Cruising - This Aged Great!

[@thisagedgreat]

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[@AhmedN42]

“Ok Al Pacino, we’re gonna need you to really get that bussy workin’”

[@geoff3103]

mussy. But close enough LOL

[@dy120481]

Think he says bussy.

[@fmellish71]

@@dy120481 yep, definitely bussy

[@SolHodlman]

Good lord you just said bussy.😂😂😂

[@CAPS_LOCK_0]

Literally the gayest thing Ive ever heard

[@DiamorphineDeath]

The way the guy goes, after the second slap, “WHO IS THAT GUY?” gets me every time. Comic gold.

[@prairiedogsareextant]

The black dude in the jockstrap is based on a police precinct that actually used a black dude in a jock strap during interrogations. He was a cop. He would walk in, slap the perp around, no explanation, just to F with the perp.

[@disheuresdis]

I read that it was done so if the perp later complained, his complaint would sound so weird that no one would take it seriously.

[@prairiedogsareextant]

@@disheuresdis It's also like that bit of dialogue in French Connection, the bit where Hackman asks the dude, did you pick your feet in Poughkeepsie. It's to make the perp say to himself, WTF is going on, put him off balance. But not being taken seriously later, that sounds like a reason a cop would do it. The bit about the knives at the restaurant is hilarious.

[@jm7804]

In the Kubrick version the black guy is wearing a bear head...but still has the jockstrap on. 🤣🤣🤣

[@micheller6804]

​@@prairiedogsareextantI thought the line was a threat saying you'll be picking your toes in Poughkeepsie, as in I'm going to arrest you and you'll wind up there. Research must be conducted.

[@prairiedogsareextant]

@@micheller6804 You could be right. I just recall a commentary on that flick, done by Friedkin, and I think he's the one who pointed out the reason behind that line.

[@-Eternal-Damnation-]

"Well Pacino, Im sure glad that all of that gay stuff's over" I laughed so hard I woke up my flatmate 😂

[@thisagedgreat]

Ha! That’s great.

[@-Eternal-Damnation-]

@@thisagedgreat love you stuff mate. Please don't stop making these, I sense the algorithm will show you some love soon

[@RetroRanter]

This whole breakdown had me rolling but then..He looks into camera, as if to say "oh your gayyyy" 😂 I fking lost it.

[@johnjeffery6638]

Flippin hilairious.

[@pairashootpants5373]

Yea that killed. I'm so blown away about this movie I don't even know what to think!

[@sharkfilet]

same lol

[@dblshotz75]

Bruh, that shit nearly killed me. This is one of the funniest things ive seen in a while.

[@dancoroian1]

_MAYBE YOU WERE THE GAY MURDERER ALL ALONG!_

[@Horatio.Mantooth]

The purpose of the black man in cowboy attire. It was an old tactic used by NYPD. In order to extract information through intimidation and illegal tactics. They make it so unbelievable as a black man in a jockstrap with a cowboy hat. No one would believe the defendant when he claimed someone of that description beat him.

[@FucTrump]

Movie didn't convey that well.

[@AngryPug76]

@@FucTrump People behind the movie might not have known the why either then. Just that it was an insane thing police do. It’s also not at all limited to NYC. And it’s never stopped. They might not use this exact thing but imagine trying to convince a judge a confession was beaten out of you by a rabbit furry or a guy dressed like Batman. “I swear your honor, Aquaman came out of a closet and water boarded me with mop water until I thought I was going to die!” It’s funny until you realize how often torture like this has resulted in thousands of destroyed lives.

[@josephsmith5410]

I've never heard that black cowboy explanation before, but it's kinda brilliant.

[@e8tballz]

Cowboys wear jock straps?

[@MarioFario7]

Damn, that’s why they did that to me 😂

[@shoeshane6494]

Funniest part is when Al Pacino is with the killer, and Al asks him if he wants "lips,or hips?" Then the guy asks him how big his thing is, and Pacino says,"Party size!" 😂

[@ras613pa]

Fun commentary. However, you noted that the guy killed towards the end was either one or the other of the gay couple neighbors. The guy killed was the one who the Pacino character had been spending time with - not the lover. This is pretty significant. My read on the reason for the murder was that the Pacino character realized that he was getting too into him emotionally and the killing was a way to further suppress his growing awareness that he was def gay.

