Latest / Nashville Movie Dispatch / Movie Review Rewind, Ep. 55: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)

Transcript

Movie Review Rewind, Ep. 55: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) · Nashville Movie Dispatch

• 0:10
  Speaker 1: Flipping back the calendar to highlight Yesteryear's finess while exploring
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: the vast archives in cinema history. This is the movie
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: Review Rewind podcast on Nashville Movie Dispatch. Holy shit, where's
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: the tile In all? It's a festive episode of the
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: movie Review Rewind podcast for you here on Nashville Movie Dispatch.
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to everyone out there. At this point, we're
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: just a few days away from the big day. Hope
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: you're all getting a moment to take it easy, prop
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: your feet up, reflect on the year that was, look
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: forward to the year ahead, and spend some time. I'm
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: with those you hold deer, preferably by a fireplace, with
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: maybe a glass of eggnog in hand, taking in the
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: wonder of the majestic Christmas tree. I'm Stony Beautiful, Yes
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: with beautiful. I hope you all have beautiful shelving in
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: your homests some book. I'm Stony Keeley, your host for
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: the movie Review Rewind podcast. You can follow me on
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: Twitter and letterboxed at Stony Keeley. Collectively, we are at
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: Sobros Network on all major social media platforms, and of
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: course you can check out all of our work at
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: Nashville Movie Dispatch dot substack dot com. About time for
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: for you guys to be getting those copies of the
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five Nashville Movie Dispatch Movie Annual as well.
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: So thank you to all who have purchased those already.
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: I know I've got a copy sitting on my fine
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: shelving in my living room, and I hope you'll give
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: us a shot to look at the year in review.
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: Of course. I'm going today by a board member of
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: the Music City Film Critics Association, member of Southeastern Film
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: Critics Association, and our resident film critic here at Nashville
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: Movie Dispatch, mister big Shot Brandon, Vic Brandon, Merry Christmas, Christmas.
• 2:16
  Speaker 2: I love this time of year.
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you feel about the tone from going from
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: Tangerine a couple of weeks ago to National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
• 2:28
  Speaker 2: I saw a lot of horrors in this one too show.
• 2:30
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I'm sorry, you're just out of line.
• 2:33
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Doris Roberts.
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: This was gonna be a nice episode. It was.
• 2:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's still can be. It's still but yeah, will
• 2:41
  Speaker 2: this is a This is probably one of the biggest
• 2:43
  Speaker 2: shifts you can make from one Christmas movie to another,
• 2:48
  Speaker 2: but this is one I think all of us watch
• 2:51
  Speaker 2: every year, and it's one of the big ones for
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: us because it is something that like, I don't even
• 2:57
  Speaker 2: have to watch it all the way through. I can
• 2:59
  Speaker 2: just turn it on at different parts, let it play.
• 3:03
  Speaker 2: It's still funny. I love some of the music, and
• 3:07
  Speaker 2: so yeah, it puts me in the holiday cheer.
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: We've also got our buddy Brett back Brett. How are
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: you doing Merry Christmas?
• 3:14
  Speaker 3: I'm doing good, Merry Christmas. I shared A couple of
• 3:17
  Speaker 3: weeks ago, I had acquired a pickle me elbow. Yeah,
• 3:22
  Speaker 3: my children just one.
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 3:23
  Speaker 3: You won't believe this if you remember in Jingle all
• 3:26
  Speaker 3: the Way, when Howard took that turboman out from under
• 3:31
  Speaker 3: the neighbor's tree. That happened, Is that right? So now
• 3:34
  Speaker 3: I've gotten a trickle me elmo, kind of like a waterboarding.
• 3:39
  Speaker 2: Who took your who took the other one? That pickle me?
• 3:42
  Speaker 3: We haven't, it's still in process trying to figure that out.
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: I thought you brought up Jingle all the Way to
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: say that you got a fresh new slurboman doll.
• 3:51
  Speaker 3: You know those were sold out too, well, those are
• 3:54
  Speaker 3: three years ago. Yeah, I did, I did look into that.
• 3:57
  Speaker 2: I think the lesson we've learned here is that if
• 3:59
  Speaker 2: I'm not Mista, can you live in Antioch? And that's
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: the album. I think that's the real issue here for Christmas.
• 4:06
  Speaker 3: Either way, No matter the circumstances, this is a movie
• 4:09
  Speaker 3: that lives rent free in my head. Hell yeah, I'm
• 4:12
  Speaker 3: happy to be here to talk about.
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: Is there just right off the bat? National Lampoon's Christmas
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: Vacation nineteen eighty nine. If I didn't say it, American,
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: an American Christmas slapstick comedy film, the third installment in
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: National Lampoon Magazine's Vacation film series. Christmas Vacation was directed
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: by Jeremiah s Chechik. I don't know any other films
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: that Jeremiah did. H Goodfellows, good Fellas? Are we gonna just.
• 4:43
  Speaker 2: Take it to the bank. Don't look it up.
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: No no, no, no no, don't worry, Brandon. We have
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: the Internet. I don't.
• 4:49
  Speaker 3: I think that's right.
• 4:50
  Speaker 2: That sounds right to me.
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: He also did. Jeremiah also did Bennie in June. Sure,
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: Tall Tale, Okay, Balik diyanball.
• 5:01
  Speaker 2: Eeks, Yeah, when's Goodfellas?
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: Come in the Avengers. What how about that nineteen ninety
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: eight's The Avengers?
• 5:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, would refine Thurman.
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: Yep, and then the right kind of wrong in twenty thirteen.
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: So quite the uh, quite choamography there. It looks like
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: he did. He did some episodes of Burn Notice, oh,
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: three episodes of Gossip Girl, a lot of TV, A
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: lot of TV one.
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: What happens when you make the movies? You just said,
• 5:39
  Speaker 2: you go to TV?
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so this to me, uh, to just start this
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: conversation on this fine, fantastic film. It's gotta be the
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: most quotable Christmas movie. Oh, I see, well, I feel
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: like there's going to be a contingent of people that
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: are going to go to ELF because there's a lot
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: of quotes that came from ELF.
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: Now go to Hell.
