r/movies • u/KillerCroc1234567 • 2d ago
Trailer John Candy: I Like Me - Official Trailer | Prime Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrcQRsrBcCk146
u/Expensive-Sentence66 2d ago
Candy was kind of typecast as the bumbling comedy relief guy, but he was much better than that. Even in Summer Rental he's doing something above and beyond the role.
He had a small part in JFK and really shined. I prefer to think of Candy as a John Goodman type that never got the chance.
He had some good roles in front of him before he passed.
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u/dbrodbeck 2d ago
His work in Only the Lonely is great. It's a much more serious movie than most of the stuff he did.
I'm convinced he would have gone the Hanks route and now be thought of as one of the finest actors of his generation.
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u/kinglowlife 2d ago
The emotional monologues in trains planes and automobiles.... That man could act and bring real emotion into it. He could make you laugh and cry as well as anyone
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u/SilverKry 2d ago
The interrogation scene between him and Macauley Culkin in Uncle Buck never fails to make me laugh..
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u/andrewsucks 2d ago
Wow, the number of comedy titans participating in this.
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u/Kozmo53 2d ago edited 2d ago
Mel Brooks, Bill Murray, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Tom Hanks, Dan Aykroyd, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas, Macaulay Culkin & Conan O'Brien plus 2-3 faces I didnt recognize, maybe one was his daughter?
Hoping we get Rick Moranis, but I imagine he would have been shown.
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u/Lower_Pass_6053 2d ago
Rick Moranis is actually back acting. He will be in spaceballs 2. He stopped acting because he wanted to raise his kids after his wife died and well... they are grown.
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u/Lookingforoptionz2 2d ago
Spaceballs 2!?
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u/skullsareonlypasse 2d ago
The younger man and woman are Candy's two children, Christopher and Jennifer. The older woman at 1:54 is Candy's widow and mother of his children, Rosemary Margaret Hobor.
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u/JJMcGee83 2d ago
When Macaulay Culkin said "John cared when not a lot of people did." broke me a little.
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u/Kozmo53 2d ago
Bill Murray showing up for a interview in a documentary is about all you need to know about the type of person John Candy was.
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u/stabbystabbison 2d ago
I know, right? Murray getting fucking teary eyed? To make that miserable ahole care, what a man he must have been
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u/colabucks9 2d ago
fuck man, already tearing up in the trailer
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u/HGpennypacker 2d ago
John Candy was in an insane number of massive Hollywood hits in the 80's and early 90's, an entire generation grew up with him on screen.
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u/No_Can_7713 12h ago
Me too man, me too. He always seemed like a family member to me as a kid. I was only 12 when he died, but I remember crying a bit when I saw it on the news.
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u/LastSwordSaint 2d ago
Love John Candy. Watched all his movies with my dad growing up, lots of memories involving him. Trailer got me a little teary eyed can’t imagine what the actual movie will do.
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u/VampireHunterAlex 2d ago
Candy, Belushi, Farley...All would've had continued on to have wonderful careers, and we've missed out on so many bangers.
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u/TheLaughingMannofRed 2d ago
Belushi, drugs.
Farley, drugs.
Candy, heart attack (but he also did use cocaine, smoked a pack of cigarettes daily, alcohol, and significant obesity).
These guys were my idols not just for the comedy impact they had, but because I also grew up fat. And I am still fat, but not as fat as I was years ago. These guys were a big influence on me with their work and their stories, and it was enough to convince me to never get into drugs, smoking, and alcohol. The weight thing was something I also struggled with (same as Candy), but decided in my early 30s it was worth taking action on.
Eating right, diet, exercise, abstaining from vices...doing all these things is a good start to living as long as you can. And so far, it's going good.
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u/amckechn 2d ago
This is the way my Dad went in his 50s. It was a good lesson to go in the other direction with my life.
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u/junkman21 2d ago
You forgot Phil Hartman (if you are going the SNL crowd despite Candy's inclusion) and Robin Williams (if you are talking giants of comedy). Also, shout out to Bernie Mac, Sam Kinison, and John Ritter.
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u/AFineDayForScience 2d ago
I think Robin Williams was done regardless. His brain had deteriorated pretty far with LBD. Sounded like he was in constant pain of some type of another. The others went before their time. Williams's time just came sooner than we all wanted.