[@EricDurrant-k5z]

That's it exactly. If I remember correctly, the lover was charged with the murder, but it was deliberately left unanswered as to who the real killer was.

[@nickdavidelijah]

nah he was 100 a hetero

[@Sangria]

Al's a terrible dancer in Cruising. He's a terrible dancer in Scarface

[@drjayteamk4531]

he's a perfect dancer in jack and jill

[@Israel-nb7ip]

A horrible dancer in Carlito's Way too.

[@amytrottier8836]

The WORST DANCER! And then he hit the poppers……I think that was improvised, too! He’s so “method.”

[@mickfriday]

If you get tangled up, just tango on

[@Caballeroshot]

he was a terrible cuban in scarface too!

[@djmrjoel]

There was a protest planned by Village Voice columnist Arthur Bell against this film, but they accidentally showed up at the set of the Village People film Don’t Stop The Music, which coincidentally was filming just blocks away.

[@JasonNaas]

"Accidentally"

[@humanbeing2420]

Can't Stop The Music

[@BrettHue-pz4fb]

Greatest movie ever 'cant stop the music ' was! 💯

[@amytrottier8836]

So bizarre that it has to be true! Bwahahahaha!

[@chriskazaam896]

Ah right around the time Richard Pryor threw slurs in front of a 🏳️‍🌈 pride parade in West Hollywood

[@mundaneamazing]

That is some AGGRESSIVE dancing.. Also, RIP Radio Shack

[@artSFCA]

When this was first released, I saw this movie in a suburban mall. After half hour the theatre cleared.

[@stumack9755]

😂

[@LeftysLefty]

I went with a bunch of guys from my (gay) running club who everybody was stoked because they made a movie about gay people. I remember coming out of the theater and we were all looking at each other like "what the eff was that??" Couldn't believe how bad it was. Sad thing is - within a very short period of time at least half of those guys had died terrible deaths. We had other things to worry about than a stupid crappy movie. Haven't really thought about it since then. Seeing this brought it all back. What a horrible time. I miss those guys.

[@JesusChrist-xb7jq]

The black guy in the jockstrap made me think of Big Jim Slade from Kentucky Fried Movie. LOL!

[@RaquelFoster]

Except Big Jim Slade enters the room like Kool-Aid Man, and no way is he getting a hat on over that afro. Big Jim would get slapped then pick up Jockstrap Cowboy and carry him away to his lair of sodomy while Powers Booth narrated it like a BDSM-y David Attenborough.

[@mickfriday]

Best thing I've watched on KZbin in years. Thanks for the laughs guys. As a teenager in the 90s I went through the obligatory obsession stage with Deniro and Pacino and I made it my mission to own every film they'd ever made on vhs. Watching Cruising for the first time having no prior knowledge of it was almost as harrowing as seeing porn for the first time on a fuzzy worn out tape not really knowing what you're seeing . Al Pacino tied up on a bed with his cheeks spread was not something I'd bargained on.

[@habl00pep]

Flashbacks to spotting this as a young young teenager starting after the late news and saying to my mum ‘a Pacino film I haven’t seen can we stay up and watch it’ I promise we will still manage to get up for early mass

[@jamberstone1]

😮😂😂😂😂

[@griffinkelly8694]

This movie is great. If the guy they’re interrogating says “those cops are fucked. They roughed me up to get that information,” and a judge ask “OK. What did they did do?” His story about a big Black cowboy in a jockstrap is going to sound ridiculous. That’s why the cops use that tactic.

[@irodney47]

I went with my buddy to see Cruising years ago thinkin it was along the lines of American Graffiti…..it was not.

[@reprintranch]

I remember seeing the preview and thinking, “hey, all those guys dress like the singer from Judas Priest. I wonder what that’s all about… wait a minute… oh….”

[@pboissie]

It must have felt like the equivalent of accidentally walking into the “Blue Oyster” club from the Police Academy movies 😂 * queue the trumpets 🎺 *

[@cheechdubinsky6709]

@@pboissie DA DA DA, DUH DUH, DA

[@TheVoiceofTheProphetElizer]

I saw a comment a guy made on a different Cruisin' KZbin video - he said he worked at a theater at the time and a woman and her two young sons bought tickets. He tried to explain what the movie was and that they did not offer refunds once they left the ticket counter. The woman responded that it was her God given right as an American to see whatever movie she wanted, so the guy backed off. He said about 20 minutes after the start of the film she comes storming out with her two sons ranting and raving about indecency and "Someone should have warned me!"

