John Candy: I Like Me (2025)

Homsar

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Khane said:
John Candy was very underappreciated and most of the movies he was in were kinda low rent which is probably why. He was great but if you go back through the catalog most of those films just aren't very good to be perfectly honest.

Planes Trains and Automobiles is a great movie though and even Steve Martin actually acted for it instead of being his normal caricature personality.
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He only had a brief moment. He was in everything for maybe 10 years and then partying got to him. As much as Bruce willis doesn't have acting chops, its wild of how many classics he's in
 
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Bald Brah said:
Did it go into him being a coke guzzling whore monger?
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Of course
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Homsar said:
He only had a brief moment. He was in everything for maybe 10 years and then partying got to him. As much as Bruce willis doesn't have acting chops, its wild of how many classics he's in
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He had a couple decades of excellent work. I loved SCTV reruns in the 80s and 90s. John Candy was excellent in every movie he was in, and it was a fuckload of them. Even the tiny bit parts, he knocked them all out of the park.
 
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Gravel

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Man, this one was a really fucking depressing movie.

Not the least of which is helped that they start it with his funeral and eulogy (by Aykroyd, and then the movie ends with O'Hara's eulogy), but then constantly has this fucking reverse countdown to 1994 for his death. In case you didn't forget he's dead, they remind you every few minutes.

The one surprise to me was something Macaulay Culkin said, that John Candy was in more John Hughes movies than anyone else, and it wasn't even close (and apparently the two of them were very close friends). Like, looking back at it, it's very obvious, but it's one of those things you don't immediately think about. Mostly probably because when you think John Hughes you really think Brat pack movies. Or, that Culkin was in as many Hughes movies as Molly Ringwald, which I thought was funny.

In case you're wondering:
National Lampoon's Vacation
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
She's Having a Baby
The Great Outdoors
Uncle Buck
Home Alone
Career Opportunities
Only The Lonely

Culkin stated 9, but I'm not sure what the 9th one is.
 
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Gravel said:
Man, this one was a really fucking depressing movie.

Not the least of which is helped that they start it with his funeral and eulogy (by Aykroyd, and then the movie ends with O'Hara's eulogy), but then constantly has this fucking reverse countdown to 1994 for his death. In case you didn't forget he's dead, they remind you every few minutes.
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Oh. That's a strange way to go about celebrating the man. Start! FUNERAL. End! FUNERAL .
 
Gravel

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It's very, very short on laughs. You'd be better served watching a 10 minute "Best of" clip on YouTube.

But it was interesting hearing all the people who knew him forever talk about him. It's more biopic than celebration of.
 
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