What’s Aged the Best?
Soundtrack; Tony's bedroom posters; Donna Pescow; white-suit poster pose; Annette and Tony dynamic; friend-group chemistry; mid-70s New York locations; Brooklyn versus Manhattan; Airplane parody; Mad Magazine parody; Dance Fever; pork chop dinner
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- The soundtrack remains great 45 years later; any of those songs will be played in their entirety, even though the band never seemed cool.
- The soundtrack is an all-time murderers row including Yvonne Elliman, Tavares, A Fifth of Beethoven, Manhattan Skyline, Boogie Shoes and Disco Inferno.
- Tony's room has posters of Serpico, Bruce Lee, Wonder Woman, Rocky and Farrah Fawcett.
- The sudden close-up insert on the Farrah Fawcett poster when the father enters is called seriously bad directing.
- The white-suit poster pose was not planned; Travolta did it as a joke at the end of a long photo shoot.
- Donna Pescow's performance and the realistic Annette and Tony dynamic, including her watching him walk down the street, hold up.
- Tony's racist meathead buddies feel like they have known each other for years, which may be why they were hard to picture in other movies.
- Mid-70s distressed New York as a location, alongside Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Death Wish, The Warriors, Dog Day Afternoon and others, holds up.
- The film captures how far Bay Ridge and lower Brooklyn were from the city, from a participant who grew up in Mill Basin; the two places have merged over 20 years.
- The Airplane parody of the dance scene and Mad Magazine's parody are lasting references; Dance Fever is added as a TV attempt to cash in.
- The pork chop dinner, where the out-of-work father rants and Tony takes a second chop, is confusing but very real.