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Written by James M. Tate / 10/11/2022 / No comments / anthony michael hall , beverly d'angelo , chevy chase , comedy , cult , dana barron , eighties , franchise , harold ramis , national lampoon , randy quaid , road movie

CHEVY CHASE DRIVES ORIGINAL 'NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUBye7JeF40kDpzRyeDLlpJcWxm_ZQbaxVJBwapTKvJjiShuo2FgIm4KSsM12_I4AuWoqVw7-pO2Vhy5n1kmhQ_-Ur4C4KFX-iBJwT8htoe7sML2Ir6BmMhqGCPseziTXqZSR8v_cVzy6KpOmA55BdAr2K50YaysWvY0lo3E0I4M5kdo9Usk9dk9LUCw/s2210/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1378" data-original-width="2210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUBye7JeF40kDpzRyeDLlpJcWxm_ZQbaxVJBwapTKvJjiShuo2FgIm4KSsM12_I4AuWoqVw7-pO2Vhy5n1kmhQ_-Ur4C4KFX-iBJwT8htoe7sML2Ir6BmMhqGCPseziTXqZSR8v_cVzy6KpOmA55BdAr2K50YaysWvY0lo3E0I4M5kdo9Usk9dk9LUCw/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION Year: 1983 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Chevy Chase's best actual acting performance, capturing the naive optimism
 of a suburban dad driving reluctant yet resilient son Anthony Michael Hall and moody wannabe stoner daughter Dana Barron as the original Rusty and Audrey... and co-starring mostly perfect wife in Beverly D'Angelo: all stuck on a cross-country trip... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Our ever-optimistic hero remains stridently hopeful till exploding in a 
curse-laden diatribe; this after an unlucky string of adventurous 
stopovers at various tourist traps including a Wild West Town and (above
 and within) the Grand Canyon while Randy Quaid, as D'Angelo's white trash 
step-brother, takes things to another level: not only comically but, as 
Chase's polar-opposite, we see our put-upon hero more clearly...</p><p><span></span></p>

anthony michael hall, beverly d'angelo, chevy chase, comedy, cult, dana barron, eighties, franchise, harold ramis, national lampoon, randy quaid, road movie

CHEVY CHASE DRIVES ORIGINAL 'NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION'

Title: NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION Year: 1983 Rating: ****1/2 Chevy Chase's best actual acting performance, capturing the naive opti...

