No Right Answer: Best John Hughes Film Ever

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Best John Hughes Film Ever

Are you a fan of life? Then you are a fan of the collective films of John Hughes. Time to stop buying girl's underwear and decide which one is best.

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[JaredXE]

Thank you for switching to 16 Candles, there should have been no way that was left out of Best John Hughes Movie.

 

[SlightlyEvil]

Might I be the first to say, where the hell was Ferris Bueller?

 

[Urh]

Might I be the first to say, where the hell was Ferris Bueller?

I initially thought the same, but Ferris' absence makes sense when you take their criteria into consideration. It's a great teen comedy, but you certainly can't relate to or empathise in the same way you can with Breakfast Club or 16 Candles.

 

[SlightlyEvil]

Might I be the first to say, where the hell was Ferris Bueller?

I initially thought the same, but Ferris' absence makes sense when you take their criteria into consideration. It's a great teen comedy, but you certainly can't relate to or empathise in the same way you can with Breakfast Club or 16 Candles.

I guess so. Those two are about the real teenage experience, whereas Ferris is sort of a wish-fulfillment character. Ferris is the Platonic ideal of "the cool kid", which really doesn't exist.

That said, I've also never seen either of the films discussed today. The line for the public stoning of the heathen forms to the right.

 

[GonzoGamer]

Yea. The Breakfast Club is probably his best movie but 16C was my personal favorite.

 

[burningdragoon]

If you must know, Dan's mustache was one of the highlights of the Star Wars video for me.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Yea. The Breakfast Club is probably his best movie but 16C was my personal favorite.

It would've been his best if the ending didn't horribly betray its own message.

"We are who we are, and that's okay, because in the end we're all the same. Except for you, Ally Sheedy, you need to get dolled up so Emilio Estevez can hook up with you." Fuck you, movie!

After all these years that still pisses me off.

 

[minimacker]

Was that a Futurama reference I saw?

 

[Aptspire]

I do agree with the final point. I don't feel like there's many teenage movies that are very relatable anymore. (There may be a few left, but they're the great rarity)

 

[Eleuthera]

I have to agree, Breakfast Club is one of my all time favourite movies, period.

16 Candles is good to, but BC is great.

 

[Thunderous Cacophony]

Might I be the first to say, where the hell was Ferris Bueller?

I initially thought the same, but Ferris' absence makes sense when you take their criteria into consideration. It's a great teen comedy, but you certainly can't relate to or empathise in the same way you can with Breakfast Club or 16 Candles.

I guess so. Those two are about the real teenage experience, whereas Ferris is sort of a wish-fulfillment character. Ferris is the Platonic ideal of "the cool kid", which really doesn't exist.

That said, I've also never seen either of the films discussed today. The line for the public stoning of the heathen forms to the right.

Will you provide the stones, or is it BYOS?

OT: Ferris Bueller is the equivalent of the party movies they talk about at the end, which show things that movies say are the average teen experience, but isn't really. It's a good film, and Cameron is one of my favourite movie characters of all time, but it still lacks the depth of 16 Candles and the Breakfast Club.

 

[RTR]

The first time I watched BC was back in middle school, around 2003-ish. I find it a lot more relatable now as a 20 something year old than I did back then. It's seriously true that "teen movies" today really seem to be more about dumbasses being dumbasses and having parties or whatever.
Kyle may have just given the best analysis of BC I've ever heard.

Also, that really was a beautiful moustache.

Also, I particularly enjoyed the references this week; too many good ones to count.

 

[Kenjitsuka]

Never heard of the guy or those two movies.
Home Alone of course, but the others????? !

Do we need to have the "international audience" talk again, guys?
Really depressing!

 

[ImSkeletor]

Never heard of the guy or those two movies.
Home Alone of course, but the others????? !

Do we need to have the "international audience" talk again, guys?
Really depressing!

If you have heard of Home Alone and not these two then its your fault, not the fact that you are from an "international audience"
Hell theres even another guy from the netherlands in this very comment section who wrote about how much he enjoys these movies.

 

[Darth_Payn]

Might I be the first to say, where the hell was Ferris Bueller?

Bueller? Bueller?
Even though Breakfast Club speaks more to the wide-reaching teenage experience, I prefer Hughes' comedies, like Ferris Bueler's Day Off and Weird Science. They meet the criteria the guys established, as they were '80's made and very much products of their time with lasting appeal (i.e. DON'T REMAKE THEM!!!).

Was that a Futurama reference I saw?

The 7-leaf clover? Yeah, I caught it. Nice one, guys.

 

[GonzoGamer]

Yea. The Breakfast Club is probably his best movie but 16C was my personal favorite.

It would've been his best if the ending didn't horribly betray its own message.

"We are who we are, and that's okay, because in the end we're all the same. Except for you, Ally Sheedy, you need to get dolled up so Emilio Estevez can hook up with you." Fuck you, movie!

After all these years that still pisses me off.

Yea, it was pretty stupid but I wouldn't say it ruined the whole movie. The Ewok block party at the end of Jedi doesn't ruin that movie. Why? Because you know the Ewoks are chowing down on dead stormtroopers.

 

[PhiMed]

Might I be the first to say, where the hell was Ferris Bueller?

Thank you for mentioning this, because this is the correct answer.

 

[PhiMed]

Never heard of the guy or those two movies.
Home Alone of course, but the others????? !

Do we need to have the "international audience" talk again, guys?
Really depressing!

His movies are certainly more popular in the US than the rest of the world, but suggesting that they're unknown outside the US is pretty ridiculous. They're widely known. That's like saying no one in the US has heard of Guillermo del Toro because most of his movies are in Spanish.

Also, finding easily-accessible, worthwhile movies to watch should be invigorating, not depressing. If you're just mad because you haven't heard of a movie, then that's not an issue of American cultural insensitivity. That's just youth and laziness.