Filmcricket,

Dgl,

Noel/AVCLUB, is there a Hughes Primer yet?

I should really be working right now, but I think Ferris Bueller's Day Off is pretty original. I'm a sucker for Breakfast Club.

As for his decline, I just assumed he ran out of ideas or stories he wanted to tell, or was burnt out by the studio system.

Well put Noel.

I forgot about Jennifer Connelly. Dang, she's aged well. She must be on performance enhancing drugs or something …

Hottest Girl in a Hughes Movie?
Sloan from Ferris Bueller.

Wow Louie, you're so young and hip and sarcastic!

I agree that Rushmore's depiction of sensitive asshole kids is great, but Hughes depiction of castrated adults is equally great.

hahaha!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
It's so weird to think that so many people love his movies, but he still feels under-rated. His characterizations of young people were so good.

Oh come on now. He's kitschy but not close to Kincaid-bad. Alex, for one, can actually paint.

The drop off in quality in the Simpsons can be pretty much tied to when Sam Simon and Brad Bird left. They were good writers AND understood animation.

Aragones ..
is the shit. What he does is so underrated. He should be working on the TV show, not the stinking comics.

I never thought that Nigel would foreshadow the judges' decision so blatantly by explaining it to Philip and Jeanine. Philip pretty much had a sad bastard face for the rest of the show.

I saw him in a bar in Vancouver once.
Yeah, I'm not sure why you'd care, either.

I totally called it.
It was obvious from the beginning they were trying to fix the show so Philip would get into the Top 10. His style would sell a lot of tickets on the tour. Unfortunately, he was so much worse than the other contestants at adopting other styles, that they couldn't keep saving him without looking…

FRODO: Ugh, good call.

Do the Right Thing reminds me of Pulp Fiction …
… in that they were both so masterfully crafted and universally praised, their respective directors presumed they had carte blanche to humor whatever eccentricity or bullshit indulgence they had bouncing around in their heads. They lost their ability to criticize their…