Nothing but Trouble
1991 Directed by Dan Aykroyd
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All they wanted was a little getaway. All they got was nothing but trouble.
Stock market millionaire Chris Thorne and investment lawyer Diane Lightson are headed to Atlantic City when they take the wrong exit off the New Jersey Turnpike. A local cop stops them for speeding in a curious town, where they're brought before 106-year-old Judge Alvin Valkenheiser. But the old man's punishment turns out to be as bizarre as he is.
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There's a moment in this film when Demi Moore is playing cards with Dan Akroyd as one of two giant greasy babies in diapers while Chevy Chase is about to get married to John Candy in drag with Digital Underground (featuring Tupac) doing the wedding march that I knew that all was right with the world.
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Utterly mesmerizing in its hideousness.
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A big dumb eighties FX comedy in the tradition of the Golden Child, Big Trouble In Little China, The Goonies, etc., but made a few years too late and with none of the warmth or charm that made those other movies enduring semi-classics. Nothing But Trouble is a miscalculation of the highest order - Dan Aykroyd ostensibly occupies the director's chair but he spent so much time in the makeup chair that the set designers ended up running the show, which means there was nobody to rein in Chevy Chase, who blankly deadpans nonsensical one-liners into the dark void that is Hollywood's great cocaine era banging grotesquely to a close. Which is to say that this movie is funny in the way that watching something die is always hilarious.
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Film #31 of No Rewatch November
It is fun at times and horrible/stupid/excruciating to watch, at times. The house is by far the best part. Also, the condiment train is a good idea that I shall implement immediately.
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I remember watching this film numerous times when I was younger on television. I remember liking it. This was the first time I had viewed this movie as an adult and I must say it is insane. It was probably supposed to be a comedy considering the cast, but instead it comes off as a disgusting horror film. It actually reminded me a little of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 in that it's a gross family who kill people. The appeal of this film to younger me must have been the house filed with secret passages and gadgets. This viewing was brought on by the announcement that the How Did This Get Made? podcast would be watching it.
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John Candy in drag and Tupac Shakur. What more could you ask for?
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I've seen a lot of movies. Many, many movies, more than I've come close to logging onto this site. Among that number have been many, many bad movies. You'd think, after all those movies, many of them bad, it would be hard to surprise me with how bad a movie can be. I like to think so. Then I see a movie like this and I realize that there are still depths to which a movie can sink which will surprise me.
There are talented people in this film, not the least of which is co-writer/director/star Dan Ackroyd. Ackroyd is a talented comedian, and lest we forget, one of the brains behind Ghostbusters. That fact makes it hard to imagine…
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I just remember completely despising this movie. It wasn't funny at all and is just seriously, seriously ugly and depressing. I haven't seen it in a long time, but I doubt giving it another chance would change my mind.
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I maintain that this is a vastly misunderstood film.
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What a bizarre, yet entertaining movie. Was great seeing John Candy in it (grew up on his movies!) and funny seeing him dressed up as a woman.
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Quite the train wreck of a movie. I remember watching this as a child and thinking it was kind of funny, but mostly fucking weird and terrifying.
I was right about the latter two anyway.
Chevy Chase (my favorite funnyman as a kid) doles out stupendously lame zingers at every opportunity, which I thought were funny last time I watched it. However, as an adult they're cringe-worthy. And those are pretty much the only jokes in the movie. Everything else is either gross or disturbing.
I get that this is a dark comedy, but it doesn't work. You're much better thinking of it as a horror film with the occasional lame joke here and there. As horror film it would…
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A big dumb eighties FX comedy in the tradition of the Golden Child, Big Trouble In Little China, The Goonies, etc., but made a few years too late and with none of the warmth or charm that made those other movies enduring semi-classics. Nothing But Trouble is a miscalculation of the highest order - Dan Aykroyd ostensibly occupies the director's chair but he spent so much time in the makeup chair that the set designers ended up running the show, which means there was nobody to rein in Chevy Chase, who blankly deadpans nonsensical one-liners into the dark void that is Hollywood's great cocaine era banging grotesquely to a close. Which is to say that this movie is funny in the way that watching something die is always hilarious.
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There's a moment in this film when Demi Moore is playing cards with Dan Akroyd as one of two giant greasy babies in diapers while Chevy Chase is about to get married to John Candy in drag with Digital Underground (featuring Tupac) doing the wedding march that I knew that all was right with the world.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102558/trivia?tab=tr&item=tr0984167