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Better 80's movie: Stripes or Ferris Bueller? (1 Viewer)

Which do you like more?

  • Stripes

    Votes: 75 37.7%

  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off

    Votes: 124 62.3%
  • Total voters
    199
This is not close.

Ferris is one of the best comedies, not only of the 80s, but of all-time.

Stripes is a good flick, with some funny parts, but not an all-time great.

 
Both were really funny. Went with Ferris because of the ending credits where he breaks the fourth wall, but this was also memorable...

Why did the chicken cross the road???!!!!

TO GET FROM THE LEFT TO THE RIGHT!

 
Ferris is the better movie, no question on that, but maybe because the question is "which do you like more?" I voted Stripes. What I don't like about Stripes is the last quarter of the movie where it becomes one of those dumb series of explosives blowing up etc. what I do like about is John Candy and the timing between Ramis and Murray, and also Sgt. Hulka. So while I respect Ferris the movie and enjoy it if it was on at the same time as Stripes I would watch the latter, today.

 
SaintsInDome2006 said:
Ferris is the better movie, no question on that, but maybe because the question is "which do you like more?" I voted Stripes. What I don't like about Stripes is the last quarter of the movie where it becomes one of those dumb series of explosives blowing up etc. what I do like about is John Candy and the timing between Ramis and Murray, and also Sgt. Hulka. So while I respect Ferris the movie and enjoy it if it was on at the same time as Stripes I would watch the latter, today.
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I guess I asked two different questions. Maybe it's possible to like one movie more but say the other is a better movie?

 
NorvilleBarnes said:
rockaction said:
Went with Ferris because of the ending credits where he breaks the fourth wall,
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He did that throughout the film.
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True. I just remember everybody was really up for the device they used in the credits. Biggest laugh at the theater I was at. He definitely addressed the audience as a narrative device throughout, but if you stuck around, him waving at you to go home was a little more direct and weirdly personal.

Good point, though. Not an astute comment on my end, actually. And I've seen the movie probably over twenty-five times or so.

 
Definitely, "Ferris Bueller". The movie has no weak spots. Endlessly watchable and quotable.

On a sidenote, my company took a call from a sales rep named George Peterson. I couldn't resist asking if he was calling to take Sloane out of school.

 
Went with Ferris..

Stripes starts out better and lots of :lmao: moments.. But once they steal the RV it loses steam.

Ferris is fun to watch from start to finish. :thumbup:

 
I'd certainly watch stripes if it was on. I'm not sure about ferris. At my age, the theme of a kid playing hooky from school doesn't do it for me.

We ever have a best comedies bracket?

 
SaintsInDome2006 said:
Ferris is the better movie, no question on that, but maybe because the question is "which do you like more?" I voted Stripes. What I don't like about Stripes is the last quarter of the movie where it becomes one of those dumb series of explosives blowing up etc. what I do like about is John Candy and the timing between Ramis and Murray, and also Sgt. Hulka. So while I respect Ferris the movie and enjoy it if it was on at the same time as Stripes I would watch the latter, today.
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stripes is almost like two completely different movies in one... I voted for it because I'm meh on Ferris, but while the first part of that movie is great, the end is just odd and doesn't seemingly fit with the rest of the movie

 
Also, I hadn't seen FBDO in many years and only recently read about the Fight Club hypothesis for FBDO. Watched it again, and it's an entirely different. still funny, but even better movie now.

Totally agree. If Stripes ended at boot camp graduation it would have been a better movie.

 
What scene in fbdo is funnier than when the basketball breaks his window and the kid throws it up through the other window?

 
Ferris might be the better movie, but Stripes has the better quotes:

"Lighten up, Francis"

"Convicted? No..."

"We're not homosexual, but we are willing to learn."

"That's the fact, JACK!"

"Black guys, help the white guys"

Also, Sgt. Hulka started the "Getting too old for this $#!t" meme wayyyyyy before Danny Glover did it.

 
I never understood the love for Ferris, which I think is possibly the weakest John Hughes film. It is nowhere close to as good as Sixteen Candles or Breakfast Club. A dull main character and not very interesting sidekicks.

Stripes was an above average comedy.

 
"I've always been kind of a pacifist. When I was a kid, my father told me, "Never hit anyone in anger, unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it."

I don't know what kind of soldier I'm gonna make, but I want you guys to know that if we ever get into really heavy combat... I'll be right behind you guys. Every step of the way."

 
If you hadn't specified it as an 80's movie, it would be tougher for me. Ferris Bueller is an 80's movie, Stripes doesn't identify with any decade per se.

 
Mr. Mojo said:
I never understood the love for Ferris, which I think is possibly the weakest John Hughes film. It is nowhere close to as good as Sixteen Candles or Breakfast Club. A dull main character and not very interesting sidekicks.

Stripes was an above average comedy.
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Oh, come on!

 
Watched Ferris just the other day for the first time in a while. Damn that is just a perfect 80s movie. Pure genius. Almost every scene is iconic.

 
I think the thing is for me, I've never wanted to be a movie character as much as I wanted to be Ferris Bueller growing up. I like big cities, I like Chicago, I like red sports cars and hot brunettes, etc. His whole life was like a fantasy to the teenage me.

 
Jayrod said:
Mr. Mojo said:
I never understood the love for Ferris, which I think is possibly the weakest John Hughes film. It is nowhere close to as good as Sixteen Candles or Breakfast Club. A dull main character and not very interesting sidekicks.

Stripes was an above average comedy.
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Oh, come on!
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That might be the strongest endorsement of Curly Sue I've ever seen.
 
Joe Summer said:
Ferris might be the better movie, but Stripes has the better quotes:

"Lighten up, Francis"

"Convicted? No..."

"We're not homosexual, but we are willing to learn."

"That's the fact, JACK!"

"Black guys, help the white guys"

Also, Sgt. Hulka started the "Getting too old for this $#!t" meme wayyyyyy before Danny Glover did it.
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You ever had the Aunt Jemima Treatment?

 
Joe Summer said:
Ferris might be the better movie, but Stripes has the better quotes:

"Lighten up, Francis"

"Convicted? No..."

"We're not homosexual, but we are willing to learn."

"That's the fact, JACK!"

"Black guys, help the white guys"

Also, Sgt. Hulka started the "Getting too old for this $#!t" meme wayyyyyy before Danny Glover did it.
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I was about to post the same thing

"I think I've had too much cough syrup"

"And then, desperation set in...."

"I rarely wear underwear and when I do, it's something unusual."

"I swallowed a lot of aggression" "Looks like you swallowed a lot of pizzas too"

'They call me Cruiser because I dig fast cars and fast women." "They should have called you Dork"

"You've got what a 6-8 week program here, which would be perfect for me"

"If it were me, I'd bet it all but then again I'm Mr. Vegas."

"Since we're in Italy the top guy has to make the bottom guy's bunk. ...Sorry, those are the rules"

"C'mon it's Czechoslavakia, we dash in, we get them and dash back. It's like going into Wisconsin." "I got the !@#$ kicked out of me in Wisconsin."

 
I found my self laughing at pretty much everything Harold Ramis did in Stripes this time around. Unappreciated performance for sure. I love the scene with Judge reinhold where Ramis is bobbing his head the whole time. He got the best magazine cover too.

 
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