Posted by Duke_of_Fluke at 194.129.43.14 on February 08, 2000 at 20:28:49:
In Reply to: Whether you care or not, here it comes. posted by Chiusano on February 08, 2000 at 18:39:38:
: 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?
The receding hairline - it's called Thurman's Disease. Uma has it.
: 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.
Oh, but I'll bet you saw Die hard 2 when it came out, didn't you? Pshaw.
Top Gun, fair point, is a bucket of slippery shit (sans bucket), and there's nothing I'd like to see more if only, at the end of the movie, the heroic Cruiser had opened his cockpit, stood to wave at his adoring comrades, and then a man with a rusty shovel had given Tommy a glancing blow off the side of his head and caused irreperable damage to the diminutive Grand Wizard of Scientology.
But FBDO was one of the most innovative and original movies of its day. Not that telling you this again will make a difference. Sure Ruck and Broderick lost the plot many moons ago - so what? Orson Welles went downhill fast too. So what if Mia Sara was horribly unattractive in the movie (and worse in TimeCop - hah!), it was a guy flick, not a chick flick.
Can you fault the performance of Jeffrey "Nine Times" Jones? Didn't think so. Let's face it, Mallrats would have been helluva different without it, so shut yer trap and eat yer chips.
You'll be saying you don't like Weird Science next... NO, don't...