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What is this?
A documentary premiering Christmas Day on the pay-cable channel Encore (channel 526 on DirecTV; channel 283 on Time Warner Cable here in Los Angeles). (If you don’t get Encore I note that there are three copies available for purchase on Amazon at the moment.)
What’s it about?
Filmmaker John Hughes (“The Breakfast Club,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “Planes Trains and Automobiles,” “Uncle Buck,” “Home Alone”) -- and an effort by a small Canadian documentary crew to secure an interview with Hughes, who at that point had not given an interview since 1999.
When was it shot?
2006 to 2008.
When did Hughes die again?
Aug. 6, 2009.
How long is this documentary?
68 minutes if you don’t sit through the credit roll.
Who’s responsible?
Canadian actor Matt Austin Sandowski (who in 2005 appeared as the Green Power Ranger in 38 episodes of “Power Rangers SPD”) directs. Kari Hollend, Michael Facciolo and Lenny Panzer produce. All four appear on camera throughout.
It was directed by the Green Power Ranger?? Can this be any good at all?
“Don’t” turns out to be a fast-paced and surprisingly engrossing tribute to the late filmmaker, full of iconic clips that could drive anyone to buy Hughes’ filmography on Blu-ray, if more than three of his movies were available on Blu-ray. (For the record, only “Ferris” and “Christmas Vacation,” and “Drillbit Taylor” if you want to stretch it, appear to have found their way to HD so far.)
Is it just a clip fest?
No. Driving the film are a large number of new interviews with Hughes’ collaborators and fans.
Which of Hughes’ old players appear in new interviews?
Andrew McCarthy (“Pretty in Pink”), Annie Potts (“Pretty in Pink”), Kelly LeBrock (“Weird Science”), Justin Henry (“Sixteen Candles”), John Kapelos (“The Breakfast Club”), Ilan Mitchell-Smith (“Weird Science”), Judd Nelson (“The Breakfast Club”), Alan Ruck (“Ferris Bueller”), Mia Sara (“Ferris Bueller”), Ally Sheedy (“The Breakfast Club,” “Home Alone”), Scott Coffey (“Some Kind of Wonderful”) and Gedde Watandabe (“Sixteen Candles”).
What about Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Matthew Broderick, Steve Martin, Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen and John Cryer?
Not interviewed.
Which of Hughes’ other collaborators appear in new interviews?
Director Howard Deutsch (“Pretty in Pink,” “Some Kind of Wonderful,” “The Great Outdoors”), casting director Jackie Burch (“The Breakfast Club”), music supervisor David Anderlee (“The Breakfast Club,” “Pretty in Pink”), and Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr.
Who else appears in new interviews?
Writer-directors Jason Reitman (“Juno,” “Up In The Air”) and Kevin Smith (“Clerks II,” “Zack and Miri Make a Porno”), screenwriter Adam Epstein (“Not Another Teen Movie”), directors Joel Gallen (“Not Another Teen Movie”) and Allan Moyle (“Pump Up The Volume”), producers Sean Covel and Chris Wyatt (“Napoleon Dynamite”), Jennifer Gibgot (“She’s All That,” “17 Again”) and Andrew Gunn (“Freaky Friday,” “Sky High”), a bunch of real high school kids, OTX Film Market Research exec Vinny Bruzzesse, original Oingo Boingo frontman Richard Elfman (big brother of Danny), and critics Roger Ebert, Richard Roeper and Bill Chambers. (Gene Siskel turns up in archival footage.)
Do these interviewees speculate as to why Hughes exited filmmaking?
They do. Deutch wonders if Hughes wouldn’t still be making movies if the critics had been a little more encouraging. Gene Siskel found himself “disappointed” with “Ferris,” noting the title character “doesn’t do anything much fun.” “Matthew Broderick has nothing special to say when he looks us straight in the eye,” added the late Chicago Tribune critic. The film also quotes the last lines of Variety’s dismissive review of “The Breakfast Club”:
When the causes of the Decline of Western Civilization are finally writ, Hollywood will surely have to answer why it turned one of man's most significant art forms over to the self-gratification of high-schoolers. Or does director John Hughes really believe, as he writes here, that 'when you grow up, your heart dies.' It may. But not unless the brain has already started to rot with films like this.
