Comments on: No John Hughes, No 1980s

By: MommieOD

MommieOD — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:39:38 +0000

They just don't make movies anymore like John Hughes made them. I saw "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" again just a few weeks back. Somehow, my husband had never seen it before. We both laughed our butts off. Classic physical comedy, great lines and takes, and finally, great heart. The scene where John Candy explains himself to Steve Martin is always a 3-hanky moment for me.

Given the trash that H'wood is foisting on us these days, it is a double tragedy to have lost someone so talented as a writer and director. Too young to be gone – God bless him and give comfort to his family.

By: VinceP1974

VinceP1974 — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:33:18 +0000

No movie could ever compare to Ferris Buller's Day Off. Me being from Chicago, I love the way the movie shows off my hometown. But the movie is genius from the talkign to the audience and the zaniness of Ferris and the wackiness of everyone around him. It was so much fun.

I really liked Some Kind of Wonderful too.

By: George Semel

George Semel — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:50:29 +0000

Well he left a pretty good body of work. Lets face it, when to talk about the 1980's movie wise Its National Lampoon's Vacation and Ferris Buller's Day Off. I still bust a gut watching Mr Rooney getting on the bus in defeat. Times change and the kind of work he did was not in demand. Well you can say that about a whole list of things, 59 is not very old, its not old at all these days. This just goes to show you life is very short.

By: JeffWeimer

JeffWeimer — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:18:27 +0000

Here's the link to the blog DoXs is talking about. Apparently it got aint-it-cool-alanched.

It is a moving tribute.
http://wellknowwhenwegetthere.blogspot.com/2009/0...

By: JeffWeimer

JeffWeimer — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:10:09 +0000

5555!!!!

LOL. You hit the nail on the head.

By: BearmanCartoons

BearmanCartoons — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:33:56 +0000

Don't forget Home Alone!! You'll all say it sucks now but I know you saw it multiple times back then. haha

The older I get, 59 seems so young.

If interested I did a tribute cartoon http://beartoons.com/2009/08/07/bearman-cartoons-...

By: ladykrystyna

ladykrystyna — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 05:53:53 +0000

While it is true and very obvious that Porky's has quite a bit of T & A, there is also the part where they get revenge on the slimy politician in the first Porky's, and revenge on the racist idiots in the second one. There is nothing better than portraying hateful racists as the morons they are. Especially when they get a comeuppance.

Not movies I would show my children, but they oddly enough, still had a plot and something to teach.

Weird, I know.'

And of course, nothing compared with Hughes.

By: ladykrystyna

ladykrystyna — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 05:47:02 +0000

When you are a hammer, everything is a nail. Because you are a lefty, and were therefore weaned on "Class Warfare" and "Race Warfare", this is all you see.

I think what you see in all of his films is that class doesn't make you good or bad. Character has a lot more to do with it than not. So, as others have said, there are no caricatures really.

By: Smurf

Smurf — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 04:24:09 +0000

Hughes attended HS in an economically diverse neighborhood, with classmates dirt poor and platinum wealthy. He was very conscientious about mixed-feelings undercurrents of confusion and resentments percolating amid personal friendships. We're all human beings and John treated his characters that way. One of his least-seen works was 1998's "Reach the Rock," which was a modern companion to Breakfast Club dealing with many of these themes.

By: LolaLola

LolaLola — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:46:44 +0000

You gotta be kidding me. Hey CD…did you watch Ben Stein's interview? Because man your teeny tiny link doesn't jibe with what Stein who was his friend said now does it, Tool? Hughes being a Republican must really upset you.