JOBS VS PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 2013 cast: Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad, Lukas Haas, John Getz rating: **</td></tr>
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During the first five minutes of JOBS, as Ashton Kutcher – playing Apple Computer founder Steve Jobs – heads a 2001 meeting introducing the iPod, judging by the grandiose soundtrack you’d think he invented the wheel (or created the universe) and not just a state-of-the-art Walkman…<br />
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From this meeting we travel back to 1974, where Kutcher’s Jobs is a bearded loafer who doesn’t fit into college life, or anywhere for that matter. After taking LSD he realizes something unclear to the audience and his slacker buddies... But in the blink of an eye he’s working at Atari, screaming like a jerk boss even before becoming one. <br />
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His sidekick is Steve Wozniak, the pioneering engineer who built the first Apple computer. Nicknamed Woz and played by short and tubby Josh Gad, he's the intentional audience favorite using witty sarcasm to alleviate the tension of his climbing, and often cutthroat, entrepreneurial partner. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The real life and at that time not-so-fat Steve Wozniak with Steve Jobs</td></tr>
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Gad, in playing a goofy sidekick more than a real person, partially redeems himself during the first of two heartfelt pleas to Jobs, who, during the early 80’s when Apple got really big, turned more corporate-minded than artistic.<br />
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And just as we jumped from college to Atari, there's an awkward cut from the initial team working out of Steve’s father's garage to the immense Apple building, where several characters are forgotten and Jobs doesn’t gel with the "stiff suits" including Dermot Mulroney’s backer Mike Markkula, his one time confidant and good friend. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs and Josh Gad as Steve Wozniak</td></tr>
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The best scenes occur in and out of that dusty garage, the rudimentary Apple compound: sadly we’re not in this pivotal era long enough. Much of the film has Jobs desperately battling the powers-that-be in chilly white-walled offices.<br />
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Kutcher’s piercing eyes are narrowed intensely, and he's surprisingly effective but otherwise burdened by a contrived imitation of quirky physical mannerisms… Walking with a bent-forward T-Rex posture is distracting and downright unnecessary (the audience was giggling throughout).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ashton Kutcher's narrowed eyes do the best acting in JOBS</td></tr>
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Although there are interesting moments, and we learn some important lessons in tech history, JOBS is hardly a biographical film: Overlong scenes with uncreative CEO’s demolishing each new idea are tedious, repetitive, and overwhelming.<br />
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When the bigwigs aren’t around, and Jobs passionately lectures his minions on how to create usable products for the future, the film plays out like a melodramatic commercial for Apple products, which might have been intentional: If Steve Jobs wasn't so uncaring and temperamental, they'd probably have him walking on water... or creating the shoes to make it happen.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 1999 cast: Noah Wyle, Anthony Michael Hall, John DiMaggio rating: ***1/2</td></tr>
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This thoroughly entertaining docudrama about Apple Computer guru Steve Jobs battling Microsoft mogul Bill Gates is quite good, thanks to a surprisingly effective Noah Wyle as Jobs, the iconic visionary who finds a worthy partner in Steve Wozniak, the reclusive genius who built the first home computer in a suburban garage.<br />
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So why isn’t Wozniak more praised than Jobs in the home computer legacy? For one, the naive Wozniak aka Woz would have sold his idea to someone else if it weren’t for Job’s determination to develop it on their own, under Apple, a name inspired from an LSD trip.<br />
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Following Jobs and Wozniak from college into big business is a terrific odyssey – but once the proverbial stone stops rolling, moss gathers with a gossipy subplot involving Job’s bad relationship and a child caught in-between.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The original real life Microsoft team Bill Gates and Paul Allen</td></tr>
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Flip the coin to Bill Gates, played by an over-the-top Anthony Michael Hall, doing a silly impersonation of the cliche everygeek as opposed to an actual person who, while cutting corners and not very honest, is a genius in his own right.<br />
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But it’s the energetic performance of John DiMaggio as Steve Ballmer, Gate’s intense right-hand man whose devotion trumps even the soft spoken Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, that really makes the B-story shine: While Ballmer narrates, he’s standing within his own past and providing the audience with a virtual reality pie chart.<br />
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Still, the best moments involve our main characters… As Jobs and Woz struggle to get their home computer on the market, Wyle proves he’s far more than a handsome TV actor, intensely portraying Jobs as a driven entrepreneur with severe mood swings – eventually becoming a tyrannical boss pitting Apple workers against Macintosh like Roman galley slaves.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orwell-inpsired 1984 Apple Commercial directed by Ridley Scott</td></tr>
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But the oars kept moving, and during the crest of the 1980’s, Apple grew along with Microsoft (with a lot of idea stealing and/or swapping)… and while both were incredibly successful, there was one clear winner...<br />
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So as the Ashton Kutcher film JOBS begins with the underwhelming introduction to the iPod, this more creative and colorful story starts with the screening of a 1984 Orwellian-inspired Apple commercial and ends with the megalomaniac loggerheads finally working together… sort of...<br />
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And the rest is history: being typed on this home computer and read on your own.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Noah Wyle as Steve Jobs and Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fred Flintstone's computer was an Apple</td></tr>
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2013, anthony michael hall, ashton kutcher, biopic, dermot mulroney, john getz, matthew modine

JOBS VS PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY

year: 2013 cast: Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad, Lukas Haas, John Getz rating: ** During the first five minutes of JOBS, as A...

