March 6, 2009
"Drugs?"
Posted by pete at March 6, 2009 12:24 AMThe other night I was watching Ferris Bueller's Day Off for the first time in, oh, fifteen years and it holds up reasonably well. Though I must say, the passage of time and my own parenthood has made me sympathize less with the rich, suburban twerp and more with embattled principal Ed Rooney, who wants nothing more than to wrest control of his school from the little shit with the Cabaret Voltaire posters and shower mohawk.
And Cameron is a creepy bastard.
But I digress. The important thing about the movie, and indeed all things, is how it relates to me. To make a long story short, I was hit on by a young lady at the UT Honors Colloquium in 1986 solely because I reminded her of Charlie Sheen's character from the movie. Which is to say, this guy:
Ah, the hair, the leather jacket, the creepy sexual predator gaze...yes, this is what got me the 80s ladies. Though in all fairness, the woman in question proved to be a person of otherwise impeccable tastes who ended up being a friend who reads this blog on occasion and I should probably just shut the hell up.
Anyway...Ferris Bueller...decent flick. Maybe I'll rewatch it in 2024 when I've completely morphed into Ferris' dad.
Are those twins boys? I figured you were raising his sister. Have you bought the Fiero yet?
Are those twins boys?
Girls. I’ve gone from being merely outnumbered to being the Spartans at Thermopylae.
Interesting fact about the couple that played Ferris’ Mom and Dad, after meeting on the set Cindy Pickett and Lyman Ward actually got married and lived happily ever after…Okay they stayed married for 6 years before divorcing.
That part of the movie was a documentary; Charlie didn’t even know he was being filmed.