I don't know what you people are talking about. The description clearly says 1988, not 1998. And I certainly wouldn't have entered the wrong year by mistake and corrected it afterwards because I'm infallible as you well know.
I think it's funny how, with this review, you ran out of stuff to talk about the primary film, "Cocktail", at 10:41 and then talked about other bad films from that year.
I think there's an even simpler answer to the riddle of why this movie won Worst Picture than Rain Man - this movie itself was a massive hit, the 9th highest-grossing movie of the year in fact! So basically a similar situation to the Rambo movie.
The making of Cocktail was mainly the inspiration behind the creation of TGI Fridays. It all started when Alan Stillman opened the first TGI Fridays restaurant in 1965, in New York. He lived in a neighborhood with many airline stewardesses, fashion models, secretaries, and other young, single people on the East Side of Manhattan near the Queensboro Bridge and hoped that opening a bar would help him meet women. At the time, Stillman's choices for socializing were non-public cocktail parties or beer-drinking taverns that women usually did not visit. He said that "There was no public place for people between, say, 23 to 37 years old, to meet." He sought to recreate the comfortable cocktail party atmosphere in public despite having no experience in the restaurant business. Sounds a bit like Tom Cruise's character learning the bartending business.
2:31-2:37 - Well, to be fair, Obi-Wan wasn't exactly a saint in the original trilogy. 4:02-4:09 - Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God-given right. 7:55 - And he drank himself even stupider when he made The Mummy. Come on, you all knew this was coming. 9:24 - Doesn't have nearly as much ring to it as "You complete me."
Well that and the fact that the kid in the wheelchair is played by an actual wheelchair user. That’s pretty cool and super progressive 1988. Hell it’s pretty progressive for 2021
@@peterkrug2327 Haven't seen Hot To Trot but I'll go ahead and believe that it's terrible. Out of the two of these that I have seen (Rambo III and Mac and Me) Sean got it right by saying Rambo III was at least fun despite being bad and Mac and Me is a godawful piece of shit.
@@matthewdaley746 Yes you are correct, but there are still parts of Rambo III that I like (the scene where he hangs a guy and then blows him up for example), but compared to the rest of the shit he talked about Rambo III is the least bad.
I'm sitting here, listening to this video, while doing something else. As he begins to talk about the other films at great length I think "he should've called this video 'Cocktail and More."
Me at 3 AM: must go to sleep. Smeghead: Uploads new Cinematic Excrement episode. Me: Sleep can wait for another 23 minutes. Damn you, Smeghead. You and your hilarious videos.
TGI Fridays in the '80s was primarily a bar and nightspot, my dude. I used to work there. It wasn't until the '90s that they pushed into becoming more "family friendly."
Larry Wolf That’s interesting to learn. 🤔 It reminds me of Friends when Central Perk used to be a bar and had pool tables around before they converted the place into a coffee shop, also becoming more of a family friendly environment. 😮
Sorry to barge in a five-month-old comment, but consider this Larry: Sean is, at his oldest, in his early-to-mid thirties, so he only knew TGIF as a family casual dining spot. Maybe a little research wouldn´t have hurt, but it´s understandable.
Hot to Trot's horse definition should've just stated that "a horse is a horse of course, of course. And no one can talk to a horse, of course". (Mr. Ed theme.)
Some bars do get so busy that 10-20 people just shout their orders at the bartender. But that's usually a nightclub on a Saturday night or an actual bar during a big sports game and both of those cases usually don't happen that much. It sure as hell doesn't happen at a restaurant bar like TGI Fridays or Applebees.
I agree that "Hot to Trot" is worse than "Cocktail" and it's even worse than "Caddyshack II". John Candy was a waste of good talent and Bobcat Goldthwait like Nick Swardson in "Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star" is not leading man material, but a side comic relief.
@ I should have. My sister divorced him since then, and the guy was actually lazier than I made him out to be. I was going by the info I had at the time
One summer when I was in high school I worked for a few weeks at the delivery dock of a hospital. We'd take deliveries and bring them to the appropriate part of the hospital. My boss was a dumb high-school dropout who really thought he'd arrived in life because he was in charge of 2 other people. I remember him talking about how he loved Bobcat Goldthwaite.
Me: wait, it took 10 minutes to read Cocktail to filth? What’s happening with the second half? *mentions the other Razzie nominees* Me: oh, okay. Never mind.
Fun fact about Hot to Trot, Bobcat knew it was bad but his agent drew a dollar sign on it after Bobcat asked why he would do it and the experience of filming the movie was so bad that it led to him to becoming a filmmaker, I highly recommend Bobcat’s movie Worlds Greatest Dad
Cobra with Sylvester Stallone is my favorite bad action movie from the 80's. The plot doesn't make any sense and Brigitte Nielsen can't act to save her life. It's a prototypical Cannon movie.
