Cruising - This Aged Great!

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[@thisagedgreat]

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[@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.

[@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

[@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!_

[@DiamorphineDeath]

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

[@NS-cs3wp]

1:46 “we need you to get that bussy working” 😂😂❤

[@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!" 😂

[@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

[@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!

[@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!

[@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.

[@-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

[@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.

[@JesusChrist-xb7jq]

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

[@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.

[@krispysox]

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

[@dy120481]

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

[@marktubeie07]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@twinkleflipup]

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

[@amytrottier8836]

Yes! Every movie ever!

[@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!

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@elteedee3]

"Top off." That is brilliant.

[@EC-ol8nz]

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

[@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!!

[@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.

[@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]

😮😂😂😂😂

[@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.

[@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.

[@yasmin8851]

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

[@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.

[@DLOGKCALB]

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

[@meat-hook]

-We have to solve this murder! -I'll check the gay bars. -There's nothing in the evidence to suggest the killer stalks gay bars... -Well, there's nothing that says he doesn't!

[@horuslupercal9936]

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

[@r8chlletters]

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

[@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😂

[@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.

[@subliteral1380]

I seriously thought that was Louis CK the whole time. Funny stuff regardless!

[@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!

[@lennoxmate4064]

Just across this video by accident. HILARIOUS! 😂 I’m subscribed!

[@riotgrrrl]

😆😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣🤣 omg this is brilliant!!

[@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]

❤

[@chukysleez]

Thank you sooooo much! I had no idea this movie existed.

[@skidrow1800]

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

[@rsb__]

This popped up in my recommended and I'm so glad I watched, never saw this movie but it popped up on streaming years ago. Please review everything like this

[@thisagedgreat]

Thank you!

[@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.

[@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 😂

[@fletchkeilman2205]

Annnd the Joe Spinell cameo for the win!!!

[@yournamehere6002]

Fantastic movie! Great soundtrack, too!

[@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.

[@cbarber5366]

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

[@echospaw899]

I watched this movie many years ago... you guys have encouraged me to do so again with a new, almost humorous perspective. *aCk!!

[@zzzaaayyynnn]

this whole series is SOLID GOLD!!!

[@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.

[@Greg07623]

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

[@Phillip-p1e]

But they sure as hell could break one tho.😂

[@heathmcrigsby]

Karen Allen in mirror sunglasses was a revelation

[@TheChupacabra]

Gay Dexter sounds like it rules

[@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!

[@jahigains9201]

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

[@bobbobertson7568]

This was pretty hilarious. Thanks guys

[@gogogogogirl]

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

[@justinyoungbird9922]

fuckin hilarious breakdown, need more like this.

[@geoff3103]

this left me in stiches

[@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."

[@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?

[@roxanaplascencia9671]

This was the best movie recap i have ever gotten 🤣

[@TighelanderII]

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

[@chriskazaam896]

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

[@EF-fc4du]

Most realistic portrayal of homosexuality ever filmed.

[@gregofcanada4494]

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

[@aestroai8012]

I always wanted to see this. This is funny! You've earned my subscription.

[@marcel4002]

Some of the movies you guys review are classics (not necessarily because they're good), and some I've never even heard of, and im an OG. Your breakdowns are perfect because, let's face it, not every movie needs to be watched to be enjoyed. 👍🏾

[@elforeigner3260]

“Cruising” Awesome movie

[@a..c..2469]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@zcvxs]

I love they're laugh... Soo awesome

[@476chrisb]

This is the way I felt about this movie.

[@vintagesoul73911]

This shit was hilarious. Great commentary fellas. Subscribed!

[@pairashootpants5373]

This is my new favorite channel!

[@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!!

[@mikepalmer2219]

Lol…I have no words for this movie. Lol.

[@KarlKapo]

There is a good fanmade musicvideo about this film. Skat Bros song Walk the Night 😆

[@Supreme2k]

6:11 A real , older yearbook with an obviously pasted-in new picture. Everyone else has that slightly blurry, Xerox-looking tone, and his is in HD.

[@r2aul]

Just discovered this channel. SOOO great!

[@euphenasiusamdignemon5375]

LMAO "Youre gay"

[@domakesaythink00]

I love this movie and it’s got a great score featuring the germs. The photography is so gritty and one of the few to capture that scene inNYC. I think it’s interesting how it transfers who is the killer and you can def see there are multiple killers alluded to throughout, but I understand the issue people have with “becoming gay and then becoming a murderer.” I will say that the BDSM and men penetrating men metaphor does work well, though. Glad that the algorithm recommended your podcast although I do take exception to the flippancy you have to the great Friedkin Pacino vehicle that is CRUISING

[@ryanjacobson2508]

Also, it's a commentary on sexual identity confusion (and perhaps anger) manifesting into violence.

[@adamburgins441]

Getting debriefed after getting debriefed

[@plissken2156]

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

[@RazorsEdge1810]

Pretty sure this was his first movie!

[@ginabeena6757]

Howling!! 🤣😂

[@mickeynonya9837]

The director used different actors as the killer in different scenes but used the same voice for all of them. According to the director, it was to highlight the fact that there were really multiple murders. He never claims that Pacino's character is one of the killers, but he does leave it open to speculation.

[@seancatacombs]

I'm so dense that the first time I saw that ending I thought "wait... the girlfriend is the killer??"

[@Sd12sx23]

Good breakdown, bit missed a few of my favorite details such as the whole bandana thing and "Are you a cop?"

[@paulclarke4776]

Legend says George Michael was auditioning for the sequel that time??.. 😂😂😂

[@TuriyanGold]

Classic: "We were just about to solve the Backpage emoticon codes and you guy's shut it down..."

[@Morgan-pw9tb]

I am In Great Pain From Dental surgery & You Men really Lift Me Up ! 🏳‍🌈 You Made me Laugh ! LOVE YOU !

[@Morgan-pw9tb]

THE Three TOPS ! The two tops.