Posted on 02/03/2025 6:04:40 AM PST by Beowulf9
John Hughes, the great bard of 1980s teen movies? That's what one reviewer said.
Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in pink, National Lampoons Vacation, Home Alone, Ferris Bueller's day off on and on with movies that make me think of some NOT teenaged guy, but a pervert living out his sexual fantasies vicariously through some teens used as pawns by him in his movies forced to act as if this is the real way teens think and behave.
Only they don't, didn't.
How do or did people find this guys films charming? The only good things in them are there because of the culture he grew up in and still existed inside him like some ragged piece of cloth hanging onto to someone who went through a natural disaster. Which is what happened to our country and the better times that we saw torn away from us by the liberal faction in Hollywood and politics making movies like this populating the screens in theatres, you know, just before movie prices went too high for people to pleasantly to afford a nice time in the theatre. Only they took that away from us too, by making movies like these.
Only who could with scripts like this peppered with unsightly views of youths used like puppets for a dirty joke, a baudy snicker, a condescending tale to tell or was it an envious gape at the fresh faces coming into their own.
The talented kids in those movies made them somewhat watchable as I flinched through the lines fed them. I did not know they were all made by the same man till reading today on the net of this producer, writer.
Yet, he is lauded. Unbelievable.
Boomers and (early) Gen-X actually DID ditch school and go joy-riding in Dad’s car.
(late) Gen-X thought about it but decided it was easier to watch a movie about it.
There are certain comedy movies that I can’t stand, usually because of the actor. I didn’t realize that the same guy did all the ones you listed. The only good one out of the whole bunch is Ferris Buellers Day Off.
That is one of the few things real in these films.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Alone at Home perverted? Not
Or Ferris Bueller
Vacation maybe but still fun
The earlier ones on your list never interested me.
As for the director, I would never have known the same person made all those.
Lemme guess...NetFlix reboot?
Most teenagers about to graduate high school definitely believe running a car in reverse will lower the odometer.
Doesn’t matter. Personally, I like all them movies and also his ✈️ 🚂 and 🚗.
Ferris Bueller
Home Alone
Masterpieces. Not kidding
As an aside, I don’t know if he made a home alone 2. But remember st some showing whatever channel(s) actually removed the Donal Trump cameo. Because… because… he’s icky. Not kidding; they did
Planes, Trains and Automobiles is one of the funniest movies ever.
Great music in those films, though
The were a product of that era. And not too much is far off in my opinion. Some Hollywood liberty, yes. But they did capture the culture of Gen-X as teens in that era.
Great movie. John Candy was just fantastic, and had great chemistry with Steve Martin as the straight guy.
But it's a John Hughes movie, so I'm supposed to cringe.
The legendary “slo-motion Ferrari getting air over a hump in the road while the Star Wars theme song plays in the background” scene is one of the funniest movie scenes in history. LMAO.
Taken as a whole, they’re better than almost all of the CGI dreck in the theaters today.
The wife and I had to sit through a seemingly endless series of movie previews at the theater a few weeks ago. Every single preview involved either super heroes, or silly horror films, all CGI, and none involved believable effects.
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