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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9775106" data-attributes="member: 11760">Rewatching old movies on Netflix.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fletch: Very dated, and not just for the ludicrously wealthy "struggling" newspaper. LA's beaches are apparently empty except for homeless drug addicts, George Wendt and crooked cops. Obviously, today there'd also be tourists there as well. Chevy Chase using fake mocking Spanish throughout isn't cute by today's standards, although it certainly fits in with what we know of him nowadays.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Legend of Zorro: You can see the DNA of Pirates of the Caribbean coming out a few years later and how you don't need an increasingly drug- and alcohol-addicted Johnny Depp to derail it. Divorcing the super-sexy couple at the heart of the franchise is dumb, but saddling us with a "cute" kid really makes large parts of the movie almost unwatchable. The fight scenes are also not nearly as good as the original or any of the PotC movies. The insistence on all of the Californians being super-excited about joining the US (but never explaining to the audience who they're a part of at the moment) feels both confused and cowardly. Confederate agents running around as Nazi stand-ins is weird (at least Sergio Leone didn't seem to understand the geography of the US when he did it), as are the heroic (?) super-spy Pinkertons. Magic [ISPOILER]nitroglycerin[/ISPOILER] is dumb, but kind of expected for the era. They did a great job killing off a promising franchise with this sequel.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Death Becomes Her: Fantastic. Holds up amazingly. I'm kind of surprised this hasn't been remade yet, but grateful that it hasn't. Also wonderful to see Bruce Willis at the height of his post-Moonlighting quipiness, before he decided he needed to be a brooding action hero and, of course, his future cognitive health issues.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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