Your Turn
Favorite John Hughes movie.
Just Visiting (Movie) 2001
Reach The Rock (Movie) 1998
Flubber (Movie) 1997
Home Alone 3 (Movie) 1997
101 Dalmatians (Movie) 1996
Baby's Day Out (Movie) 1994
Miracle On 34th Street (Movie) 1994
Dennis The Menace (Movie) 1993
Beethoven (Movie) 1992
Home Alone 2: Lost In New York (Movie) 1992
Curly Sue (Movie) 1991
Dutch (Movie) 1991
Career Opportunities (Movie) 1991
Home Alone (Movie) 1990
Uncle Buck (Movie) 1989
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (Movie) 1989
The Great Outdoors (Movie) 1988
She's Having A Baby (Movie) 1988
Planes, Trains, And Automobiles (Movie) 1987
Some Kind Of Wonderful (Movie) 1987
Pretty In Pink (Movie) 1986
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Movie) 1986
National Lampoon's European Vacation (Movie) 1985
The Breakfast Club (Movie) 1985
Weird Science (Movie) 1985
Sixteen Candles (Movie) 1984
Mr. Mom (Movie) 1983
Nate And Hayes (Movie) 1983
National Lampoon's Vacation (Movie) 1983
National Lampoon's Class Reunion (Movie) 1982
Love & Fury: Judith Wright & Nugget Coombs (TV Show)
Just Visiting (Movie) 2001
Reach The Rock (Movie) 1998
Flubber (Movie) 1997
Home Alone 3 (Movie) 1997
101 Dalmatians (Movie) 1996
Baby's Day Out (Movie) 1994
Miracle On 34th Street (Movie) 1994
Dennis The Menace (Movie) 1993
Beethoven (Movie) 1992
Home Alone 2: Lost In New York (Movie) 1992
Curly Sue (Movie) 1991
Dutch (Movie) 1991
Career Opportunities (Movie) 1991
Home Alone (Movie) 1990
Uncle Buck (Movie) 1989
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (Movie) 1989
The Great Outdoors (Movie) 1988
She's Having A Baby (Movie) 1988
Planes, Trains, And Automobiles (Movie) 1987
Some Kind Of Wonderful (Movie) 1987
Pretty In Pink (Movie) 1986
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Movie) 1986
National Lampoon's European Vacation (Movie) 1985
The Breakfast Club (Movie) 1985
Weird Science (Movie) 1985
Sixteen Candles (Movie) 1984
Mr. Mom (Movie) 1983
Nate And Hayes (Movie) 1983
National Lampoon's Vacation (Movie) 1983
National Lampoon's Class Reunion (Movie) 1982
Love & Fury: Judith Wright & Nugget Coombs (TV Show)
ferris
ReplyDeleteI'll take Bueller.
ReplyDeleteThe Anthony Michael Hall trifecta and Ferris Bueller.
ReplyDelete16 Candles
ReplyDeleteSixteen Candles then Pretty in Pink
ReplyDeleteVacation
ReplyDeleteSex, Pies and Videotape. The story of Atlanta’s favorite nymphomaniac Baker.
ReplyDeletePiP is my favourite apart from the inexplicable ending, but PTAA is probably his best film overall - no dead spots, riotous high spots, and just a solid comedy pairing.
ReplyDeletePretty in Pink
ReplyDeleteThis was hard. I think Ferris Bueller is probably his best, but my favorite to watch is National Lampoon's European Vacation. The scene where they're all trying to annoy each other on the train, it kills me every time.
ReplyDeleteEuroVacation not just because of the ‘ba da da ba da da buum’ bit
ReplyDeleteSome Kind of Wonderful
ReplyDeletePlanes Trains and Automobiles
ReplyDeleteTie between Sixteen Candles and Ferris for me, but Planes Trains for a non-teen oriented Hughes film.
ReplyDeletePlanes Trains Automobiles, it is a must watch once a year where the others I have not felt the need to revisit.
ReplyDeleteThen Weird Science not just for the Kelly Le Brock bits.
ReplyDeleteOk ok totally for the Kelly Le Brock bits, I remember when I was 14 and totally just like the Count. Wore that damn video out in places.
Toss up between Pretty In Pink, The Breakfast Club, & 16 Candles.
ReplyDeleteFerris is a classic with 16 candles!
ReplyDeleteChristmas Vacation
ReplyDeleteFerris all day long.
ReplyDeleteBueller, but to be controversial in 2nd and 3rd place: Uncle Buck & Home Alone.
ReplyDeleteSo many classics! Ferris first, Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles next.
ReplyDeleteI like Uncle Buck.
ReplyDeleteFerris is good, too.
Unfortunately, didn't see most of these.
BEST: Pretty in Pink
ReplyDeleteFAVORITE: Christmas Vacation
Baby's Day Out. My whole family can watch it on repeat and never get bored.
ReplyDeleteIn no order
ReplyDeleteChristmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Vacation
Breakfast Club
Weird Science
Bueller...Bueller...Bueller
Uncle Buck and any National Lampoon movie... the great outdoors and of course Mr Mom...
ReplyDeleteSo many good ones, but got to go with Ferris Bueller's Day Off, iconic performance. Plus whenever you're in your car try cranking that Oh Yeah song, insta-cool :)
ReplyDeleteFerris. Whenever I am channel surfing and I come across it, I am powerless to change the station.
ReplyDeleteTie between Ferris and Sixteen Candles.
ReplyDeleteThe original "Vacation". Nothing else is even close for me.
ReplyDeleteI've just got to ask, though....considering this site has said "The mid-80's was peak child molesting time in Hollywood..." and John Hughes became a breakout star right about then and in a couple years afterwards, do we all really think he was the lone good guy in a den (or D.E.N.) of vipers?
