re: Why is Ferris Bueller's Day Off considered so great?

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GOAT quote

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around once in a while, you could miss it.

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This.

And this is the key to the whole movie. Every once in a while, it's cool to ditch school and go on an adventure with your friends.

I do agree that Ferris is an insufferablly selfish douche, but that's part of his charm and what makes him ultimately likeable as a character. It's essentially liking the bad guy. I mean shite, he literally talks shite to the audience during the credits ("You're still here? Go home..").

IMO there are just so many things that are fantastic about the movie. Aside from what the OP said, the FB'sDO is pretty damn quotable. And how can you not like just about everything Ed Rooney does. The parade, while overly ridiculous, is still pretty fun...and who doesn't enjoy seeing a bunch of chubby black people doing the Thriller dance on some stairs while Twist and Shout is blaring from a 17 year old kid on a parade float? Sloan Peterson was a smoke show. Cameron is awesome in just about every scene. Etc. Etc. So many awesome things happen in this movie.




As an aside, to the Breakfast Club comments. IMO this is a film that holds up better than FBDO. I mean, just about anybody can relate to one of those kids in some way or another. And the message is pretty awesome in itself, not to mention that in the end they basically stick it to the man as well as anybody ever has.

I do agree that these movies, if viewed now 20-30 years later for the first time, aren't gonna be as good as they were back then.