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: I have, yes, that tis the season. You're right, that's right,
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: I I have softened. I liked ELF when I first
• 6:11
  Speaker 1: saw it, and then I rewatched it years later because
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: we did an episode of Drinking with Stephen mccash about ELF,
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: and I kind of realized about myself, is that I
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: like it because of the Christmas vibes. I don't actually
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: think it's that great of a film. I'm just saying
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: it has like a cult following, and there are people
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: out there that, to me, when I think of quotable
• 6:37
  Speaker 1: Christmas films, these are the two that I think of.
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: And I feel like there would be a strong contingent
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: of moviegoers that would say Elf is the most quotable
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: Christmas film of all.
• 6:46
  Speaker 2: I think some people would say Crazy Nights because these
• 6:49
  Speaker 2: things are talking about by day Man, yeah, and some
• 6:53
  Speaker 2: other things. But I feel like Christmas Vacation is kind
• 6:57
  Speaker 2: of the same way. Like, I don't think it's like
• 6:59
  Speaker 2: a well done, great movie, but for what it wants
• 7:05
  Speaker 2: to do and the people in it and the Christmas Yeah,
• 7:09
  Speaker 2: in the Christmas environment, it's just funny. It's stupid and
• 7:13
  Speaker 2: it's silly, but it is funny. But it does like
• 7:16
  Speaker 2: it does exactly what it's supposed to do when it's
• 7:20
  Speaker 2: Christmas time.
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: It's really interesting to look back at it too, because
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: when it was released it had got pretty mixed reviews.
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and I think you can see it too
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: when you I mean, when you watch it, it's like, well,
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: if it wasn't the charm of the Christmas season.
• 7:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's not much else going on.
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but over time. It's one of those films that
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: really grew legs in the hearts of audiences, so to speak,
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: because it became a Christmas classic, something that families sit
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: around every year. I know, like we do an event
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: we get together Black Friday every year, cook breakfast for
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: dinner and watch Christmas Vacation and it's crazy nights. Yeah,
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: but uh, there's a lot of people that do that.
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: But just like the the iconic characters in it, the dialogue,
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: the script, I feel like it's one of the funniest,
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: but also I think it's the most quotable Christmas movie
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: of all time. Where did you land on this one?
• 8:18
  Speaker 3: B From a quotable standpoint, I feel like this is
• 8:22
  Speaker 3: MJ versus Lebron debate of they're different eras, and you know,
• 8:27
  Speaker 3: maybe maybe Elf is that of Post two thousand, but
• 8:32
  Speaker 3: I feel like for this era, it's got to be
• 8:34
  Speaker 3: Christmas Vacation.
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: And what do you guys? So I did not realize
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: this was technically the third Vacation film series. First of all,
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: I also did not realize until doing research for this podcast,
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: that National Lampoon was actually a magazine.
• 8:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it was like a film company like
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: you know, Broken Lizardy, just a kind of guys that
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: make movies together, that sort of deal.
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: And there's some documentaries about National Lampoon and kind of
• 9:05
  Speaker 2: the way that it started and it was a big
• 9:07
  Speaker 2: deal and then their first one. I don't remember what
• 9:10
  Speaker 2: their first movie was because a lot of it was
• 9:11
  Speaker 2: a magazine and then I.
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: Know, like it was a magazine.
• 9:15
  Speaker 2: A Animal House was a part of it as.
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: Humor magazine from nineteen seventy to nineteen ninety eight, so
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: twenty eight year run. Yeah, let me see if I
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: can find the films that they did on.
• 9:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they still did some all the way
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: up to I mean there's some National Lampoons whatever. Now
• 9:33
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that they're good ones and that they
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: went straight to light.
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what it is National Lampoon today?
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: But I don't know what it is today because they
• 9:41
  Speaker 2: were doing some movies. But they they were always kind
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: of like they tried towards the end at least, they
• 9:48
  Speaker 2: were kind of like trying to do what like American
• 9:51
  Speaker 2: Pie did. I was gonna say, trying to do like
• 9:54
  Speaker 2: with younger people.
• 9:55
  Speaker 3: It may not be this exactly, but I'm thinking of
• 9:58
  Speaker 3: things like Van Wilder.
• 10:00
  Speaker 2: That is yeah?
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: Is that so? Man? They did They did everything National Lampoon.
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: I never realized this was such a big brand. But
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: they did do like they did books, they had theater,
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: they had record like vinyl cassette tapes at the time,
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: they did you won't televisions.
• 10:21
  Speaker 3: But the shoes I'm wearing are National lamp is. Yeah, predaced.
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: All right, here we go. The list of National Lampoon films.
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: Animal House nineteen seventy eight, Movie Madness, Class Reunion, Vacation,
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: Joy of Sex, European Vacation, Christmas Vacation, Loaded Weapon One,
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: Senior Trip, Vegas Vacation, Golf Punks, Van Wilder replicate, but
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: it's like repla hyphen Kate as in Kate. I don't
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: even know what that is. That's two thousand and two,
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: black Ball in two thousand and three, Jake's Booty Call
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: in two thousand.
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: This sounds fun.
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: And then it switched over to National Lampoon Incorporated. There's
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: a ton of movies barely Legal, Gord gold Diggers, Dorm.
• 11:10
  Speaker 2: Days, Dorm Days.
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: I remember Van Wilder, The Rise of taj Oh.
• 11:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you can't forget that.
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know any of these movies, But there.
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at some that say National Pen's Last Resort.
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: They had Corey Feldman and Corey Ham.
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: Oh good.
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: And there's one that has a where is it National
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: Lampoon's Holiday Reunion with Judge Renhold and Brian Princeton.
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: Oh man, we need to watch the You should see
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: the cover. They rebooted it in twenty fifteen with Ed Helms,
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: Ed Helms as a grown up rusty grizzly. Yeah, was
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: that any good? Did y'all see that?
• 11:50
  Speaker 3: I didn't?
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: I did? It's all right? And Chevy Chase and Beverly
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: Dangelo make a cameo, as is Chris Simsworth.
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: Isn't it yep?
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: He is in it?
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: Christina Applegate, Leslie Mann.
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: I see National Lampoon Shindler's List. I must have done
• 12:07
  Speaker 2: that one.
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So uh this.
• 12:11
  Speaker 2: National Lampoons says apocalypse now I am.
