John Hughes Passes Away at 59

[BorneAgain]

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118006975.html

The 80s are truly dead.

 

[Black Lushus]

Bummer, dude.

He either wrote, directed or produced (or a combination of the 3) some of my all time favorite movies.

 

[EHME]

Bummer, dude.

He either wrote, directed or produced (or a combination of the 3) some of my all time favorite movies.

Pretty in Pink is BL's all time favorite movie...

On the real though this sucks. Breakfast Club, and Planes, Trains and Automobiles ruled.

 

[Black Lushus]

Honestly, I have never seen Pretty In Pink...but hey don't forget Sixteen Candles.

 

[BUTT]

I like Pretty in Pink. Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller were cool until I saw them for the thousandth time. Sixteen Candles was a corny bunch of crap though. Long Duk Dong my butt.

I always make sure to catch an airing of Home Alone 2 every Christmastime.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Long Duk Dong my BUTT.

Hmm looks like Kreese has something to share in the Coming Out of The Closet thread!

 

[mellow]

 

[strummer]

RIP

National Lampoon's Class Reunion is criminally underrated. A lost gem penned by Hughes

 

[Gary]

"Planes, Trains and Automobiles" is the best thing he did. Such an awesome movie.

 

[EHME]

"Planes, Trains and Automobiles" is the best thing he did. Such an awesome movie.

Did you forget he wrote Flubber?

 

[HSJ]

Ummm, Uncle Buck anyone?

 

[BurningPirateShipSex]

Psychedelic Furs "Pretty in Pink"

and, obligatorily:

The breakfast club - Don't you forget about me

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

Ummm, Uncle Buck anyone?

Awesome fucking movie. Jonh Candy was brilliant in this film. Great underrated gem.

 

[BurningPirateShipSex]

Ummm, Uncle Buck anyone?

Awesome fucking movie. Jonh Candy was brilliant in this film. Great underrated gem.

In a related anecdote, my mother was friends with John Candy growing up, as they both went to Catholic school in Toronto at the same time. She swears to this day that Uncle Buck was the closest thing to the "true" John Candy that ever made it to the screen.

 

[mellow]

Ummm, Uncle Buck anyone?

Awesome fucking movie. Jonh Candy was brilliant in this film. Great underrated gem.

In a related anecdote, my mother was friends with John Candy growing up, as they both went to Catholic school in Toronto at the same time. She swears to this day that Uncle Buck was the closest thing to the "true" John Candy that ever made it to the screen.

John Candy was an sub-competent deadbeat when he was a kid?

 

[BurningPirateShipSex]

Ummm, Uncle Buck anyone?

Awesome fucking movie. Jonh Candy was brilliant in this film. Great underrated gem.

In a related anecdote, my mother was friends with John Candy growing up, as they both went to Catholic school in Toronto at the same time. She swears to this day that Uncle Buck was the closest thing to the "true" John Candy that ever made it to the screen.

John Candy was an sub-competent deadbeat when he was a kid?

He did show up drunk to a mutual friend's funeral and perform a terrible comedy routine in the wake room, so yes?

I think it was more the type of humor employed, to be honest.

 

[Jingus]

Sixteen Candles was a corny bunch of crap though. Long Duk Dong my BUTT.

I'd agree with this. I first got around to seeing this movie about a year ago, and my reaction was "...THAT was one of the beloved classics of the decade?!". Compared to a far superior work like Ferris Bueller, it's like it wasn't even the same guy making both movies.

 

[NoCalMike]

Weird Science!!!

 

[EHME]

Straight up though, Home Alone is one of the greatest Christmas movies ever. It's easily in my Top 3, I've watched it since I was 5 and it's still watchable to me at the age of 22.

 

[BUTT]

I remember seeing Home Alone 2 in the theater on Thanksgiving '92. My brother wanted to see Bram Stoker's Dracula but my dad wasn't having that. I also had a Drake's apple pie for breakfast; a rare treat, especially on a weekday morning! I heard "I Will Always Love You" for the first time that day. I had never heard a capella singing on the radio before. I sure thought that was weird.

I remember a lot from when I was a kid.

 

[luke-o]

Bummer.

I fuckin' love Breakfast Club. And Home Alone is all kinds of great.