Best Movie Ever: Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The antic, ground-breaking and genuinely touching John Hughes masterpiece makes its way to Blu-ray this week. And we declare it is the best movie ever
 |
By Jordan Hoffman August 2, 2011 |
Turning Baseball From Boring To Annoying |
Not everything this movie did was for good.
As if sitting through a baseball game weren't enough of a drag, after the release of this picture you were guaranteed to hear douchebags go "Heeeeeey batter batter batter saaaawiiiiiiing batter!" at least four hundred times.
I'm not enough of a sports fan to know what Cameron fills in afterward. Is it "Kennedy? Kennedy? Kennedy?" or "Can-he-hit? Can-he-hit? Can-he-hit?" If someone knows, please tell me.
A "That Guy" Joyride |
The slo-mo Ferrari jump in Ferris Bueller's Day Off may represent the first time the theme from Star Wars was used as a nostalgia reference, as opposed to Carol Burnett-esque gag.
Either way, note that the garage attendant is Richard Edson, the former drummer of Sonic Youth and future "nice" son of Sal in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing.
Jean vs Rooney |
Forgive me for sounding like too much of an old man, but I actually saw Ferris Bueller's Day Off in the theater. (I'd like to say I skipped school to get there, but I went with my Dad.)
Anyway, the biggest laugh in the film was the climax of the rising parallel action between Jennifer Grey's angry sister Jean Bueller and Jeffrey Jones' Dean of Students Ed Rooney.
Maybe it is just me thinking back through the mists of time, but I can't recall an audience losing their shit quite as much as when the two of them scream at each other and she whapped him in the face with her foot.
1961 Ferarri GT California |
Car lovers tend to part company with Ferris' philosophy of life right around this part of the movie.
Sure, have a heart-to-heart with your parents, Cameron, but did you have to destroy the Ferarri?
Rooney Eats It |
Would there have been an Avengers Initiative without Ferris Bueller's Day Off?
While surely not the first movie you had to watch through to the end of the credits, this was definitely one of the first.
In this shot we see all that is awesome about this picture: while on the left we're hearing lines like "I bet you never smelled a real school bus before" on the right we're reading about The Dream Academy and Sigue Sigue Sputnik.
