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From the Director of THE KING OF KONG comes the trailer for FOUR CHRISTMASES with Vince Vaughn & The Witherspoon!
Hey folks, Harry here... You all know how much we here at AICN loved THE KING OF KONG: A FISTFUL OF QUARTERS - which is why it saddens me to bitch about Seth Gordon's latest creation, FOUR CHRISTMASES.
More annoying is the cast, which I really love - but for some reason in this trailer they seem as appealing as Possum Pie. BTW, I don't think that's very appealing. You have Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon... there's the awesome Mary Steenburgen, Sissy Spacek, Robert Duvall and Tim McGraw... and our current, he makes us so happy deep inside, Jon Favreau as a seeming extra from THE ROAD WARRIOR - admittedly - he's the reason I will see the film at a press screening.
I don't know. Maybe it is the attitude of the trailer - I love Christmas. In fact, just yesterday, my wife and I were at "old lady stores" looking at blown glass Christmas ornaments sort of checking out what we may want to get in the coming season. Though primarily we've begun our Halloween decoration quest and acquiring!
Anyway - I think I have a disconnect with folks, films and stories that have such a cynical vibe to them. Perhaps it is just a bad trailer, or perhaps it is indicative of the project as a whole, but I hope not. I'm rooting for Seth Gordon to have a solid career.
Check the Trailer out here!
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First!!!
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...and King of Kong shows some chops.
But, yeah, this isn't the greatest trailer I've ever seen. -
It looks kinda funny
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I agree that the trailer is pretty bad but the film itself looks to have potential.
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Wtf Harry?
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Except Nightmare Before Christmas and The Ref.
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Two years, two Christmas movies? I guess XMas movies are just easy paychecks.
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Sep 14, 2008 5:48:37 PM CDT
I really thought it would be john [gotta eat] witherspoon
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like a sanford and son deal.
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I thought he was an actor?
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for all those people saying, "doesn't look that bad"...none of you will be going to see this shitty, shitty, boring, shitty movie.
vince vaughan was awesome in swingers...not since.
christmas movies are released to sell a DVD at christmas time.
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Man, that looked incredibly shit. And some of you think it looked good????? I bet you idiots liked Disaster Move too... Take away the christmas music and it would look like any other lame comedy.
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I'll give it a go.
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weird as hell from the King of Kong guy...but I chuckled...I'll see it...
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he lost a LOT of weight...he's back in fighting shape, good for him!
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...not bad. Pretty nice seeing Ralphie as the ticket counter guy (Surely, Nasty, you meant to include A CHRISTMAS STORY in the 'not-suck' column, yes?).
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...just ate thanksgiving dinner, nothing to do after waking up from a food coma, looking for some early evening entertainment and somebody says, "hey lets go see a movie." and starts reading off what's playing.
this will be the movie we all decide sounds least horrible and will go in with zero expectations and will come out pleasantly surprised. later i tell people at work that it was "pretty good".
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No? How about with a fork?
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that's sick to death of these 'surviving the Holidays' comedies? Every Christmas movie these days is the same tired concept: some asshole or an asshole couple who live life in the fast lane are fed up with Christmas, but somehow get forced into spending the week with their wacky family, only to discover that home is actually where the heart has been all along. Nine times out of ten there is a scene where the main character, who fancies himself a tough guy, gets his ass kicked by a gay brother or a midget or a Santa Clause or a ferret. Not funny. I know you can't expect Citizen Kane out of these Holiday films, but godamnit, what ever happened to stuff like It's a Wonderful Life, White Christmas, and Silent Night Bloody Night?
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He got the Clone Wars wrong. He loved Phantom Menace but hated the cartoon movie which was much better.
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don't ever have children
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vince vaughn, we like when you are a skinny asshole hitting on chicks - see SWINGERS, OLD SCHOOL and WEDDING CRASHERS - we don't like you fat and married and or in a relationship... I know he was technically married in old school but come on.
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people are defending this crap?
this is not what i expected from this site.
this movie looks like every other formulaic, kate hudson rom-com that makes me want to vom on your mom and bomb king tutankahman.
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, BUT WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE DOING?! I WANT TO SMASH!
"pleasantly surprised"?
fuck ass.
this is the visual representation of someone farting in your mouth.
"pleasantly surprised".
i've got a colorful, corny dump you might like, too, then.
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and her huge fucking head, but this actually looks decent. And kudo's to favreau for losing the weight again.
