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    Sort-of remake of National Lampoon's Vacation? Please, no...

    http://variety.com/2014/film/news/le...ld-1201306019/

    This looks like it's going to be a huge fail.

    National Lampoon's Vacation is very '80s and can't really be remade in modern times. Besides, it pretty much exhausted most of the LOL family vacation follies, especially with its lame sequels. They need to leave this classic alone and not attempt to recreate the magic.

    In this version, Rusty Grizwold (originally played by Anthony Michael Hall, but Ed Helms in this film) will be middle-aged and take his family on a vacation just like his dad did in the '80s.

    It already sounds like direct-to-video garbage, but it's not.

    I can't imagine this being good.

    The original was great because it was a mixture of blatant in-your-face humor and very subtle humor. Even the gross-out humor (which I usually hate) was done well, when Aunt Edith ate the dog piss sandwich.

    There was even the subtle swipe at Disney, where "Marty Moose" was a fictionalized Mickey Mouse with idealistic devotees, and the owner of Wally World looked and acted like a mixture of Roy and Walt Disney.

    I also loved the creative opening theme, with the funny postcards from various places around the country (all of them real, many from a long time ago):


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    You're just hearing about this now?

    It can't be any worse than some of the terrible fucking sequels that they made.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LLL View Post
    You're just hearing about this now?

    It can't be any worse than some of the terrible fucking sequels that they made.
    Somehow this is new to me, yes.

    Either that, or I blocked it out and forgot, which is also possible.

    For some reason this bothers me more than the terrible sequels, because this is going to masquerade as a remake. Terrible sequels are pretty much the norm for any successful film.

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    For those who haven't read John Hughes' original story.
    http://www.bizbag.com/Vacation/Vacation%2058.htm
    "You run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole; you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole."

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    depends if they go over the top (Euro Vacation) or make it somewhat believable like the original. This is always my issue with sequels/remakes/prequels; they take the things that made the original characters so beloved and turn them into caricatures focusing entirely on a single personality quirk

     
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    Hopefully they show Leslie Mann's brown eye.

     
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