What’s Aged the Worst?
Forgotten plane-crash trauma; lax airport security; waiting at the gate; indoor smoking; the chlorine line; the TV reporter casting; control-tower access; SWAT resuscitation; grenade count and timing; widescreen framing on old TVs
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- Christmas airport behavior is listed under aged worst as well, since the experience has completely changed.
- The trauma of the incinerated passengers coming and going in minutes, and the lack of secured airports, lead the list.
- Hanging out at the airport or gate to meet arrivals is now inconceivable, illustrated by a father meeting the family at the gate in Philadelphia and friends greeting a roommate off the plane in 1994; the romantic-comedy airport chase is gone too.
- Smoking indoors is aged worst, spawning a SigPod spinoff joke and a tangent about bad movie smokers and Regarding Henry.
- The pissing-in-the-pool, fresh-out-of-chlorine line is called bad and incomprehensible.
- The TV reporter is judged poorly cast, with ideas held for the Recasting Couch.
- Anyone, apparently armed, can walk into the air-traffic control tower, and medics try to resuscitate a SWAT officer who has obviously been shot many times.
- The grenade scene is cut bizarrely: an announced three grenades becomes five going in, partly explained by three each, and the delay before they explode is interminable.
- Belatedly, the super-wide framing was hard to follow on old square TVs but plays well on modern sets.