http://www.80s.com/saveferris/images/cast/barberi.jpg
― G00blar, Thursday, 23 August 2007 13:32 (sixteen years ago) link
And how was the mindless consumption of the 1980s any worse than what occurred int he 1960s and 1970s?
Let me try this, briefly... The difference is the '80s is when conglomerates and bizmen who had not MADE THEIR CAREERS IN THE FILM BIZ began controlling the studios and what did or didn't get made. Which is why you get fewer Altmans, Rafelsons etc being greenlighted for anything at the margins of the studio system.
Reagan and mindlessness as the paramount value in mainstream entertainment are both SYMPTOMS of (de facto) unregulated capitalism; one didn't cause the other.
Again, as Jack Nicholson said at a Bueller premiere he attended: "These people are trying to kill me."
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 23 August 2007 13:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I would really enjoy seeing a full-on bromantic comedy about how two adult men become friends!
Only tangentially to the point, nabisco: One of the gay NYC weekies is comparing the 'bromance' in Superbad to Midnight Cowboy.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 23 August 2007 13:54 (sixteen years ago) link
^weeklies
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 23 August 2007 13:57 (sixteen years ago) link
oh i see, it was conglomerates and bizmen driving everything in the 80s, and not the mass cultural backlash against the 70s, something that the kids of the 80s were raised into and then sought to get out from under (LIKE OH SAY IN THE CINEMA OF JOHN HUGHES).
I'm sure infantile 70s cowboy/lone ranger Jack's a much nicer guy than buttoned-up 80s family man (oh no, "family"!) Matthew Broderick
― gabbneb, Thursday, 23 August 2007 14:02 (sixteen years ago) link
those Altmans and Rafelsons, they respect the women, I tells ya
― gabbneb, Thursday, 23 August 2007 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Biden-fan gabbneb characteristically obtuse about '80s capitalist ethos and backlash vs counterculture being related.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 23 August 2007 14:08 (sixteen years ago) link
how do you explain Forrest Gump?
― kenan, Thursday, 23 August 2007 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link
no, see i get which way they're related - backlash ridden by deregulators rather than deregulators somehow having diktat-like impact on mass culture
― gabbneb, Thursday, 23 August 2007 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link
he doesn't understand forrest gump any better than he understands ferris bueller
― gabbneb, Thursday, 23 August 2007 14:16 (sixteen years ago) link
In what context, kenan? I've never seen Gump and have no desire to.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 23 August 2007 14:19 (sixteen years ago) link
(but I also find Clinton to be the most Reaganesque of RWR's successors)
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 23 August 2007 14:20 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost It's psychological horror.
― kenan, Thursday, 23 August 2007 14:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Yesterday morning it was a perfectly decent thread. Now look at it.
― Bob Standard, Thursday, 23 August 2007 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
it all comes down to "liberal" gabbneb's cognitive dissonance about his love for an ostensibly conservative film
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 23 August 2007 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
<A href=http://www.cinematical.com/2007/08/22/could-a-ferris-bueller-sequel-be-on-the-way/>Bueller SEQUEL?!?</a>
― Oilyrags, Thursday, 23 August 2007 18:16 (sixteen years ago) link
that was discussed upthread (highly unlikely, to say the least)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 23 August 2007 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link
i have less than zero invested in ferris bueller
i just like to point out mormonism
― gabbneb, Thursday, 23 August 2007 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link
i spose i shouldn't waste my time on the easy stuff tho
hey there's no mormons in Less Than Zero!
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 23 August 2007 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
this thread was insane, just insane
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 10 September 2012 06:05 (eleven years ago) link