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10-25-2004, 04:37 PM
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Christmas With The Kranks
From the best-selling novel "Skipping Christmas" by John Grisham and starring Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis, I think this will turn out to be the biggest surprise of the holiday season.
Not to metion the fact that it was written for the screen by Chris Columbus ("Gremlins") and directed by Joe Roth ("America's Sweethearts"), that should guarantee a moderate hit if not a blockbuster.
Prediction: $105 Million
Is anyone else looking forward to it, or am I alone?
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10-25-2004, 04:56 PM
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I think it's just you; the trailer gave me "if it's between this and Surviving Christmas, I'll go with Affleck" vibes.
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10-25-2004, 05:03 PM
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No way in hell I'd pick Ben Affleck over Jamie Lee Curtis.
Can't exactly say I'm looking forward to it (I'm not a Tim Allen fan), but it looks light-years better than "Surviving Christmas." 
I just don't understand why, if you're adapting a best-selling novel, you change the title? What was wrong with "Skipping Christmas"? Unless they were afraid it would be confused with "Surviving Christmas" which would look nearly identical on the marquee? |
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10-25-2004, 09:52 PM
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Surviving Christmas looked atrocious and it was.
Christmas with the Kranks looks even worse...
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10-25-2004, 10:28 PM
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No way in hell I'd pick Ben Affleck over Jamie Lee Curtis.
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Like Jamie Lee Curtis will have a single interesting thing to do in Christmas with the Kranks - in case you haven't noticed, she is playing the wife of a comedian, and thus will be stuck being the relatively sane one rolling her eyes at the stupid things Tim Allen does.
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Trading Post Inn - Another gender-bending soap, with different collaborators writing different points of view.
"What? Since when was this an energy ball movie?" - Overheard during a screening of Takashi Miike's Dead Or Alive
"What the hell religion are you people?" - Overheard during the Captain Marvel serial at SF/29
"If I feel even one bullet hit me, I will rip your lungs out through your nostrils!" - Ron Silver as himself, "Heat Vision And Jack"
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10-25-2004, 10:53 PM
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I don't know. I saw her chasing a canned ham down the street in the trailer. Seems like a pretty silly/stupid task to me. And there were others I don't recall the specifics of at the moment. But she seemed far more than just a "straight man" to Tim Allen's kook.
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10-26-2004, 01:25 AM
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I saw "Spider-Man 2" three times this summer and I had to sit through a trilogy of awful trailers each time: "Christmas with the Kranks" (at least they changed the title to something that sounds as awful as the movie looks) "Without A Paddle" and "Anacondas".
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11-03-2004, 03:30 PM
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Before you make your final decision whether or not you would like to see this movie, do yourself a favor and read "Skipping Christmas" by John Grisham, which is what this movie is adapted from. One of the more entertaining books I've read that I think others will enjoy if they read it as well. I want to see the movie even more after reading the book.
Now I'm just wondering how faithful the movie will be to the novel.
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11-03-2004, 05:26 PM
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Saw the trailer for this awhile back and I gotta agree with Scott - Skipping Christmas looks like a real misfire.
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11-03-2004, 11:07 PM
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