Review of Don't You Forget About Me (2010) by Grifty G — 07 Apr 2010
Terrible. Pointless.
Remember Clint Howard in Parenthood screaming, "He had no business being out there! No Business!"? Well, these "filmmakers" have no business making a documentary about John Hughes. Simply being a fan is not enough, you must have some talent as well.
4 annoying "young" filmmakers decide to make half of their John Hughes documentary about themselves trying to track him down in Chicago. The other half is basically people repeating over and over that Hughes's films still mean a lot to people because we can see ourselves in them, and all new teen films are crap.
The shame of it is, they actually got several actors and collaborator's from Hughes's teen flicks, like Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Alan Ruck, Kelly LeBrock, etc. who mostly seem to come up with few interesting stories about the man and his methods, and just focus on how he made really good movies that people still really like, which we already know.
Interviews are sprinkled with clips from the movies, which are the best part, and then they are constantly cutting back to the filmmakers sitting around trying to figure out what they're going to say if they meet John Hughes. And then they never meet him. Completely stops the mediocre doc dead in its tracks every time they show up.
NO BUSINESS! NOOO!
This review of Don't You Forget About Me (2010) was written by Grifty G on 07 Apr 2010.
Don't You Forget About Me has generally received mixed reviews.
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