"I dont want lunch. I want breakfast."

"The drinker recommends falling down" Best title for a video ever.

"and now you're gonna die, wearing that stupid little hat." Love that line.

Falling Down is the most genuinely underrated and important movie of the 90’s. It holds a mirror up to society and shows that we’re all just one bad day away from snapping.

"The child who is not embraced by the village, will burn it down to feel it's warmth"

"i did everything they told me to" - man does that ring true

1990 - You're not economically viable 2020 - You're not an essential worker

"I'm the bad guy?" That line never fails to bring tears to my eyes, every single time I hear it

Back when movies had: *good actors* , a solid *plot* , and character development.

"I'm the bad guy? How did that happen? I did everything they told me to..."

Fun fact: Supposedly, Kirk Douglas (the father of the main actor, for the ~1% that don't know), when asked about what he thought was his Son's finest performance, cited Falling Down as his choice.

Falling Down is a great film from the 1990s that sums up the 2020s very accurately.

"I'm the bad guy?" That sheer confusion on his face when asking is just heartbreaking.

“I’m the bad guy?” still gives me chills to this day.

"Don't forget me." Far too many today feel forgotten and ababdoned. This film was absolutely brilliant!

The older I get,......the more I can relate to Bill Foster

"I think we have a critic."

"I'm the bad guy? I did everything they told me to." His feelings of abandonment & betrayal are so heartbreaking. It's as if your own life stared you in the face and said, "No, you weren't good enough."

Nobody could have done this role like Michael Douglas. He brings such a relatable presence to a character you'd otherwise never want to characterize yourself with.

A significant item is that at the end, Bill pulls a water pistol instead one of his many firearms. He also gets Prendergast with the water pistol and they both know it. Regardless of how bad Bill got, at the end he is still a good man

This movie if it came out today would send the activist media running for their safe spaces.

Michael Douglas: The original Grand Theft Auto character.

One of the greatest films ever made. Period. He’s not a hero, he’s not a villain, he’s just a man. We may be a dying/unwanted breed, but like drinker said, discard us at your peril... It genuinely terrifying how much more relevant this film is right now, as compared to when it was released. There’s a LOT of us Bill’s out there...

Back in the late 90's, my high school psychology teacher showed this movie in his class. The story stuck with me, and years later I thanked him for introducing this movie to us. Falling Down is by far one of the best movies I've ever seen, and a solid testament to Michael Douglas's superb acting abilities.

Michael Douglas should have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. This film is criminally underrated and sadly, mostly forgotten.

"Falling Down" Probably more relevant in 2020 then when it was made.

You can’t ignore the feelings of emasculation these two men have. Prendergast’s wife is a gone-to-seed harridan, warped by grief, who talks down to him when he doesn’t pander to her childish behaviour. Bill’s wife is a touch hysterical, determined to assert her dominance over the failed relationship by cutting him out of his child’s life. Both men have lost control. I feel for them. Great film.

One of the things missed by this review is the conversation between William's Ex-wife and the police officer sent to check on her. The officer asks what the nature of William's abuse was, and she doesn't have an answer, just a vague explanation that she thought he was capable of violence, but also that he had never perpetrated any towards her or their daughter. You see, Bill was capable of violence after all, but like those gangsters, his wife forced his hand when she separated him from his daughter. One has to ask whether he would have ever snapped if he hadn't been betrayed and abandoned by the family he clearly loved.

“I’m the bad guy? How did that happen?” Great line.

No hot girls wearing next to nothing No nudity No special effects No tough guy running around like Rambo Just a great story, great characters and brilliantly acted...oh, and a shit ton of people wishing they did the same thing in life

His heart - breakingly poignant, almost bitter-sweet request of "I'm going home, clear a path for me, I just want to go home" is one of the most memorable aspects of this film for me. A working man, or just any man, who's now a shell of his former self, who has to literally beg and demand to be left alone in peace from a society hell - bent on doing everything it can to prevent that is both deeply irrevocable and way too relatable. Only 1 day away from being him, only 1.

Not just a movie, but an anthem.

I remember (being old that is) the reviews of this movie when it came out. One of them sounded like this. "Oh dear, another movie about how hard it is to be a white man today." I thought that was really unkind, not even trying to look at the films good qualities, and what it was trying to say. Little did I know such reviews would be a sign of things to come.

Falling Down is a timeless piece of work, and even more relevant now in 2019 than in the early 90's.

I didn't appreciate this movie at the time of its release. I just saw it as another semi-decent, yet forgettable action popcorn-type film. It wasn't until decades later, that I understood the deep social commentary it was making and saw it for the art that it truly was. The underpinnings about how the system is structured by government, corporations, and citizen parasites who keep the common man down. They can abuse the common man in whatever way they desire, but when the common man bites back in the same way, he gets labeled as the bad guy, terrorist, and misfit. His demise means little, and the system continues to churn on after he's gone.

I was born in 1992 and even as a child, I recognized this movie as a masterpiece. Definitely top five of all time.