Written by James M. Tate / 2/01/2013 / No comments / anthony michael hall , beverly d'angelo , chevy chase , comedy , dana barron , eighties , randy quaid

DANA BARRON CINEMA SPECIAL: VACATION, STAGEGHOST, MAGIC KID 2, XMAS VACATION 2, DEATH WISH 4

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Perhaps Chevy Chase's best performance, brilliantly capturing the naive optimism of a corny suburban dad driving reluctant kids Anthony Michael Hall and Dana Baron, and wife Beverly D'Angelo, on a cross-country trip. The nightmare begins with the wrong car at the car lot, resembling a sick-green turtle with a Hefty air bag.<br />
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Our ever-optimistic hero remains stridently hopeful till exploding in a curse-laden diatribe; this after an unlucky string of adventurous stopovers at various tourist traps including a Wild West Town and (above and within) the Grand Canyon. Randy Quaid, as D'Angelo's white trash step-brother, takes things to another level: not only comically but, as Chase's polar-opposite, we see our put-upon hero more clearly.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dana Barron and a Thin Lizzy album cover</td></tr>
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Although hilarious through and through, there's a dark side to this VACATION. As bad luck piles on, Clark gets more and more annoyed at his family, who simply refuse to enjoy the trip: they would have rather gone to Hawaii anyhow. But Clark's blind determination never refrains, another reason Chevy Chase should be given more credit as an actor and not just a funny guy.<br />
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Supermodel Christy Brinkley, as a roaming babe in a convertible, is a memorable distraction: all leading to a wonderfully bizarre finale at their destination, Wally World. And not to forget the glorious Lindsay Buckingham theme song "Holiday Road," second only to Kenny Loggin's "I'm Alright" from a previous Chase vehicle, CADDYSHACK.</div>
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In STAGEGHOST, a dark Western falsely promoted as a horror flick, Dana Barron plays good girl Renee Bloomer, who falls for bad boy Christopher Atkins as a character named Bronson, a bank robbing prisoner of world-weary U.S. Marshall Colburn. A gruff Edward Albert fits more within the cowboy genre yet he brings out something in Atkins, who’s constantly joking around – even when things get dire.</div>
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The film begins at a coach station run by John Vernon and Terry Moore. Directed by Stephen Furst, famous for Flounder in ANIMAL HOUSE, it’s neat that he’s cast his Faber College Dean but the two old-timers don’t last long. They’re important though, massacred by a mysterious wraith that left a note on a knife on the door, after which an empty stage coach filled with blood rolls up to the station: hence the title and thus our story begins. <br />
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For such a low budget with terrible nighttime lighting, it’s not such a bad movie. The action rolls with the ghost-coach as the characters go from one location to the next, haunted and/or picked off by a group of horse-riding marauders who wear neon skeleton costumes.  </div>
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It’s when we actually take part in the bad guy’s perspective that all suspense is gone. While our heroes are still unaware, the audience knows way too much, too soon. But then, narrowing onto a shootout climax, we learn that the real “antagonists” are still out there, resulting in a lame, politically-correct twist ending that involves Native Americans.</div>
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Dana looks great in the time-period costumes and even has a character-arc as she gets less uptight and even becomes part of the action.<br />
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The next Dana Barron outing came out a few years earlier and was also directed by Stephen Furst. Furst and Barron are cinematically related, as in, both co-starred in (the best) films produced by NATIONAL LAMPOON magazine: Barron as Chevy Chase’s daughter Audrey in VACATION and Furst as fat frat boy Flounder in ANIMAL HOUSE.</div>
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This is the sequel to an ultra low budget family karate film THE MAGIC KID, where Stephen Furst plays shifty but lovable Uncle Bob to Ted Jan Robert’s Kevin, a kid who can really kick some butt.<br />
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In the first film he’s trained by Don the Dragon Steele and hangs around the Universal Studios lot with his uncle, acting as a pseudo tour guide and thus promoting the theme park (probably to help fund the project: the ultimate product placement). And in this sequel, with a higher budget but lacking the overall charm, Kevin is a hot young actor in a popular show called “The Ninja Kid.”</div>
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A fame-reluctant Kevin is forced into interviews and even goes to a nightclub with a sexy older woman, part of the nefarious producer’s plans to make him garner publicity, but since he works so hard he’s not learning much of the scholastic nature.<br />