Hercules, I dare you to name 12 things you learned from this enterprise!
1) Hughes cast a lot of teenagers as teenagers. “I was actually 17,” remembers Mia Sara. “Imagine your most shaming, horrific year in high school is immortalized in a very popular movie forever and ever. That’s how it feels to me.”
2) Siskel’s successor as Ebert’s TV partner did not share Siskel’s disdain for “Ferris.” Roeper, in fact, admits “Ferris” may be his favorite film of all time. We see that the Illinois license plate on Roeper’s BMW reads “SVFRRIS.”
3) “Ferris” was the first Hughes movie seen by Jason Reitman, who calls it “life-changing.”
4) McCarthy thought “Pretty in Pink” was “pretty silly” while he was making it and certainly not a film people would be discussing two decades later.
5) Actor Eric Gurry (“Author, Author,” 1983’s “Bad Boys”) was at some point the leading contender for Hall’s part in “Weird Science.” (This despite the fact that Hall had already starred in three prior Hughes projects.)
6) Utah-reared Wantanabe hid his American accent from John Hughes during his audition and didn’t disclose his birthplace was Ogden until at least a few days later.
7) No ending was ever written for the joke Nelson tells in “Breakfast Club” before crashing through the ceiling.
8) Kapelos’ janitor character had a big monologue where he told the Breakfast Club where they would all be 20 years in the future. (He predicted Hall’s character would grow to into a stockbroker with heart problems.)
9) Hughes allowed his actors to change their dialogue.
10) Steve Martin once convinced Hughes to go into his trailer mid-production to rewrite a particular “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” scene.
11) Simple Minds agreed to record “Don’t You Forget About Me” if they were allowed to rewrite the lyrics (though the lyrics to the chorus, it was decided, had to remain intact).
12) “You don’t usually get a tribute like this until you’re dead,” documentary producer Hollend observed as she journeyed from Toronto to Chicago in her quest to meet the then-very-much-alive John Hughes.
Is it all good?
I thought the filmmakers’ plan to secure an interview with Hughes compelling but too poorly thought out. Also, the doc contains a lot of chatter about how “they” don’t make teen movies like they used to, and I found myself craving more specificity. Are they talking about “American Pie” or “Juno”? “Bring It On” or “Mean Girls”? (One of the teens interviewed does point out that he’d never have sex with a pie.)
Is “Don’t You Forget About Me” worth my valuable time?
Absolutely.
Does the documentary crew actually interview Hughes?
That would be telling. And ruinous of some rather well-engineered suspense.
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A documentary premiering Christmas Day on the pay-cable channel Encore (channel 526 on DirecTV; channel 283 on Time Warner Cable here in Los Angeles). (If you don’t get Encore I note that there are three copies available
for purchase on Amazon at the moment.)What’s it about?
Filmmaker John Hughes (“The Breakfast Club,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “Planes Trains and Automobiles,” “Uncle Buck,” “Home Alone”) -- and an effort by a small Canadian documentary crew to secure an interview with Hughes, who at that point had not given an interview since 1999.
When was it shot?
2006 to 2008.
When did Hughes die again?
Aug. 6, 2009.
How long is this documentary?
68 minutes if you don’t sit through the credit roll.
Who’s responsible?
Canadian actor Matt Austin Sandowski (who in 2005 appeared as the Green Power Ranger in 38 episodes of “Power Rangers SPD”) directs. Kari Hollend, Michael Facciolo and Lenny Panzer produce. All four appear on camera throughout.
It was directed by the Green Power Ranger?? Can this be any good at all?
