John Hughes :(
 

John Hughes died of a heart attack today. Details are still coming out.

:mad:

end of an era.
kevin smith will be sad, too.

Ironic. I was just reading a blog about those 80s flicks. Those were definitely his best.

RIP.

I just watched The Breakfast Club in class earlier this week.

:( At least we will always have his movies.

Man, what a blow!! "Ferris Bueller" and "Breakfast Club" changed my whole life!! I would be a different person without those movies having come at that critical time in my growing up.

Talk about the good dying young....

He made some of the greatest movies in the world. He knew what it was to be in High School and be unpopular. He will be missed.

The Breakfast Club was great... far better than teen movies today.

Shame he died. However much like MJ, it won't effect me one bit.

This man was the movie god when I was in high school....there is not a movie he did back then that I didnt love....man that sucks

:-(

Yep, another child of the 80s who went through the trials of adolescence comforted by his movies.

RIP, Mr. Hughes.

Your movies were the 80's.

Heard on NPR: He made Ferris Bueller's Day Off and The Breakfast Club. Who cares how much money they made? It may be just me, but far too often the media distills a person's life down to a dollar amount. Since when is a person's value based on how much money they make for other people?

I almost cried when I heard this; well, so much as I got choked up. He was a major influence on my persona as a child, and teen. The Lloyd Dobbler/Ferris Bueller/ Ducky school of philosophy is one I subscribe and adhere to. I write essays for a school paper in Fred. One was about my childhood being raised by Hughes; my mother Molly, my father McCarthy.

I heard about this here; read the title and first entry. I had to leave the computer for a minute; it means that much to me - surprisingly.

Here's a sad coincidence.
I just went through my mail and opened my Netflix envelopes. One of his movies was in there.
I had no idea he was behind National Lampoon's Class Reunion.

Not only a great director, He was also a great screenwriter.

I was more a fan of his adult comedy work than his Teen angst stuff. Breakfast club was great, but Planes, Trains and Automobiles, The Great outdoors and Vacation are where it's at for me.

When I think of John Hughes I'll always think

"Bueller?... Bueller?... Bueller? "

Now I'm sad there's no answer.

I'm much more sad about his passing than Michael Jackson. John Hughes created some very good & insightful movies and seemed like he was a decent, talented man, and sadly....there won't be weeks upon weeks upon weeks of stories about us loosing him or hours of footage about his contribution to the world.

And gee - John never had to defend his reputation --- ever.

Never heard of him until the news said who he was.

I was out of the country when he died and shocked to hear it when I returned.