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FRED CLAUS screens! Ho-ho-ho or Ho-ho-no?

Erster! by Motoko Kusanagi	Jul 17th, 2007 05:32:12 AM
yippie-ki-yay bitches!
2 seconds.... by Motoko Kusanagi	Jul 17th, 2007 05:32:38 AM
dammit
The trailer pretty much sucked by Motoko Kusanagi	Jul 17th, 2007 05:36:09 AM
and it looks like the whole movie will kinda suck, too. Which is kinda sad considering the great cast they had. But then again David Dobkin at the helm? The director of Shanghai Knights (lame sequel) and Wedding Crashers(mediocre comedy) ?
I get the feeling that the supercowbell by Motoko Kusanagi	Jul 17th, 2007 05:36:58 AM
can read my mind shivers
Torture Porn by cornponious	Jul 17th, 2007 05:39:17 AM
Now CNN is using this phrase. I'm pretty sure this phrase originated on this site. Way to go, whoever came up with that. http://tinyurl.com/234sj2 Oops. I've gone off-topic...
RACHEL WEISZ is in this? by ImFixingtoDie	Jul 17th, 2007 05:42:41 AM
Seriously, what the fuck? I encourage all to see THE FOUNTAIN as soon as possible. I know I'll be pulling it down from the shelf ASAP to help myself forget she's in FRED CLAUS. This is the thanks she gets for winning an Oscar?
everybody in this movie screeches at each other? by TheBloop	Jul 17th, 2007 05:45:46 AM
So is Dustin Diamond in this? Maybe he can make this movie something special, like Martin Short in Father of the Bride 2. This film sounds like "the GOONIES". A bunch of kids yelling all the time. And you geeks have nothing but love for that waste of a film.
Motoko, David Dobkin also by ImFixingtoDie	Jul 17th, 2007 05:48:42 AM
Motoko, David Dobkin also directed the underlooked CLAY PIGEONS, featuring one of Vince Vaughn's finest performances. And the first 2/3rds of WEDDING CRASHERS is comic gold.
And Finally by ImFixingtoDie	Jul 17th, 2007 05:51:40 AM
HO-HO-HO NOW I HAVE A MACHINE GUN. Had to be said.
wasted chance to use warwick davies by Lost Prophet	Jul 17th, 2007 06:00:42 AM
King of the little people, as an Elf! mind you, it sounds like shit so I'm glad he's not in it.
The trailer was very bad by Col. Tigh-Fighter	Jul 17th, 2007 06:15:25 AM
Very, very bad. This just confirms it. Wow, what a waste of talent!
Dissapointing by dundundles	Jul 17th, 2007 06:30:55 AM
This had a great potential to be fun, but keep in mind that we are still 4 months out, plenty of time for a bit of trim and polish... but then again, I guess there is only so much polish you can give a turd.
"Trailer looked hysterical?...." by Bert Fischer	Jul 17th, 2007 07:11:11 AM
If you would have began the review with that statement, I wouldn't have wasted my time reading it.
Kathy Bates is in this? by Spandau Belly	Jul 17th, 2007 07:18:23 AM
Is Warwick Davis one of the elves?
Sadly no, Belly by Lost Prophet	Jul 17th, 2007 07:23:37 AM
I think it is beneath him. Course, no-one wants to be beneath THE BATES. That's just scary.
Nicholas Cage is THE EASTER BUNNY by Spandau Belly	Jul 17th, 2007 07:36:47 AM
The could do it like Mel Gibson's PAYBACK having the Easter Bunny come back to town looking for revenge and having to team up with the Tooth Fairy (Tyrese) to get Bunny's share of his eggs back.
heh. Creepy Chick from Poultergeist is THe TOOTH FAIRY by Lost Prophet	Jul 17th, 2007 08:14:42 AM
Soundtrack by Nine Inch Nails
Rachel Weisz will do this, but not Mummy 3? by theBigE	Jul 17th, 2007 08:15:39 AM
This has looked and sounded like crap since it was first announced. I'd like a movie based on Weird Al's "The Night Santa Went Crazy." He takes a big bite of Rudolph/ and says 'tastes just like chicken!'
