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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Or is it more Gary and Wyatt?
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I'd like to take this opportunity to ask, "What the hell happened to John Hughes?"
We're talking about the pop film genius who started his movie writing career with "Vacation" (1983), and moved on to bring us such greatness as,
inter alia, the underappreciated "Mr. Mom" (1983), the sempiternal "Sixteen Candles" (1984), "The Breakfast Club" (1985), "Weird Science" (1985), "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" (1986), and "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" (1987). And I'm skipping the ones that are merely "good" (like "Pretty in Pink") in favor of the ones that merit "great."
In other words, in four short years, the man brought us the most quotable and era-defining comedies since Neil Simon or Billy Wilder.
Then his career apparently ended.
Nothing post-1997 even approaches his prior work, even considering the commercial success of the "Home Alone" (1990, 1992, 1997, 2002) or "Beethoven" (1992, 1993, 2000, 2001, 2003) franchises. He's been living off remakes of far better movies like "101 Dalmations" and "Flubber" and even "Miracle on 34th Street."
Is it fair to blame Anthony Michael Hall's puberty?
