What’s Aged the Best?
Opening bank robbery; 1990s Detroit; robbing banks without a gun; Dennis Farina and Jennifer Lopez scenes; nicknames; Catherine Keener; Ving Rhames; David Holmes score; one-last-big-score line
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- The opening bank robbery, 1990s Detroit with the Cronk Jim and Emmanuel Stewart, and the color changes have aged well.
- Clooney's strategy of robbing banks without a gun is admired.
- The Dennis Farina and Lopez scenes: as her father he adds color without cliche, is too important for the Joey Pants award, and immediately knew she was into the guy.
- Great nicknames: Dick the Ripper for Albert Brooks's character and Snoopy the boxer, who hates the name.
- Catherine Caner is great in a couple of scenes, part of a 1998-99 run of Out of Sight, Your Friends and Neighbors, 8mm and Being John Malkovich.
- Ving Rhames's 93-98 run (Dave, Pulp Fiction, ER, Kiss of Death, Mission Impossible, Rosewood, Conair, Out of Sight) is called automatic and compared to Ray Allen; his later commercial voice work now takes one speaker out of some line readings.
- Rhames can be really scary yet also Clooney's believable loyal best friend.
- A speaker's father repeated the 'get medieval' line for about a year.
- The DJ David Holmes score is really good.
- Clooney's line asking whether anyone has done one last big score and gone on to live the good life holds up; only Fast and Furious pulled that off.
- No additional aged-best pick. — Ryen Russillo
- Agreeing on the last-score line: even on the big score the crew is dumb, one robbing steaks and White Boy Bob tripping and shooting himself; Cheddar Bob is joked to be his younger brother.