Alas, it was an actor making money in the first instance and again, an actor making money now. Why should one be held sacred and other selling out?

By the way, Matthew Broderick is a hair’s breath away from 50 and the movie was shot in 1986 (26 years ago). The dude was already 24 when he made the movie. But we are really talking about John Hughes vision here and he was 36 at the time. Hughes high school years were long past.

IMDB reports Hughes had a terrible time at high school. Who likes to remember the bad times? Would it not be better to think of what could be? Therefore, Ferris Bueller is a mix nostalgia and fantasy rolled together.

Can someone take a character out of context to hawk mini-vans? Sell out? Maybe. But the original movie was not made for free nor was it a box office dud. That is part of the reason you saw it on TV in the first place–it was successful in the theater. So the movie was a sell out in the first place, wasn’t it?

Just some thoughts.

2) No Cameron?!?

@NBFB, I don’t care so much that MB is selling out, it’s that he’s selling Ferris out in the process.

Middle age hits and we realize how stupidly idealistic we all were and just give in because, really, it’s not worth it to be pissed off and “anti” everything all the time.

If MB wants to shill for slave child labor corporate puppy mills, more power to him.

@Moe, I think it’s a weird personal contradiction. I’m bothered by the fictional character (though ostensibly it’s supposed to be Matthew) selling stuff. I had the same sort of “ugh” reaction when Puss in Boots from Shrek was selling Meow Mix.