Yeah, I agree, putting it up against Hot To Trot and Mac And Me, Cocktail isn't that bad. And I looked up what won the next year. The question for next time, what does God need with a starship? 😉
There's 1998 instead of 1988 in your description by mistake. Get it corrected soon. The video rocks, btw. Good to see you mentioned all the other nominees too and how they stacked up against Cocktail.
It didn't help that Cocktail came out the same year as another Tom Cruise film, Rain Man. In Rain Man, Tom Cruise plays Charlie Babbitt opposite Dustin Hoffman who plays his autistic older brother Raymond.
You missed the perfect opportunity to play Kokomo by The Beach Boys in the credits. That song came from the Cocktail soundtrack and was a #1 hit. Perhaps some Razzie voters were Brian Wilson fans and wanted to stick it to Mike Love. What'cha doing next? Oh, it's Star Trek V. I hope this is one of the times the Razzies got it right.
That's probably the best thing to come out of that movie. "Kokomo" is one of my favorite songs from The Beach Boys. I'm also guessing the Smeghead didn't put it in the credits to avoid a copyright strike.
"I hope this is one of the times the Razzies got it right." Oh boy, did they. Star Trek V stars William Shatner... and his ego, is directed by William Shatner... and his ego. Notice the problem? :D
Here's who else was considered for the roles of Brian, Coughlin, and Jordan: Brian: 1.Jeff Bridges 2.Jim Carrey 3.Steve Guttenberg 4.Tom Hanks (couldn't accept the role due to scheduling conflicts with Big) 5.Rob Lowe 6.Bill Murray (was busy with Scrooged) 7.Keanu Reeves (was busy with Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure) 8.Charlie Sheen 9.John Travolta 10.Robin Williams 11.Ted McGinley 12.Michael Keaton 13.Matthew Broderick Coughlin: 1.Jack Nicholson 2.Dustin Hoffman 3.Michael Caine 4.Dudley Moore 5.Paul Newman Jordan: 1.Jodie Foster 2.Heather Graham (was busy with License to Drive) 3.Jennifer Grey 4.Daryl Hannah 5.Jennifer Jason Leigh 6.Demi Moore 7.Sarah Jessica Parker 8.Molly Ringwald 9.Ally Sheedy
I've been a barman. I have had this exact experience of having EVERYONE at the bar shouting at me. It got so bad I had to get a bouncer to stand by the bar to stop customers from threatening to kill me because I took too long to serve them. Also had a sixpack stolen from behind the counter. Bartending is a horror.
I would personally prefer, “Next time, we are going to Boldly go where no man has gone before.” This means on Cinematic Excrement episode 114: we are going to take a look at Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier.
Similar to how Cruise was nominated for both & worst actor at the same time, Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Want To Miss a Thing” was nominated for both best & worst original song at the same time as well.
This trope always irritates me to no end; the young, ambitious person who says they have no plans to start a family (have kids) that ALWAYS ends up changing their mind. Would it kill Hollywood to have at least a few characters stick to their guns when it comes to children? Not everyone wants them or has to have them; this ain't the 1950s anymore.
Okay I usually think Bobcat's schtick gets tiresome but that seems to be because the people behind the camera don't know when enough is enough. But you should check out Shakes The Clown if you haven't already. Bobcat directed and stars in it, and Martin Scorsese calls it the Citizen Kane of drunken clown movies.
@@B.-T. It's no masterpiece or anything, but it's definitely better than its reception would suggest. Some parts are dated, but anything looks great next to "Theodore Rex". Also, it's worth watching for Lesley Ann Warren's performance alone.
I hate that I’m old enough to know this.... T.G.I. Friday’s ny was actually the place that popularized the style of bottle flipping etc for the mainstream. It was famous for it at this time so it’s probably not unreasonable to show a scene like this - as it would have seemed exotic to everyone else / but a weekend at T.G.I. Friday’s The restaurant is nothing like it used to be in the 80s and you’ve only seen this in Vegas because of Friday’s back then. Great video as always my man!
For me personally I agree with you Hot to Trot is not only bad it's not even so bad it's good while Mac and Me would be a close second one of the upsides is that it gave Paul Rudd his favorite prank to pull on Conan. I feel like Bobcat is a better director while just ok as a supporting actor provided he's given a good script two good examples are his roles in Hercules as Pain and the guy who goes crazy in Scrooged.
The only thing I remember about “Hot to Trot” was that there were print ads with a 1-900 number you could call, I am guessing to talk to the horse? I am probably the only person who remembers this. Damnit.
