What’s Aged the Best?
Midlife-crisis angle; Curly's shocking death; young Jake Gyllenhaal; Palance's one-armed pushups; the title spoken in dialogue; Crystal's one-liners; the classroom life-stages monologue; normal people in a Western setting; the supporting cast
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- The midlife-crisis angle actually works, and Curly's death is still shocking on repeat viewings and well handled.
- Young Jake Gyllenhaal has aged great and looks pretty similar now.
- Palance's one-armed pushups became one of the five most famous Oscars moments, recreated the next year when he dragged out a giant Oscar statuette.
- Saying the title in the dialogue ('you city slickers') is appreciated, along with fortune-cookie one-liners such as 'at this age, you are who you are.'
- The idea that at a certain age you are who you are is rejected in two replies; 39 is not a peak, and CR is joked to be running an NBA team in ten years.
- Crystal was 43 during the making, looks 51, and plays a character turning 39; men in older movies like Mikey and Nicky looked far older than their ages.
- Crystal's terrible one-liners are enjoyed, such as women needing a reason to have sex and men a place; he is said to have written them, sneaking in Tonight Show material.
- Mitch's classroom monologue on life by decade is played and called really good script writing.
- Normal people in a Western setting, a fish-out-of-water tale, works well, and the surrounding cast is well cast and fun to be around.
- One potential item is held back as a probably unanswerable question.