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What’s Aged the Best?

Empty-telephone threat; "The action is the juice"; "The sun rises and sets with her"; Haysbert quitting the diner; tracking crooks without electronic surveillance; the walk-away-in-30-seconds philosophy; the music; Vincent Hanna's jewelry; Trejo's zip-up hoodie; Mann's L.A. locations

In the discussion (7)
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  • Neil's 'I'm talking to an empty telephone' is called the best phone threat in the history of cinema, with Van Zant's terrified look.
  • Also aged well: 'for me, the action is the juice', Kilmer's 'the sun rises and sets with her', Haysbert quitting the diner and beating up his boss, tracking crooks without electronic surveillance, the walk-away-in-30-seconds philosophy, Moby at the end and the music generally.
  • Vincent Hanna's jewelry: a wish to be a guy who wears gold chains and bracelets again.
  • A borderline nominee is Michael Mann, 'clearly an alien', whose gatherings are always big laughing dinner tables or dance parties.
  • Trejo wearing a zip-up hoodie with no shirt underneath.
  • The other host's pick is 'the action is the juice', loved more since the point about Sizemore going for it.
  • This version of L.A. and its locations, such as the taco stand next to the car wash on Pico, should have been on the list; East Coasters knew L.A. only from movies and it takes on new life after moving there.