I don't remember anyone disliking this film when it came out. Jamie Foxx even used call Cruise, 'Mr. Cocktail', because the film was so successful. Cocktail was the 7th highest grossing movie of 1988. To compare, Beetlejuice was 10th. I think since people now see the RT score, they automatically think that's how the film was thought of back then, but it was not. Rotten Tomatoes wasn't even around when the movie came out. Cocktail is a really good movie.
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The director of this film would later go on to direct one of the best sci-fi horror films of the '90s "Species". And also others such as "Dante's Peak" and "The Recruit".
Tom Cruise went from "Top Gun" and "The Color of Money" to this, because being a cocky bartender is an extension to his range of being a cocky Navy fighter jet pilot and a cocky pool hustler.
There's a bar & grill in my city called "Coughlin's Law" that I had assumed was in an old law office or owned by former lawyers or something like that. I didn't realize the name actually came from this movie until just now.
My very first thought when I saw the title was, "No. No. No. NO! COCKTAIL WAS A CLASSIC-! Actually, it was pretty terrible wasn't it?" Thank you for showing me the light. And this was before I even got one second into the video.
Fun (personal) fact: I actually saw Mac and Me before I saw E.T. Let me explain. E.T. was in theaters the year I was born and I am guessing my family had seen it because I was flat out forbidden from watching it. My grandma thought the movie was too violent if memory serves so Mac and Me was something I watched instead. Despite the fact that I am very well aware that it is a crappy movie, I still have fond memories of watching it (remember I like Hudson Hawk and Howard the Duck so... I am very familiar with cinematic excrement). My grandma didn't like it... but enjoyed watching it with me. Another fun fact: I was forbidden from watching E.T. but I used to watch Alien Nation the television series with my grandma (yes, the same one). She had... weird rules. Some things I wasn't allowed to watch and yet other things was perfectly fine. Wasn't allowed to watch Nightmare on Elm Street nor Friday the 13th... but watched the sequels with her full knowledge (Also watched Tales from the Crypt and Tales From The Otherside). Wasn't allowed to watch Heavy Metal (I doubt I need to explain why) by my DAD, my grandma said it would be fine. :D Her logic with that one was: "It's a cartoon... she loves cartoons!" Enjoyed listening to my dad try to tell my grandma why I couldn't... while they were actively watching it and she was in the same room. My family is weird.
ET has Reece’s Pieces. Mac and Me has Skittles, Coca Cola, and the biggest one: McDonald’s. Too much product placement is not a good idea. Meet the Spartans took excessive product placement to whole new heights!
Cocktail is Kind of a Diss-Movie against Tom Cruise if you listen closer to the Dialogs told to Tom's Character. The Movie would be great if there actualy wouldn't be a Happy-Ending. I would make the Ending like this: His Girlfriend doesn't forgive him and he gets then beaten up by the Bodyguards of her Dad and get kicked out to the Streets. He becames a total lunatic Stalker then and after he cathes her up to try to talk to her again then she uses a Protection-Spray on him and calls the Police. He gets arrested and later he commits Suicide by hanging himself up in Jail. That would be such a wonderful Ending and the Movie would be so much better :)
Another interesting fact about "Cocktail" is that it was directed by Roger Donaldson. The year before directed the Kevin Costner movie "No Way Out" which is one of the best political thrillers ever made. Strange.
What’s with the ageism? Why are you judgemental of lovers with an age gap? That’s a bit shallow. You also haven’t paid attention to the details of the film. He didn’t just run into Jordan in New York, she told him when they met that she worked at Jerrys Deli. Also, Coughlin admitted he was full of shit in his suicide note. I know it’s not a great film but Tom Cruise and Elizabeth Shue are fun to watch and the 80s nostalgia in the film is wonderful.
Actually his uncle didn’t know coglin. He just stumbled across the building and saw the help wanted sign one day after he realizes that community college isn’t for him. Yea, I know critics hated this movie but I’ve prob seen this 50 plus times. It’s literally the reason Tom is my fav actor! Oh yea, he doesn’t hunt him down either, he is on his honeymoon with ms lynch and they randomly meet again!! Yea I know, the screenplay has many flaws but I still love it
You might wanna double check the description...unless I'm mistaken, Cocktail and Rain Man (which I'm assuming "Tom Cruise Starred in the Best Picture of the year" is referring to) were 1988 movies, not 1998.
My theory is Caddyshack 2, Knock off Mr. Ed and Knock off ET were seen as entertainingly terrible where making fun of them would be enjoyable whereas Cocktail is just mediocre.
