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SoulOnIce
08-06-2009, 03:15 PM
a big part of my teen years has passed on...
The Xenos
08-06-2009, 05:08 PM
Oh wow... He will be missed... and never forgotten.

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Captain_Video
08-06-2009, 06:01 PM
A great voice that will always hold a special time and place in the history of cinema.

I loved his movies, cult classics, essential viewing, just great melodrama, great movies.

He inspired, probably a whole heck of a lot of film-makers.
kmeyers
08-06-2009, 06:05 PM
Danm, R.I.P. John Hughes, movie king of the 80's.
mgs
08-06-2009, 06:12 PM
yup. made some fine movies in his day. and he wasn't that old!


R.I.P. John Hughes
kalorama
08-06-2009, 07:36 PM
I didn't even particularly like Hughes's movies, but this still feels like a page being turned on an important era.
DarthCyclopsRLZ
08-06-2009, 07:55 PM
I didn't even particularly like Hughes's movies, but this still feels like a page being turned on an important era.

Yes, yes it does.

R.I.P. John Hughes
Ontir
08-06-2009, 09:02 PM
One of his lines really sums up my thoughts on him as a writer/director:

"They all think he's a righteous dude!"
DWEarhart
08-06-2009, 09:42 PM
His influence has been felt yet never duplicated.

R.I.P. Mr. Hughes. Already missing you.
Legato
08-06-2009, 10:44 PM
Alot of directors have tried but Hughes will still be known as the king of teen movies.

RIP John Hughes.
JDogindy
08-07-2009, 08:07 AM
Not only that, but Hughes came from the Midwest, and it was clearly evident in several of his movies, mainly with Chicago as a setting for "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Home Alone". He made the place look accurate, and he was one of the few directors who made "teen movies" that could be respected, as opposed to the crapfests today that overrely on gross humor and dumb stereotypes ("I Love You, Beth Cooper", anyone?).

May he rest in peace.
Superbeast
08-07-2009, 11:43 AM
God rest his soul, he was one of the first people to actually make me want to write scripts. A real cinematic icon who set a benchmark for the teen rites of passage genre.
comicaze
08-07-2009, 11:52 AM
By passing on so soon and suddenly, he has reminded me of Ferris Bueller's quote about life going by so fast that, if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you might miss something. :( He'll be missed by his family and friends, but us fans will always have his movies. My favorite is Breakfast Club.