Any John Huges' films fans out there?

shiv · 27-11-2004 7:40pm #1

Hi there,

Just wondering if there were any fans of John Hughes films out there, like Sixteen Candles or the Breakfast Club? They really bring me back to my youth, but I still think they're brilliant and hilarious..I wonder what ever happened to him, if he's still making movies...

aidan_walsh · 27-11-2004 7:47pm

IMDB Profile

Looks like the most he's up to these days is making bad sequels to his more indifferent movies, combined with a few bad new ones...

Blisterman · 29-11-2004 1:02am

I've never seen the breakfast club or sixteen candles, but ferris bueller's day off is great.

Basq · 29-11-2004 1:10am

Yeah, John Hughes has made some great films in his time..

'The Breakfast Club' being his best, in my opinion! Just in terms of the amount of times i've re-watched it..

But Uncle Buck, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller all get honorable mentions!

He seems to be doing mostly writing these days... hasn't directed a film since 1991's Curly Sue? That wasn't a bad little film... in a sickly sweet kinda way! :rolleyes: But then again, i haven't seen it in at least 10 years so it probably didn't age very well!

skywalker · 29-11-2004 1:06pm

uncle busk, ferris buellers, and planes trains & automobiles are all fantastic films. never quite rated breakfast club as high as most but tis still a great film.

ChumpStain · 29-11-2004 2:31pm

When I saw the name I thought John Huge was some kind of porn star.

I've never been a big fan apart from Ferris Buellers Day Off, Breakfast Club and Uncle Buck. I think like the rubiks cube John Hughes is going to remain in the memories of the 80's and theres no shame in that.

eggshapedfred · 29-11-2004 7:46pm

ah, the breakfast club... he was called Bender cos he broke the rules, not cos he was a bender. I love that film. and all the others mentioned (except sixteen candles, never saw that).

isnt kevin smith a fan? theres a bit in Dogma where jay says that silent bob(aka kevin smith) is a fan of john hughes and thats how the two of em end up in new jersey looking for some fictional town that apparently is where all john hughes films are set. this must be a windup though, cos ferris bueller was set in chicago wasn't it?

mycroft · 29-11-2004 8:30pm

isnt kevin smith a fan? theres a bit in Dogma where jay says that silent bob(aka kevin smith) is a fan of john hughes and thats how the two of em end up in new jersey looking for some fictional town that apparently is where all john hughes films are set. this must be a windup though, cos ferris bueller was set in chicago wasn't it?

No theres a ficitious town can't remember what it's called, where the majority of his films are set. The whole Silent Bob's love of NJ is elaborated in the comicbook which ties when we last saw our intrepid heroes in a diner with Ben Affleck, and when they next appeared kicking demonic satanist teenage skaterpunk ass.

For all those fans of Hughes I have two words "Home Alone"

GreeBo · 29-11-2004 8:35pm

Most of them were based in "Shermer" Illinois.
Ferris Bueller was set in Chicago.

vibrant · 29-11-2004 8:50pm

Gosh yes, love John Hughes' films, especially "The Breakfast Club".

You know how at the beginning the school is shown... the lockers, the trophies, the "Man of the Year"?

Turns out the Janitor is said "Man of the Year", all grown up, and with a proper job!

Between that and Molly Ringwalds dancing, what's not to love?

MisterAnarchy · 30-11-2004 4:37am

Funny Guy
Was watching National Lampoons Vacation today.
Hilarious film.

Raoul Duke · 30-11-2004 12:34pm

Just looked at his IMDB profile. I'm surprised at how few films he's actually directed. I was dead certain for instance that he'd directed Pretty in Pink. Sixteen Candles is now near the top of my must see films as I'm a massive Molly Ringwald fan.

Pigman II · 30-11-2004 9:02pm

The Breakfast Club is probably my favourite film of all time (certainly my 'most watched' film anyway). I can't say I'm equally as fanatical about his other stuff. I used to be a diehard fan of FerrisBueller but I guess as I get older FBDO's particular brand of humour becomes a little grating on me and I don't exactly jump at the opportunity to watch it in quite the same way as I would have 10 years ago.

Sixteen Candles (Hughes' most critically acclaimed film) is overrated IMHO and as can be seen from his IMDB page his output has been sketchy at best post-1987. But that said tho I'll always have a softspot for his four directorial efforts from 1985-87 and a couple of his writing credits such as 'Some Kind of Wonderful' and the first 'Home Alone'.

LoneGunM@n · 02-12-2004 10:32am

I love John Hughes films ... They're a great way to re-visit the 80s ... Breakfast club & Home Alone being my favourites

Scratch Acid · 05-12-2004 11:46pm

basquille wrote:

Weird Science!

Hell yes.

Larianne · 21-05-2005 6:05pm

I absolutely love John Hughes films!!

