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What do you think of the movie Cocktail?

Scorpion (1 Star)	0 votes
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Jack and Coke (4 star)	3 votes
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Whisky Sour (8 Star)	1 votes
Sex on the Beach (9 Star)	2 votes
Martini (10 Star)	1 votes

metirish Jun 15 2007 09:40 AM

Johnny Dickshot wrote: They are all bad. But my vote goes to Kokomo because it was so devastating to the coolness of the Beach Boys as a musical outfit: Bruce Willis and the others barely had any musical chops to lose. Plus, the scenes from 'Cocktail' which today is up there with "Over the Top" in my Top 5 Bad Movies I Cannot Turn Away From. That is some delicious cheese. I remember taking a chick to see "Cocktail" and the next day her friend telling me she never wanted to see me again because I was more interested in the movie than her ,and that was true....

Johnny Dickshot Jun 15 2007 10:00 AM

I love everything about Cocktail. I love how fearlessly the filmmakers believed we'd buy the flawed premise of the bartender as the "poet of the people." I love that allegedly trendy Manhattanites all pile into TGI Fridays for drinks. I love that they'd think they might abandon a place as uncool as TGI Fridays to go to a place instead called "Cocktails and Dreams" I love how unconvincing Tom Cruise is as a Giants football fan. I love how Tom Cruise does that MILF only because he was dared to, and then becomes "kept" by her. I love how a chance meeting in Jamacia happens to be between two Manhattanites. I love how the rich father tries to "buy off" his daughter's common-man suitor -- just like in "Over the Top"! I love Elizabeth Shue just on general principals. I love how badly Cruise plays Irish guys -- he might have been even worse in that Ron Howard flick "Far and Away." If I re-made that one, Cruise would starve to death at the beginning it would be over. This is just a classic achievement of badness.

metirish Jun 15 2007 10:09 AM

We need a Cocktail thread in the film forum.... I loved Bryan Brown in that movie,Coughlin's law was genius...and the gymnastics that went on behind the bar with Cruise and Brown was just great,you have a thousand customers screaming for drinks and the boys are firing bottles in the air.

Willets Point Jun 15 2007 03:46 PM

metirish wrote: We need a Cocktail thread in the film forum.... Ask and ye shall receive. BTW, the drinks listed are random, not the way I would rate them as drink per se.

Johnny Dickshot Jun 15 2007 07:51 PM

A 10 for cheesiness.

Sandgnat Jun 18 2007 01:17 PM

]I love Elizabeth Shue just on general principals. and she went to my high school!

Johnny Dickshot Jun 18 2007 01:33 PM

Please tell me you and your perverted friends snapped photos of her in the gym locker room.

Sandgnat Jun 18 2007 01:50 PM

Damn, for someone you don't know you know me very well!!!! I would have if I were 9 years older then I am. Andrew (of Melrose Place fame, or infame!) and John Shue were closer to my age, although still older. Funny thing is, ask anyone in my hometown about Elizabeth Shue or the Shue family and people will know them not for the acting careers of Elizabeth and Andrew but for two other reasons. First is always they were a big time soccer family in the town, with Andrew actually playing professionally for the Galaxy and overseas and two for the untimely and feak accidental death of their oldest brother William. No one really ever talks about the acting as much as the soccer and the tragedy.

Willets Point Jun 18 2007 01:59 PM

Hence the movie Gracie.

Johnny Dickshot Jun 18 2007 02:20 PM

Finally,that explains Elizabeth Shue's convincing "soccer practice" scene in "Karate Kid."

Johnny Dickshot Jun 18 2007 02:25 PM

Just looked up that tragic death. Impaled on a tree branch when a tire-swing broke? Grisly!

Sandgnat Jun 18 2007 02:47 PM

Willets Point wrote: Hence the movie Gracie. You got it. ]Just looked up that tragic death. Impaled on a tree branch when a tire-swing broke? Grisly! Yeah, and the worst part about it was both Elizabeth and Andrew where right there watching it as it happened. Horrible stuff.

Mr. Zero Jun 18 2007 06:03 PM

Hey Gnat, we must be neighbors, provided you still live in 'round these parts. on edit: oh wait, I see you are now located in Savannah.

Sandgnat Jun 19 2007 07:23 AM

Zero, you from S.O. or Maplewood? Did you go to Columbia? I was born and raised in Maplewood. After college I lived in Kenilworth with some guys I went to Columbia with until four years ago when my company moved from Morristown to Savannah.

Mr. Zero Jun 19 2007 08:31 AM

Moved to M-wood 7-8 years ago. Did not attend Columbia, though my kids probably will. Your family still here? Nice town, though not a lot of places to get a cocktail.

Sandgnat Jun 19 2007 10:05 AM

My mom lives in Springfield now actually. My best friend's parents still own their home on Rutgers St. so I am in the area often when I get back up that way to see them. Maplewood was a great town to grow up in. Its big and small at the same time. The demographics have changed quite a lot since I was living there though, especially in the area where I used to live by the Union and Irvington borders. Seems like Springfield Ave has become the dividing line of Maplewood and MapleHood these days. Hey, at least you have some choices for cocktails. When I was there, there wasn't one bar in the whole town that I can think of. We always had to take the train to Morristown or Hoboken if we wanted a drink. Now there is St. James Gate in the village at least. Then there is always O'Reillys on Millburn Ave near Valley St. The Gas Light in South Orange on SO Ave isn't a terrible place either and there is Cryans on Valley St. close to SO Ave too. Depends on what part of town you live in for what would be closest. I miss Roman Gourmet pizza more then anything else.

Johnny Dickshot Jun 19 2007 10:32 AM

For me it would depend upon the flair of the bartenders.

Willets Point Jun 19 2007 10:50 AM

Johnny Dickshot wrote: For me it would depend upon the flair of the bartenders. Thus bringing the thread full circle.

Iubitul Jun 19 2007 01:12 PM

Willets Point wrote: ="Johnny Dickshot"]For me it would depend upon the flair of the bartenders. Thus bringing the thread full circle. Isn't that what good writers do?