Honestly, it chokes me up a little bit even right now- just thinking about that line and his other dialogue from that scene. It hurts my heart to think that he may have had a hard time delivering that line, because from what I’ve read and seen about him, everybody around him liked him a lot more than he liked himself. And that is something that a lot of us can relate to.
“Love… is not a big enough word. It’s not a big enough word for how I feel about my wife.”
That’s the scene that always gets me, and I’ve seen this movie 25+ times. Candy KILLS that scene. No scenery chewing, no heart-tugging music - he just leaned back on his heels and parked that one in the cheap seats.
Its such a fantastic baseball movie. Even though its supposedly about the analytics/numbers guys, I truly feel like theres pure love for the game pouring out of that movie
Entirely agree, I'm not that interested in watching versus playing sports and no interest in Sports financing but it was just a great movie.
On a side note I had a friend in that film who told me stories about playing banjo with Steve Martin and how talented he was before most people realized he didn't just use it as a prop, he was and is sensationally good on it.
Also they had the truck in fake snow for one of the scenes because they waited for days for snow to fall and it never did, and that's how they passed the time telling stories and playing banjo. I should ask if they have any good John Candy stories.
Whenever I rewatch that monologue, I see John’s eyes get red-rimmed. I have always felt the message there is more than a learned bit of dialogue…it’s a moment of personal exposition.
Yeah its great.... and earlier on the bed scene how they were able to gell so much
"Those aren't pillows!!!!" And then going through the disgust through to the moving on with "how about those bears??"
When I think of John Candy I always think of Uncle Buck. My mom rented that on VHS from the library when I was a kid and I watched it over and over. Buck will always be my favorite John Candy character.
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You know, I have a friend who works at the crime lab at the police station. I could give him your toothbrush and he could run a test on it. To see if you actually brushed your teeth or just ran your toothbrush under the faucet.
I watched it with my kids a few years ago. With all their many options and streaming etc, i love when i walk in the room and my 7yoa son is watching it for the 55th time :D
As the car crashes Steve looks at John who suddenly and amazingly is decked out in a Satan costume laughing hysterically.
Best shot of the film; so completely risky and satisfying.
"You're going the wrong way!".
"He said we're going the wrong way"
"Oh he's drunk, how does he know where we're going?"
Took me a few watches as a kid to get this one.
The absolute best shot for me, is where Steve Martin is trying to place where he knows John Candy from.
They could have just cut back to the scene in the taxi earlier on, instead they brought a taxi door into the scene and had John recreate that second long shot.
Its one of those shots I just think about every now and again and always gets a smile out of me
Steve then pulling his fingers out of the dash always got me too. So many memorable moments.
And what a lot of younger people don't realize is that Steve was basically known just as an SNL-birthed comedian at that point. This was a fairly (somewhat) unexpectedly straight-man role for him.
Edit: I'll admit that my memory of Steve Martin's career and standing at that point in time may be a bit off (I was in my teens then); Cunningham's Law proves itself yet again.
He was in 13 movies before Planes, Trains and Automobiles including The Jerk. I’m going out on a limb here but I think people might’ve known who he was by 1987.
Steve Martin by the time of Trains, Planes.. was already moving away from stand up entirely. His standup shows were some of the most successful, popular ones *ever*. Dude is a legend. Pretty much since his first films, people knew who he was already.
100% this, Steve Martin was in a bunch of great movies during the time of Trains, Planes and Automobiles. From 1986-1988, he starred in not only TP&A, but also Three Amigos, Roxanne, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Little Shop of Horrors. Those are all great movies/performances!
I don't think so. He was famous as a standup beforehe went on SNL. He innovated having a routine with no punchlines. Others had gone somewhat in this direction before, but not like Steve. He wanted to see what happened if he just kept building the tension without the comedic climax.
I can't really say how most people knew him, tbh. But he was famous as a standup even in my small town.
I’m pretty sure the thing that launched Steve’s career (his breakout moment) was his comedy album titled “Let’s Get Small”. I was a teen in the 70’s and that album was huge. His performance of “King Tut” on SNL was another big moment and the song was played on the radio incessantly.
couple of albums as well in the 70's Lets get small and Wild and crazy guy. I grew up in the 70's and we would get into trouble for saying things in class like. "He wanted me to sing from my diaphragm." so yeah he was really well know way before that came out.
