John Hughes dies

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/06/obit.john.hughes/index.html

Holy crap. I graduated in 1985 so that tells you what movies were a major part of my teen years. Sam the koala and now John Hughes. Does the koala count as a celebrity?

Shermer Illinois, where the honeys are all top-shelf and the guys are whiney Bob Costas. Except for Judd Nelson. He was harsh! Turns out, there is no Shermer Illinois.

BS! I graduated from Shermer High. With about a million other 80s fans.

There is no hope for a Molly Ringwald comeback.

I see that Hughes is listed as a writer for the movie Mr. Mom. By now means the greatest movie ever, but i do like (and often use) the quote, "220, 221; whatever it takes."

Native of Lansing, Mi.

I just heard about that. This man made some great movies with great cars, too. Just about each of them had a sweet car featured:

Sixteen Candles - Jake Ryan's Red Porsche 944

Better off Dead - 1967(I think?) Black Camaro SS

Ferris Bueller's Day Off - 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California (fake)

National Lampoon's Vacation - Wagon Queen Family Truckster (Ford Country Squire)

Weird Science - 1984 Ferrari Mondial & 1984 Porsche 928S

I'm sure there are others.

jrw1621 wrote: I see that Hughes is listed as a writer for the movie Mr. Mom. By now means the greatest movie ever, but i do like (and often use) the quote, "220, 221; whatever it takes."

".38, .39, whatever it takes."

Yes, some of the world's best lines come from his movies.

Carrera4 wrote: I just heard about that. This man made some great movies with great cars, too. Just about each of them had a sweet car featured: Sixteen Candles - Jake Ryan's Red Porsche 944 Better off Dead - 1967(I think?) Black Camaro SS Ferris Bueller's Day Off - 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California (fake) National Lampoon's Vacation - Wagon Queen Family Truckster (Ford Country Squire) Weird Science - 1984 Ferrari Mondial & 1984 Porsche 928S I'm sure there are others.

In Pretty in Pink I believe Molly Ringwold drove a Ghia....

Let's not forget the Ferrari 308 in Vacation

Appleseed wrote: BS! I graduated from Shermer High. With about a million other 80s fans. There is no hope for a Molly Ringwald comeback.

let me explain my earlier comment about Shermer IL, with a quote from the script of the Kevin Smith movie "Dogma":

JAY We used to live in a small town in Jersey. Real small town. We practically knew everybody.

BETHANY What brought you to McHenry?

JAY Hollywood.

BETHANY (beat) Hollywood?

JAY Oh yeah. See, we used to sell smoke in front of this video store. And one day this berkeley wants to rent a video. So we did, only we didn't have any place to watch it. So we went to the mall and popped it into a VCR at Macy's and sat on the floor and watched it. It was called 'Sixteen Candles'. Did you ever see it?

BETHANY Yes.

JAY So the next day we rented 'The Breakfast Club', and then 'Weird Science' where these two berkeleys have a chick that'll do anything for them and they don't do nothing because it's a PG movie. But then we got thrown out of Macy's when we watched 'Pretty in Pink', because of this bitch. (points to Silent Bob)

BETHANY (to Silent Bob) What'd you do?

JAY You know how at the end the red-headed bitch gets together with her dream guy at the prom? (Bethany nods) Well Bob Costas here starts berkeleyin' sobbing all sorts of loud and E36 M3. And the manager's like "Get the hell out of here!" And I'm like "berkeley you, you bald corksoaker! I'll kick your lard..

BETHANY (speeding him along) So what exactly brought you to Illinois?

JAY Oh yeah. See, all these movies take place in a town called Shermer, in Illinois. And there's all this fine bush running around, and we could kick all the dudes' asses because they're all whiney Bob Costas. Except Judd Nelson - he was harsh. But best of all, there was no one selling weed. So I says to Silent Bob "Man, we could live phat if we were the blunt-connection in Shermer, Illinois!" So we collected some cash we were owed, and caught a bus. But when we got here, you know what we found Out? There is no Shermer in Illinois. What kind of E36 M3 is that?! berkeleying movies are bullE36 M3!

The quote I like is in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. It goes something like this. Ferris says to the camera, " Cameron is so tight that if you shoved a lump of coal up his ass, in two weeks you'd get a diamond."

Wanna know something real ironic? I'm from McHenry. Really. When the generic shot of anytown popped up on screen, I shouted, in a full theater, "That's not berkleying McHenry!"

But I guess I should know my Kevin Smith better.

did anyone else notice that jake ryan's 944 is an automatic?

Appleseed wrote: There is no hope for a Molly Ringwald comeback.

upper corner of a tabloid today "Molly Ringwald's miracal(sp) twins"

neon4891 wrote:

Appleseed wrote: There is no hope for a Molly Ringwald comeback.

upper corner of a tabloid today "Molly Ringwald's miracal(sp) twins"

Glad to know that I'm not the only one who kills time in long checkout lines by "reading" the Weekly World News.

zoomx2 wrote:

Carrera4 wrote: I just heard about that. This man made some great movies with great cars, too. Just about each of them had a sweet car featured: Sixteen Candles - Jake Ryan's Red Porsche 944 Better off Dead - 1967(I think?) Black Camaro SS Ferris Bueller's Day Off - 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California (fake) National Lampoon's Vacation - Wagon Queen Family Truckster (Ford Country Squire) Weird Science - 1984 Ferrari Mondial & 1984 Porsche 928S I'm sure there are others.

In Pretty in Pink I believe Molly Ringwold drove a Ghia....

I cannot believe that this board missed Blane's E30 and Steff's (James Spader's mega-douche) 911 in Pretty in Pink. The wife and I just watched Pretty in Pink and Ferris Bueller is next.

RIP John Hughes. You made me feel poor because I didn't drive a new German car to high school!

-Brian

Don't forget Watts beat up right hand drive Mini in Some Kind of Wonderful!! I fell in love with that character because of her car (OK, Mary Stuart Masterson wasn't bad to look at then!)

-Rob