What’s Aged the Best?
Use of Scarface; character names; Nino's clothes; Kente cloth; Flavor Flav cameo; Michael Michele; Ice-T and Judd Nelson pairing; Ice-T as a cop; crooked-cop redemption story
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- The use of Scarface is mentioned again, and character names such as G Money, Pookie, Duh Duh Man and Frankie Needles are praised.
- Nino's clothes are fantastic and possibly sampled by NBA players; lean, built Snipes could pull off the full suits.
- Kente cloth, including Ice T's beanie in the beach scene, aged really well.
- The unexpected Flavor Flav cameo, the Cash Money and Carter album tie-ins, and the "wouldn't want to be" line Snipes seems to say in three movies are cited.
- The women feel early 90s in a good way, capped by Michael Michelle, later cast in Ali as someone extremely beautiful.
- Ice T and Judd Nelson together were the CBS police show never made; Judd commentary is held until the end.
- Ice T as a cop aged beautifully: he played a cop before Cop Killer and Law & Order and has a complicated pop-culture history with cops.
- The crooked cop's redemption story, for Ice T's and Judd Nelson's characters, is a recurring 80s trope that seems retired, as in Cobra.