What’s Aged the Best?
Hal’s anger; frozen mumbling; money puns; score; Land Rover; tracking devices; cap callback
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- Hal's unfair anger and Gabe's disastrous bad-time-for-everybody/drop-it responses are aged-best comedy.
- Frozen Stallone mumbling in the warming hut and his bad money-burning puns are aged-best pleasures, reflecting the era's Schwarzenegger-style one-liners.
- Trevor Jones’s orchestral score is an aged-best choice.
- Gabe’s Land Rover is an aged-best choice.
- Qualen defining love as sacrifice before killing his girlfriend is an admired villain moment.
- Removing the implausible jump is praised in contrast with Skyscraper’s disappointing execution.
- Stallone’s handsome mountain-man appearance is praised.
- Tracking devices are praised, with Total Recall as a comparison.
- The backward-cap Over the Top callback is praised.