Not a total waste: Foreigner, Journey, Styx, REO, ELO, Blondie, The Cars, The Police, and oh yeah:
PUNK
Posted on 06/14/2011 7:15:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Twenty-five years after its release, John Hughes's most-loved work doesn't hold up
Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which hit theaters 25 years ago this week and will soon be re-released on Blu-Ray and DVD, inspires a special kind of reverence in suburbia. "Today you'd be hard-pressed to find an American high-school yearbook that doesn't quote somewhere in its pages Ferris Bueller's view on existence," author Susannah Gora writes in her book You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, And Their Impact on a Generation. Before going with a bromidic Bob Dylan lyric, I almost made my own senior quote, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." In hindsight, it seems about as profound as a fortune cookie. I guess being 17 is a good excuse for banality.
Adults, on the other hand, should know better. Yet they too remain fixated on Ferris, a role that earned Matthew Broderick a Golden Globe nomination. The line, "Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?", delivered by Ben Stein's monotonic economics teacher, is American educators' go-to, passive-aggressive rallying cry. References can also be found outside the classroom. This February, Baseball Prospectus writer Larry Granillo dedicated two blog posts to determining the precise Cubs game Ferris and his pals attended while playing hooky. An episode of the FOX medical drama House that aired in March centered on a homeless guy who called himself Ferris Bueller. "I think," Juno director Jason Reitman says in Don't You Forget About Me, a 2009 documentary about the late Hughes, "Ferris Bueller's a perfect movie."
A quarter century after its release, the explanation for why Ferris Bueller's Day Off remains a pop-culture touchstone is simple.
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Not a total waste: Foreigner, Journey, Styx, REO, ELO, Blondie, The Cars, The Police, and oh yeah:
PUNK
In my youth, I was torn between Ally Sheedy and Molly Ringwald.
Don’t forget Rita Hayworth and Paulette Goddard.
Now THAT was a movie!
I must see this...
I dig the graphics.
Hey ho, let’s go.
Oh yeah - I was a young man in the 80’s, an early 20’s Reagan Youth who not only loved Foreigner, ACDC, KISS, Molly Hatchet, Kansas and Styx, but the great New Age & Punk stuff that came out. Couple that with MTV (back when it was good) and life was indeed sweet.
One of my favorites.
Loved the ‘Twist and Shout’ part. LOL
Two words, “Ally Sheedy.”
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Indeed.
She was very cute and appealing in War Games.
I thought her and Broderick were very natural in their roles as well, and I am not a big fan of the “art of acting”.
The computer geeks might have stolen the show, though.
Have you ever watched ‘Dazed and Confused’? It eptomizes the 70’s. I had a blast so don’t really know why you think the 70’s were a horrible decade to be in high-school. :P
And Ingrid Bergman.
What didnt you like about it?
Absolutely! She was stunning.
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