What’s Aged the Worst?
Oscar-bait disability movies; Raymond crashing the sex scene; the car-import business scenes; the card-counting stigma and casino reaction; Tom Cruise's cigarette smoking
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- The Oscar-bait run of movies like Regarding Henry looks bad in totality.
- Raymond crashing the sex scene also goes here: weird, though it somehow works.
- The car-import business scenes with Lenny are one and a half too many and five minutes too much, like someone gave Oliver Stone an eight ball to write two Lamborghini-importing scenes.
- The economics of Charlie's business is flagged and deferred to a later spot.
- The stigma of card counting starts with this movie, yet they don't seem to win enough for the casino to turn on them; up 80 grand in 1988 is guessed at about 400K now.
- Crowds in Vegas do not gather behind random winners at a table unless it is someone like Tiger Woods or Charles Barkley.
- Card counting is not illegal, and being called into the manager's office for that amount seems ridiculous; trouble usually starts in the millions. — Sean Fennessey
- There is no law against counting cards unless using a device; casinos push out players who crush them over months, not for one night.
- Tom Cruise trying to smoke cigarettes ages worst and is suggested to have cost him an Oscar nomination; fans are invited to make a montage of Cruise smoking in movies.
- Cruise learned to fly a plane, flip pool cues and drive a race car, yet smokes like an idiot, holding the cigarette like a tree stump, usually at a diner.
- Hoffman smoked through the Bernstein role and could have given him advice; Cruise also learned a back handspring for The Firm.
- Bad smoking on screen is called a passion; Cruise clearly never had a cigarette, holds it sideways and never smokes it, because his body is a temple.