When Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) wakes up, he knows that he doesn’t want to go to school. He’s ready to take a day off and stop to take a look around. If you don’t, life just might pass you by. But in order to do that, he has to convince his parents that he’s sick enough to stay home, but not sick enough to go to the doctor.

In order to do that, Ferris gives us his plan. He’s going for the clammy hands. While he’s bent over from coughing, he licks the palms, which gives them the wet feeling. He also gives us a point-by-point on-screen blow of why not to go for a fever (you might end up at the doctor’s office). Which is a little odd, really, because the on-screen thing isn’t used elsewhere. But it works, and his parents head to work and he has the day off. Now he just has to get through it.

Read the rest of this entry »

If you’ve ever been to a store that sells audio and video gear, you’ve likely seen at least the introduction to this movie, mostly because the planes moving around the carrier deck make for one heck of an audio experience if you have the right equipment for it. If you don’t, then just settle back for a couple hours of bubblegum fluff. And Tom Cruise in his undies.

Cruise plays Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, a navy fighter pilot who flies by the seat of his pants, and while he is always one step from getting thrown out of the navy, has just managed to land a shot at Top Gun, the school where the best 1% of all fighter pilots go to compete in aerial combat training.

Read the rest of this entry »