'Diner'

These coming-of-age dramas kind of wear me out. Frankly, I think they're kind of stupid.

For one, how old are these guys? I think they're supposed to be 21 or so. Guess what? You don't come of age at 21. If you don't have your shit together at 21, then you might want to get used to flipping hamburgers.

With that said, none of these guys seemed to have any real job. Mickey Rourke was the hairdresser. Kevin Bacon was a rich kid. Tim Daly was at least in college. What Barry Levinson doesn't go into is what these people are going to do for the rest of their lives?

Keep going to the same crummy diner? Keep getting in massive gambling debt and having it magically go away? Keep acting like the Fonz and banging on the juke box to get the music going?

The tagline to this film is "Suddenly, life is much more than french fries, gravy and girls."

Then, Mr. Levinson, what is it? Seems to me that these guys learned that they can still skate by no matter what happens.

Speaking of, what the hell happened to Mickey Rourke? Everyone else I could easily recognize. But Rourke looks like a completely different person. As if some time in the 2000s someone hijacked his body and took over.

He is by a million miles the best looking guy in the film and probably one of the top five best looking young actors in Hollywood. Today, he looks like a gay heroin cowboy.