Paid Members Nick Soapdish Posted September 20, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted September 20, 2014 Ferris Bueller's Day Off has just started on Film 4. I'm the guy who hates that film. Ferris is such an unlikeable character. He is no John Bender that's for sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Surf Digby Posted September 20, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted September 20, 2014 I don't hate Ferris Bueller's Day Off, but I don't think it's anything to make a fuss over. Â It's no Weekends At Bernie's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted September 20, 2014 Author Paid Members Share Posted September 20, 2014 The best bits of Ferris Bueller are the ones that don't contain Bueller. All of the Jeffrey Jones and Jennifer Grey / Charlie Sheen bits are fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sivy Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 As football films go I always liked Remember The Titans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 There was a Mark Wahlburg film on SKY the other day. He plays some average joe who ends up playing for the Philladelphia Eagles presumably as he can only play people from Boston and no-one from Boston would play for either NY team, Philly was the next closest team for him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Undefeated Steak Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 Yeah it's nowhere near as good as I thought it was. I never realised just how unlikable Ferris himself was either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members DEF Posted September 20, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted September 20, 2014 (edited) Ferris is a twat but its still ace. Â EDIT - Sexy Beast is on 4. Your a cunt if you don't at least watch Don on +1. Edited September 20, 2014 by DEF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members FLips Posted September 21, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted September 21, 2014 Halfway into the second season of Cheers and there's not been a bad episode yet, really funny. Sam and Diane are the worst couple in the history of anything though, and Coach is still too thick to be any use other than the random character moments he gets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Tommy! Posted September 21, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted September 21, 2014 Halfway into the second season of Cheers and there's not been a bad episode yet, really funny. Sam and Diane are the worst couple in the history of anything though, and Coach is still too thick to be any use other than the random character moments he gets.  I've always preferred Woody to Coach for reasons unknown to me. I also struggle to segregate Diane & Rebecca in my memory to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted September 21, 2014 Author Paid Members Share Posted September 21, 2014 Have we talked about Under The Skin in this thread? I can't remember and can't be arsed searching. Â I'm expecting half "It was fucking shite!" and half "It was fucking amazing!" and I'm siding in the latter camp. I thought it was completely brilliant. Jonathan Glazer needs to be made to make more films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ColinBollocks Posted September 21, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted September 21, 2014 Watched it at the pictures a few months back. I remembering thinking the blend of the visuals and the music were brilliantly effective. Â Some unforgettable moments in that film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted September 21, 2014 Author Paid Members Share Posted September 21, 2014 The music was absolutely stunning. One of the most nervewracking soundtracks I've ever heard. The only thing I didn't understand was why Johansson had an English accent in it but I guess for an American it might be easier to effect than a Scottish ones. What an absolutely fearless performance as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Thunderplex Posted September 22, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted September 22, 2014 And I am still searching for the early 80's british movie that it was an almost scene by scene copy of! Driving me frigging mad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members John Matrix Posted September 22, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted September 22, 2014  Sabotage - I'll apologise to the Colonel here, but it's really fucking dreadful. With such a great cast and potentially wonderful storyline, it turned out to be a strangely edited, convoluted clusterfuck. Enos is ludicrously miscast to the point that I found her overacting laughable, and the subplot and resolution involving Arnies family was just plain lazy.Harold Perrineau popped up again to further dampen my spirits. Him and his bastard cheekbones and teeth!Joe Manganiello's arms are a thing of beauty though...I couldn't get into it. The main group are a bunch of cunts... How am I supposed to invest in them? Well, it’s not great is it? Pretty much echo everything said above - a more dislikeable group of characters you won’t possibly find.  Arnie’s turn is on par with Hercules in New York which is frustrating. I’m one of the few who think there’s a pretty decent actor in there somewhere given the right direction, but watching him in this, it’s like those skills have regressed 30 years.  Most jarring though is the dialogue – after the abortion that was Die Hard 5, I should have known better than to go into a film penned by Skip Woods with anything less than my guard up, it’s diabolical, I mean the main lot are unpleasant enough, but even the fringe characters all talk like pricks. Awful, awful, awful.  I know there’s supposed to be a couple of big names (Arnie aside) in this - I don’t know any of them, but suffice to say, I’ve no desire to watch anything else with them in if Sabotage is anything to go by…and I know it isn’t, but still.  The closing car chase and final 5 minutes are decent, and I’ll admit, I pissed myself at “Fuck you, with your 48 percent body fat, and you, you scrawny bastard” I’ll watch that bit again, definitely. But even as the most staunch Arnie fan I struggle to find anything positive to say about this.  It’s funny, I made a comment about the Expendables 3 and how frustrating it was that everything cuts away so you never see a money shot, so to speak, but to prove I’m not some bloodthirsty monster, in Sabotage, they show you everything, in graphic detail, as if just for the sake of it, and I didn’t enjoy that either. None of the violence has any real impact, it’s just there, it doesn’t add anything, and it’d be no worse a film if it wasn’t in there – I remember saying to my nan when she asked me “why I like violent movies” that it wasn’t the violence as such, it was what it meant, what it represented, a hero overcoming the odds, well that’s not what happens here. It’s just nasty shit for the sake of giving you something to talk about in order to distract you from the fact that nothing else interesting happens.  No redeeming qualities whatsoever, and believe me, that hurts to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted September 22, 2014 Author Paid Members Share Posted September 22, 2014 And I am still searching for the early 80's british movie that it was an almost scene by scene copy of! Driving me frigging mad! Â Christ, we did talk about it, didn't we? Only a few pages back or something. Bloody hell, my memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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