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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Dec 12, 2017 0:54:46 GMT
Note: this only includes films he directed. It does not include films written by him but directed by others. I hope that is understood.
My favourite is Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
What is your favourite?
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Post by Nalkarj on Dec 12, 2017 1:39:08 GMT
Hm, interesting to see how few films he actually directed, in light of how pronounced his influence is over Pretty in Pink, The Great Outdoors, Home Alone and its first sequel, and Baby’s Day Out—to the extent that I’d legitimately call those “John Hughes films,” just as much as The Thing from Another World is Hawks’s, The Nightmare Before Christmas is Burton’s, and Poltergeist is Spielberg’s.
Anyway, yes, the films he actually directed himself…
Definitely Planes, Trains, and Automobiles at the top—a hilarious movie, with superb performances from both John Candy and Steve Martin—and then… Hm, Uncle Buck, perhaps? To paraphrase Cecelia Ager, the problem is that John Candy, even at his best, was never in a movie as great as he was. I used to love Ferris Bueller, but—while still very funny—I think it has overstayed its welcome with me a bit. I’ve never liked The Breakfast Club, and I’ve never actually seen Sixteen Candles. (What!) Still, from what I have seen, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles remains (for me) Hughes’s simultaneously funniest and maturest picture. An excellent movie.
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Post by Geddy on Dec 12, 2017 1:51:12 GMT
The Breakfast Club is the only film of his I truly liked.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Dec 12, 2017 1:58:18 GMT
Nalkarj My interior design thread on this board may be of interest to you.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Dec 12, 2017 6:27:53 GMT
Back when he was still alive (2001-2) his Lamborghini Diablo (it was white, afaIr...NOT red) was parked in my local Jewel (and other stores) parking lot.
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Post by politicidal on Dec 25, 2017 5:11:48 GMT
Uncle Buck.
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Post by movielover on Dec 25, 2017 5:14:01 GMT
The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles (tie)
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Post by bondfan90 on Dec 26, 2017 1:27:21 GMT
The Breakfast Club is the only film of his I truly liked. I love it too. I like the message it has. That you shouldn't judge people and put them in boxes. Paul Gleason was awesome as Vernon. I love the bit where they're all running in the corridoor, trying to avoid Vernon and Wang Chun is playing. |
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Post by someguy on Mar 4, 2018 15:35:40 GMT
Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
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Post by QueenB on Mar 6, 2018 16:39:03 GMT
3 way tie between 16 Candles, Ferris and Breakfast Club. But I voted for 16 Candles.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jun 25, 2018 8:51:23 GMT
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
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Post by mslo79 on Jan 31, 2019 9:05:39 GMT
1)Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) - 7.5-8/10
the rest are nothing special.
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Post by ck100 on Sept 18, 2020 7:44:19 GMT
When people celebrate Hughes, it feels like they celebrate him more for his writing than his directing. Kind of the same thing for someone like Kevin Smith. I mean there's nothing wrong with his directing. He's certainly a perfectly competent filmmaker. But he's not going to go down as one of the all-time best. I mean he'll never join the ranks of Kubrick, Hitchcock, Scorsese, etc.
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Post by dirtypillows on Sept 18, 2020 8:26:43 GMT
When people celebrate Hughes, it feels like they celebrate him more for his writing than his directing. Kind of the same thing for someone like Kevin Smith. I mean there's nothing wrong with his directing. He's certainly a perfectly competent filmmaker. But he's not going to go down as one of the all-time best. I mean he'll never join the ranks of Kubrick, Hitchcock, Scorsese, etc. I love "16 Candles". It's a very warm, very funny 80s classic. And I agree that Hughes' real gift was writing great comedy characters. I thought "The Breakfast Club" was okay, but after not seeing it for many years, the revisit made it seem rather shallow. I did not like "Pretty in Pink" and had always assumed that Hughes wrote the script for that one as well. |
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Post by Xcalatë on Sept 18, 2020 8:42:53 GMT
The Breakfast Club (1985)
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Post by James on Sept 18, 2020 11:03:40 GMT
The Breakfast Club
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Post by Marv on Sept 18, 2020 13:01:52 GMT
Uncle Buck
But Planes Trains and Automobiles is a close second.
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Post by Spike Del Rey on Sept 18, 2020 19:21:48 GMT
Uncle Buck, followed closely by Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.
I liked both Sixteen Candles and Weird Science quite a bit, loathed The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, never saw She's Having a Baby or Curly Sue.
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Post by jcush on Sept 18, 2020 19:27:52 GMT
The Breakfast Club
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Post by Archelaus on Sept 19, 2020 2:37:03 GMT
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
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