“Don’t” turns out to be a fast-paced and surprisingly engrossing tribute to the late filmmaker, full of iconic clips that could drive anyone to buy Hughes’ filmography on Blu-ray, if more than three of his movies were available on Blu-ray. (For the record, only “Ferris” and “Christmas Vacation,” and “Drillbit Taylor” if you want to stretch it, appear to have found their way to HD so far.)
Is it just a clip fest?
No. Driving the film are a large number of new interviews with Hughes’ collaborators and fans.
Which of Hughes’ old players appear in new interviews?
Andrew McCarthy (“Pretty in Pink”), Annie Potts (“Pretty in Pink”), Kelly LeBrock (“Weird Science”), Justin Henry (“Sixteen Candles”), John Kapelos (“The Breakfast Club”), Ilan Mitchell-Smith (“Weird Science”), Judd Nelson (“The Breakfast Club”), Alan Ruck (“Ferris Bueller”), Mia Sara (“Ferris Bueller”), Ally Sheedy (“The Breakfast Club,” “Home Alone”), Scott Coffey (“Some Kind of Wonderful”) and Gedde Watandabe (“Sixteen Candles”).
What about Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Matthew Broderick, Steve Martin, Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen and John Cryer?
Not interviewed.
Which of Hughes’ other collaborators appear in new interviews?
Director Howard Deutsch (“Pretty in Pink,” “Some Kind of Wonderful,” “The Great Outdoors”), casting director Jackie Burch (“The Breakfast Club”), music supervisor David Anderlee (“The Breakfast Club,” “Pretty in Pink”), and Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr.
Who else appears in new interviews?
Writer-directors Jason Reitman (“Juno,” “Up In The Air”) and Kevin Smith (“Clerks II,” “Zack and Miri Make a Porno”), screenwriter Adam Epstein (“Not Another Teen Movie”), directors Joel Gallen (“Not Another Teen Movie”) and Allan Moyle (“Pump Up The Volume”), producers Sean Covel and Chris Wyatt (“Napoleon Dynamite”), Jennifer Gibgot (“She’s All That,” “17 Again”) and Andrew Gunn (“Freaky Friday,” “Sky High”), a bunch of real high school kids, OTX Film Market Research exec Vinny Bruzzesse, original Oingo Boingo frontman Richard Elfman (big brother of Danny), and critics Roger Ebert, Richard Roeper and Bill Chambers. (Gene Siskel turns up in archival footage.)
Do these interviewees speculate as to why Hughes exited filmmaking?
They do. Deutch wonders if Hughes wouldn’t still be making movies if the critics had been a little more encouraging. Gene Siskel found himself “disappointed” with “Ferris,” noting the title character “doesn’t do anything much fun.” “Matthew Broderick has nothing special to say when he looks us straight in the eye,” added the late Chicago Tribune critic. The film also quotes the last lines of Variety’s dismissive review of “The Breakfast Club”:
When the causes of the Decline of Western Civilization are finally writ, Hollywood will surely have to answer why it turned one of man's most significant art forms over to the self-gratification of high-schoolers. Or does director John Hughes really believe, as he writes here, that 'when you grow up, your heart dies.' It may. But not unless the brain has already started to rot with films like this.
Hercules, I dare you to name 12 things you learned from this enterprise!
1) Hughes cast a lot of teenagers as teenagers. “I was actually 17,” remembers Mia Sara. “Imagine your most shaming, horrific year in high school is immortalized in a very popular movie forever and ever. That’s how it feels to me.”
2) Siskel’s successor as Ebert’s TV partner did not share Siskel’s disdain for “Ferris.” Roeper, in fact, admits “Ferris” may be his favorite film of all time. We see that the Illinois license plate on Roeper’s BMW reads “SVFRRIS.”
3) “Ferris” was the first Hughes movie seen by Jason Reitman, who calls it “life-changing.”
4) McCarthy thought “Pretty in Pink” was “pretty silly” while he was making it and certainly not a film people would be discussing two decades later.
