― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 5 September 2002 22:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 6 September 2002 12:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
A new bedroom:
http://jalopnik.com/5879809/exclusive-ferris-buellers-mysterious-super-bowl-ad-is-for-honda
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 January 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
Haha a bunch of people on my Twitter feed are still 100% convinced this is for a sequel, no matter how much I insisted it was for an ad campaign and nothing more.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 27 January 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
sounds typical of dunces who like Ferris Bueller
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 January 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
^^^
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 27 January 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
in my dotage, I have grown to really hate this movie
One of my favourite movies of all time.
― pandemic, Friday, 27 January 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
would've been a shorter movie if Cameron's car had exploded in the first reel and killed Ferris and Sloan instantly.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 January 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
Its much better, not to mention a lot less racist, than the other John Hughes 80s movies.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 27 January 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
I dislike this movie a great deal but that's true.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 January 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
Its much better, not to mention a lot less racist, than the other John Hughes 80s movies.― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, January 27, 2012 6:01 PM (53 minutes ago)
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, January 27, 2012 6:01 PM (53 minutes ago)
????
― salsa shark, Friday, 27 January 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
tbf it doesn't give any non-white actors any lines, so they don't have the opportunity to serve as blatantly racist caricatures.
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 27 January 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
What about the two "Middle Easterns" garage guys ("what kind of country do you think this is?")?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 January 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
xpost, was curious enough to google it, prb don't need further explanation here.
― salsa shark, Friday, 27 January 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
Forgot about those guys, but still, much less racist than Long Duk Dong.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 27 January 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
I love this movie. Primary racial wtf is the black folks dancing during the parade scene.
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Friday, 27 January 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
yeah those guys definitely stick out as some kind of "ew urban people/immigrants!" nonsense, altho their ethnicity is sort of indeterminate.
xp
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 27 January 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
Oh yeah, I forgot about Long Duk Dong. Somehow.
― salsa shark, Friday, 27 January 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Friday, 27 January 2012 19:06 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i really love this scene, though haven't seen the film for in awhile; can you refresh my memory/expand a bit? is it caricaturish or what?
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Friday, 27 January 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
yeah well there's just you know everybody being all goofy and then hey there is an all-black dance team doing a choreographed dance on some stairs spliced in. Maybe not too caricatured but definitely makes me o_O whenever I see that part.
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Friday, 27 January 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
aw. idk how much of this is just blind affection for JH & this movie - like i guess reasonably i should see that the guy has form per long duk dong - but it never rung out, to me. i could handle all-black dance team w/o black seeming an important variable; or w/o choreographed seeming to have been considered 'appropriate' for that group or w/e.
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Friday, 27 January 2012 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
dance team in question rolls in around 2:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vltUWa_tOhE&feature=related
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Friday, 27 January 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
Thumbs up to Hughes for taping a Bryan Ferry Boys + Girls poster on Ferris' wall.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 January 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
will stick w/ Jon Cryer's Smiths poster
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 January 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
You wanted the full ad you got it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhkDdayA4iA
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 January 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
And, for true Bueller geeks, the name of the agent, Walter Linder, is a nod to the name listed under sausage king of Chicago Abe Froman on the restaurant-reservation list in the original film.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 January 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
why did they make him do such boring stuff
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Monday, 30 January 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
Also, why would they spend a jillion dollars to air this during the Super Bowl and then release it online 6 days early?
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 January 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
Seriously, that ad is completely pointless. I'm not even the biggest stan of the original movie, but divorcing it completely from the Chicago context makes absolutely no sense to me.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 30 January 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
Any Angelenos know which hotel that is? Beverly Hills Peninsula?
― Burritos are one of the things I'm nostalgic about!!! (Eazy), Monday, 30 January 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Monday, 30 January 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
(Spot is directed by Todd "Hangover" Phillips.)
― Burritos are one of the things I'm nostalgic about!!! (Eazy), Monday, 30 January 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, January 27, 2012 1:00 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
isn't one of them former Sonic Youth drummer Richard Edson?
