Could've been so much better

I'm not hating on the movie. I thought it was ok. I mean it was interesting enough to watch once. My problem is that the documentary was made by a group of people who used this to try to get their names out to move onto features and maybe acting. It's like My Date with Drew. It's a gimmick documentary, rather then a documentary to explore John's life. Now it makes me wonder if that was John Hughes' house and if he really did send back their dvd and note without at least some: "Thank you, but no thank you message."

Now, someone on here brought up the fact that these college kids didn't even see the movies first run, they watched them on video. I don't have a problem with that. I mean there are filmmakers who love Kubrick who didn't see his films first run. The problem I have is that they spent 2 years on this thing and half-assed it. I mean there was no bio on who John was or where he came from. Why did he get into writing or anything like that. Also, they only focused on his high school films. I mean he wrote Vacation, which was a huge hit. And I personally am a fan of National Lampoon's Class Reunion. But the man wrote other movies. Planes' Trains and Automobiles is a classic. Uncle Buck is a great movie. So only having them talk about the high school movies, kinda doesn't give John his props as a writer.

And if I was John, I wouldn't have wanted to be in this either. I mean the documentary was kinda disrespectful to him. They want to know why he's not making movies anymore. They want to know if he knows how much the fans love his films. Even if John was going to make another movie, there was no way in hell he was going to make another high school film. Do you know what kinda of pressure would've been on him. If it didn't do well, people would've said he's lost it. Plus times have changed. I mean I'm sure he has a few screenplays still laying around about high school kids and you can probably make them and do well, but it won't have the music and that touch John had.

I just think that if you're going to make a documentary, you need to do it on the man as a whole, not one part of his life. Also you really didn't learn anything that you didn't already know. It's sad that John died and couldn't write a book or something or have a more skillful documentarian try to do a film about him. I don't think this is a bad movie, I mean it was interesting enough to see one time and kinda relive some of the moment. But the filmmakers do get pretty annoying and having them take to high school students about the movies are a joke. I mean one girl says: "My favorite Johnny Hughes movie is Ferris Bueller's Day Off." Johnny Hughes?

I think the movie is worth checking out once, but I don't think anyone will want to sit through it more than once.