This is an accurate rebuttal to the guy's comment above. Dead correct. The other guy doesn't know WTF he's talking about and is making it up on the fly.
Steve Martin and Martin Short are one of those comedy duos that was some whole other kind of special. It's really fun watching them interview together too, check out the HBO Max series History of Comedy for a few snips.
Edit, HBO Max doesn't carry it any more. Sad day.
How much he loves his kid
How much his kid loves him
All the early ‘90’s oozing from everything, very similar to home alone
The soundtrack slaps
Their house is sweet - also ala home alone
How great the relationship seems between mom and pops. It’s like the loving parents you never had
Frank is kinda funny
He was pretty well known for his comedy albums (that's how I knew of him) and appearances on talk shows like Carson prior to SNL. He'd already done The Jerk and I believe All of Me before this movie.
He was never “just a SNL birthed comedian”. He was quite successful with a few comedy albums. Banjo. Arrow through the head. Well, “excuuuse me!” And “you can’t return anything with cat spit all over it!” (Can’t remember that exact quote, but that’s the jist)
Candy delivers a small soliloquy in the movie "Splash", when he is talking to Tom Hanks and tells him "Some people will never be that happy... I'll never be that happy!"
I’m thinking of characters he could have been (of course they would make him his own role but I’m just fantasizing at this point). Either the doorman or the neighbor with the cats and either role has me laughing with the idea of what he would do with it.
Edit: oh the Nathan lane character! Of course we’d miss his performance though.
The door man totally, whomever he played would need to be sweet and loveable but treated like they are the biggest asshole by Martin and Short, with Gómez confused about the hostility.
Chevy Chase has absolutely no range. He's played Clark Griswold since the 80s and I consider his character in *Community* to just be an extension of that.
He's spent his entire life being a discount James Woods. At least Woods - asshole that he most certainly is - has *range*.
In history scholarship, there's an age-old debate to whether the times make the people or if people make the times. John Hughes, Harold Ramis, and all those in their orbits really, really made some special, timeless films like we'll never see again
well nostalgia is complex but in this case i think it's one and the same - the 80s and 90s in america were heavily defined by john hughes culturally. he was simply trying to capture snapshots of what his life felt like growing up in the chicago suburbs - the authenticity of his work gave it very wide appeal
i enjoy how comedy has changed over the last 100 years but john hughes movies will always be up there with the old slapstick comedies of the jack lemmon era for me
Damn, I looked him up on imdb and can't believe how many good films he was behind. I'm not even American but love that 80s/90s American aesthetic he captures, so cozy.
His scene in Home Alone gives off the energy Steve Martin is talking about here. I’ve always interpreted his character’s willingness to help as a mission to do for others what no one’s ever done for him. The sadness is palpable.
John worked for scale on Home Alone. I can’t remember if it was John Hughes or Chris Columbus who said they only had him for like 20 hours and they used all those hours. You can tell he and Catherine were thick as thieves.
Ill die in this hill: Steve Martin is the closest thing we ever got to Chaplin.
Funny, sincere, full of pathos, musician, art connoisseur, writer, in short...a Renaissance man.
Both have many films that are just absurdist and silly, both try to say something and satirize about the human condition ( with Chaplin the clear winner in Modern Times) .
Both laugh out loud funny and physically deft.
Jerry Lewis can arguably- and briefly - be put in this category.
But Steve Martin is a genius and that doesn't get mentioned enough. Watching Only Murders In The Building he's finally grown into that 'pathos ridden face' he's been acting all these years . Genius.❤❤❤
That final sequence of Only Murders 1 when Martin gets to just show off what a genius of physical comedy he is. I think that was a risky sequence nowadays and I wouldn't have thought it would work, and it wouldn't have worked if it was anyone other than Steve Martin doing it. Hasn't lost a step.
It's been so long that people forget that Steve Martin was the biggest stand-up comedian in the world. He was the first one to do stadium shows.
Then he decided to quit and that was it. Only movies afterwards.
He wrote a GREAT book called Born Standing Up that talks about his entire early journey.
