#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 29, 2013 Share Posted August 29, 2013 Ferris Bueller...Bueller...Bueller...Bueller's Day OffAn absolute peach of a movie that gives you a big smile on your face throughout the whole thing. even past the end credits.If you had a bad day at work, if you lost your wallet, if your puppy died, play this one, it will cheer you up!Ferris is one of these hot shot 80's kids that gets away with everything, get's along with everyone and life is going pretty good for him. If the role had been played by Tom Cruise he would have been an insufferable little shit. Played by Matthew Broderick, at his most endearing and Matthew Broderick like, we like him. Everybody likes Ferris (love the "Save Ferris" running gag).Well not everyone. His principle hates him because he has skipped 9 days of school and is getting away with it. His sister hates him for much the same reason.What follows is basically a road trip in Chicago with Ferris, his best friend Cameron and his GF Sloan (played by a stunningly gorgeous Mia Sara)We see them visit a restaurant, a baseball game a parade etc, all very well executed comedy set pieces, while in the mean time the "evil" principle Rooney tries to track down Ferris and give him the worst punishment possible! An extra year at High School.All of this is very well done and entertaining, but given an extra dimension because of Cameron. Where Ferris is a well-adjusted, angst free sort of teen. Cameron is a collection point of teen angst and frustration and anxiety.Slowly the film moves focus from the merry antics to a more deeper story. Cameron (played very well by 30-somethinbg year old Alan Ruck) losing it and out of frustration lashing out and trashes his dad's priceless Ferarri. (a scene that's both hilarious and chilling)Of the rest of the cast Jeffrey Jones is pitch perfect as Principle Rooney, and Jennifer Grey (before her career ruining nosejob) is both bitchy and endearing as Ferris' sister Jean.My favourite of the John Hughes comedies, and still insanely watch-able today.**** out of **** JoeinAR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,245 Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 My favourite of the John Hughes comedies, and still insanely watch-able today.Agreed! JoeinAR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,044 Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 If you had a bad day at work, if you lost your wallet, if your puppy died, play this one, it will cheer you up! Could not have said it better myself. This is a film that truly makes you just...feel good. In fact, really the ONLY thing that at all tarnishes this film for me is the knowledge that Jeffrey Jones is a real-life pedophile. The character would be a lot more enjoyable to watch if not for the fact that he's less disgusting than the actor who plays him. =/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 30, 2013 Author Share Posted August 30, 2013 We all forgave Michael Jackson, I am sure we can find room to forgive Jones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent B 337 Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 This is one of those 80's films that definitely has aged well to this day.I laugh every time at the end with Rooney when he encounters Ferris' pitbull, especially with the expression on his face when he sees it. It's one of those, "oh shit!" expressions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 30, 2013 Author Share Posted August 30, 2013 The comic timing in those scenes is pitch perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent B 337 Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,346 Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Liked it when we were living and breathing the '80s, but today the film leaves me somewhat cold. Still watchable though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted October 5, 2013 Share Posted October 5, 2013 The film is immense. it's a Chicago postcard. it's more important today than ever before. It reminds us of how things used to be, and how fun life is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,554 Posted October 5, 2013 Share Posted October 5, 2013 + 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted October 5, 2013 Share Posted October 5, 2013 The film is immense. it's a Chicago postcard. it's more important today than ever before. It reminds us of how things used to be, and how fun life is.I find that to be true of most of Hughes' films. He was a very unique and talented filmmaker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent B 337 Posted October 6, 2013 Share Posted October 6, 2013 Life definitely seemed better in the 80's and early 90's. ShowUStheHOOK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 6, 2013 Author Share Posted October 6, 2013 Rose tinted glasses Trent. The 80's were a horrible decade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,484 Posted October 6, 2013 Share Posted October 6, 2013 Part of my adolescence. Sight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted October 6, 2013 Share Posted October 6, 2013 Rose tinted glasses Trent. The 80's were a horrible decade.no You're incorrect. The films and music are better than the decade that followed. Grunge music alone brings everything down. Ricard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 6, 2013 Author Share Posted October 6, 2013 Wrong Morlock! Wrong again!Disco was horrible, so was 