[@boxadorsrus5991]

Many years ago, I was headed to some movie or another with my friend. I don't even remember what. We were running late, so we decided to go to a different movie at a movie theater that was half a mile away instead of four or five miles away. We ended up at a movie I knew nothing about. It seemed like maybe it was about cowboys. I'm thinking Tombstone or Bronco Billy or some such thing. No. It was Brokeback Mountain. At the time, I naturally dressed like a guy who hikes and bikes a lot in the desert, because I did. However, this made things worse because we inadvertently looked a little bit like the two cowboys in the movie, without the cowboy hats. I hate it when that happens!

[@terrycullen3302]

I feel like the black guy in the cowboy hat could be a movie in itself. Just imagine a scene where the guy is at a bar with a date, and she asks "what do you do for a living?", and it cuts to a shot of him in the cowboy hat and jockstrap, and then it cuts back to the bar and he says "It's complicated". That's the clip that will be used in the movie trailer!

[@littlejimmy7402]

Ever see "Kentucky Fried Movie"? That seen in "Cruising" always reminds me of Big Jim Slade.

[@Eralen00]

I love the idea of Al Pacino's girlfriend just calling him "Pacino"

[@ncapone87]

Karen Allen went from this right into Raiders of the Lost Ark. Talk about whiplash

[@ryanjacobson2508]

Apparently took the role w/o seeing a full script.

[@twinkleflipup]

This is the most perfect explanation to this movie EVER!!! I could listen to you interpret every movie.

[@amytrottier8836]

Yes! Every movie ever!

[@JeffRebornNow]

I watched this film years ago but I have zero recollection of it. In 1980, my 17 yo upper-middle class white boy self couldn't identify in any way with the subject matter of this film. I think the outrage about it from the gay community's perspective was, "You (Hollywood) make so few films about gay characters and THIS is what you choose to fixate on; a tiny subdivision of our community that the vast majority of gay men have no (and never will have) experience of? How dare you feed this crap to the American public and make our job of integration even harder."

[@jakirakumahata5701]

Most unbelievable part is that the nypd would give a shit about a serial killer targeting gay men in the 80s

[@slappybagOG]

I remember seeing this when I was like, 18 or so and thinking I had a crazy fever dream afterwards bc no one I knew had seen it or even knew about it 😂

[@marktubeie07]

This was possibly the best description of this movie - hilarious 😂😂😂😂

[@TheVoiceofTheProphetElizer]

This reminds me of a conversation you'd hear hanging out at somebody's house on a Friday night when everyone is bored and sitting around but the conversation is so hilarious all you want to do is keep talking.

[@ouranos0101]

Ngl, this movie is fantastic. Especially as a historical film about that period of time in that place. It was about a part of life and society that rarely if ever got any mainstream attention. Very bold.

[@jm7804]

I would pay to watch Mommie Dearest with you guys over some cocktails. Definitely needs to be on your list for a future video.

[@ja6975]

Whoa, what magic have I stumbled onto?!? This is the funniest and most insightful shit I’ve ever heard

[@thisagedgreat]

Thank you so much!

[@unperson5713]

My parents grew up under the Hays code and had no understanding of the MPAA rating system. My family adopted Betamax/VHS in the early 80s. One weekend my father rented an Al Pacino marathon, Dog Day Afternoon, Scarface and, of course, Cruising. I was twelve or thirteen, the pool table scene traumatized my fragile psyche. Rob Halford never fooled me for a second. Ram It Down indeed.

[@f.kieranfinney457]

My mum went to the mom and pop rental store in this era and rented a Vampire movie. Except it was a porno with a sounds-a-like name. She was so confused. “I thought X was for Extra”.

[@JohnDoe-z2r]

sad

[@NatashaRaisorGlam]

OMG when I was a kid in the 80’s watched this movie with my grandma😂 I was the only fifth grader that knew about leather daddies. Because of this movie and Eddie Murphy I love men in leather pants😂

[@elteedee3]

"Top off." That is brilliant.