My cousin plays Michael Douglas' daughter in this movie. I remember seeing the movie as a kid and not understanding how someone could snap like that, now I'm older, wiser, and living through the hell that is 2020.

I will never forget hearing that line for the first time: “I’m the bad guy? How did that happen...?” The way Douglas delivers it is, as you said, absolutely heartbreaking, because he’s not being sarcastic or defensive...he’s really asking the question in earnest, though he might not expect an actual answer.

Every man has a point in his life when they’re just one honk, one dirty look, or one fake smile away from losing their shit and snapping.

"And now you're gonna die wearing that stupid little hat, how does it feel" what a line 🤣

Treat Joe Nobody like he's a disposable drone, deprive his every human interaction of any kindness, tell him his looming rage is just a symptom of his own pathetic moral failings, then act shocked and appalled when he draws a gun on a fast food clerk over something that "wasn't even a big deal."

I am "Latin" and I can't stand the expression "LatinX" and the god awful "People of Color." Identity politics is evil.

This is one of my favorite movies! The detectives visit to Bill’s mother was genius.

Probably his finest role as an actor.

“Wait. I’m the bad guy?” “Yeah” Absolutely banging film

"They see a white man in a shirt and tie and take him for an easy mark." This hit home, hard. I work at a local bakery in the downtown section of Bemidji, MN, overnight 1AM to whenever the work is done. After an attempted carjacking outside of work in the parking lot in 2018, I now openly carry a handgun into work, and my boss is okay with it. Am I a badass? Far from it. I just want to get home after work to see my two kids again.

I saw the movie as a teen and couldn't relate to Bill. Now, in my 40s, I totally understand and am empathetic to Bill

This could be the live action version of Grand Theft Auto, but it really plays out Like Predator 2. A lone wolf blasting his way thru LA during a heat wave only to be taken out by a single cop at the end.

"That's not our policy. You have to order something from the lunch menu" Marvellous film. That is all.

"Wait, *I'm* the bad guy? How did that happen..?" So goddamn heartbreaking. And relateable

I watched this on VHS when it came out. My little brother and I spent every other weekend with my Pop, and all we could really afford to do was go to the local play park and rent movies. He was quite permissive with movie choices, so at 12 and on, I saw a lot of the good old 80s and 90s action flicks. I remember this one sticking out for my Dad. He was just quiet after the movie, just repeated "That's me. This movie, that's me." Someone saw him, someone remembered him. He became a better father over time, to a point where I make sure to tell him I love him every time we end a call or part ways. To all the men and fathers out there, some people see you, and they'll remember you.

I relate to bill more than I should

I remember seeing this in the theater and everyone cheered when he blew up the unnecessary road work that was stalling traffic ! We've all been there!

This is why I treat everyone with respect, you never know what people are going through

I saw this as a kid and it’s always been one of the most memorable movies I’ve seen.

Watched this movie when I was a kid and it first came out, loved it then, still love it. Timeless, so far ahead of it's time and more relevant today than it was then.

"Their aim is about as accurate as a post-sex piss." The lines you come up with in your drunken stupor are pure gold.

"I did everything they told me to." That line totally unsettles me. Great, tragic movie.

Hollywood needs to take notice to films like this....even though the main guy isn't a "good" guy hes sympathetic and relatable and not painted as a toxic male that needs to be taken down by his better female counter parts. the story is well written, cast is on point, good character development. and there is zero activism to muddy the waters

"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth" - African proverb.

If the media hates joker, imagine how they'd react to this.

Great film indeed. In Ukraine its tile was translated as "I've had enough" which is probably not as subtle but very straight to the point.

Absolutely brilliant review. Far more nuance and perception of what's going on in this film than I remember anyone giving it back in the day.

Perfectly executed production. Great story, great acting, a tangible intensity that builds throughout. This is what a movie is supposed to be. And it is Michael Douglas's best role.

“This is the guy who was told if he followed the rules and did what he was told, that everything would be alright.” In other words, he’s me. And millions of others like me.

"I'm the bad guy?" "Yeah." "How did that happen?" My question is how the hell did Joel Schumacher manage to make this film so amazing and yet make Batman and Robin such sh!t?

I grew up around a lot of stuck up old people. That golf course scene was like therapy for me.

I see him as an honest man who was broken beyond repair, He was very much like Marvin Heemeyer, the guy who created the Killdozer, a home made tank. Marvin said in tapes about why he did what he did, and one line sticks out for me for both Falling Down and what he did. "Sometimes reasonable men are forced to do unreasonable things."

Michael Douglas once said this was his favourite character to play. at the time the media gave time to people who claimed this film was racist and not entertainment .Douglas and Duval were both aamazing in this film. now am off to get a whammy burger . Dfens Dfens

I never appreciated how just how perfectly this movie describes a working man’s rage and weather to redirect it as a destructive or constructive force on society.

Imagine a movie that makes you think and inspires discussions.