ReplyDeleteThat makes this "Your Turn" possibly weird for me. Are we being asked to promote the work of a rare decent man in Hollywood? Or punk'd?
Between this and the Weishaupt Illuminati reference, I'm wondering if it's just about time to eject.
I’m thinkin this post is more like a clue to another blind...Dancing Boy perhaps.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, it’s quite random.
Breakfast Club.
Who did Say Anything? I thought it was him
ReplyDeleteBut I will take PTA-- very funny movie... when he sells the shower curtain clips as earrings lol... only in the 80s
ReplyDeleteUNCLE BUCK ALL DAY LONG!!
ReplyDeleteWeird science
ReplyDeleteWeird Science, but hey...that's just a personal opinion ya know ;-)
ReplyDelete(One of my buddies however declares Planes, trains...but probably for a whole different reason. He's kinda self-involved that way. lol).
As for those lamenting about Mr. Hughes and being a good guy or bad guy? I knew John Hughes. Know his son too. I can say with 100% authority that he was a good person. He helped a LOT of people and never asked anything in return. Perfect? No. Who is? Did he have regrets? Certainly? We all have given over to temptations we wish we could undo, and probably hurt people we loved. It's called being human. That's a million miles from serial pedophiles or spousal abusers. So put down your torches and pitchforks - John Hughes was a decent man. (And if you tell me he was selling arms to Iran, torturing puppies or doing upskirt videos of nuns? Please bring proof).
Thank you so much for this. It's so hard to enjoy anything anymore. 🖤
DeleteI don't know if I can choose, and I might give different answers on different days. But Weird Science might be my personal favorite, even though it's not the best movie. It's just a ton of fun.
ReplyDeleteBut bundle together the three Vacation movies (yes, they only made those three), and that's an unbeatable combo.
Dutch is also great, and highly underrated. (See? I can't choose.)
Jeez impossible to pick one. I love everything MAH is in. Home Alone just cuz.
ReplyDeleteThank you so very much for weighing in @Himmmm. I actually teared up as I read your response, in relief. Phew.
ReplyDeleteWally World FTW
ReplyDeleteHoliday Road
ReplyDeleteSixteen Candles, followed by The Breakfast Club. Loved Molly R.
ReplyDeleteBreakfast club
ReplyDeleteIt's his birthday this month,Feb 18, 1950. God Bless him. The first of his work I remember is Vacation. The movie that made an impact was Sixteen Candles and his love for the music in his movies.
ReplyDeleteI love you John Hughes.
She's Having A Baby, then The Breakfast Club.
ReplyDeleteFave holiday movie ever - Christmas Vacation
Breakfast Club.
ReplyDeleteChristmas Vacation and the Breakfast Club
ReplyDeleteStill fanning those RDJ flames eh hahaha
ReplyDelete“How about a greasy pork sandwich served in a dirty ashtray?”
ReplyDeleteI could NEVER pick just one J.H. movie as my favorite. I still use so many quotes from those flicks, and almost every one of them introduced me to a new celebrity crush.
JAKE RYAN!!!! (fanning myself).
Whew @Himmmm, that makes me feel so much better. His movies shaped my youth. Pretty In Pink, Sixteen Candles were my favourites. When I got older, I loved Home Alone, mostly because I wanted to live in that damn house 🏡 & I love Christmas.
ReplyDelete16 Candles!! That is the movie of my high school years. I've probably seen it 100 times!
ReplyDeleteSame here. At least!!!
DeleteBreakfast Club.
ReplyDeletenational lampoons christmas vacation and planes,trains and automobiles.
ReplyDeleteThe Breakfast Club. ☕️
ReplyDeleteThe Breakfast Club. How am I supposed to pick just one?!!
ReplyDeleteSome Kind of Wonderful and Breakfast Club.
ReplyDeleteJake was a jerk! I see it now.
"Hey, horny teenager, here's my drink girlfriend. Do whatever you want with her. She won't remember it in the morning."
ReplyDeleteSarcastic swoon.
My 11-year-old daughter pointed that out to me after years of loving that movie. "That would be rape, right?"
Yeah, kid. It would. Smart cookie!
Pretty In Pink
ReplyDelete16 candles.
ReplyDeleteMr. Mom
ReplyDeleteEvery time I see shower curtain rings, I miss John Candy in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.
ReplyDelete“You can start by wiping that fucking dumb-ass smile off your rosey, fucking, cheeks! Then you can give me a fucking automobile... a fucking Datsun, a fucking Toyota, a fucking Mustang, a fucking Buick! Four fucking wheels and a seat! And I really don't care for the way your company left me in the middle of fucking nowhere with fucking keys to a fucking car that isn't fucking there. And I really didn't care to fucking walk down a fucking highway and across a fucking runway to get back here to have you smile at my fucking face. I want a fucking car RIGHT FUCKING NOW!”
Uncle Buck, 16 Candles, Pretty in Pink, Home Alone, Bueller
It's a tie for me ....Planes, Trains & Automobiles and Ferris Bueller's Day Off
ReplyDeleteBreakfast Club is dear to my angsty inner teen, but I've seen Home Alone more times than any other movie, exceptions being Cinderella and Scream. It's my perfect Christmas movie and I watch it about 10x every December
ReplyDeleteThis is a blind where everyone wins. Can't argue with any of them
ReplyDeleteNobody makes christmas movies like John Hughes 😊 I haven't seen most of his movies yet.
ReplyDeleteFerris fan here too
ReplyDeletePlanes....one of the funniest movies of all time, basically. I watch it every christmas, even though it's not a christmas movie.
ReplyDeletePlanes, Trains, And Automobiles.
ReplyDeleteShe’s Having a Baby. That Kate Bush song / montage. Alec Baldwin, looking otherworldly handsome: “She’s dragging you down.”
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