Ok but they did. There is a lot about how they were constantly trying to find them, solve gay-on-gay murders, working undercover. but yes, the early years of crying discrimination spread rumors that surely they must be biased against these fragile little faberge-eggs. The problem is the NYPD did show their work and far too many homosexuals 'didnt see nuffin' and didn't even know why they were being questioned since they were obviously not homosexuals! Anyway, on the upside, AIDS found a lot of the gay serial killers and gave them death sentences so it's all a moot point after all.
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 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.
@@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.
@@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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Or bisexual. He clearly liked women. Hence his girlfriend. Before Pacino’s descent into the gay leather bar scene, he seemed sexually satisfied. Just that his bisexuality awakened and he got really freaked out.
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!" 😂
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.
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!
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
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.
Best thing I've watched on UA-cam 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.
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….”
I saw a comment a guy made on a different Cruisin' UA-cam 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!"
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!
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.
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.
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”.
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.
Like good wine, Cruising has improved with age. It’s a genuine classic of early gay cinema and it also works brilliantly as a psychosexual thriller with Freudian overtones.
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.
I Absolutely Love this Film. The Controversy that surrounded it. Pacino. Paul Sorvino. Ed O'Neil. The Mysterious Look: Black & Blue. The Bizarre Open Ending. Brilliant Cinema.
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.
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.
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.
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😂
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.
Thank you so much for making this episode. I saw this movie on Netflix, on a whim, a decade ago, thinking it'd be like Serpico, thinking it's Pacino so it's gotta be good. The fucking interrogation absolutely floored me. It's one of those scenes, where you can't talk about it, but you can't stop thinking about it, and you hesitate to recommend the movie to anyone.
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 😂
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.
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.
@@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.
"The 70's were about taking risks, and sometimes they didn't pay off." Having watched the documentary "Gay Sex in the 70's" I can confirm this to be true. (The risk is unprotected orgies down at the docks and the "not paying off" is everyone getting AIDS)
“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!
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.
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.
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..😂😂😂😂😂
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."
Really great insight here. For a "upper-middle class white boy" you have a lot of finessed wisdom. Most people don't seek to grow and mature like that, and I just love seeing it.
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. 👍🏾
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.
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.
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!
This is my absolute new favorite channel. I actually think it’s more fun if you haven’t seen the movie. This one blew my mind! I had to show my husband. Please do more films! It’s bananas!❤❤
I was 17 & ran the film society at school - Harrow, it's charter signed by Quuen Elizabeth the FIRST,though the school was older - I was VERY dyslexic & we had had various parents,who were in/on periphery of the film world,to say we were policed would have been wildly misleading, I'd put "Cruising" in with little hope of getting it,but,we ended up with a pre UK release which has also not been given a rating by the British Film Board! I had run the film club since i was 14 - Helmut Berger,was one of my godfathers & through him we got an uncut version of "The Dammed" & his version of "Dorian Gray"; he very sweetly gave a Q&A session after each film,which we screened as a double bill. The only film they - the teachers/school board,gave a resounding NO to - was "Deep Throat" - which TBH I had put on the list as a red herring - I knew we'd never have it passed, but, I really wanted to see it - "Crusing" as I'd worked as a 'gopher - durring summer of 1979,when the main bulk of the movie was filmed - Karen Allen was a sweetheart & Pacino was a force of nature,but,very kind. I wanted to see it as there were subliminal shots throughout the film,i believe only one made through to the final cut. It's a cult classic now on so many levels & it deserves every plaudit it has rescievd over the years. When word got out at school - 700++ boys,up to age 18/19 - we actually had to put on three screenings: the general consensus was it was awesome. Just seeing this clip & the whole film earlier this year,not only is the film still a fresh as when it was made. Not something you can say about many of the films of that time.. Thank you for the clip & the amusing & erudite discussion. Sending very best wishes to you&yours & have very HAPPY HOLIDAYS.🎉
Great fun you guys. Pacino was so miscast here. Young Al Bundy in the interrogation scene. Ajax has changed his gang. And Joe Spinell just being himself.
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” 🤣
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
Short, sweet, and funny; you guys make great videos! Watched this on broadcast tv in high school just a couple of years after it came out and it was definitely a strange ride.
