hood and others didnt. The hood rolls up and zips into the collar so that you wouldnt even be able to tell that there is one. So yes, there is a hood and that makes me happy because the Amazon pics do not indicate that there is one. It is quite light in weight...I imagine there are lighter ones out there but for the price, it doesnt feel cheep and flimsy at all. I am not sure why people are saying it is cheep feeling. It is a light weight rain jacket...it should be thin. Plenty of pockets...fits exactly like my Columbia fleece and goes over it perfectly. This should do perfectly well for my trip just in case any rain comes about or if it gets a little too windy. Again...I havent field tested it but I am happy with what I got. It feels like a good jacket. Totally Satisfied!!!!! On: 2008-05-05Columbia Sportswears Mens Cougar Peaks Jacket I ordered the Sunset/Pewter, because I liked the way it looked in the picture. I was shocked when the jacket arrived as fast as it did, and the jacket looked even better than the picture. I have worn the jacket in rains from a light drizzle to a heavy downpour, and it has performed great in every situation. I like the fact that the jacket is not lined. This makes it ideal for wearing during warmer weather. I ordered it one size larger than I normally wear, that way during colder weather I can still use it with a jacket underneath for warmth. I highly recommend this jacket for anyone looking for a good, versatile jacket that can be used year round. Besides, it is from Columbia Sportswear. That alone should say enough. Plastic feeling. Very hot and sticky. On: 2008-05-04Plastic feeling. Very hot and sticky on all but cold days. Not cut as long as it looks in photos. Chilly then warm On: 2008-04-21I love the jacket. It has a very nice fit and the hidden hood is a plus also. Just be warned! If you leave it in a chilly/cold environment, the jacket itself will be chilly/cold. It does warm up after a several seconds. Not bad for a rain coat On: 2008-03-31You should not get confused this with winter jacket, this is very thin can not protect you from any cold conditions. hand cuffs are a kind of elastic which I hate. I am yet to use it in a real heavy rain conditions Good Jacket On: 2008-03-28This is a good lightweight Jacket. I have not taken it into much rain yet but has held up great in the wind. "This...is...Sparta!!!!" On: 2008-03-15Historically, 300 is all about the last stand of Spartan King Leonidas and his personal bodyguard of 300 soldiers as they protect the strategic pass of Thermopylae--the only mainland entry into Greece from the viewpoint of the Persian Empire--from an invading force of Persians under Xerxes I. Visually and artistically, 300 is second-to-none and beautifies the art of killing and of war, at least to the extent that it looks like eye-candy. Ideologically and culturally, however, 300 can be construed as both a metaphor of todays War on Terror and a celebration or at least study of conservative, traditional values of nationalism, discipline and principled idealism. Despite all this potential, a great deal of 300 is actually factually inaccurate, campy, absurd and melodramatic. 300s a film that has many pros for its many cons. To prioritize, Ill start with the most clear-cut: its aesthetic value as it relates to what you see. The main selling point of attraction is not the story, the gore, the actors, the graphic novel-based material, the killing, etc.. Above all else, its the visual treat that 300 is from start to finish. This movie redefines the concept of aesthetics by being psychologically enjoyable to take in. Unless youre blind, it will keep your eyeballs glued to the TV screen with each increasing shot of bedazzlement. Whether its the slow-motion scenes of slaughter or combat (beheadings, hailstorms of incoming arrows, spear thrusts); the rendering of the stark, coastal terrain near which the battle takes place; or the costume design of the Greeks and Persians--300 is the epitome of visual beauty on film. Some scenes that are simply breathtaking on the right HDTV-and-DVD-combo are: -The young, Spartan boy shown battling a 3-D rendered wolf -The first clash between the 300 and the oncoming Persians -The hailstorm of arrows fired by the Persians with the 300 ducking beneath their shields -Leonidas fighting and then killing the Giant -A young, Spartan warrior successfully launching a spear which cripples and kills a charging, rhino-like monster from the Persian side -The Persian elephants pushed off a cliff by the Greeks The point I was making is its a very pretty film; did you get that? Good, because that smoothly segues into my next, complimentary argument: 300 is a film that has to be viewed on an HDTV of some, considerable size (42 inches and up) and power (true HD like 1080p). With this single-minded emphasis on style, youre hurting yourself if you dont watch it on a TV which has the specs to exploit the visual *rgy that 300 is. To that end, I tell anyone wholl listen that 300 couldve excluded ALL the pithy and corny dialogue and just focused on showing scene after scene after scene of slaughter and fighting...and been a better film because of it. The fighting scenes are all that matter in 300 due to their graphical wizardry, and the sometimes dumb-as-a-doorknob dialogue really lowers the pleasure of 300 in some parts!!!! For instance, the "writing" (if you can call it that!) of the dialogue is so awkward that its unintentionally hilarious. The dilemma with the dialogue is its questionably broken up into boisterous monologues after each