Vacation (2015)

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Time Out savages the film.

"A rare reboot so foul and humorless it makes you question whatever attachment you might have to the original, this lazy retread of Harold Ramis’s 1983 Vacation sours everything that’s made that film such an undying fixture of basic cable. "

Ed Helm's first reaction to staring in this movie was "Hell No!".

One review states Helm was badly miscast as Rusty, and they should have gotten Anthony Michael Hall. Wonder if that was Hall's reaction, except "Hell no!"

Aw, man. Part of me was hoping there'd be good reviews of this.

Dangit.

Outside of "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation", I've never seen any of the "Vacation" movies.

Cinematic Excrement's thoughts on the movie. It's a bit spoiler-y.

I never realized that this was supposed to be part of a decades-old franchise. It still looked like crap from the trailers, so I'm not surprised to see it tank.

Yeesh, what 80's classic is next, Weekend at Bernie's?

16 Candles. Molly Ringwald's character is now a mom.

Everything made by the bratpack.

If they do remake all Brat Pack movies (which is inevitable), please do one with Ferris Buller's Day Off that deconstructs Ferris character.

Clearly he is a sociopath base on his opening monologue, and the original movie's narrative makes him seem like the morally right guy.

The Breakfast Club II:

• Bender is an ex-con just out of jail
• Andrew is a gym teacher
• Claire is in rehab
• Brian is in a dead-end IT job
• Allison is dead, having commited suicide 10 years ago

He was pitted against people who were arguably worse than him. Of course he came off as the morally right one.

Actually, Ferris is a fantasy character. He's all in the kid's mind.

Okay, so in other words Cameron is a delusional sociopath with split personality who uses the Ferris identity to act out like that.

Jesus, either his father is that horrible to the point that Cameron create such a persona or his father is actually well meaning and Cameron merely lied about him being such a jerkass (if the parents that Ferris have, who are otherwise well meaning and nice, are actually Cameron's parents).

. . . For the love of god, somebody should make a deconstruction psychological thriller of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. This is pure golden story telling right here.

Tying in on what the person above mention about Ferris being a fantasy character, what if those antagonist who are relatively worse then Ferris are envisioned to be worse due to Cameron's fragile psychiatry. The vice principal has a valid reason for wanting to kick out Ferris/Cameron because it is turning the students into dangerous copy cat sociopaths like Ferris will pick and choose what rules they follow no matter how unethical they may be. And Jeannie is Ferris/Cameron sister who always been blamed for all the wrong doings the protagonist has caused even though all she was doing was minding her own buisiness.

Again, this should be a good psychological thriller if remade.

edited 19th Aug '15 7:17:06 AM by BigK1337

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Actually, not exactly.

I believe it was discussed that they wanted to do a Breakfast Club 2 right after the original came out (and possibly have a new one every year), but the writer's kind of felt that, as much as they loved Bender as a character, they didn't think he'd last in his toxic home environment for much longer. And, well, that's not an 80s teen movie if there's suicide!

To be honest, if it had been made today and not with 80s movie moral standards, I MIGHT be ok with that happening. Having a teen movie that seriously examines some teen issues (like suicide) might be good. And they could theoretically make it lighthearted with them doing wild crazy stuff "For Bender!"

Pretty much every review I saw was saying that it was such a Sadist Movie that it was impossible to laugh at anything, and that the family was so horrible it was impossible to invest in them.

Conversely, a lot of them praised the cameos and supporting performances.