What’s Aged the Best?
Gloucester; Reed Rothschild and Dirk Diggler reunion; Wahlberg's accent, facial hair and attitude; smoking on deck; the music; the Riley-Fickner feud; crow's nest interactions; Ironside's payout scene
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- Gloucester is picked as an underrated part of Massachusetts; the shooting locations are guessed as partly Dedham and largely Gloucester, and the crow's nest is thought to exist in real life.
- Riley and Walberg reunite four years after Boogie Nights, framed as a Reed Rothschild and Dirk Diggler reunion.
- A joke proposes a Jack Horner fake trailer recasting Perfect Storm footage as a Boogie Nights porn film.
- Walberg's accent, facial hair and attitude are called a tour de force, and John Hawks is also mentioned.
- The crew smoking cigarettes on deck is a favorite; the boat must have smelled terrible from dead fish and chili.
- The music is praised for matching the tension on the boat.
- The Riley-Fickner feud is liked because it is never explained, just two men sick of each other in close quarters, which adds tension; a deleted scene has Riley handing Fickner a phone with "a dead man on the other line."
- Fickner is hard to see as anyone but his Armageddon character.
- The early crow's nest interactions, including the old man at the bar telling war stories, are picked.
- Ironside's payout scene shows how small the margins are and why the crew risks their lives to make rent.