Why I Watch Crappy Movies
I watched a re-run of the movie 'Cocktail' last night on some movie channel. It might have been Showtime or Encore. Who knows really, there are so many these days. I know for a fact that I hadn't seen the movie in decades, a fact that makes me feel pretty old. I've been alive enough decades to not watch a movie for decades. Yipes. Well, 'Cocktail', classic that it is, came out in the summer of 1988 (thank you, Wikipedia for the information). I knew it came out when I was in college because one of my college friends and I used to play the soundtrack over and over, along with the soundtracks for 'Dirty Dancing' and 'Top Gun'. She had them on CD, I was still buying mostly cassette tapes. Yes, it was assuredly the 80s. I gotta tell you, 'Cocktail' didn't get any better since my last viewing. It was never a great movie, ever. It had Tom Cruise (and Elisabeth Shue...more on that in a moment) and that was apparently plenty back in the day....