What’s Aged the Worst?
Length; disputed subplots and performances; weather; singalong familiarity; threatening interview
In the discussion (9)
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- Anderson’s 1999 prediction that Magnolia would be his best film is rejected; its personal ambition and flaws make it tempting to mentally repair.
- Reilly’s subplot, Moore’s excessive intensity and overall length are criticized; removing Stanley and Donnie is proposed.
- Unlike For Love of the Game’s obvious proposed cuts, this film invites disagreement over which stories are expendable; the quiz material is compelling but its necessity uncertain.
- Walters is criticized as inadequate for a complicated role and its final scene, but defended as deliberately portraying an unpleasant, introverted cocaine addict rejecting kindness; later Adams or Stone is imagined as an alternative caliber.
- Reilly’s simplicity is compared unfavorably with Forrest Gump and considered too prolonged, though defended as purposeful incompetence.
- Moore’s subplot is proposed for removal; the pharmacy behavior seems implausibly intrusive and her lawyer-office confession excessively unhinged.
- Rain and 99 percent humidity seem unlike Los Angeles, with the frog storm acknowledging the film’s unreality.
- The Wise Up singalong loses novelty after years of musical television episodes.
- Frank’s threatening intrusion into the interviewer’s space feels uncomfortable.