You are going on a high school adventure mid-1980s style. Who goes with you: Marty McFly or Ferris Bueller?

Best poll I've seen in months.

Do I get to shoot Ferris Bueller in the head?

the indie answer is Cusack

mcfly is without a doubt the only answer here

although i have to write in a vote for elisabeth shue in adventures in babysitting.

Morbs,

If you want to turn your 1980s movie fantasy into a Michael Mann-directed can-we-catch-this-sicko-before-he-kills-again film, sure. It's your hypothetical.

unless you were already a dispassionate adult when these films came out.

xxp

Morbs there are lots of things I might call you, but dispassionate isn't one of them.

wkiw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nly-bfguf4k

I say it with love! I say it with love. xp

Never got the BTTF love myself.

Actually I'd rather hang with Cameron than Ferris.

I'm so sick of you indie jerkoffs. What, do you think you're racking up extra points with girls by naming someone who is clearly incompetent at having a fun time?

Ferris. He knows exactly what he's doing. I trust him.

McFly is second. By=ut there's nothing very cool about him. He's a weird kid who hangs out with an even weirder mad scientist after school. Avoid this person.

He's a weird kid who hangs out with an even weirder mad scientist after school.

where do i sign up?

Morbs on the money. As previously stated, Bueller is a twat.

xp On the dotted line, but I must warn you -- you're just as likely to end up burning all your hair off as having fun.

Marty McFly seems like the most stand-up dude, but I'm just lookin' for a good time not some possibly life/world altering trip through time. In that light, it's gotta be Bueller or Cusack. I have to imagine that an IRL Ferris Bueller would probably be an intolerable douchebag. So maybe Cusack, but he'd likely be all hung up on some girl or some lame shit and be a downer. This is tough.

As previously stated, Bueller is a twat.

Isn't there a thread somewhere about this?

I'm not saying he's not a twat. But I only need a fun-guide for the day.

Cusack seems like the best "friend" material, not so much "adventure" material.

Ah right, didn't think of the Choose Your Own Adventure aspect of this. Still ruling out Bueller cos he wouldn't be much use after I beat him unconscious on page 2.

do we need a separate thread for the kids from stand by me?

Yeah, I've decided on McFly by process of elimination. Bueller would be a dick and probably fuck me over. Cusack would be a good pal, but I doubt we'd have much of an adventure. I'll just have to conquer my fear of time travel.

xp "I never had friends that I beat as viciously as I did when I was twelve."

Srsly Cameron would fuck shit up way better than Ferris. He had that evil thing going on.

http://5secondfilms.com/v3beta/watch/coming_of_age

Trayce is right, but that makes him scary as hell, not fun.

Ferris is basically proto-Juno video blogging all throughout that movie. You can already do this as a kid!
Also their idea of great hooky fun is going to a museum and eating at a fancy restaurant. You can already do this as an adult!
The people who had the most fun in Ferris Bueller were the valets tearing shit out of sports car to star wars theme. Maybe hang out with those dudes.

Holy shit I never thought of that. You're totally right.

hahah tru.

With Marty you can travel through time. How could the other two dudes top that?

I think you should've added Bill & Ted there, though. With them you can travel through time and just have fun, without worrying about stuff like the grandfather paradox.

Also play Battleship with Death.

Sadly, not an option.

Buellar, FFS people. No one Marty hangs out with in the two films that matter actually gets to go on the time machine, except the guy who invented it and his girlfriend who gets her memory wiped. All that happens is that you get to fuck the girl you were already going to marry, or get saved from being gunned down by Libyan terrorists.

You hang out with Buellar you get 1x awesome day.

I'd probably put the Goonies ahead of Marty and Cusack, actually.

^^^ All this OTM. This too:

Actually I'd rather hang with Cameron than Ferris

... but I have a feeling we'd probably just end up back at his by 3pm, playing on his Commodore 64 until tea-time. So: Ferris it is.

Marty McFly can fuck off and take his skateboard with him.

I'm gonna keep on this one like Tuomas on a nazi car drivers thread.

Marty!

and i would forever be doing the "hello, mcfly!" thing to keep us both amused.

Ferris would totally use and manipulate your ass and steal all the glory. And fuck up your dad's car. I don't want any of those things in my adventure.

"Hey Ferris, any chance you could introduce me to yo sister?"

The Cameron house is still up for sale, you guys.

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/370-Beech-Street_Highland-Park_IL_60035_1109385563?+mp=1#Request

Only $11,715 per month!

More like

http://johneaves.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/lea-thompson-back-to-future.jpg vs http://www.geocities.com/miasara4/pictures/025.jpg

And I guess I'm gonna go with Leah Thompson on this one.

"Hey Marty, any chance you could introduce me to yo mother?"

... but I have a feeling we'd probably just end up back at his by 3pm, playing on his Commodore 64 until tea-time.

This sounds pretty good to me! Well, better than having Ferris crack jokes at my expense all day, and McFly's not gonna let me along cz I can't skate. Probably just going to abandon me in a heap of garbage pails after I fall off the board.

oh stop pitying yourself.

I think I would end up boring Marty to death with BTTF trivia

"hey did you notice they changed the mall name, after you ran over that pine tree?"
"okay adventures over kid"

Ferris? Ew. So full of himself. I guess my pick would be McFly just to get back to 2009 cause I sure as fuck didn't have that much fun as a teenager. Although it could havebeen worse with Ferris around. Then again if Cusack's around, I'd definitely want to get stuck being a 17 year old chick who gets driving lessons from Cusack.

