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On the other hand
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 Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 2:05 am Post subject: John Hughes is dead |
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Can�t say I was ever a huge fan. I did enjoy Planes, Trains and Auromobiles, though. Home Alone of course is very popular in Korea, though not with me.
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ManintheMiddle
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| Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 8:24 am Post subject: |
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| I'm far from a child of the '80s but some of his films were quite good. My favorite is "Uncle Buck," which I believe cangel will agree fit comedian John Candy to a tee. Man, do I miss his portly grin. |
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bucheon bum
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| Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 9:46 am Post subject: |
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| Planes, Trains, and Automobiles was great, I agree. I also liked Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. Nearly all his movies were watchable at least. |
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RufusW
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| Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 10:09 am Post subject: |
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| The Breakfast Club: Great movie or Greatest Movie? |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 10:57 am Post subject: |
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| RufusW wrote: |
| The Breakfast Club: Great movie or Greatest Movie? |
Well, I personally would not say the GREATEST movie, not by a long shot. But then I've never been much for the "teen angst" genre. (Mean Girls being a bit of an exception, but then that seemed to have a mature perspective to it; I mean in the overall writing, not the characters). |
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RufusW
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| Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 11:25 am Post subject: |
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So OtoH we know you love Mean Girls.... OMG WTF!?!>!?1!!
But you obviously think Breakfast Club is great.... good call. |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 11:29 am Post subject: |
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| But you obviously think Breakfast Club is great.... |
Ah, nice try, but no. It was okay, as I recall. But it's been about twenty years since I last saw it, so maybe I should give it a re-screening. |
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RufusW
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| Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 11:36 am Post subject: |
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| so maybe I should give it a re-screening. |
Ya, maybe you should, it's the most important film of the 20th Centrury... yeah I know you tea-baggers are gonna claim a lot of films were made in the 20th Century, but were they really.... really? |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 1:37 pm Post subject: |
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| RufusW wrote: |
| On the other hand wrote: |
| so maybe I should give it a re-screening. |
Ya, maybe you should, it's the most important film of the 20th Centrury... yeah I know you tea-baggers are gonna claim a lot of films were made in the 20th Century, but were they really.... really? |
No, besides The Breakfast Club, the only films made in the 20th Century were Birth Of A Nation, The Wizard Of Oz, Deep Throat, and Benji. The "studios" have just been re-cutting and splicing together various scenes from those five films, and then distributing them so as to give audiences the impression that they're watching a different movie each time. Even the so-called foreign films are just the those same fakes, with gibberish dubbed in.
Not that you'll hear about any of this from the mainstream "media", who for the last thirty years have been re-playing various edited versions of a 60 Minutes profile on Evel Knievel as the nightly news. |
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RufusW
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| Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Hey, look... I like Knievel as much as the next guy, and his films were the best, I particularly liked 'Titanic' starring Evil and that girl from the X-Files, but when it comes to 20th Century movies do you really need more than Independence Day, Jaws and Deepthroat (yeah, I saw that movie but was highly dissapointed with my ending) to enjoy the C20th? I mean, they were all crappola. At least The Breakfast Club provided an honest look into 80s hard-core drug abuse. I don't know any other films that did that (except that Pocahontas movie, of course... disturbing!) |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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| At least The Breakfast Club provided an honest look into 80s hard-core drug abuse. |
Yeah, that scene with the brat-packers tripping out in the library was pretty raw. I hear that watching that movie is actually what inspired Marion Barry to start puffin' on a crack pipe. |
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RufusW
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| Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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| I started puffin' on a crack pipe in anticipation of that scene. But, to be fair, I was high as a kite and just danced it off. |
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bucheon bum
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koreajim
Joined: 21 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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When I first read your post I thought you were talking about "Jon Huer?" - Korea Times writer
"Just Who The Hell Is Jon Huer?" -
http://blog.esldaily.org/2009/05/15/korea-just-who-the-hell-is-jon-huer.aspx
I enjoyed Planes, Trains and Automobiles. I think I will miss John Hughes more than any of the words from Jon Huer
RIP John Hughes |
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