DuracellEnergizer said:

I have no strong feelings - positive or negative - for the original, so colour me indifferent.

I'm just curious, why do people do this? I see it in pretty much every thread on the internet. Someone posts a thread about something, a movie, an album, a game, and someone comes in and goes, "I don't like this" or "I don't care," and then leaves. It's called thread crapping. I'm geuinely curious about this impulse, because I don't have it. It's like I want to know what it's like to be a monkey or an autistic person. I want to know what it's like to be someone who thread craps! What drives you?  :-)

SilverWook said:

Bob Clark did make an "official" sequel in the 90's.

 

It was retitled "My Summer Story" on home video. Obviously all the parts were recast because of the passage of time, but it did have Jean Shepard's narration.

Your images aren't showing up, SilverWook.

Several movies, TV and theatrical, were made based on Jean Shepard's stories and star the Parker family. There's:

• A Christmas Story
• My Summer Story
• Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss
• The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters
• The Phantom of the Open Hearth
  
  

I've read his book In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, from which most of these movies took their stories. It's really good, and A Christmas Story perfectly captures Shepard's tone.

I'm curious if A Christmas Story 2 is based on a Jean Shepard story, or is an original script.

Yep. Never seen Death Valley. Now I want to.

I thought Charles Grodin was terrible in My Summer Story. He's just not likeable at all. Darren McGavin was so perfect.

The thing that makes A Christmas Story so good that the others lack is the numerous subplots incorporated from other Shepard stories. They combined at least 15 short stories to make the movie, packing it with narrative interest and humor. Most films have 1 or 2 subplots aside from the main plot, A Christmas Story has 11. And every story is very craftily set up and then resolved, all of them intertwining and in some cases combined where they were wholly separate in the book. It's a very tight script and an excellent example for any writer in how to juggle numerous plot threads. If this sequel is an original script, I doubt it will attempt to juggle so many stories.

Right. That's the ultimate form of thread crapping, don't you think? I'm indifferent to Vietnamese romantic comedies, I don't go onto IMDb, look them up, and post in the threads "I don't care about this one way or the other." It's a silly behavior, I genuinely don't understand it! It like, "Hey, everybody, look at me not caring! My opinion is that I don't have one." LOL

TV's Frink said:

I agree with you, I was just pointing out that you misstated what he actually said.

Fixed.

If opinions are like assholes, then how does DuracellEnergizer take a shit? :)

Mrebo said:

Wait...this is real?

Casting is under way for “A Christmas Story Too” — not the FunnyOrDie.com comedy video, but a genuine feature film follow-up to the beloved classic, to be directed by Brian Levant (“Beethoven,” “Are We There Yet?” “Jingle All the Way,” etc.). They’re looking for Ralphie, now a teenager (legal 18 to play 16), Dad, now fiftysomething; fortysomething Mom, plus brother Randy (now 11) and teen pals including Schwartz.  The story will again focus on Ralphie yearning for a special Christmas present, but this time it’s a 1938 Hupmobile Skyline convertible.  Sweet!  Unfortunately, he takes one on a test drive and manages to ruin the convertible top, leading to a mad scramble to try to make enough money to repair the roof.

http://becksmithhollywood.com/?p=5162