The Director of the '80's classics!?

[haplesshacker]

Just heard that John Hughes is dead. Okay, forget about Home Alone, but 'The Breakfast Club', Sixteen Candles, Pretty In Pink, Ferris Bueller, Some Kind Of Wonderful. Everyone a piece of movie 'era' history. Especially at a time when cinema audiences were disappearing due to the VHS video market.

Kids just wouldn't 'dig' these kind of movies today. No superhero, no explosions, no set pieces. Hell. Not even any really hot, half naked 'chicks'! They don't know what they're missing.

Which brings me back to my other thread on here. "You know you're getting old when....." QED.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Pretty in pink is still one of my all time favs

 

[RGDave]

I'm old. It's official.

Some Kind of Wonderful and Ferris Bueller were two of my faves.

 

[CrapHacker]

Pretty in pink is still one of my all time favs

The film was, and is, fine.

But I remember the music more favourably. The Psychedelic Furs were a great band. Only 3 albums that I remember, but Talk Talk Talk was a classic of it's day. Every song was about the same failed relationship if I remember rightly ( maybe ).

Brilliant lyrics. I was never quite sure what 'Into you like a train' was all about

 

[need_my_wedge]

Breakfast Club and Plane, Trains and Automobiles were two of his best, even the original Home Alone makes me laugh out loud in parts, but Uncle Buck was my favourite of all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlwVvuduW...PL&index=74

 

[mattyb0y]

Kids just wouldn't 'dig' these kind of movies today. No superhero, no explosions, no set pieces. Hell. Not even any really hot, half naked 'chicks'! They don't know what they're missing.

Speak for your self! im 21 (dont kno if that is classed as a kid) and yes some of these films were b4 me time! but non the less....

And i think some of the films above are amazing! Especially Ferris Bueller's day off!

Brilliant!

 

[viscount17]

Planes, Trains is about the only one here that I might have seen - was that the one with John Candy?

 

[haplesshacker]

Kids just wouldn't 'dig' these kind of movies today. No superhero, no explosions, no set pieces. Hell. Not even any really hot, half naked 'chicks'! They don't know what they're missing.

Speak for your self! im 21 (dont kno if that is classed as a kid) and yes some of these films were b4 me time! but non the less....

And i think some of the films above are amazing! Especially Ferris Bueller's day off!

Brilliant!

Ah ha! There is hope.

I was of course generalising in my first post. Tut tut!