5) Actor Eric Gurry (“Author, Author,” 1983’s “Bad Boys”) was at some point the leading contender for Hall’s part in “Weird Science.” (This despite the fact that Hall had already starred in three prior Hughes projects.)
6) Utah-reared Wantanabe hid his American accent from John Hughes during his audition and didn’t disclose his birthplace was Ogden until at least a few days later.
7) No ending was ever written for the joke Nelson tells in “Breakfast Club” before crashing through the ceiling.
8) Kapelos’ janitor character had a big monologue where he told the Breakfast Club where they would all be 20 years in the future. (He predicted Hall’s character would grow to into a stockbroker with heart problems.)
9) Hughes allowed his actors to change their dialogue.
10) Steve Martin once convinced Hughes to go into his trailer mid-production to rewrite a particular “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” scene.
11) Simple Minds agreed to record “Don’t You Forget About Me” if they were allowed to rewrite the lyrics (though the lyrics to the chorus, it was decided, had to remain intact).
12) “You don’t usually get a tribute like this until you’re dead,” documentary producer Hollend observed as she journeyed from Toronto to Chicago in her quest to meet the then-very-much-alive John Hughes.
Is it all good?
I thought the filmmakers’ plan to secure an interview with Hughes compelling but too poorly thought out. Also, the doc contains a lot of chatter about how “they” don’t make teen movies like they used to, and I found myself craving more specificity. Are they talking about “American Pie” or “Juno”? “Bring It On” or “Mean Girls”? (One of the teens interviewed does point out that he’d never have sex with a pie.)
Is “Don’t You Forget About Me” worth my valuable time?
Absolutely.
Does the documentary crew actually interview Hughes?
That would be telling. And ruinous of some rather well-engineered suspense.
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for one of the major critics of the film era, he sure panned a lot of classic films and gave passes to a lot of garbage...
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That's just messed up IMO. The Breakfast Club is quite possibly the best theatre play never performed in a theatre.
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john hughes was an utter control freak. he fired tons of people, if one word of his screenplays were altered. he became very demanding.
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Dec 25, 2009 6:26:16 AM CST
which explains why there are people who didnt want to be..
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to be interviewed.
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Herc, a little more notice on this one would have been nice for those of us visiting relatives without Encore and who won't be home until Sunday night but do have DVRs... Merry Christmas!
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John Hughes was a master of making fun, poignant movies, for the 80's teenager. He made high school life a little more tolerable, as we had a seemingly endless source of snappy dialogue to quote at each other, on a constant, daily basis. I'm looking forward to catching this. Merry Christmas.
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...considering he didn't even say one god damn word about the man in tribute when he died. Oh wait, it looks like he stands to make a buck off him if someone clicks the link for the DVD. Merry fucking christmas, Harold-- sometimes you really make me sick.
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are still relevant today. Even though the fashions are dated, the themes and dialogue are not and possibly never will be.
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I think that was the pivotal turning point for John Hughes' creativity. It's basically when she "jumped the shark" and never created another masterpiece of film again. But then, that was also the beginning of the 90s and everyone was already losing their 80s charm.
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Damn typos. Get an edit button here for Christsakes!
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The interviews are pretty compelling, but there's a lot of filler with clips from his movies that we've all seen and some segments with kids today that fall pretty flat. There's no insight whatsoever into John Hughes as a person or a filmmaker and the documentary crew is pretty uninteresting. Like Herc says, they make a lot of vague, sweeping statements that don't add anything. And *spoiler alert* the whole exercise proves pointless in the end.
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Very light on insight or worthwhile interviews. Way too much of this documentary was devoted to the idiot filmmakers that came off as a bunch of obsessive fanboy stalkers. It's no surprise that their big plan to meet and interview Hughes ultimately failed. I laughed when they got back the DVD and letter 6 weeks later in the mail, apparently unread/unwatched by Hughes.
