What’s Aged the Worst?
Flashback styling; billionaires; cash sex; gambling; suites; real estate; voiceover; spoiled separation
In the discussion (13)
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- The youthful flashback appearances have aged poorly: Woody’s wig and Moore’s conspicuous braces.
- The relatively sympathetic billionaire is considered harder to accept today; Tony Stark counters the suggestion that Gage might be the last billionaire audiences rooted for, while Zuckerberg prompts qualification.
- Sex on piles of dirty cash is selected as having aged poorly, especially the bills shoved between bodies and their crumpled condition afterward.
- The mix of twenties, fifties and hundreds is implausible casino payment; chips or larger bills would make more sense.
- Returning to roulette after an initial rapid loss is criticized as foolish gambling and implausible strategy.
- The supposedly luxurious early-1990s Vegas suites now look ugly.
- Readily available enormous oceanfront property in 1993 Santa Monica is challenged as implausible.
- The Santa Monica land is estimated at at least five million dollars in 1993; the film needs an explanation for such valuable vacant property.
- Gage’s house value is corrected from forty to thirty million dollars, sharpening the comparison with the couple’s implausibly attainable dream property.
- A demolished prior house could explain availability, but the lush untouched-looking site does not communicate that history.
- Both agree the property is far more exceptional and valuable than the film acknowledges.
- The sporadic voiceover is criticized, especially its heavy use for the opening relationship history followed by a long absence.
- Revealing the separation at the start removes suspense about whether the marriage survives.