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Just watched Uncle Buck the other day, so great. He was incredibly good in everything I ever saw him in. Tragic that he was only 43 when he died: Hollywood seems tough on the funny fat man. 

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1 hour ago, Buzzrock said:

Just watched Uncle Buck the other day, so great. He was incredibly good in everything I ever saw him in. Tragic that he was only 43 when he died: Hollywood seems tough on the funny fat man. 

Suspect his cholesterol levels , blood pressure and weight would have been tough on him even if he were the polka king of Sheboygan. 

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17 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

He was incredibly good in everything I ever saw him in. 

He really was.  And there are a few John Candy movies I just didn't like (Summer Rental, Armed and Dangerous, Hot to Trot).  But even in those films, he played his characters with such genuine likeability.  

And what about his hot minute in JFK, doing a bang up job going out of his usual character range?

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17 minutes ago, South Austin said:

He really was.  And there are a few John Candy movies I just didn't like (Summer Rental, Armed and Dangerous, Hot to Trot).  But even in those films, he played his characters with such genuine likeability.  

And what about his hot minute in JFK, doing a bang up job going out of his usual character range?

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The cat's stewing you, the oyster's shucking you, I told him. You got the right ta-ta, but the wrong ho-ho

I saw this movie at…about 8 years old. Candy, Bacon, Rooker and the general N.O. Vibe did a number on me.

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2 hours ago, South Austin said:

He really was.  And there are a few John Candy movies I just didn't like (Summer Rental, Armed and Dangerous, Hot to Trot).  But even in those films, he played his characters with such genuine likeability.  

And what about his hot minute in JFK, doing a bang up job going out of his usual character range?

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i went to the derby about 15 years ago and worked Don the horse into every conversation possible.  the drunker i got the more i talked about putting all my money on Don.  I think 2 people all day got the joke but it kept me entertained.  my wife not so much.

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3 hours ago, South Austin said:

He really was.  And there are a few John Candy movies I just didn't like (Summer Rental, Armed and Dangerous, Hot to Trot).  But even in those films, he played his characters with such genuine likeability.  

And what about his hot minute in JFK, doing a bang up job going out of his usual character range?

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Negged mrw friend GIF - Find on GIFER

 

Negged.  those three movies are treasures, what's next?  Shitting on The Great Outdoors?

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4 hours ago, South Austin said:

He really was.  And there are a few John Candy movies I just didn't like (Summer Rental, Armed and Dangerous, Hot to Trot).  But even in those films, he played his characters with such genuine likeability.  

And what about his hot minute in JFK, doing a bang up job going out of his usual character range?

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Fucking hell.  Summer Rental?  I think I watched that movie no fewer than 50 times as a kid.  Saw it again maybe 2 years ago and thought it held up.

"That's a good base.  That's a GOOD base.  You gotta do these things in stages".

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7 minutes ago, Wiler77 said:

Fucking hell.  Summer Rental?  I think I watched that movie no fewer than 50 times as a kid.  Saw it again maybe 2 years ago and thought it held up.

"That's a good base.  That's a GOOD base.  You gotta do these things in stages".

Sorry fellas.  Summer Rental just didn't do it for me.  And I saw it in the theater the summer before sixth grade, so that kind of comedy usually appealed to me, but this one didn't.  But as I mentioned before, I still loved John Candy in it.

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Huge fan. Dell Griffith is his best role , so I love the title.
 

Who’s Harry Crumb via HBO was hilarious to 12 year old me. Peak Shawnee Smith.  I’m quite confident it doesn’t hold up. 

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18 hours ago, Iceman said:

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Longtime Hollywood producer Brian Grazer shared some memories of the late Candy, who died at age 43 in 1994, during an appearance on The Rich Eisen Show to promote his new sports docuseries about the New England Patriots. During the episode, host Eisen, 54, asked specifically whether stories that Candy "was hungover for the racquetball scene" were true.

"Yes. For real, he stayed out with Jack Nicholson until like four or five in the morning and then he went right to work," Grazer, 72, said. "John Candy had a lot of endurance, I mean really, a lot of endurance."

"The night with Nicholson, I think he overdid it, so he literally ran into the ball that hit him in the head," the producer recalled. "That was real — we anticipated, we knew we'd have to shoot it in two shots, because the minute he hit that ball, it hit him right in the head, he couldn't get out of the way of it."

https://people.com/john-candy-overdid-it-with-jack-nicholson-night-before-shooting-splash-scene-recalls-producer-8601777

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On 8/11/2025 at 5:12 PM, PGFrog said:

Suspect his cholesterol levels , blood pressure and weight would have been tough on him even if he were the polka king of Sheboygan. 

He was very big in Sheboygan as the fucking Polka King of the Midwest.  Don't sell him short.

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On 8/12/2025 at 1:30 PM, Wiler77 said:

Fucking hell.  Summer Rental?  I think I watched that movie no fewer than 50 times as a kid.  Saw it again maybe 2 years ago and thought it held up.

"That's a good base.  That's a GOOD base.  You gotta do these things in stages".

"Those are fun for the whole family."

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4 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Apparently an incredibly kind man

Have read/ heard multiple accounts where Candy went to some pretty extreme measures to make sure crew and "regular folks" were taken care of, sometimes on his own dime.

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