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest with you guys. It sounds like
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: a whole lot of I don't really give a ship.
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: Yes, longer ago past the vacation ones. Yeah, you're what
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: that's probably about? Right?
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: Excuse me? What were y'all's opinions on Animal House? Did
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: y'all ever see that.
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: I haven't seen it, so I think I've seen bits
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: and pieces and I'm kind of like you, I didn't
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: think it was that funny, but I haven't seen the
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: whole thing, I don't think, and I sometimes get it
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: confused with Porkys that I did see, and it was
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: it that was the most that was such a waste
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: of time and like cringe worthy gross, Like I like,
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: either if I was in that movie and washed it today,
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: there's there's no way I could look at myself and
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: be like that I thought that was good.
• 13:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, having not seen it, I do wonder, and we've
• 13:06
  Speaker 3: asked this about other movies. Is it just you had
• 13:10
  Speaker 3: to be in that era?
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: I think so, yeah, because that's what I've been like
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: hyper critical of Animal House. I mean to the point
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: like I've caught flack online because I wrote a review
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: of it and posted my notes of watching it for
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: the very first time, and I caught a lot of
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: flak for it from people that were older, just saying like, no,
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: you don't understand. At the time John Belushi putting an
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: onion in his mouth and smashing his cheeks like he
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: was popping a zip. That was Pete comedy greatest show.
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: I remember one of them saying that that they they
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: that like you knew your stuff, but they hated your personality.
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what it was about my
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: review of Animal House.
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: I'm just thinking six months or a year ago, my
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: wife watched Old Cool. It was on TV, and she
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: watched some of it and she she looked at me,
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: like offended, and said, was this funny? And it was
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: just kind of like you just kind of had to
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: be there.
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: It's like funny, that's the problem.
• 14:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's different now.
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: It was first I loved it, like with Will Ferrell
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: and that Frank the tank and then when he's acting
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: like he's playing hockey and hits it in the house, and.
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: I just wonder if it's the same kind.
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: I'm sure it is for a different generation, I.
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: Would guess, so I would guess. So yeah, But I
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: I didn't like Animal House, but I don't I'm conflicted,
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: Like I haven't seen any of the other vacation movies,
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: so how how did those stack up? Because there's a
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: quote somewhere in my research I found that I should source,
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: but I don't have it handy. But somebody said at
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: some point during all this that these vacation movies are
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: little more than a vehicle for Chevy Chase.
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: I've seen, I've seen vacation, and You're vacation. To me,
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: Christmas Vacation is the definitive vacation.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: I agree. I don't remember seeing all of European Vacation.
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: I remember seeing. I think I did watch the original vacation,
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: but nothing was as quotable, certainly nothing as funny as
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: Christmas Vacation and then Vegas Vacation would come after this one.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: And I've seen a good amount of it, if not
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: all of them.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's why it ended. It's not it's not
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: even that funny, much less that fun and Chevy Chase
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: is past his prime. All that's gone.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: The antics, the formula that's there in Christmas Vacation of
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: kind of you know, there's the piece with him trying
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: to flirt with a younger attractive woman like that's in
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: all of the movies, I feel like, and him doing
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: ridiculous slapstick things like that's in all of the movies.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: No, I think the formula has been the same for
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: however long. But the thing is is that depending on
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: where you put this family. It can work, wonders, or
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: it can backfire. And I think there's a little bit
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: of I think there's a little bit of all of
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: that probably in all of them. But Vegas Vacation, what
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: is the worst Christmas Vacation is the only one I
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: really care to just visit just because it is fun.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: And again, well, it's still silly.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: What I was essentially getting at with like the National
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: La Lampoon movies as a whole, and people saying like, oh,
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Chevy Chase just makes these things. It's a marketing gimmick
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: to get him over, so to speak. The other movies,
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: how they stand up to Christmas Vacation, Like, is this
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: just the case where kind of like what we were
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: dancing around before, probably not that great of a movie
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: that has helped tremendously buy the Christmas setting.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you know, spoiler alert because we'll go
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: there later. But for me, like you said, the plot,
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: all of that whatever on this movie, but on quotability
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: and vibes alone, ten out of ten.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and when the family comes and visits and all
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: of that interaction with them, on top of like trying
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: to make it the best Christmas and the decorations and
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: the neighbors who are no fun and don't give a
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: shit about Christmas. Like, there's a lot in there, and
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: Cousin Eddie is a huge part of it. That you know,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: they did a Christmas vacation too, that was just about
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: because of Eddie's thing. I never saw it, and from
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: what I understand, Randy Quaid now is a very sensible person,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: so I'm sure things have worked out. But but yeah,
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: I just yeah, Christmas definitely plays a part because like,
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: like honestly, let's just say, you're you know we talk
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: about this in March, for instance, Yeah, I don't want
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: to watch it. No, I'm not interested. I don't give
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: a shit about Christmas Vacation.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Then I will say it's because of what this movie is.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: I could watch parts of it in other times of
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: the year. Maybe not in March in theory, not that
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: we would ever talk about it then, but I do
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: think I could watch it other I do. I was
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: gonna say, we owe a debt of gratitude to vacation
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: and European vacation, because without them we don't get this.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: So fair enough, we need that for the characters, for
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: Cousin Eddie, for Clark for all of them.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. That's true, and I basically after Thanksgiving
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: through December, I can watch.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: It anytime I've opened that window. This is a good
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: rabbit trail. I've opened that window to post October, like
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: as long as for November, as long as Halloween's over, Christmas.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: A peak behind the curtain. We were all three college roommates.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: We lived in the same apartment for our entire college.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Are you okay?
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm fine.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: A please keep in the goodness.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Do you need to change your diapers?
