TGI Fridays invented flaring (extravagant cocktail making performances) in the mid 1980s - because they were looking for a way for their bar staff to entertain guests. This film was based on the 1980s TGI bar staff, and there are many homages to TGI throughout the movie. For instance, you'll notice Doug's bar has the TGI stripes/colours outside. And the waitresses are wearing TGI uniforms
I hadn't heard of the movie or this scene, but recently heard Bryan Brown in a Radio Interview in Australia and he mentioned a couple of things about it. 1. While working on the movie he practiced the cocktail flipping moves for days in his hotel room, at any opportunity he got, and 2. It became a famous scene and made him recognised in bars around the world. So, I decided to look it up, and liked it a lot.
The movie poster and this scene was the most famous bit for me. When eventually saw the movie it wasn't what I was expecting, as assumed was like this most of way through.
This is classy cinema, a guy drops out of college to work in a bar, and gets some girl he met on holiday pregnant!, if this isnt real life i dont know what is.
In real life, young people no longer drop out of college to work in a bar. They FINISH college just to get a chance to work in a bar so they can repay the debt incurred from finishing college: ruclips.net/video/kXpwAOHJsxg/видео.html
Although Doug had his flaws I felt sorry for him. I think deep down Doug was a tortured soul who therapeutically fed off Brian's optimistic approach to life like a prescription medicine. Doug needed Brian and Brian needed Doug - but they both were unwilling patients of their own pathological conditions. This movie is a lesson in the dangerous mix of hedonism, good times, bad luck and plain weird circumstances all combined in the toxic environment of drinking bars and nightclubs. I felt sad when I saw this movie and I remember wishing that humanity was very different. But maybe this movie is a mirror image of our own idiosyncratic tendancies in our lives - both at their best AND worst points. I think that this is a powerful movie for all the wrong reasons, instead of the right reasons. We all try to be optimistic, but sometimes in life there is no such thing as a happy ending in life. Thats the problem. And so the twisted wheel of life goes on - throwing off just as many people as those who mange to climb on. For those left in the gutter life is a bitter curse. Sad but true.
I remember watching this movie way back when I still had hopes and dreams. My hopes and dreams may not have worked out, but this movie still sucks really bad.
I think people are missing the point here talking about customers not getting drinks. They are doing a "performance" for the crowd in order to get tips. When they are done they go back to serving the customers.
Flaring is relatively modern. It's something TGI Friday's introduced in their bars, in the 80s, to entertain patrons. Cocktail then based the movie on it
@@TheFortressMaximus True. I had to learn by myself from youtube videos and through years of painful practice. In London MAYBE one in a hundred bartenders can do basic flair like arm roll or tin spin, MAYBE one in five hundred actually knows how to work with flair. Almost impossible to find flair bartenders outside of TGI Fridays (nowadays even TGIs has plenty bartenders who suck at flairing or can't flair at all as it essentially became chicken shop with table service) or Be At One. There's a reason for that though. In the past flair was making you money. A LOT of money. On some nights I was making few times more in tips than my salary was. Then society changed. The "me!" generation with their mobile phones and snapchats who think me being on their snapchat without even asking me for permission is gratuity enough. Tips were gradually dying out to a point of near extinction nowadays. That's why majority of flair bartenders moved to private gigs only where the money is still equal to their skill and effort or changed the jobs altogether.
@@TheFortressMaximusMost bartenders don't do it because in places like Manhattan you don't have time to do all that. Only when slow. But a little flip here & there will go a long way
In 1988 my aunt mary played this movie and the song aruba, Jamaica who i wanna take ya. She was babysitting so us kids were loud. So she got up from the couch 3 times to rewind a vhs.okay kids you know hard that was. To rewind 15 seconds on a vhs tape. She was pissed. 2 sec of rewind vhs is like 7 min.😂😂 did i mention she was pissed.
In this movie there is a scene were Tom Cruise throws a book of lit matches across a bar top. To a lady and its still lit. I've tried that trick for years and haven't pulled it off once.
Back when I was bartending if I did some crap like this behind the bar I would be fired in a heartbeat. Waste of liquor with spillage, you got a bar 4 deep and aren't even serving lol! It was fun to watch though and cool as hell.
Its flair bartending. Kinda like yhe fishmarket in seattle throwing things around. Essentially the idea is entertainment while getting drunk and if its done well, it sells
thrillho007 It hasn't. Just watched this for the first time since the movie was released and... oh dear. It was fun at the time but it looks really terrible now.