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 30 January 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
Richard Edson of Stranger Than Paradise?
― Burritos are one of the things I'm nostalgic about!!! (Eazy), Monday, 30 January 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
yes
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 30 January 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
"Middle Eastern"
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 30 January 2012 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nY72TdvmuKk/RyHbPC3StaI/AAAAAAAAALU/zELA-mhDoAA/s320/bueller_joyride.bmp
dunno neither of these guys read as "middle eastern" to me
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 30 January 2012 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
damn:
His more notable roles include a disreputable parking garage attendant in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 January 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
I thought at the time his accent was Lebanese.
"I speak indie rock, with a hint of ska."
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 January 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
More importantly, his co-pilot is Flash Jenkins, who played Gummy in Fletch!
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 30 January 2012 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
"and a strong skronk aftertaste"
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 January 2012 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
pretty sure Hughes' intention was for them to read as "threatening/urban/ethnic"
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 30 January 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
Have the "Bueller 2" idiots in yr F'book feeds wised up yet?
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 January 2012 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
Haha, I don't know, I haven't been on Facebook much at all in the last four or five days.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 30 January 2012 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
eesh I always read the garage attendants as heroes! Who wouldn't 'borrow' a rad car from some stupid rich kids if they could get away with it?? These guys are the best characters/people in the movie. And I like this movie.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 30 January 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, that is a pivotal scene in the "Ferris is a total douchebag" reading of the film. we loved those guys as kids, and quoted "uuuhhh... what country do you think this is?" incessantly.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 30 January 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
Hm. I always liked John Hughes movies growing up, yeah, but I'm realizing that I never actually liked, in the sense of wanting to be or be friends with, any of his main characters except maybe Ducky and Annie Potts (and that was only half his movie). Ok i kinda had a crush on Cameron. But everyone was pretty spoiled and boring! Even if they weren't rich and/or stupid! But then they did things that were relatively wacky in comparison to their little lives, and who's not a fan of relatively wacky things.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 30 January 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
that was my first guess but a look at their website seems to indicate no
― buzza, Monday, 30 January 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
I was also thinking about how Stephen Spielberg, despite the premises of most of his movies being so fantastical, made much more realistically human films of the 80s (and beyond). I'm pos only thinking this because I rewatched Minority Report last weekend and it is a totally great movie!! Also I'm on my phone so can't search for a Spielberg thread.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 30 January 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
most classic thing was the Emulator ferris used
― Aerosol, Monday, 30 January 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
Re: the new ad -- there's something so pathetic about a man in his late 40s pulling the same shit he did when he was a teenager. At least back then he had friends, now he looks like some sociopathic loner. I kept expecting a reveal of dead bodies in the back of the CR V.
― Nicole, Monday, 30 January 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
I want to see a middle-aged Elliot reunite with E.T.
― Burritos are one of the things I'm nostalgic about!!! (Eazy), Monday, 30 January 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
oh last time I was in NYC I saw M Broderick walking down the street in the village. He was talking to a woman and drinking coffee and wearing sunglasses. He didn't tell me anything about this commercial.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 30 January 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
Then I went and bought some perfume from a fancy perfumerie.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 30 January 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
Still think, as darraghmac alluded to, it's kinda funny that someone thought it was a good idea to get Matthew Broderick to star in an automobile commercial.
― pplains, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
I always liked John Hughes movies growing up, yeah, but I'm realizing that I never actually liked, in the sense of wanting to be or be friends with, any of his main characters except maybe Ducky and Annie Potts
I had friends in high school who were like Ferris, really cool as long as you were willing to do exactly what they wanted you to do... and they pissed me off. His sister had the right idea, trying to fuck with him.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
Its this whole thing about forced nostalgia. Hey, remember this fun movie? Well here, let's ruin it completely. Its better than this year's VW Star Wars commercial, which is annoying and awful (and remember this is coming from the guy who got in thread beef with whiney over loving their ad from last year's Super Bowl).
