Fubar (2002)
Terry and Dean are lifelong friends who have grown-up together: shotgunning their first beers, forming their first garage band, and growing the great Canadian mullet known as "hockey hair". Now the lives of these Alberta everymen are brought to the big screen by documentarian Ferral Mitchener in an exploration of the depths of friendship, the fragility of life, growing up gracefully and the art and science of drinking beer like a man.
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A Disappointing Continuation
what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
Special, heartfelt, wonderful. Couple a boneheads with moments of beautiful human depth and relate-ability. It's what I love about Kevin Smith's films when he really gets it right. Enjoyable.What I love about the Canadianness is that even in conflicts there is an underlying politeness and even niceness that I hope to emulate. It's like when kids fight, they have the humanity to forgive and forget in like a minute.Filmed really well as well. Considering the budget they must have had, it is seamlessly wonderful in that you never really feel like 'oh this is a documentary and I'm supposed to forget the camera is a weird thing to be there', you're just there with them in an effortless looking but very difficult way to achieve.
A fitting final scene for this film. To most, beer represents destruction of families, relationships and life in general. In this context, as in the life of many young persons having made through life so far, it represents bonding and life.I am a Canadian beer drinker who has seen firsthand many of the elements presented in this movie, even the death.While watching (in May 2005), I flashed back to the 1984 funeral of a friend (Audrey D. in Medicine Hat, Alberta) who died in an accident on a similar alcoholic binge that I just happened to miss out on that night. I've had many since. I've also since struggled with the spiritual implications of excessive beer drinking.This portrayal of life on the Canadian prairies was not atypical, I can certainly say. I live in Calgary now and the scenes are all too familiar. I walked through that very cemetery in the closing image not more than three months ago. But hadn't seen the film yet by then.I laughed, but I didn't see it as a comedy, really.The cans shown fell not equidistant from each other, but rather, two were closer together than the third. Whose were they?
Although filmed in Calgary, any Canadian can identify the unique cultural phenomenon of the aging headbanger. This movie is a brilliant little mock-umentary that is funny and quirky enough to become a cult classic, and is definitely worth seeing. We are taken into the world of Dean, a wannabe bass player, and Terry, a swamper in a furniture factory. The two buddies give the audience a candid look at their lives, captured by documentary filmmaker Farrel Mitchner, whose accidental death is captured on film. The actors fool anybody who isn't aware into thinking that this is a genuine documentary, so it's fun to watch with an unsuspecting friend. A Canadian comedy accessible to any open-minded North American viewer.
the story of two skidbags and their sad lives filled with lots of parties but little popularity. the best part of the film is it isn't about being a skid -- it's about going through a very troubling experience, as seen through the eyes of a skid. imagine joe dirt but funnier and more endearing. how this movie isn't popular across north america is beyond me. terry and dean just give 'er and it's almost impossible for you to not take 'er...