What’s Aged the Best?
Hierarchy; point system; mother; Daniels; hair; location; Ruck; billboard; obituary; Chicago; insults; nicknames; Horowitz
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- The disciplinary points system is an aged-best choice, with smoking400, fighting700, gang activity1000, sexual harassment1200, drugs/alcohol1500 and running for the fence2000; universal smoking immediately undermines the stated rules.
- The prison hierarchy has aged well because the film clearly establishes gambling, cigarettes, duties and the institution’s reliance on inmate leaders.
- Mick’s mother drinking in the bathtub with a man efficiently explains his lack of a stable background and is jokingly proposed for Apex.
- Daniels is praised for combining credible care, authority and the capacity to control violence.
- Viking’s blond perm captures a distinctive peak early-1980s hairstyle.
- The imposing detention location is both an aged-best choice and the scene-stealing-location winner.
- Young Alan Ruck, the HalloweenII billboard callback and Horowitz reading Tweety’s obituary are additional aged-best choices.
- Early-1980s Chicago is praised as a setting shared with My Bodyguard, Risky Business, Thief and The Blues Brothers; a Mick-and-Thief crossover is imagined.
- Viking’s forceful use of an insult and the memorable Viking/Tweety nicknames have aged well.
- Eric Gurry’s Horowitz is praised as the entertaining guide to detention life, with his alarming bowling-alley story later paying off in the boombox attack.