What’s Aged the Worst?
Rachel Lindsay possibly not having seen it; three-hour-15-minute runtime; Fabrizio's accent; Billy Zane's Cal; Altman's verdict; the Picasso scene
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- The possibility that Rachel Lindsay has not seen Titanic is joked as the first aged-worst item.
- The three-hour-15-minute runtime is daunting, and Danny Nucci's Italian accent as Fabrizio is questioned, though called better than Jared Leto's in the Gucci movie.
- Billy Zane's Cal is called abusive and aged terribly; the performance is described as slightly sketch-comedy broad, the other host declares himself a lifelong Zane fan despite some overplaying, and the reply is that Zane dialed it up too much.
- Robert Altman reportedly called the film the most dreadful work he had seen, which is laughed off.
- William Goldman's critique of the Cal role and the Picasso scene as full of howlers is cited; the scene is now laughable and the film lacks subtlety, with Cal wrong about everything.