New Vacation movie

Movie has a target audience of 45 to 65 year olds. What do you expect?

I was actually surprised how good of a Chevy impression he was doing. Usually he's the straight man who just gets constantly shit on and is super whiny about it. This makes him seem like Chevy in the originals where he gets shit on but just powers through it undeterred. I'm okay with it.

I don't hate Ed Helms, I enjoyed him in the office. I don't know I've seen him in anything that would warrant me hating him.

Ed Helms was actually good in a movie called Cedar Rapids which also had John C. Reilly in it. I never even heard of the movie till I saw it on either HBO or Showtime.

In theory Helms is a perfect cast for the new Clark Griswold. In practice its hard to see it working out that way. The bigger issue is the neverending stream of rehased remakes and too-late sequels to classic beloved franchises that are now long past their prime. Hangover was something new, this is something old repackaged for revenue.

Still, the trailer doesn't look half bad conceptually. Just wonder how try-hard the whole thing could get.

No Cousin Eddie? Blasphemy.

Cinge_sl said:

No Cousin Eddie? Blasphemy.

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He literally became his character so he probably is a bit hard to work with... or he's DEEP fucking method acting.

Lodi_sl said:

I'm trying to figure out if anyone even likes Ed Helms.

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He was good in that movie Cedar Rapids. Other movies too, I am sure.

joz123_sl said:

Ed Helms was actually good in a movie called Cedar Rapids which also had John C. Reilly in it. I never even heard of the movie till I saw it on either HBO or Showtime.

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Hey look at that! I shoudl read the whole thread before replying. But yeah, good movie. And it has Clay Davis in it.

Only time Helms didnt bother me in was Stretch

I enjoyed Cedar Rapids as well, but look at the character he played in that movie: A naive, doe-eyed milquetoast who learns that the world is a much darker, more complicated place than he thought (even if it takes place in equally whitebread Cedar Rapids). That archetype is right in his wheelhouse.

Vacation asks for a different kind of central character. I'm not sure he can pull it off.

To me, ed helms is one of those actors that isn't really going to make a movie worse. I mean, I can't think of anything he's been in that I hated. But he's also not an actor that is going to elevate a movie due to his involvement either. He's going to come on screen, say good lines without being too distracting and go off screen.

ValkyrieIATD_sl said:

milquetoast

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Good lord I had to google that one

It may be an unpopular idea but the only person I could see in the role would be Will Ferrell, I could see him crushing it.

Ed Helms isn't leading man material, I liked him for a while in the office but his character became stale and lost direction. I think they wanted him to be the new Carell but he just doesn't have it.

chaos_sl said:

And it has Clay Davis in it.

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"I do a pretty convincing Omar from the HBO program, The Wire."

I have been seeing the ads on TV for this, the last few days now. It makes me cringe at just how heavy handed the comedy is, like they tried to turn it up to 11 with every scene.

Pretty girl in Ferrari, as Ed looks away WHAM! wiped out by cement truck. Swimming in a mud bath - Oh no it's raw Sewage!! How'd they not notice that . . . I could go on.

What made the original movie so good was the clever use of dialogue and comedy. Some of it was quite subtle and worked really well . . . an example: the conversation with Rusty after he was seen in the pool with Christie Brinkley. Clark goes through a whole fabricated story to explain that she actually a swimming waitress. He gets to the end of his long complex story, then Rusty simply says: "You think mom will believe that?"

One little exchange I like, and will quote to myself at work or whatever: John Candy ( held at gunpoint ) gets a quiet moment with Rusty as they sit waiting for a rollercoaster to start. "Say Rusty, has your father ever killed anyone?" "No, just a dog . . . No wait, Aunt Edna!" Clark from behind "You can't prove anything there Russ!"

Anyway I'm rambling, just saying that the feel I'm getting from the trailers is totally wrong.

Devlin_sl said:

It may be an unpopular idea but the only person I could see in the role would be Will Ferrell, I could see him crushing it.

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Fuck no. I don't need to see that pseudo-ginger harpy shrieking lines at a loud volume in an attempt to distract from his inability to act.

It's made 30 million so far. I'm not sue if it's a flop or not. It couldn't have been that expensive to make this movie.

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