R.I.P

Today's post is dedicated to the memory of the late movie director John Hughes who died on August the 6th. He is, was and always will be one of our favourite directors. He is known for directing teen films The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off as well as adult classics like Planes, Trains and Automobiles (which I read is a favourite of both Steve Martin AND John Candy). We appeared in one of his movies, we made a cameo appearance in the movie Weird Science - you can see it on the dvd but you have to freeze frame that particular scene first. Concidentally in school, I was a LOT like Ferris Bueller. Me and my bro often hanged out with a group of kids after school that was a lot like Breakfast Club gang. Of course everyone could relate to the characters in his films. He liked to work with Molly Ringwald sometimes as well as Ally Sheedy, but the person he loved working with the most was John Candy who appeared in 6-7 of his films kind of like how Johnny Depp has worked with Tim Burton 7 or 8 times (btw he'll be appearing in Alice In Wonderland next year as the Mad Hatter)

The 80's was deffenately a golden era for the teen movie genre, and it was BEFORE Hannah Montana or High School Musical EVER existed.

It is hard to say which John Hughes movies we like the best, we like all of the ones he directed as well as a few of the ones he wrote/produced. Uncle Buck is probably our number 1 favourite - especially the car that makes those exploding noises.

This year was a really sad year for lovers of both movies and music, not only did MJ die but also John Hughes died as well as Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon (Johnny Carson's tonight show sidekick), and Patrick Swayze.

We will never forget about John Hughes, when we were on Amiright once we wrote a song about him - it was a parody of the song Don't You Forget About Me from the Breakfast Club - sadly when we got unjustly banned from that site for no reason all of our work got taken down including that song and several unreleased parodies including a few about Chumsley and the Doizee Club theme song. In case you're still looking for them, you can find them all on our greatest hits album.

I once took a John Hughes character personality quiz on Quizilla, my result came up as Ferris Bueller, although a few times i've gotten Clark from National Lampoon's Vacation, Neal from Planes, Trains and Automobiles and to some extent Uncle Buck Russell from Uncle Buck (which concidentally is the same result I got for the john candy character personality quiz even though sometimes I get Barfolomew from Spaceballs). For the most part I am deffenately most like Ferris Bueller. My brother took that test once and got the same results even though he got a Del Griffith once which isn't too shabby neither.


If Chumsley took that John Candy personality quiz he'd probably come across as a mixture of Uncle Buck and the Mog from Spaceballs.