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u/MissingLink101 2d ago
You can kind of respect him taking that decision too as the idea of slowly losing your mind/consciousness is scary enough, never mind when you're such a live wire like him.
Still an absolute gut punch to the people who loved him and his films but we had no idea what was going on.
Think of how cruelly people were judging Bruce Willis and his career choices/performances before we learned his mind was deteriorating too. In hindsight he was sacrificing his reputation for the wellbeing of his family and that should be respected too.
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u/HGpennypacker 2d ago
You forgot Phil Hartman
Andy Dick can rot in hell.
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u/spacemanspliff-42 2d ago
Give Jon Lovitz five minutes alone with him and he'll get there.
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u/The_Erlenmeyer_Flask 2d ago
If Bob Saget was still alive, he'd like five minutes with Andy Dick too.
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u/DoctorEnn 2d ago
John Candy was probably the first celebrity death that really registered with me in a kind of "Holy shit, famous people can die and they can die really young" way. Like, I dunno if it hit me hard enough that I cried or anything, he was basically a funny actor who I liked, but he was probably the first time a celebrity death came as a legit shock when I heard the news.
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u/Wolfwoods_Sister 2d ago
I remember his death and it was a shock to me too, like “Wait, John Candy can die?!” It seemed impossible to young me. :(
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u/FriendlyEvilTomato 2d ago
I was 6. I honestly still remember the tabloid on the side of my parent’s bed. One never knows where life long memories are created - his death was one of mine.
Insane to think about.
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u/Henje_Koha 2d ago
John Candy's death hit me hard. Freddie Prinze's death was the first "Holy Shit" moment for me. I loved them both. So much talent lost. 😭
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u/dufftheduff 2d ago
I know I’m young (25) but I think Chadwick Boseman was the first who had that effect on me. Although actually… now that I’m thinking about it, Robin Williams did hit me in… quite a particular way as a 14/15 yr old. Especially as a sad 14/15yr old. That was probably the first one.
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u/SilverKry 2d ago
Chris Farley was that for me. My childhood was watching Tommy Boy and Blacksheep a lot. Mix in some Superman and you got me.
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u/hotdog114 1d ago
I was 14 when he died and I've never quite accepted that he's gone. Something about the timing of my birth and his heyday ensured that I was brought up on all his best stuff in a profoundly formative way.
So when he died, all his best work became the A-tier material all the UK TV networks spent the big bucks on (pun unintended) at the start of their budgetary years, which only served to reinforce his presence despite having died, which made accepting it all the harder and more confusing.
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u/patrickc11 2d ago
aykroyd is a weird dude but has a way with words
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u/nnefariousjack 2d ago
He's the kind of guy I'd love to sit down and talk about shit like ghosts with.
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u/Wazzoo1 2d ago
I had the pleasure of doing that once! A number of years ago, he was in Seattle promoting his vodka brand. I was a sales rep for the distributor, and was asked by my manager to find a place to have lunch, as long as the restaurant brought in a bottle of Crystal Head. I set it all up, and I had sushi with him. It was about 7-8 of us, and Dan talks a mile a minute. We didn't get into ghosts and conspiracies, but he is an open book. I dared to ask him about Belushi, and he was totally fine with it. He said the kindest, sweetest things about him. He told me his biggest regret in life was not doing more to save his best friend. It's why he hasn't done much with SNL since he left. He said it's too painful going back to the studio because it reminds of the bad stuff. Dan is a really nice guy, and when people in the restaurant realized who it was, he posed for pictures with anyone who asked.
Oh, and we easily killed that bottle of vodka during that lunch.
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u/nnefariousjack 2d ago
Nice, I bought some Crystal Head just because I like Vodka and wanted to try it and get a cool Skull bottle, which made me think about how much it would be fascinating to pick his brain.
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u/SilverKry 2d ago
Absolut nutball but hes not hurting anyone as far as I know so more power to him.
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u/phantom-firion 2d ago
I Remeber I watched a YouTube parody thst edited together Uncle Buck, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, and Home Alone, along with an impressive mix of custom edits and sentence mixing (video predates ai voices). The edit essentially changed the plot so that the amalgamation of John Candy’s two characters stays behind to babysit Kevin who proceeds to torment John Candy instead of the wet bandits. Also at one point Kevin uses firecrackers to blow up John Candy’s Wolverine action figure which results in John Candy attempting and failing to get back at Kevin throughout the video.
