What’s Aged the Best?
San Francisco; smoking; Catherine’s introduction; score; nudity; Sharon Stone; props; dangerous attraction; Boz’s apartment; Douglas’s laugh; dialogue; Beth’s broken lock
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- San Francisco locations are an aged-best choice; locals’ objections to the nickname San Fran prompt discussion of SF and other names.
- The film’s cigarette smoking is an aged-best choice; Douglas wins the smoking award because smoking appears to unlock Nick’s other destructive impulses.
- Aged-best picks include Catherine’s introduction on the dangerous rocky deck, the score, nudity, Stone and plot-driving props such as ice picks, scarves, mirrors and matching Picassos.
- Men pursuing women who could destroy them is an aged-best theme, extended into a joke about dating Kardashians.
- Aged-best picks include Boz’s apartment and Picasso, Douglas’s hesitant flirtatious laugh, the Nick–Catherine dialogue, Gus’s colorful lines and pre-tech San Francisco.
- Beth’s broken lock is praised as a subtle clue that Catherine has entered her home and planted evidence, although the ending is still considered fragile.