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: No? No, no, okay, but there's a smelly frog in here.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you that much.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: We uh, we were all roommates in college, and there
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: was one year that you guys gave me ship because
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: on Halloween night, after we came in from you know,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: we were wild. And yeah, back then we had come
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: in from I think having dinner at Little Caesar's or
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Applebee's and eight o'clock Halloween was over. So I actually
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: took down the Halloween decorations and put up Christmas lights
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: in my room that night. So I am, I'm all
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: for it.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Like I would like to publicly apologize.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Not me.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: There's gotta be November. You can't you enjoy spooky season
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: November first, you're free to You're free to to roam
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: and do what you play.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: It has become for me September and October or spooky season.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Right, that's yeah, in November that I have a window.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this about Brett, and
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: we're just gonna air this out live on the podcast whatever.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: I have like a small collection of what I call
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: fall movies, and so like Labor Day through like the
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: second week of September, I'm watching like when Harry Met
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Sally Dead Poet Society. You've Got Mail was a good
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: one that Brandon submitted. I like watching The Departed at
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: that time of year. It's just like stuff that's like
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: set in the fall. Goodwill Hunting is another one, but
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: it's not like themed.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: You get through and see the autumn leaves as you're
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: talking about, thank.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: You, thank you, get through those two weeks and then
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: I'm switching over to spooky season. Yeah, but it is
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: like I consider the holidays like the entire last third
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: of the year. Yes, Like, Okay, I'm winding down for
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: the year. Hopefully I've accomplished everything I want to do.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: And I'm going to start getting into these these films
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: and why not. Christmas Vacation is one that, man, when
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: I think about not just the movies I watch every Christmas,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: which I think if I had, well, maybe we'll save that.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Maybe we'll save that for the end of the show.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Mount rushmore of Christmas movies for all of us, just
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: jotting that down, making notes, live producing a podcast. But
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: it's not just one of those movies that I watch
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: every year. I'm liable to watch it like two or
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: three times every season.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, So.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Do you guys actually know what the film is based on?
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: This is not like an independent original screenplay. This is
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: an adapted screenplay.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Oh no, I think I have heard before that. It's
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: like is it a book or a short story?
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: It is based off of the short story called Christmas
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: fifty nine that was published in National Lampoon written by
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: John Hughes. Oh so, for those not familiar, John Hughes
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: fabled director Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Planes,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Trains and Automobiles, Uncle Buck, and his last one was
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Curly Sue, which is John Hughes did not do what.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: I remember seeing Curly Sue because they had Jim Belus.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: It's like, well.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Anthony, listen, just for people, don't question me. Anthony Miguela
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: directed The English Patient.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at his filmography. I'm like, John Hughes did not.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: National Lampoon Shimmler's List, though, have you seen it?
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: So I wanted to ask you, guys, do you have
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: a favorite John Hughes film?
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I like the Breakfast.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Club, Breakfast I mean, I guess probably the Breakfast I
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: mean I feel like it always goes back to kind
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: of breakfast Club or sixteen Candles, which I mean, I
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: honestly have not watched those in years.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: It's been a while. Maybe we need to revisit one
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: of those.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. Maybe Bride of Chucky.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: That's not one of the ones that I listed.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, I just thought you skipped some.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: No.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: I did like Curly Sue, I had Jim Belushi, and
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: I don't know the Little Girl, but I did like
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: that one.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: I'll throw in there. This is probably not my favorite,
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: but I only saw it a few years ago. Planes,
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Trains and Automobiles holds up, well, does it?
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: It's like a Thanksgiving Yes, that is Thanksgiving that's a
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Thanksgiving very much.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: So it's it plays this timing year too well.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: I mean I think specifically it is for Thanksgiving. Yes,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: but I watch it. You know what, I don't want
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: to I don't want to distract here. But I watched
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: a Christmas movie that had Steve Martin called Mixed Nuts.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Have you ever seen that?
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know of it. I've not seen it.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: No, I didn't really like it.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: That's okay.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: His movie has Steve Martin. I thought it was worth
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: mentioning that is true. But yeah, no, I don't know.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: I guess Breakfast Club. I mean I feel like it's
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: kind of like the earlier stuff that kind of establishes them,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: and then I like, but he also produced a thousand things.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Ferris Bueler's hard to top that for me.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did like that. Yeah you haven't really I
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: have seen.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Oh we need to do that. Can we please do
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: a good one?
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: That is a good one, but yeah, maybe Fairris Bueller.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I think I kind of enjoyed that one more than
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Breakfast Club. But there's so many memorable things in Breakfast Club.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: I think that's why it kind of sticks with you.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Breakfast Club is probably more iconic to me, but fair
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Fueler is probably more rewatchable to me.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: No, that's that's fair.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: So we've talked about these vacation movies kind of being
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: a vehicle for chevy Chase. I love that phrasing because
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: it does kind of fel feel wie.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: I think that's how Fletch was. I mean, I think
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: that's how a lot of things were back in the day,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: is that they kind of had this guy yeh, kind
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: of built it around them. I mean, I feel like
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: that's kind of the way it was with Tom Selick
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: back in the day, Burt Reynolds back in the day.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Like everybody, it was always kind of this fitting thing.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Like it's not like Chevy Chase was gonna go do
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: something different. Yeah, it was just gonna be these different characters.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: But I tell you what, you're guaranteed it's a comedy. Now,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: whether it's funny or not, that's different. But but yeah,
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: I mean I'm sure National and Poon kind of built up.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: But I mean I feel like that's the same thing
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: with John Belushi. I mean, National and Poon played a
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: big part in kind of his success.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I uh, Chase is known as a pretty complicated guy,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: not not always the easiest to work with. I think he.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, not at all. Matter of fact, there was the
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: word was is that John Hughes I think produced Christmas Vacation. Yeah,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: and Christopher Columbus was going to direct Christmas Vacation. They
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: didn't get along, but they did not get along, so
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: John Hughes promised him a different movie, which ended up being.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Home Alone, Crazy How the Stars a line?
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: And then Jeremiah was the lucky guy to direct this,
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: which thank god, because he went on to do so much. Yeah,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: he went on direct.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Was that before or after Christopher Columbus Sailed the Ocean?
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: I think it was after, Okay, because Christopher Columbus, if
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken, and this is for the kids out there,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: he directed the first Harry Potter movie.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Really right?
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Wow, very well. So do you guys have a favorite
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Chevy Chase movie?
