Stats: 1986. Starring Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, and Mia Sara. PG-13.
Background: I’d heard of Ferris Bueller long before I saw it. It was one of those movies I’d hear guys talking about, and I never really had much interest. Then, somehow (I can’t really remember the circumstance), I saw it. And I really enjoyed it. When a friend gave me a gift card to a local video store, this is one of the DVDs I came home with.
Plot: Ferris (Broderick), his best friend Cameron (Ruck), and his girlfriend Sloane (Sara) take a day off of school to go into the city. Hijinks ensue, and Charlie Sheen makes a cameo appearance.
Reactions: Ferris Bueller is fun … in a way that I’d like to see maybe once every five years! I think this is one of those movies where the parts are greater than the whole. I always think of this movie fondly—“Bueller…Bueller…Bueller;” the contraption Ferris rigs in his room to make it appear he’s there; the Chicago parade scene; Ed Rooney’s face-off with Ferris’s sister when they're both trying to prove Ferris is lying. But when I actually sit through the entire movie, I find my mind wandering. If I waited five years to watch it again, I’d probably love it!
Verdict: Keep
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
the state of this blog
I was just noticing that in the first "year" of this blog (which was really just the last five months of 2009) I posted about 35 films. And that was without posting at all in November, during which time I wrote a novel! (The novel was truly terrible, though, and it will never be seen by anyone's eyes but my own.) I only wrote about 7 movies in 2010, and I've written about 10 films so far in 2011.
So what's the difference? Why did I write so much at first and so little in the years following? Well, for one thing, I now review tons of books. Sometimes I bite off more than I can chew in that department, as it's extremely difficult for me to pass up a book that sounds interesting! (I currently have 14 books waiting to be read and reviewed. Ridiculous, I know.) Netflix also has something to do with it, I'm sure--now that I have thousands of movies and TV episodes that I can stream through my Wii, I'm less inclined to watch a movie I've already seen. (I'm also less inclined to buy a movie, so I guess that's a good thing.) But I think I'll soon be watching more of my already owned films. Why? Because I'm working on a new, top secret project that will require the use of my hands but not all of my attention. So I plan to plant myself in front of movies that also don't require all of my attention (since I've already seen them) while I work--and then blog about said movies immediately! (No more of this "I watched this film while preparing to move out of my apartment a year ago, but I'm just now getting around to writing about it" stuff. Seriously. Doesn't that defeat the purpose of this blog?) I only have one more "already watched" movie to blog about, and then it'll be back to the proper movies in the proper order. At least I hope so.
Stay tuned!
So what's the difference? Why did I write so much at first and so little in the years following? Well, for one thing, I now review tons of books. Sometimes I bite off more than I can chew in that department, as it's extremely difficult for me to pass up a book that sounds interesting! (I currently have 14 books waiting to be read and reviewed. Ridiculous, I know.) Netflix also has something to do with it, I'm sure--now that I have thousands of movies and TV episodes that I can stream through my Wii, I'm less inclined to watch a movie I've already seen. (I'm also less inclined to buy a movie, so I guess that's a good thing.) But I think I'll soon be watching more of my already owned films. Why? Because I'm working on a new, top secret project that will require the use of my hands but not all of my attention. So I plan to plant myself in front of movies that also don't require all of my attention (since I've already seen them) while I work--and then blog about said movies immediately! (No more of this "I watched this film while preparing to move out of my apartment a year ago, but I'm just now getting around to writing about it" stuff. Seriously. Doesn't that defeat the purpose of this blog?) I only have one more "already watched" movie to blog about, and then it'll be back to the proper movies in the proper order. At least I hope so.
Stay tuned!
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