DON'T YOU GO BITCH ABOUT THIS... :-) (SPOILERS!!!)

You know what, this is the best documentary about Hughes because it's the ONLY documentary about Hughes! Did anyone else try to make one??

Before people attack the end result they should at least applaud the fact that a bunch of guys got it made, stayed committed to it over two years and managed to secure good interviews with key players. If you don't think they did a good job or interviewed people you wanted to hear from, fine, go make your own documentary instead of ranting bitter unconstructive bile about theirs! How many of us make a documentary about someone we admire?

It may have lacked the closure that we all wanted and true, interviews with Ringwald, Hughes, Broderick and Hall would've sealed the deal but as a celebration of John Hughes goes, it has a lot.

Could we have had less of the film-makers themselves? Probably. But has anyone considered that due to Hughes's lack of participation the whole narrative of the film probably had to be restructured? Without the conclusive interview, the ending had to be about the film-makers accepting the legend rather than the goal....and that ending would NEVER have worked had they just been faceless drones behind a camera. Maybe they never intended to include footage of themselves outside of using it as DVD extras? Maybe they are egotistical jerks? I don't know and neither do you. We do know it took them two years of commitment to pull it off and I salute them for that and getting it out there.

As for my opinion, I liked the film-makers enough but could've seen less of them. I think the guy's obliviousness to Ted being a nerd says probably more about the connections the films made with their audience then all the teen interviews put together!
The interviews with Hughes's players revealed a lot about his process as a writer/director with as many an anecdote as a quiet very private man will dig up.
I'm a bit baffled as to what insight the 'haters' on here expected??
Stories about how Hughes had bare knuckle bar brawls or saved a child from Jeffrey Jones?? I myself, found a lot of great if not groundbreaking stories about a very non controversial film-maker.

It's analogies about teen movies of today are also very insightful. The way Hollywood markets them, the way teen celebrities are publicised and why as a result modern teen films fail to connect in a similar way. It's a very good theory and one worthy of it's own documentary.
The process of how they should approach Hughes at his home also interested me.

So I liked it. And ultimately, without the closing interview from Hughes it will always feel slightly lacking but I'm certainly glad this exists for his fans to see some great interviews with some good insight.

And to the guy who suggested Hughes never participated due to the film-makers lack of style? Did you really even get his movies at all?
The geek got the girl, the chatty pushy Del Griffith was revealed to have the biggest heart, so to suggest Hughes DIDN'T appear because of the film itself must therefore mean every film he ever wrote about an underdog succeeding or getting a chance must've been a lie.

Whatever his reasons were, I doubt they were these disreputable ones. He seemed a private family man, a shy figure and not one for taking compliments.
And maybe he felt he had nothing constructive to say about his success.

And maybe some of the people attacking this worthy if not outstanding effort could do well with taking a leaf out of his book.....