The latter is viewed as quite vulgar, but the initially can also be utilised jokingly, depending on social context. Later in the movie in the course of Sammy and Lavash's 1st scene. Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune, who disliked the 1972 movie and went so considerably as to simply call the first "unstable trash", identified the remake to be a better movie. Borkow, Michael (writer) Benson, Robby (director) (January 30, 1997).