Te Amo ❤ Tom Cruise y este es mi favorito ❤ Movie por toda la Eternidad ❤eres Divino Tom Cruise aunque pasen los Años te sigo Amando y Adorando y desde que vi esta Película por mi Primera vez cuándo te vi en la Pantalla grande me Enamoré de tí eres mi Amor Platónico te Adoro y Amo Tom Cruises ❤ eres Divino por toda la Eternidad 17 Años tenia cuándo me Enamoré Platónicamente de ti : 36 Años te Amo y Adoro Platónicamente te Amo y Adoro Amor mío mi Amor Platónico Eterno mi Amor Eterno eres tù Tom Cruise ❤ 💋 DIOS te Bendiga Hoy y Siempre, ❤ Recuerda JESÚS te Ama y Adora Hoy y Siempre y te Bendice Grandemente ❤te Amo Toooooooooooooom Cruiseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee my Love Eterno
Blisterdude123 this was just Bryan and Doug entertaining the crowd for a minute, it's not like they're twirling & throwing cocktail shakers th whole night
@@4exgold Being a flair bartender myself I confirm. Flairing is exhausting, its like a vigorous cardio. You do it for few minutes and you're covered in sweat. You'd have to snort a tone of coke to be able to do it all night long, but then you wouldn't be able to move for several days. That's why flair bartenders incorporate little tricks into their working routine that look cool, but don't take any longer than standard move - odd flip pour, ice cube pop, tin spin or napkin throw. Flair routines are for times when everybody is served. Also people go to flair bars to see flair. Only an idiot would go to a flair bar for quick pint. It's like going to a teppanyaki restaurant and complaining about chefs performance. You go there for this specific reason. If you go there and expect something different - it is you there's something wrong with.
This was making ppls drinks and giving them a show. Only 2 ppl u see that crowd. Not easy serving all those ppl. Plus it looked like everyone just got off work. Wanted to unwind. I'm sure everyone got served quick. That's New York everything is quick
Cruise has done some amazing films. Valkyrie, last samurai, a few good men, Fourth of July plus the fact that he may actually die on camera in the next mission impossible film. But this was such utter crap.
I learned this routine when I first started bartending. I’m now the proud father of 73 children and 3 on the way
At my bar people would be like “STOP DOIN THAT SHIT AN GET MY BEER”
Ah, it's all about time management. Once everyone has a full drink, show off a little. Gets them in on the slow days
This was my life six months ago. Damn I’m missing these days. -Former Bartender in the Covid era
In which bar/city? Can you work again?
Don’t be a bitch
No one cares about you.
Bartending is still in existence....covid, or no covid....bars are packing em in ALLLLL over the world !
what is covid?
I'm sure this movie inspired many 80s kids to drop out of college and become bartenders.
Being a bartender is a craft in cities like New York and London. They make thousands in tips
@@msmilano7091 yea but it’s tough work
@@darkness2160 all work is..
I could be wrong. But wasn't this based on a true story?
@@jeffreybrozek6217 it was based on a book. The author based it on his own bartending experience
TGI Fridays invented flaring (extravagant cocktail making performances) in the mid 1980s - because they were looking for a way for their bar staff to entertain guests. This film was based on the 1980s TGI bar staff, and there are many homages to TGI throughout the movie. For instance, you'll notice Doug's bar has the TGI stripes/colours outside. And the waitresses are wearing TGI uniforms
The sign above the restaurant says Fridays too!
Me: can I get a beer
Them: hippie hippie shake!
10 mins later....
Me: I JUST WANT A BEER!! :(
VIP service 🤣
Pataquada!!!
@Soflo Sports people.
Wonderful scene, great movie, makes me feel good everytime I see it!
I still love this film - LOL wonder how many bottles they dropped while learning
I’ve been famous for 10
Years just show
Me the money. What a badass line
Such a underated movie
still amazes me today. absolutely brilliant.
Scene shot in "The Lakeview" in Toronto, still a great place to go for food and drinks to this day!
what a scene that is. absolutely awesome. go on lads.
I hadn't heard of the movie or this scene, but recently heard Bryan Brown in a Radio Interview in Australia and he mentioned a couple of things about it. 1. While working on the movie he practiced the cocktail flipping moves for days in his hotel room, at any opportunity he got, and 2. It became a famous scene and made him recognised in bars around the world. So, I decided to look it up, and liked it a lot.
