Boz
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Post by Boz on Aug 6, 2009 18:07:17 GMT -5
Any old geezers like me, feel free to share your memories.
I loved John Hughes and hated him at the same time, if that is at all possible.
I loved that fact that this guy actually put Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want by The Smiths in a movie (and many other great songs like it in other movies).
I hated him for always seeming to pick some of the worst songs by some of my favorite bands for his movies. (e.g. - Don't You Forget About Me is quite possibly the most God-awful Simple Minds song ever, and I really like almost everything else that band did)
The films themselves are indelible images of young America in the 80s. Yeah, sure, maybe none of us really talked like that.....ever, but a lot of us dressed and acted like that, sometimes to our shame.
The man will be missed. The films live forever.
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TC
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Post by TC on Aug 6, 2009 18:15:20 GMT -5
If you look at that streak of his from 1984-1990, has anyone come close to that? He wrote 2 great movies a year and directed 1 every year during that period.
Uncle Buck was sorely underrated.
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SFHoya99
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Post by SFHoya99 on Aug 6, 2009 19:02:40 GMT -5
Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a pantheon-level movie.
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Aug 6, 2009 20:11:18 GMT -5
If you look at that streak of his from 1984-1990, has anyone come close to that? He wrote 2 great movies a year and directed 1 every year during that period. Uncle Buck was sorely underrated. Here's the list of movies John Hughes wrote: www.imdb.com/name/nm0000455/#writerThose of us between 25 and 35 would be hard-pressed to find a larger pop-culture influence on our childhood/adolescent years. |
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Post by PhillyHoya on Aug 6, 2009 23:10:46 GMT -5
If you look at that streak of his from 1984-1990, has anyone come close to that? He wrote 2 great movies a year and directed 1 every year during that period. Uncle Buck was sorely underrated. Here's the list of movies John Hughes wrote: www.imdb.com/name/nm0000455/#writerThose of us between 25 and 35 would be hard-pressed to find a larger pop-culture influence on our childhood/adolescent years. He wins that title running away. I'm on the younger end of that spectrum but I easily recognize how much he GOT it. I just keep watching the final scene from "Some Kind of Wonderful" and it gets me every time. Sadly there hasn't been anything good since "Curly Sue" or great since "Dutch" (hugely underrated as well) but yeah, that period from 1983-1991 is just epic. If you'll excuse me now, the Donger, Duckie and I are having a retrospective marathon and Cap'n Crunch/Pixy Stix sandwiches. |
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TC
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Post by TC on Aug 7, 2009 9:04:28 GMT -5
Here's an example of how ubiquitous John Hughes was - from 1990-1997 the Christmas Homily at my parents' parish was always about the movie Home Alone and how the guy with the shovel reuniting with his family represented the spirit of Christmas. The first year Home Alone was out, it was practically given as Christmas homework to go see Home Alone. I think one year it covered Home Alone 2 and the pigeon lady, but the year afterwards it was back to Home Alone.
To this day, every time I go back for Christmas I expect to hear about Home Alone, but sadly the last two years the homily has been about how the cheesy and shmaltzy country song "Christmas Shoes" and the little boy who wants to buy a pair of pretty shoes for his dying momma is the spirit of Christmas.
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theexorcist
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Post by theexorcist on Aug 7, 2009 9:20:20 GMT -5
Two items from my perspective:
1. I saw Home Alone in a theater in Taiwan. Everyone laughed at the same time.
2. My entire family loved Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. There's a lot that's said about how John Hughes made movies that appealed to GenXers, but they were really enjoyable movies for anyone of any age.
Oh, and TC - I'm heartened when I think that "Christmas Shoes" is a total scam that the kid is in on with the storekeeper. If you can pull that a few times a night, you can make a fair amount of coin - and the best part is that you can even reuse the shoes!
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TC
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Post by TC on Aug 7, 2009 11:02:10 GMT -5
Oh, and TC - I'm heartened when I think that "Christmas Shoes" is a total scam that the kid is in on with the storekeeper. If you can pull that a few times a night, you can make a fair amount of coin - and the best part is that you can even reuse the shoes! This board is like a box of chocolates - who knew that a thread on John Hughes would contain an Ayn Rand-esque critique of 'Christmas Shoes'? theexorcist, that song makes me want to hurl too. John Hughes' teenage penpal - worth a read : bit.ly/6C9Ao |
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theexorcist
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Post by theexorcist on Aug 7, 2009 11:20:48 GMT -5
Oh, and TC - I'm heartened when I think that "Christmas Shoes" is a total scam that the kid is in on with the storekeeper. If you can pull that a few times a night, you can make a fair amount of coin - and the best part is that you can even reuse the shoes! This board is like a box of chocolates - who knew that a thread on John Hughes would contain an Ayn Rand-esque critique of 'Christmas Shoes'? theexorcist, that song makes me want to hurl too. John Hughes' teenage penpal - worth a read : bit.ly/6C9AoIt's NOT an Ayn Rand critique! www.snpp.com/episodes/CABF03"Bart wears black glasses and uses a feeling cane. In his other hand he holds the fake cake. Nearby, Kent Brockman finishes a phone call. He turns around and immediately runs into Bart, who drops the cake. Kent: Oh, excuse me. Bart: What happened? Where's my cake? [worried:] It's alright, isn't it? Kent: Um.... Homer: What have you done, you clumsy little ox?! [gasp] That cake was for your deaf sister! Kent: Sir, it was my fault-- Homer: No, no. Don't protect him. [to Bart:] You'll work off that cake in the acid mines! Kent: Oh, no, no! I'll pay for the cake. Homer: Well, you're the mark. [Bart jabs him] ...of integrity" The one with the missing dog is related more closely, but this includes the phrase "work off that cake in the acid mines", which is pretty cool. Aren't these tourist scams? Don't you think the NYPD sends out some warning to people every holiday season to beware of kids who claim that they can't afford shoes for their dying mother? |
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Post by FormerHoya on Aug 7, 2009 13:24:54 GMT -5
I tried to buy a new motorcycle for my dying mother who wanted to "Meet Jesus on a hog," but Scrooge wouldn't accept my wooden nickel.
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