Anyone remember the movie Falling Down

clairewithani · 12-10-2016 04:42PM #1

I am having one of those kinda days.:(

Eponymous · 12-10-2016 04:43PM

I'm the bad guy?

jimgoose · 12-10-2016 04:43PM

My favourite clip:

kevohmsford · 12-10-2016 04:44PM

You should have arrived earlier for breakfast.

clairewithani · 12-10-2016 04:46PM

jimgoose wrote: »

My favourite clip:

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

um7y1h83ge06nx · 12-10-2016 04:47PM

What a great f**king film!

punisher5112 · 12-10-2016 04:47PM

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

SEPT 23 1989 · 12-10-2016 04:48PM

Eponymous wrote: »

I'm the bad guy?

Yeah

darkpagandeath · 12-10-2016 04:48PM

minuets late for breakfast menu legend.

clairewithani · 12-10-2016 04:49PM

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 · 12-10-2016 04:49PM

I want my breakfast......

Gmol · 12-10-2016 04:49PM

clairewithani wrote: »

I am having one of those kinda days.:(

You're one of us

Tefral · 12-10-2016 04:49PM

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 · 12-10-2016 04:50PM

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 · 12-10-2016 04:50PM

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

SEPT 23 1989 · 12-10-2016 04:50PM

Would that film actually get made in this awful century?

Tefral · 12-10-2016 04:52PM

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 · 12-10-2016 04:53PM

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 · 12-10-2016 04:53PM

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 · 12-10-2016 04:53PM

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

clairewithani · 12-10-2016 04:53PM

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 · 12-10-2016 04:53PM

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 · 12-10-2016 04:54PM

Eponymous wrote: »

I'm the bad guy?

you're not economically viable

j.s. pill II · 12-10-2016 04:56PM

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 · 12-10-2016 05:02PM

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 · 12-10-2016 05:04PM

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 · 12-10-2016 05:06PM

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 · 12-10-2016 05:08PM

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 · 12-10-2016 05:10PM

That film predicted the future really.

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

andekwarhola · 12-10-2016 05:10PM

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 · 12-10-2016 05:14PM

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!!

Anyone remember the movie Falling Down

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