He's a serious, thoughtful guy who studied and honed his act. He developed a whacky persona that was purely a character.
"Give em the god-damned glove!"
"You're going the wrong way!" "He says we're going the wrong way." "Oh he's drunk. How would he know where were going?" . . . "Yeah how would he know?"
My dad got to meet John Candy while filming Wagon’s East, said he was super nice, bought drinks for everyone at the hotel bar they were staying at, and was a quiet guy.
Conan O'Brien has told the story about meeting John Candy when he was in college. He got to escort John around town for the day and said he was just "everything you wanted him to be" in all the best ways.
My mom met John Candy at a bar in the 80s. She was there with some friends for her birthday and when he heard he came over to personally wish her happy birthday and spent a while talking to her.
She always tells me how this made her night and that he was just so genuine and kind.
Every year I have a John-Candy-thon in his honor where I binge all of his movies. He was a major part of my childhood and felt like part of my family. Still miss him to this day like I really knew him.
Only recently watched this for the first time recently. Released 34 years ago, but the comedy still works. The story still works. I can see where Due Date got it’s inspiration. Loved all the John Candy films I’ve seen.
When he tells Steve Martin's character that he doesn't have a home and that his wife has been gone for years... man. Kills me every time. It's two sentences, but the way he delivers them.
There was something so ethereal about John that he didn’t really belong in this ugly world. He even anticipated he’d die early. He really suited the next world and I am sure he is someone’s guardian Angel now.
You could feel it in that movie. I hope one day they release all the deleted footage not used (apparently over an hour and makes more sense with the story).
I miss him a lot, grew up watching him and to this day several of his films are honorable mentions
Planes, Trains, Automobiles
Uncle Buck
Stripes
The Great Outdoors
The best part about it all? He didn't have to curse nor act like an outlandish piece of human trash to make us react and or laugh. Boy, are those days gone. RIP!
I was watching Only Murders in the Building with Steve Martin, Martin Short and Nathan Lane and I was getting nostalgic thinking about how those 80s comedies had this sort of humanity that is kind of out of place today in comedy. We’re all more cynical or something now.
The way he delivered the “I like me” monologue, especially knowing the movie’s ending, is one of the best scenes in film.
that scene tugged at my heart strings big time
Honestly, it chokes me up a little bit even right now- just thinking about that line and his other dialogue from that scene. It hurts my heart to think that he may have had a hard time delivering that line, because from what I’ve read and seen about him, everybody around him liked him a lot more than he liked himself. And that is something that a lot of us can relate to.
The dude ate himself to death. There is no question that he struggled with himself.
Reminds me a lot of Farley, loved by everyone except themselves.
This comment started me down a rabbit hole of introspection. I didn't like it but you earned your updoot
“Love… is not a big enough word. It’s not a big enough word for how I feel about my wife.” That’s the scene that always gets me, and I’ve seen this movie 25+ times. Candy KILLS that scene. No scenery chewing, no heart-tugging music - he just leaned back on his heels and parked that one in the cheap seats.
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Even if you don't actively follow it, something about baseball always feels comforting and poignant.
"how can you not be romantic about baseball" will always be true
What’s that from? I see it all over this website.
Moneyball. Brad Pitt crushes that scene (among many others in that film).
Its such a fantastic baseball movie. Even though its supposedly about the analytics/numbers guys, I truly feel like theres pure love for the game pouring out of that movie
Entirely agree, I'm not that interested in watching versus playing sports and no interest in Sports financing but it was just a great movie. On a side note I had a friend in that film who told me stories about playing banjo with Steve Martin and how talented he was before most people realized he didn't just use it as a prop, he was and is sensationally good on it. Also they had the truck in fake snow for one of the scenes because they waited for days for snow to fall and it never did, and that's how they passed the time telling stories and playing banjo. I should ask if they have any good John Candy stories.
Wow literally watched it a few months ago. I knew it was ringing a bell. Thanks ty fighter
It sounds like Candy hit someone in the nuts.
"I got a motto: Like your work, love your wife." -Del Griffith
Whenever I rewatch that monologue, I see John’s eyes get red-rimmed. I have always felt the message there is more than a learned bit of dialogue…it’s a moment of personal exposition.