There's a version of this that actually works; where Pachino's character gets violent and crazy, but he's either driven to do so by external expectations, and/or denial of his own feelings once exposed to the possibility of being gay; not because gays drove him crazy lol
-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!
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Most unbelievable part is that the nypd would give a shit about a serial killer targeting gay men in the 80s
The saddest like that I’ve ever liked.
... I mean... literally in the case of Jeffrey Dahmer...
@@Teddy-ApolloW1tness Milwaukee infamous!!!
Ok but they did. There is a lot about how they were constantly trying to find them, solve gay-on-gay murders, working undercover. but yes, the early years of crying discrimination spread rumors that surely they must be biased against these fragile little faberge-eggs. The problem is the NYPD did show their work and far too many homosexuals 'didnt see nuffin' and didn't even know why they were being questioned since they were obviously not homosexuals! Anyway, on the upside, AIDS found a lot of the gay serial killers and gave them death sentences so it's all a moot point after all.
It's interesting. It's based on actual events.
“Ok Al Pacino, we’re gonna need you to really get that bussy workin’”
mussy. But close enough LOL
Think he says bussy.
@@dy120481 yep, definitely bussy
Good lord you just said bussy.😂😂😂
Literally the gayest thing Ive ever heard
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.
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.
@@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.
In the Kubrick version the black guy is wearing a bear head...but still has the jockstrap on. 🤣🤣🤣
@@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.
@@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.
The way the guy goes, after the second slap, “WHO IS THAT GUY?” gets me every time. Comic gold.
"Well Pacino, Im sure glad that all of that gay stuff's over" I laughed so hard I woke up my flatmate 😂
Ha! That’s great.
@@thisagedgreat love you stuff mate. Please don't stop making these, I sense the algorithm will show you some love soon
@@-Eternal-Damnation- it already is. I just went a ton of them and I love how short they are.
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.
Movie didn't convey that well.
@@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.
I've never heard that black cowboy explanation before, but it's kinda brilliant.
Cowboys wear jock straps?
Damn, that’s why they did that to me 😂
When this was first released, I saw this movie in a suburban mall. After half hour the theatre cleared.
😂
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.
@@LeftysLefty did they die taking azt?
@@LeftysLeftyI'm sorry for your losses. That sounds like it must have been a heartbreaking time. Hope you are well now
@@wunderdoggy HIV kills people, not AZT, you crank
This whole breakdown had me rolling but then..He looks into camera, as if to say "oh your gayyyy" 😂 I fking lost it.
Flippin hilairious.
Yea that killed. I'm so blown away about this movie I don't even know what to think!
same lol
Bruh, that shit nearly killed me. This is one of the funniest things ive seen in a while.
_MAYBE YOU WERE THE GAY MURDERER ALL ALONG!_
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.
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.
nah he was 100 a hetero
Or bisexual. He clearly liked women. Hence his girlfriend. Before Pacino’s descent into the gay leather bar scene, he seemed sexually satisfied. Just that his bisexuality awakened and he got really freaked out.
Pacino def Clapped the Neighbor's Cheeks
I guess Homophobia is alive and well on UA-cam...
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!" 😂
Idk why but Pacino Scarface accent makes his lines funnier in all movies
Thanks to you I JUST now got what they were referencing in Clerks: The Animated Series.
@@MatthewHerman-xx8bw Haha I read this like the Devil monologueing in Devils Advocate. Still great.
There’s irony calling it fun-sized.
@@ManTheMaker And here I am reading it like "Scent of a Woman" and ending every line with "hoo-ah."
"Well, Pacino, glad that gay stuff's over"
-Karen Allen, Cruising, 1980
Al's a terrible dancer in Cruising. He's a terrible dancer in Scarface
he's a perfect dancer in jack and jill
A horrible dancer in Carlito's Way too.
The WORST DANCER! And then he hit the poppers……I think that was improvised, too! He’s so “method.”
If you get tangled up, just tango on
he was a terrible cuban in scarface too!
That is some AGGRESSIVE dancing.. Also, RIP Radio Shack
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.
"Accidentally"
Can't Stop The Music
Greatest movie ever 'cant stop the music ' was! 💯
So bizarre that it has to be true! Bwahahahaha!
Ah right around the time Richard Pryor threw slurs in front of a 🏳️🌈 pride parade in West Hollywood
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!