battle sequence or plot development, like a Shakespearean play. I.e., after the Spartans build a "Wall of the Persian Dead" during a lull in the fight, Xerxes I and Leonidas "exchange" dialogue, but it comes across more like the stilted and swollen delivery of self-righteous actors, who cannot act, in some crappy, off-Broadway theater-show. Similarly, after Leonidas and his men have been vanquished, the movie ends with the one-eyed Aristodemus leading the charge of a crack-squad of newly allied Greeks; the "speech" he gives to motivate his men is absurdly contrived like the BS one would expect in WWE wrasslin!!!! The flaws worsen as the exorbitant quantity of historical violations becomes UNFORGIVABLE!!!! These idiot, revisionist films from lib Hollywood are always mismanaged if they draw from historical material; its become a fun game for me to watch these films just so I can count and then expose each, historical inaccuracy in their films. I dont have the 700 or so pages I require to list the historical flaws in 300, so Ill just give a small sampling of what I discovered: 1. The number of Greeks defending Thermopylae was actually 2300: the 300 Spartans but also 700 Thespian volunteers, 400 Thebans and 900 Helots!!!! 2. 300 shows the Greek soldiers (called Hoplites, by the way [sidenote: theres a sophisticated and all-around awesome reviewer haunting Amazon by the name of The Hoplite Phalanx Fighting Formation; youre EXTREMELY lucky if you get a shot at reading his reviews]) fighting OUT OF their Phalanx Formation! This is sacrilege as they wouldve lost the battle had this occurred! Educated viewers know that the only reason Leonidas had so much success against Persia was precisely due to this Phalanx Formation which slaughtered Persians in this narrow space!!!! 3. Leonidas Spartans wouldve fought using the Macedonian Sarissa, the long pike 300 clumsily shows the Greeks using. However, many fr*udulent scenes show the Greeks impotently fighting using poles that are MUCH shorter than the average, 17 foot length of such a weapon!!!! 4. There were absolutely ZERO elephants used at Thermopylae; the dumba*s makers of 300 egregiously confused Thermopylae with the Carthaginian trait of using elephants in some of their battles. 5. Xerxes I DID NOT, historical records will validate me, under any circumstances look like a San Francisco-styled, cross-dressing, transgendered S&M practitioner, who looked like he would be marching in a g*y pride parade!!!! Records show that Xerxes I wouldve actually sported a beard, braids and robes. Another wrongdoing thats so faulty is how 300 panders to an immature, testosterone-infested, teen-male audience; it does this in part by exploiting unknown actress Lena Headey. Let me tell you, my social-conservative sensitivities were totally ransacked here. At about the 20-minute mark or so, Headey is shown topless, simulating sex with Gerard Butler. Shes either such a shallow woman or depravedly finds it an "honor" to flash her bre*sts that one shot flagrantly just shows her bre*sts kind of flapping in slow-motion!!!! This was so blatantly pandering to the teen audience of males, who probably popped collective chubbies while watching this the first time!!!! I say that Headey couldve used major bre*st-implant surgery as she failed to be attractive enough on the merits of her chest alone. In fact, I award her Nero Demerits and rate her a 3 for her SAGGING efforts!!!! I sprung for the two-disc version, which got me the "bonus" disc with behind-the-scenes features--because I like to be taken for a ride by the studios cheap misconception of what constitutes worthwhile, "bonus" items. One of the features has the censurable Frank Miller impudently defending his historical revisionism and corruption of the Battle of Thermopylae!!!! For instance, throughout his little feature, Miller relentlessly admits to not accurately representing the facts surrounding Thermopylae or even Spartan culture, yet he downplays it as his right to do because hes allegedly just an "artist" "re-imagining" something historical...BS! I castigate Miller and all those whod defend his corruption of history because if he was using source material for his 300 graphic novel, then he had a duty to reliably reproduce historical facts, or else come across as an intellectually lazy and sloppy revisionist...which he is. 300s biggest, redeeming quality is in its ideology, where there are parallels for our western way of life in the present. The Battle of Thermopylae symbolizes todays War on Terror. Back then, Greek conservatives (Spartans) stood up for the principle of freedom and the preservation of the western way of life in the face of the eastern expansionism and aggressive instigation by the Persians. Today, American conservatives (GOP) are mostly leading the charge to defend the principle of freedom and the American way of life in the face of the radical Muslim expansionism that also is the instigator!!!! And this despite the stubbornly perverse, Democrat effort to thwart tough, anti-terror measures...kind of like the films Ephors and the Spartan governing council, both of whom resist Leonidas insistence on self-defense. Whoa--the parallels are just breathtaking! Good price On: 2008-02-13Its a really cheap price for this jacket. Find it good-looking but not breathe. It will make me hot wearing it. Great Value On: 2008-02-09The jacket is perfect for workingin out in the rain or cold, which was my need. I live the lightweight feel, it would be better with some type of light lining. Satisfied On: 2008-01-23Like all Columbia