What’s Aged the Worst?
Anyone cheating on Richard Gere; over-explained dialogue; pay phones; school-play scenes
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- A mother's number one nitpick is offered: she is the biggest Richard Gere fan ever, once approached him at a New Canaan charity event, and cannot conceive of anyone cheating on him, likened to dunking on Michael Jordan seven times in a playoff series.
- The mother is joked to be upset that she gets less podcast attention than the dad and sports, even though she taught reading and writing.
- Dialogue where one character asks another "do you love me" is hated, compared with the "tell me I led a good life" ending of Saving Private Ryan.
- The "Are you okay? I'm fine" exchange is singled out; the film walks up to what a marriage with an unspoken secret is like but has people say gibberish and explains too much, such as calling the nail salon, when looks would do.
- Pay phones were a huge part of adultery movies; she has a cell phone in this movie yet uses a pay phone, and lacks one when she needs it most.
- School-play scenes are never idyllic in real life, with parents fighting for seats and holding up camera phones.
- School-play scenes reflect the biases of married white filmmakers with children; the handholding close-ups are noted, and the child playing a rabbit is read as a Fatal Attraction callback.
- School plays, elementary and Little League games in movies are all hated, closing the aged-worst list.