What’s Aged the Worst?
The eight knockouts with no concussion awareness
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- De Niro bringing a gun onto an airplane is jarring; the movie could be released now except for that, the payphones, the lack of cell phones and no internet.
- The constant smoking: Jack smokes everywhere, Grodin gets pissy about it on the bus and you side with the smoker; Jack puts a cigarette out on the hallway carpet before picking a lock in a beaten-down downtown LA apartment building; even in the nineties you could be stuck next to a smoker on a plane, and now everyone would be vaping; chain-smoking Marlboro Reds through Brest's endless takes must have meant five packs a day, and De Niro, a method actor, was surely not smoking fakes.
- Cable airings with bleeps have aged worst of all for one host; the movie is not meant to be watched bleeped, since the art of the f-bomb is on full display.
- The number one pick: eight guys get knocked out with no concussion awareness and nobody ever bleeds; Marvin, the rival bounty hunter played by John Ashton, goes down four times in a 100-minute movie, the Duke twice, and Moron Number One and Two once each, often by pistol-whip or shotgun butt; a 2013 joke that the movie was directed by Roger Goodell is recalled, no alternative is offered, and Marvin is imagined in a dark room on an E60 piece with Jeremy Schaap (transcribed 'Schapp'), unable to remember his wife's name.