DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
1: sixteen candles it's shermer, illinois teenager molly ringwald's birthday but her family have all forgotten; with anthony michael hall and john cusack in early geek roles, and joan cusack too, plus sub-plot about a korean exchange student. good, unambitiously-made fun from writer-director hughes, the first in his loose triptych on love.
2: the breakfast club "a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess, and a criminal" are brought together one saturday morning for detention in shermer high school; each has their own story, but before they find common ground they must break down each other's defences. judd nelson is excellent as the wrong-side-of-the-tracks john bender, molly and anthony michael return, and there's ally sheedy and emilio estevez too. introduced the phrase 'hot beef injection' to britain, hall does his delta blues impression for the first time, and simple minds almost becomes bearable. i'm teary-eyed writing this. again, written and directed by hughes.
3: weird science school geeks anthony michael hall and ilan mitchell-smith turn a doll into über girlfriend kelly le brock. bill paxton is the jock big brother, robert downey jnr our heroes' arch nemesis. hall revives the delta blues thing. written and directed by hughes.
4: ferris bueller's day off things get lively, as matthew broderick's king of the truants talks to camera, wangles a day out in chicago with carol vorderman-alike girlfriend mia sara and best mate hypochondriac alan 'spin city' ruck, and avoids the enemy - shermer high's principal, jeffrey jones. 'dirty dancing's jennifer gray is excellent as ferris's angry older sister. there's yello on the soundtracks, the "put it in reverse" gag, "anyone? anyone? anyone?", the disreputable garage guys, wayne newton's 'danke schoen', great cross-cutting, and the introduction of cinematographer tak fujimoto onto the team. another written/directed effort.
5: pretty in pink po' honest harry dean stanton's daughter molly ringwald starts going to a posh high school, and gets picked on for her humble origins.annie potts and jon cryer are her best friends, whilst andrew mccarthy is rich kid she fixates on. hughes's most sophisticated script thus far, with a nice love matrix going on (it's the second in the love trilogy); directed by howard deutch, and beautifully photographed in pinks and purples by fujimoto. psychedelic furs on the soundtrack.
6: planes, trains and automobiles hughes back in w/d mode, and his first with the mighty john candy, here a jovial travelling salesman who seems to dog frustrated ad exec steve martin as he makes his way home for thanksgiving. gret performances from the leads, good sight gags, snappy dialogue, and kevin bacon is in the mix in there too.
7: some kind of wonderful the final part in the loosely defined threesome on the theme of love, with a similar plot as that in 'pip', only this time the combatants are lea thompson, eric stoltz, mary stuart masterson, and craig sheffer. hughes has the script credit, deutch returns to direct.
8: the great outdoors john candy gets the lead, as a man of modest means on holiday with his family in the country, and finding his relationships disintegrate before he claws it all back. dan aykroyd is the swanky, successful brother, and there's the whole bear subplot. deutch directs from hughes's script.
9: national lampoon's christmas vacation not great. chevy chase and beverley d'angelo are the everyman parents trying to do a traditional christmas. 'hilarious consequences' ensue. journeyman jeremiah s chechnik directs from a hughes script.
10: uncle buck candy returns as a feckless, unmarried uncle brought in to look after his brother's kids at short notice. great lark, with a young macaulay culkin as the son, gaby hoffmann as the youngest daughter, and jean louisa kelly as the feisty eldest who foils buck's relentlessly happy-go-lucky aimlessness, amy madigan is buck's put-upon girlfriend chanice. yello on the soundtrack, the meeting with the elementary school principal ("i don't think i want to know a six-year-old who isn't a dreamer, or a sillyheart!"), and bug the badboy boyfriend. a great return to writer-directing for hughes.
11: home alone macaulay culkin is accidentally left behind by his parents when they go on holiday, and foils burglars. chris columbus directs a hughes script.
