What’s Aged the Worst?
Treatment of women; sexual assault; racism; homophobia; misogyny; Nick Cohn's fabricated article; Staying Alive; Barracudas fight; Tony's quick recovery; Karen Lynn Gorney's casting; PG TV edits
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- The relationships with the women have aged poorly: sexual assaults, racism, homophobia and misogyny.
- The random homophobic harassment of two gay men under the bridge is cited; whether the film is self-aware or simply saw no problem is debated, with realism offered as the reason it was included.
- Nick Cohn acknowledged in the mid-90s that he fabricated most of the article after the real-life model for Tony sued for profits.
- The sequel Staying Alive is listed.
- The Barracudas fight is a B minus that should have been the best 90-second fight of 1977.
- Tony has an apparent concussion yet looks fine 10 hours later and for the contest a week later.
- Karen Lynn Gorney is rated a below-average dancer with a weak New York accent and weak acting, and she struggled to keep up because of earlier motorcycle-accident injuries.
- Her casting is so baffling that a half hour of Googling found no explanation; she was older than Travolta while lecturing him about going nowhere.
- Watching the PG version on TV with dubbed-in swears was painful.