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|  #4 Posted on 6.8.09 2050.10 | Instant Rating: 4.51 | | Ferris Bueller's Day Off remains one of my favorite films of all time. RIP. | StaggerLee
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| #5 Posted on 6.8.09 2136.16 | Instant Rating: 3.01 | Man how sad is this? ONE he was only 59? And two, anybody near my age either went on a date to a John Hughes movie, or was in love with somebody IN a John Hughes Movie.
Sad indeed. | DrDirt
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| #6 Posted on 6.8.09 2209.19 | Instant Rating: 7.35 | Originally posted by StaggerLee
Man how sad is this? ONE he was only 59? And two, anybody near my age either went on a date to a John Hughes movie, or was in love with somebody IN a John Hughes Movie.
Sad indeed.
He was only 6 years older than I am. Even though I am a bit older, I enjoyed his work alot. Didn't he do Trains, Planes, and automobiles? Loved that movie.
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| #7 Posted on 6.8.09 2229.39 | Instant Rating: 6.76 |
MoviesOnTCM John Hughes & Preston Sturges: Both writer/directors who defined comedy for a generation. Both died on 8/6, 50 years apart!
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|  #8 Posted on 7.8.09 0138.06 | Instant Rating: 2.81 | Originally posted by DrDirt
Originally posted by StaggerLee
Man how sad is this? ONE he was only 59? And two, anybody near my age either went on a date to a John Hughes movie, or was in love with somebody IN a John Hughes Movie.
Sad indeed.
He was only 6 years older than I am. Even though I am a bit older, I enjoyed his work alot. Didn't he do Trains, Planes, and automobiles? Loved that movie.
Yes, wrote it too. I would call it his best film. He seemed to not do much directing after "Curly Sue". Maybe John Candy was his muse...
I wasn't old enough to be doing any kind of dating or to feel any kind of angst, teen or otherwise, when his classic high school dramady was big; Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sixteen Candles, and the Breakfast Club were films I didn't watch till probably ten years after they were made, edited to shit, on TBS. But I must say, the Beethoven movies...the first two anyway, and the Home Alone movies, again, the first two, were must-watch stuff when I was kid. He didn't direct them, but he did write them.
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| #9 Posted on 7.8.09 0849.39 | Instant Rating: 3.29 | Wow. What a loss. The Breakfast Club is an incredible movie, and easily one of my favorites
RIP.
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| #10 Posted on 7.8.09 0953.40 | Instant Rating: 7.75 | Coincidentally, we just picked up a $6 DVD of Some Kind of Wonderful. We'll be watching it this weekend, awash in teenage nostalgia.
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| #11 Posted on 7.8.09 1511.54 | Instant Rating: 4.81 | How did I not hear this until now?? So sad, another part of my childhood gone. I watch Planes Trains & Automobiles every Thanksgiving, but think I might have to dust it off this weekend.
RIP
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| #12 Posted on 7.8.09 1630.18 | Instant Rating: 3.01 | http://wellknowwhenwegetthere.blogspot.com/2009/08/sincerely-john-hughes.html?fark
This lady was John Hughes' Pen Pal for a long time. This article talks about why he left hollywood. | Big G
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|  #13 Posted on 9.8.09 2005.10 | Instant Rating: 7.75 | The guy was a guru.
I just watched Weird Science a day or two before I heard he died, and Ferris Bueller a week or so ago. Also worked through the Vacation movies a couple of months ago. European still rocks.
Need to get hold and re-familiarise myself with the Ringwold years. I always enjoyed those.
RIP | CajunMan
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| #14 Posted on 9.8.09 2153.02 | Instant Rating: 0.79 | "So you're Abe Froman? The sausage king of Chicago."
Great quote from the Ferris movie.
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