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Then Christmas Vacation? Yeah, There's not much else that I
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: would say is great.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, I look through he actually has a pretty.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Exclusive in the seventies and eighties, he was the man.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: I did not realize. I didn't really realize how many
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: movies he had he had been in. He was in
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Caddy Shack. Yeah, I'm sure some of these are well
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: known that I've never heard of. He's in Fletch yep,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: the Three Amigos.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Yep, see Martin and Marty Short.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Caddy Shack two, there's Christmas Vacation. He was in
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Last Action Hero. Oh he had a cameo as himself. Okay,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: never mind, that's just one that I saw that I knew.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I know that Last Action Hero.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: He was in Dirty Work, which was a fun little
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: nor McDonald. Yeah, he was in Orange County as the principal.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Yes, I was. I was just gonna say that's the
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: one I kind of remember him in.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: I don't know anything that he has done in the
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: two thousands beyond Orange County. He has a credit for
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Oh He's the Repairman and hot Tub time Machine.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it would be Christmas Vacation.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Think so.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: People would argue about Three Amigo's Fletch and stuff, because
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: I obviously those are big ones. But for me, I
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: it's I don't know, it's kind of what you it's
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: kind of everything formulated from like what you know about
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Chevy Chase and his comedic chops to SNL Chevy Chase
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: and even though, like you said, with Vacation European Vacation,
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: it's not like this is the first time Clark Griswold
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: has shown up. But to me, it's kind of one
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: of those where everything just kind of aligns like it should. Yeah,
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: and no matter how people received it or when it
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: came out, but it is one of those that I
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: feel like kind of shows everything that why and when
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: he was famous Christmas Fak shows it.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: There's also a people of a certain generation which includes
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: us and I think our parents that for me, I
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: grew up watching this movie because my parents enjoyed it. Yeah,
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: and now that's continued on for me. And so it'll
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: be interesting to see, like my kids will they care
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: about Christmas Vacation.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: I feel like your kids will care like in mine too,
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: is that it'll be this elephant like it'll be these.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Things nostalgic things.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's something you know what.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: You're talking about there, Brett is why I ultimately feel
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: like chevy Chase probably owes his legacy to this movie
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: because this is something that's going to be passed down
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: through the generations. Yeah, I think people of a certain
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: age you look at him and you think of SNL. Obviously,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: I think there's probably a good core of younger people
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: that look at him and think community. I think that
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: did a lot to really revive his career as well.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: I do too.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: But Christmas Vacation is the one thing that transit them
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: both because of what you talked about. It's parents watching it,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: passing it down to their kids, and their kids passing
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: it along to their kids, so on and so forth.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Because this has become such a staple of the season.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: And what's funny is if I noticed that, I think
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Chevy Chase, I mean, he was only with S and L.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: I think maybe one season was he I think he
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: left the second or third season because that Bill Murray
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: came in. And I think Bill Murray came in on
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: the second.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Season and they got into it. They did not when.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: He came back, when Chevy came back to host. Oh,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know how long ago that was, but from
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: my understanding, Chevy left because he was doing these movies
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: and so he you know, it's kind of like anybody
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: like I think S and L still does it today.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: You kind of have these guys that kind of pop
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: out of it and they're gonna do it but rarely
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: does it happen within one year and they're just say, Okay,
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: forget it, I'm leaving.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: Well. And the thing to me that makes this movie
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: great across generations is, and this is true of a
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: lot of good comedy movies, there are things that a
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: kid can find funny about. It's like the squirrel scene
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: or the sled scene. Yeah, and then there are different
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: things that adults. While adults may still enjoy those scenes,
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: there are different things that land differently for adults that
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: you don't quite understand.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, absolutely, so this.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Film was a commercial success. I was kind of surprised
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: to see that they had a budget of twenty five
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: million for this movie, because you got to think, like,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: it's released in nineteen eighty nine, what what is the
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: money going for Chevy Chevy Chase at this point?
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Probably some probably millions. Randy Quaid maybe he's an Oscar nominee.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I'm just saying it had a
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: box office run of seventy three point three million, so
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: wildly successful, nearly tripled its budget. Mixed reviews from critics
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: off the bat. Over time, it has kind of grown
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: a fondness in their hearts. Do you want to take
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: a wild guest Based on just fifty seven reviews on
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Rotten Tomatoes, what the tomato meter is sitting at for
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: this film?
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: I think it's things like thirty.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Eight, thirty eight. Guess.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna guess higher than that. I'm gonna guess like.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Sixty seventy two percent.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Oh really? Oh, I thought hated it.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: The audience higher or lower?
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: What was it? What was it? Seventy seventy two?
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: I would say higher.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: I feel like it's higher, but maybe not that much
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: like seventy eight, eighty two, seventy eight.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Do you want to venture a number guests Brett for.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: The audience, I'm going to guess more like eighty eight
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: or something.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Eighty six percent? Eighty six okay, based on one hundred
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: thousand plus reviews.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: So again one of those films that I think, over
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: time has really grown found a place in the hearts
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: of audiences. Uh do you guys have We'll be here
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: all day? Favorite quotes? Favorite scenes?
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: There's two that I use all the time. Is He's
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: just yacting on a bone? Yeah, I love that, all
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: kinds of different things. And then there's one that I
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: really like to use when someone says something to my
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: wife or I say something to my wife and you
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: don't hear. I say, they want you to say grace,
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: the blessing, the blessing.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: I love to say those two.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: Another great scene that plays with kids and adults, because
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: I remember as a kid her standing up and saying
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: the play.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Killed.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Yes, Yes, those are the two. I like to use
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: a lot. You Serious Clark.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: I think you serious Clark. That's a good one. I
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: use that one year round.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: I feel like you serious Clark is just in the vernax.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: It's funny. It's so funny, even when it's in that
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: movie where he's like talking about Santon of all the people,
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: a grown ass man, it's liken't wait, serious Clark.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: I'll give two. That one that's well, very well known,
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: the rant that you started with, the quote from where's
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: the title of all? There are some things I'm looking
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: at this. There are some things in this that to
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: this day, I don't know what they mean. Really. For flushing,
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: I don't I don't know what that is.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Is that part of his rent?
