What was John Hughes best movie as a director? May he resit in peace.

John Hughes will be greatly missed.  As a director, he made movies that truly appealed to us Gen X types of the 80's.  His films were not masterpieces, but they were smart and truly entertaining.  

He actually only directed 8 movies, as is in the poll, but he wrote and produced quite a few more:

Pretty In Pink

Some Kind of Wonderful

The Great Outdoors

Home Alone

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Other than Pretty In Pink, which is a classic Hughes films, his best work was those that he directed.  The Breakfast Club and Ferris Beuller's Day Off spoke to a generation.  He wrote about teenagers unlike those before him.  Those characters were real and complex, not just some caricature.

Even now, my Gen Y children adore his films.  Ferris and Breakfast Club are both often watched films.  It wasn't just his great stories though.  he created a whole new genre of films with this type of teenage film.  On top of this, he cast some of the best young actors of his day, many of those who did some good work after these films:

Matthew Broderick

Kevin Bacon

Emilio Estevez

Molly Ringwald

Ally Sheedy

Anthony Michael Hall

Judd Nelson

John Cryer

James Spader

Andrew McCarthy

Charlie Sheen

Robert Downey Jnr

Bill Paxton

This is one of those times, as you age, when a part of your life dies, as John Hughes was such a big part of my youth.  Seeing Matthew Broderick in the shower at the end of Ferris Beuller remains one of film highlights for me.

Special mention to the music that he used as well.   He picked some of the best music of the day, that fit so perfectly into those movies - mostly English.  Simple Minds, Don't Forget About ME cannot be listened to with thinking of the Breakfast Club.  Yello's, Oh Yeah cannot be listened to without thinking of Principal Rooney on the bus at the end of Ferris Beuller.  Oingo Boingo's, Weird Science is the movie in more than name.

As for the vote, I have real difficulty choosing between Ferris Beuller and The Breakfast Club, but when it comes down to it, I have to go Ferris..... Beuller ..... Beuller ..... Beuller ..... Beuller.

The Breakfast Club for me. I can't stand Ferris Beuller because  Matthew Broderick just pisses me off for some reason. Pretty much every movie he made after that was shit. 

The Club sir.

Ferris Beuller. That movie is very entertaining. 

I think I am asking for John Hughes to REST in peace, not RESIT in peace, but hey, if he is uncomforftable, the he should RESIT in peace  :-) 
 
Typos are funny  xD

I voted Ferris Bueller but I almost voted Uncle Buck

" I voted Ferris Bueller but I almost voted Uncle Buck "

 
Tonsarnit. I voted for Planes on instinct. Ferris Beuller is deffinitely the better choice though...

" The Breakfast Club for me. I can't stand Ferris Beuller because  Matthew Broderick just pisses me off for some reason. Pretty much every movie he made after that was shit.  "

He also wrote National Lampoon's Vacation. I voted for Planes, Trains & Automobiles. I was a big John Candy fan, and I thought that was one of his best movies.

" He also wrote National Lampoon's Vacation. I voted for Planes, Trains & Automobiles. I was a big John Candy fan, and I thought that was one of his best movies. "

I voted for Planes, Trains and Automobiles. It's one of my favourite films and I love the interaction between Steve Martin and John Candy throughout the film.
 
I feel ashamed to say it, but I haven't actually seen any of the others in the poll. As a writter, I love Home Alone 1&2 though and I find them great to watch during the Christmas period.

My choice is the Breakfast Club.  It spoke to me, as it did many of my friends, when I was in high school.  We were all in one or another of the cliques outlined in the film.  I was  "Anthony Michael Hall", but I knew "Molly Ringwald"s, "Emilio Estevez"s and "Ally Sheedy"s.  
 
Don't You Forget About Me (Simple Minds) was an anthem as we graduated and went out into the wider world.

I grew up on all his movies, but the one I consistently watch, even today, is Ferris Beuller.

" My choice is the Breakfast Club.  It spoke to me, as it did many of my friends, when I was in high school.  We were all in one or another of the cliques outlined in the film.  I was  "Anthony Michael Hall", but I knew "Molly Ringwald"s, "Emilio Estevez"s and "Ally Sheedy"s.  
 
Don't You Forget About Me (Simple Minds) was an anthem as we graduated and went out into the wider world. "

" @oldschool:  Yes, but Charlie Sheen was in Platoon and Wall Street, so he gets a buy from me on a lot of crap he's done (including his current series.)  Repo Man was great and left me asking "what the hell is in that trunk" years before I asked the same thing of Pulp Fiction's briefcase.
 
Oh, and although Ally shows the wisdom of her maturity like the rest of us, Molly is looking surprisingly sexier than ever.  What would "Ducky" say?

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" Ferris Bueller's Day Off is his best for me. "

" 3.3% for Weird Science... ouch "

Gotta go with Bueller.

Ferris buellers day off...though i don't know who john hughs is...

" The Breakfast Club for me. I can't stand Ferris Beuller because  Matthew Broderick just pisses me off for some reason. Pretty much every movie he made after that was shit.  "

To, answer the question!, Breakfast Club.

" Bueller was the only movie of his that I remotely enjoyed. Can't say I hold him that highly as a director. "

 Ferris Bueller's Day Off hands down. How can anyone not love that movie?