Elvis
- Continuity was not such a Holy Grail for the filmmakers, it seems. Leading man Tom Cruise’s hair is all over the map — length-wise — within the first ten minutes. And the other errors might be less visible but they are there and they could make for a very painful-the-next-morning drinking game.
- Brian Flanagan’s (Cruise) obsession with making a million doesn’t translate into anything beyond the business plan he submits as a class project. The narrative arc–such as it may be–does not involve his evolving skill as a businessman. He does not get better at finding his flugelbinder, i.e., the thing that will make him rich.
- Kelly Lynch had some killer abs during the making of this movie.
- “A guy lays down a dare, you gotta take it.” I have no doubt that countless lives have been ruined if they have been lived by this code.
- Before there was, “you had me at hello,” there was, “I bet I can spook you.”
- A fun soundtrack can totally make a goofy movie seem better.
- My favourite one of Coughlin’s (Bryan Brown) Laws: “Anything else is always something better.”
- In his final poem Flanagan was kinda sexist when he worried that he wouldn’t be able to pass on his business if his wife and he had a daughter.
- Uncle Frank (Gerry Bamman) from Home Alone and Jim Walsh (James Eckhouse) from Beverly Hills, 90210 play tourists in Jamaica — not as those characters though — in this movie. Elisabeth Shue’s brother Andrew also makes an appearance.
- This movie, and Taxi Driver, make me nostalgic for a New York I have never known.
