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Renault on 7/8/2009 at 02:33
This is quite sad - he may not have produced any oscar winners or "deep" movies, but they are classics all the same. He basically entertained the shit out of me during high school (& college) when not much else did. His movies will be remembered (and quoted) decades longer than most others from this era.
Vacations (all of them)
Mr. Mom
16 Candles
Breakfast Club
Weird Science
Pretty In Pink
Ferris Bueller
Some Kind of Wonderful
Planes, Trains, & Automobiles
Uncle Buck
R.I.P.
:(
fett on 7/8/2009 at 03:04
Wow - I had no idea he'd done all of those. The only one on that list that I was meh about is Pretty in Pink. Hell, those movies almost ARE the 80's (if you add Back to the Future and Friday 13th).
june gloom on 7/8/2009 at 03:25
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The 80s sucked.
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henke on 7/8/2009 at 05:22
RIP John Hughes
Stitch title mo betta
SD on 7/8/2009 at 09:56
If by a man's movies he be judged, then John Hughes was one psychopathic SOB:
Home Alone - young boy tortures burglars. To this day, one of the most violent movies I've ever seen. How did this get a PG?
Uncle Buck - big "jolly" fat guy kidnaps niece's boyfriend, ties him up and stuffs him in the trunk of his car. Also threatens to chop him up with a hatchet and drill his teeth out (!)
Weird Science - probably the most gratuitously unnecessary tit shot ever committed to celluloid
And then there's the other 75% which reveals an obsession with the sexualisation of youths that would embarrass Humbert Humbert.
Even the good stuff (Planes, Trains, & Automobiles) was ridiculously hokey.
Yeah, his movies summed up the 80s alright: shallow, amoral and schmaltzy.
henke on 7/8/2009 at 10:02
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Are you for real?
gunsmoke on 7/8/2009 at 10:07
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
Heh. I chalk it up to missing it while I was in that age bracket whose filmic education was defined by such movies. Same deal with
The Breakfast Club. I've seen both of them and think they're cute kitschy 80s flicks but they aren't massive pop culture events to me.
Too young.
Scots Taffer on 7/8/2009 at 10:11
Quote Posted by SD
If by a man's movies he be judged, then John Hughes was one psychopathic SOB
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quinch on 7/8/2009 at 10:28
I'll give Hughes the benefit of the doubt in that he helped with, rather than contributed to the tribulations of being a teenager in that horrible decade.