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what that's part of what he calls his
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: ball for flushing stiff legged I'm not quite spotty lipped, wormheaded. Yeah,
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: it's it's great. And then a maybe an often overlooked
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: one that I loved is cousin Eddie when they're walking
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: through I guess it's Walmart or something, so or.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: We about to say the same one, you're well, I
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: don't want to steal it.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: If you're gonna go ahead, go ahead your people, you're
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: a company, kill off all those people in India while back,
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: and he says, no, we missed out on that one.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: It's the same conversation as when I think I know
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: where when he's asking him about like, what are you
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: going to do for the kids for Christmas? And Eddie
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: thinks he's talking about the kids in Walmart and he goes, oh,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: these kids can fit for themselves. I say that all
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: the time too.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: I But in that same conversation where he asks like, oh,
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: you know, we don't have a Christmas and then like
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: what do you want? And then he gives them money,
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: it's like, you you buy yourself something real nice to
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: Clark like he has this whole list ready for him
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: to buy and he as he's packing on like fifteen
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: pounds of dog food.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: Here's a list alphabetically.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Anyway, you get yourself something real, nice, Clark, if.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: You don't mind, Clark, I'd like to get you something real.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: Yes, that's another quotable line.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Yes, I like it. It's not a quote or anything,
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: but I like where he messes with the windmill and
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: then he just kind of shrugs like he didn't understand
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: what that was for during the eggnog and he's just
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: like oh, and then like.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: I like that the way he's dressed, I mean, cousin.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: That that's turtleneck where you can see right through.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: It is funny in a in a movie that is
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: full of quotable lines, and this rewatchable scene after rewatchable scene.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: Cousin Eddie is a showstopper.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, he is MVP of the film.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean for a lot of things he
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: does bring out. Yeah I do, I do. I would yeah,
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: I would say so.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: It's it's at that level of things are not going
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: well with this Christmas vacation, but when he shows up,
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: it rocket ships off to what the movie becomes well.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: And even like when he goes out next, like like
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: if he could like save that chair, maybe he'll take it.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: And he's quality item. He's like he.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: I didn't want to some about basically but basically sold everything,
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: and like they live in that trailer like but nothing's
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: ever really that surprising that they've that this has happened
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: to them. And he talks about like where like her eye,
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: like his daughter's eyes, probably because it was a mule
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: or something kicked her. Yeah, and I'm just like this
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: is so like but it's so ridiculous, but it's funny.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: I don't remember the order, but it's fell down a well.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: Isico cross got kicked by the mule?
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: They come on.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like oh, it's like it's like when he says, uh,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: somebody's talking about joining the circus, you must.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: Be yeah, oh yeah, this isn't even really a quote,
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: but I just love how like they want to check
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: those lights, and Rusty's like, oh man, I got homework
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: the pigs and he just wanders off.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: I like the I don't remember if it's the aunt,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: great grandma, whatever, the old lady is. She's like, I'll
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: give you a whole quarter to yeah, rub my bunion
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: or something.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Clark's mom, aunt Bethany, is also in the running
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: for m v P that's true. Yeah, every scene of
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: her great.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and you know she is uh, she's Shirley Temple.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: No, yeah, I never knew that ever knew that.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: She is the O G Shirley TIMI wow. But I
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: do love the way she talks with that brode AND's like,
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: oh my god, your cat.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: She wrapped up her, damn cat.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Damn cat. And you can tell it's a real performance
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: from Chevy Chase because he moves that box yeah and
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: acts like there's something and I'm like, he's he's with
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: it's with it. But it's funny.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Let's get into some letterboxed reviews, because this is you
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: get into some of these iconic films and there's some
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: some really good stuff. I feel like the mark of like,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: you know, you've got a good movie that has stood
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: the test of time, it lives in people's hearts. When
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: the letterboxed reviews are just series of quote, oh yeah
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: from the film, But there are there are some funny
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: ones in here. Russman gives it a three and a
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: half and just says they didn't even go on vacation.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: That's true. It's a staycation, is what it is.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a funny one from Sean three and
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: a half stars, an insightful critique exploring the plight of
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: the shrinking middle class in post Reagan suburban communities at
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: the expense of encroaching globalization and billionaire brain poison. In
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: many ways, a movie for our time. Oh good squirrel
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: bit too.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: Wow, that's a lot of thought there.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: He's just yacking on a bone. Here's here's a good
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: one we missed. Hey, Griswold, where do you think you're
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: gonna put a tree that big? And Clark says, bend
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: over and I'll show.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: You talking to you?
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: And why is the carpet all wet? Todd, I don't know, Margo.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: I love this one.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: This is.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: This is from Den of Geeks four and a half stars.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: This walked so Joker could run. There is a tideline
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: where Clark Griswold becomes the Joker.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: Yes, it makes sense.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she wrapped up her damn cat. We talked about
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: that one. Oh, here we go, Here we go. She
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: falls down a well, her eyes go cross, she gets
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: kicked by a mule. They go back. I don't know.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Five out of five yep, I don't know. Yeah, this
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: look I want Clark to get his in ground pool
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: just like the rest of you. But let's be honest,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: for a moment, Clark's bonus, even if it's more than
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: he dreamed of, we'll be spent repairing his damn house.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: That's true. That is very true.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: Oh man.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: I also find like there's times where, like where they're leaving,
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: they leave them in the attic. He's like, well, I can't.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: I have to take medicine for my back. And just
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: like I can't imagine in some any shape or form
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: where we're just not gonna talk to the person of
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: the house and we're all gonna get in the car
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: and drive off and maybe they'll meet us later. That
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: sounds that's the most ridiculous thing in the movie.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: You know, the movie has the perfect you were talking
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: about the attic scene, and you know, then he gets
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: trapped up there. He watches the old movie, the old
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: home films, And I think that's part of what keeps
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: the staying power too, is that it does have this
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: sentimental nature about it that you know, you combine our
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: nostalgic watching it with generations, well that was sentimental too,
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: with the kind of sentimental feelings in the film, and
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: it all works.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: And I really think people should they I don't think
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: it's played at all. But that song that's played up
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: in the attic is Ray Charles's Spirit of Christmas. I
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: love that song, but it is never played on any
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: of the stations that kind of run at twenty four
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: to seven once Thanksgivings over. But I really love I
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: love that song because it is He's like, why can't
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: Christmas be every day of the year? And I really
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: love that song.
