Cocktail (1988)
After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine art of bar-tending. Brian quickly becomes a patron favorite with his flashy drink-mixing style, and Brian adopts his mentor's cynical philosophy on life and goes for the money.
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As Good As It Gets
A brilliant film that helped define a genre
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
Cocktail is a decent movie- nothing special but a nice little diversion. If nothing else a reminder of the type of films the late 80s churned out. Tom Cruise, at the height of his superstardom plays a bartender who is coached by Bryan Brown in the big apple and then relocates to Jamaica. This is a good one time watch (preferably with a drink) and the locations and characters are innocent enough to be enamored with. If you have nothing to do on a lazy afternoon you can slip a disc of Cocktail in your player and get lost in not too heavy handed nostalgia.
Cocktail is a decent movie- nothing special but a nice little diversion. If nothing else a reminder of the type of films the late 80s churned out. Tom Cruise, at the height of his superstardom plays a bartender who is coached by Bryan Brown in the big apple and then relocates to Jamaica. This is a good one time watch (preferably with a drink) and the locations and characters are innocent enough to be enamored with. If you have nothing to do on a lazy afternoon you can slip a disc of Cocktail in your player and get lost in not too heavy handed nostalgia.
I revisited this movie in 2018 because I seemed to remember it had some redeeming qualities. I was wrong. This movie is f---ing DUMB! It's like the stylized film adaptation of some Wall-Street-frat-boy's rushed first-draft script written on napkins at the bar of a TGI Friday's. It's the purest cinematic nightmare of the worst traits of the 80s projected through a cocaine lens. Just shockingly moronic. Cocktail would make a great double-feature with Less Than Zero if your goal was to experience nauseous shame about the 1980s.
So the story is about two bartenders in NYC who have their choice of women. I was around in the 80s, and you still had to make more than a bartender makes to land Upper East Side women. And if the bartenders threw glasses around as they sang to the jukebox, someone would call Bellevue.I didnt know who this was for then and I still dont know. High school freshmen looking to get laid? Queens girls dreaming of Manhattan bartenders? And than the feeble love stories. Well gee, rich girl doesnt want boy to know shes rich so he can love her for herself. Never heard that one before.The criminal here is the writer who actually thought this --- up.