Director John Hughes dies :(

[niuniu]

Add Uncle Buck to the above flicks.. loved his movies as a kid, thing most of my generation grew up on those movies..

 

[0098386]

Just realised I missed a load out of his films. Watched Uncle Buck last night and loved it, watched Weird Science a few hours ago and didn't . Bueller for the weekend, like you wouldn't imagine.

 

[niuniu]

Wow Weird Science.. didn't know that was his..

 

[dmr727]

Wow Weird Science.. didn't know that was his..

There's a special place in my heart for that movie. I loved it when I was a little kid, and was one of the first tapes I watched when my parents brought home a VCR for the first time.

I just watched it a few nights back, and it's goofy and lame, but I still love it nonetheless.

"OHHH - GARY! You said you were combing your hair!"

 

[jmann]

It hasn't been mentioned because it is not one of his....

Lame! I was told by someone that he made it. Hee Hee.

 

[MonksMac]

There's a special place in my heart for that movie. I loved it when I was a little kid, and was one of the first tapes I watched when my parents brought home a VCR for the first time.

I just watched it a few nights back, and it's goofy and lame, but I still love it nonetheless.

"OHHH - GARY! You said you were combing your hair!"

God, I love that movie. One of the funniest lines in the whole movie and Kelly LeBrock-who could complain!

Edit: John Candy was great in Uncle Buck. "Hey, Your car's on fire!" "I like to keep a hatchet in my trunk...for gnats..."

 

[iBlue]

Here is his imdb profile, if you want to check out his seriously impressive legacy.

 

[jodelli]

Very sad news!

Does anyone else remember Some kind of wonderful, it had one of the greatest lines ever, and its stuck with me to this day.

"you cant judge a book by it's cover"
"No, But you can tell how much it costs"

R.I.P. John

Yeah, but what confused me was Leah Thompson being the desirable beauty and Mary Stu being the 'ugly duckling'. I'm not saying Leah was ugly, but Mary Stu was a doll.
And my sister thought the same thing about the casting, so it wasn't just me.

 

[Tilpots]

Yeah, but what confused me was Leah Thompson being the desirable beauty and Mary Stu being the 'ugly duckling'. I'm not saying Leah was ugly, but Mary Stu was a doll.
And my sister thought the same thing about the casting, so it wasn't just me.

That was the whole story though, right? Mary Stu went from "ugly duckling" to "beautiful swan". At least that's how I remember it...

 

[jodelli]

That was the whole story though, right? Mary Stu went from "ugly duckling" to "beautiful swan". At least that's how I remember it...

She was cuter even with the ripped jeans and biker jacket.

And Allison Reynolds in Breakfast Club. She was certainly much more interesting in the bohemian getup. With the makeover she was just another teenager.
Maybe the homogenization of youth was the point.

 

[Tilpots]

She was cuter even with the ripped jeans and biker jacket.

And Allison Reynolds in Breakfast Club. She was certainly much more interesting in the bohemian getup. With the makeover she was just another teenager.
Maybe the homogenization of youth was the point.

And showing that appearances are deceiving, we are all disguising ourselves to fit in/out one way or the other.

Heard a story on NPR a few days after he died with a young woman who had corresponded with Hughes over the years. She had written him a letter pouring her heart out to him about how one of his movies (Breakfast Club, I think) really touched her and she received a form letter back. So she wrote him again, pissed about the form letter, and he wrote her back himself. They became pen pals for the next couple of years. He took the time to befriend a young woman in need of guidance, and she never forgot it. The interview was more touching than my portrayal, but it just made Hughes seem like even more of a stand up up guy who really cared not only about the movies he made, but about the audience he made them for. He really shaped a generation.

EDIT:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111665441

 

[leekohler]

This stinks. Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club probably saved my life when I was in high school. He had such empathy for people that age. He was so able to give voice to the confusion we all go through growing up.

 

[Melrose]

I used to have "Bueller?........... Bueller?" as a ringtone.

Trains, Planes & Automobiles is classic. Hughes will be missed in the movie world... he had an ability to put together a good film.