jeffreyjones

Before the MCU Iron Man, before Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, even before Roger Corman's Fantastic Four, there was one project that can truly claim to be the very first Marvel feature ever. And that little movie is called Howard the Duck. It was a box office bomb for the ages, but it also has its fans. And one of them is film critic Ashley Walker.

A talking, child-sized waterfowl gets accidentally sucked into our dimension. And there he finds himself in a situation where he has to save the world. Or can he wisecrack himself out of that one? Howard gets help from a young musician, played by Lea Thomson, and from future Oscar winner Tim Robbins.

Podguest Ashley almost surprises themself by how how much they know about this movie. And there are a lot of fun trivia to sink our teeth into. Even now, new stories keep cropping up about Howard the Duck and its disastrous production. And then we haven't even gotten into all of the awful duck puns...

We also discuss Ashley's recently found affection for Doctor Strange, Martin Scorsese versus the Marvel Cinematic Universe and why there even exists a 70mm print of Howard the Duck.

Hey, do you want to support this podcast? Visit our Patreon page!

Links:

• Ashley's review website, A Sinister Opinion: https://asinisteropiniondotcom.wordpress.com/ 
• Ashley on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/kaw143/ 

Extra links:

• George Lucas in Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ49Smi2SLQ 
• Honest Trailers | Howard the Duck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk_VGwFDA2g 
• The Origin and History of Howard the Duck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiePBdWDZUk 
• The Making of Howard the Duck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRGB2usvX1k 

Charles Skaggs & Xan Sprouse reopen the Drunk Cinema Theatre to watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the 1986 teen comedy film directed by John Hughes and starring Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller, Mia Sara as Sloane Peterson, and Alan Ruck as Cameron Frye!

Find us here:
Twitter:  @DrunkCinemaCast, @CharlesSkaggs, @udanax19
Facebook:  @DrunkCinema
Email:  DrunkCinemaPodcast@gmail.com
Listen and subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!

As a righteous dude once said, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." That and countless other insanely quotable lines propelled writer/director John Hughes' 1986 hit, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, to become one of the biggest comedies of the decade. Even now, more than three decades after its release, fans are still discovering and revisiting Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Kimberly Cook returns to the show to dig into why Hughes' release is her favorite movie and why it continues to resonate with all generations decades later. We'll discuss Matthew Broderick's iconic performance, his character's key relationships, how Ferris' serves as a litmus test of the viewer's own life journey, the movie's use of breaking the fourth wall, and that age-old question: is Ferris Bueller an asshole?

So hop in your best friend's dad's Ferrari and take our latest episode for a spin. After all, if you had access to a car like that, would you take it back right away?

SYNOPSIS

Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) has an uncanny skill at cutting classes and getting away with it. Intending to make one last duck-out before graduation, Ferris calls in sick, "borrows" a Ferrari, and embarks on a one-day journey through the streets of Chicago. On Ferris' trail is high school principal Rooney (Jeffrey Jones), determined to catch him in the act.

SHOW NOTES

Want to appear on a future episode of the Crooked Table Podcast? Find out how over at crookedtable.com/guest!

Join the Crooked Table Crew by becoming an official patron over at Patreon.com/CrookedTable

Subscribe to the Crooked Table Podcast on iTunes so that you never miss a moment!

Listen to the Crooked Table Podcast on Spotify!

The Crooked Table Podcast is also on Stitcher! Reach Robert Yaniz Jr. on Twitter at @crookedtable.

Connect with Crooked Table on social media: Facebook  |  Twitter  |  Tumblr

If you actually do stop and look around at the 1986 John Hughes classic "Ferris Bueller’s Day Off," there's a lot of stuff you can't miss that doesn't make sense. Are Ferris and his sister twins? Do his parents think he has the mind of the 5-year-old boy? Is Ferris a figment of Cameron's imagination? We will discuss all those and much more as we tear this iconic '80s flick.

Matthew Broderick plays Ferris Bueller, one of the most popular high school students without a social media presence in the history of the world. He acts like a baby around his parents and habitually skips school. He enjoys scheming, using people to do his bidding, grand theft auto, lip-synching on parade floats, computer hacking, changing outfits a lot, and complaining that he doesn't own a car (which, knowing what we know now about Matthew Broderick's driving record—thank god he doesn't). 

29-year-old (at the time) Alan Ruck plays Cameron Frye, Ferris' sad-sack best friend who spends the whole movie moping about his daddy issues, and then destroys a priceless automobile because he's a bad son.  

Pre-nose-job and pre-"Dirty Dancing" Jennifer Grey plays Ferris' sister Jeannie, who spend the whole movie chasing Ferris. Knowing the two actors dated afterward, this now makes more sense.

Convicted child porn owner Jeffrey Jones plays Principal Ed Rooney, who also spends the whole movie chasing Ferris. Which, knowing what we now know about this actor, makes this very scary.

Mia Sara plays Sloan Peterson, Ferris' younger girlfriend whose main purpose in this movie is to baby and sexually confuse Cameron while also hoping Ferris will marry her (he won't).

And Charlie Sheen basically plays himself.

Join us as we are relieved Ferris doesn't own a car, that Jeffrey Jones never catches him, try to determine which of the cliques the principal’s secretary rattles off we fit into, and as Jim discovers that he *is* Cameron Frye.

Tell us what you think by chatting with us (@filmsnuff) on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, or by shooting us an email over at mailbag@filmsnuff.com.

This episode is sponsored by Little Farmas.

Visit our website at https://www.filmsnuff.com.