What’s Aged the Best?
Storm’s wife; LeBrock’s 80s appeal; escaping child; chopsticks; dojo house; Sadler; Seagal running; Carson contrast; ego
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- The absurd sheet-lifting admiration is read as evidence of Seagal’s ego, despite the nurse’s deeply inappropriate treatment of a coma patient.
- Storm’s wife is admired as attractive, while the unusually explicit love scene raises questions about Seagal’s conduct and his real marriage to LeBrock.
- LeBrock’s lasting appeal from Weird Science and The Woman in Red is separated from her weak performance here; the passionless scene with her real husband contrasts strangely with his screen wife’s scene.
- A small child instantly understanding a murder threat and escaping through a window is admired as an implausibly competent movie-child trope.
- Serving chopsticks to a newly awakened coma patient and finding an Ojai house already outfitted as a martial-arts dojo are enjoyed as absurd conveniences.
- William Sadler is welcomed through memories of Shawshank and Die Hard 2, with joking disappointment at the absence of naked tai chi.
- Seagal’s dangling-arm running is a maximal source of unintentional comedy, compared with a toddler fleeing a towel; a running coach seems necessary, while dialogue praising his speed and online compilations compound the joke.
- A near baseball-playing scene in Out for Justice creates regret over missing another potential display of awkward athleticism.
- Johnny Carson playing during sinister events supplies a pleasing happy-versus-scary contrast.