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As I was watching this tonight, it started to bug me that a shitty documentary like this gets released on DVD and can air on cable TV, but after 4 years we are STILL waiting for the Jaws documentary "The Shark is Still Working" to get released. Am I ever going to get to see that? :(
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This was very uninteresting. The "film makers" came off as the witless, talentless douche-bags that they likely are, in actual life. Their inability to get a simple letter written was sort of comical. I, also, was very amused when they received back their pitiful letter and DVD, in the mail. It was more of a response than they deserved.
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I can't help but watch it every time it's on.
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Why, I have no idea.
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for the heads up. I really dug this, and would have never watched it, had I not read this.
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BlechBlech blech
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But for better insight on John Hughes you should read the article that was posted here shortly after his death. It was about a girl who actually became pen pals with John Hughes. I'm sure if you Goggle it you'll find it. That was more compelling and interesting than this doc.
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I can't understand why he hated us though. I mean, they were representative of his fans. You don't make movies like that that mean a lot to people then just completely ignore those people. I dunno, whatever he turned his back on, we didn't do anything to him. How hard is it to scribble, "I'm not interested."? Or have your lawyer send some legal stuff saying something. Just ignoring people gets to me. Just say something. It takes half a second.
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No joke. They're all tucking tail and leaving the house; but he has to stay behind because he thinks he's having a "Dances With Wolves moment", with "someone in the window". This "film" added nothing to my understanding of John Hughes.
Mariusz is correct, the AICN article about Mr. Hughes' pen pal correspondence, with that young fan was far more interesting and informative. I'd link to it; but I haven't been able to locate the node yet. -
ferris is a doofy movie
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And she still looked quite good in this documentary. Quite milfy. :)
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Kevin Smith's inclusion here seems pretty obvious. Hughes was a huge influence on writers like Smith.
Hughes wrote about characters who did outlandish things and found themselves in weird situations, but were ultimately defined by their very mundane and often deeply human characteristics. Whether it was about a geek trying to fit in and be popular, a girl trying to be noticed and even loved, or a boy trying to seize one moment of happiness before adulthood changed them forever, there was always something real there to temper the antics.
Look at Kevin Smith's movies. Even when the stories have rogue angels & shit demons, there's usually that same human component. People questioning faith, morality, the values of life, etc..
Smith, like Hughes, builds heavily on the "talking head" model of story telling. We're always given a certain window into what the characters are thinking at any given moment, even when those thoughts are infantile and repulsively foul mouthed.
It's clear that Smith deeply wants to BE John Hughes, though he would likely disagree.
As far as this docu goes... I was entertained. I didn't expect a different outcome than what the film makers experienced. Hughes was a deeply private figure who was seemingly too sensitive for his own good. Read Molly Ringwald's eulogy to Hughes for insight into this. Ringwald et al. were the Lost Boys to his Peter Pan. The notion that, when they "grew up", he closed Neverland forever says it all. Maybe, having been burnt out by Hollywood, Hughes finally grew up and his heart died, leaving him with no option than to walk away - his glories unquestioned. -
There are a lot of younger people here who didn't grow up on Hughes' films and don't own a Blu-Ray player and a HD tv, so maybe you could mention that EVERYTHING HE EVER DID IS AVAILABLE ON DVD instead of continuing to help major corporations FORCE US to unnecessarily upgrade to "the new thing". Oh wait! Maybe, just maybe! There is also A HUGE PORTION OF THE MOVIE GOING AND/OR BUYING PUBLIC who are ALSO not ready or able to make that upgrade. Maybe if you mentioned that all of his films are available on DVD THEY might go out and buy some. (shakes head) Thaaaaaanks.
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That's fine, but comparing Hughes movies with Smith's is like comparing night and day.
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I DVR'd this thanks to Herc's heads up. I had been eager to catch this ever since learning about the project immediately following John Hughes' death earlier this year.
