Director John Hughes, RIP

(Still haven't seen Say Anything or Weird Science or Better Off Dead.)

Better Off Dead shits over those other two - and all of Hughes' 80s movies tbh - from a great height. It has none of the problems of Hughes' oeuvre, and all the cleverness and visuals and one-liners

FB is like Star Wars: criticism is beside the point. You feel like a troll pointing stuff out.

His introducing kids to Psychedelic Furs, New Order, OMD, etc, however, is a genuine public service.

the Pretty in Pink soundtrack is pretty epochal.

Also the various posters in FB's room. Cabaret Voltaire! Sisters of Mercy!

I rewatched Better Off Dead recently and just found it really dragging in many parts. Great highs, but lots of dull spots. Hughes movies are much better-paced, imo

is someone going to rep for Career Opportunities? I remember it was awesome when I was 11 or 12, but haven't seen it since.

Jennifer Connelly is very lovely and leggy in it.

Candy deserved an oscar for Planes, Trains.

Also the various posters in FB's room. Cabaret Voltaire! Sisters of Mercy!

Boys and Girls-era Bryan Ferry!

The thing is, it's kind of clear that what he digs about her isn't really the act, it's HER. It's also clear that she's pretty unhappy and just wants to be noticed, which is why she responds positively to the makeover in the first place. He, being a popular high school boy, is likely psyched that she is capable of looking like something besides an alienated goth as that removes at least one axis of strain from their high school relationship, plus when she rips the patch off his letter jacket it's kind of clear to him that she is still the quirky spirit that attracted him in the first place.

The way she looks doesn't have as much to do with what's going on between them as much as it does how that will be accepted by the other kids who didn't go through this magic detention session.

btw I have watched "The Breakfast Club" far far FAR too much

Jennifer Connelly is very lovely and leggy in it.

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may have been 99 percent of why I liked it.

The Sheedy makeover is awesome because it is so 80s and so stereotypically mainstream movie-like. Did you guys want Ferris to do a parade dance to Rock Lobster, too?

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."