What’s Aged the Best?
The house; the title; Julia Roberts' look; the VersaClimber; the 'reminding' line as a litmus test; the mullet-beard combo; the husband's death scene; the villain-isn't-dead moment
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- The house is amazing and would be put against any movie house; nobody is wrong for staring at it.
- The house was a fake exterior built in an environmentally sensitive beach-grass zone on condition it be torn down and the land restored; materials were donated to Anderson County, South Carolina, and removal cost another $25,000.
- It seems to pop straight out of the beach because it did, and would never exist in real life; shooting in South Carolina was probably cheaper than Massachusetts.
- The title is way up there with Fatal Attraction as a quality title.
- Julia Roberts has never looked better in a film, called Apex Julia from a look standpoint; the college-age speaker jokes about committing murder to date her.
- The VersaClimber the husband uses early on, later associated with LeBron James and Evander Holyfield's cardio, had a 30-year run.
- 'We all forget things. That's what reminding is for' works as a litmus test: if someone you are dating says it, break up with them.
- The new boyfriend's Jagr (ASR 'Yarmiery Jagger') mullet plus beard only worked in a six-month window around 1991; the mullet is compared to Nickelback, mocked now but hot then, and being saved by a mullet made him an early-90s hero.
- Kid Rock is offered as another example of someone insisting how hot he once was.
- The husband's death scene is funny if you watch how he reacts to the shot.
- The 'is he dead?' horror moment where the villain jerks back up, as in Fatal Attraction, has aged best because movies still do it.