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: Well, and there's a on that note, there's a handful
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: of songs in that movie that if I hear.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: Them all that I think if that one, and I
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: love the opening, the whole animated one, like Christmas Vague.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: It's it's so catchy.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: It's crazy because it's something that this film has gotten
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: a lot of praise for. From a critical standpoint, has
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: been like, well, the soundtrack is the music's great in this.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: Film sings that opening song, She's What's something divine?
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Uh something, She's She's she's very famous.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: And she's been like.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: Joy divine Randolph.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: No, no, okay close, but yeah it's Mava Staples.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: That's love the Staple Singers. Yeah, I was going to
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: say Staple sisters.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I love I love that music.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: So that was something like it was lauded for, but
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: they never released a soundtrack.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: That's bullshit.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you would think about that leaving money
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: on the table right there. Yeah, so one of the
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: all time classics. I don't know, do you guys have
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: any harding thoughts we're wrapping things up here.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: I like when Beverly dan Angelo does a kiss to
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: Chevy Chase's buttch in. Yeah, it's very very sweet. It's
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: just funny. Like when that road rage incident where the
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: movie starts.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: It really is to finish. I feel like we're laughing.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: We're having a ridiculous Everyone knows there's no way they
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: put a They could have pulled that Christmas tree out
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: of the ground and put it on that car. It's impossible,
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: but they did it. I get it. The way the
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: kids act, the way the brother and sister act when
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: the family comes in. I've made a comparison. When we
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: host stuff, it's like it's like Christmas vacation where everyone's
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: at the door and then there is no peace and
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: everyone's talking and everyone's scriping, and you know, we've all
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: been there and done that. But but there's also a
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: real like love for the holidays when the family's together,
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: and we've had this with with my with our family
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: is like you get up and there is like the
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: siblings are there, like everybody's there, and it is there
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: is something you know, there's something nostalgic about it and
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: something that's it just feels nice. But but yeah, I
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: just love like the when he is talking to the
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: I think she might be she may have been a
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: real life model. But when he's at the mall and
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: he keeps talking about nipples and stuff and like his
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: laughing and like yes, he's looking at him like, oh
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: my god. And then like he has that like I
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: think of that song every time when he sees like
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: he imagines the pulling that woman in there she's about
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: to reveal her top and saying that. Yeah. There's just
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: so many things associated with that movie now that that
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: maybe not even before you even could remember, but now
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: it's like, oh, yeah, I remember that because it played
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: there and this was this and.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: But you're at a store and you hear the Hawaiian
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: Chris yeah, and you're immediately watching that scene in your
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: mind again.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And like I said, the opening of it with
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: the anime and stuff with the Christmas vacation.
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: Well you mentioned it, but you know, as you get
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: older and as you're the adult putting these kind of
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: things on, dealing with the chaos of them, it just
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: it lands in a different way. And that's part of
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: why it works.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: And that's it too, because you start to identify who
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: is who in this situation, like I don't know, but
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: uncle whoever where he can't help but light a cigarette
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: and lights it and he's like, that was an ugly
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: tree anyway. But there's also those moments and you were
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: talking about where like Chevy Chase's dad is talking to
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: him and there is that there is that sense of
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: tradition and like, no, I think it's your Like there
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: is this kind of reminder of what it should be
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: about and kind of how you can get caught up
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: in it, which a lot of the Christmas movies are
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: kind of like that. But but I thought that was
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: nice too to you to.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: Your point, Brett. It's echoed in one of Ellen's comments
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: when she says, I don't know what to say, but
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: it's Christmas and we're all in misery.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: Yes, And what's the one where they're like, hey, I
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: share a bish, I might have to share a better
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: with your father. Yeah, and the and you know what's
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: funny is when I was younger, I didn't quite understand
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: the the gag of it. But when he's flipping through
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: the magazine and those pages get stuck, I didn't think
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: of the tree part. Yeah, but it is quite funny.
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: That is what's great about good like long standing comedy,
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: the way that those things kind of unfold over.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's kind of where you say, where like
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: it kind of separates, like the kids laughing and then
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: the adults are like, yeah, like okay, I get it
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: and stuff, and especially like dealing with him and Ellen's
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: like kind of you know, uh, marriage and kind of
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: what they're what she puts up with and what he's
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: trying to do and show off and try to sit
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: with the lights and everything else and give this you know,
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: elaborate demonstration.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: Do you guys have a mount rushmore of Christmas movies?
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: I've got mine. And while while you guys think I
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: would give honorable mentions, it's not a Christmas movie. I
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: know what you're gonna say. It's not a Christmas movie
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: just because we watch it every Christmas time. Eight Crazy
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Nights is technically a honikael So which is also there's
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: a I don't remember which publication, but somebody wrote a
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: big think piece about like it says something about Honkah
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: that this is our best Honkkah movie. I digress. I
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: would also give honorable mentions to Love Actually, which I
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: watched for the first time this past Christmas season, The Holiday,
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: which is one that my wife loves that we sit
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: and watch every season, and a new addition to the rotation,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: The Holdovers.
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: Yes, great, glad you brought that one. It's not on
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: my Mount Rushmore, but it's close.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: My Mount Rushmore would be yeah, and I'm I'm with you.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: I almost put it on mine too. Christmas Vacation. I
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: like the weird Jim Carrey Christmas Carol, the anime one
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: that's like super trippy. I like watching that really close
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: to Christmas. The Polar Express is online, and then the
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: fourth one would go to the night before.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: I think mine would be the Santa Claus Christmas Vacation
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: Polar Express and the Holdovers is very close and I
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: just watched it. It's become somewhat of a tradition now
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: because I really enjoy it, and it's close, but I
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: really as far as just things that's recent and the
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: way it's done. I really like Klaus.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Klaus is good too.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I think those would be my top four
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: where like I want to, I must watch them every year.
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: My Christmas Vacation is on my list. Probably my number
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: one is Home Alone from A. I do like Home
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: from A like can watch it with the family, and
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: I would I'm cheating, but I would include both Home
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: Alone one and two that both of those are kind
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: of equally good to me. A movie that's really become
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: one of my favorite movies just in general is It's
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: a Wonderful Life. I think there's a movie that's aged
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: really well, and I love that one for a lot
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: of the same reason. It's not hilarity but just nostalgia
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: and that kind of thing. And then I didn't see
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: this until I don't know, seven or eight years ago,
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: but I'm gonna say die hard. I watch it every
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: single Christmas.
