Vale John Hughes

[Pseudo]

Heart attack, 59.

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/stor ... 76,00.html

Growing up in the '80s would have been a vastly different experience were it not for this man. I liked some, though not all of his movies. However most of his films were supplemented with soundtracks of '80s pop goodness (Pretty In Pink anyone? ), and as such his movies were inescapable.

[rogernumber10]

Beuller? Beuller? Beuller?

[Dogwatcher]

Will his funeral song be:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xo7ws_simple-mindsdont-you-forget-about-m_music

[Dogwatcher]

Culkin upon hearing the news:

[Wedgie]

Wow, what would the 80s have been like if not for him? RIP

These are films he wrote in the 80s (produced and directed mot of them too):

* National Lampoon's Class Reunion (1982)
* Mr. Mom (1983)
* National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
* Nate and Hayes (1983) (with David Odell)
* Sixteen Candles (1984)
* The Breakfast Club (1985)
* National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985; characters)
* Weird Science (1985)
* Pretty in Pink (1986)
* Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
* Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)
* Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
* She's Having a Baby (1988)
* The Great Outdoors (1988)
* Uncle Buck (1989)
* National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)

[JAS]

Wedgie surely you could have crossed over into 1990 too and included the classic Home Alone

Regards
JAS

[southee]

Director and Soundtrack to my generation.....

He was a movie genius!!!!

Awesome director......VALE John!!!

[CK]

Looked to have a great working relationship with John Candy, making some lovely comedy together. Planes, Trains, Automobiles is still one of my all-time favorite movies. A sad day...John Hughes was another big part of my growing up gone.

[Magpiespower]

Also wrote under the "Psuedo" of Edmond Dantes.

80s output is phenomenal.

Mr. Mom criminally underrated...

[Wedgie]

Wedgie surely you could have crossed over into 1990 too and included the classic Home Alone

Regards
JAS

Nup, didn't like it, plus most people that know me tell me I'm stuck in the 80s anyway.

[Pseudo]

Nup, didn't like it, plus most people that know me tell me I'm stuck in the 80s anyway.

So you were the bloke who selected the music for the breaks at Prospect yesterday!

[Wedgie]

Nup, didn't like it, plus most people that know me tell me I'm stuck in the 80s anyway.

So you were the bloke who selected the music for the breaks at Prospect yesterday!

Nah, that's just because Prospect is stuck in a time warp, the dancing girls even were dancing to the Beatles FFS!