What’s Aged the Best?
Opening crime-statistics monologue; the poster; the Night Slasher; match toothpick; Awesome 50 license plate; the name Marion Cobretti; Zombie Squad; the New Order; product placement; shooting range scene
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- The opening monologue lists burglary, robbery, violent crime, murder and rape statistics: grim, dystopian, Death Wish on steroids.
- The poster ('crime is the disease, meet the cure') is one of the better movie posters of the last 40 years.
- The Night Slasher was physically imposing and scary; perhaps Brian Thompson's bad experience with Stallone kept more from becoming of him.
- Also listed: the match toothpick, the car's awesome 50 license plate, and the 'attitude problem' exchange that seems written for the trailer.
- Marion Cobretti is a bad-ass name meant to be his Balboa, with jokes about Scorpetti and LSU's Cobretti as a draft-bound kicker.
- The Zombie Squad is a great name with zero backstory; the New Order just gathers to clang axes like P90X, and the mole cop and knife-hand cut explain nothing.
- The product placement roll call (Pepsi, a beer display, Toys R Us, Coca-Cola, a high-life sign) is just great, recalling Marty McFly ordering a Pepsi Free in Hill Valley.
- Shooting range scenes are always awesome, as in Lethal Weapon and Narc.