Who Won the Movie?
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- "Who won the movie" is first answered "Broderick" by a speaker who is not resolved; that answer is not counted as a ballot.
- One voter wants to say Cameron but picks Hughes, who owns the 80s more than any other writer-director.
- Another voter ranks Hughes first, Broderick second and Cameron third, calls it close, and joins the Hughes pick.
- Hughes's death in 2009 prompted an outpouring; he was involved in five of the 15 biggest 80s movies, and more people have a serious relationship with his movies than with any director since 1980.
- A third view stresses Broderick and Hughes finding each other at the right time: Broderick is never this magnetic again, and the first 30 minutes are among the most charming ever.
- Hughes had no rival, and everyone who tried to make a John Hughes movie bombed.
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