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John Hughes - How to Choose
« on: August 07, 2009, 04:21:27 pm »
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Re: John Hughes - How to Choose
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2009, 04:26:51 pm »
We watched Weird Science about eight hundred times in high school.
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Re: John Hughes - How to Choose
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2009, 04:27:14 pm »
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Re: John Hughes - How to Choose
« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2009, 04:36:09 pm »
See, I thought this was about how to separate early great John Hughes from later... regrettable John Hughes.

When you call him up on imdb, the credit that shows up on the page where you separate him out from people with similar names, the credit is "writer - Home Alone 2: Lost In New York" for God's sake. The loss of perspective, the downfall into self-obsessed fatherhood and the creative laziness that comes with having your three houses all paid off... and then right off the cliff into strict kiddie treacle.

That first hint "She's Having A Baby" all the way down that hell-ride, all the way to co-writing "Maid In Manhattan" under a pen name.

Yet... man. Dude had a six or seven year run like nobody's business. "Vacation" to "Planes Trains and Automobiles".

And on the other hand other hand other hand though, Willie Mays, lost out there in the canyon that was Shea's outfield, writing fuck*ng "Flubber".

Life is goddamned weird. Rest in peace, nonetheless, talented dude I never met.
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Re: John Hughes - How to Choose
« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2009, 06:22:30 pm »
I think Jay and Silent Bob finally got him.
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Re: John Hughes - How to Choose
« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2009, 07:27:44 pm »
I absolutely love the movies of his that I've seen. Brilliant.

Although, of course, DUCKIE SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN THE GIRL.

I would like to hear a story where a film was changed after focus-grouping, and it was better afterwards.

(the latest failure of this being the decision that "Let the Right One In" is too long of a movie title for Americans. WHAT!?)
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Re: John Hughes - How to Choose
« Reply #6 on: August 07, 2009, 09:30:49 pm »
I always thought John Hughes was that guy that made syrupy teen movies that I was never interested in because I was in my 20s by that point.

But I heard his obit on the radio yesterday and he did Planes Trains and Automobiles and Vacation two of the funniest movies ever made.
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Re: John Hughes - How to Choose
« Reply #7 on: August 07, 2009, 10:36:25 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on August 07, 2009, 07:27:44 pm
"Let the Right One In" is too long of a movie title for Americans. WHAT!?)

What indeed. Let's get some more Assasinations of Jesse James by the Cowards Robert Ford up in this piece. I was more offput by the fact that they're doing an American remake of this one in the first place, when the original was nearly perfect just the way it was. See also: Steven Spielberg, Harvey

I've appreciated most of the John Hughes movies that I've seen, although The Breakfast Club falls into the category of "Things That Other People Love That I Merely Think are Okay."
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Re: John Hughes - How to Choose
« Reply #8 on: August 07, 2009, 10:37:25 pm »
yeah, I wasn't so into Breakfast Club when I saw it.
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Re: John Hughes - How to Choose
« Reply #9 on: August 08, 2009, 01:44:49 am »
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Re: John Hughes - How to Choose
« Reply #10 on: August 08, 2009, 01:54:35 pm »
I was kindly informed by Mrs. Isosceles today that, for over twenty years or so, I did not know that John Hughes and John Waters were separate people. Pop culture fail.

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Re: John Hughes - How to Choose
« Reply #11 on: August 08, 2009, 03:21:49 pm »
I've talked to people who couldn't tell John Waters from ROGER Waters and so...

Somehow, somewhere, someone must have all three of them confused.

Which is really interesting, I think.
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Re: John Hughes - How to Choose
« Reply #12 on: August 08, 2009, 08:40:37 pm »
The Osmonds and the Osbournes.

That one took until like 8th grade.
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Re: John Hughes - How to Choose
« Reply #13 on: August 08, 2009, 09:25:45 pm »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on August 08, 2009, 03:21:49 pm
I've talked to people who couldn't tell John Waters from ROGER Waters and so...

Somehow, somewhere, someone must have all three of them confused.

Which is really interesting, I think.

It's a coming of age movie about a teenager who takes too much LSD and chops up his friend Eugene with an axe...
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Re: John Hughes - How to Choose
« Reply #14 on: August 09, 2009, 02:52:18 am »
in my youth i would confuse 'beastie boys' with 'beach boys'(not pertaining to musical stylings, just in name)

i also thought that the dude from blue oyster cult was singing, "dont fear the reefer!"
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