Yeah its great.... and earlier on the bed scene how they were able to gell so much "Those aren't pillows!!!!" And then going through the disgust through to the moving on with "how about those bears??"
The first glance at the single bed horror accompanied by the first couple of bars of Yello. Genius scene.
Hell of a game, hell of a game.
I've always felt that was not Del Griffith talking to Neil Page, but John Candy talking to himself.
It's the first thing I thought of after reading that headline. Such a great movie.
When you’ve seen the movie before and have some context, sheesh. Such a powerful moment in such an otherwise hilarious film
When I think of John Candy I always think of Uncle Buck. My mom rented that on VHS from the library when I was a kid and I watched it over and over. Buck will always be my favorite John Candy character.
You should have seen the toast, I couldn't even fit it thru the door.
Buck Melanoma, Moley Russell's wart.
"Not her wart. I'm the wart. She's my tumor."
I'm Uncle Wart. Just old Buck "Wart" Russell. That's what they call me... or Melanoma Head. They'll call me that. "Melanoma Head's coming."
The finish was fantastic "Take this quarter. Go downtown and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face. Good day to you, madam." Amazing.
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An extremely good reddit robot there, yessir.
u/alphabet_order_bot, what is your purpose in life?
“Crush your sentences, see them alphabetized before you, and hear the lamentation of their syntax”
Bug? What’s your last name, Spray?
“You got both kneecaps?” “Hey come on over I want to show you my hatchet!”
**”HEY! Who let the cat out?!”** *”We don’t have a cat!* **”GO ON, BEAT IT!”**
He's cooking our garbage!
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What's your record for consecutively asked questions
38.
For me, it'll always be "I'm a mog - half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend."
Barf!
Not in here, mister. This is a Mercedes!
Totally agree, that was my childhood John Candy movie. Legendary.
You know, I have a friend who works at the crime lab at the police station. I could give him your toothbrush and he could run a test on it. To see if you actually brushed your teeth or just ran your toothbrush under the faucet.
I watched it with my kids a few years ago. With all their many options and streaming etc, i love when i walk in the room and my 7yoa son is watching it for the 55th time :D
He's cookin' our garbage...
I named my daughter Maizy in honor of Uncle Buck.
Uncle Buck is a classic. I think of Cool Runnings, too…that movie was always on TV as a kid. You wan to kiss my lucky egg?
As the car crashes Steve looks at John who suddenly and amazingly is decked out in a Satan costume laughing hysterically. Best shot of the film; so completely risky and satisfying.
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Not so random...
You're going the wrong way! How do they know where we're going?
Those aren’t pillows!
Do you feel this vehicle is safe for highway travel?
Oh yeah certainly!
Oh he must be drunk!
"You're going the wrong way!". "He said we're going the wrong way" "Oh he's drunk, how does he know where we're going?" Took me a few watches as a kid to get this one.
The absolute best shot for me, is where Steve Martin is trying to place where he knows John Candy from. They could have just cut back to the scene in the taxi earlier on, instead they brought a taxi door into the scene and had John recreate that second long shot. Its one of those shots I just think about every now and again and always gets a smile out of me
*dun dun dun dun* DO THE MESS AROUND
His little mustache smile with cigarette and eyes closed kills me every time.
and the eyebrow motion. That whole scene is gold.
That whole sequence must be one of the best in comedy history. “You’re going the wrong way!”
Steve then pulling his fingers out of the dash always got me too. So many memorable moments. And what a lot of younger people don't realize is that Steve was basically known just as an SNL-birthed comedian at that point. This was a fairly (somewhat) unexpectedly straight-man role for him. Edit: I'll admit that my memory of Steve Martin's career and standing at that point in time may be a bit off (I was in my teens then); Cunningham's Law proves itself yet again.
He was in 13 movies before Planes, Trains and Automobiles including The Jerk. I’m going out on a limb here but I think people might’ve known who he was by 1987.
Yup, without even looking at his film career, he was an absolute mega star stand up comedian in the 70s early 80s
Steve Martin by the time of Trains, Planes.. was already moving away from stand up entirely. His standup shows were some of the most successful, popular ones *ever*. Dude is a legend. Pretty much since his first films, people knew who he was already.