The difference between this and Mummy 3 by Lost Prophet	Jul 17th, 2007 08:16:59 AM
is the cast- surely. I'll bet that's why she did this
actually i loved Made by BLWiseass	Jul 17th, 2007 08:36:08 AM
Vaughn was an immense asshole, but its still one of my favorite performances by him. Sure the movie didn't make a whole lot of sense, but what can ya do
ninja FUCKING elves by the beef	Jul 17th, 2007 08:39:05 AM
I wouldn't mind seeing a ninja fuck a big group of elves...or did he mean elves that fuck ninjas? Anyway, was it me or were the two best scenes he described two scenes reminiscent of JINGLE ALL THE WAY and THE SANTA CLAUSE? Or actually, the whole "when you were a kid thing" was already used this year in RATATOUILLE.
if you put 100 people in a room in every major city... by Charlie Murphy	Jul 17th, 2007 09:27:38 AM
...in the whole world, and made them all watch this trailer simultaneously, i'm 98% sure the world would explode from the collective groans. that is all.
"Vaughn's character picks a fight... by RockLobster800	Jul 17th, 2007 09:41:12 AM
....with about twenty Salvation Army Santas."Did that not happen in,like, Jingle All The Way? Or does my memory decieve me(its been like 6years since I saw it)?I remeber Arnie was fighting dwarves or santas but which one I cant remeber....
to be shown with Eli Roth's Thanksgiving by Spandau Belly	Jul 17th, 2007 09:45:39 AM
GROANHOUSE, coming this Holiday season!
Actually.... by Tidmore	Jul 17th, 2007 10:02:48 AM
While I was disappointed with the trailer, the movie was surprisingly good. The cast works well, and Vince Vaughn plays the typical Vince Vaughn character, so if you like Vaughn being Vaughn, you'll enjoy the movie. Also it's a great family movie that kids will enjoy just as much as adults. Unless you're just a huge cynic you should actually enjoy this movie.
Dr Gonzo by s0nicdeathmonkey	Jul 17th, 2007 10:05:28 AM
That was the point of made. Vaughn wasn't supposed to be likeable. It was about how the friends you have as a child become the people they are as adults and how you deal with that. Of course, the moral of the story is that a friend, is a friend, deep down inside, even if the exterior changes. Basically, the movie is a look into that one guy who you're friends with that everyone hates. Your shlubbish, obnoxious childhood friend who you let spend the night when he' in town. Why do you do it? Because at the end of the day, if there was a gun to your head, there would be no one else you would rather have there to protect you.
Also... by Tidmore	Jul 17th, 2007 10:06:14 AM
I was at a screening in Thousand Oaks on Saturday and unless this guy was in the earlier screening for people with small children, he's completely off base saying everyone was "squirming uncomfortably. Total and absolute SILENCE." There was laughter throughout this entire movie, I don't know if he just personally didn't like it so he's bashing it for the sake of bashing but it's just not true.
The Santa fight should be on youtube. by Uncapie	Jul 17th, 2007 10:12:03 AM
But, you're right, the movie sucks.
Saw this preview at the cinema recently -- by Snookeroo	Jul 17th, 2007 10:16:03 AM
the only response from the audience was the sound of crickets chirping. This movie looks to capture everything that's wrong with Hollywood in one fell swoop.
poor man's version of by tonamania	Jul 17th, 2007 10:22:51 AM
the Santa Clause? Where's Tim Allen? Trailer was pretty silly - Vince gettin' down with the elves. Spacey is funny - damn fine actor - but he just keeps going from paycheck to paycheck these days. Any more stupidity comes back on this one, take a pass and watch Wedding Crashers again.
Even the TRAILER didn't look funny by ShiftyEyedDog2	Jul 17th, 2007 10:41:07 AM
Seriously, how is anyone surprised this sucked? The trailer made me go, "Holy shit, this is gonna suck!"
Best Holiday Movie, By Far Was.... by evolution1085	Jul 17th, 2007 10:48:15 AM
The Hebrew Hammer... you know it to be true
Sorry, should have qualified... by American Hyena	Jul 17th, 2007 10:59:48 AM
The trailer I was referring to as being funny was the teaser, with Giamatti and Vaughn sitting on the couch riffing off each other. I just watched the actual trailer for the first time and can honestly say that I probably wouldn't have bothered watching the flick if I'd seen that one. And for the record, I was in the afternoon screening. Were there sprinkles of laughter here and there? Yah of course. But they were few and far between. But there were most definitely LOOOOOONG stretches of apathetic silence throughout.
Exaggerated "AHHHHHHHHH" faces are not funny by Osmosis Jones	Jul 17th, 2007 11:39:30 AM
And neither are Christmas movies that open the first week of FUCKING NOVEMBER.