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: I love I have not seen it forever, but you
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: know what the thing is, and I feel like maybe
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: that's why some people have come around on Christmas Vacation.
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: When it first came out is that there is some
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: kind of lenient scene. If it's a Christmas movie. There's
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: a movie I watch every Christmas at some point. It's
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: not a good movie. It's a dumb movie. I want
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: to say, it's like five or six percent rotten. But
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: I will watch Christmas with the Cranks. I will watch
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: def To Hall's which is a not a very good movie,
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: but Danny DeVito and Matthew Broad But it's if it's Christmas,
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: it's fine. And it's the same one of what is
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: the it's a sequel Bad Moms Christmas or something like
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: that has like Susan Saranda, but Kristen Bells in it. Yeah,
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: and Catherine Han's in it. I think put Daddy's Home
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: two in the Daddy's Home Tomb is one which that
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: thermostat argument makes me laugh every single time. But but yeah,
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: those the the ones that you mentioned. I love watching
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: Home alone. I do like that one that that's a
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: tough one.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: I surprised I liked you.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: I like Jingle all the way, and I like that
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: kind of element of where you have to go find
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: this one a toy. I like that to me, is
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: is fun.
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: But and that one's very of our era as Yeah,
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: it is, especially for kids, that way of Christmas shoppings disappear.
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and if not, it's not it's not as simple
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: as it was now. It's like like this you know,
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: PlayStation seven that's like a thousand dollars. Like it's not
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: fun when like you would go and find a furber,
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: tickle me Elmo or something or but the like I
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: remember when like I stood in line and raced to
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: get the Power Rangers. It wasn't even Christmas, but like
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: there's that fever of like this toy and it's the
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: thing these days. It's all tech stuff and it's just
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: expensive as hell. But but I love that like he's
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: just run like that's that's the whole thing of it.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: But but I will watch almost anything as far as
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: related to Christmas and like the old school, you know,
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: Rudolph and stuff. My son loves the o G.
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: We have to give me any any Grinch property. I'm
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: good with the original, the n them Grinch, the.
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: New my son loved. I mean, And we will pass
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: this house that has like you know where they have
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: the lights, but one of them has the Grinch's face
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: on their garage door. During it, he will we will
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: drive by and he will say no, Gritch, no, snow
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: Like he's almost like he's waiting for it to come back,
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: but he knows he's not come assume. But but and
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: we watch it. I don't know how many times. But
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: but there's stuff like that in Frosty. He loves to.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: So there's things like that that I that that is
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: fun to watch, and I really do love to. I'm
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: not like Stony. I don't have stuff for seasons, but
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: I will say I do try to watch like scary
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: stuff during Halloween, and a lot of it's rather it's
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: monster House, hocus Pocus, which, again, hocus Pocus is not
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: a good movie, but it's just something that people watch. Sorry,
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: it's not it's I tell Brittany and my my sister
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: in law love and and they're like, oh, it's great,
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, but but it's not good. Like can
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: we agree that it's not a good movie? List Pocus
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: to proves that point that they haven't gotten any better.
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: To me, it's like and it circles back to Christmas Vacation.
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: You can say whatever you want about Christmas Vacation. I'm
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: giving it five stars. Yeah, single time.
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, But I enjoy it because it makes me laugh. Yes,
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: Ooga's focused not so much. But but then Christmas, I
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: really like having that. And I will tell you guys,
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: probably in another year or so. I have a feeling
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: I'm probably just going to be like, yeah, holdovers deserves
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: like the top, like when it's great, so good, it's
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: so good, it's funny. It feels so christmas y and winter.
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: But I'm not there yet, but I have a feeling
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: I'll probably take it off. But this past year I
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: tried to actually watch rom coms during February. I thought, oh,
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: you know what, let's just watch old you know, like
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: Bridesmaids and How to Lose Guy in Ten Days.
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: Sounds like you got seasons.
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: To me, well, I mean I'm there, I'm almost there.
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: And the new Bridget Jones one that came out in
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: February is delightful.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: I like, listen fifty first dates around Valentine's Day Forgetting
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Sarah Marshall, which was our Valentine's Day episode this year, and.
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: You had mentioned it, but like, I will watch You've
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: Got Mill around the February, but then November December, I'm
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: happy to watch it again. Yeah, I don't know why.
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: I think it's charming that people are emailing people on
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: an American line like nostalgia.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: This is spring is the only season that I like,
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: don't have anything for the wintertime. I'm watching The Hateful Eight,
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: The Revenant, Hundreds of Beavers, We get. The summertime, I'm
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: watching The Goonies, The Sandlot, Grownups, grown Ups, Midnight in Paris, Like,
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: let's you know all those Adam Sandler comedies.
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you need to see I'm the the way way back.
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: Talk about Fourth of July movies, Sandlot, Jaws, Yeah sorry, Jaws, sorry, yeah, but.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: July Independence Day? Yes, right, yeah, oh yeah right, yeah,
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: we got it, we got it. Well, that's going to
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: do it for us. It's the end of my notes.
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: Any any parting thoughts, gentlemen.
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: I just it's a Christmas classic for many reasons. But
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: it's something that you can sit down and watch. You
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: can you can work and watch. You can work and
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: listen to it. You can quote it. You kind of
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: know what every scene is. But here's the thing. It
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: never gets old.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: Never gets old.
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: Nope, five out of five.
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: No note, I'm with you, five out of five. I
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: know it's not a five out of five movie, but
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it a five out of five every time. Yep,
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: that is going to do it for another year of
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: the Movie Review Rewe Podcast. Thank you guys for tuning
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: in this year. We sincerely appreciate it. We're at a
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: point where we're actually at the end of our scheduled recording,
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: so I don't know what next month's episode is going
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: to be as we're recording this, so stay tuned. We'll
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: see you. We'll see you in twenty twenty six. For
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: Brett and Brandon, I'm stony. Check out all of our
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: work at Nationvillemoviedispatch dot substack dot com, Subscribe to the
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: National Movie Dispatch wherever you take in your podcast. Until
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: next time, you stay classy moviegoers. M m
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: M hm