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The Lightning Tree
 Post subject: John Hughes RIP
PostPosted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 1:03 pm 
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Buellers Day Off, Home Alone. Fantastic films and classics in their own right.

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who was he on planes trains and automobiles

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 Post subject: Re: John Hughes RIP
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He directed all the above films and was also the screenwriter for Home Alone. To be involved in all the classic films listed is some achievement.

Forgive me if i'm beginning to sound like POK :laugh:

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who was he on planes trains and automobiles


He wasn't an actor...he directed it ! :laugh:
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He directed all the above films and was also the screenwriter for Home Alone. To be involved in all the classic films listed is some achievement.

Forgive me if i'm beginning to sound like POK :laugh:


It's not necessarily a bad thing you know, Mr Tree. :grin: :laugh:
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The Lightning Tree
 Post subject: Re: John Hughes RIP
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No disrespect intended of course POK :laugh:

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Classics....? sctatchinghead

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 Post subject: Re: John Hughes RIP
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In comedy yes, well I think they are. I take it you haven't seen them all sctatchinghead

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 Post subject: Re: John Hughes RIP
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No disrespect intended of course POK :laugh:



None taken. :grin:
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this clip from planes trains and automobiles always has me cracking up at the lad owens face:


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Planes, Trains and Automobiles, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Buellers Day Off, Home Alone. Fantastic films and classics in their own right.


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National Lampoon's Vacation
National Lampoon's European Vacation
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Sixteen Candles
Weird Science
Pretty in Pink
Uncle Buck

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Yes I have actually, with the family, which is why I ask again .... Classics?
...apart from the imaginative violence in home alone that is.

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The Lightning Tree
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It was a very funny film at the time, a lot of people must have liked it, it made a lot of money!!
Now the National Lampoons, now they were funny rolfl

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Ah, we're talking 'Classics' of their genre ... which is 80's 90's Americam schmaltzified, idealised 'comedy' for middle America.

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Yes I have actually, with the family, which is why I ask again .... Classics?
...apart from the imaginative violence in home alone that is.


Very quotable classics yes. Set the benchmark for the stuff you see today like American Pie, Superbad etc.

I like having a chuckle me.

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It was a very funny film at the time, a lot of people must have liked it, it made a lot of money!!
Now the National Lampoons, now they were funny rolfl

Making a lot of money is not a sign that something is necessarily good.

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Snowy wrote:
Ah, we're talking 'Classics' of their genre ... which is 80's 90's Americam schmaltzified, idealised 'comedy' for middle America.


come on snowy you cant say they arnt brilliant films I grew up watching them and love watching them again, uncle buck what a brilliant sunday film that is for when you have a hangover.

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That's funny...? sctatchinghead

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Grab some wood there Bub.

How can anyone diss Mr Hughes' work, those of us of "a certain age" had our youths defined by these.

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The Lightning Tree wrote:
It was a very funny film at the time, a lot of people must have liked it, it made a lot of money!!
Now the National Lampoons, now they were funny rolfl

Making a lot of money is not a sign that something is necessarily good.


I saw the European Vacation on Five last week. Those films with Chevy Chase were brilliant. clappp

R.I.P John clappp
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Officially described by POK as brilliant ...I rest my case M'lud. rolfl

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Officially described by POK as brilliant ...I rest my case M'lud. rolfl


The comedy might have been a little slapstick at a time, but it doesn't mean to say that it wasn't a witty film.
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POK has taste my good man!

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If POK is Will ... I'm mr Gilbert. :wink:

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He was a great porn actor too.
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 Post subject: Re: John Hughes RIP
PostPosted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 3:34 am 
Is that that big fat get?? sctatchinghead sctatchinghead

Or rather WAS that that big fat get?? :uhoh:

No wonder he's dead, did his heart explode?? confised
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Snowys an old man, 80's comedy is modern for him!

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