To anyone who thinks film critics were harsh on 80's movies, you need to read the following.
Recently, film critics Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper's TV show commented on the latest collection of the John Hughes DVD set.
I just thought I'd share this with you. Here is a portion of my transcript from the show:
quote: Richard Roeper:...And the new "High School Reunion" collection features three John Hughes movies from the skinny leather-tie era, two of them starring Molly Ringwald and all featuring Anthony Michael Hall. We got Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Weird Science. I was disappointed to find virtually no "bells or whistles" [DVD extra features]. For example, I would like to know what happened to Michael Schoeffling, who was the handsome hunk in Sixteen Candles. But these DVD editions have state-of-the-art sound and picture. Maybe we'll get more substantial treatments when we reach the 25th anniversary of movies like The Breakfast Club!
Roger Ebert: You know, the thing about John Hughes was that he really liked his characters, and he gave them values. And he gave them real moral situations they had to solve, and I kind of miss that in today's teenage movies.
Roeper: Well, we got so many bad movies, like the Freddie Prinze, Jr. movies in the late 90's, that it really made me appreciate how good the Hughes movies were 15 years earlier.
[ 26. September 2003, 13:58: Message edited by: StevenHW ]
Posted by Janette (Member # 252) on :
Wow that's great! They've finally opened their eyes!
I agree with Ebert, I think one reason why John Hughes movies did so well is because he cared about his characters and made you care about them as well. Now-a-days it's all about how much crap (ie. star power, nudity and sex) can we put in to sell this movie!
Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
Even when he was with Siskel,I always took Eberts review over Siskels when they would disagree. Really dont watch the show now,but I agree with what he just said. John Hughes movies make you feel like your reading somebodys diary. His charactors are so much more than The Jock or The Rich Girl.
Posted by Ali_with_an_i (Member # 27) on :
That's refreshing to hear. Just a side note, I always loved Jake from Sixteen Candles. I heard he quit acting and is living as a carpentar with his family.
Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
Richard Roeper is younger than most big-city film critics, and he grew up during the 80's. So that is why he identifies with the John Hughes films back then.
I remember that Roeper once said "Hughes is to 80's teen movies, what Preston Sturges was to comedy movies in the 1940's". That's a very high compliment to Hughes.
(For those of you who don't know who Preston Sturges was, he wrote and directed a lot of highly acclaimed and well-received fast-paced comedy movies during the 40's, though they weren't teen flicks.)
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