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Vacation (2015)
Charmless, unredeemable.
Let me start by saying that I enjoy crude humor. I loved The Hangover, Old School, SuperBad, etc. But "Vacation" is flat out obnoxious and unfunny. Not a single laughable moment. I didn't even find myself smirking at any point. It was that awful. Not even the nostalgia of the old "Vacation" movies could save this atrocity. The script seemed like it was written by spastic 13 year old juvenile delinquents. When the script wasn't obnoxious it was simply just uncreative. The car was so over-the-top that it was eye-roll inducing. The angry Korean voice on the GPS was unoriginal and cliché. Helms and Christina Applegate should quit acting, out of shame.
The Judge (2014)
Cheesy, Cliché, Predictable
This movie might seem good, if you were born yesterday and never saw a movie before. Forget what you know about Duvall, Downey Jr., or even Billy Bob. Everything about this movie was a tired cliché. Cue the cocky black sheep returning home and finding his roots again, to the simple well-meaning brother with a camera, contrasted by the understands-too-much-for her age 12 year old girl that still calls her parents "mommy and daddy" to every single small town stereotype that you can think of. Then of course the now-humbled redeemed black sheep returns to his shiny life with a new humbled outlook. But makes it home in time to go fishing with the 'old man' one last time. And of course they have a touching father-son moment right before the father dies on the boat. Flag flies at half staff ("no one says half mast anymore"). Guy gets girl he left behind. I wish I could tell you that the cheesy 'feel good moments' ended there. Sadly they didn't. Take my word for it. Do not waste your time.