Of course it was. My mistake mixing up my England World Cup tournament resentments. I probably hated 'Truly, Madly, Deeply' because of Stuart Pearce's penalty miss.
John Hughes didn't make Caddyshack, that was Harold Ramis. Brilliant film.
My favourite of Hughes' is 'Uncle Buck'. I also like 'Trains, Planes & Automobiles'. Less keen on his brat pack films and 'Home Alone', but I'd agree that he wasn't making message films. He was making entertainment...
Hughes didn't become conservative with age. He was always conservative. Where there were messages in his films, they were conservative. That's not inherently a problem, and some of his films are great fun. I'm just suggesting that an eighties republican would have been less likely to make a...
This reinterpretation has developed over the years, but if you saw it back in the middle of the decade of the individual, it's intent and impact were obvious. Nobody was celebrating Cameron. He was a supporting player. All it's fans were Ferris fans. I'd say to you what I say to everyone who...
Nothing wrong with 'The Catcher in the Rye', but you have to read it when you're the right age. Read it after you've had you're own kids and you'll just wish Holden would just realise that all of the others around him are people too, not just non playable characters in his personal video game...