The movie poster and this scene was the most famous bit for me. When eventually saw the movie it wasn't what I was expecting, as assumed was like this most of way through.
@@TheStevenWhiting Thanks for the follow up! Interesting!
Never seen a TGI fridays that Lit!!
I have in the late 90s early 00s. TGI Fridays was lit
I watched this film twice before starting a job in a local bar. I thought it would be helpful
here is smoething helpful. your father is gay.
was it?
Yeahhhhhhh, stil going strong. A lovely movie, and Tom is nice
This is classy cinema, a guy drops out of college to work in a bar, and gets some girl he met on holiday pregnant!, if this isnt real life i dont know what is.
carlos250479 Genau so sieht das aus !!!!! Danke T.C. für gemütliche und reelle Unterhaltung !!!!!
Lmao
carlos250479 woman gets her self pregnant.Some gal suckers him in conceives. Careless attitude leads to trouble
In real life, young people no longer drop out of college to work in a bar. They FINISH college just to get a chance to work in a bar so they can repay the debt incurred from finishing college:
ruclips.net/video/kXpwAOHJsxg/видео.html
BRILLIANT scene!!
Thanks lord for letting me have my 20s in the 80s what a ride
That was so Wonderful.
Wow. I wonder how many takes it took to get the final cut. :O
Maby they were goofing around between scenes,and just decided to keep it in🎉
Am I the only person who actually liked this movie? Lol
Only total geeks like these 80s movies, I would bet you also love the movie Road house correct? 😂
@@thelastrebelshow1627 ......Road House is ok.....Red Scorpion is AWESOME!!!!
memoranda1 want to barrow a gun? You need to swallow the barrel if your life is this grim! 😹
Nah man, I love this movie
I loved it
Tom cruise is actually left handed and learnt all this with his less dominant hand as the writers wrote the character as right handed.
leichte Unterhaltung zum Entspannen, so soll das eigentlich auch sein wenn ich zum Feierabend mir einen Film reinziehe, Danke TC.
You’re telling me that TGI Friday’s in NYC was that exciting back in those days?
that is the first one they ever opened
Although Doug had his flaws I felt sorry for him.
I think deep down Doug was a tortured soul who therapeutically fed off Brian's optimistic approach to life like a prescription medicine.
Doug needed Brian and Brian needed Doug - but they both were unwilling patients of their own pathological conditions.
This movie is a lesson in the dangerous mix of hedonism, good times, bad luck and plain weird circumstances all combined in the toxic environment of drinking bars and nightclubs.
I felt sad when I saw this movie and I remember wishing that humanity was very different.
But maybe this movie is a mirror image of our own idiosyncratic tendancies in our lives - both at their best AND worst points.
I think that this is a powerful movie for all the wrong reasons, instead of the right reasons.
We all try to be optimistic, but sometimes in life there is no such thing as a happy ending in life.
Thats the problem.
And so the twisted wheel of life goes on - throwing off just as many people as those who mange to climb on.
For those left in the gutter life is a bitter curse.
Sad but true.
Super Music und die passenden süßen Jungs dazu und schon ist gute Laune da, der Spaß macht und voll entspannen läßt.
I remember watching this movie way back when I still had hopes and dreams. My hopes and dreams may not have worked out, but this movie still sucks really bad.
Should've had cocktails and dreams instead ;)
Beautiful cocktail!!!! ❤️🍹🥰Of his friend's death😭😭when tommy❤️😭 reads the letter and bursts into tears😭😭
This movie is awesome 😎 and such a classic!!! (:(:
so in 1 min they make 2 drinks and don't serve anybody.. lol
+TheUnknownHarbingers Lol. So True. Have you seen Cocktails Of Thunder ? Similar to what you said. Dancing instead of serving !
MrWeareone777 i just checked it out.. lol
+TheUnknownHarbingers The point is, it was a "floor show" type of thing and that's why people kept coming into the bar.
Well, the crowd wanting them to do this, shouting "DO IT, DO IT" etc, so they wanted to see a dual show, and they got what they wanted :)
TheUnknownHarbingers effing millenials
I think people are missing the point here talking about customers not getting drinks. They are doing a "performance" for the crowd in order to get tips. When they are done they go back to serving the customers.
