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Title: John Hughes dead at 59
Post by: Weatherman on August 06, 2009, 04:50:03 PM
RIP.
Title: Re: John Hughes dead at 59
Post by: Josephus on August 06, 2009, 06:19:12 PM
Anyone who was a teenager in the 80s would dig this.

Bueller?
Title: Re: John Hughes dead at 59
Post by: Admiral Yi on August 06, 2009, 06:33:07 PM
Bueller is great but Molly Ringwald on re-examination doesn't quite live up to my teenage ideal.
Title: Re: John Hughes dead at 59
Post by: jimmy olsen on August 06, 2009, 06:46:49 PM
Bueller, Bueller, Bueller... :cry:


RIP
Title: Re: John Hughes dead at 59
Post by: Josephus on August 06, 2009, 07:00:06 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 06, 2009, 06:33:07 PM
Bueller is great but Molly Ringwald on re-examination doesn't quite live up to my teenage ideal.

Breakfast Club was fun though. Ally Sheedy rocked in that one.
Title: Re: John Hughes dead at 59
Post by: Caliga on August 06, 2009, 07:28:47 PM
:o

WTF?

:weep:

I shall scream "BENDER!!!" in his honor.
Title: Re: John Hughes dead at 59
Post by: Admiral Yi on August 06, 2009, 07:36:22 PM
Quote from: Josephus on August 06, 2009, 07:00:06 PM
Breakfast Club was fun though. Ally Sheedy rocked in that one.
Agree about Ally Sheedy but have you seen Breakfast Club recently?  It's a whiney emofest.
Title: Re: John Hughes dead at 59
Post by: Caliga on August 06, 2009, 07:37:02 PM
I saw it recently, and I still like it. :huh:
Title: Re: John Hughes dead at 59
Post by: Scipio on August 06, 2009, 08:19:18 PM
Bueller.

Also, Planes, Trains, & Automobiles.  Nobody ever mentions this as a Hughes film.  It's like they forgot it.
Title: Re: John Hughes dead at 59
Post by: Admiral Yi on August 06, 2009, 08:21:01 PM
Quote from: Caliga on August 06, 2009, 07:37:02 PM
I saw it recently, and I still like it. :huh:
Did you pronounce the t in recently?
Title: Re: John Hughes dead at 59
Post by: Habsburg on August 06, 2009, 08:22:10 PM
 :(

Also the soundtrack to Pretty in Pink is awesome.
Title: Re: John Hughes dead at 59
Post by: merithyn on August 06, 2009, 08:32:11 PM
And there ends the Home Alone movies.  :cry: :cry:
Title: Re: John Hughes dead at 59
Post by: DGuller on August 06, 2009, 08:58:06 PM
Quote from: merithyn on August 06, 2009, 08:32:11 PM
And there ends the Home Alone movies.  :cry: :cry:
Come on, let's not celebrate in the RIP thread.
Title: Re: John Hughes dead at 59
Post by: FunkMonk on August 06, 2009, 09:22:42 PM
Ferris Bueller is one of my favorite 80s movies, and watching Home Alone as a child was like being in heaven.

RIP
Title: Re: John Hughes dead at 59
Post by: jimmy olsen on August 06, 2009, 09:24:54 PM
Back in high school my class convinced a sub to let us watch Ferris Bueller 's Day Off.  :D
Title: Re: John Hughes dead at 59
Post by: Eddie Teach on August 06, 2009, 09:46:19 PM
Quote from: DGuller on August 06, 2009, 08:58:06 PM
Quote from: merithyn on August 06, 2009, 08:32:11 PM
And there ends the Home Alone movies.  :cry: :cry:
Come on, let's not celebrate in the RIP thread.

Home Alone wasn't nearly as bad as The Breakfast Club.


RIP dude.
Title: Re: John Hughes dead at 59
Post by: sbr on August 06, 2009, 10:04:00 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 06, 2009, 09:46:19 PM
Quote from: DGuller on August 06, 2009, 08:58:06 PM
Quote from: merithyn on August 06, 2009, 08:32:11 PM
And there ends the Home Alone movies.  :cry: :cry:
Come on, let's not celebrate in the RIP thread.

