Cinematic Excrement: Episode 113 - Cocktail 

I don't know what you people are talking about. The description clearly says 1988, not 1998. And I certainly wouldn't have entered the wrong year by mistake and corrected it afterwards because I'm infallible as you well know.

A more accurate title should be episode #113: Cocktail & More

At best, Cocktail is a Flashdance story for men - contrivance included.

I actively refuse to believe that Hot to Trot is real.

"Cocktail" is a typical 80's movie. Far from being the worst movie of that year.

Paul Rudd going onto Conan and having the clip of Mac and Me play almost every time is a great story and makes Mac and me worth it.

I agree that "Hot to Trot" is worse than "Cocktail" and it's even worse than "Caddyshack II". John Candy was a waste of good talent and Bobcat Goldthwait like Nick Swardson in "Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star" is not leading man material, but a side comic relief.

Cocktail probably won Worst Picture because it was a big hit financially.

Cocktails is great! I'm writing a similar script based on my own life. Gas Station cashier superstar.

Mac and Me deserves a full episode

"Mac and Me" should have won Worst Picture of 1988. It's a terrible "ET" rip off that Steven Spielberg should have sued whoever directed this movie.

Cocktail didn't deserve to win Worst picture.

The making of Cocktail was mainly the inspiration behind the creation of TGI Fridays. It all started when Alan Stillman opened the first TGI Fridays restaurant in 1965, in New York. He lived in a neighborhood with many airline stewardesses, fashion models, secretaries, and other young, single people on the East Side of Manhattan near the Queensboro Bridge and hoped that opening a bar would help him meet women. At the time, Stillman's choices for socializing were non-public cocktail parties or beer-drinking taverns that women usually did not visit. He said that "There was no public place for people between, say, 23 to 37 years old, to meet." He sought to recreate the comfortable cocktail party atmosphere in public despite having no experience in the restaurant business. Sounds a bit like Tom Cruise's character learning the bartending business.

TGI Fridays in the '80s was primarily a bar and nightspot, my dude. I used to work there. It wasn't until the '90s that they pushed into becoming more "family friendly."

“CONFOUND THIS MOVIE! IT DRIVES ME TO DRINK!”

2:31

Just in time for my lunch break... on 3rd shift at the nursing home.

Hot to Trot's horse definition should've just stated that "a horse is a horse of course, of course. And no one can talk to a horse, of course".

Me at 3 AM: must go to sleep.

Some bars do get so busy that 10-20 people just shout their orders at the bartender. But that's usually a nightclub on a Saturday night or an actual bar during a big sports game and both of those cases usually don't happen that much. It sure as hell doesn't happen at a restaurant bar like TGI Fridays or Applebees.