Flaring is relatively modern. It's something TGI Friday's introduced in their bars, in the 80s, to entertain patrons. Cocktail then based the movie on it
When pubs and Bars where chemical behaviourism GOOD 😎🤗😍👆👌
That would be a great and fun funny bar. Loved the bar scene in that movie. Some people have no sense of humor suck!
Flaring was popular for a while, and is still done to amuse people from time to time. Most barmen are trained to do it:)
Flair bartending is a niche talent, and *most* trained bartenders don't do it.
Literally what bar do you think trains us to throw expensive glass bottles of alcohol around.
@@TheFortressMaximus True. I had to learn by myself from youtube videos and through years of painful practice. In London MAYBE one in a hundred bartenders can do basic flair like arm roll or tin spin, MAYBE one in five hundred actually knows how to work with flair. Almost impossible to find flair bartenders outside of TGI Fridays (nowadays even TGIs has plenty bartenders who suck at flairing or can't flair at all as it essentially became chicken shop with table service) or Be At One. There's a reason for that though. In the past flair was making you money. A LOT of money. On some nights I was making few times more in tips than my salary was. Then society changed. The "me!" generation with their mobile phones and snapchats who think me being on their snapchat without even asking me for permission is gratuity enough. Tips were gradually dying out to a point of near extinction nowadays. That's why majority of flair bartenders moved to private gigs only where the money is still equal to their skill and effort or changed the jobs altogether.
@@TheFortressMaximusMost bartenders don't do it because in places like Manhattan you don't have time to do all that. Only when slow. But a little flip here & there will go a long way
Tom is very very very good actor!! My favourite film!
Pretty sure this movie inspired my sister to be a bartender. She's currently training with my cousin, who's a professional
Where are such bars in real life??? Please, tell me! I want to go there! Who else?
Men it never gets old
Wow Ben Stiller acts here really good.
If you can make a decent cocktail that's all you need, you don't need all the fancy stuff :)xx
this routine is amateur, but it brings it over the top with the duo in shychronicity
Love it soooo cool
So after my fourth martini I tried to duplicate this scene. It didn't work out like it did in the movie.
Just saying.
I cant stop watching clips from this movie. If cringe were a drug this shit would be crack.
Bryan Brown’s delivery of “I’ve got the hippy hippy shake” at the end of this scene is the equivalent of four pounds of fentanyl.
In 1988 my aunt mary played this movie and the song aruba, Jamaica who i wanna take ya. She was babysitting so us kids were loud. So she got up from the couch 3 times to rewind a vhs.okay kids you know hard that was. To rewind 15 seconds on a vhs tape. She was pissed. 2 sec of rewind vhs is like 7 min.😂😂 did i mention she was pissed.
This is what I want to do when I go for a bartender job interview haha!
Tom Cruise is more cyborg than human.
awesome upload!
LSD Users DO The HIPPY HIPPY SHAKE! ! !
This is a good song at the bar.
ich liebe die Energie zum Entspannen
My favourite film!!
In this movie there is a scene were Tom Cruise throws a book of lit matches across a bar top. To a lady and its still lit. I've tried that trick for years and haven't pulled it off once.
Sterno will help :)
Keep after it. Comes in time 💪
That actual trick was included in a flair bartending training video back in the mid 90's
You would win the day if you could track that video or trick down for me! I’m 40 years old been trying since I was 9
One of my old mates used to do that in the bar he worked in. :D
Back when I was bartending if I did some crap like this behind the bar I would be fired in a heartbeat. Waste of liquor with spillage, you got a bar 4 deep and aren't even serving lol! It was fun to watch though and cool as hell.
Its flair bartending. Kinda like yhe fishmarket in seattle throwing things around. Essentially the idea is entertainment while getting drunk and if its done well, it sells
Go work in a flair bar, I used to work in a club where they only hired people who had routines
Anno a kedvenc filmem volt ... a Long Island a kedvenc koktélom . : )
Making drinks that slow...you get fired.
Beach boys still play good music.
I think it's safe to say this hasn't aged well.
thrillho007 It hasn't. Just watched this for the first time since the movie was released and... oh dear. It was fun at the time but it looks really terrible now.