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
Yoda is currently shilling for Vodafone in the UK
― Number None, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
it's kinda funny that someone thought it was a good idea to get Matthew Broderick to star in an automobile commercial.
daaaaaaaaamn, I didn't even remember that. And neither does anyone else in America.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
TV seems to want to ruin everything these days. Like today I was waiting at the bus station and the tv there made me know that Drew Carey hosts the Price Is Right. I miss my innocence.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
xp Yep, he was in a car wreck that killed two people in Northern Ireland, and fined a cool $175.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
xxpost -- oh man, it just hit me. As it were.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
I remember there was a whole thing happening when Broderick hosted that episode of SNL he did a year later because the Sugarcubes were performing and the angst was whether or not they could perform "Motorcrash."
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
Let Einar be Einar.
― Nicole, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
laura bush, rebecca gayheart and brandy are calling their agents right now
― buzza, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
as a matter of fact there's a new Brandy (and Monica!) single due any day now
― Number None, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
Would love to see a Jon Cryer + James Spader reunion commercial.
― Burritos are one of the things I'm nostalgic about!!! (Eazy), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
Broderick sadly coming across more as his character from Election in this
― spiced with KNOWING THAT YOU'VE PAID YOUR BILLS (I DIED), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
Hey, answering yesterday's question, I just figured out that the hotel, or at least the driveway, is the Montage.
― Burritos are one of the things I'm nostalgic about!!! (Eazy), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 13:34 (twelve years ago) link
An in depth analysis from our own Alex in NYC
http://vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/2013/06/favorites-of-ferris.html
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 June 2013 23:34 (ten years ago) link
Classic enough for a documentary, evidently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D59pCVMYiJo
In advance, a local rep has been screening this in the afternoon the past week. Someone I used to work with bought me the video a few years ago, and every so often she would check in to see if I'd watched it. I finally did, today--I was the only person there for a 4:30 screening, me and 250 empty seats.
The "Twist and Shout" scene, I'd seen that on TV once; great scene. (It's a scene I could just as easily have hated, but it works.) Also really liked the museum scene, which came out of nowhere and was completely at odds with the rest of the film. Charlie Sheen was funny--one of those cases where he seemed to be off in his own movie. The end-credit bus sequence was clever.
Honestly, though--I won't say this to my co-worker; she obviously loves the film--I found most of the rest excruciating. The scene where Ferris's friend destroys the car and decides to stand up to his dad especially.
― clemenza, Monday, 11 June 2018 23:41 (five years ago) link
I still covet that giant "Slave to Love" poster.
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 04:48 (five years ago) link
featured here as "a foundational text of Reagan-era (and beyond) white male privilege"
https://www.bam.org/film/2018/on-whiteness
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 00:39 (five years ago) link
I saw an hour of it on cable channel on Sat night before going out: chuckling at the Grace/Rooney scenes and lusting after the "Slave to Love" poster in the first third, groaning at how the audience is supposed to accept Ferris' self-absorption as cool in the second act.
Then I went out wearing a shirt as cool as Ferris' vest.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 00:48 (five years ago) link
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, January 27, 2012 1:00 PM
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 00:50 (five years ago) link
a foundational text of Reagan-era (and beyond) white male privilege
Don't disagree, and it's not without interest--there are lots of bad, annoying '80s films that fit that description. One of the biggest problems, I was thinking later, is Matthew Broderick. He's great in Election and You Can Count on Me. That's his character, and he grew into it well: middle-aged, wound too tightly, this bland, weasely everyman. In Ferris, he's supposed to be a wildly charismatic teenage wiseguy. For me, he wasn't even close.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 02:49 (five years ago) link
Obsessed with thisFerris Bueller's Day OffGhanaian poster from Deadly Prey Galleries pic.twitter.com/LwGdOU4ll9— Stephen Scarlata (@StephenScarlata) January 23, 2019
― omar little, Monday, 4 March 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link