Cringing through every movie John Hughes made

Feb 3 2025 | Me

[Beowulf9]

Well, thats my rant and I'm sticking to it.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

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.

[T.B. Yoits]

[caver]

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.

[Beowulf9]

That is one of the few things real in these films.

[dfwgator]

[healy61]

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

[Williams]

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.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Lemme guess...NetFlix reboot?

[Rastus]

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 🚗.

[j.havenfarm]

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

[HYPOCRACY]

Planes, Trains and Automobiles is one of the funniest movies ever.

[Frank Drebin]

[montag813]

Great music in those films, though

[Jolla]

Watched HERE last night, Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. All shot as if one location (the living room) from prehistoric to modern and all of the families or people in that space. Most of it was Hanks born at the end of WWII and his retirement. But includes many scenes from Revolutionary War to today and the 4-5 families that lived there.

[BBQToadRibs2]

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.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Planes, Trains and Automobiles is one of the funniest movies ever.

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.

[Larry Lucido]

[Alberta's Child]

Not a bad rant, but “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” is one of the most iconic movies of that era — and it hits on the culture of the 1980s perfectly.

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.

[Roadrunner383]

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.