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Cocktail
1988 · Film · 104 min
Directed by Roger Donaldson
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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I came to realize the wisdom of a quote from a truly bad movie:
“Everything ends badly, otherwise, it wouldn’t end.” ---Bryan Flanagan from “Cocktail”. [1]
I had to look that up as part of my due diligence for this post. The more you know.
Occasionally a sports career ends with hitting a homer in Game Seven of the World Series (David Ross of the 2016 Cubs). Most of the time, not.
You want to have the sweet we'll-still-be-friends breakup with your spouse, but it really ends in divorce court with you hating each other.
So don't feel remorse that it ends badly. That's life.
[1] https://www.capegazette.com/blog-entry/everything-ends-badly-derrick-mason-turns/18116
Oh, the magic of editing.
True story: I loved the movie Cocktail with Tom Cruise. I set out to learn all his bar tricks from the film, including lighting a match with one hand. Took me two months and many burned fingers before I mastered it. Then, I re-watched the movie to make sure I was doing it right, only to realize it was an editing trick and he never really did it. Oh well. I learned a skill for life.