Underrated comedy from the pen of John Hughes. No one knew how to use John Candy better than Hughes. He knew how to strike the perfect balance between heartfelt sincerity and lovable goofiness. Hughes didn't just know how to write teen characters, he was fantastic at capturing adults too.
"The rest of us will die of heart attacks and strokes long before ya!" If only that had been true. A heart attack took John Candy from the world almost 25 years ago but he's still remembered and adored as a gifted comic actor.
@@shawndamccormick278 I met him 11 years ago, and I got two bottles autographed by him. One bottle of Merlot 2007, and one Crystal Skull vodka. Unfortunately when I took them to my brothers place, he opened the Merlot, but I wasn't about to let the vodka be opened. Still pissed at that to this day because he didn't want his bottles opened.
In case anyone wants some copypasta: I tell you what I see when I look out there. I see the undeveloped resources of Northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. I see a syndicated development consortium exploiting over a billion and a half dollars in forest products. I see a paper mill and if the strategic metals are there, a mining operation. A greenbelt between the condos on the lake and a waste management facility focusing on the newest rage in toxic waste, medical refuse. Infected bandages, body parts, IV tubing, contaminated glassware, entrails, syringes, fluids, blood, low grade radioactive waste all safely contained sunken in the lake and sealed for centuries. Now I ask you what do you see?
I see trees. I'm watching this on CMT with the captions on, for some reason they didn't include the word "entrails." You've provided a good service for the deaf.
There isn't a single movie the GREAT John Candy did that a person couldn't love he was just a master of a scene. John you were and still are today one of the greatest and you may be gone but you will never be forgotten. RIP You Gentle Giant
More and more I tend to leave new cinema and turn back to 80s and early 90s movies. There is something calm and soothing about them. Uncle Buck is an excellent example of a light comedy movie that warmth you up. I can't remember a movie made by 2000 that would have the same effect on me.
I get anxiety watching todays "comedy" movies. Hollywood believes movies have to be vulgar to be funny. There is very few family friendly movies anymore. Ill stick with 80s and 90s when it comes to watching a wholesome comedy. Hollywood likes to insult its viewers intelligents.
@@uh0oo i think they really dont care about our feelings. It is the last step of corporatism in movie industry, they follow unified, standardized steps and check lists of what movie has to have and that's all they care about.
One of my favorite movies staring two GREAT iconic Canadian legendary comics from Saturday Night Live and Second City Television Dan Ackroyd and the Late Great John Candy...
Hilarious scene.... one of my faves. "Rest of us will probably die of heart attacks and strokes long before ya!" "HAHA, I hope so, wouldn't that be great? Bunch of people drop dead that ya hate." LMAO
In this type of sitaution, Dan Akroyd would be my friend rambling on a big ass monologues with extended vocab, and I would be like John candy. "Uh...I see trees".
I have an uncle, who after my parents, and brother and I watched this, we said that he is our uncle Roman. My uncle acts identical to Dan Akroyd in this movie.
That actually is a very beautiful area. They pass it off in the film as Wisconsin, but in actuality, it's The Pines near Bass Lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. It's about two hours from Fresno, and the area still looks a lot like it did in the movie.
"Nah nah nah, you said it Chester, DO IT ON THE FLOOR!!!" lol. I have the T-shirt that Wally the innkeeper wears : I've Been To Duluth. People stop me and laugh, lots of people love this movie.
This has been on the movie channels recently, watched about half of it for the billionth time this morn. Funniest Candy part was when the horse ran away from him and they cut to him looking like death as he walks towards the rest of them. He's got a gaping frown and scratches and sweat all over his face. Older son says, "What's wrong with his mouth?!"
Unfortunately Dan Aykroyd predicted what would happen to John Candy years later. I met Dan 11 years ago, but I also wish I could have met John. If I wasn't so starstruck, I would have asked him what John Candy was like off camera.
You left out the best part at the end. "I hope so wouldn't that be great Seeing a bunch of people you hate drop dead from heart attacks and strokes" hahahaha well better get the ole bbq going. Hilarious.
I'm watching a rerun of this (October 2020) on CMT, they edited out the entire part about dying young of heart attacks and strokes. Out of respect for Candy I would guess.
Haaahaha bless your heart for noticing the glove-cigs!!! My dad used to wear those tight brown “driving” gloves with the holes on the knuckles and Velcro strap whilst cruising the strip in his Maroon Tornado, tight perm and moustache trimmed on the upper lip lmao.
@@jeremyhendricks5734 Clove, but I get what you meant. Clove cigs (brown ones w/ distinctive smell) are banned in the US (flavored cig ban), and I dunno when they were, but I can even remember the last time I ever smelled someone smoking one in public. It was in May of 94 at Magic Mountain in Calif (The Wally World one) on our "Senior ditch day" and my friends and I were in line to ride the then-Batman ride. Someone ahead of us was smoking it. I hadn't smelled that distinctive smell for years before that and never since. They actually smelled nice, like flavored pipe tobacco. Now peeps have to smuggle foreign ones in to have them at all, but they're an obscure thing that any American under 45 years of age at bare minimum prob isn't even aware of. And when they were around, they weren't terribly common. Teens liked them, but it's not like they were ever as popular as menthols.
Syndicated development consortium denuding the landscape with a paper mill and medical waste refuse to pollute the lake now obscured by condos. Lol. Only the mind of Aykroyd could come up w/ that sh. Reminds me of his techno talk in Ghostbusters.
I ...er.... I just see trees ! Have you seen my ass lately? No not recently ...😁 Well I'll be picking splinters out of it from now until the day I die ! 🤣 I haven't seen this movie in so long still funny !
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Danny is riffing to candy... if u catch candy subtext.. he steals the scene. Content is not its 2 friends trying crack each other up. Even the DP (C WHERE U WENT) 2 Camara scene with friends laughing wondering if u ever got the joke