I don't know what you people are talking about. The description clearly says 1988, not 1998. And I certainly wouldn't have entered the wrong year by mistake and corrected it afterwards because I'm infallible as you well know.
I think it's funny how, with this review, you ran out of stuff to talk about the primary film, "Cocktail", at 10:41 and then talked about other bad films from that year.
Did your mic cut out near the end? Because I can tell the last 5 minutes or so were dubbed
I think there's an even simpler answer to the riddle of why this movie won Worst Picture than Rain Man - this movie itself was a massive hit, the 9th highest-grossing movie of the year in fact! So basically a similar situation to the Rambo movie.
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The making of Cocktail was mainly the inspiration behind the creation of TGI Fridays. It all started when Alan Stillman opened the first TGI Fridays restaurant in 1965, in New York. He lived in a neighborhood with many airline stewardesses, fashion models, secretaries, and other young, single people on the East Side of Manhattan near the Queensboro Bridge and hoped that opening a bar would help him meet women. At the time, Stillman's choices for socializing were non-public cocktail parties or beer-drinking taverns that women usually did not visit. He said that "There was no public place for people between, say, 23 to 37 years old, to meet." He sought to recreate the comfortable cocktail party atmosphere in public despite having no experience in the restaurant business. Sounds a bit like Tom Cruise's character learning the bartending business.
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That sounds more interesting than Cocktail.
At best, Cocktail is a Flashdance story for men - contrivance included.
what, were there three other guys doing the actual bottle juggling?
2:31-2:37 - Well, to be fair, Obi-Wan wasn't exactly a saint in the original trilogy.
4:02-4:09 - Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God-given right.
7:55 - And he drank himself even stupider when he made The Mummy. Come on, you all knew this was coming.
9:24 - Doesn't have nearly as much ring to it as "You complete me."
Does him reviewing the other nominees count for your list?
@@MrChaotic4 Yes, I'm just waiting for the episodes to air.
@@dvass7253 I'm talking about Rambo III, Hot to Trot, Caddyshack II and Mac and Me since he more or less reviewed them in this episode.
@@MrChaotic4 I see. Well, I do plan on covering all the previous Rambo movies before Last Blood comes out.
@@MrChaotic4 No. I'll keep the list as it is.
Paul Rudd going onto Conan and having the clip of Mac and Me play almost every time is a great story and makes Mac and me worth it.
Those aren't Mac and Me clips. Those are the actual footage of his latest film. JK those are highlights.
Well that and the fact that the kid in the wheelchair is played by an actual wheelchair user. That’s pretty cool and super progressive 1988. Hell it’s pretty progressive for 2021
"Mac and Me" should have won Worst Picture of 1988. It's a terrible "ET" rip off that Steven Spielberg should have sued whoever directed this movie.
Do you think "Mac And Me" is worse than "Hot To Trot"?
@@peterkrug2327 Haven't seen Hot To Trot but I'll go ahead and believe that it's terrible. Out of the two of these that I have seen (Rambo III and Mac and Me) Sean got it right by saying Rambo III was at least fun despite being bad and Mac and Me is a godawful piece of shit.
Spielberg was dating Kate Capshaw and working on "Always" and the third Indiana Jones movie. He didn't give a toss, he was too busy.
The director also made a film called “Tammy and the T-Rex.” It is so bad, it’s AMAZING!!!!
@@johnschou2172
The uncut version of *"Tammy & The T-Rex"* got 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Cocktails is great! I'm writing a similar script based on my own life. Gas Station cashier superstar.
In a state that bans self-service. Otherwise it will be a short sad movie.
A more accurate title should be episode #113: Cocktail & More
I actually liked the & More part better.
@@matthewdaley746 OK well I never saw it. The only ones I have seen are Mac and Me and Rambo III.
@@matthewdaley746 Yes you are correct, but there are still parts of Rambo III that I like (the scene where he hangs a guy and then blows him up for example), but compared to the rest of the shit he talked about Rambo III is the least bad.
I'm sitting here, listening to this video, while doing something else. As he begins to talk about the other films at great length I think "he should've called this video 'Cocktail and More."
Most likely because Cocktail didn’t have enough material and also because its win was baffling given the competition.
Me at 3 AM: must go to sleep.
Smeghead: Uploads new Cinematic Excrement episode.
Me: Sleep can wait for another 23 minutes. Damn you, Smeghead. You and your hilarious videos.
TGI Fridays in the '80s was primarily a bar and nightspot, my dude. I used to work there. It wasn't until the '90s that they pushed into becoming more "family friendly."
