Happy Thanksgiving
Turkey should be ready any minute now.
“Sincerely, John Hughes” – a pretty cool story
I’m one movie into my John Hughes mournfest. Can you believe that I’ve never seen a single frame of Pretty In Pink? I don’ t know how in 20 years I’ve never even seen a scene from the movie. Every single moment was brand new to me. Which was actually quite special because I got [...]
I am completely in love with John Hughes today
It sucks that John Hughes has to die to remind me just how much I love him. But I’ve just been thinking about his movies constantly over the last 24 sad sad hours.
If anyone wants to hear a very rare 47 minute interview with Hughes, Slashfilm has posted one, also available on iTunes from AFI.
What [...]
Some Kind of Wonderful
She’s a drummer, he’s a mechanic… Marty McFly’s mom (Caroline, the one from the city) is having weird married person sex with Craig Sheffer (who? OH, him) and they are ALL in high school.
I think this was the last teen film I truly enjoyed as a teen and this opening reminds me why…. it [...]
Quote-a-palooza!
If we’re going to be celebrating John Hughes – let’s collect all the quotes in one place, shall we?
Comments are open and waiting – here’s a few to get us started:
Shitter’s full.
You two donkey-dicks couldn’t get laid in a morgue.
220… 221, whatever it takes.
Oh, it’s a fat girl’s name
As you can see, it’s still early. [...]
Let’s Recap.
I think today would be best spent hunting through the 9 Billion clips on YouTube and the inter’webs finding some of the greatest scenes from John Hughes. He defined teenage angst and Chicago. If it weren’t for all the geeks who have seen Star Wars 300 times a year for the past 30 years, [...]