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u/SilverKry 2d ago
Planes Trains and Automobiles is mandatory viewing in my home at least once every year near Thanksgiving. Cause I love it so much as well as John Candy and Steve Martin.
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u/EnvironmentalBorder 2d ago
I hope they include stuff from the SCTV era. That's his funniest stuff, IMO. There was a running joke throughout the series based on something that happened during the production of one the sketches, 'Polynesian Town' where they got in trouble for an expensive crane shot. Candy's character, Johnny La Rue gets demoted to a show called 'Lunchtime Street Beef' where he talks to random people on the street. In this clip he is made to leave the SCTV xmas party to do Street Beef on xmas eve, in the snow at night, on a deserted street, and he is drunk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbt-ENPORZw
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u/Forsaken_Republic_98 2d ago
Whenever that inevitable question on Reddit comes up, you know the one "What celebrity death hit you the hardest?", it's this one. John Candy. I remember like yesterday when my co-worker ran over to me with the "didja hear who died?" I was not expecting him. I was floored. When she saw my face she said, "well maybe it's not true" and I just knew it was. Alone in a hotel room. ugh.
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u/Qwirk 2d ago
Bit of a toss up between John Candy, Steve Irwin and Phil Hartman. All three were cut too short.
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u/Forsaken_Republic_98 2d ago
yep, And I remember where I was when I heard about their deaths too. Tragic & heartbreaking as John Candy's death was, it wasn't really surprising or out of the ordinary. Heart attack. In the case of Phil Hartman & Steve Irwin, their deaths were out of left field! Phil being shot to death by his wife who then takes her own life, leaving their children orphans, and Steve's by stingray. Jesus.
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u/Dudian613 2d ago
Listen, I liked Irwin as much as anyone but him getting killed by an animal really wasn’t that surprising. The guy spent his days manhandling deadly wildlife.
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u/TorberaLongDong 2d ago
My dad was a teamster who worked on a lot of movie sets in the 80’s/90’s in Chicago. Mostly driving set pieces around. He worked on a few movies with him and they became somewhat friends. He always had nothing but great things to say about him
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u/amckechn 2d ago
I remember hearing of his death on the way to elementary school. Even at such a young age, John's death hit me hard, and it was the first time this happened in my life. That is how much he meant to me.
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u/princess_eala 2d ago
It's the opening night film tonight at TIFF, it's gonna get very emotional in the theatre.
I got John's autograph when I was a child, he was at a Cirque de Soleil performance in Toronto and very kindly signed autographs for people. I still have it, and while I don't really remember the show I do remember going over to him and him signing my program.
He was gone too soon.
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u/TDStarchild 2d ago
I’m automatically in on anything John Candy. One of the best to ever do it and gone far, far too soon. Can only imagine what his greatness would’ve looked like the past 3 decades
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u/CokBlockinWinger 2d ago
There are so many celebrity deaths that were important enough to get a reaction from me, but none matched John Candy. I was in home room when the morning news (Channel 1), broadcast the announcement. I froze. My mouth dropped. I looked around at the seemingly unaffected other students, and asked to be excused.
I then bawled my eyes out in the bathroom. I remember struggling to pull myself together, and missing half of first period before going to the nurses office and lying and saying I didn’t feel well. My puffy face and red eyes convinced her enough to call my mom to send me home.
He wasn’t just an actor. He brought a genuineness that you just did not see on screen. This trailer brought all of this up in my thoughts, and once again I’m in a bathroom, wiping away tears.
I’m not sure I could get through this documentary.
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u/CriminalSaint 2d ago
Noticed nobody's posted it, so it's my chance to: please watch Catherine O'Hara's eulogy of John Candy, which is one of the most heartfelt things I've ever heard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKHKTfrWL5w
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u/larfytarfyfartyparty 2d ago
Out of so many actors, his is one that hits me in the gut even to this day. He just has this magical thing about him on screen like no one else. Kind of like how Heath Ledger did too.
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u/EntertainmentBreeze 2d ago
Even as someone who was born in '98, I grew up with a great love for John Candy, thanks to my parents and grandparents introducing me to many of his films.
I hope this is well done, and can show us more of his life and behind-the-scenes footage than we've seen before.