The scene where he thinks the little girl is hurt, is heartbraking. Even on a mad rampage, he is just a guy, lost in the madness.

"Falling Down" is one of those movies that really changes as you yourself get older... if you watch it as a teen, you see a straight-up action film, in your twenties, you cheer on the anti-hero of Bill... you get into your thirties and forties? The movie is so much deeper...

"HAY HAY YOU FORGOT YOUR BRIEFCASE " love that line

This movie is more relevant now than it was in the 90's. There's going to be a lot of Bill Fosters in the next 10 years...

One of Michael Douglas' best films ever.

"I don't wanna be your buddy Rick... I just want some breakfast"

A great movie, I think it Mr Douglas's finest. It is the ugliest, most brutal social satire of the late 20th C I have ever seen and Douglas plays the role of the alienated, disenfranchised and dispossessed male to absolute perfection. It is heart-breakingly true.

I saw this film on VHS when it finally reached Finland market somewhere in mid 90's. I spotted an add poster about it in my local swimming hall, got curious, and found the film in the library. I was maybe 10 years old. And I am a girl. And as a 10 year old finnish girl with no sense of american commercial culture, the lifestyle portrayed in the film and the problems portrayed in it, I felt liek I understood all of it. I could relate to everyone. The soul of each character and their hopes, fears, thoughts all are passed to the viewer in a remarkable way. I mentioned the film to my parents at some point and they didn't say anything, but they were thinking I shouldn't be watching it, but I found the film fachinating. The swimming hall has been totally renewed since, but the poster is still on the wall there.

“This stage of the movie plays out like a video game. Bill’s taking on tougher and tougher opponents, upgrading his weapons as he goes.” It’s lines like this that I watch these reviews for.

"Hey man, they lie to everyone, they even lie to the fish!" That's... still kinda true.

In childhood I was laughing like crazy with 'I am not economically viable' scene, now my soul cries... I will never forget you, bro.

I've more than once described "Falling Down" as "Breaking Bad" in the runtime of a single movie. It's great! P.S: Your analysis makes me think more of "Fight Club", maybe the movie manages to be both...

You can’t bully someone then get mad when they retaliate it’s just like middle school all over again.

"And now you're gonna die wearing that stupid little hat - how does it feel?" Probably my favorite line in all of cinema, because it's deceptively simple. On the surface it's just a clever quip that Bill manages to get out as he's lauding his victory over the golfer. On a deeper level, however, it is brilliantly illuminating as to how where Bill's head is at in the moment. A normal person would probably at least feel guilty for causing this man's death, but Bill is so overwhelmed by his need for revenge against the cruel world around him that he instead finds it comical. It shows that Bill is completely lost to his madness already but that he's not yet gripped that he is in the exact same position. Like the golfer, lying there dying as a result of his own hubris and anger, Bill has already effectively ended his own life at this point with the several violent outbursts he's had. He is simply living on borrowed time, yet in the moment he is so satisfied that he's won this encounter he can't see the forest for the trees and only thinks how comically ironic it is that the man's arrogance has effectively been his own end.

The character is just relatable regardless of your nationality or gender. Most hardworking adults who are stuck can understand this.

Not sure how I got this to auto-play suddenly, being a 3 year old video, but the Drinker sounds very different! Much more relaxed these days. More seasoned. :)

"Bleak and heartless concrete jungle..." Sounds like an acurate depiction on LA.

"I've reached the point of no return." "Do you know what that is?" "It's when going back to what you were is a longer journey than continuing to what you are going becoming." Normally, a moving pointing out 'this is when the hero becomes the villain', would irate me, but it was SO good & powerful that I don't care! State the obvious, I'm good with it.

What a great movie! And what a great performance from Michael Douglas!

This was an awesome movie, that struck a cord in the innermost and darkest part of many people. Right or wrong, HE HIT BACK.

As someone who has lived in Southern California for 32 years, I can report that Falling Down is the most realistic depiction of Los Angeles ever put to film.

I wonder if anyone else noticed the foreshadowing in Michael Douglas seeing a bumper sticker that says "He died for our sins." in his character's introduction.

It is perfection. I keep coming back to it over and over.

This movie was overlooked when it came out. Many people didn't really accept Michael in this role, but Michael praises this movie to this day and has nothing but wonderful things to say about playing the character. It's nice this movie is finally getting the attention it deserved.

when the guy says" don't forget me"" he's talking to all of us

Fantastic movie! I thought the line "I'm the bad guy?" really captured his descent into darkness.

This movie didn't have the most believable plot but Michael Douglas just nailed his acting so well that you can't help but be enthralled the whole time.

Saw this in the theater as a young man. Can relate to it much more now, having lived life and seen so much. I still remember the crowd erupting in laughter and cheers when he yells at the fleeing gang members, "Hey! You forgot the briefcase!!" 😂😂😂

"YOU FORGOT MY BAG.........I AM GOING HOME" Loved this movie. They dont make them like this anymore.