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Vacation is one of the movies of 2015 that I was looking forward to seeing.  I thought it'd be nice to see a continuation of the National Lampoon 'Vacation' series.  Granted, I've only recently seen the European Vacation --- which was a fairly awful movie -- but the original Vacation and Christmas Vacation were both very good.   I've seen Las Vegas Vacation  as well.  From what I recall, it was only okay. Christmas Vacation was probably my favorite of the bunch.  It's one of those movies that's on my yearly 'must watch in December' list. So this new version, whether it's was an attempted reboot or a sequel, would be good.  Or so I thought. Unfortunately, this was more of a remake than a sequel -- and not a very good one at that.  Sure, there were some differences, as Ed Helms' character, Rusty Griswold, points out in one scene: "The original vacation had  a  boy  and a  girl. This one has two boys." ...

I’m baaaack.   I’ts been a hot minute since I’ve posted a new blog. Actually, it’s been about 20 months since my last blog. I’ve been busy, trying to conquer life.   Don’t you hate it when the real world gets in the way of your hobbies?? So what’s changed since I’ve been away? I noticed a few things: DVD-makers have been reading my blogs I’ve noticed that some DVD-makers out there must have been following my blog (that’s gotta’ be it, right?).   First up, the 1960’s Batman is now available on DVD.   Yeah!!   I said in my January 2013 blog that it should be released on DVD.   Thankfully, in November of 2014, it was.   That’s progress right there (side note: yes, I do realize that I didn’t actually have anything to do with that … but I’m taking credit for it). In that same post, I also mentioned The Nanny .   Three seasons were released several years ago, but in April of 2015 they finally put out the entire series. ...