What’s Aged the Worst?
Flight graphics; butt discussion; child’s solo trip; dated technology; matching perms
In the discussion (7)
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- The flight graphics, swirling Empire State transition and crude map are aged-worst choices that invite replacement with modern graphics.
- Reiner evaluating Sam's butt is criticized as implausible male behavior; the objection to men crying over The Dirty Dozen is withdrawn after others explain they are mocking Wilson.
- Eight-year-olds buying flights and Jonah independently handling airports, taxis and the Empire State Building are challenged as implausible; Jessica's travel-agent parents and access to equipment partly explain ticketing, but no adult noticing the unaccompanied child remains a problem.
- Open access to airport gates is identified as a changed pre-9/11 practice, remembered fondly rather than condemned.
- A nationally shared live radio call-in seems dated and prompts questions about syndication timing; Loveline supplies a possible analogue.
- Annie's stalking, corded landlines, green-text computers and piles of postal mail date the film against smartphones, email and direct messages.
- The mistaken-identity plot relying on matching short permed curls feels distinctly early-nineties.