RIP John Hughes

I'm a little young for Fast Times, only caught it later.

 

I believe he was Anthony Michael Hall's father in "Breakfast Club." Shown only in the car picking him up at the end of the day. Don't remember seeing him in "Weird Science," but haven't seen that in a while.

 

"I just got felt up by my grandmother."

 

Hughes' teen comedies, while very good, aren't in the same league as "Fast Times."

 

Screws fall out all the time.

The world's an imperfect place.

Man, there was a time when my best friend from HS and I could have probably done the Breakfast Club script from memory.

 

Macaulay Culkin's having a rough couple of months.

I didn't realize that he was one of the writer's on Delta House [an ABC spin-off of National Lampoon's Animal House].

 

TRUNK YOU!!!!! [/TV edit]

 

No, dad, what about you?

 

NO DAD! WHAT! ABOUT! YOU!

 

Sixteen Candles is a great comedy. Almost every character, no matter how minor, is written perfectly. Anthony Michael Hall's performance is letter-perfect too.

I'm with PC. Vacation and Ferris Bueller are also very entertaining. Weird Science, if you look at it and accept it completely as a juvenile goof-off movie, has its merits.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles is good, but it's also where Hughes' turn towards sentimentality started to get out of hand.

Everything else he made? It's either horribly dated (Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink) or wasn't any good in the first place. Career Opportunities is on the short list of worst movies I've ever seen in a theater.

 

Remember how you said your parents use you to get back at each other?

Wouldn't I be OUTSTANDING in that capacity?

 

Curley Sue, anyone?