American Hyena by Tidmore	Jul 17th, 2007 01:40:16 PM
Seriously are you deaf or what, because people were laughing all the way through. I'm sorry but if a free movie was as bad as you say it is, people would have just got up and left. Whose gonna stay through a horrible FREE movie? I was in that theater and there was laughter throughout the movie, and there was no one "Squirming" in their seats because it was that bad. There were no long stretches of silence either. There was laughter throughout at all the funny scenes. Why are you such a lying hater?
Paul Giamatti's Santa claus looks sickly. by Orionsangels	Jul 17th, 2007 02:01:18 PM
This is how this movie got green lit - Hey! What if Santa Claus had a brother? OMG! Wackiness will ensue! comedy gold!
Vince Vaughn & Comedy by Birdys Piano Teacher	Jul 17th, 2007 02:18:51 PM
Is enough for me. Great cast, too. I loved the trailer with just Vaughn and Giamatti.
What was this rated??? by Reynard Muldrake	Jul 17th, 2007 02:36:31 PM
Or rather, what would your guess be? I didn't get a sense in the review...beyond something like Cody Banks (PG pap)
the beef, that was a flashback... by jig98	Jul 17th, 2007 02:43:41 PM
of peter o'toole's charector and that was the most heartwarming, funniest and superb 3 minutes in ratatouille. other than that, the whole "when you were a kid" thing is just creepy as FUCK. and to a few other talkbackers, the great kevin spacey is NOT the bad guy in fred claus. he's playing more of an asshole than a cartoony bad guy in a strange christmas comedy. there never were, or can never be a real bad guy in any good christmas flick. just misunderstood creeps, assholes or burglars. or "obstacles" who either turn good under circumstances or because kids fucking rule the world and the season. and fucking ludacris as an elf is never a good sign but could be fun to watch in small doses {like the trailer.}
evolution1085, best holiday movie by far... by jig98	Jul 17th, 2007 02:47:55 PM
is edward scissorhands by a small margin. or as i like to refer to it as vincent price's final screen appearance. i also like elf with ron burgandy, but that's another story.
Best Christmas movie= DIE HARD by DanDelion	Jul 17th, 2007 03:21:03 PM
Motherfuckers!
Vince Vaughn = 1 trick pony & the trick is getting old by PoopAgoose	Jul 17th, 2007 03:48:48 PM
is this the 4th or 5th movie he goes through it semi-agitated and frantically rattling of the funny (?) lines they've written for him? NEXT?
"Shanghai Knights"... by Fixxxer	Jul 17th, 2007 03:49:51 PM
...is actually a pretty darn good movie, if you ask me. It's the only American film that's really let Jackie Chan do his thing, and it's maybe the classiest production Chan has EVER been in. I also found it to be far funnier than the original and both of the "Rush Hour" flicks (which I do realize is no great feat). All that being said, "Fred Claus" looks like an absolute train wreck.
I will never pay to see this, by Tiki-421	Jul 17th, 2007 04:06:09 PM
Blech!
Best Christmas Movie = BAD SANTA by Yeti	Jul 17th, 2007 04:48:57 PM
And if you want a "feel good" one that would be the 1951 version of Scrooge with Alister Sim
YO DA TRAILER FOR DIS MOVIE WAS DA BOMBS YO by BringingSexyBack	Jul 17th, 2007 05:18:37 PM
I laughed so hard I peed across three rows.
What's wrong with NINJA ELVES? by BringingSexyBack	Jul 17th, 2007 05:20:35 PM
They were pretty funny in the trailer. Ninja Elves. HAHA
Yeti... by RockLobster800	Jul 17th, 2007 06:38:22 PM
are you tryin to imply that Bad Santa is not a feel good movie? I had tears in my eyes at the end of the fucker!
Frank Stallone?? WTF?? by BetaRayBill07	Jul 17th, 2007 08:11:55 PM
If only we could see a deathmatch between Frank Stallone and Roger Clinton...Frank with his lethal singing against Roger's unlimited supply of booze.....
what a crock... by stratch	Jul 17th, 2007 08:43:19 PM
the premise for this sounds kind of like you, me and dupree but with a christmas theme. whatever it sounds like it needs the kid from christams story to turn up with an uzi and make ribbons out of every miserable person involved. As for the wasted talent, i just saw a trailer for rush hour 3 with roman polanski as the bad guy so now i know everybody has a price, and the only winners here are probably the coke dealers.
