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By Gina Gomez
Hollywood, California, Jan 16, (THAINDIAN NEWS) On Friday, the Critic’s Choice Movie Awards was broadcast live on VH1 at 9 p.m. and it celebrated some of the best movies of the year 2009. The list included the biggest hit “Avatar,” by James Cameron, “Precious,” “The Hurt Locker’” and “Up in the Air.” The highlight of the show was the tribute to the late director John Hughes who passed away last year at the age of 59.

John Krasinski and Amy Poehler had dressed as “Pretty in Pink” and assayed the roles of best friends Duckie and Andie. They brought back a flavor of John Hughes movies. We once again got a feel of the legendary director who produced some of the best Hollywood movies during the 1980s and 1990s. The director, producer and writer gifted the industry some of the classics like Home Alone, and its sequel Home Alone 2:Lost in New York, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Some kind of Wonderful, Sixteen Candles, Trains and Automobiles, Uncle Buck.

Amy Poehler said, “It’s hard to think of a filmmaker who made so many movies so many of us know by heart.” She recalls lines from “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” she puts, “When we watch John Hughes movie, we learn that life moves pretty fast. It’s hard to find anyone not moved by John Hughes, we thank you for everything.” John Krasinski cried out, “We miss you,” as glimpses of John Hughes’ movies played in the background.

The Death Cab for Cutie tribute ended with the classic number from the movie “Breakfast Club”- “Don’t You (Forget About Me), while juxtaposed images from John Hughes’ contemporary movies played in the background. Before the show, Death Cab Drummer McGerr told MTV News, “Every movie he has ever made is ingrained in our brains, and ‘Don’t You (Forget About Me)’ is a song we fell in love with.”