Oh, thought I heard that he did. Well, I stand by the rest of my point either way, thanks for letting me know.
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I liked the grandma in this movie
Fun fact: the grandma in "Christmas Vacation" is none other than Mae Questel, the voice actor of Betty Boop.
Lol fucking weirdo
This man owns a two story home in the Chicago suburbs with an attic and a basement. The conflict of the story is how he won't be able to add a pool to this palace. He lusts after some random girl at the mall when Beverly DiAngelo is right there.
I will never relate to this man.
The story is about how his capitalist boss cut his wages so he couldn’t afford to give his family a Christmas gift. Now can you relate?
He's an upper middle senior lower upper management type who is looking for a bonus payment (just for himself, not for his team) so he can improve his already outlandish standard of personal living.
What's not to empathize with? I mean, we've all been there.
He has a great job, but still overspends because he wants to be seen as someone more than he is, and the only way he knows to prove his worth is by purchasing things. He can't afford what he already has, and is relying on an uncertain bonus just to cover what he already spent.
The only time he really gets mad, is when his stuff gets broken or laughed at.
I just assume that is what middle class life looked like back then.
When I was a kid, I thought people who lived like that were just on TV. Middle class existence was as relevant to my experience as robot maids and talking cars.
Honestly I'm still a little suspicious. Hollywood contrivances are a history of how we think of ourselves, not of how we are.
He invited everyone and left his wife to do all the work while he toiled away on his vanity projects! I really sympathized with her.
He was chasing status no matter what, something that is a common thread throughout most of the Vacation movies. Him hosting for Christmas is part of that status chasing.
also in that movie, the joke is that his neighbors are yuppies or something. So they aren't bothering him or do anything that warrants revving a chainsaw threateningly at them :)
At face value, no. But we've all had those asshole neighbors who can never mind their own business.
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Elaine and her husband were the real sympathetic characters.
Because it's a 1980s movie the fact they were a childless couple with a more modern home decor taste they were considered acceptable targets for comeuppance, despite having done nothing to anyone.
Clark is a self centered jerk. All of his action for the family were really more about keeping up appearances or being personally validated. He's awful.
They kidnap an exec though. At least a few bonus points for that.
Cousin Eddy did that all on his own. Clark was too busy screaming at his family about not being able to pay for a pool.
Am I supposed to recognised the movies from just a random image? Sorry, but I still lack cinema litteracy. I don't even know who's that actor.
That's Chevy Chase, starring in National Lampoons: Christmas Vacation. It's older but it's one of the most famous Christmas movies ever. It's a great comedy
For anyone curious, Chevy Chase was apparently awful to his coworkers, which caught up with him and squeezed him out of his career. This culminated during a roast to his name that celebrities actively skipped. What made him rethink his behavior was Steven Colbert's scathing but accurate remarks on the podium that haunted him, although his effort to change was too little too late.
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It’s Chevy chase. A drunk racist. If you’ve not heard of him consider yourself for the better. There are far better movies that celebrate the season without having to employ and hold up a piece of shit as a hero.
Damn making me feel old over here with you not knowing Christmas Vacation. Great holiday movie. Worth a watch, a lot of people watch it as a tradition around Xmas time.
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Many, many of us do recognize it. And I don't even watch a lot of movies. Also not your fault if you haven't seen it though.
Chevy Chase very much was crazy
Die hard and home alone 1/2 are the objectively superior Christmas movies
I'll take the first two of those but home alone 2 is... Well, a lot worse than I remembered
Chevy chase as a human is a drunk racist. If you start relating to this man you need to take a hard look at your life.
Do you know what acting is
Do you? Him being fired from community for going on a racist diatribe off camera isn’t acting. Neither are his divorces over his drinking.
Bro, the point being made isn't about Chevy Chase, it's about his character in the movie Christmas Vacation. Yes, Chevy is a piece of shit, but literally nobody is trying to relate with him.
Not my point at all but I don't care enough about a dead man to argue over whether someone can like a character in a 40 year old movie or not because the actor was a bit of a cunt. I'm sorry you're incapable of enjoying things.
Just chiming in (on your side, btw) but Chevy isn't dead yet.
Oh, could've sworn I heard he died earlier this year. Oh well, thanks for the correction.
I can't handle any comedy where the punchline is hicks, because the cringe is too real for me. Can't watch Letterkenney either unfortunately. Spent too long growing up around those people to see them as funny rather than hateful
The hick in the movie is hateful in real life
After 2016, Quaid became an outspoken supporter of Donald Trump, and later became a proponent of the disproven conspiracy theorythat Trump's defeat in the 2020 United States presidential election was the result of widespread election fraud. Three weeks after the election, Trump, on his Twitter account, retweeted some of Quaid's video material claiming election fraud and wrote "Thank you Randy, working hard to clean up the stench of the 2020 Election Hoax!"[48]
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If you can't distinguish between racist trash rednecks and hicks or other country folks... You haven't been around them enough. Letter Kenny is to duck dynasty as judge Judy is to dog the bounty hunter.
I spent the first 24 years of my life living in rural northern Michigan, where they have more Confederate flags than the Confederacy did.
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The hicks in letterkenny are not hateful at all, they're very open minded and accepting.
They do hate on "degens", who are more like the hicks you're familiar with.
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