CURSE YOU! I came in here to mention the sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebs and dickheads.
Save Ferris!
The Zen of Ferris.
YAY for YouTube: Charlie and Jeannie in the police station.
That joke never made any sense to me. I know there’s a song, but it just makes zero sense.
It’s a really charming movie - thanks to Broderick - with a few really good sequences. I wouldn’t say there are a lot of great jokes. There are some, but not a ton. Mostly you just sit back and enjoy the ride, so it’s good for repeat viewings. It’s not perfect, but it’s fun.
If you say " Ferris Bueller" you lose a testicle.
“Oh, so you know him?”
clenches fist
Wow. I’ll bet we’ll never be netflix friends. I disagree with you almost on every count.
P,T and A is a really good movie.
Personally, I hated the other three; and still think they are given way to much credit. I’m guessing you also liked The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, and more of those types?
I know… I know… I’m in the minority; but I just didn’t enjoy those movies at all.
I liked the use of music, like when the two parking garage attendants were driving down the road to the Star Wars main title music and the use of “Oh Yeah” as Rooney boarded the school bus.
Not even close. A comedy, yes. A good comedy, yes. Past that we will have to differ.
Fast Times…
no, Breakfast Club…
no, no - 16 Candles!
no, wait…
Just Say Anything. No, Better Off Dead! “I want my two dollars!”
There’s too many movies to choose from!
It’s magnificent, but it’s not perfect.
“Perfect,” by definition, means to be without flaws. “Ferris Bueller” drags a bit towards the end; the Cameron bit with him going comatose stops being funny pretty quickly, and they drag it out way too much. They should have gotten from the “freak out in the car” scene to the “killing the car” scene much quicker. A little more editing was needed in there. The swimming pool scene, while it did give us a nice look at Mia Sara, was pointless.
That isn’t to say it’s not the funniest comedy of all time. It might be. I mean, there are just too many hysterically funny scenes for it not to be in consideration.
Like What Exit? said, it’s a great one, the last scene on the bus slays me still.
I prefer Just Say Anything for classic 80s movie though.
The Art Institute sequence is one of my favorite movie scenes set to music.
“My best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night!”
Make that “perfect 80’s comedy” and I’ll agree. BTW it’s not the Star Wars theme playing when they take the car out joyriding, it’s from “2001 A Space Odyssey.”
If this is a whoosh, it’s so obscure that I don’t get it. The music is definitely from Star Wars.
Oh my bad, I had the “duhn…duhn…duhn…DUHN-DUH!!!” music in my head for that scene. My 80’s cred is permanently tarnished.
Can’t stand the movie. I’d rather watch any other John Hughes movie, including the execrable Home Alone than watch FB again.
I seem to be in a very small minority, though. I was smack dab in the middle of its target demographic when it was first released and most of my highschool peers loved it but I hated it on first sight.
I just could not get around the title character. I did not think Ferris was a charming or irreverent rogue but a smug and manipulative liar. Cameron should have punched him out early in the movie and I empathized with his poor sister who most definitely did not deserve all of the crap she took. I actually got pissed off when she decided to cover for him at the end of the movie. She should have thrown him to wolves and he would have deserved it. Hell, I even thought the principal was more sympathetic than that smarmy jerk of a title character.
Fuck Ferris!!
It’s good. It’s really good.
In fact, I consider it REALLY REALLY good.
But I have the idea in my head that Ferris Bueller would be a “bad guy” in most other John Hughes teen angst movies. Popular, financially comfortable…
Spot the glaring continuity flaw in that scene.
In the first couple of seconds, as the car flies over the camera, the sky is virtually cloudless and blue. When it lands (around 00:19) the sky is magically full of clouds…
The Last American Virgin was funnier than Ferris Bueller or any of those… I think it was probably one of the top ten best 80’s movies.