Matthew BRODERICK, cooler, more nihilistic than James DEAN?!

[UTUSN]

Ferris BUEHLER is on, still fresh. Rebel w/o a Cause, stale/passe.

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[KamaAina]

1. He is dead to me

but for his miserable existence, Sex and the City would have starred Sarah Jessica Parker-KamaAina. :(

edit: spelling

[tigereye]

2. huh?

[UTUSN]

3. Ah, always the inevitable/predictable, "huh?(sic)" n/t

[tigereye]

4. just not seeing it, is all -

couldn't tell if it was a joke or serious. Never saw Ferris as a nihilist, myself.

[UTUSN]

13. Now, THAT's the stuff of discussion!1 Thanks!1 n/t

[tigereye]

47. it's not a comparison I would have made -

Rebel is a highly complex, moody and tragic film about abandonment and delinquency, while Ferris Bueller is a fairly lightweight 80s romp with some social commentary. Granted John Hughes made some great films. The actual book Rebel was based on was a case study of a psychopath.

I'd be more likely to compare Rebel with the Breakfast Club, actually - I think the issues are more similar.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. that movie looks dated to me....

and now I think it is more accurate to say that James Dean was a Rebel WITH a Cause.

[Drunken Irishman]

9. It is extremely dated.

And completely lacking in reality compared to modern day.

Seriously, we (friends) skipped school - a lot - and it was not an event like that.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

12. exactly...hell - I skipped a class at random almost on a daily

basis and whole days whenever the mood struck, no big deal at all.

[JVS]

42. How did you skip school and what kind of event was it?

I won't claim to have had as grand an event as that movie shows, but generally when I skipped with friends it involved getting into the car, driving outside of the school district, and having a hell of a time. We'd usually start by hitting the breakfast buffet in the neighboring school district.

[baldguy]

55. But did you have a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California to skip with?

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

6. James Dean died

young and has the mystique about him. Matthew Broderick is just an old asshole with sideburns who cheated on his wife. Sad sack, really.

James Dean is really overrated too.

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[Drunken Irishman]

8. A bloated old asshole with sideburns who cheated on his wife.

Of course, his wife looks like a foot, so that isn't a surprise.

I hear he cheated on her with his hand.

Zing!

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

10. Touche!

I forgot the bloated part. You win. :toast:

[JVS]

17. Broderick was good in Election

[Drunken Irishman]

18. I forgot about that. Yes, good movie.

[mix]

23. He cheated on SJP?

[UTUSN]

24. That's what pierces me to the heart!1 What truth/proof is there!1 n/t

[mix]

25. with who, with what? details???

[JVS]

38. Joan Cusack

[Captain Hilts]

45. Really!? Joan's great. nt

[tigereye]

48. wow, I didn't know that - Cusack certainly seems sharper than Parker, but

still. I hate that kind of thing, particularly when there are kids involved.

[JVS]

53. I was just making shit up. I've looked it up since then

It turns out it was with some 25 year old of no fame

[Drunken Irishman]

7. For one movie, maybe. A career? Hardly.

Broderick has failed in every way since Ferris Bueller's Day Off and WarGames.

[Blue_Tires]

44. "Glory" was very good.....

just sayin'

[tigereye]

49. he was good in Sunday in the Park with George, in the spoof musical about

the Nazis, and as a young gay man in an early film whose name is escaping me.

[Generic Brad]

11. Sure, but in an Inspector Gadget sort of way

Go, go Gadget! You can't say that about James Dean.

[UTUSN]

14. I was thinking of about 6 directions this thing could have gone. Post #1 was

one, the just-for-fun one.


Now I'm SHOCKED to hear that Matthew B. is 1) old, bloated, 2) cheated on his wife, 3) his wife looks like a FOOT, 4) skipping school was never like in Ferris, and ...

speechless...

[Drunken Irishman]

19. Why shocked?

[UTUSN]

21. Because I see Mr & Ms Matthew & Sarah Jessica as the IDEAL COUPLE!1 n/t

[BuelahWitch]

15. Not. Even. Close

You think this:


Is cooler than this:



See Jimmy's even laughing at your ass in that pic...

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[UTUSN]

20. James wouldn't laugh at my ass. But I'm laughing at the leather jackets in that pic. n/t

[Twillig]

32. James Dean had such formidable powers of cool

he could make it look like he was wearing a leather jacket, when he wasn't.

[tigereye]

50. but to a lot of folks at the time that was the quintessence of cool

compared to all those 80s jackets with the big shoulders, scary pants and haircuts. (although to be fair, clothing from the 70s when I was an adolescent was quite scary too, in retrospect.)

[tigereye]

51. that was my feeling - the films are barely comparable

[JVS]

16. Bueller is a sick amalgamation of Eddie Haskell and the Marquis DeSade

[UTUSN]

22. Notice I have NOT denigrated James in any way. n/t

[LostInAnomie]

26. His ONLY good movie was "The Election".

Everything before and after sucks throbbing balls.

[UTUSN]

27. How come, then, do all the old thespians WANT him badly in all their flicks?!1 n/t

[LostInAnomie]

29. To mock him and his wife to their face when they are off camera

[datasuspect]

43. c list actors are cheaper?

[JVS]

35. Wargames was good, but I wouldn't say that Broderick was essential to the movie.

Any number of actors could have played the part.

[UTUSN]

28. In fact, WHY doesn't somebody do a movie about James DEAN and CAST Matthew B.?!1 n/t

[BuelahWitch]

31. Because Matthew B is too old to play him

[UTUSN]

30. I will now dePART and will say I have never seen such ugliness as here for MB/SJP & canNOTunderstand

[mitchum]

33. Well, Broderick is a killer...really

[JVS]

36. And there we have it! The connection. Broderick kills with cars, Dean gets killed with cars

[Forkboy]

34. James Dean should have been in Godzilla.

Hell, Godzilla should have been in Godzilla. x(

[JVS]

37. It would have been awesome if in Rebel Without a Clue, Godzilla had been awakened...

by those cars driving over the cliff and come out of the ocean and started destroying everything. I think I'll take my videos and edit them so that instead of the Sal Mineo hostage taking sequence I can just watch Godzilla from that point.

[Forkboy]

39. Dude, I SO want a copy when you're done.

:rofl:

[JVS]

40. I meant "rebel without a cause", but somehow messed that up

[Forkboy]

41. Your title was better anyways.

:)

[Captain Hilts]

46. Yeah, I like Broderick, but no one, NO ONE is cooler than...

[PVnRT]

52. No fucking WAY they got from Lake Forest to downtown in that short amount of time

I call bullshit. And where the hell did they get tickets to Wrigley? Nope.

[piratefish08]

54. I'm Abe Frohman - Sausage King of Chicago!

[doc03]

56. A surrogate mother recently gave birth to

Matthew Broderic and Sarah Jessica Parker's twin daughters in my town.