What’s Aged the Worst?
Italian mobsters; crack; end disclaimer; Ice-T's wig; drug-war advocacy
In the discussion (8)
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- The Italian mobsters are terrible in every respect: the actors, the accents and the racism.
- Yet this is the only movie where Italian mobsters get their comeuppance for racism, while racist lines in The Godfather, Goodfellas and The Sopranos get a pass.
- Crack itself aged worst for everyone involved.
- The end disclaimer is a bad choice; someone should have talked Van Peebles, who directed, out of it.
- Ice T's wig was pretty terrible and unnecessary.
- The movie advocates the drug war as winnable with a good and a bad side, which a full view shows is not true.
- Women used as pawns felt unnecessary: G Money's betrayal of Nino could have been shown without bringing a woman into it; countered that something similar happened in real life with Nikki Barnes in New York.
- Using a little girl as a human bullet shield is proposed, then questioned as still effective and possibly aged perfectly.