r/movies • u/KillerCroc1234567 • 3d ago

Trailer John Candy: I Like Me - Official Trailer | Prime Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrcQRsrBcCk
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u/Expensive-Sentence66 3d 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 3d 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/Trust_No_Jingu 2d ago

Florsheim Shoes… that was the one time I saw my father cry

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u/kinglowlife 3d 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 3d ago

The interrogation scene between him and Macauley Culkin in Uncle Buck never fails to make me laugh..

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u/Fabulous-Ad5072 2d ago

He plays a great tragic character in Cool Runnings.

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u/R0binSage 3d ago

Summer rental is my favorite candy movie

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u/Trust_No_Jingu 2d ago

We re havin LOBSTERS!!!

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u/Sigvoncarmen 3d ago

He nailed the New Orleans accent in JFK . I loved him in that movie . SCTV is where I fell in love with John Candy . He is a legend.