stuff ive bought so far, excelent. Light, very smal when packed and storm-proof. Wouldn't really call it a ski jacket On: 2008-01-09Got this for skiing and was shocked that it was so thin! But, actually, using the layers technique, it surprisingly did the trick. I realize now that you dont need a big bulky ski jacket to hit even the most chilly Colorado slopes. This worked fine, and kept me dry. Plus, I reckon I will be able to use it for rainy, cool days far from the slopes. Great but not what I expected On: 2007-12-08Its a very light windbreaker, i expected something with some kind of insulation but i still kept it since it does come in handy and it was a great price. Just keep it mind it has no insulation at all and if thats what you want its perfect for you. Great but not what I expected On: 2007-12-07Its a very light windbreaker, i expected something with some kind of insulation but i still kept it since it does come in handy and it was a great price. Just keep it mind it has no insulation at all and if thats what you want its perfect for you. Great windbreaker, good price. I like it!! On: 2007-11-14Mens Cougar Peaks Jacket. I couldnt like it much more, even though it isnt lined. First, I ordered the Tusk color and after it came, I liked it so much that I ordered the Carbon color. I like the two inside pockets and the three on the outside. Ill get a lot of wear out of these. Theyre great for our weather in the Seattle area and they will be great when I travel. If additional warmth is needed its easy put on a nice sweater underneath. Great fit. Glad I have two of these now. Excellent On: 2007-11-14This is a rain Jacket. Does exactly what it says. I like the simplicity. Perfect for rain protection. Great windbreaker, good price. I like it!! On: 2007-11-13Mens Cougar Peaks Jacket. I couldnt like it much more, even though it isnt lined. First, I ordered the Tusk color and after it came, I liked it so much that I ordered the Carbon color. I like the two inside pockets and the three on the outside. Ill get a lot of wear out of these. Theyre great for our weather in the Seattle area and they will be great when I travel. If additional warmth is needed its easy put on a nice sweater underneath. Great fit. Glad I have two of these now. good shell On: 2007-11-06This is kind of a minimalist product - good for chilly or windy weather when you want to wear the least amount of protection that will still get the job done. It is most appropriate for hiking or similar outdoor activities, but is nice enough looking to get by on a college campus or informal work environment. The fabric feels rather uncomfortable against the skin so is better worn as a shell over a shirt or sweater, but is amazingly warm for its modest weight and it is easy to break into a sweat if youre active. Good value. Great light jacket On: 2007-10-30This jacket was a gift for my husband and he loves it. It is perfect for cool wet and/or windy days when a heavy coat would be too much. The jacket is well-made and looks like it will last for quite some time. Very good, with one exception. On: 2007-08-13Fits well, constructed nicely, good price. A pleasant surprise was that it has three zippered outer pockets and two inside pockets. My only complaint relates to a rubbery feel on the inside surface of the nylon and that the fabric doesnt breath. Good value for money... On: 2007-08-04Got a pretty good price on this jacket. Bought it for my dad who wanted a wind breaker and didnt want to spend too much money on it. I expected a cheaper looking quality based on the pics online, but was pleasantly surprised when it arrived since the the quality was okay. OK for light rain On: 2007-05-16If you are in heavy rains for a couple of hrs then this jacket is not recommended. It does keep you dry in light rain. Its light weight so ideal for backpacking. good deal On: 2007-05-12I got this for a good deal on Amazon($20). Its basically a waterproof windbreaker. Doesnt help at all when its cold outside(in the 30s) but its nice when its a little warmer. Lots of pockets!!!! Columbia Jacket - Looks Nice, But Hot On: 2007-05-12This is a nice-looking jacket, waterproof, but it doesnt breathe. That makes it hot to wear in mild weather. Looks great, but flimsy quality. On: 2007-03-30I was disappointed when I got this jacket. There is basically no lining to the jacket. There is a mesh vent for your back but no lining anywhere else. All the pockets are exposed, as is all the stitching. Every time I take it off I feel like Im taking off a garbage bag with the pocket lining flapping everywhere. It protects well from the rain, but it is far too flimsy for typical spring weather and temperature. The jacket looks nice from the outside, and has 4 pockets, but there is no comfort at all. I may have been expecting too much because of amazons previous amazing deals on jackets, but in this case you get what you pay for. Perfect light rain jacket! On: 2007-03-29I drove all over town looking for a light summer rain jacket and couldnt find any I liked for under $80. I found this one on Amazon and decided to give it a try. It arrived a month ago and I love it! Its the perfect weight for those summer rain storms, has a great vent in the back to keep you cool, and the fit is excellent. Columbia really did their research on the fit. The hood fits nicely into the collar without being too heavy around your neck when you have it stored. The price is amazing too. It shocked me when I opened the box and saw a $49 price tag hanging from it when I payed $20 less than that! Great, great jacket. |