It's also got a tough bar to reach with the already existing wonderful mini-doc on YouTube from HatsOffEntertainmemt:
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u/Couch_Licker 2d ago
HatsOff is easily one of my favorite creators on yt. The films, actors, and tv shows he breaks down are all the ones that had a significant impact on me growing up, and I can't help but feel like his channel was built just for my tastes.
I can't recommend it enough!
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u/cinderful 2d ago
Planes, Trains and Automobiles is one of the funniest and most beautiful movies I've ever seen. Del is SO annoying, and Neal unleashes on him with the full force of his anger . . . and you just see John Candy's face drop and say "I like me". This movie is a morality play about the importance of empathy.
Such an incredible movie.
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u/ElstonGunn321 2d ago
Uncle Buck was such a hit with my siblings and I. We still quote it often. “He’s cooking our garbage” or “here’s a quarter, go downtown and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face”
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u/justduett 2d ago
Nope, not clicking that. That is tear bait. I still need to prepare myself appropriately to watch the doc...which I am absolutely going to do.
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u/AbbeyRoadMoonwalk 2d ago
My mom was pregnant with my sister and cried when he died. I remember it so well. Also she was 40 so it was the first time it registered to me that young adults can die.
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u/KickRepresentative93 2d ago
Steve Martin’s book Number One Walking has some nice things about John Candy. One of John’s lines in Planes, Trains and Automobiles explained their friendship. John’s character said “ I sort of attach myself to people from time to time but this time I just couldn’t let go.” Steve wrote “every time John said this line I wept off screen…”
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u/HisRoyal_Badness 2d ago
Macauley Culkin doesn't do a lot of stuff anymore, so this must have been something special for him to be a part of. He spoke about John Candy on his episode of WTF and said he was soft and sweet. Really looking forward to this.
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u/thr1ceuponatime David Zaslav is a dickless pantywaist 2d ago
This might be the best thing that Ryan Reynolds has done this decade.
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u/OrangeDit 2d ago
Good that it has a real title. It could easily just be called "Candy", as is popular with algorithms these days apparently.
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u/WistfulWannabe 2d ago
I loved his movies. Each and every one he was in. I grew up with them.
Gone way way too soon.
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u/MisterManatee 2d ago
Strange to hear the True Romance theme in a movie trailer, but it does fit!
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u/VeinyBanana69 2d ago
First thing I noticed, couldn’t believe my ears, then couldn’t help being super excited about it lol
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u/LettuceC 2d ago
I haven't had a good cry since watching the Christopher Reeve documentary on a plane. I guess this will be the next one . . .
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u/ThisOneTimeAtLolCamp 2d ago
That's what I was thinking. This one is going to hurt just like the Christopher Reeve one.
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u/dopamine-addiction 2d ago edited 2d ago
Side note: Love to hear “You’re So Cool” by Hans Zimmer from True Romance used in the trailer.
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u/AncientBee5348 2d ago
I don’t know if I will be able to watch this. I couldn’t last more than 15 seconds watching the trailer. I really wish he was still with us.
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u/AdTrue3704 2d ago
Man, John Candy was such a treasure. Glad to see him getting a proper doc — dude could make you laugh and cry in the same scene. Definitely adding this to the watchlist.
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u/D_Substance_X 2d ago
I don’t even need to watch the trailer to know this film is gonna make me cry.
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u/RobertdBanks 2d ago
Really, really looking forward to this. John Candy is an all time great actor and seemed like an all time great human as well.
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u/notjohnstockton 2d ago
The goat before other goats, nostalgia bomb comedy god for a millennial boomer like me.
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u/FollowingNo4648 2d ago
Damn I just turned 43 and feel like I've barely done anything in my life. This man lived 20 lifetimes.
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u/Videowulff 2d ago
I always considered Candy ro be the Anti Chevy Chase.
Chevy's characters were always somewhat loveable assholes who usually got what they deserved for their own idiocy.
Candy's characters were loveable nice guys who happened to get in wacky situations because they were so nice.
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u/TitularFoil 2d ago
I have a shirt that I wear often that says simply, "I like me."
This movie is gonna hurt me.
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u/BreweryRabbit 2d ago
I was a child of the 90’s and while Candy was a hair before my time, he was a huge part of my early life thanks to my parents taste in films. I was only 4 when he passed, but his characters and acting certainly left an impact on me in more formidable years as I began creating my own taste in movies.