Larry Wolf That’s interesting to learn. 🤔 It reminds me of Friends when Central Perk used to be a bar and had pool tables around before they converted the place into a coffee shop, also becoming more of a family friendly environment. 😮
Matthew Daley I doubt it given that Starbucks is also a coffeehouse and anyone of any age can be there even though kids don’t really drink coffee.
Sorry to barge in a five-month-old comment, but consider this Larry: Sean is, at his oldest, in his early-to-mid thirties, so he only knew TGIF as a family casual dining spot. Maybe a little research wouldn´t have hurt, but it´s understandable.
Cocktail didn't deserve to win Worst picture.
Mac and me should've won instead.
Well they gave Ronald McDonald the worst new star award...
More like "Hot to Trot"
Mac and Me deserves a full episode
Hot to Trot's horse definition should've just stated that "a horse is a horse of course, of course. And no one can talk to a horse, of course".
(Mr. Ed theme.)
Some bars do get so busy that 10-20 people just shout their orders at the bartender. But that's usually a nightclub on a Saturday night or an actual bar during a big sports game and both of those cases usually don't happen that much. It sure as hell doesn't happen at a restaurant bar like TGI Fridays or Applebees.
“CONFOUND THIS MOVIE! IT DRIVES ME TO DRINK!”
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"A Runabout. I'LL STEAL IT! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!"
It drives me to listen to Kokomo by the Beach Boys. :)
@@matthewdaley746 I know of the Muppets' version, but I prefer the original Beach Boys version more.
@@matthewdaley746 Excuse me?
I agree that "Hot to Trot" is worse than "Cocktail" and it's even worse than "Caddyshack II". John Candy was a waste of good talent and Bobcat Goldthwait like Nick Swardson in "Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star" is not leading man material, but a side comic relief.
When the actuall Cocktail review ended at around 10:26 I thought "There's still 13 minutes to go... Oh, this should be good!"
I was right!
Just in time for my lunch break... on 3rd shift at the nursing home.
Same here.
I'm a Registered Nurse too and currently am on shift 4 out of 12... 🤘🏼😂
wstine79 Is that one of your residents in the thumbnail? (har-har)
@ nope. Just a prop I made.
wstine79 Okay, makes sense! It's seriously pretty cool.
I would poke fun at the Tom Cruise character not having aspirations, but I've met my brother in law, and the character is a ball of fire by comparison
@ Make sure your expectations are grounded in reality to avoid disappointment.
@ I should have. My sister divorced him since then, and the guy was actually lazier than I made him out to be. I was going by the info I had at the time
Thanks for uploading and the 5-in-1 review! Good stuff, funny as always!
One summer when I was in high school I worked for a few weeks at the delivery dock of a hospital. We'd take deliveries and bring them to the appropriate part of the hospital. My boss was a dumb high-school dropout who really thought he'd arrived in life because he was in charge of 2 other people. I remember him talking about how he loved Bobcat Goldthwaite.
The razzies really goofed up that year. I'm beginning to rethink my opinion on the razzies.
1993 they nominated Cliffhanger and Last Action Hero, neither of which is a particularly bad film.
@@punkgift underrated in my opinion. Even Indecent Proposal was meh at worst.
Cocktail probably won Worst Picture because it was a big hit financially.
In fairness though both Siskel and Ebert named Cocktail one of the ten worst movies of the year.
@@LinkMarioSamus worth noting though that Ebert gave it 2 out of 4 stars and Siskel gave it 2.5 out of 4 stars, so they both thought it was average
@@ruthlessaggressionguy2033 88 was a pretty good year for filmmaking.
@@frankieseward8667 absolutely. Rain man,
Big, midnight run, die hard, roger rabbit, stand and deliver, Mississippi burning. Great stuff
To think, the song Kokomo was written for this movie. Obviously, the song has eclipsed the movie several times over
Me: wait, it took 10 minutes to read Cocktail to filth? What’s happening with the second half?
*mentions the other Razzie nominees*
Me: oh, okay. Never mind.
Fun fact about Hot to Trot, Bobcat knew it was bad but his agent drew a dollar sign on it after Bobcat asked why he would do it and the experience of filming the movie was so bad that it led to him to becoming a filmmaker, I highly recommend Bobcat’s movie Worlds Greatest Dad
Cobra with Sylvester Stallone is my favorite bad action movie from the 80's. The plot doesn't make any sense and Brigitte Nielsen can't act to save her life. It's a prototypical Cannon movie.
It's so ridiculous and fun to watch.
It's the prototypical Cannon fare or Cannon fodder as it were.
Eh my favorite bad action film is Rambo: First Blood Part II
Yeah, I agree, putting it up against Hot To Trot and Mac And Me, Cocktail isn't that bad. And I looked up what won the next year. The question for next time, what does God need with a starship? 😉
Star Trek 5.
