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RIP to Mr. John Hughes.

Sad to think that another icon of life in the 80's has passed away - obviously the god of the 80's are not happy! How may we appease you, so that we that don't lose any more great artists who brought us joy in the decade of awesome???

Anyways, I just wanted to say that John Hughes was great. Even if he hadn't actually made a movie since 1991 (according to IMDB he was still writing under the name Edmond Dantes though). Seriously, I had no idea! Despite that, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles were core parts of growing up in the 80's. To this day I still remember the first time I watched The Breakfast Club when it was shown on TV, and they edited Judd Nelson's line of "Eat. My. Shorts." to "Eat. My. Shoes." Because somehow that was less offensive??? Still a great movie and def not the sort of thing Hollywood would try and attempt again - 5 kids stuck in a room all day with no other characters except a jackass of a principal.

And Sixteen Candles is just pure gold. Very easy to forget how funny that movie really is; I watched it with some friends a couple of years ago (they are a few years younger than me and had never even heard of it) and they were cracking up the whole way through. Good to see it still has relevance.

Thank you Mr. Hughes for all the memories.