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What's your favorite John Hughes movie?
Posted on 3/30/12 at 12:49 pm
Posted on 3/30/12 at 12:49 pm
Here's a list of the bigger movies that John Hughes was involved with.
Which one is your favorite?
I was going to originally say The Breakfast Club, but I didn't realize that he also directed Ferris Bueller and Vacation. So it's a tough decision, but I'd have to go with Ferris Bueller.
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
Weird Science (1985)
Sixteen Candles (1984)
Mr. Mom (1983)
Home Alone (1990)
Uncle Buck (1989)
Pretty in Pink (1986)
Which one is your favorite?
I was going to originally say The Breakfast Club, but I didn't realize that he also directed Ferris Bueller and Vacation. So it's a tough decision, but I'd have to go with Ferris Bueller.
This post was edited on 3/30/12 at 1:28 pm
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Posted on 3/30/12 at 12:50 pm to steelreign
Rookie of the Year
Posted on 3/30/12 at 12:51 pm to steelreign
All of them are good, and most are solidly part of my youth, but my favorite will always be Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Posted on 3/30/12 at 1:00 pm to DanglingFury
This is tough, but I'll go with....
Christmas Vacation
Great Outdoors
Ferris Bueller
Weird Science
Breakfast Club
Christmas Vacation
Great Outdoors
Ferris Bueller
Weird Science
Breakfast Club
Posted on 3/30/12 at 1:10 pm to steelreign
Hughes had the magic touch. Tie between Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink although McCarthy is almost unbearable watching PIP now.
Hughes' movies also tended to have excellent soundtracks. These movies and soundtracks were right in my wheelhouse at the time, growing up in 80's suburbia.
Hughes' movies also tended to have excellent soundtracks. These movies and soundtracks were right in my wheelhouse at the time, growing up in 80's suburbia.
Posted on 3/30/12 at 1:11 pm to steelreign
Sixteen Candles. Molly Ringwald FTW
Posted on 3/30/12 at 1:13 pm to TejasHorn
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Pretty in Pink
I watched it last night and was thinking that it wasn't nearly as good as The Breakfast Club or Sixteen Candles. PiP just was too damn cheesy. McCarthy was gutless when it came to standing up to his douchebag friend Spader.
Posted on 3/30/12 at 1:15 pm to steelreign
This is like picking your favorite beer...all depends on the mood.
Didn't Direct:
I'd have to go with Sixteen Candles.
Didn't Direct:
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Pretty in Pink (1986)
Mr. Mom (1983)
Home Alone (1990)
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
I'd have to go with Sixteen Candles.
Posted on 3/30/12 at 1:15 pm to steelreign
Posted on 3/30/12 at 1:16 pm to steelreign
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The Breakfast Club (1985)
Posted on 3/30/12 at 1:17 pm to Zamoro10
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Didn't Direct:
Pretty in Pink (1986)
Mr. Mom (1983)
Home Alone (1990)
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
True, I edited the title.
Posted on 3/30/12 at 1:25 pm to steelreign
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All of them are good, and most are solidly part of my youth, but my favorite will always be Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
it's a tie btwn that and breakfast club for me.
i love all those movies, pretty in pink to a little lesser extent and probably because it's the only one of those movies i've only seen less than 3 times.
Posted on 3/30/12 at 1:27 pm to steelreign
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I watched it last night and was thinking that it wasn't nearly as good as The Breakfast Club or Sixteen Candles. PiP just was too damn cheesy. McCarthy was gutless when it came to standing up to his douchebag friend Spader.
Yup.
My fondness for PIP has a lot to do with the soundtrack. I liked Andie's character and the side-story around the relationship with her father. Spader and Jon Cryer were perfectly cast. Steff is one of the all-time great movie d-bags.
Posted on 3/30/12 at 1:32 pm to TejasHorn
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Steff is one of the all-time great movie d-bags.
There were parts of the movie where Duckie was being a douche, but that was just jealousy. Steff was a straight a-hole the entire time.
The best Hughes side character has to be Long Duk Dong.
"No more yankie my wankie. The Donger need food."
Posted on 3/30/12 at 1:35 pm to steelreign
Most are great, but planes, trains, and automobiles is so powerful at the end and well-acted that it gets the nod.
Posted on 3/30/12 at 2:01 pm to steelreign
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The best Hughes side character has to be Long Duk Dong.
One of the most lasting-iconic roles...good and bad.
Date Night:
Brad Sullivan: We are stuck in these roles together and we can't break out of them, you know? It's like that Asian dude in "Sixteen Candles", Long Dik Dog.
Phil Foster: Long Duk Dong.
Brad Sullivan: Long Duk Dong. That dude! He can't play a doctor...It'd be like, "Why is Long Duk Dong dressed up like a doctor?
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In real American schools, Long Duk Dong gave the mean kids new material.
"Every single Asian dude who went to high school or junior high during the era of John Hughes movies was called 'Donger,'" says Martin Wong.
Nakamura and Wong say that before "The Donger" came along, they got called "Bruce Lee" at school. That wasn't so bad: At least Lee, the martial-arts star, could kick arse. Sixteen Candles stole even that limited pleasure — and Asian-American guys focused their frustration on the actor who played Long Duk Dong. After all, he was one of them: born in the U.S.A.
Gedde Watanabe is 52 now. He grew up in a Japanese-American family in Ogden, Utah. His parents settled there after his mother was forced into a U.S. internment camp during World War II.
"But probably most people know me as Long Duk Dong," he confesses, "which is still hard for me to say."
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Posted on 3/30/12 at 2:08 pm to Zamoro10
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Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did WAS wrong, but we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us... In the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is ... a brain... Andrew Clark: ...and an athlete... Allison Reynolds: ...and a basket case... Claire Standish: ...a princess... John Bender: ...and a criminal... Brian Johnson: Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club.
Posted on 3/30/12 at 2:13 pm to steelreign
Lots of discussion about John Hughes films in this thread and a couple of reviews of some of his movies. 
Hope you voted. The other Hughes lovers will be mad if you didn't.
Hope you voted. The other Hughes lovers will be mad if you didn't.
Posted on 3/30/12 at 2:14 pm to steelreign
This is not really tough for me. It's definitely Ferris Bueller followed closely by Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Those are two of my favorite movies of all time.
Posted on 3/30/12 at 2:22 pm to steelreign
Toss up between Flubber, Curly Sue and Beethoven's 4th.
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