12: curly sue conman james belushi teams up with li'l orphan annie type street kid alisan porter, and win the heart of some woman or other. dreadful. written and directed by hughes, but he shouldn't have bothered. really.
so, i've done the work.
now you vote!
2: the breakfast club "a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess, and a criminal" are brought together one saturday morning for detention in shermer high school; each has their own story, but before they find common ground they must break down each other's defences. judd nelson is excellent as the wrong-side-of-the-tracks john bender, molly and anthony michael return, and there's ally sheedy and emilio estevez too. introduced the phrase 'hot beef injection' to britain, hall does his delta blues impression for the first time, and simple minds almost becomes bearable. i'm teary-eyed writing this. again, written and directed by hughes.
3: weird science school geeks anthony michael hall and ilan mitchell-smith turn a doll into über girlfriend kelly le brock. bill paxton is the jock big brother, robert downey jnr our heroes' arch nemesis. hall revives the delta blues thing. written and directed by hughes.
4: ferris bueller's day off things get lively, as matthew broderick's king of the truants talks to camera, wangles a day out in chicago with carol vorderman-alike girlfriend mia sara and best mate hypochondriac alan 'spin city' ruck, and avoids the enemy - shermer high's principal, jeffrey jones. 'dirty dancing's jennifer gray is excellent as ferris's angry older sister. there's yello on the soundtracks, the "put it in reverse" gag, "anyone? anyone? anyone?", the disreputable garage guys, wayne newton's 'danke schoen', great cross-cutting, and the introduction of cinematographer tak fujimoto onto the team. another written/directed effort.
5: pretty in pink po' honest harry dean stanton's daughter molly ringwald starts going to a posh high school, and gets picked on for her humble origins.annie potts and jon cryer are her best friends, whilst andrew mccarthy is rich kid she fixates on. hughes's most sophisticated script thus far, with a nice love matrix going on (it's the second in the love trilogy); directed by howard deutch, and beautifully photographed in pinks and purples by fujimoto. psychedelic furs on the soundtrack.
6: planes, trains and automobiles hughes back in w/d mode, and his first with the mighty john candy, here a jovial travelling salesman who seems to dog frustrated ad exec steve martin as he makes his way home for thanksgiving. gret performances from the leads, good sight gags, snappy dialogue, and kevin bacon is in the mix in there too.
7: some kind of wonderful the final part in the loosely defined threesome on the theme of love, with a similar plot as that in 'pip', only this time the combatants are lea thompson, eric stoltz, mary stuart masterson, and craig sheffer. hughes has the script credit, deutch returns to direct.
8: the great outdoors john candy gets the lead, as a man of modest means on holiday with his family in the country, and finding his relationships disintegrate before he claws it all back. dan aykroyd is the swanky, successful brother, and there's the whole bear subplot. deutch directs from hughes's script.
9: national lampoon's christmas vacation not great. chevy chase and beverley d'angelo are the everyman parents trying to do a traditional christmas. 'hilarious consequences' ensue. journeyman jeremiah s chechnik directs from a hughes script.
10: uncle buck candy returns as a feckless, unmarried uncle brought in to look after his brother's kids at short notice. great lark, with a young macaulay culkin as the son, gaby hoffmann as the youngest daughter, and jean louisa kelly as the feisty eldest who foils buck's relentlessly happy-go-lucky aimlessness, amy madigan is buck's put-upon girlfriend chanice. yello on the soundtrack, the meeting with the elementary school principal ("i don't think i want to know a six-year-old who isn't a dreamer, or a sillyheart!"), and bug the badboy boyfriend. a great return to writer-directing for hughes.
11: home alone macaulay culkin is accidentally left behind by his parents when they go on holiday, and foils burglars. chris columbus directs a hughes script.
12: curly sue conman james belushi teams up with li'l orphan annie type street kid alisan porter, and win the heart of some woman or other. dreadful. written and directed by hughes, but he shouldn't have bothered. really.
so, i've done the work.
now you vote!
)
the bears... 
every time 