Tidmore by Mattyboy122	Jul 17th, 2007 09:55:30 PM
I donno what kind of a world you live in, but your reasoning of 'if it's a bad free movie, who's going to stay?' is...well...flawed. I would think people are more likely to stay for a free movie (if you gave somebody crappy food for free, I would say many would take it, for example). However, if they were paying for a shitty movie and hated it, they'd be more willing to leave and demand a refund (if you were paying for and expecting lobster and got spam, you'd naturally ask for your money back). At any rate, I know American Hyena personally and the guy isn't a 'lying hater.' That said, I was really looking forward to this flick (am I the only one that thought Wedding Crashers was, through and through, one of the best and funniest comedies in years?), and the teaser was promising, but this latest trailer is pretty awful. Really a shame.
Vince Vaughn playing an asshole? by ChrisPC24	Jul 17th, 2007 11:35:33 PM
What a stretch! The trailer was irritating enough; I can't handle two hours of this crap. This year is turning out to be a very uneven year for movies. Either they're turds or classics, with very few in between.
someday by TAF	Jul 18th, 2007 12:24:38 AM
I'm a sucker for Christmas movies. Yes, I watch Miracle on 34th Street & It's a Wonderful Life & Die Hard every year. Someday someone is going to make a really good Santa Claus movie. A few have come close, the first Tim Allen was pretty good. When we saw the trailer before Potter, everyone I was with shrugged and said, "Looks lame." This movie contains such great talent, what a major waste.
the Teaser was Great! but the trailer was Dreadful by George Newman	Jul 18th, 2007 01:18:56 AM
Worst part of trailer: Montage with Vaughn dancing with elves, on a table, in the factory, while the camera spins around them. There is nothing funny about it. I hate moments like that in Kid "Comedies".
Torchwood by blue1622	Jul 18th, 2007 01:22:30 AM
Owen from Torchwood is in this...that's the first thing I thought when I saw the old people handing out passes for this at the Janns Mall...I almost took one, being a massive Torchwood fan, then I remembered the kind of people who show up free screenings, and turned up my nose. Free = people full of AIDS, and unsavories. No thanks, I'll pay the $15 or whatever to see it at the Bridge in November, even if it blows.
2007 by TheRedRightHand	Jul 18th, 2007 04:37:08 AM
Or as it will better be known: 20-oh-seven, the year cinema anally exploded and released a mess of sequels and bile upon humanity. In fact, I was in the Odeon cinema the other day and they treated me to a montage of all the big releases of the year stating, "2007: The year for cinema" Did anyone else in the UK see this? As if we were being encouraged to watch all the shit that's been put out recently. Tragic.
RedRightHand by spud mcspud	Jul 18th, 2007 05:00:41 AM
I think the whole 2007 ad is to convince us all NOT to buy pirate DVDs and to go spend all our cash at the cinema. Well, having spent £6 to see that POS Ghost Rider earlier this year, more and more I'm thinking about the local market and the guy with the suitcase full of shiny discs. You're right: there's a LOT of shit coming out this year. But I think there'll be some gems in the dirt too: DEATH SENTENCE, SHOOT 'EM UP, to name two. Don't abandon hope just yet. Shame this looks like shit - the concept was good on paper.
Ninja Elves? Rip off... by spud mcspud	Jul 18th, 2007 05:05:57 AM
Back in the day when all Sky Movies would show in the UK from November onwards were made-for-TV Christmas movies by the likes of Hallmark, I definitely remember seeing one (which was pretty good really) that involved Santa getting caught by the cops and slammed in jail. He ended up getting freed by an elite special forces Elf Unit that used candy-cane and tinsel nunchakus and used special acid tinsel to melt the bars of the prison cell in order to spring Santa. Okay movie, but that was a good scene! So, basically, FRED CLAUS is ripping off the ninja elves. It's been done, kiddies. My best loved obscure Christmas movie: STEALING CHRISTMAS. It's a Hallmark movie, Tony Danza - TONY FUCKIN' DANZA! - is running from a bank robbery he pulled with his friend. Friend gets caught, he gets away. He works as a store Santa in a small town, rents room from the still-the-hotness Lea Thompson (yes, Marty McFly's mom). More stuff happens. It's actually pretty good, but it has Lea Thompson - LEA FUCKIN' THOMPSON!! - in it. Immediately it's a classic. Kidding. Best Christmas movies: DIE HARD, LETHAL WEAPON, MUPPET'S CHRISTMAS CAROL and SCROOGED. Bill Murray's speech at the end gets me every time.
VINCE VAUGHN IS GAY by whatever57	Nov 3rd, 2007 10:26:28 AM
....and he goes to great lengths to deny it. That is why he never has a stable relationship. The relationship with Aniston was a complete lie for media publicity.

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