Ever see "Kentucky Fried Movie"? That seen in "Cruising" always reminds me of Big Jim Slade.
Lmao
Karen Allen went from this right into Raiders of the Lost Ark. Talk about whiplash
Apparently took the role w/o seeing a full script.
Actually believe it or not, but Spielberg almost directed Cruising.
dont forget she was in animal house too
Straight from a masterpiece into slop
"Top off." That is brilliant.
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
😮😂😂😂😂
I love the idea of Al Pacino's girlfriend just calling him "Pacino"
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.
Just as bold might be 1974's "Dog Day Afternoon". I think it was in 74...
@ShamrockParticle Yes
Best thing I've watched on UA-cam 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.
I went with my buddy to see Cruising years ago thinkin it was along the lines of American Graffiti…..it was not.
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….”
It must have felt like the equivalent of accidentally walking into the “Blue Oyster” club from the Police Academy movies 😂 * queue the trumpets 🎺 *
@@pboissie DA DA DA, DUH DUH, DA
I saw a comment a guy made on a different Cruisin' UA-cam 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!"
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!
Whoa, what magic have I stumbled onto?!? This is the funniest and most insightful shit I’ve ever heard
Thank you so much!
This is the most perfect explanation to this movie EVER!!! I could listen to you interpret every movie.
Yes! Every movie ever!
The black guy in the jockstrap made me think of Big Jim Slade from Kentucky Fried Movie. LOL!
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.
I would pay to watch Mommie Dearest with you guys over some cocktails. Definitely needs to be on your list for a future video.
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.
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”.
sad
@@f.kieranfinney457
It was.
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.
Ahhh, I see. Thanks for making that make sense. 😊
Like good wine, Cruising has improved with age. It’s a genuine classic of early gay cinema and it also works brilliantly as a psychosexual thriller with Freudian overtones.
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.
I Absolutely Love this Film. The Controversy that surrounded it. Pacino. Paul Sorvino. Ed O'Neil. The Mysterious Look: Black & Blue. The Bizarre Open Ending. Brilliant Cinema.
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.
He was closeted. We all know
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.
True!
Yes! No one ever brings this fact up.
Interesting 🤔
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.
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😂
This was possibly the best description of this movie - hilarious 😂😂😂😂
I just found your channel. I haven’t laughed so hard in a while. Thank you! Keep it up.
Thank you so much! We will.
This had me rolling in my chair. Both literally and metaphorically.
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.
This synopsis is so hilarious! The jockstrapped, black man was insane, but so was Pacino doing poppers on the dancefloor!
Thank you so much for making this episode. I saw this movie on Netflix, on a whim, a decade ago, thinking it'd be like Serpico, thinking it's Pacino so it's gotta be good. The fucking interrogation absolutely floored me. It's one of those scenes, where you can't talk about it, but you can't stop thinking about it, and you hesitate to recommend the movie to anyone.
04:00 was that Delroy Lindo!?! 😂 invented by Tom Cruise This was the best!!! 😂😂😂
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 😂
I completely forgot about this movie. Listening to your take on it is sooo hilarious 😂. Keep up the good work 👍
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.
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.
@@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.
"The 70's were about taking risks, and sometimes they didn't pay off." Having watched the documentary "Gay Sex in the 70's" I can confirm this to be true. (The risk is unprotected orgies down at the docks and the "not paying off" is everyone getting AIDS)
“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!
Ditto!!
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.
This is the greatest movie review I've ever seen. 😅
"good cop, bad cop, Black guy" 😂😂
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.
One of my favorite movies ever. I NEED A 4K STEELBOOK RELEASE OF THIS MOVIE ASAP!!!!!!
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?
Seems most likely. Also if he was going over the top to hide his latent homosexuality, well then, I’m a popsicle
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The BEST movie review about a gay film I've ever watched, it's hilarious! Do more gay film reviews!
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..😂😂😂😂😂
Cruising isn't a gay film
Annnd the Joe Spinell cameo for the win!!!
Fantastic movie! Great soundtrack, too!
I laughed so hard, seriously guys please do The Jerk.
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."
Really great insight here. For a "upper-middle class white boy" you have a lot of finessed wisdom. Most people don't seek to grow and mature like that, and I just love seeing it.
Since when is integration their "job" ?
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this whole series is SOLID GOLD!!!