[@mundaneamazing]

"Well, Pacino, glad that gay stuff's over" -Karen Allen, Cruising, 1980

[@johnbrittingham4471]

Cruising movie was based on Paul Bateson (born August 24, 1940) is an American convicted murderer and former radiographer. He appeared as a radiologic technologist in a scene from the 1973 horror film The Exorcist, which was inspired when the film's director, William Friedkin, watched him perform a cerebral angiography the previous year.

[@bkynbiker19]

True!

[@3x157]

I have never seen this film, but I'm laughing at your commentary so hard, that I want to see this film.

[@psbfan01]

You should watch it and pay close attention!! Its not actually an ant-gay movie; it's anti-police.

[@davidserlin8097]

William Friedkin is a bit of a mystery when it comes to his relationship to movies with gay content. He began the decade directing The Boys in the Band and ended the decade directing Cruising. And, interestingly, both films take place in exactly the same neighborhood.

[@ricarleite]

He was closeted. We all know

[@Tulpen23]

Thank you YT algorithm gods for this random gift of hilarity 😂

[@krispysox]

This had me rolling in my chair. Both literally and metaphorically.

[@Chelaxim]

For those that wonder why the director of The Exorcist made this movie, Paul Bateson was an extra in The Exorcist servers 24 years for the murder of magazine journalist Addison Verrill and is thought to be the main culprit behind "The Bag Murders" serial slayings this movie is based on.

[@dy120481]

This is legitimately one of the funniest things I've ever heard.

[@3a5859]

omg guys!!!! That s the best Movie Analysis I ve ever seen!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I thought the movie was a thriller dahhhhh it was a comedy all around 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻💌

[@horuslupercal9936]

This is the greatest movie review I've ever seen. 😅

[@amytrottier8836]

Oh, I have a list of movies I would LOVE you to cover! Titanic, Sixteen Candles, (John Hughes’ oeuvre), all the Home Alone movies, Never Been Kissed. You have such a rich and glorious future ahead of you, and I am so glad to be the recipient of your much appreciated humor! I must now binge watch the rest of your hysterical content! Thank you!

[@EC-ol8nz]

04:00 was that Delroy Lindo!?! 😂 invented by Tom Cruise This was the best!!! 😂😂😂

[@wh2577]

Ajax from the Warriors looking saucy (5:36) lol. I guess when he got locked up on the attempted sa he got turned out in Rikers?

[@TheChupacabra]

Seems most likely. Also if he was going over the top to hide his latent homosexuality, well then, I’m a popsicle

[@amytrottier8836]

❤

[@mikevarjo696]

Cops would use a guy like the cowboy as intimation because no one would believe them lol

[@amytrottier8836]

“He could be killing him right now! I mean, he’s the only guy in town with access to knives! We gotta get in there!” Cut to 1,000 cops running up the hotel stairs! OMG! This commentary is “pee your pants,” funny! Liked and subscribed!

[@mikes7504]

Ditto!!

[@smileytownSF]

Even though it came out in 1980, this is very much a 70s movie. 70s movies were about taking risks - and sometimes they didn’t pay off. But it doesn’t surprise me that this was directed by William Friedken - he was a maverick who was willing to take risks. This movie was protested by some in the gay community at the time, but in hindsight it deserves its place in the gay hall of fame (or infamy?) and is a rare visual document of the gay leather scene as it once was.

[@lolatu4402]

It's one of my favorite movies. Nobody liked it when it came out. Gays protested because it made them look bad. Straight people had no interest because it was too gay. But it's damn riveting and hilarious too.

[@otsoko66]

​@@lolatu4402 I protested the filming of Cruising as a student -- it wasn't that the movie made us 'look bad', it was the very real fear that it would encourage more gay-bashing and anti-gay violence -- beyond the weekly beatings of gay guys in the streets, the memories of a guy walking into a gay bar and just opening fire was still fresh in people's minds.

[@yasmin8851]

I completely forgot about this movie. Listening to your take on it is sooo hilarious 😂. Keep up the good work 👍

[@YezzyYae88]

I laughed so hard listening to this recap 🤣I’m so glad I found this video you guys are hilarious Omgg cause people don’t realize Al Pacino did some of his best work in “Cruising” 🤣

[@cheesecake4648]

me too!!