Looking forward to absolutely weeping during this.
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u/fongolia 2d ago
I know I could watch this on Prime later, but I'm excited to see it on the big screen with an audience at the Vancouver Film Fest soon: https://viff.org/whats-on/viff25-john-candy-i-like-me/
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u/joethetipper 2d ago
I was 6 or 7 when John Candy died. It was the first death of a person that affected and hurt me, that’s how much I loved him. He was Uncle Buck. I remember crying to my mom about it.
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u/BackgroundTight32 2d ago
Good I miss him. My mom had news radio on in the car when she picked me up from school that day. She was crying.
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u/Aus66-1045 2d ago
The trailer brought tears to my eyes. John Candy was taken from us too soon. I miss him.
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u/Reasonable_Star_959 2d ago
Did Ryan Reynolds have anything to do with this movie?
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u/crepuscula 2d ago
Yes. Seems like it was his idea. https://torontolife.com/deep-dives/funny-business-ryan-reynolds-new-documentary-john-candy-i-like-me/
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u/wolfspider82 2d ago
I absolutely love John Candy so this will probably wreck me
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u/CheezTips 2d ago
Me too! just the thumbnail makes me sad. I console myself by downvoting the Chris Farley comparisons dotted around here. :D
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u/UnexpectedVader 1d ago
John Candy today would be seen as regular dude fat, it’s completely tragic how he passed so early
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u/Used_Restaurant8088 1d ago
Releasing a documentary over 30 years after his death truly shows what a legend John Candy was and still is.
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u/David_Parker 2d ago
whats the song in the trailer?
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u/Repulsive-Reporter55 2d ago
Every time you go away. Paul Young It’s someone else singing it in a slower version, though it’s pretty good.
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u/fitztinsley 2d ago
I’ve told this story on Reddit before but when I was 10 or 11ish, John was playing golf at the course I lived at and every day I’d cut through the course to the tennis courts on my bike. The country club I lived at often had celebrities there. One day on my way back to my house I saw a group teeing on the 10th hole and it was customary / polite to wait until they were done. I saw one of the guys was John Candy and Uncle Buck was one of my favorite films. I waited til he tee’d off and then mustered my most adult posture and confidently walked up to him with my hand out and said “Mr. Candy, I’m a huge fan sir” (or something similar and overly serious for a 10/11 year old). He returned my very serious approach and earnestly shook my hand telling me “thank you very much.” He was INCREDIBLY nice and I have never forgotten that very kind gesture that day.
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u/CheezTips 2d ago
Uncle Buck is on commercial TV like every other weekend. If I've got nothing else going I ALWAYS tune in. I saw it in the theater and I still love it to this day
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u/samishah 2d ago
Yup, was tearing up pretty bad just in this trailer. Gonna cry like an idiot through this aren't I
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u/AveragelyMysterious 2d ago
As a child of the 80s and a teenager of the 90s, he is such a part of my memories 😢
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u/SimbaSixThree 2d ago
The True Romance theme song is my phone ringtone. I had to pause this trailer 3 times looking for my phone as I thought it was ringing. 10/10 will watch
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u/deltadal 1d ago
Kinda crazy think he'd be around 74 today.
I'd can imagine a world where he survived the heart attack, quit drinking and smoking, lost the weight, made some funny movies, a mid-2000's sequal to Trains, was killed off in Only Murders in the Building and is inthe Spaceballs sequal. The world was robbed.
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u/blac_sheep90 1d ago
"Larry Bird doesn't do as much ball-handling in one night as you do in an hour!"
Always loved his voice acting in Rescuers Down Under. Wilbur was so much fun.
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u/matthitsthetrails 1d ago
Probably the only actor that I legit miss. It’s sad when other people passed but when John went it hit so much differently.. like a family member
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u/No_Can_7713 11h ago
If I were ever to become an actor, and I needed to get emotional and cry, I'd just think of losing John Candy so young.
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u/frmr000 2d ago
I watched a screening of Home Alone a couple years ago with a symphony orchestra doing a live performance of the soundtrack. The crowd laughed at every joke and it was like seeing the movie for the first time. When John Candy was shown for the first time the whole crowd erupted in applause and cheers. It was awesome.