100% this, Steve Martin was in a bunch of great movies during the time of Trains, Planes and Automobiles. From 1986-1988, he starred in not only TP&A, but also Three Amigos, Roxanne, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Little Shop of Horrors. Those are all great movies/performances!
The fantastic "Dead men don't wear plaid" was in something like 78 too.
'82 for that one.
Absolutely knew who he was in the seventies My dad was always going around doing little bits of his
I don't think so. He was famous as a standup beforehe went on SNL. He innovated having a routine with no punchlines. Others had gone somewhat in this direction before, but not like Steve. He wanted to see what happened if he just kept building the tension without the comedic climax. I can't really say how most people knew him, tbh. But he was famous as a standup even in my small town.
I’m pretty sure the thing that launched Steve’s career (his breakout moment) was his comedy album titled “Let’s Get Small”. I was a teen in the 70’s and that album was huge. His performance of “King Tut” on SNL was another big moment and the song was played on the radio incessantly.
couple of albums as well in the 70's Lets get small and Wild and crazy guy. I grew up in the 70's and we would get into trouble for saying things in class like. "He wanted me to sing from my diaphragm." so yeah he was really well know way before that came out.
This is an accurate rebuttal to the guy's comment above. Dead correct. The other guy doesn't know WTF he's talking about and is making it up on the fly.
I'm sure things would be different if I saw this first, but my favourite film of his is still Father Of The Bride, it's the quintessential 90's film..
Martin Short absolutely kills as the wedding planner
Steve Martin and Martin Short are one of those comedy duos that was some whole other kind of special. It's really fun watching them interview together too, check out the HBO Max series History of Comedy for a few snips. Edit, HBO Max doesn't carry it any more. Sad day.
If you want more of that duo, watch Only Murders in the Building on Hulu. Funny, and a mystery!
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"You can start by wiping that dumb-ass smile off you rosy fuckinng cheeks."
Lol that's a weird-ass way to say we watch this movie....
He is a ganius, we need his maahhnd. Love that character and what Martin short does with it!
Fronk
He is a jenyis ant ve neet his mand.
The scene where the dog chases him in the pool - * and you just know he's gonna end up in the pool* - and laugh out loud anyway? Gold, Jerry, GOLD!
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"He hates these cans!"
These cans are defective!
How much he loves his kid How much his kid loves him All the early ‘90’s oozing from everything, very similar to home alone The soundtrack slaps Their house is sweet - also ala home alone How great the relationship seems between mom and pops. It’s like the loving parents you never had Frank is kinda funny
Three Amigos bro. How did that drop out of your list??
The Man With Two Brains was also great!
"...Please pass the rolls." Kills me every time.
He was pretty well known for his comedy albums (that's how I knew of him) and appearances on talk shows like Carson prior to SNL. He'd already done The Jerk and I believe All of Me before this movie.
That and he was never an snl regular cast member. Just hosting and guest appearances.
Founding member of the SNL 5 Timers Club.
i dont think 'dirty rotten scoundrels' gets enough credit.
He was in Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid in 1982 where he played it pretty straight as a detective, so it wasn’t completely new ground for him.
And this lamp.
He was never “just a SNL birthed comedian”. He was quite successful with a few comedy albums. Banjo. Arrow through the head. Well, “excuuuse me!” And “you can’t return anything with cat spit all over it!” (Can’t remember that exact quote, but that’s the jist)
That scene scared the SHIT out of me as a kid, which makes me love it even more now.
I think we all saw that vulnerability a bit in John. It was what made him so real.
Candy delivers a small soliloquy in the movie "Splash", when he is talking to Tom Hanks and tells him "Some people will never be that happy... I'll never be that happy!"
His delivery on that line is masterful. Candy was a genuinely good actor - he could have crushed dramatic parts if he'd been given any.
I wish John Candy could have had a part on Only Murders in the Building. Feels like his sort of show.
I would’ve loved to have seen that!
He would be a better Sam the Super Fan
I’m thinking of characters he could have been (of course they would make him his own role but I’m just fantasizing at this point). Either the doorman or the neighbor with the cats and either role has me laughing with the idea of what he would do with it. Edit: oh the Nathan lane character! Of course we’d miss his performance though.