[@plissken2156]

1:25 - Hey, it's Al Bundy (aka Ed O'Neill) on the left!

[@RazorsEdge1810]

Pretty sure this was his first movie!

[@binkytube]

This synopsis is so hilarious! The jockstrapped, black man was insane, but so was Pacino doing poppers on the dancefloor!

[@richardmyers6075]

There are many many holes in this movie for sure but it did get a few things right. No film that I'm aware captured the rawness of NYC at this time better than Cruising. Imo this movie has aged well despite all its flaws.

[@antoniogarrett1176]

check out-New York Inferno (1978) just as documenting of The Leather Scene @ that time.Some of the film locations are the legendary The Spike & The original establishment of The Eagle near the westside highway here in NY.I worked at The Spike💖.Enjoy! the film-New York inferno (1978) heavy leather NYC reference.

[@if6was929]

"There are many many holes in this movie" Seriously??? LMAO!

[@bkynbiker19]

​@antoniogarrett1176 TX, not heard of it but will seek it out

[@randyariddle]

The main problem with Cruising is that Friedkin appears to be exploring a subtle question around how a psychopath, who repressed his sexuality, wound up compensating for it by joining the police force. His superiors probably chose him because he was "tough" and could take of himself, and probably was willing to be violent if he needed to, and probably secretly enjoyed it. Having him catch a gay killer put him over the edge. The subtlety of this is lost, though, and, if you don't think about it too much, it looks like putting a straight cop in a gay world - and particularly the leather/kink world - instantly turns him into a killer. In the 90s, I knew several leathermen who were extras in the bar scenes in the movie, shot in actual leather bars, and they talked about how authentic those scenes were, except for Pacino's dancing.

[@PRAGMAGICK]

This is the funniest rundown of such a baffling film in Friedkin/Pacino's repertoire Didn't Friedkin get inspired to take this on due to having an actual gay nightclub killer play a nurse extra in the Exorcist?

[@elizabethquinn8477]

First time seeing your channel and now I must go binge all of your videos. OMG, I'm dying! Please review everything! Even the stuff that has aged well.

[@chriskazaam896]

A near 40-year-old Pacino brings all the boys to the yard. Good call NYPD.

[@fletchkeilman2205]

Annnd the Joe Spinell cameo for the win!!!

[@Greg07623]

And as we all know, two tops don’t make a bottom.

[@Phillip-p1e]

But they sure as hell could break one tho.😂

[@DLOGKCALB]

A down low bank robber on a hot dog day afternoon turns into a cruising undercover cop who is down low

[@particleboy3584]

This video has been seen by more people than actually saw the movie.😮

[@erics362]

Vito Spadiford was also doing undercover work when Sal recognized him.

[@TheJwlasichuk]

Unfortunately, this was one of the few gay movies during that era and none were positive. Kudos to Al as a young actor. I’m a lesbo in my 50s. Movies like this oddly paved the way.

[@stephanieroth16]

What does being a lesbian have to do with male cruising?

[@Palmieres]

5:40 OMFG, that's James Remar. Some might know him as Dexter's dad, but he's been in a bunch of stuff (he's even been Raiden in a Mortal Kombat movie). Damn, he was young.

[@user-dh5yi9hz7p]

I actually have come to love this film after having read so much of the history of it and read some of Friedkin's thoughts. It's kind of amazing.

[@umbilicalcreature1529]

🎶 the past was doing its best 🎶

[@skidrow1800]

One of my favorite movies ever. I NEED A 4K STEELBOOK RELEASE OF THIS MOVIE ASAP!!!!!!

[@Edgea22]

Best review of this movie that I've ever seen. It's looks like it could be recut into a Mel Brooks style comedy.

[@TimTeboner]

Holy shit so that's where that gif is from! I've had the gay cowboy slap gif saved on my phone for years, I post it in group chats when somebody says something dumb. I never knew what it was from lol

[@rudyspective1870]

The BEST movie review about a gay film I've ever watched, it's hilarious! Do more gay film reviews!

