John Hughes Dies

[warhorse]

One of the greatest directors/producers and script writers of some of the most beloved films in the 80's and early 90's has died today from an apparent heart attack. He was only 59.

This man was responsible for such memorable movies like
The Breakfast Club
Weird Science
National Lampoon's Vacation series
Ferris Bueler's Day Off
Beethoven
16 Candles
Uncle Buck
and the Home Alone movies.

RIP! You will be missed, but not forgotten.

[Bayhem]

RIP, John!

You did your job and you did it right!

[Trailbreaker]

RIP John. Uncle Buck is the greatest!

[razgriz21]

RIP John.

Thank you for entertaining myself, family, friends, and enemies with your movies.

[taybrian1]

If you've seen the Breakfast Club, you know about the last shot of the movie. That's what I imagined after I heard the news.

[Spruebox]

Bugger.

(I'm really bad at what to say to these sort of announcements)

[MrX]

Sorry to hear about that. Uncle Buck was a favorite of mine too.

[megatron42]

i heard about this yesterday.. RIP john

[TIMtationX]

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is one of my favorite movies. If you haven't seen it, i highly recommend it.

[megatron42]

it was my favorite movie too

[razgriz21]

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is one of my favorite movies. If you haven't seen it, i highly recommend it.

I've yet to see it and I'm probably going to rent it this weekend if I can find it at Blockbuster.

[taybrian1]

One of the greatest directors/producers and script writers of some of the most beloved films in the 80's and early 90's has died today from an apparent heart attack. He was only 59.

This man was responsible for such memorable movies like
The Breakfast Club
Weird Science
National Lampoon's Vacation series
Ferris Bueler's Day Off
Beethoven
16 Candles
Uncle Buck
and the Home Alone movies.

RIP! You will be missed, but not forgotten.

I love Beethoven and Home Alone. Those were the movies of my childhood.

[warhorse]

Yeah, I was looking up John Hughes long list of accomplishments, and I was delighted to see Home Alone and Beethoven on there. He really knew how to tap in that child/teen like feeling just right. Wow, I hate saying this, but I'm actually more bummed about John dyeing than Michael Jackson. I guess his movies really struck more of a chord with me than I realized.

[r-type]

Had a definite wtf moment when I heard. A week prior I had pulled all of my John Hughes movies (Sixteen Candles, TBC, Weird Science, Ferris) to watch sporadically, as I do from time to time with a lot of other movies.

In any case,

RIP