What’s Aged the Worst?
Post-2001 imagery, the president, romance beat, tattoo, huge phone, fight sounds, and inert radar display are criticized.
In the discussion (8)
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- A presidential aircraft flying toward a New York skyscraper plays differently after 2001.
- Donald Pleasence is judged an implausible American president because of his accent and shifty Nixon-like manner.
- A possible sexual pause with the Chock Full o’ Nuts woman is debated as either unappealing or understandable given Snake’s isolation and limited time.
- Snake’s tattoo is criticized as hastily designed, though its roughness is defended as period-appropriate.
- Hawk’s future cell phone is comically enormous.
- The exaggerated fist-fight sound effects have dated.
- The radar operator claims Snake entered a building even though the screen’s blinking light does not move.
- The appended interview says the president’s foreign accent was intentional because the story is set in the future, directly qualifying the panel’s accent criticism.