Mine is between his performance in Cool Runnings & Stripes. He was much more versatile than a lot of folks gave him credit for & he was a fine actor. Also, any memorable John Candy quotes if you have them!
2006-07-05 01:55:52 · 24 answers · asked by pumpkin 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
John Candy was one of the most underrated comics out there. What a loss that he died at the age of 44, however, he sure had a ton of memorable films.
Here is my John Candy Top 5
5. Nothing But Trouble - 1991 with Demi Moore and Chevy Chase
4. Only The Lonely - 1991
3. Volunteers - 1985 with Tom Hanks
2. Uncle Buck - 1989
1. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles - 1987 with Steve Martin
Favorite John Candy Quotes:
PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES:
[waking up after sharing the same bed on the motel]
Neal: Del... Why did you kiss my ear?
Del: Why are you holding my hand?
Neal: [frowns] Where's your other hand?
Del: Between two pillows...
Neal: Those aren't pillows!
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Del: Six bucks and my right nut says we're not landing in Chicago
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Del: You play with your balls a lot.
Neal: I do NOT play with my balls.
Del: Larry Bird doesn't do as much ball-handling in one night as you do in an hour!
Neal: Are you trying to start a fight?
Del: No. I'm simply stating a fact. That's all. You fidget with your nuts a lot.
Neal: You know what'd make me happy?
Del: Another couple of balls, and an extra set of fingers?
From UNCLE BUCK:
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[at a meeting with the assistant principal, who's got a big unsightly growth on her face]
Anita: I'm Anita Hoargarth.
Buck Russell: [Staring at it] I'm Buck Melanoma. Moley Russell's wart. Not her wart. Not her wart! I'm... I'm the wart. She's my tumor. My... my growth. My... uh, my pimple. 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." I'm s... uncle! Maisy Russell's uncle!
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Buck Russell: I don't think I want to know a six-year-old who isn't a dreamer, or a sillyheart. And I sure don't want to know one who takes their student career seriously. I don't have a college degree. I don't even have a job. But I know a good kid when I see one. Because they're ALL good kids, until dried-out, brain-dead skags like you drag them down and convince them they're no good. You so much as scowl at my niece, or any other kid in this school, and I hear about it, and I'm coming looking for you! Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing
[Anita's mole]
Buck Russell: off your face! Good day to you, madam.
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Buck Russell: Do you think she hates me?
Maisy Russell: With a passion.
Buck Russell: Really? Do you think it's the hat?
Maisy Russell: No.
Buck Russell: No? A lot of people hate this hat. It angers a lot of people, just the sight of it. Ah, I'll tell you a story about that on the way to school.
Happy Remembering John Candy!
2006-07-05 02:30:31 · answer #1 · answered by coasterbeth4 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can't pick just one, but here are a few
Uncle Buck
Nothing But Trouble
The Great Outdoors
Spaceballs
Brewster's Millions
The Blues Brothers
Stripes
Vacation
Splash
"What you looking at? You never seen a guy who slept with a fish before?"
"Funny, she doesn't look Druish."
"You gnaw on her face in public like that again and you'll be one. Ah, heh heh heh heh!"
The best ever is the dialogue between him and Macaulay Culkin
Miles: Where do you live?
Buck: In the city.
Miles: You have a house?
Buck: Apartment.
Miles: Own or rent?
Buck: Rent.
Miles: What do you do for a living?
Buck: Lots of things.
Miles: Where's your office?
Buck: I don't have one.
Miles: How come?
Buck: I don't need one.
Miles: Where's your wife?
Buck: Don't have one.
Miles: How come?
Buck: It's a long story.
Miles: You have kids?
Buck: No I don't.
Miles: How come?
Buck: It's an even longer story.
Miles: Are you my Dad's brother?
Buck: What's your record for consecutive questions asked?
Miles: 38.
Buck: I'm your Dad's brother alright.
Miles: You have much more hair in your nose than my Dad.
Buck: How nice of you to notice.
Miles: I'm a kid - that's my job.
2006-07-05 09:09:55 · answer #2 · answered by pipi08_2000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cool Runnings was pretty Good and I absolutley loved Stripes, however Uncle Buck was a pretty good movie. SpaceBalls is a classic, who doesn't love SpaceBalls. But I am going to have to say that Canadian Bacon was my favorite John Candy movie.
2006-07-05 09:13:39 · answer #3 · answered by Dr. Stupid 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uncle Buck
2006-07-05 08:57:18 · answer #4 · answered by SpeakingTruthinLove 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Planes Trains and Automobiles. - With the exception of his small turn in "JFK", "Planes..." is the closest we will ever get to seeing John Candy do a drama. The scene where he confesses the truth about his life to Steve Martin still chokes me up every time.
John Candy is the one celebrity who's death still hasn't left me. I don't think I'll ever get over it. He never had a "huge" film but he had all the potential. I am very sad he's gone.
2006-07-05 11:23:28 · answer #5 · answered by contrafilms 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uncle Buck by far is the best
Buck(After yelling at a school principal with a large mole for selling Maisy short) - "Here's a quarter. Go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face!"
2006-07-05 08:59:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uncle Buck, without a doubt.
Here's my fav Uncle Buck quote 4 U:
Buck: [struggling to open the washing machine] Do I have to talk dirty to you? Come on! Open up for daddy! I'm gonna shove a load into you! Here we go! Come on, it's nice and easy. Aaah! Come on, here we go! Ah! Take that! Take that! Come on! You don't want the crowbar, do you? Come on! OPEN UP! UUGGHH! I'm gonna shove my load into you whether you like it or not!
He was also good in "Nothing But Trouble," "Splash," "The Great Outdoors," "Spaceballs," and "Planes, Trains and Automobiles."
2006-07-05 09:31:10 · answer #7 · answered by Daddy's Little Girl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uncle Buck
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Only the Lonely
Nothing but Trouble which is hillarious cuz he also plays a girl in it
I loved him in Splash as the horny brother LOL and also his cameo in National Lampoon's Vacation where he's the guard at Wally World and its closed and they make him go on all the rides LOL its great LOL.... Oh and he was soooo funny in Spaceballs LOL Barf LOL ....I loved him when I was a kid and its so sad that he's passed away he will be missed
2006-07-05 09:00:42 · answer #8 · answered by tinker143 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favorite is a toss up between Uncle Buck and Only the Lonely. They are hilarious and oddly enough two commercially unsuccessful films.
2006-07-05 08:59:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Defintely 'Canadian Bacon'. How hilarious is it, him being Canadian that he plays an American who is swept up in a fake war campaign against Canada?
Boomer: If life hands you a lemon, you gotta crush it into lemonade.
RCMP Officer at Headquarters: Welcome to Canada.
Boomer: Hold it right there, Canuck!
RCMP Officer at Headquarters: Who are you?
Boomer: I'm your worst nightmare. I'm a citizen with a constitutional right to bear arms!
[the Mountie explains that Honey has been taken to the capital]
Boomer: The capital Toronto.
RCMP Officer at Headquarters: No, the capital of Canada is Ottawa.
Boomer: Yeah, right. Do we look that stupid? Ottawa!
Roy Boy: Nice try, Dudley.
2006-07-05 09:22:47 · answer #10 · answered by Dark Light 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