What’s Aged the Worst?
Troy’s pop-culture comebacks, the Good Times game, product placement, morning Big Gulps, Troy’s cruelty, the compressed gay subplot, In Your Face TV, the awkward Frampton date, and psychic hotlines are criticized.
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- Troy’s string of advertising catchphrases is the immediate obvious answer.
- The Good Times game is enjoyable but now requires too much explanation for younger viewers.
- Diet Coke, Rolling Rock, and Super Big Gulp placements are conspicuous, though the panel says they helped finance the movie.
- Morning Big Gulps instead of coffee feel particularly dated.
- Troy is much harsher and more manipulative in several scenes than he seemed to young viewers.
- Sammy’s coming-out and AIDS subplot is compressed into very little screen time and then largely drops the character.
- The exaggerated In Your Face TV parody makes Michael softer by placing him inside an obviously evil institution.
- The Frampton date scene is judged so awkward that it should have been included in this category.
- Psychic hotlines are added as another period artifact difficult to explain now.