Comments on: So, Wassup With John Hughes?

By: kit

kit — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:16:21 +0000

@Hunter

”20 years between Bad Lands and The Thin Red Line”

no,no - 20 years between Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line
…and apologies but just to be a total smartarse it’s Badlands.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:39:42 +0000

@ Jonny

Holy crap! You weren’t kidding! Freakin’ hilarious!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:25:03 +0000

For every good Hughes movie, there was a terrible one.

But his top five or six were really pretty impressive.

By: Darren Baker

Darren Baker — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:02:45 +0000

For the edification of those not in the know, DRILLBIT TAYLOR did not ‘flop hard’, as was suggested above. The film cost about $40 mil, and in five days, has made $14 mil back worldwide. It will most likely make its budget back in theatres, and though that won’t recoup the marketing and rental expenses, you have my personal guarantee it will cover the spread, AND make a profit on DVD.

Of course, this isn’t the first time he’s written under a pseudonym - he also wrote MAID IN MANHATTAN. Yeah, I’d be using a pen name if I wrote that, too.

Here’s hoping that John Hughes, one of the top five writers of the eighties, the man who once had an ENTIRE FLOOR of the Fox Plaza (aka. The Nakatomi Building from DIE HARD) dedicated to his movies, the man who grossed $477 million against a budget of $18 million for HOME ALONE, and then seemingly gave up, comes back and starts writing again. We need some reality in this climate of terrible writing.

And just for the record, Salinger’s a mopey turd who accidentally touched a nerve with similarly mopey teens. He loses out because he never ONCE included the line, “THOSE AREN’T PILLOWS!” in his writings.

By: Jonny

Jonny — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:22:41 +0000

@Eddie
“This is the most hate filled board Iâ€™ve seen on here”

You must have missed the Billy Mitchel thread.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/03/06/did-steve-wiebe-reclaim-his-title-of-the-king-of-kong/

that was fun. :)

By: Eddie

Eddie — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:50:58 +0000

Wow! Such opinionated views! This is the most hate filled board I’ve seen on here…and all for John Hughes. That alone says home influential the guy was/is. I’d like to see him make another film, but I don’t think he needs a “comeback.” When most of his flicks still resonate today it’s more a matter of what story will he tell next…not how much money will his next flick earn so that people consider him “back in the game.” As much as I’d like to see more of his work, I’d stay in hiding if I were him. I think the critics…and some of the posters on this blog…would probably be chomping at the bits to destroy a new Hughes flick just for the sake of destroying it. Long live Hughes!

By: Jonny

Jonny — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:39:14 +0000

@ Hunter…

Don’t make me get out of this chair and assassinate you.

>:E

By: Hunter Stephenson

Hunter Stephenson — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:22:25 +0000

@ jonny

I think John Hughes should just adapt/direct Catcher in the Rye and get it over with. ;)

By: Jonny

Jonny — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:19:58 +0000

I think we should just have a Funeral for John Hughes right now and get it over with.

By: b-masty

b-masty — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:37:37 +0000

According to J.D. Salinger’s daughter’s memoir, her father writes everyday and has like 15 completed novels. He just hasn’t published anything in forever. But when he dies, a ton of unreleased stuff is going to get published and there is going to be Salinger mania. Imagine Vonnegut’s death times 50.

By: Ghost

Ghost — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:15:43 +0000

All I’m gonna ask is why? The guys list sputtered towards the end and you want him back? I’m just living day by day, getting surprised with what /film tells me is gonna come out next…

By: Christopher Edwards

Christopher Edwards — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:58:41 +0000

I would luke him to make a comeback but if the ideas that he has are stories that would of worked in the 80’s and that apateow thought that drillbitwas a idea that he could of made modern.

But I would him another try

By: Hunter Stephenson

Hunter Stephenson — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:50:04 +0000

@ Zap

Short cuts? Orly?

@ Captain Awesome

If Hughes does come back, I doubt he’d make a teen movie. I don’t want to see Hughes taking on today’s text messaging squirts and Fall Out Boy. Apatow already mentions Google once or twice every movie right? Haha. Hughes would probably come off like Zap Rowsdower up there. But something like PT&A? Sweetness. Or, uh, Dutch. Any Dutch fans?

By: sir jorge

sir jorge — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:40:47 +0000

drillbit taylor felt like a john hughes film.

By: Zap Rowsdower

Zap Rowsdower — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:40:18 +0000

LOL comedy? conecs? Hunter, please stop. You’re being completely ridiculous with these stupid abbreviations and crap. You’re paid to write, so stop taking the short cuts and write. Conecs? goddammit, how hard is it to write connections?

By: JFK

JFK — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:39:49 +0000

Uncle Buck II? Nah, there’s no topping perfection.

By: Captain Awesome

Captain Awesome — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:23:43 +0000

Isn’t this what happened with Lucas when he announced his return to film with the new SW films?

And look what we got. I see film-making like any other creative medium. If you take a long break from it, you will be rusty. Sure you won’t forget the fundamentals. But you gotta keep those muscles active.

By: Cenzo

Cenzo — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:18:13 +0000

I’d do anything to see Ferris Bueller’s Day Off II.

By: Scott Perry

Scott Perry — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:16:22 +0000

I don’t know, I’m optimistic about a John Hughes return. I’d pay to see it. If it was written under the name, John Hughes, I would go.

I mean, George Romero was pulled out of hiding to make “Land of the Dead” after zombie flicks became “the thing” in horror.

We’ll see. I would be delighted to see another teen John Hughes flick!