Actually, I think the movie has aged fantastically, much better than almost any other American movie of its time. I don't particularly care about the Favreau breakup plot, which for me is incidental. It almost perfectly captures the time and place in which it was made, and I should know; I was there. The "lounge" scene of the early/mid-nineties was barely noticed, at least as far as the mainstream was concerned, so it's fairly remarkable that anyone should have attempted to take a snapshot of it as "Swingers" did. Most subcultures aren't afforded that kind of treatment, and if they are, it's long after the fact. There are countless details that would've been lost forever to anyone who couldn't recall them if this movie had never been made, from the wallet chains the guys wear to their cultural reference-points to the locations in which the movie was made. Take it from me, this is how L.A. looked and felt to anybody young at the time with any hipster cred or cutting-edge sense of style, retro or not. The only other (mostly white) scene in L.A. nearly that smart (in truth, it was much smarter) was the one at Jabberjaw; but that was an indie-rock ghetto, and the only semi-mainstream record we have of it, to my knowledge, is a little-seen documentary called "Songs for Cassavetes." This probably won't mean much to future, or even present, generations, who have an outright contempt for any periods except their own, but I'm glad someone cared enough to want to base a film around a moment that would otherwise be forgotten.
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edabomb
17 years ago
I love this movie because it is a guys movie. Now there are other movies that are guys movies, but they always have a subplot for girls to get into, this was 100% for guys and so much of it is true to life.
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