Director John Hughes, RIP

Basically, without the Sheedy makeover, Ringwald's prediction about them never speaking to each other again after that day comes true.

I agree that PT&A was his best film. RIP :(

You may not be wrong, Dan, but you're projecting a lot of subtext that simply isn't there in Hughes' writing or Estevez's performance.

I should rewatch the movie before asserting this but as of now I am convinced that everything aside from the last post I made and the other-kid reaction to the Estevez/Sheedy relationship is explicitly in the movie.

"may have been 99 percent of why I liked it."

may be 99% of the reason to have ever watched it.

christmas vacation is probably my single favorite thing that he was involved with. i mean, he wrote it.

Captured the hell of being stuck in the back seat of long, pointless family car trips with only Ramones on a walkman to blank it out. NO GREATER TRUTH HAS EVER BEEN COMMITTED TO FILM.

...and parents singing "Mockingbird."

Did you guys want Ferris to do a parade dance to Rock Lobster, too?

I don't know about you, Granny, but Ferris Bueller at the parade always reminds of the autographed photo of Matthew Broderick that Ms. Brubeck had in her office.

oh man christmas vacation is hilarious

curly sue might be my least fave hughes thing. but, you know, i'll pretty much watch any of them if they are on t.v. dutch and uncle buck have that creepy dad thing in them that always bugs me. dad has to get mean to get the love. uncle buck just has weird shit all through it.

she's having a baby. i liked that too. haven't seen that in a zillion years. i vaguely remember that soundtrack too. everything but the girl?

and kate bush!

he was pretty great imo, i find all his films pretty entertaining and containing some elements of truth. this may stem from me having grown up in the chicago suburbs, though.

Oh God, I wanted that huge Microphonies poster in FB's bedroom so badly, and his Fairlight (or Synclavier)

My favourite part of FBDO is Cameron's little shimmy on the rotating kitchen barstool during the call to Rooney,
dunno why, but there's something perfect about that.

The scene where Buck knocks all the pots and pans down and then says "SHIT!" made me laugh harder than just about anything I've ever seen. John Candy was a genius.

the weird joke in FBDO that always makes me laugh is cameron in bed, singing to himself "when cameron was in egypt's land" and then the full chorus swelling up for "let my cameron go"

haha

The Great Outdoors

Also 'never had one lesson!"

my favorite john hughes lol is

"dad, what about you?"

"flip you!"

Annette Benning is so fetching and funny in The Great Outdoors. Her first movie role!

those nat lamp stories are FUCKED UP

jaymc, i think i've repressed any time spent in Ms. B's office, which wasn't much to begin with.

those nat lamp stories are FUCKED UP

yeah that was kinda disturbing - they're vaguely pornographic and not really ... funny? and yet they are deeply reflective of adolescent angst and whatnot

UNCLE BUCK.

everything else i kinda take or leave. especially the teen movies. but for uncle buck alone he's earned his cloud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po2ahzuziEw

Love him or hate him, if you were a teen in 1980s Illinois, John Hughes meant something. To think I have not seen a John Hughes movie in years, I have been so negligent.

The real genius behind FBDO was Matthew Broderick. Everyone should read the original script to see what a huge asshole Hughes originally made him out to be, and how another another could have completely ruined the movie.

another ACTOR

For those talking about JC in Career Opportunities: 1p3 crush thread :-)

Rogermexico - I had a long drive the other day and listened to the 16 candles sndtrk on repeat. That TT song you linked the youtube to is one of my favorites.

The real genius behind FBDO was Matthew Broderick. Everyone should read the original script to see what a huge asshole Hughes originally made him out to be, and how another another could have completely ruined the movie.

Yeah -- Broderick really is a young Reagan in that movie.

So sad about this. RIP.

http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/5911/ferris-bueller-and-ed-rooney-misunderstood/

that article could have done one better and suggested that while Bueller was a psychopath, Rooney just wanted to pork him ("your ass is mine, bueller!").

"I did not achieve this position in life by having some snot-nosed punk leave my cheese out in the wind. "

From imdb:

"Although he has been offered the distinguished alumni award from Glenbrook North High School, he has refused it in reflection of his not so great memories of the north shore and the school itself."

Researchers estimate that 80% of Ferrari owners are psychopaths

Hughes isn't dead unless Jeffrey Jones has inspected the corpse. Someone roll his old bones over there.

Alf!

Pucker up, buttercup.

Ferris is a total asshole and I never need/want to see that movie again. It is on cable constantly.

Rogermexico - I had a long drive the other day and listened to the 16 candles sndtrk on repeat. That TT song you linked the youtube to is one of my favorites.

― ENBB, Thursday, August 6, 2009 3:14 PM

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Soundtrackwise Pretty In Pink gets all the love but it's amazing imo and "If You Were Here" closes the deal like a motherfucker.

What a shitty day this has been. Btfl Thompson Twins track there, rogermexico. And RIP.

When i was 12 my mum sneaked me into see my first '15' rated film at the cinema and it was Planes, Trains and Automobiles. I often mention that small fact to people as a way of demonstrating that my mum was cool. RIP MR Hughes.

i was sort of embarrassed as a teenager by how much i liked john hughes movies. i was an aspiring film snob and never would have listed the breakfast club as one of my favorite movies, even though it was. it's hard for me to say how well the movies "hold up" because they're so entwined with my adolescence that i don't have a good perspective on them. but i do think john hughes had a real handle on the intensity of the drama of teenage life, how much and how deeply even small social conflicts matter -- and he didn't condescend to that adolescent perspective, he respected it. mythologized it, even. (and wasn't the first or last to do so, obviously, by a long shot. and maybe it's way too easy to call his movies the catcher in the rye of the '80s -- but i don't think it's far-fetched.)

even though I didn't care for it, a big reason I didn't hate Juno is that I hadn't seen a film pandering to teens in that magical Hughes way in a while.

To me Planes, Trains, and Automobiles has always been his best.

looking over this thread, i realize that the only movies hughes directed that i have seen in toto are

- ferris bueller's day off
- sixteen candles

no doubt i've seen parts of the others (breakfast club, weird science, etc.) on television.

of the ones he had a hand in but didn't direct, i've seen home alone and most of the "vacation" series, and again, parts of many others.

i THOUGHT i had seen breakfast club but evidently not, as all the references are going over my head.