What’s Aged the Worst?
Cuts to Doc’s action, the farmhouse, childhood flashbacks, stalking, discarded diamonds, the dated Nazi premise, Babe’s apartment, and Scheider’s missed stardom
In the discussion (7)
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- Cutting Doc’s extended fight and reducing the violence while retaining the farmhouse sequence is criticized. — Bill Simmons
- The repeated childhood flashbacks are called unnecessary beyond establishing the father’s suicide. — Chris Ryan
- Following a woman home to initiate a date is criticized as dated. — Bill Simmons
- Babe refusing to keep the diamonds or cash is strongly criticized. — Bill Simmons
- The premise of active original Nazi criminals is said to have aged out of contemporary plausibility. — Bill Simmons
- Babe’s sweaty, poorly ventilated apartment is imagined as smelling terrible. — Chris Ryan
- Roy Scheider’s 1970s filmography is preferred to Hoffman’s, while his later aging and limited stardom are lamented. — Bill Simmons