I actively refuse to believe that Hot to Trot is real.
In 1998? Your ten years off.
Also, thanks for giving us a 5-in-1 rview!!! You're the best, Sean!
LOVE it when I get a new cinematic excrement upload! Keep up the good work!
There's 1998 instead of 1988 in your description by mistake. Get it corrected soon. The video rocks, btw. Good to see you mentioned all the other nominees too and how they stacked up against Cocktail.
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I have to say that it’s about time he even talks about the other nominees.
It didn't help that Cocktail came out the same year as another Tom Cruise film, Rain Man. In Rain Man, Tom Cruise plays Charlie Babbitt opposite Dustin Hoffman who plays his autistic older brother Raymond.
You missed the perfect opportunity to play Kokomo by The Beach Boys in the credits. That song came from the Cocktail soundtrack and was a #1 hit. Perhaps some Razzie voters were Brian Wilson fans and wanted to stick it to Mike Love.
What'cha doing next? Oh, it's Star Trek V. I hope this is one of the times the Razzies got it right.
That's probably the best thing to come out of that movie. "Kokomo" is one of my favorite songs from The Beach Boys.
I'm also guessing the Smeghead didn't put it in the credits to avoid a copyright strike.
"I hope this is one of the times the Razzies got it right."
Oh boy, did they. Star Trek V stars William Shatner... and his ego, is directed by William Shatner... and his ego. Notice the problem? :D
I didn't even realize the last parts of your review were actually ADR
I expect Star Trek V is next
His 2nd classic Star Trek movie review.
He's already reviewed Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
@@wstine79 His third, actually. Let us not forget Spock's Brain.
Yeah but isn't Star Trek V a razzie winner?
Die - Hearts It was the Worst Picture winner of 1989 soooo
Here's who else was considered for the roles of Brian, Coughlin, and Jordan:
Brian:
1.Jeff Bridges
2.Jim Carrey
3.Steve Guttenberg
4.Tom Hanks (couldn't accept the role due to scheduling conflicts with Big)
5.Rob Lowe
6.Bill Murray (was busy with Scrooged)
7.Keanu Reeves (was busy with Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
8.Charlie Sheen
9.John Travolta
10.Robin Williams
11.Ted McGinley
12.Michael Keaton
13.Matthew Broderick
Coughlin:
1.Jack Nicholson
2.Dustin Hoffman
3.Michael Caine
4.Dudley Moore
5.Paul Newman
Jordan:
1.Jodie Foster
2.Heather Graham (was busy with License to Drive)
3.Jennifer Grey
4.Daryl Hannah
5.Jennifer Jason Leigh
6.Demi Moore
7.Sarah Jessica Parker
8.Molly Ringwald
9.Ally Sheedy
The "Is he, though?"-reference killed me! Well done, sir!
If Rambo III were released as a superhero film in the current year, it would win a fucking Oscar.
The book is dark, gritty, seedy, sleazy, funny in a black-humored way. It's a great read and this movie has none of that.
Blame executive meddling!
I wish someone would review the book.
I don't know if coglin is a peek into tom cruise's future as he has love intrests that are way younger than him.
TGI Friday's had a really different rep in the 80s. But your points remain valid.
I've been a barman. I have had this exact experience of having EVERYONE at the bar shouting at me. It got so bad I had to get a bouncer to stand by the bar to stop customers from threatening to kill me because I took too long to serve them. Also had a sixpack stolen from behind the counter. Bartending is a horror.
“Fuck that movie in all of its’ holes!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I guess Sean's gotta pull out the Kirk costume again for next time. Can't wait!
"Cocktail" is a typical 80's movie. Far from being the worst movie of that year.
I liked this movie as a kid, Elizabeth shue taking off the swimsuit was an early sexual awakening for me.
Fight me
The Colonel just wants Rambo back because he's the best... by default... the rest of their team is dead.
If you guys want a prime example of why Bobcat Goldthwait is sidekick material, he was the voice of Pain in Disney's Hercules.
I would personally prefer, “Next time, we are going to Boldly go where no man has gone before.”
This means on Cinematic Excrement episode 114: we are going to take a look at Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier.
"Keep Your Eye on the fruit!"
Well done Broski :)
13:33 Rambo didn't give us that line, Optimus Prime did in the Transformers episode War Dawn. That episode aired in 1986, two years before Rambo III.
That just shows how awesome OG Optimus was. Wish newer versions played him more like that. But now it's all serious. And if you're Bay, psychotic.
Shit movie, but the most clever tagline of all time.
"When he pours, he reins"
You are on of the most underrated TH-cam s
The only good thing that came out of this movie was Kokomo by the Beach Boys. Wouldn't you agree? I love that song!
