On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Kevin M.<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hughes was one of the quintessential filmmakers of the 1980s. Truly > iconic. Too bad everything he did after "Christmas Vacation" was less > funny than genocide and more unoriginal than Dane Cook. > > They should erect a statue of his likeness in Shermer, Illinois. Of > course, first they'd have to erect a Shermer, Illinois.
That is a shame - I am at the age where, when I hear the death of someone at age 59, I think "so young?". It was just recently that I heard someone on the Pollock Chat Show (was it Jason Lee?) talk about how he thought Hughes was too often forgotten and under-rated these days. I am not exactly a big fan of his work, which was mostly good compared to the crap that was being made in similar categories at the time. I have seen *The Breakfast Club* literally 30 times (I show it every quarter for a class I teach once or twice a year), and I have actually grown to like the film more over the years, as my deep and profound irritation with most of the actors in the cast has faded as we all have gotten old. Bueller remains a real classic - I watched it with my son last summer before our trip to Chicago; but the truth is, putting aside all pretense to art or meaning, one of the 5 movies that has pulled the most laughs per inch of film from my gut is Planes, Trains and Automobiles (I am not sure where that fits in the Kevin's chronology above with the Christmas Vacation films - it might be a little before that cut-off; my allergy to Chevy Chase prevented me from enjoying any of the Vacation films). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
