a semicolon, you dolt! a period
my life tbh
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 December 2014 05:11 (nine years ago) link
I feel like I'm living in an alternate universe because I have never heard of "A Christmas Story."
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 26 December 2014 14:26 (nine years ago) link
If you'd turned on TBS yesterday you'd have watched it 24 hours straigiht.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 December 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link
I saw ACS when I was like 8 or 9 and found it extremely unpleasant for whatever reason. Have never revisited it since.
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Friday, 26 December 2014 15:56 (nine years ago) link
a bit like Xmas.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 December 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
OH MY GOD:
http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/features/untold-story-of-national-lampoons-christmas-vacation-20141222?page=4
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 December 2014 22:42 (nine years ago) link
Johnny Galecki (Rusty Griswold): At the time, I was in Chicago auditioning for industrial films and regional theater, and I was happy doing that. I didn't dare to dream to be in a big studio film. But I put myself on tape and sent it in. They flew me out to Los Angeles; it was one of the first times I was ever here. I read with Chevy and Jeremiah — and that alone would have been enough for me. I could have been given my walking papers and sent home on the next flight and it still would have been a dream come true. Chevy told me right there in the room that I had gotten the role.
Lewis: I don't know the politics at the time, but maybe they had to rush to find the kids, or something.
Chechik: Galecki was just an odd kid. He was very young and so dry. He made me laugh because he has this wack of a sense of humor and that's what made me really want him. He wasn't a Hollywood kid who was going for laughs, but he had a nervousness to him that in many ways shows beautifully now as an adult. His comic gifts are absolutely incredible.
Ladd: This movie is kind of a turning point in my life. I went there with a British Academy Award and an Oscar nomination under my belt, but Hollywood was very hard on women. When I did Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, I thought it'd change everything for women – a lot of us did. But it didn't, and I was spending a lot of time in Florida. People would yell at me, "What are you doing running away from Hollywood?" I came back to Hollywood and the first thing I got was for Christmas Vacation. Meanwhile, here I am going to audition to play Chevy's momma, and I'm one year older than him! That's if he was born in 1943, because IMDb lies about everything. They never get it right
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 December 2014 22:47 (nine years ago) link
Chase: I loved working with Randy on all of the Vacation movies. I never even got a hint there was anything going on emotionally or physiologically with him. He just gets right into it. When we're in the grocery store and he gets that huge 100 pound bag of dog food and slams it down. I don't think anybody wrote that. That was just Randy reaching out and grabbing it.
Flynn: There's one scene that didn't make it to the film and I so wish it had. It's a scene where Randy and I are in the infamous motor home and you get to see what our lives are like inside. That was a riot, but at the time it had to be cut.
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― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 December 2014 22:53 (nine years ago) link
I watched A Christmas Story for the first time ever with my class last week. My mom used to name it as her favourite Christmas movie. Loved the brother in the snowsuit, the mall Santa, the famous dare scene, and some other things. I could have done without the narration.
― clemenza, Friday, 26 December 2014 23:02 (nine years ago) link
"Wonder Years" influenced by it.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 December 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
Minor, but I noticed a logistical problem where old-Ralphie continued to narrate events after he'd fled the scene (the part where his friend gets bullied out on the yard).
― clemenza, Friday, 26 December 2014 23:13 (nine years ago) link
D'Angelo: Did you catch when the police came in and there's a freeze frame where my hand was (on Chevy's crotch)? I did that spur of the moment and told Chevy, just to see if anyone on set noticed. But we did a couple takes and no one mentioned it.
Yes, Ms. D'Angelo, having turned 16 the month before this movie was released, I did happen to catch that take.
― pplains, Friday, 26 December 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
EVERYBODY caught that, Bev.
― kate78, Friday, 26 December 2014 23:52 (nine years ago) link
I could have done without the narration.
It's Jean Shepherd!
― kate78, Friday, 26 December 2014 23:54 (nine years ago) link
Didn't know that...Doesn't change my mind, though; I honestly felt it would have been a better film without it.
― clemenza, Saturday, 27 December 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
I'm with you regarding voice-over in 99 percent of movies, especially anything directed by Woody Allen, but this movie's an exception (and there was too much of it in "The Wonder Years").
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 December 2014 02:56 (nine years ago) link
would be a lesser film w/o narration no question
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 27 December 2014 03:08 (nine years ago) link
yeah, otm. this is one of the very few movies i can think of where the narration is absolutely essential. the tone of the movie would be completely different without it.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 27 December 2014 03:39 (nine years ago) link
It's not really fair to say "better film" without it; it would have to be a different film, as the narration fills in a lot of the story. But I just found the narration too folksy.