Didn't expect cocktail to be so dull the Sean recaps the other nominees to bump the runtime, not that there was much to the plot.
Oh, you mentioned Mac and Me? You and Phelous can poke fun at it later on, maybe?
Now I want a full review of Hot to Trot.
Similar to how Cruise was nominated for both & worst actor at the same time, Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Want To Miss a Thing” was nominated for both best & worst original song at the same time as well.
2:01-2:09 This scene was using TV footage from October 10, 1987. Washington beat #13 Arizona State 27-14, Michigan State beat #12 Michigan 17-11.
Good research!
Thankyou for taking the time to review Cocktail. It's great and you're wrong.
A guy gets a bartending job and learns responsibility, which helps him improve his love life?
That's honestly a pretty good premise for a movie.
Yes it certainly is.
it hurts me to think about the hundreds of people that watched Cocktail and thought it was cool.
Been a month already!
Honestly who throws a Shue...away
Its hard to believe anything could be worse than Chaddyshack 2
I remember seeing this and giving it a review in the school paper. My first review ever!
This trope always irritates me to no end; the young, ambitious person who says they have no plans to start a family (have kids) that ALWAYS ends up changing their mind. Would it kill Hollywood to have at least a few characters stick to their guns when it comes to children? Not everyone wants them or has to have them; this ain't the 1950s anymore.
Okay I usually think Bobcat's schtick gets tiresome but that seems to be because the people behind the camera don't know when enough is enough.
But you should check out Shakes The Clown if you haven't already. Bobcat directed and stars in it, and Martin Scorsese calls it the Citizen Kane of drunken clown movies.
I haven't seen a lot of his movies, but I thought he was pretty funny as Whoopi Goldberg's friend in "Burglar".
@@MissGreenAgain Have not seen that. You'd recommend it?
@@B.-T. It's no masterpiece or anything, but it's definitely better than its reception would suggest. Some parts are dated, but anything looks great next to "Theodore Rex". Also, it's worth watching for Lesley Ann Warren's performance alone.
I hate that I’m old enough to know this.... T.G.I. Friday’s ny was actually the place that popularized the style of bottle flipping etc for the mainstream.
It was famous for it at this time so it’s probably not unreasonable to show a scene like this - as it would have seemed exotic to everyone else / but a weekend at T.G.I. Friday’s
The restaurant is nothing like it used to be in the 80s and you’ve only seen this in Vegas because of Friday’s back then.
Great video as always my man!
I always love the videos when he goes into depth about other things
For me personally I agree with you Hot to Trot is not only bad it's not even so bad it's good while Mac and Me would be a close second one of the upsides is that it gave Paul Rudd his favorite prank to pull on Conan. I feel like Bobcat is a better director while just ok as a supporting actor provided he's given a good script two good examples are his roles in Hercules as Pain and the guy who goes crazy in Scrooged.
The only thing I remember about “Hot to Trot” was that there were print ads with a 1-900 number you could call, I am guessing to talk to the horse? I am probably the only person who remembers this. Damnit.
I really enjoy Kokomo by The Beach Boys. It was the only good song in the god-awful 80’s era of The Beach Boys.
Their rendition of California Dreamin' wasn't bad, but apart from that, Kokomo was the best and really the only thing great about Cocktail.
And then came Summer in Paradise...
@@matthewdaley746 Two Other Cases: Xanadu and The Black Cauldron.
I take "Rain Man" any day over "Cocktail".
If it's any comfort, Goldtwaith hated 'Hot to Trot' too, he freely admits he did it for the money.
I don't remember anyone disliking this film when it came out. Jamie Foxx even used call Cruise, 'Mr. Cocktail', because the film was so successful. Cocktail was the 7th highest grossing movie of 1988. To compare, Beetlejuice was 10th. I think since people now see the RT score, they automatically think that's how the film was thought of back then, but it was not. Rotten Tomatoes wasn't even around when the movie came out.
Cocktail is a really good movie.
The director of this film would later go on to direct one of the best sci-fi horror films of the '90s "Species". And also others such as "Dante's Peak" and "The Recruit".
Next month: Star Trek 5. A film that DID deserve Worst Picture.
Tom Cruise went from "Top Gun" and "The Color of Money" to this, because being a cocky bartender is an extension to his range of being a cocky Navy fighter jet pilot and a cocky pool hustler.
This came out the same year as rain man
@@theitfactorjameswheezer2852 He was cocky in that movie as well.
@@MrJohndoakes not really. There’s a difference between cocky, and an asshole. He was an ass for most of the movie.
And despite all said here…. I always have and always will enjoy Cocktail and can’t justify why really.