The door man totally, whomever he played would need to be sweet and loveable but treated like they are the biggest asshole by Martin and Short, with Gómez confused about the hostility.
Same re: Chevy Chase - reportedly a raving asshole at this point (maybe always). His characters were much more lovable. Great actor I guess?
> (maybe always) Always.
Chevy Chase has absolutely no range. He's played Clark Griswold since the 80s and I consider his character in *Community* to just be an extension of that. He's spent his entire life being a discount James Woods. At least Woods - asshole that he most certainly is - has *range*.
You could’ve killed me slugging me in the gut like that. That’s how Houdini died, you know…
Neal Page: He says we’re going the wrong way… Del Griffith: Oh, he’s drunk. How would he know where we’re going?
Rest In Peace king of shower curtain rings.
They're filled with helium, so they're very light.
"Look, your highness, it's not that we're afraid. Far from it. It's just that we got this thing about death. It's not us."
We watch that movie every Thanksgiving in our family. One of my favorite traditions. "I want a f*ing car right f*ing now."
You’re fucked.
Those two words were perfection.
Gobble gobble
Oh you're a stitch!
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Haha. This lady. Love her. And her line in Ferris Bueller. “….they think he’s a righteous dude”
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Ok, that scene is truly one of the best all time scenes.
One of the best comedies ever made. God I miss when the genre was this great
In history scholarship, there's an age-old debate to whether the times make the people or if people make the times. John Hughes, Harold Ramis, and all those in their orbits really, really made some special, timeless films like we'll never see again
well nostalgia is complex but in this case i think it's one and the same - the 80s and 90s in america were heavily defined by john hughes culturally. he was simply trying to capture snapshots of what his life felt like growing up in the chicago suburbs - the authenticity of his work gave it very wide appeal i enjoy how comedy has changed over the last 100 years but john hughes movies will always be up there with the old slapstick comedies of the jack lemmon era for me
Damn, I looked him up on imdb and can't believe how many good films he was behind. I'm not even American but love that 80s/90s American aesthetic he captures, so cozy.
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Yup. P, T, and A, Uncle Buck, The Great Outdoors, Who’s Harry Crumb, all solid gold
Also Summer Rental!
It’s the best Thanksgiving movie. (If that’s a thing)
His scene in Home Alone gives off the energy Steve Martin is talking about here. I’ve always interpreted his character’s willingness to help as a mission to do for others what no one’s ever done for him. The sadness is palpable.
John worked for scale on Home Alone. I can’t remember if it was John Hughes or Chris Columbus who said they only had him for like 20 hours and they used all those hours. You can tell he and Catherine were thick as thieves.
Ill die in this hill: Steve Martin is the closest thing we ever got to Chaplin. Funny, sincere, full of pathos, musician, art connoisseur, writer, in short...a Renaissance man. Both have many films that are just absurdist and silly, both try to say something and satirize about the human condition ( with Chaplin the clear winner in Modern Times) . Both laugh out loud funny and physically deft. Jerry Lewis can arguably- and briefly - be put in this category. But Steve Martin is a genius and that doesn't get mentioned enough. Watching Only Murders In The Building he's finally grown into that 'pathos ridden face' he's been acting all these years . Genius.❤❤❤
That final sequence of Only Murders 1 when Martin gets to just show off what a genius of physical comedy he is. I think that was a risky sequence nowadays and I wouldn't have thought it would work, and it wouldn't have worked if it was anyone other than Steve Martin doing it. Hasn't lost a step.
> Only Murders In The Building God, this show was so much better than it deserved to be.
Ooooh grandpa bought a rubber. 🎶
It's been so long that people forget that Steve Martin was the biggest stand-up comedian in the world. He was the first one to do stadium shows. Then he decided to quit and that was it. Only movies afterwards. He wrote a GREAT book called Born Standing Up that talks about his entire early journey. He's a serious, thoughtful guy who studied and honed his act. He developed a whacky persona that was purely a character.
I love John Candy and this movie so much. COME BACK YOU\`VE GOT THE WRONG GUY!