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Meanwhile, a brooding Kevin spends time with his tutor’s gorgeous daughter Maggie… that’s right, Dana Barron. Here’s another example of how young Dana Barron can make herself look. In VACATION you’d think she was around thirteen but she was sixteen or seventeen during filming, and here she’s hooked up with Kevin, who hasn’t even finished growing, and she’s in her middle twenties playing his teenage girlfriend.  </div>
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But as an actress, Dana not only looks young but she pulls off the sweet innocence of youth, and her scenes make up for the rest of the film’s convoluted plotline, or lack of. In other words, Maggie’s 11th hour relationship with Kevin means more than all the karate fights and frantic arguments leading up to that eventual romantic closure. <br />
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That’s right, it's CHRISTMAS VACATION 2: COUSIN EDDIE'S ISLAND ADVENTURE, a sequel to a sequel where Eddie, played by Randy Quaid – that endearingly gross white trash slob from the NATIONAL LAMPOON VACATION universe – has his own straight-to-DVD movie, and it’s so awful you might just enjoy yourself.<br />
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Eddie works at a nuclear physics lab. He and a monkey are both used for testing and the monkey is smarter. Eddie loses his job and they keep the monkey. He goes back to complain and the monkey bites Eddie on the ass. Instead of pursuing a lawsuit, he gets a free vacation to an unnamed tropical Island. That’s the plot in a nutshell.</div>
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Much like Hawaii, there are beautiful brown-skinned bikini girls and… let’s back up a bit. Eddie lives in the snow-laden Chicago based Griswold house from the first CHRISTMAS VACATION film (the third in the franchise).</div>
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His patient and loyal wife Catherine (Miriam Flynn) is still around, and instead of an eclectically messy brood of children he has only one kid, an impatient thirteen-year-old boy who actually has a brain. This uptight jerk keeps riding dad on his lack of intelligence, and thus becomes the most annoying character, especially since he wants Eddie to be like everyone else.</div>
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Also on board is the original Audrey Griswold, played by the lovely Dana Barron (then replaced by Dana Hill and Juliette Lewis), who, frantically brokenhearted over a boyfriend, joins Eddie, his wife, son, and grumpy grandfather (Ed Asner) on the island vacation that soon turns into a Swiss Family Robinson when their boat gets shipwrecked.</div>
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Eddie has to learn to hunt wild boar and build a hut of leaves, and eventually fly a plane. There are but a few unsuccessfully signature moments that made Cousin Eddie famously sloppy from the previous films, especially because there’s no Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) to act as a Felix to counter-balance Eddie’s Oscar. Plus, this is supposedly a Christmas Vacation, but there’s hardly any sign of Christmas anywhere.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>title: DEATH WISH 4 year: 1987 cast: Charles Bronson, Kay Lenz, Dana Barron rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr>
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It makes complete sense that Charles Bronson’s iconic vigilante Paul Kersey, who works as an architect by day and, whenever a problem arises, takes care of business by night, would become a bonafide hit man. After three entire films he’s gotten so good at killing criminals, he's hired by a mysterious "millionaire" (John P. Ryan) to infiltrate a rival gang by any means possible.</div>
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For those new to the DEATH WISH franchise, Kersey’s wife was murdered in the first movie, his daughter raped – then in part two his daughter's killed and now he’s up against the mafia after his girlfriend’s teenage daughter, played by VACATION actress Dana Barron, takes a lethal dose of crack cocaine from a mob-connected street dealer. This death makes the millionaire's offer that much more lucritive.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dana Barron in DEATH WISH 4: THE BREAKDOWN</td></tr>
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Kersey's vendetta begins with the dealer himself, but this isn't as basic as it sounds. After being hired he doesn’t just go around offing bad guys. Upon every hit, the two targeted mob "families" fight amongst themselves. With a crooked cop in the mix, Kersey gets caught in-between. And then a third act twist puts our mustached hero on the run. </div>
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The direction by Bronson collaborator J. Lee Thompson is tight and focused, but unfortunatly, instead of the urban-gritty Jimmy Page soundtrack of parts two and three, there’s a glossy saxophone score popular in the eighties and making the film, even in the best action sequences, feel like a straight-to-video release.</div>
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But directing and music doesn’t matter. As Bronson goes from bad guy to bad guy with interesting setups and/or missions for each hit, whether going undercover in a factory or sneaking into a high rise penthouse leading to a final shootout in an arcade, there’s much more involved than revenge: it's an actual job this time around.<br />
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