Watched Trains, Planes and Automobiles

[Chive Turkey]

It was alright. Some good gags, some bad ones, with a lot of tepid and saccharine humor in between.

Probably my favorite out of the non-kiddy John Hughes catalogue but that's faint praise as it's done nothing to offset my growing realization that I kinda hate his work. I've been playing catch-up with alot of movies I never got to see and I like his the least. Ferris Bueller was shit. Breakfast Club was a snoozefest. All of it has this obnoxious cornball energy underlying it. I can't imagine anyone loving this shit and praising it unless you're a child of the 80s who grew up with these films and never matured since then.

Erock, comment?

 

[Meownaw]

I enjoy watching it around Thanksgiving. Ferris Bueller I like too and I only saw it for the first time last year so it's not nostalgia. *sniff*.

 

[Jims_Maroon_Pants]

I think it's the perfect Thanksgiving movie and I love it. John candy is adorable

 

[EraGodless]

It was alright. Some good gags, some bad ones, with a lot of tepid and saccharine humor in between.

Probably my favorite out of the non-kiddy John Hughes catalogue but that's faint praise as it's done nothing to offset my growing realization that I kinda hate his work. I've been playing catch-up with alot of movies I never got to see and I like his the least. Ferris Bueller was shit. Breakfast Club was a snoozefest. All of it has this obnoxious cornball energy underlying it. I can't imagine anyone loving this shit and praising it unless you're a child of the 80s who grew up with these films and never matured since then.

Erock, comment?

You wanna hurt me? Go right ahead. I'm an easy target...

 

[Dummy Gaynuts]

You wanna hurt me? Go right ahead. I'm an easy target...

"I like me", oh do ya? Nice shower curtain rings and dead wife, stupid. It's a great film

 

[TheGhostOfAbeVigoda]

I was reading this mostly in agreement and then I looked up his filmography and there's like 8 John Hughes movies I like. A lot of it is nostalgia though.

 

[EraGodless]

"I like me", oh do ya? Nice shower curtain rings and dead wife, stupid. It's a great film

It is. It's objectively good and it has aged about as well as any movie from the 80's- probably because Hughes and most writers/directors weren't trying to make "important comedy."

My dad who is relatively straight-laced was fucking dying laughing at the Steve Martin rental car scene. I don't think I have ever seen him laugh so hard--

 

[EraGodless]

I was reading this mostly in agreement and then I looked up his filmography and there's like 8 John Hughes movies I like. A lot of it is nostalgia though.

The guy was gud. He banged out the script for Vacation in like a weekend. He was also an excellent writer for National Lampoon magazine when they were actually relevant and legitimately edgy.

 

[Dummy Gaynuts]

The guy was gud. He banged out the script for Vacation in like a weekend. He was also an excellent writer for National Lampoon magazine when they were actually relevant and legitimately edgy.

"Dutch" is underrated too

 

[Queefer Sutherland]

Vacation is an asbsolute classic because it's Hughes writing and Ramis directing. Ramis was always the superior filmmaker.

 

[NortheastPhilly]

Literally my favorite movie of all time