I agree with most of the previous comments on this movie. All of the segments involving the filmmakers were useless and even painful to watch. I really don't think that they added anything to this John Hughes tribute and if anything, distracted from it. It was laughable at how disorganized and scatter-brained the filmmakers were. They went on a nearly 600 mile journey without having done any real research on where John Hughes lived or with any real plan for once they got to his house. For something that was supposedly 2 1/2 years in the making, it really felt like an impromptu excercise. The whole segment where they are asking people in a diner in his home town if anybody knows him or knows where he lives demonstrates this. The questions that they were coming up with the to ask John Hughes seemed really basic and lacked thought. Maybe I'm being too critical. I would have taken a different approach. There seemed to be elements of self promotion sprinkled throughout by the filmmakers.
I have to ask where the interview segments with the actors came from. Did this group of filmmakers score them or did they originate elsewhere and were clipped together? If the filmmakers scored them, then I have to give them kudos on this aspect of the film. Quite a large group of actors to get access to.
The loss of John Hughes is huge. I think that the arguement could be made that we lost the John Hughes that we all loved somewhere around 1989-1991 when he shifted the types of projects he became involved in. While he was alive, I always held out hope that he had been secretly working on a Breakfast Club or Ferris Bueller's Day Off sequel that might someday see the light of day. Now, my hopes shift to that he wrote these, they sit in his desk, and that they might someday find their way onto the internet for fan reading. I think that we, as fans, lifted his teen works on a high pedistal. Interviews with Alley Sheedy and others in this documentary hinted that John was that insecure character that was so central to many of the characters in his films. Maybe he has insecurities that he couldn't recapture the mojo he had when he wrote Sixteen Candles, Some Kind of Wonderful, Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club, and Bueller's Day off. Maybe that is why he chose to move to what I see as less risky projects like Home Along sequels and Dennis the Menace. Maybe he wanted to work on projects for kids since he had kids? Don't know.
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I just said that Kevin Smith CLEARLY seems inspired to do what he does by Hughes. By the same token, if you're a comic book fan, you could say that Brian Michael Bendis seemingly owes a lot to Hughes, as his Ultimate Spider-Man comic is often about character more than conflict. That's not to say that he's equal to John Hughes either though. It's just that you can see the man behind the curtain.
Smith is singled out only because, even at his worst, his films are more 3D than the 2D pie fucking antics of American Pie and its ilk. Smith doesn't really do the whole teen dramedy thing so it's not a 1:1 comparison - though his characters area, by and large, man-children. -
That one above all over Kevin Smith films seems like a homage to the kind of 80s teen comedies John Hughes used to make.
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I had a feeling this thing might blow based on an article in Geek Monthly a while back. The filmmakers were seeming to showcase themselves more than the subject matter, and the whole thing seemed a bit half-baked. Plus they looked like douchebags.
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The interviews were somewhat interesting. (Does anyone know if they got these interviews themselves?) I liked to hear how Hughes's movies still have the impact today as they did when they were first released from the HS kids that were interviewed. I laughed when the kid said I can't relate to someone having sex with a pie.I wonder which one of them thought that showing up at John Hughes's house unannounced was a good idea.(My guess is the one with the crutches.) No wonder your letter got sent back with no reply.
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Good stuff.
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saw this on the headline last night so i recorded it. why did they bother releasing it? it would have been better if they just scrapped the idea entirely after hughes' unfortunate passing and just edited the interviews together as a tribute. i think the producers/directors just wanted to get themselves in the film somehow so they didn't feel like they wasted 2 1/2 years of their lives. i was impressed that they got some quality interviews but the footage with the producers was pathetic. there was a scene where the boner with crutches basically said that it would show what kind of person john hughes really was if he refused to talk to them. what a douchebag. seriously, who cares what these guys think of his movies? the teenagers that they interviewed had better insight into hughes' films than the producers did! seriously terrible documentary.
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Come on, man...
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The Documentary seemed unfinished with a lot of filler. I am guessing either they gave up getting more content with real interviews or rushed it to get it released because Hughes died. You could have easily cut the film down to 20-30 minutes without losing anything of any interest.
