Posted by Chiusano at usr1-d15.stk.cwnet.com on February 08, 2000 at 18:49:41:
In Reply to: no, we really don't care...nt posted by Devil's Advocate on February 08, 2000 at 18:45:47:
: : : with FERRIS, it's not cinema noeveau (sp?)...It's pure fun. However, you couldn't do a Ferris today (unless you were clever) but if you had in the late 80s, it would've been comedic gold (and Chiusano, I care little what you have to say).
: : What, that Ferris Bueller is a shitty, bafflingly overpraised, humor devoid hunk of trash? That even the largely discarded Career Opportunities is a superior Hughes flick (even it's lame final act is better than anything in Day Off)? That those two human labias, Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck, deserve a beating that would make Jet Li wince? That that girl Sloane had a receding hairline?
: : Here's the thing with me and Ferris (and I'm so about to get Smalls' goat). A few years ago, I decided to rent Ferris and Top Gun, as they were the two '80s films that I had never watched that no one could believe that I'd never watched. And I was appalled at how lame I thought both were. I couldn't believe that these two steamers were beloved by so many. Then I came to the conclusion that maybe it was an '80s thing. Most folks saw these two films during the "Where's The Beef?" decade, and they love them today as a result of nostalgia. I was a latecomer to the party, so I didn't appreciate them (though I saw several other '80s films in the '90s and I don't remember any of them licking as much cock as these two). So, I dunno. Maybe my anachronistic initial viewing warped my perception. Alls I know is Ferris Bueller is a terrible, terrible movie.
: : But you don't care what I have to say, anyway.
: : Chiusano