Uncle Buck, Planes Trains and Automobiles and Ferris Bueller's Days Off are my favorites and Home Alone comes close behind them. The Breakfast Club is also good.

I was living in Chicago and went and saw the church in Home Alone and where the Pharmacy was. The school in Uncle Buck (my cousin's go to that school). I nearly hyperventilated when I saw it. :eek: So surreal!!! And also went to the town where Tia (Unlce Buck) is walking alone and UB picks her up. And then all around Chicago where Ferris was (the parade). And been at the Lake/Van Buren El stop where Neil and Del go there separate ways.

Blisterman · 21-05-2005 6:35pm

Since the thread dies I have seen the Breakfast Club.Still havent seen 16 candles. Is it any good?

Larianne · 21-05-2005 6:40pm

Blisterman wrote:

Since the thread dies I have seen the Breakfast Club.Still havent seen 16 candles. Is it any good?

I don't think I've ever seen it. Well maybe I have. There's a few 80's films that are John Hughes-ish but I don't what they're called etc. Ever see a film where the guy is a geek and mowes lawns. He falls in love with a posh girl but she doesn't like him coz he's not cool. Or another one where 3 guys invent a perfect woman from the computer and she comes to life??

Larianne · 21-05-2005 6:52pm

Larianne wrote:

Or another one where 3 guys invent a perfect woman from the computer and she comes to life??

Okay, so that's Weird Science!!! :rolleyes:

Hugh Hefner · 21-05-2005 7:49pm

I was pretty much raised on Home Alone (my name being the same as the charachter's). Sixteen Candles is brilliant and The Breakfast Club is one of my favourites. According to IMDB he wrote the entire Screenplay for The Breakfast Club in 2 days. And, the scene where they're all sitting around talking about why they were in detention was completely ad-libed.

There were only a few scene in Planes, Trains And Automobiles that I liked. I found alot of it anoying. Maybe I'll give it another chance.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off is excellent too.

Weird Science was just..... weird.

Sweetness! · 22-05-2005 12:27am

Uncle Buck was my movie when I was a kid I just loved it. John Candy was hilarious in his movies. Breakfast Club is just a cult classic.

Larianne · 22-05-2005 12:30am

Sweetness! wrote:

Uncle Buck was my movie when I was a kid I just loved it. John Candy was hilarious in his movies. Breakfast Club is just a cult classic.

So you can understand my excitement when my aunt drove the car to the spot where uncle buck was and met Bug for the first time. My cousins go up and down those steps every day to school!! They thought I was a freak!!! lol

Sweetness! · 22-05-2005 12:40am

Larianne wrote:

So you can understand my excitement when my aunt drove the car to the spot where uncle buck was and met Bug for the first time. My cousins go up and down those steps every day to school!! They thought I was a freak!!! lol

No way thats so cool!! Well if your a freak then I'm one too but I dont care cause thats one of my favourite scenes in the movie outside that school when Buck pulls up in his car, I love that car

Your cousins are so lucky to be in such a famous school!

Larianne · 22-05-2005 12:44am

Sweetness! wrote:

No way thats so cool!! Well if your a freak then I'm one too but I dont care cause thats one of my favourite scenes in the movie outside that school when Buck pulls up in his car, I love that car Your cousins are so lucky to be in such a famous school!

Yeah they live in the northern Suburbs of Chicago which is a very affluent area. Hughes filmed around Wilmette, Winnetka, Evanston, Glen Ridge etc. Saw the church and all used in Home Alone. Next visit I'll be going looking for the Home Alone and Uncle Buck House aswell as the streets that ferris runs down at the end of Ferris Bueller's day off.

Yeah you ain't gonna go crazy about where you go to school!!

Larianne · 22-05-2005 9:25pm

..I just looked him up on IMDB and I didn't know he wrote Natianl Lampoon's Vaction and Christmas Vacation! Christmas Vacation is soooo funny. Check out Rany Quaid in his tight tight christmas pants! :eek:

Earthhorse · 22-05-2005 9:49pm

Larianne wrote:

There's a few 80's films that are John Hughes-ish but I don't what they're called etc. Ever see a film where the guy is a geek and mowes lawns. He falls in love with a posh girl but she doesn't like him coz he's not cool.

You're thinking of Some Kind of Wonderful. And yep, it's John Hughes (didn't think it was till I checked on imdb).

Raoul Duke · 24-05-2005 12:45am

Earthhorse wrote:

You're thinking of Some Kind of Wonderful. And yep, it's John Hughes (didn't think it was till I checked on imdb).

It's not Some Kind of Wonderful. I just happened to watch that last night. John Hughes did write and produce it.

If I was to guess the movie I would say Can't Buy Me Love.

Earthhorse · 24-05-2005 9:49am

Whoops! When I was posting the other night I somehow missed the bit about mowing lawns.

Any John Huges' films fans out there?

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