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    RIP John Hughes

    Far too early. If you grew up in the 80's you most likely watched some of his movies.

    Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller's Day off, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. All great movies.

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    bummer

    rip

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    • #3
      RIP
      Apolyton's Grim Reaper 2008, 2010 & 2011
      RIP lest we forget... SG (2) and LaFayette -- Civ2 Succession Games Brothers-in-Arms

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      • #4
        Anyone? Anyone?
        I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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        • #5
          Sad day indeed.
          Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!

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          • #6
            They're throwing a parade in his honor in Shermer, IL.
            Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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            • #7
              RIP.
              I'm consitently stupid- Japher
              I think that opinion in the United States is decidedly different from the rest of the world because we have a free press -- by free, I mean a virgorously presented right wing point of view on the air and available to all.- Ned

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              • #8
                Originally posted by chequita guevara View Post
                They're throwing a parade in his honor in Shermer, IL.
                I hear Jay and Bob are on their way.
                "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
                "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

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                • #9
                  Whaaaaaat! Noooooooooooooooooooo!

                  Monkey!!!

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                  • #10
                    Long Duck Dong, best movie name ever.
                    It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
                    RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O

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                    • #11
                      some of those movies were okay, but I don't understand this whole "voice of a generation" thing...

                      a lot of his movies were downright awful
                      Dutch, Flubber, the Beethoven's movies, Curly Sue, Drillbit Taylor, Home Alone 2, 3, and yes, 4

                      I guess its like baseball. If you bat around .300, you are considered good.
                      To us, it is the BEAST.

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                      • #12
                        That would me Quintin needs to knock it out of the park Inglorious Bastards then.
                        Monkey!!!

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                        • #13

                          Quentin Tarantino, voice of a generation


                          not quite... but for some reason, if you are over the age of 35 and had a mullet at some point in your life, John Hughes is like your patron saint... gaud
                          To us, it is the BEAST.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Sava View Post
                            some of those movies were okay, but I don't understand this whole "voice of a generation" thing...

                            a lot of his movies were downright awful
                            Dutch, Flubber, the Beethoven's movies, Curly Sue, Drillbit Taylor, Home Alone 2, 3, and yes, 4

                            I guess its like baseball. If you bat around .300, you are considered good.
                            His hit rate is quite a bit more than .300 .

                            And he wrote "National Lampoon's Vacation", "Sixteen Candles", "The Breakfast Club", "National Lampoon's European Vacation", "Weird Science", "Pretty in Pink", "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", "Some Kind of Wonderful", "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles", "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" all in the 80s. Hard not to call someone who did all those movies as defining a generation (movie wise at least).

                            And of those, he directed Ferris Bueller, 16 Candles, Weird Science, The Breakfast Club, and Planes, Trains, and Autos.
                            “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                            - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                            • #15
                              He basically launched the Brat Pack of actors -- none of which has had a particularly sterling career. Lightweight stuff, check your brain at the door and remember your days as a young nerd...

                              Ferris Beuller
                              Breakfast Club

                              The rest... meh.
                              Apolyton's Grim Reaper 2008, 2010 & 2011
                              RIP lest we forget... SG (2) and LaFayette -- Civ2 Succession Games Brothers-in-Arms

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