Id honestly say youre not completely right, its still entertaining and over all enjoyable for the most part
i loved it :D one of my favorite 80s movie now
Wait why not
Te Amo ❤ Tom Cruise y este es mi favorito ❤ Movie por toda la Eternidad ❤eres Divino Tom Cruise aunque pasen los Años te sigo Amando y Adorando y desde que vi esta Película por mi Primera vez cuándo te vi en la Pantalla grande me Enamoré de tí eres mi Amor Platónico te Adoro y Amo Tom Cruises ❤ eres Divino por toda la Eternidad 17 Años tenia cuándo me Enamoré Platónicamente de ti : 36 Años te Amo y Adoro Platónicamente te Amo y Adoro Amor mío mi Amor Platónico Eterno mi Amor Eterno eres tù Tom Cruise ❤ 💋 DIOS te Bendiga Hoy y Siempre, ❤ Recuerda JESÚS te Ama y Adora Hoy y Siempre y te Bendice Grandemente ❤te Amo Toooooooooooooom Cruiseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee my Love Eterno
Amazing movie
BEST THING EVER
they didn't wash their tins
They smashed them on the floor.....does that count?
Tom for ever ....
Por qué no dan la película completa contabilidad en español con esos grandes actores?
Where in the fuck does this happen at?
Man I wonder how many takes it took them to the get final print and wrap
and how many bottles/glasses they dropped
How many people pursued a career in bartending after this movie came out????
I'm asking me what cocktail are they making in that scene
Cocktail is my favorite Tom Cruise movie
0:17-I tried doing that with something that isn't fragile. Let's just say I likely won't be doing that with any glass bottles ever.
I bought the soundtrack for this song.....
Balding pseudo-salesman @ 0:49 “wasting your talents in a hole like this”.
Yet he’s drinking there. 🤔
Oh man... Everyday i remeber this Night!!! It was awesome even if you we're a dickhead sometimes... Rest in Peace Doug!!!
Wonder how many times to took to do that scene
"yeahaaah!!!"
cocktails and dreams.... oh was war das schön...
🌹 great Tom Cruise from muving Cocktail 1:06
Super - warto obejrzeć
ROCK ON!
Does anybody have idea which liquids those guys pour at 0:30?
I fuck the better question is does anybody give a fuck?
Triple Sec and Vodka.
Meanwhile, in the real world, customers expect this in a third of the time. Nobody wants to wait an entire minute for one drink.
Blisterdude123 this was just Bryan and Doug entertaining the crowd for a minute, it's not like they're twirling & throwing cocktail shakers th whole night
@@4exgold Being a flair bartender myself I confirm. Flairing is exhausting, its like a vigorous cardio. You do it for few minutes and you're covered in sweat. You'd have to snort a tone of coke to be able to do it all night long, but then you wouldn't be able to move for several days. That's why flair bartenders incorporate little tricks into their working routine that look cool, but don't take any longer than standard move - odd flip pour, ice cube pop, tin spin or napkin throw. Flair routines are for times when everybody is served. Also people go to flair bars to see flair. Only an idiot would go to a flair bar for quick pint. It's like going to a teppanyaki restaurant and complaining about chefs performance. You go there for this specific reason. If you go there and expect something different - it is you there's something wrong with.
This was making ppls drinks and giving them a show. Only 2 ppl u see that crowd. Not easy serving all those ppl. Plus it looked like everyone just got off work. Wanted to unwind. I'm sure everyone got served quick. That's New York everything is quick
Classic 🔥
To see Tom Cruise's best Pterodactyl impression....
1) click on 0:29
2). repeat...and enjoy.
La classe👍👍
And to think Tom is left handed.
Brian always reminded me of Julian Lennon
I'll bet they smashed a lot of bottles before they lucked out.
OK, take number 225.
Roll 'em.
I knew a bartender that can do this. He was fast too.
Cruise has done some amazing films. Valkyrie, last samurai, a few good men, Fourth of July plus the fact that he may actually die on camera in the next mission impossible film. But this was such utter crap.
Sorry can any body knows the songs name??? Please
Tom Cruise from Cocktail!!! Lol
Wow
well choerographhehdhededed scene
They'd never get away with this in the North East of England lol
''I asked you to give me a refreshing drink. Wasn't expecting a fucking rainforest. You could fall in love with an orangutan in that.''
There's TGI Fridays in Newcastle.
日本でも大ヒットしたよ
この後、カクテルバーが流行りましだ。
バーテンにとって、この映画はバイブルです。
What drink are they making?
Long Island Iced Tea
The movie wasn't just about bartending sheesh people it was also about boy meets girl boy loses girl boy gets girl back a romance and classic film
and how a business relationship can turn sour and leave you with regrets
American Long Island Iced Tea