[@johnjeffery6638]

It was funny cause you were not too mean spirited and anybody, just making fun of wierd film choices an hilairious leather daddy culture- which has been hilairious since the police academy movies scene of the Blue Oyster..😂😂😂😂😂

[@pureuncutlakers1010]

Cruising isn't a gay film

[@gogogogogirl]

"Oh, he's thinkin' about the gay bar."

[@DDHi-dp7hy]

Fck this review is the BEST hands down🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@pxn748]

Leather- Daddy-Serial-Killer-Off I am rolling!

[@blakelester1776]

Omg! The fact I had no idea this movie existed makes me feel like such a fraud as a lover of cinema… I cannot believe this is real.

[@jahigains9201]

Whole time I’m listening to this I’m asking myself, “What is this review?” Fuckin hilarious 😂

[@TheChupacabra]

Gay Dexter sounds like it rules

[@naturistfred]

Speaking of Dexter, one of the actors playing the boyfriend is James Remar, who played Dexter's father Harry on the show.

[@adamburgins441]

Getting debriefed after getting debriefed

[@aliceelizabeth.b]

this is my new favourite channel ever stopppp guys. stop

[@RoyPage1970]

Man I had totally forgotten all about this film saw it once back in the early 80s !!

[@r8chlletters]

I laughed so hard, seriously guys please do The Jerk.

[@c3920]

I just found your channel. I haven’t laughed so hard in a while. Thank you! Keep it up.

[@thisagedgreat]

Thank you so much! We will.

[@frankokay5177]

"he's the only guy in town with knives"

[@katshades]

I gotta get my eyes checked. I saw this thumbnail with Al Pacino and I clicked on it because I thought it was Jaz Coleman of the band Killing Joke.

[@geoff3103]

this left me in stiches

[@gregofcanada4494]

Three seconds into the video, and I'm howling. 🤣

[@mikequinlivan8842]

I love this movie; I’m not sure what it says about me (or perhaps my opinion of police interrogation methods) as I didn’t bat an eye when the black cowboy came in the room. But you left out some other awesome parts, such as Al Bundy being a cop with Pacino, and Powers Boothe explaining the junkie code to Al. Then Al goes and fucks up the piss hankie code by wearing all wrong! What a goof!!

[@Pussaychop]

First of all, these are all effin hysterical, hats off. That said, never suspected i’d be exposed to the greatest film ever made via This Aged Well - this might be your masterpiece.

[@TighelanderII]

"SCTV" did a parody of this by having the character do a cooking show; the comedy was how he "tenderized" his meat.

[@Swoon4life]

You are HILARIOUS!! 😂😂😂 I don’t even know how I wound up on this channel but I’m never leaving! 😂

[@jackinmyhoggoff807]

Tom Cruise was going to do a remake, but then he realized that's his normal Saturday night. Wait Tom Cruise and John Travolta are both Scientoligists. I wonder what they do when their alone discussing Gorgon.

[@476chrisb]

This is the way I felt about this movie.

[@ozymandiasultor9480]

Oh, I remember this movie, my parents were shocked when they saw what is that movie about but they allowed me to watch that very immoral movie. The part when Pacino starts dancing with those flashy moves is hilarious.

[@casieatthe393]

I don’t wanna oversell this, but this is my favorite scene I’ve ever seen in a movie- definitely not an oversell

[@PaulSmith-qs1es]

Okay, I know you said you don't want to know the answer to what the black guy in the jock strap is doing in the movie, but the answer is amazing. According to the commentary: The 6’5″ black man wearing a jockstrap and a cowboy hat is played by the real cop who really used to do this during certain interrogations. They did that in part so the perp would lose credibility when trying to complain about the detectives’ behavior.

[@cbarber5366]

Is nobody going to talk about how the neighbor's hot youbg boyfriend is the dad from Dexter, James Remar?

[@Lookatmygrass]

Film is a Kafka nightmare

[@elforeigner3260]

“Cruising” Awesome movie

[@a..c..2469]

Holy shit my ribs are killing me😂 that was fkn funny😂😂😂

[@jeffbecker5148]

There were multiple killers. Killer One gets killed by Killer Two in the park.

[@cicolasnage5684]

Na, you’re missing the point. Friedkin used that as a misdirection so he used previous victims in the movie as the killer

[@cbarber5366]

Nope, read up on what Friedkin said​@@cicolasnage5684