I felt the entire trek across country to visit Hughes' house was boring and ended with the climatic finish (spoiler) of Hughes or one of his people FedExing the film makers their hand written note and rough cut of their film with no comments or response of any sort was weak and monotomous. These are the types of plot twists in documentaries you can't make up for scripted films (not that any filmmakers would want to bore their audience with such mundane events). Watching these filmmakers act like starstruck fanboys in their approach in trying to contact Hughes, it doesn't surprise me that Hughes(or for that matter, any of the actors in Hughes films who remotely still have a career)wanted to have no part of this documentary.
Even without interviews from most of the significant actors of the films, they could have made this a far more interesting documentary with more work. I would have rather gotten more stories of the making of many of the films that shaped many of our childhood and teenage years even if they were not as interesting as the ones included rather than comments from random fans on how Hughes films influenced them and the anticlimatic subplot of the trip to Hughes' house. -
With the exception of the female producer who was the only one not salivating at the thought of bum rushing John Hughes in his house, the rest of the filmmakers were classic LA Douchebags who probably thought this self promotion piece of shit would lead to development deals with all the majors. This was a horrible documentary and I'm assuming Herc is a friend of one of the douchenozzles involved otherwise I can't see why he'd ever promote this tripe. That bullshit with that asshole on the crutches waiving gently and sensitively at "someone" in the window at the Hughes house was cringeworthy. I don't think any of them gave a fuck about John Hughes films unless it meant pretending to gave their careers a boost. What a bunch of cocks. I'm glad they got their letter and DVD returned like a newbie writer sending a script to Spielberg thinking he'll ready it and discover them. The only thing that shocks me is that a pay cable outlet actually showed this self indulgent garbage.
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Canada does produce such people!
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The man who didn't like Aliens because it was "too scary".
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He rarely nailed an accurate interpretation of most films. Nearly all his reviews were the opposite of the general public's consensus.
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Thanks for finding that article and posting the link. That is the best commentary I read, in the days that followed Hughes' passing.
It's highly recommended reading, for any fan of John Hughes' movies. Thanks again for finding it, Mariusz.
Hughes fans: you should check this out...
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They come from all over the world and settle in Los Angeles and proceed to become film industry wannabe douchebags. The guy on the crutches should be on a t-shirt for L.A. Douchebags. The only thing that would have made the documentary good would be if Hughes went Dennis the Menace and slingshotted that prick right out from his crutches.
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...pretty much completely. The man was not limited to "teen" films. He was a diverse enough filmmaker then he gets credit for. And who knows, perhaps that's the reason he stepped away.
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Vacation... Planes, Trains, and Automobiles... Uncle Buck....
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http://wellknow whenwegetthere.blogspot.com/2009/08/sin cerely-john-hughes.html
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I'm in a hurry... didn't see it was already posted... Glad it's up, though. Good stuff.
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...and wished they hadn't. You see, I was John's other secret pen pal. I'll share the letter he wrote about the incident:Dear Buzz:You will never guess what happened to me. Nancy was off visiting her relatives, and I overheard a bunch of dinks outside my house saying they were coming back later that night after a good dinner at the Sizzler to make a documentary about me. I had to defend my home. You should have seen it! I iced the steps, set up a blow torch inside the basement door, I had an exposed nail tarred to the basement steps, I had sticky seran wrap and feathers ready, I had paint cans rigged to swing into their faces, I had broken Christmas ornaments for them to step on, I had a zip line leading out to my treehouse and when those dipshits tried to follow me there, I cut the line and they swung upside my chimney. My favorite part was when they stuck their heads through Beethoven's door in the kitchen and I shot them between the eyes with my brother's BB gun! You should have been here! I could have tortured you too!In regard to your last letter, I too am still bummed about Tower Records tanking but get over it, okay.Your pal,JohnP.S. Those endings for Bender's joke that you keep sending me are getting lamer and lamer.
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Thats a travesty right there! Planes, Trains & Automobiles only got a cursory mention too.
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