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[Rogin the Armchair fan]

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[Squarewheelbike]

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Whilst "Ferris Buellers' Day Off" still exists, there will never be a worse film!

[Sean of the Shed]

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Squarewheelbike wrote:

Whilst "Ferris Buellers' Day Off" still exists, there will never be a worse film!

I'll second that. Well almost. I hate that film with a passion that I normally reserve for Tory Ministers and Piers Morgan. I'd have to say, though, that Tom Green vehicle Freddy Got Fingered isd without doubt the most awful, dispicable piece of trash that was ever made.

[The Exploding Vole]

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I have never walked out on a film, but I and Mrs The Exploding both came awfully close to walking out on The English Patient.

[Toby Gymshorts]

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Pearl Harbor.

They couldn't even be bothered to spell it correctly.

[Purves Grundy]

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Hang on a sec. Ferris Bueller's Day Off is really good, you freaks.

[evilC]

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If it wasn't for the production design (which is fantastic) 'Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow' would surely be a contender.

I so wanted that film to be good ...but it's diabolical, realistically-speaking.

[Renart]

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I am also baffled by the hatred for Ferris Bueller's Day Off. It's not a classic of world cinema, certainly, but worst movie ever?

The worst film I've ever paid money to see in a movie theater was Trixie, an incomprehensible, tedious mess made by people who thought they were much more clever than they actually were. I would have walked out and demanded my money back if I hadn't been on a double date.

[Cal Alamein]

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Sean of the Shed wrote:

Squarewheelbike wrote:

Whilst "Ferris Buellers' Day Off" still exists, there will never be a worse film!

I'll second that. Well almost. I hate that film with a passion that I normally reserve for Tory Ministers and Piers Morgan. I'd have to say, though, that Tom Green vehicle Freddy Got Fingered isd without doubt the most awful, dispicable piece of trash that was ever made.

Annoying at times, yes, but worst film of all time? How so?

Too many bad films to narrow to one, but watched this documentary about this crap film. Dunno if I'd call it the worst film of all time, but it was very shitty.

[RobW]

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I caught, and perversely watched Transformers 2; Revenge of the Fallen. I even paid money to see it at the cinema. I have managed however so far, to avoid watching the 3rd installment. I hear it's even worse, which does make me curious. Course, Bay isn't finished with the franchise just yet, so I suspect Transformers 4 will be even worse.

A less obvious film that I watched this time last year and found to be utterly dreadful and dull as anything was Archipelago. Dragged to it by my parents after Peter Bradshaw gave it a 4 or 5 star review in the Guardian, it was the most boring, excruciatingly painful 90/120 minutes of cinema i've seen. Upper middle class family go to Scilly Isles, whinge, take long pauses before whinging once more, utterly detestable characters and a complete non-story. A few people left our screening no doubt bored out of their mind, someone else in the row in front farted so loudly that my father and I got the giggles and I wanted the family to die horrifically so badly by the end of it.
According to one comment under the Guardian review, one person left a screening in disgust that before reaching the exit, they turned around and flicked the 'v' sign at the screen. Magnificent reaction.

Oh, and Ferris Bueller is ace, you fools.

[Squarewheelbike]

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Purves Grundy wrote:

Hang on a sec. Ferris Bueller's Day Off is really good, you freaks.

Purves, when you say "freaks" I presume you mean "grown ups", because no one but a child could see anything redeamable in that formulaic piece of John Hughes middle America wankathon.

[Amor de Cosmos]

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I dunno. I think it's possible that our grandchildren will look at John Hughes movies to catch middle America of the 80s in the same way some of us look at Frank Capra films to see the 30s, and Douglas Sirk the 50s. Not because they are "real" exactly, but they catch the aspirations and sensibilities of their time and place well.

[Cal Alamein]

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Squarewheelbike wrote:

Purves Grundy wrote:

Hang on a sec. Ferris Bueller's Day Off is really good, you freaks.

Purves, when you say "freaks" I presume you mean "grown ups", because no one but a child could see anything redeamable in that formulaic piece of John Hughes middle America wankathon.

John Hughes churned out some formulaic dreck, but don't mess w/ the Middle American classics of Planes, Trains, & Automobiles, Uncle Buck, and Christmas Vacation. Don't care how old you are.

[Amor de Cosmos]

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He only directed eight films (but wrote tons more.) I reckon Curly Sue and She's Having a Baby are outright stinkers, the rest have at least some merit.

[Renart]

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And the Vacation "Quest for Fun" rant still makes me laugh till I cry every time I see it.

Hughes definitely had dodgy politics, and the racist caricature Long Duk Dong in Sixteen Candles is unforgivable, but he could be very funny on occasion.

[WOM]

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Uncle Buck gets criminally overlooked in favour of 16 Candles and Breakfast Club. Candy has some classic lines in that film, including the rant where he calls the principal a 'dried-out, brain-dead skag' and then ends with "Good day to you, madam."

Also: "Art Linkletter was right: kids say the god-damndest things."

[WOM]

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Renart wrote:

Hughes definitely had dodgy politics, and the racist caricature Long Duk Dong in Sixteen Candles is unforgivable, but he could be very funny on occasion.

Heh.

"I'd like to report a missing boy. He's about 18. Wearing yellow pants, a red shirt and a plaid cardigan."

(Pause)

"Hmm? No, he's not retarded!"

[Amor de Cosmos]

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Renart wrote:

And the Vacation "Quest for Fun" rant still makes me laugh till I cry every time I see it.

Hughes definitely had dodgy politics, and the racist caricature Long Duk Dong in Sixteen Candles is unforgivable, but he could be very funny on occasion.

You could say the same of Dickens (support of slavery, Fagin as a racist caricature) but he was pretty mainstream in those portrayals at the time, as was Hughes in his. I'm note saying Hughes was close to being the artist that Dickens (or Sirk and Capra) were, but his films will continue to be important for similar reasons.

[Guest]

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John Hughes is the racists racist

[Renart]

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I agree, AdC, that Hughes captured the eighties very well. It's just that since the eighties in the U.S. were generally a pretty reactionary time, the "warts" in his movies are rather ugly.

[Amor de Cosmos]

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Sure, no one likes looking at their zits and airbrushing them out of the picture makes us feel better, but does no one any favours down the road.

[WOM]

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Anti Racist Credentials wrote:

John Hughes is the racists racist

I'd never thought about it before now, but I can't think of a single black character in a single Hughes film.

[Renart]

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Amor de Cosmos wrote:

Sure, no one likes looking at their zits and airbrushing them out of the picture makes us feel better, but does no one any favours down the road.

I'm not suggesting they be excised or censored, just that they make some scenes very hard to watch and leave a bad feeling through the rest of the movie, kind of like Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany's.

[Guest]

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Worn Old Motorbike wrote:

Anti Racist Credentials wrote:

John Hughes is the racists racist

I'd never thought about it before now, but I can't think of a single black character in a single Hughes film.

mm YAH - has anyone ever seen hughes and david duke in the same room

RACIALIST RACISTs

[G-Man]

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Purves Grundy wrote:

Hang on a sec. Ferris Bueller's Day Off is really good, you freaks.

Purves is on a roll of total rightness on this forum at the moment.

Hughes' portrayal of white people in some of his movies made caucasians look really bad.