 Jill Schumacher unfortunately passed away recently, and although I'm not one to jump on what's happening in the movie industry right now, sort of a thing, I only bring this up because I was disheartened to see article after article saying the man that did Batman and Robin or the director of Batman Forever. It never addressed his true master work falling down. Batman Forever is not good. It's got Jim Carrey being Jim Carrey, which is great for me. I love Jim Carrey. It's got Vel Kilmer under the cloak or under the cape, under the cowl. That's fine and all. It's just you go from Tim Burton and you have an expectation set, this dark, gritty, kind of silly world, then becomes this neon city of nonsense. You follow that up with Batman and Robin and you have yourself a fun Sunday rainy afternoon of laughing your ass off at how stupid things get. And sadly that's what Jill Schumacher is pretty much known for. I mean his earlier works are actually pretty good. Particularly falling down. This is a movie I probably own on DVD, regular DVD, so it's essentially unwatchable because that level of qualities has been surpassed three times over now. I really need to up the purchase and get it on Blu-ray or on HD digital or something if it even is available. However, I have seen the film probably seven or eight times. I'm not one to dilly-dally on films. I see them once or twice and pretty much good. Falling down I kept coming back to you though because of its solid pacing, great performances, terrific writing and competent direction by Schumacher. You're not getting this Batman and Robin directing, all right? The camera's not tilted upward. There's no Michael Douglas nipples going through the t-shirt. There isn't neon lights punching through the city streets. No, this is a grounded, gritty drama. I don't want to give away the farm if that's an expression, but I'll give you a quick synopsis. William Foster, played by Michael Douglas, is at his breaking point. He's sitting in his car, AC stops working, and that's it, he snaps. Just like many of us have thought about doing, but we're saying enough not to. And he just abandons his car straight up. He's fed up with the way that the man has come down on him, how we pigeon-hold ourselves into this nine-to-five work week, the 40-hour hustle just to put food on the table. And what does he have to show for it? A kid who he can't see really, and a wife who wants nothing to do with him. After flipping out at a grocery store clerk because he can't use a pay phone without buying something, he does get one of the best-looking Coca-Cola classics I've ever seen. The can is just gorgeous. It's beating down the sweat. The sweat of the can is coming down the side, dripping. Everything's sweaty in this movie. I should point that out. He's in the hot, hot heat. He's just perspirating nonstop. He might have some Michael Douglas nipples by the time this thing's done popping through that tee. I can't confirm nor deny that. I should re-watch just for that. But he trashes the place with a bat in a pretty fantastic sequence. And this is where Robert DeVall enters the picture. We have ourselves a kind of a stereotypical sequence of events here where Robert DeValls, it's the last day on the job, last day on the force. He's just ready to hang it up. He's been working behind a desk. He's put in the time. He's got a thankless wife to go home to, who's just honestly the worst. But this is his last ride. This is his last hurrah on top of that horse. And he could ride off to the sunset or he might get killed trying. So many memorable scenes in this from the McDonald's-esque restaurant he goes into where he holds up a pathetic looking cheeseburger and says something wrong with this picture while in the other hand holding an Uzi. There's a trip to a gun store ran by a homophobic Nazi. There's a movie being shot at which point he blows up an underground sewer system. All sorts of stuff is just happening and I'm loving every second of it. I'm loving every minute of it. This is a Duvall Michael Doug film. If you don't like Michael D, this is gonna change your mind. You're gonna get all the D you want and more. A lot of D coming at you. Big D. Schumacher has done some fantastic films outside of this. And just ignore the Batman stuff for a while unless you appreciate what he did from a comical standpoint, in which case, yeah, yeah. He gave us basically the best comic book movies ever to laugh at. But Flatliners, The Lost Boys, come on. St. Elmo's Fire. I believe in the hand and on it. I believe in the side and tear. I believe in something down to St. Elmo's Fire. Subscribe if you haven't. You're a fool if you haven't. I think we get the point I'm trying to make. Remember the man, not for the bad, but for the good things he's brought to the table. Go out and watch A Time to Kill, which he also directed. And then when you're done with that, come to the perfection that is falling down. Get that D. Get that big D. I believe in the hand and on it. I believe in the side and tear. I believe in my hand and down to St. Elmo's Fire. Thanks for watching the video. I try to put out new stuff on a weekly basis, so make sure to subscribe if you haven't already. I have a second channel full of more shenanigans and I'm also on Twitch now. So there's a lot of variety, a lot of options, and hopefully you can find these channels via links on this video itself, if I did my job correctly. Otherwise they might be in the description below, or you can just visit the channel page. All right, take care.