I may be too old to really appreciate John Hughes, but I am very big on the Ferris Bueller love. I'm afraid all the other high school movies make me very twitchy.
And I wonder, what possible catastrophe came crashing down from heaven and brought this dashing stranger to tears?
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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Connie Neil - Aug 06, 2009 1:11:54 pm PDT #3403 of 30000
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erikaj - Aug 06, 2009 1:27:15 pm PDT #3404 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
How did I not know he was an ASU alumnus? I mean, since I am too, albeit during his, like, Salinger period. But it still seems like Alumni Office FAIL that I found that out on a wiki...we have so little to be proud of.
Glamcookie - Aug 06, 2009 1:43:28 pm PDT #3405 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Sixteen Candles for sure for me. I liked all of them back in the day, but that's the only one I'll stop and watch if I come across it as I'm channel surfing. What teenage girl couldn't relate to Sam (and secretly hope for some Jake Ryan action)?
P.M. Marc - Aug 06, 2009 2:07:52 pm PDT #3406 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Ferris. Breakfast Club second. Love them both.
Pretty in Pink, OTOH, causes me to go into feminist rage black outs. Also, PEOPLE? DUCKIE IS A "NICE GUY" WHAT DO YOU SEE IN HIM?
(Err, I wasn't kidding about the rage black outs. That movie makes me Uwe Boll angry.)
Tom Scola - Aug 06, 2009 2:12:21 pm PDT #3407 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Not to mention the Annie Potts antimakeover.
P.M. Marc - Aug 06, 2009 2:12:56 pm PDT #3408 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Not to mention the Annie Potts antimakeover.
OMGFLAMESONTHESIDEOFMYFACE!!!!
Yeah. Err. That too.
le nubian - Aug 06, 2009 2:19:04 pm PDT #3409 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
We have some Ferris Bueller haters here in buffista-land, but I still love that movie.
I was sorry to hear John Hughes died - and so young. I was in junior high school when I saw "The Breakfast Club" for the first and high school for "Ferris Bueller", "16 Candles" and "Pretty In Pink" (worst.ending.ever)
My friend and I saw "Some Kind of Wonderful" (also high school) and cried and cried during the movie - she was in love with her male best friend and related just a little too much to the movie.
I feel like this summer, my youth is literally dying off.
I don't like it.
erikaj - Aug 06, 2009 2:24:16 pm PDT #3410 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
I bet Annie Potts dumped yuppie boy and went back to dressing weird.(I've always been sort of tempted to write a Graduate style fic about her and The Duck, anyways...a year or two in the future or something.)
Laga - Aug 06, 2009 2:25:01 pm PDT #3411 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I always hated Long Duck Dong. Then I heard an interview with the actor who'd played him and I felt terrible for him.
le nubian - Aug 06, 2009 2:25:39 pm PDT #3412 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Laga,
what did the actor have to say?