Anyone remember the movie Falling Down

clairewithani

I am having one of those kinda days.:(

Eponymous

I'm the bad guy?

jimgoose

My favourite clip:

kevohmsford

You should have arrived earlier for breakfast.

clairewithani

jimgoose wrote: »

My favourite clip:

What I wouldn't give.......

um7y1h83ge06nx

What a great f**king film!

punisher5112

Have you smashed up a store yet or are you on the drive by yet. Shooting up gringos

SEPT 23 1989

Eponymous wrote: »

I'm the bad guy?

Yeah

darkpagandeath

minuets late for breakfast menu legend.

clairewithani

punisher5112 wrote: »

Have you smashed up a store yet or are you on the drive by yet. Shooting up gringos

I am still in work. Is tearing paper the same as shooting phone boxes?:D

punisher5112

I want my breakfast......

Gmol

clairewithani wrote: »

I am having one of those kinda days.:(

You're one of us

Tefral

That whole burger joint scene is actually gold. I dunno how many times i've looked at a big mac wondering how it can look so **** compared to the photos.

seenitall

As a bona fide grammar nazi, I've always been incredibly irritated by that movie's title. I mean, in what other direction can you fall but - down? So why oh why have a completely superfluous word in the title like that??

I'm sick, I know.

clairewithani

Seriously though, aren't there days you just have enough?

SEPT 23 1989

Would that film actually get made in this awful century?

Tefral

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Would that film actually get made in this awful century?

Nope. Doubt it. Generation Snowflake would probably get offended by the guns or something stupid.

Gmol

clairewithani wrote: »

I am still in work. Is tearing paper the same as shooting phone boxes?:D

Did you not lose your job months ago..... but not tell anyone

ForstalDave

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Would that film actually get made in this awful century?

probably not as well as it was.

I love his slow upgrade of weapons till he gets a rocket launcher and then starts on the patch to a water pistol

Working class heroes

I get knocked down but I get up again..........Danny boy......

clairewithani

seenitall wrote: »

As a bona fide grammar nazi, I've always been incredibly irritated by that movie's title. I mean, in what other direction can you fall but - down? So why oh why have a completely superfluous word in the title like that??

I'm sick, I know.

I am fit to explode here and you are worried about the grammar in a film?

See what I mean, people? SEE WHAT I MEAN???

clairewithani

seenitall wrote: »

As a bona fide grammar nazi, I've always been incredibly irritated by that movie's title. I mean, in what other direction can you fall but - down? So why oh why have a completely superfluous word in the title like that??

I'm sick, I know.

I am fit to explode here and you are worried about the grammar in a film?

See what I mean, people? SEE WHAT I MEAN???

the groutch

Eponymous wrote: »

I'm the bad guy?

you're not economically viable

j.s. pill II

Absolute classic.

I showed it to one of my friends who would have been born around the time it came out. He was unfamiliar with phenomenon that people in the early 90s had to contend with in every day life, such as pay-phones and drive-bys.

He was also taken aback by the extremely casual sexism in the film. I guess when you look back at it with PC goggles it is pretty bad.

My favourite line in the film is the one the army surplus guy gives about the Vietnam army boots. Absolutely no way I can repeat it here!

This Fat Girl Runs

seenitall wrote: »

As a bona fide grammar nazi, I've always been incredibly irritated by that movie's title. I mean, in what other direction can you fall but - down? So why oh why have a completely superfluous word in the title like that??

I'm sick, I know.

I've seen people fall UP a flight of stairs. And friends have fallen OUT.

punisher5112

clairewithani wrote: »

I am still in work. Is tearing paper the same as shooting phone boxes?:D

Oh my what will you be like with a paper cut.

Smash the photocopy machine that be close enough then turn around oh well must be out of order.

artanevilla

seenitall wrote: »

As a bona fide grammar nazi, I've always been incredibly irritated by that movie's title. I mean, in what other direction can you fall but - down? So why oh why have a completely superfluous word in the title like that??

I'm sick, I know.

You can fall over, and fall into something.

In fact for someone to fall down, they'd have to collapse vertically. Generally when you fall there is some lateral motion.

Also it's grammatically correct, so you're technically a Pedant Nazi.

Grandeeod

A brilliant movie. I went to a McDonnells in O'Connell St after seeing it. Really wanted to shoot the smiley fooker selling me that floppy quarter pounder and cheese.

ClovenHoof

That film predicted the future really.

That's your reward for playing the game and being a good little boy in school.

andekwarhola

I kinda fancied his wife in it

Disclaimer: it was a long time ago and I can't even remember what she looked like now.

The King of Moo

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Would that film actually get made in this awful century?

Tefral wrote: »

Nope. Doubt it. Generation Snowflake would probably get offended by the guns or something stupid.

It's ridiculous isn't it?

If I want to see anything gritty in my local cinema today that shines a light on the dark side of the American Dream and features a great deal of gun-based violence, my only options are Hell or High Water, The Magnificent Seven, or War on Everyone.

It's almost as though Falling Down's skillful blend of satire, violence, comedy, and pathos which isn't indicative of 90s cinema at all, is at the very least mildly difficult to replicate!

And unbelievably, if I want to see and old-fashioned action film starring Mel Gibson shooting lots of people, the only film currently showing that meets that description is Blood Father!!

Outrageous!!

The only thing worse is the obscene number of films featuring characters who are outraged and offended by seemingly modern trends and imagined nostalgia for recent times that there's no actual basis for!!

seenitall

artanevilla wrote: »

You can fall over, and fall into something.

In fact for someone to fall down, they'd have to collapse vertically. Generally when you fall there is some lateral motion.

