Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
It has nostalgia purposes but is also just a good movie.
Sixteen Candles - Never seen it
The Breakfast Club - Didn’t like the ending
Weird Science - If I have seen it, I can’t remember it
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off - Doesn’t hold up
Planes, Trains and Automobiles - Still great fun
She’s Having A Baby - I hope I haven’t seen this
Uncle Buck - Can’t remember a single second of it
Curly Sue - This either
So it’s Planes Trains and Automobiles for me.
Sixteen Candles - Made my ass itch
The Breakfast Club - Made my ass itch
Weird Science - Made my ass itch
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off - Made my ass itch and made me want to strangle the lead character
Planes, Trains and Automobiles - Dated, but still funny
She’s Having A Baby - Made my ass itch
Uncle Buck - Not John Candy’s best, but still funny
Curly Sue - Never saw it.
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles for the win.
Of those I’ve seen, Uncle Buck is the only one of those that is a really good movie. Not seen Curly Sue or Sixteen Candles though.
I was a senior in high school when I first saw The Breakfast Club, so it’s always going to be at the top of my list. Planes, Trains is a close second.
The Breakfast Club. Being British, the cultural background and mechanics of high school were different, however I think there were plenty of common elements of alienation, cliques etc.
I rewatched FBDO with by teenage kids last year, and it didn’t age terribly well. The others I thought were Ok movies when they came out but really haven’t bothered to watch them again.
To be fair I haven’t rewatched TBC in a while either so it may not have aged well either in my eyes.
“Don’t you forget about me” is still on my rowing workout playlist though.
I’ve only seen* Ferris Beuller* and Breakfast Club. While I enjoyed BC at the time, I was already >30 so it didn’t mean that much to me. Also the whole “pick 5 students, each one an archetype for a different subgroup, and they’ll magically form deep connections in a few hours” is a couple of layers of unrealism for me.
Ferris, OTOH, is just simple, straightforward fun. Contra JC, I don’t see that he’s much of a dick. Who does he hurt, and how? No, he’s just a kid who’s living a charmed life, and knows it.
Strange, I would have bet that Planes, Trains and Automobiles would have been the clear winner.
Eczema, again? (“It’s fine.”)
The only two I’ve seen are Bueller and Breakfast Club, and I disliked both. I’ve seen the profanity-laced scene in “Planes”, though, and it was funny.
Ferris by a mile.
Showed it to my 10 and 12 year old a year or so back and they loved it.
I voted Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, but I’ve seen Ferris far more times.
“Hated” is a strong word, but I voted that option because I don’t have an ounce of affection for any of them. A few have a good moment or two, I suppose, but not in a way that I would ever want to revisit them or look back at them nostalgically.
And I was in middle/high school when they carpet-bombed the movie theaters.
For me PTaA is one of the least interesting of the bunch. (It is ahead of CS and SHaB, tied with UB, and well behind the rest.)
This. I was just a few years older than the characters in the film when it came out, so it resonated with me. I don’t think I’ve seen it in 15 years at least, so not sure if it has aged well for me.
FBDO and Breakfast Club. Whenever I hear Don’t You (Forget About Me) by Simple Minds, I am instantly transported back through time to the best year of junior high when life optimism and innocence was at an all-time peak and John Hughes movies were simply icing on a cake.
This.
I’m the exact right age. Class of 1985. I hated the Breakfast Club. I thought each one of the characters was a cartoon and nothing like the kids I was in high school with. I thought it was over the top angsty bullshit. So it didn’t resonate with everyone of the era.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is my favorite Hughes film.
Curly Sue is a cute film. My daughters and I watched it together. I rented the vhs tape.
I enjoyed all his teen comedies, which came out when I was just barely not a teen anymore. Some have aged better than others, but none really resonate with me anymore as an adult.
Never saw She’s Having a Baby or Curly Sue, and don’t really care to at this point. Uncle Buck was OK, but I don’t think it featured Candy or Hughes at their best.
Which leaves Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Not only my favorite John Hughes film, but one of my favorite films, period. I still laugh out loud when I watch it, even though I know almost every line by heart. It’s in my head whenever I travel; sometimes I feel like Neal Page and sometimes I feel like Del Griffith. It’s a classic I’ve yet to tire of, and doubt I ever will.
I still like FBDO. I have watched it many times, and it is always fun.
I only watched a few of the others, and those only once, so it’s hard to compare. I got more than enough angst at school myself; getting more at the movies was pointless.