What’s Aged the Best?
Riggs's mobile-home trailer; Gibson's hair; the Elvis Christmas ending; Christmas in L.A.; Gibson and Glover's chemistry; the helicopter scene and L.A. locations
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- Messed-up characters in mobile-home trailers hold up, as in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: the depressing sofa, a small TV, beer and a sad loyal dog nobody seems to feed.
- Gibson's NHL hair is phenomenal and apparently his real hair; the style lasted a five-to-six-year stretch from 1987.
- The film ends with an Elvis Christmas song; Elvis's Christmas album is called iconic.
- Christmas in L.A.: Murtaugh's wife is Darlene Love, Shane Black sets movies at Christmas, and L.A. at Christmas is beautiful and lonely; Black's taco-truck Virgin Mary anecdote is retold.
- The two leads' chemistry holds up, especially the shooting-range banter inventing a story about Dixie and Amanda.
- The helicopter scene's wide cliffside shots and the film's coverage of L.A. (beach, downtown, Hollywood, Mojave) show good filmmaking.