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Here's what they should have done...


So they wanted to make a direct sequel to A Christmas Story and retcon those other films. Here's what they should have done: have the film set twenty five, thirty years after the original, where Ralphie is now an old man with a wife and kids and horrible furnace of his own. His eldest son wants the Macguffin in question and all the zany antics happen to Ralphie Jr., and his friends, the sons of Schwartz and Flick. How hard would it have been to do this? Title the film Another Christmas Story, set in the 1960s. That way fans of the original wouldn't feel as violated. Sure the sequel is still unnecessary, but it's a damn sight better than recasting the characters we grew up with and expect us to accept this inane movie that does nothing but insult our intelligence, as well as Jean Shepard's work and the original film.

Didn't Shepard's family try to intervene in this movie's production? You'd think they'd have something to say.

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not making the sequel nothing but a bunch of references to the first movie would have been a start

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I would have watched that.

This movie was full of references from the first movie. But they left out the Bumpuses dogs.

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