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Posted
2 minutes ago, Gooby said:

I'm gonna be honest.......

 

....ready???.......

 

I can't fucking stand Christmas Vacation.

Christmas Vacation is disjointed, has terrible setting production (driving through the mountains of suburban Chicago?), and has multiple scenes that are just complete implausible (the sledding scene can fuck right off).

It also has a ton of fantastic actor interactions, all-time lines, and bits that are funny any time, anywhere.

TLDR - the criticism is valid, it's still great for what it is.

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Posted
14 minutes ago, Gooby said:

I'm gonna be honest.......

 

....ready???.......

 

I can't fucking stand Christmas Vacation.

You crossed the rubicon with that one buddy. Cousin Eddie will be pulling up into your driveway for an extended stay. 

Posted
11 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

Christmas Vacation is disjointed, has terrible setting production (driving through the mountains of suburban Chicago?), and has multiple scenes that are just complete implausible (the sledding scene can fuck right off).

It also has a ton of fantastic actor interactions, all-time lines, and bits that are funny any time, anywhere.

TLDR - the criticism is valid, it's still great for what it is.

I watched it at a screening two years ago and for an hour afterwards Chevy Chase answered questions for us about the movie. I go every year to see it at the theater on the day it is shown. My niece and nephew back in Texas use a Christmas Vacation stocking with my name on it above their fireplace.

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Posted
6 hours ago, GreenspointTexas said:

Overquoting. Thinking its funny after saying the same played out shit for years. Same reason they almost killed Chappelle Show

You should stop hanging out with losers. 

Posted
33 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

Christmas Vacation is disjointed, has terrible setting production (driving through the mountains of suburban Chicago?), and has multiple scenes that are just complete implausible (the sledding scene can fuck right off).

It also has a ton of fantastic actor interactions, all-time lines, and bits that are funny any time, anywhere.

TLDR - the criticism is valid, it's still great for what it is.

Yep, completely agree. You can see all the funny lines in the gifs that get posted here.

Posted
44 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

Christmas Vacation is disjointed, has terrible setting production (driving through the mountains of suburban Chicago?), and has multiple scenes that are just complete implausible (the sledding scene can fuck right off).

It also has a ton of fantastic actor interactions, all-time lines, and bits that are funny any time, anywhere.

TLDR - the criticism is valid, it's still great for what it is.

Good take.  I can get past the journey into the wilderness to find the Christmas tree scene.  But the sledding scene felt a little too strained for a laugh.  Much funnier and more quotable than European Vacation, and like you said, still great.

Posted
18 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Good take.  I can get past the journey into the wilderness to find the Christmas tree scene.  But the sledding scene felt a little too strained for a laugh.  Much funnier and more quotable than European Vacation, and like you said, still great.

The sledding scene is probably the only one that is just off to me. Then again it ends in the Wal-Mart parking lot. I used to work directly next to that Wal-Mart and shopped in it regularly in Frisco,CO. The only way a mountain scene would have made any sense there is for them to be coming off the side of Copper Mountain behind the Wal-Mart. Just one of those suspension of disbelief scenes in a movie full of them.

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