80's hard rock!And for every good movie there were 15 rubbish ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted October 6, 2013 Share Posted October 6, 2013 Rose tinted glasses Trent. The 80's were a horrible decade.noYou're incorrect.The films and music are better than the decade that followed. Grunge music alone brings everything down.I only have happy memories of my 80s childhood. Plus Spielberg and Williams collaborated the shit out of it, which for me makes it a golden era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 Wrong Morlock! Wrong again!Disco was horrible, so was 80's hard rock!And for every good movie there were 15 rubbish ones.disco was on it's way out bub, clearly you don't know your history.the movies of 1982 alone is better than any year in the 90's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 9, 2013 Author Share Posted October 9, 2013 The 80's was the decade of creatively dead sequels. Police Academy 5, Rocky 4, Porkies 3, Friday The 13th VII!The decade of studio control over creativity. The era of Thatcher and Reagan, mindless stadium rock!Sure there were good things, points of light in the darkness, like Ferris. But overall it was a horrible decade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,245 Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 Sure there were good things, points of light in the darkness, like Ferris. But overall it was a horrible decade.Childhood problems, Steef?I didn't have a nice childhood either, but that was back in the '60s-'70s. The '80s were wonderful for me, I was 15-25.In the end it's all subjective and it depends on your personal experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 9, 2013 Author Share Posted October 9, 2013 I hated the 80's...in the 80's...things are better now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,245 Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 I hated the 80's...in the 80's...things are better now!That's because you're better now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 9, 2013 Author Share Posted October 9, 2013 You obviously don't know me very well. I've been in a bad place emotionally and financially for a long time now. A few years actually.No positive short terms prospects or certainties.Still better then the 80's! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,374 Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 than. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,245 Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 Still better then the 80's!That's what I said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 9, 2013 Author Share Posted October 9, 2013 than.Than what?Still better then the 80's!That's what I said.But I'm not better! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,245 Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 Still better then the 80's!That's what I said.But I'm not better!Still better but not better. Interesting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 10, 2013 Author Share Posted October 10, 2013 I just said that I am not better personally, But I'm living in a better decade.Can you imagine the horror of living through the mullet era again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,245 Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Mullets didn't become popular until the second half of the decade, and they weren't nearly as horrible as today's tattoos, piercings and unshaven men.Also, there's no such thing as "a better decade" objectively speaking. If your perception is that this decade is better, it is because you are better now than then, whether you realize it or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 11, 2013 Author Share Posted October 11, 2013 The 80's featured the last gasps of glam rock with Guns & Roses. In the 90's we had Nirvana which made G&R look like a bunch of transsexual pirates!Also, there's no such thing as "a better decade" objectively speaking. Objectively speaking the 1990's were better then the 1940's. Stefancos- who has a beard and a tattoo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Mullets didn't become popular until the second half of the decade, and they weren't nearly as horrible as today's tattoos, piercings and unshaven men.So that's why Charlie left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,245 Posted October 12, 2013 Share Posted October 12, 2013 Stefan, there's a 12-year generational gap between you and I, hence our different views.Objectively speaking the 1990's were better then the 1940's.Still subjective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 12, 2013 Author Share Posted October 12, 2013 Subjective?WWII? The Holocaust? Millions dead, start of the cold war!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,245 Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 Yes, I agree that the '90s were better than the '40s. But that's not an objective fact, it's an opinion.And there seems to be a general consensus that the '80s were better than the '90s, that does make it a fact? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 Movie-wise the nineties are in the shadow of the great eighties period. Because in 1993 Steven Spielberg made Schindler's List. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 13, 2013 Author Share Posted October 13, 2013 Sure, blame it on the Jews. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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