RIP John Hughes

WWWP · 08-06-2009, 08:26 PM

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John Hughes, the Chicago-based filmmaker who redefined the teen movie in the '80s with his sympathetic comedies about the joys and heartbreak of high school life, died Thursday of a heart attack in New York. He was 59.

Hughes suffered the heart attack while taking a morning walk while visiting family members in Manhattan, his representatives said.

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Terrible Lizard · 08-06-2009, 08:58 PM

Fuuuuuuuck.

I liked that fellow.

WWWP · 08-06-2009, 10:14 PM

As did I.

jackhammer · 08-07-2009, 06:13 PM

Breakfast Club
Weird Science
Ferris Beuller's Day Off.

To an 80's kid like myself he was great. Home Alone was crap though.

boo boo · 08-07-2009, 06:47 PM

The first Home Alone was decent for what it was but the sequel was pretty much the same exact movie.

Still, his 80s teen movies and the first and third Vacation movies were classics, RIP.

Freebase Dali · 08-07-2009, 06:54 PM

Weird Science was the best, ever.
As a young'un, that movie gave me so many mental fantasies about making my own hot chick. lol...

jackhammer · 08-07-2009, 07:04 PM

"I did not achieve this position in life by having some snot-nosed punk leave my cheese out in the wind" Genius.

Neapolitan · 08-07-2009, 10:31 PM

I'm feeling sad tonight. He had an impressive career as a writer & producer.
A movie critc once said the second golden age of movie in the 80's & 90's, I believe he he was a big part of it - that's the best compliment for him I can think of right now.
John Hughes (I) imdb
^ click

some of the favorite JH movies
Christmas Vacation
Uncle Buck
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Weird Science
Trains, Plains and Automobiles
Pretty in Pink
Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles
Some Kind of Wonderful (Rolling Stones - Amada Jones coversong in the soundtrack)

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 08-10-2009, 04:20 AM

Rip John Hughes!!

My favourites were Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink. And Jackhammer, home alone was awesome!

djchameleon · 08-10-2009, 08:33 AM

I haven't sit through any of his movies to actually finish them. They just completely bore me and I move on.

08-06-2009, 08:58 PM	#2 (permalink)
Terrible Lizard **ER OF HOLES Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Butt**, Nebraska Posts: 1,211	Fuuuuuuuck. I liked that fellow. __________________ “YOU ARE SCUM SLUT.” -John Martyn

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jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Breakfast Club Weird Science Ferris Beuller's Day Off. To an 80's kid like myself he was great. Home Alone was crap though. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

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Freebase Dali Partying on the inside Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 5,584	Weird Science was the best, ever. As a young'un, that movie gave me so many mental fantasies about making my own hot chick. lol... __________________

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jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	"I did not achieve this position in life by having some snot-nosed punk leave my cheese out in the wind" Genius. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

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Neapolitan carpe musicam Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Les Barricades Mystérieuses Posts: 7,710	I'm feeling sad tonight. He had an impressive career as a writer & producer. A movie critc once said the second golden age of movie in the 80's & 90's, I believe he he was a big part of it - that's the best compliment for him I can think of right now. John Hughes (I) imdb ^ click some of the favorite JH movies Christmas Vacation Uncle Buck Ferris Bueller's Day Off Weird Science Trains, Plains and Automobiles Pretty in Pink Breakfast Club Sixteen Candles Some Kind of Wonderful (Rolling Stones - Amada Jones coversong in the soundtrack) Last edited by Neapolitan; 08-07-2009 at 10:36 PM.

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Scarlett O'Hara Make it so Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 6,775	Rip John Hughes!! My favourites were Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink. And Jackhammer, home alone was awesome! __________________ "Elph is truly an enfant terrible of the forum, bless and curse him" - Marie, Queen of Thots

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djchameleon A.B.N. Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: NY baby Posts: 12,052	I haven't sit through any of his movies to actually finish them. They just completely bore me and I move on.