Movie: Falling Down

Fritzo

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Originally posted by: Captante
Originally posted by: Reel
Originally posted by: maxster
For some reason I find this movie hilarious.

Probably because it is a comedy?

:laugh:

No it isn't :confused:

It IS funny how a ten year old street punk had to show him how to use the missle launcher though :D
 

ranmaniac

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The Whammy Burger scene is hilarious, and he has a point about how the food you get looks nothing like what's advertized on the picture.

 

Kadarin

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Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
I find it cathartic. You're sorta rooting for him by the end.

By the end? Hell, I was rooting for him from the beginning!
 

MixMasterTang

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Originally posted by: Fritzo
Originally posted by: Captante
Originally posted by: Reel
Originally posted by: maxster
For some reason I find this movie hilarious.

Probably because it is a comedy?

:laugh:

No it isn't :confused:

It IS funny how a ten year old street punk had to show him how to use the missle launcher though :D

Two Oscar winners star in this dark comedy by Joel Schumacher. It's a hot summer day in L.A., and Bill Foster (Michael Douglas) is having a very bad day. He's just been fired from his defense-industry ...

IMDB also lists it as being in the Comedy Genere
 

Auric

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I :heart: Falling Down.

So many memorable scenes... the opening is classic: building tension of the traffic jam with all the noise, sweat, fly buzzing, &c. The guy wot played "Chef" in Apocalypse Now was awesome as the surplus store nut.

D-FENS!

 

Auric

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Originally posted by: us3rnotfound
I find it rather shallow and pedantic.

Blasphemer!

It's not meant to be deep but it is a reflection upon American society at a particularly time (immediate post Cold War) and especially though not exclusively California, the military down-sizing and general disillusion &c.

Indeed, an argument could be made for Falling Down epitomizing that moment akin to MD's Wall Street.

Pedantic does not apply.