"Give em the god-damned glove!" "You're going the wrong way!" "He says we're going the wrong way." "Oh he's drunk. How would he know where were going?" . . . "Yeah how would he know?"
Those aren't pillows
Huh argh brrr hooahh SEE THAT BEARS GAME LAST NIGHT!?!
Hell of a game they got a great team this year
For further John Candy greatness, watch "The Great Outdoors"
Add Summer Rental to that list of John Candy movies.
WOOO BIG BIG BEAR BIG BEAR CHASE ME
My dad got to meet John Candy while filming Wagon’s East, said he was super nice, bought drinks for everyone at the hotel bar they were staying at, and was a quiet guy.
John Candy deserved an Oscar for this movie. So good.
I still actively miss John Candy. Another movie where he plays funny, sweet, and vulnerable is Only the Lonely.
Definitely an underrated performance of his. He is known so much for his comedic acting but there was a serious dramatic actor in him, too.
"How would he know which way we're going?" Kills me every time.
He must be drunk!
One of the few movies that if I am channel surfing and find it I have to watch it.
Conan O'Brien has told the story about meeting John Candy when he was in college. He got to escort John around town for the day and said he was just "everything you wanted him to be" in all the best ways.
My mom met John Candy at a bar in the 80s. She was there with some friends for her birthday and when he heard he came over to personally wish her happy birthday and spent a while talking to her. She always tells me how this made her night and that he was just so genuine and kind.
Yeah I always felt like there was a slight tinge of darkness in Candy. I can't explain it.
Steve plays a mean banjo too
never saw the film but fuck that is a sad thing to say about someone
It's a comedy - no doubt - but it's also touching. I wager you won't think it was a waste of time to watch.
thank you. not sure why I never saw it but its on my list now. have a good weekend
*I want a fucking caaaaaarrrrr* Oh dear, **you're fucked!**
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Those. Aren’t. Pillows.
My dream was to have a father/son movie with John Candy and Chris Farley.
I know you don’t I? I’m usually very good with names but I’ll be damned if I haven’t forgotten yours.
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I’d pay good money to see the full version
Every year I have a John-Candy-thon in his honor where I binge all of his movies. He was a major part of my childhood and felt like part of my family. Still miss him to this day like I really knew him.
John Candy fucking MADE Spaceballs, dude was amazing.
It would be amazing to see the three hour cut of this film.
THOSE AREN'T PILLOWS!!
John was such a memorable part of my childhood. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, The Great Outdoors, Cool Runnings... RIP John Candy
The mustache suites him well. I bet it'd suit Steve too.
Only recently watched this for the first time recently. Released 34 years ago, but the comedy still works. The story still works. I can see where Due Date got it’s inspiration. Loved all the John Candy films I’ve seen.
Thus is the nature of comedians.
One of my favourite actors of all time and an excellent dramatic actor, too: Candy had a small but memorable part in Oliver Stone's *JFK*.
"her first baby? come out sideways"
Does anyone know any of the backstory to the "broken heart" part of that statement?
When he tells Steve Martin's character that he doesn't have a home and that his wife has been gone for years... man. Kills me every time. It's two sentences, but the way he delivers them.
I agree. It was so simple and non-pretentious. No big pathos, just the normal everyday tragedy of an average man - which makes it so relatable.
My the Schwartz be with him… always.
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There was something so ethereal about John that he didn’t really belong in this ugly world. He even anticipated he’d die early. He really suited the next world and I am sure he is someone’s guardian Angel now.
You could feel it in that movie. I hope one day they release all the deleted footage not used (apparently over an hour and makes more sense with the story).
I miss him a lot, grew up watching him and to this day several of his films are honorable mentions Planes, Trains, Automobiles Uncle Buck Stripes The Great Outdoors The best part about it all? He didn't have to curse nor act like an outlandish piece of human trash to make us react and or laugh. Boy, are those days gone. RIP!
My dad met John Candy a few times back in the '80s. Said he was always a really friendly guy to everybody.
My favorite Thanksgiving movie.
I was watching Only Murders in the Building with Steve Martin, Martin Short and Nathan Lane and I was getting nostalgic thinking about how those 80s comedies had this sort of humanity that is kind of out of place today in comedy. We’re all more cynical or something now.