One thing that was eye-opening for my students was seeing Peter Billingsley as an adult--turns out most of them had seen him in Elf.
http://fm.cnbc.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/img/editorial/2011/09/09/44459961-SS_Child_Star_Successes_Billingsly_Peter.jpg
― clemenza, Saturday, 27 December 2014 03:43 (nine years ago) link
Seriously--completely subjective reaction. I realize how beloved the film is.
― clemenza, Saturday, 27 December 2014 03:44 (nine years ago) link
i have never seen christmas vacation
― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 December 2014 03:48 (nine years ago) link
:o
― Jeff, Saturday, 27 December 2014 03:51 (nine years ago) link
also i didn't see 16 candles until i was 22
I never really learned how to love.
― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 December 2014 03:55 (nine years ago) link
never seen either of these
(no, not ACS in its entirety; i did listen to Jean Shepherd on the radio some)
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 December 2014 04:19 (nine years ago) link
RedLetterMedia did an episode on Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure -- apparently it is a truly terrible movie.
http://youtu.be/3plH6M1LadY
― jmm, Saturday, 27 December 2014 04:28 (nine years ago) link
Isn't "Christmas Vacation 2" like calling a movie "Return of the Jedi 2" or "Rocky III 2: Clubber's Revenge"?
― pplains, Saturday, 27 December 2014 05:12 (nine years ago) link
No one's mentioned Melinda Dillon's kooky, original perf as the mom in ACS: an odd mix of authority and a child trapped in an adult's body. I like the bit where she and the kids are shouting "Jingle Bells" in the car and caps it with a loud fart noise and a delighted laugh.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 December 2014 13:27 (nine years ago) link
i love her!
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 December 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
never seen any of the Vacations, was made to watch ACS last year for the first time bcz America
― Gland Of Horses (sic), Saturday, 27 December 2014 23:29 (nine years ago) link
and bcz filmed in clevo, i'll bet
― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 December 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link
Guy whose house is at the end of my neighborhood's off-ramp always features one of those leg lamps front-and-centeri in his picture window during Christmas. How I hate him so.
― pplains, Saturday, 27 December 2014 23:44 (nine years ago) link
For the theme song, Prince was a Warner artist and he produced it. He's the one who brought in Darlene Love.
Is Darlene Love so synonymous with Christmas that even the director of the film can't remember that it was Mavis Staples who did the theme?
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Sunday, 28 December 2014 04:50 (nine years ago) link
― mookieproof, Saturday, December 27, 2014 8:05 PM (Yesterday)
I'm saving Major League for next xmas.
― kate78, Sunday, 28 December 2014 14:18 (nine years ago) link
have never watched either bcz I prefer Preston fucking Sturges
(I have of course seen ACS scenes all out of order across the years bcz my sister always has it on)
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 04:19 (six years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/l0ErVFsJs8cIH59fO/giphy.gif
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 05:35 (six years ago) link
Vacation
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 05:37 (six years ago) link
Is Rusty still in the Navy?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 12:18 (six years ago) link
butchered on uk tv right now, so my Facebook feed tells me
― piscesx, Tuesday, 26 December 2017 16:04 (six years ago) link
overwhelming in its melancholic nostalgia. The last scene with the mom and dad bathed in Christmas tree light and watching snow plays completely different at the tail end of Christmas Day than it does Christmas Eve.
Still believe this, tbh. The end of Christmas and the start of three to four months of winter is always a killer.
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 16:44 (six years ago) link
the 50 days til the start of baseball spring training, really
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 17:00 (six years ago) link
I've never seen Preston Sturges because I prefer Charles fuckin Dickens
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
hello everybody!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 December 2019 13:45 (four years ago) link
Happy POLLidays! (Happy POLLidays!) It's the ILX Holiday Movies Poll Results Thread
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Friday, 20 December 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
christmas story sequel is dreadfully cornball with little of the OG's charm
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 26 November 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
there's even a scene that's actually a watered down version of a Christmas Vacation scene
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 26 November 2022 16:36 (one year ago) link
Watched the preview and I will be passing
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Saturday, 26 November 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
I just love riding in cars!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 December 2022 01:31 (one year ago) link
GRACE
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 December 2022 01:32 (one year ago) link
Don't drop me down, Clark!
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Monday, 19 December 2022 03:21 (one year ago) link
Something sort of perverse that any single frame of film would center on Chevy Chase, given the galley of assassins making up the entire rest of the cast
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Monday, 19 December 2022 03:23 (one year ago) link