I've been waiting for this for a long time.
There's a bar & grill in my city called "Coughlin's Law" that I had assumed was in an old law office or owned by former lawyers or something like that. I didn't realize the name actually came from this movie until just now.
My very first thought when I saw the title was, "No. No. No. NO! COCKTAIL WAS A CLASSIC-! Actually, it was pretty terrible wasn't it?"
Thank you for showing me the light. And this was before I even got one second into the video.
Fun (personal) fact: I actually saw Mac and Me before I saw E.T.
Let me explain. E.T. was in theaters the year I was born and I am guessing my family had seen it because I was flat out forbidden from watching it. My grandma thought the movie was too violent if memory serves so Mac and Me was something I watched instead. Despite the fact that I am very well aware that it is a crappy movie, I still have fond memories of watching it (remember I like Hudson Hawk and Howard the Duck so... I am very familiar with cinematic excrement). My grandma didn't like it... but enjoyed watching it with me.
Another fun fact: I was forbidden from watching E.T. but I used to watch Alien Nation the television series with my grandma (yes, the same one). She had... weird rules. Some things I wasn't allowed to watch and yet other things was perfectly fine. Wasn't allowed to watch Nightmare on Elm Street nor Friday the 13th... but watched the sequels with her full knowledge (Also watched Tales from the Crypt and Tales From The Otherside). Wasn't allowed to watch Heavy Metal (I doubt I need to explain why) by my DAD, my grandma said it would be fine. :D Her logic with that one was: "It's a cartoon... she loves cartoons!" Enjoyed listening to my dad try to tell my grandma why I couldn't... while they were actively watching it and she was in the same room. My family is weird.
ET has Reece’s Pieces.
Mac and Me has Skittles, Coca Cola, and the biggest one: McDonald’s. Too much product placement is not a good idea.
Meet the Spartans took excessive product placement to whole new heights!
Cocktail is Kind of a Diss-Movie against Tom Cruise if you listen closer to the Dialogs told to Tom's Character. The Movie would be great if there actualy wouldn't be a Happy-Ending. I would make the Ending like this: His Girlfriend doesn't forgive him and he gets then beaten up by the Bodyguards of her Dad and get kicked out to the Streets. He becames a total lunatic Stalker then and after he cathes her up to try to talk to her again then she uses a Protection-Spray on him and calls the Police. He gets arrested and later he commits Suicide by hanging himself up in Jail. That would be such a wonderful Ending and the Movie would be so much better :)
Never saw Caddyshack II. Never will.
I actually saw MAC & Me as a kid and enjoyed it, though I was younger than Eric at the time.
Another interesting fact about "Cocktail" is that it was directed by Roger Donaldson. The year before directed the Kevin Costner movie "No Way Out" which is one of the best political thrillers ever made. Strange.
... and being just OK is the worst offense a film can make. Either win convincingly or lose devastatingly. That is the only way to be remembered.
What’s with the ageism? Why are you judgemental of lovers with an age gap? That’s a bit shallow. You also haven’t paid attention to the details of the film. He didn’t just run into Jordan in New York, she told him when they met that she worked at Jerrys Deli. Also, Coughlin admitted he was full of shit in his suicide note. I know it’s not a great film but Tom Cruise and Elizabeth Shue are fun to watch and the 80s nostalgia in the film is wonderful.
I agree with you. If there’s predation or coercion, then I see why it’d be a problem, but if they’re fine with it, there’s no need to question it.
I don't care if Caddyshack 2 was horrible, I want the the family picture where all the faces are Chevy Chase's.
I've actually enjoyed cocktail not just a drink but the movie. But all of his points are very valid and I will not see the movie again the same way.
Never throw Elizabeth Shue away.
Actually his uncle didn’t know coglin. He just stumbled across the building and saw the help wanted sign one day after he realizes that community college isn’t for him. Yea, I know critics hated this movie but I’ve prob seen this 50 plus times. It’s literally the reason Tom is my fav actor! Oh yea, he doesn’t hunt him down either, he is on his honeymoon with ms lynch and they randomly meet again!! Yea I know, the screenplay has many flaws but I still love it
You might wanna double check the description...unless I'm mistaken, Cocktail and Rain Man (which I'm assuming "Tom Cruise Starred in the Best Picture of the year" is referring to) were 1988 movies, not 1998.
Cocktail: the original Twilight!
My theory is Caddyshack 2, Knock off Mr. Ed and Knock off ET were seen as entertainingly terrible where making fun of them would be enjoyable whereas Cocktail is just mediocre.
"Is everyone in New York an asshole?" Yes.
Cocktail has a killer soundtrack though.