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i apologize for my previous post. upon rewatching that trailer I CANNOT WAIT!
man, that scene with the barfing baby is going to slay! (where's 3-D IMAX when you REALLY need it?) but, the scene where reese witherspoon slams the baby's head into a cabinet looks golden! (MORE VIOLENCE TOWARDS BABIES, PEOPLE! FINALLY MY PRAYERS ARE ANSWERED!)
reese witherspoon does not come across like an uptight c*nt, vince vaughn looks like he put forth lots of his trademark effort, kristen chenoweth is a revelation, sissy spacek is an absolute delight, robert duvall gottta eat.
jennifer aniston is somewhere cutting to feel because this script didn't fall into her lap. her and mcconaughey could've set the screen ablaze.
tell you what, guys, i'll get the tickets if you get the popcorn. we'll meet michael medved in the aisle seat, wearing our sweater vests and freshly shaved eyebrows and hold hands from beginning to end.
now, excuse me, i've got to press my slacks and catch seinfeld before bed.
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I don't think I've actually sat through that film in 15 years or more. Plus, the fact that they literally show this film 24 HOURS A DAY come December makes it even harder to remember anything good about it. Maybe it *is* a classic, but it's one of those "you HAVE to like it or you're a Commie" films that you just kind of resent after a while. Honestly, 90% of Christmas movies suck ASS.
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I don't know. I thought that was a pretty funny subject line.
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fuck this movie...and fuck king of kong for pretending to be a documentary and making up half the story.
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Ive yet to see King of Kong,but I thought this looked funny. loved the scene w/Sissy Spacek. Oh and Bang Bang suck my fudgy wang wang first posting gay midget loving Nick Lang! Ass!
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And Reese Withoutaspoon http://tinyurl.com/6ce36o Sorry, had to.
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...someone falls off the roof of a house.
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but if I see it I doubt I'd be able to get past all the negative press surrounding how Vaughn and Witherspoon hated each other's guts on set.
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What a fat ass.
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and i love duvall....thats right, im running my own personal war on xmas
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seriously, i don't care how shit this is the guys delivery is unparalleled in modern movie history. 'i'm not a talker'
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this site, full of it's elitists and snobs, it's intellectuals and aesthetes, is driving me fucking apeshit. people are defending this?? this is the most bland looking, "set-'em-up-and-knock-'em-down" jokey-jokey, hokey, typical status quo pile of fecal matter that is always pressed from anus holes and spoon fed to the idiot masses.
vince vaughn isn't good. he has rarely been good, and he has only ever been good when the script matches his style.
this movie looks like shit.
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I want the 90 seconds back of my life I wasted on the trailer...
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looks a lil too like christmas vacation but its funny enough, i dont know what this article is talking about. Christams movies are always cheese fest factories. Shit now that i mentioned it, the last really good one to me was NL's christmas vacation. The closing scene is funny as hell because that is exactly what i feel like doing wen babies do sick shit like that while the mom is looking at the baby saying awwww how cuute did you burpy?
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Because here there is no such thing as seasons or holiday feeling. It's like everyone just pretends because that is what you do. And they don't even pretend that hard.
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I think it goes back to one of Jodie Foster's movies called Home for the Holidays with a supporting role from RDJ as the gay brotherI hate that movie but I have a cousin who insists we watch it every Thanksgiving (of course I insist at Christmas on Die Hard), anyways a lot of people loved that movie and it was critically acclaimed (first really dramadey dysfunctional family Christmas movie) so since Hollywood can't think of anything original they ripped off this movie's formula over and over and over again until it's become a parody of itself
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What about CHRISTMAS VACATION?
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Too bad Vince Vaughn found it.
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YEAH! Maybe that means we'll get Adam Sandler in another shulb slacker gets the girl movie and if Allah wills it we'll get Robin Williams in either a cheesy b-movie thriller where he plays the bad guy and its not good, or he plays some eccentric character that you just want to go away just by seeing the poster. Man Vince is making Stiller and Ferrell look like character actors.
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And his sthick has worn thin. The best film about a fucked up Christmas is Billy Bob's Bad Santa.
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...so he should be fat for Iron Man 2, then? Seriously, I feel bad for the guy for all the weight fluctuations of the past 15 years. Get control, Jonny F., we want you to be healthy, man!
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I have 3 children. They love the Clone Wars cartoon. It's better than Phantom Menace. Deal with it. There are actually moments in Clone Wars that scared them, they actually want to see it again. Whereas when we watch Menace, they basically want to skip through the whole boring mess. They're not fooled by the lame pod race, they're not intrigued with Nute Gunray, and the under water Gungans where the death of Star Wars. I'm not alone in this. There are plenty of people on The talkback for Harry's review that agree with me. The negative reaction to Clone Wars was WAAAAAY out of proportion and was definitely a delayed reaction to the stink that was the prequels. Sorry for being off-topic.
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But damn if Vince Vaughn doesn't make me crack up, sp at the end w/ the baby puke smell. At leasta) It doesn't star Tim Allenb) It's not Fred Claus 2Looks like a "I had one egg nog too many" DVD rental come November of 2009.
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