Home Alone wasn't nearly as bad as The Breakfast Club.


RIP dude.
:huh:  How old are you?
Title: Re: John Hughes dead at 59
Post by: BuddhaRhubarb on August 06, 2009, 10:11:50 PM
:cry: Breakfast Club is one of My all time faves(tm).
Title: Re: John Hughes dead at 59
Post by: saskganesh on August 06, 2009, 10:46:07 PM
... a lot of bad soundtracks cluttering my teenage soundscape. good riddance.

I liked 16 Candles, when the geek got the cheerleader, thanks to alcohol. a moral lesson about love that will stand for eternity. :)


Title: Re: John Hughes dead at 59
Post by: Josephus on August 07, 2009, 07:18:10 AM
16 Candles was one of the weaker ones I felt.

Pretty in Pink was good as it centred around class consciousness.

Breakfast Club may be an emo fest, and, in hindsight some of the acting was pretty lame, but they will never ever sell a movie to kids these days about " a bunch of kids in detention class"...and again, it had that class consciousness thing.

The Home Alone movies were too gay for me, but maybe it's an age thing.

But Ferris Bueller is in a league of its own. Coincidently it was on TV on the weekend and I caught bits of it.
Title: Re: John Hughes dead at 59
Post by: Eddie Teach on August 07, 2009, 07:29:27 AM
Quote from: sbr on August 06, 2009, 10:04:00 PM
:huh:  How old are you?

I didn't say I *liked* Home Alone. :mellow:

Breakfast Club had all the horribly cliched characters of a teenybopper comedy while trying to sell itself as something more meaningful. Home Alone was what it was.
Title: Re: John Hughes dead at 59
Post by: Galrion on August 08, 2009, 10:20:41 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 07, 2009, 07:29:27 AM
Quote from: sbr on August 06, 2009, 10:04:00 PM
:huh:  How old are you?

I didn't say I *liked* Home Alone. :mellow:

Breakfast Club had all the horribly cliched characters of a teenybopper comedy while trying to sell itself as something more meaningful. Home Alone was what it was.

I'd argue that the characters were cliched after that movie came out.
Title: Re: John Hughes dead at 59
Post by: jimmy olsen on August 09, 2009, 12:45:06 AM
Quote from: Josephus on August 07, 2009, 07:18:10 AM

Breakfast Club may be an emo fest, and, in hindsight some of the acting was pretty lame, but they will never ever sell a movie to kids these days about " a bunch of kids in detention class"

Why not? Detention is pretty benign, almost every kid has been there at least once.
Title: Re: John Hughes dead at 59
Post by: Sophie Scholl on August 09, 2009, 01:31:34 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on August 09, 2009, 12:45:06 AM
Why not? Detention is pretty benign, almost every kid has been there at least once.
Not me!  Not even a warning in my whole grade school career. :goodboy:
Title: Re: John Hughes dead at 59
Post by: katmai on August 10, 2009, 02:27:15 AM
Quote from: saskganesh on August 06, 2009, 10:46:07 PM
... a lot of bad soundtracks cluttering my teenage soundscape. good riddance.



:rolleyes:

Who pissed in your cheerios?
Title: Re: John Hughes dead at 59
Post by: Cerr on August 10, 2009, 08:42:50 AM
A girl's personal correspondence with John Hughes:

http://wellknowwhenwegetthere.blogspot.com/2009/08/sincerely-john-hughes.html
Title: Re: John Hughes dead at 59
Post by: saskganesh on August 10, 2009, 09:12:16 AM
Quote from: katmai on August 10, 2009, 02:27:15 AM
Quote from: saskganesh on August 06, 2009, 10:46:07 PM
... a lot of bad soundtracks cluttering my teenage soundscape. good riddance.



:rolleyes:

Who pissed in your cheerios?

well it wasn't  Paul Westerberg or Bob Mould or Gibby Haynes -- you know, people who tried to make the 80's fun -- just by way of example.