I watched this movie many years ago... you guys have encouraged me to do so again with a new, almost humorous perspective. *aCk!!
Three seconds into the video, and I'm howling. 🤣
Thank you sooooo much! I had no idea this movie existed.
You are HILARIOUS!! 😂😂😂 I don’t even know how I wound up on this channel but I’m never leaving! 😂
This is the best analysis of cruising btw yall so funny 😂😂😂 im subscribing
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. 👍🏾
Holy shit my ribs are killing me😂 that was fkn funny😂😂😂
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.
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.
"There are many many holes in this movie" Seriously??? LMAO!
@antoniogarrett1176 TX, not heard of it but will seek it out
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!
This is my absolute new favorite channel. I actually think it’s more fun if you haven’t seen the movie. This one blew my mind! I had to show my husband. Please do more films! It’s bananas!❤❤
I was 17 & ran the film society at school - Harrow, it's charter signed by Quuen Elizabeth the FIRST,though the school was older - I was VERY dyslexic & we had had various parents,who were in/on periphery of the film world,to say we were policed would have been wildly misleading, I'd put "Cruising" in with little hope of getting it,but,we ended up with a pre UK release which has also not been given a rating by the British Film Board!
I had run the film club since i was 14 - Helmut Berger,was one of my godfathers & through him we got an uncut version of "The Dammed" & his version of "Dorian Gray"; he very sweetly gave a Q&A session after each film,which we screened as a double bill.
The only film they - the teachers/school board,gave a resounding NO to - was "Deep Throat" - which TBH I had put on the list as a red herring - I knew we'd never have it passed, but, I really wanted to see it - "Crusing" as I'd worked as a 'gopher - durring summer of 1979,when the main bulk of the movie was filmed - Karen Allen was a sweetheart & Pacino was a force of nature,but,very kind. I wanted to see it as there were subliminal shots throughout the film,i believe only one made through to the final cut.
It's a cult classic now on so many levels & it deserves every plaudit it has rescievd over the years.
When word got out at school - 700++ boys,up to age 18/19 - we actually had to put on three screenings: the general consensus was it was awesome. Just seeing this clip & the whole film earlier this year,not only is the film still a fresh as when it was made. Not something you can say about many of the films of that time..
Thank you for the clip & the amusing & erudite discussion. Sending very best wishes to you&yours & have very HAPPY HOLIDAYS.🎉
Thank you YT algorithm gods for this random gift of hilarity 😂
Looks at the camera “oh your gay” 😂😂 😂 I snort laughed
Great fun you guys. Pacino was so miscast here. Young Al Bundy in the interrogation scene. Ajax has changed his gang. And Joe Spinell just being himself.
This was the best movie recap i have ever gotten 🤣
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.
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 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻💌
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” 🤣
me too!!
Just across this video by accident. HILARIOUS! 😂 I’m subscribed!
This was pretty hilarious. Thanks guys
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
Thank you!
this is my new favourite channel ever stopppp guys. stop
Short, sweet, and funny; you guys make great videos! Watched this on broadcast tv in high school just a couple of years after it came out and it was definitely a strange ride.
There's a version of this that actually works; where Pachino's character gets violent and crazy, but he's either driven to do so by external expectations, and/or denial of his own feelings once exposed to the possibility of being gay; not because gays drove him crazy lol
This video has the funniest mention of ‘steak knives’ ever since the Alec Baldwin scene on Glengarry Glen Ross 😂
A down low bank robber on a hot dog day afternoon turns into a cruising undercover cop who is down low
-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!
"he's the only guy in town with knives"
They also stay at the St. James Hotel on W. 45th St in the movie Big
This is my new favorite channel!
This is the way I felt about this movie.
❤I saw this movie at London movie theatre year 1980.❤love from Finland
I love they're laugh...
Soo awesome
OMG this commentary was SOOO funny 😂😂👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻
And as we all know, two tops don’t make a bottom.
But they sure as hell could break one tho.😂
Funny to see James Remar and few seconds later a park at night that looks exactely that the one in The Warriors.
Howling!! 🤣😂
Just discovered this channel. SOOO great!
I always wanted to see this. This is funny! You've earned my subscription.
Omg🥰the second I heard your laughter I subscribed!! 🤗 I needed this after the day I had!! Thank you mucho!!!
Killing it Ben!!!! 😂😂