Also it's grammatically correct, so you're technically a Pedant Nazi.

Surely, you pip me to the post for the Pedant Nazi title with the above offering!

But seriously, unless you're explicitly saying: falling out, falling over, falling into etc. when we say falling, the implied direction is down. Therefore no need for the added emphasis of actually using it.

ForstalDave

seenitall wrote: »

Surely, you pip me to the post for the Pedant Nazi title with the above offering!

But seriously, unless you're explicitly saying: falling out, falling over, falling into etc. when we say falling, the implied direction is down. Therefore no need for the added emphasis of actually using it.

well generaly if something feel might we not say oh it feel down, also there is always london bridge is falling down as an example

5rtytry56

Tefral wrote: »

That whole burger joint scene is actually gold. I dunno how many times i've looked at a big mac wondering how it can look so **** compared to the photos.

"......Breakfast ended at 10.30. It is now 10.31!!"

seenitall

ForstalDave wrote: »

well generaly if something feel might we not say oh it feel down

That's a good point actually. And yet...and yet. Consider the title of this movie. Compare the actual title "Falling Down" with the possible one, simply "Falling". Is there anything, any meaning added or implied in the first one that isn't there in the second one?

5rtytry56

Tefral wrote: »

Nope. Doubt it. Generation Snowflake would probably get offended by the guns or something stupid.

Ofcourse an article would follow in their secondary school magazine to support their disgust and indignation.

Grandeeod

ClovenHoof wrote: »

That film predicted the future really.

That's your reward for playing the game and being a good little boy in school.

I agree. And I doubt it would get made today.

MonkieSocks

Falling Down - Dumpstore (Part 1)

Officer-ess :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0-tMiWTEsI

Falling Down - Dumpstore (Part 2)

Think about it!. This Was Used :eek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFQ2x-CeA2E

lawlolawl

Great movie, one of my favourites but it absolutely would not get made today.

It would be seen as a CIS white male exercising his dominance or some such nonsense.

ScumLord

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Would that film actually get made in this awful century?

There's no need, Americans have been living this film out since it got made. Something irritates you, go on a homicidal rampage.

bodhrandude

punisher5112 wrote: »

Oh my what will you be like with a paper cut.

Smash the photocopy machine that be close enough then turn around oh well must be out of order.

No thats Office Space. :pac:

bodhrandude

Saw this one from the 2009 thread, this is one of my favourites from the movie.

BorneTobyWilde

'' fit to explode ''

to become very angry or excited
go mad, explode, blow up, lose it, see red, lose the plot, throw a tantrum, fly off the handle, go spare, blow your top, fly into a temper, flip your lid, do your nut,

Reputable Rog

Some show. Some days I feel like that on the N20.

Dr Jakub

The King of Moo wrote: »

It's ridiculous isn't it?

If I want to see anything gritty in my local cinema today that shines a light on the dark side of the American Dream and features a great deal of gun-based violence, my only options are Hell or High Water, The Magnificent Seven, or War on Everyone.

It's almost as though Falling Down's skillful blend of satire, violence, comedy, and pathos which isn't indicative of 90s cinema at all, is at the very least mildly difficult to replicate!

And unbelievably, if I want to see and old-fashioned action film starring Mel Gibson shooting lots of people, the only film currently showing that meets that description is Blood Father!!

Outrageous!!

The only thing worse is the obscene number of films featuring characters who are outraged and offended by seemingly modern trends and imagined nostalgia for recent times that there's no actual basis for!!

Yeah sure lets make a movie today where an angry privileged white man i.e. bigoted Trump supporter, goes around beating up disadvantaged people of colour just because he's having a bad day. Yes that would go down well.

Grandeeod

Dr Jakub wrote: »

Yeah sure lets make a movie today where an angry privileged white man i.e. bigoted Trump supporter, goes around beating up disadvantaged people of colour just because he's having a bad day. Yes that would go down well.

And along comes the critic.:D

lawlolawl

Grandeeod wrote: »

And along comes the critic. millennial

FTFY.

jimgoose

Dr Jakub wrote: »

Yeah sure lets make a movie today where an angry privileged white man i.e. bigoted Trump supporter, goes around beating up disadvantaged people of colour just because he's having a bad day. Yes that would go down well.

Sold. It's been a pleasure frequenting your establishment.

Dolbert

seenitall wrote: »

That's a good point actually. And yet...and yet. Consider the title of this movie. Compare the actual title "Falling Down" with the possible one, simply "Falling". Is there anything, any meaning added or implied in the first one that isn't there in the second one?

It's a reference to the nursery rhyme "London Bridge is Falling Down", hope that helps

HensVassal

seenitall wrote: »

As a bona fide grammar nazi, I've always been incredibly irritated by that movie's title. I mean, in what other direction can you fall but - down? So why oh why have a completely superfluous word in the title like that??

I'm sick, I know.

You could fall pregnant, or fall in love, or fall against someone or something, or fall through a window or paper hoop.
You could fall sick. You could fall OVER as opposed to DOWN. You could actually fall up if you botched your stairs ascent. You could fall out of favour if you spilled your wine on the carpet whilst falling up the stairs to get to the jacks. And if you were a very esteemed individual prior to this episode it might be said that you fell from grace.

punisher5112

punisher5112 wrote: »

I want my breakfast......

5rtytry56 wrote: »

"......Breakfast ended at 10.30. It is now 10.31!!"

EVERY time i go for a McDonalds breakfast (about 4 times a year) i think of that scene. I check the time to make sure I'm not late- EVERY time I go, I do that. for the last 20+ years i do that- ALL because of this film:p