kc-204
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I didn't think this sequel would be worthy of the title, "A Christmas Story" but I was wrong. After seeing the rave reviews my friends were giving it, I finally gave in and was pleasantly surprised, taken back to the first time I ever saw the original so many years ago. So much fun, and thankfully, lots of fresh ideas to go along with the nostalgia. I got to catch up with characters I remember, meet some new neighborhood misfits, and see the fruition of good and bad relationships from so long ago. And the phrase, "triple dog dare you" is used just as cunningly as it was when the characters were kids. You'll love it. Merry Christmas.
Great cinematography and an effective score are the icing on the cake for this short, which has plenty of twists and turns and a 5.1 surround sound design.
I wanted this movie to be fun to watch, but instead what I got was a slow, poorly paced, poorly written, poorly directed waste of two hours.
I thought, Sam Elliot? WIN. Ron Livingston? WIN. An Oscar nominated visual effects artist? WIN. But I was the loser when I hit "play".
The death of Hitler is barely a scene, although the leading up to it is long and drawn out, almost confusingly so. The death of Bigfoot is an awkward afterthought, and the Bigfoot itself may be the worst costume design in my memory. There's a box in the movie that makes repeated appearances to much grandiosity, but the content are never revealed to us, so we never know this all-important secret he's been hiding away. I'm sure the director likes the subterfuge, but as a viewer it seems pedantic.
The movie seems to serve as a metaphor for an aging Sam Elliot whose past is an ongoing source of grief and consternation, much like the foreign object that's lodged into his shoe. At the end when the object is finally removed, the metaphor seemingly runs full circle and Sam's life can move forward without the impediments he's held so closely.
This movie was that foreign object in my shoe. I'm glad I got it out. I was seriously uncomfortable for the time it was stuck there, which miraculously was 1 hour and 38 minutes - the exact run time of this irredeemable mess.
I thought, Sam Elliot? WIN. Ron Livingston? WIN. An Oscar nominated visual effects artist? WIN. But I was the loser when I hit "play".
The death of Hitler is barely a scene, although the leading up to it is long and drawn out, almost confusingly so. The death of Bigfoot is an awkward afterthought, and the Bigfoot itself may be the worst costume design in my memory. There's a box in the movie that makes repeated appearances to much grandiosity, but the content are never revealed to us, so we never know this all-important secret he's been hiding away. I'm sure the director likes the subterfuge, but as a viewer it seems pedantic.
The movie seems to serve as a metaphor for an aging Sam Elliot whose past is an ongoing source of grief and consternation, much like the foreign object that's lodged into his shoe. At the end when the object is finally removed, the metaphor seemingly runs full circle and Sam's life can move forward without the impediments he's held so closely.
This movie was that foreign object in my shoe. I'm glad I got it out. I was seriously uncomfortable for the time it was stuck there, which miraculously was 1 hour and 38 minutes - the exact run time of this irredeemable mess.