To be honest I'd rather be in Less Than Zero.

You are one dark bitch.

"adventure"

Also, I think this movie was just as influential to me as Ferris or BTTF and somehow hasn't been mentioned in the above 400+ posts.

http://www.impawards.com/1981/posters/private_lessons.jpg

I prefer humping this bacon:

BRING ON THOSE MUTHAFUCKAS WITH DER COLLEGE DEGREES!

http://www.jfk-online.com/100okeefe.jpg

you don't know shit because you've never been FUCKED IN THE ASS

That's a bit unfair, if you're going to throw a KB character into this you really have to pick one that's around the same age as Marty or Ferris, for example, Ace from "Stand By Me".

Another movie I'll always group with these is The Legend of Billie Jean. I would totes go on a crime spree (for a good cause, of course) with Helen Slater.

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o312/Papablunts/TheLegendofBillieJean1985.jpg

FAIR IS FAIR

Gawd I love that movie.

xpost - hmm my "influential movie" poster didn't print. Trying again here:

http://www.impawards.com/1981/posters/private_lessons.jpg

Oh, and now it's back twice. Awesome.

ROD STEWART,
ERIC CLAPTON,
AIR SUPPLY,&OTHERS

btw i recommend doing a google search for "mia sara timecop"

Searched "mia sara timecop" and found this. Wha?

http://www.thrillist.com/pics/swayzetaur.jpg

Apparently it's called a Swayzetaur.

OK so the rainbow...is that tattooed on a man's calf?

the other calf has the Chris Farly satyr

LOL Nabisco. I want to see that.

Farleytaur pics? this is closest I could find:
http://z.about.com/d/tattoo/1/0/q/m/1/080507d.jpg

I hope that's tattooed on someone's turkey neck.

That's a bit unfair, if you're going to throw a KB character into this you really have to pick one that's around the same age as Marty or Ferris, for example, Ace from "Stand By Me".

b-b-but that's Kiefer Sutherland. And then you have to decide if you want to hang about with the Coreys in The Lost Boys or something, and it all goes wrong from there on in.

I don't know if I'd hang around with Ferris for fun. No-one else gets to have the fun when he's around. Teenage me would totally have hung out with teenage John Cusack, but adventurous hijinks would totally fail to ensue. Marty McFly ftw from what's here...

But the unspoken answer is clearly Bender.

(am ignoring all these tattoos, obv)

Actually, wtf am I talking about. The answer is clearly Bill and Ted, even if my definition of mid-80s is stretching to very-very-late-80s.

If you choose Bill & Ted are you compelled to see them through on the Bogus Journey or can you ditch them at the end of the Excellent Adventure?

Cusack is too mopey and self-obsessed, and Bueller is a borderline sociopath who would be fun to hang around until he decided he was bored with you.

Marty McFly seems like the most stand-up dude

^ This. He just seems like a solid, decent guy.

again, time travel

Bogus Journey was in the 90s, so totally excluded, dude.

I love that it's Marty McFly vs Ferris Bueller vs John Cusack. Why does the latter get to be his real self? Should we not refer to him as Lane/Hoops?

Except for cameo as the nerd twin in 16 Candles, John Cusack always plays John Cusack even when he's an ostensibly German-Jewish Art Dealer palling around with Hitler.

whereas the other two have such great range....

My problem with McFly here is that I have zero sense of what he's like. This isn't entirely his fault, as he spends the film kinda busy running around dealing with time-travel issues. But I have almost no sense of what he'd be like to just hang out with, and when I was a kid I even read the tie-in novel, which went much further into depth about the tenor of Marty's everyday pre-timetravel life.

Broderick is pretty great and un-Ferris-like in Election.

Taking sides: Broderick as urbane smartass v. Broderick as befuddled neurotic.

vs. Broderick as reluctant hero (Civil War-steez)

Broderick also killed someone and got away with it.

You'd maybe have to hang around with Sarah Jessica Parker as well, so, no thanks.

Whenever someone says "Sarah Jessica Parker" there should be the sound of whinnying in the background, like when someone says "Frau Blücher".

http://lifewithoutbuildings.net/2009/05/you-killed-the-car-camerons-house-now-on-the-market.html

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Bueller doesn't have a hoverboard

I'm sure he can guilt a kid into lending him one, though.

just trying to recall btf2, did marty steal the hoverboard and never return it ? what an arse.

oh hang on, he tried didn't he but they had found biffs better board. apols marty.

For this poll, Marty. But the real answer is Bill & Ted (and Missy)

My problem with McFly here is that I have zero sense of what he's like. This isn't entirely his fault, as he spends the film kinda busy running around dealing with time-travel issues.

but look at how he deals with stress, he seems really neurotic and anxious. i really don't think he'd be much fun at a party or during a crazy adventure day, even sans time travel.

and didn't we already determine that cusack isn't really the type to bro down with? he'd just talk about getting dumped by some chick and then ditch you as soon as the next one came along.

all these guys seem like such fun bros at first glance but i don't think i'd want to hang out with any of 'em.

YEESH

Can I hang out with these guys?

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f15/scrapyardz/Crispin_RiversEdge02.jpg

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SHAME on anyone who voted for Ferris.

There's a '31' siteban argument to be fuckin had right here tbh

ditch them both for Bill & Ted