I agree with both of these statements. I love Christmas Vacation, it makes me laugh every time, and Scrooged is a terrible movie. When Groundhog Day came out just a couple of years later, with almost the exact same redemption plot but about 100x better, I saw it as Bill Murray correcting his horrendous misstep with Scrooged.
Anyhoo, I recall Love Actually got terrible reviews and everybody dismissed it as one of the worst Richard Curtis movies, nowhere near as good as Four Weddings or even Notting Hill (which a lot of people hate anyway, though I like it). But now it’s listed as many people’s favourite romcom. Fools!
one that might fit the category is children of men… the movie was great but 10 years before the book was trashed by every major critic around at the time but now its a great book because of the movie
Although I notice this trend on the kid channels the most supposedly they learned this with rugrats no one watched it at first but they showed it every 3rd show for like a year and it became was so popular they brought it back 2 years after they ended the original run now thell run a show for years until it clicks
cartoon network did this with a few of their kid shows but family guy and futurerama on adult swim are prime examples too
Someone told me once in a aol sponsored chat (remember those ? come in with tons of other people and try to ask a question in a interview ithat was supposedly live) that when they used to have the nye marathons on adult swim more people watched it on t hat single night then than the original entire fox run
also I was told that’s why these days if its a long running show tell rerun it on ION or USA and such in the hopes that youll get caught un in the characters enough to watch the new ones (and why it takes forever for them to rerun them … there usually 2 seasons behind the current plots )
A&E showed everyone on how to do this with law and order … it was going to get cancelled until they ran it 12 hours a day and people started watching the new ones …
True, but somehow it resonates. Randy Quaid’s character at one point volunteers to fix the lights, but cautions that if he gets shocked, it will react with the steel plate in his head, he won’t remember his name for 30 minutes, and he’ll pee in his pants. My oldest brother was the same way because of a brain cyst.
This only became a Christmas classic relatively recently, like the late '80s. I first saw it at a classic movies night in a college town bar in the early '80s.
Nitpick, the actual line is:
“Don’t go puttin’ none of that [super lubricant] on my sled, Clark. You know that metal plate in my head? I had to have it replaced, cause every time Catherine revved up the microwave I’d piss my pants and forget who I was for a half hour or so. So over at the VA they had to replace it with plastic. It ain’t as strong so I don’t know if I should go sailin’ down no hill with nothing between the ground and my brains but a piece of government plastic.”
Bill Nye the Science guy?