Post by: Ben on November 21, 2006, 04:34:05 PM
For me, every year the Sunday after T-Day, "A Christmas Story" gets viewed. Can never get enough of "Fra-gil-e" and "You'll shoot your eye out!"
I also usually watch "Three Godfathers" and the original "A Christmas Carol".
Post by: Sergeant Bob on November 21, 2006, 04:58:33 PM
"Its a Wonderful Life".
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Post by: grislyatoms on November 25, 2006, 11:19:43 AM
My "Daisy Red Ryder lever action 300 shot carbine" was actually a surfboard, but I felt so akin to Ralphie in the movie anyway.
It wasn't "You'll shoot your eye out" it was "You'll get hit in the head with the surfboard and drown."
Great movies!
"Worse?! How can things get any worse?! Look around you Ellen, we're at the threshold of hell!" Clark Griswold, Christmas Vacation
Post by: Cosmoline on November 25, 2006, 12:12:01 PM
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Post by: Vodka7 on November 26, 2006, 07:22:16 AM
And I certainly wouldn't call it a holiday movie, but when we're all together watching movies on those cold December nights, Terminator 2 seems to get played just about every year too.
Post by: Ben on November 26, 2006, 09:35:42 AM
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Silent Night, Deadly Night is a real heartwarmer...
Christmas at Irwin's house must be pretty bizarro...
Post by: The Rabbi on November 26, 2006, 01:30:26 PM
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Post by: Strings on December 10, 2006, 10:09:30 PM
Doesn't the above kinda suggest that there's a time of year that ISN'T bizarro at the Irwin residence?
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Post by: Perd Hapley on December 11, 2006, 04:34:24 AM
Post by: charby on December 11, 2006, 05:10:01 AM
Christmas Vacation
Miracle on 34th Street (old version)
Its a Wonderful Life
A Christmas Story
Something tells me the Irwin household is a Christmas with a Yule Log, Wassle, Eggnog, Chesnuts and the rest of the cheeseball Christmas crap you hear about in songs.
Post by: K Frame on December 11, 2006, 06:11:06 AM
I really love "It's a Wonderful Life." It seems to get a lot of flak from young whippersnappers like me, though. Anybody know why?
It's completely off the schmaltz meter.
Despite the fact that it's become such a beloved classic, It's a Wonderful Life wasn't that much of a success when it first came out.
Frank Capra was trying to make an homage to the American way of life and a return to better times after the Depression and World War II. What he didn't realize, though, was that those events had fundamentally changed how people viewed the nation and the world.
It also received a LOT of criticism from many directions, including the FBI, for some of its political messages. The big one was the anti-urbanization, another one was portrayal of Mr. Potter, the forward-looking industrialist, as a grasping, greedy, sickly old man.
Like the Wizard of Oz, though, It's a Wonderful Life slowly came to grow legs. The criticisms fell away, and all that remained was a look at life in a small town, the kind of life that many people came to actively miss through the expansion and dislocation of the 1950s, the social turmoil of the 1960s, and the hard economic times of the 1970s.
I think where It's a Wonderful Life got its biggest boost in popularity was from Ronald Reagan. His presidency was an unabashed look back to the past to find the simpler times that made America what it is.
Maybe a bunch of bunk, but you know, it's fun bunk.
Oh, and every time a bell rings?
Mtnbkr's daughter rips the arms off a Gingerbread Man...
Post by: HankB on December 11, 2006, 06:18:21 AM
When the movie came out, during you-know-who's administration, people in some theaters stood up and CHEERED when the White House was hit by the alien ray . . .
Post by: Perd Hapley on December 11, 2006, 06:26:49 AM
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Post by: Ben on December 11, 2006, 08:31:40 AM
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For holiday movies (which holiday wasn't specified!)
Well, holidays this time of year.
I'm a Chrstmas kinda guy myself, but that movie "Home for the Holidays" about T-Day was pretty funny, so didn't want to limit the choices!
Post by: wingnutx on December 11, 2006, 09:07:28 AM
Post by: charby on December 11, 2006, 10:47:20 AM
-C
Post by: K Frame on December 11, 2006, 11:04:05 AM
Something tells me the Irwin household is a Christmas with a Yule Log, Wassle, Eggnog, Chesnuts and the rest of the cheeseball Christmas crap you hear about in songs.
Stay away from Vegas.
You'd lose your shirt.
Post by: Brad Johnson on December 11, 2006, 01:37:22 PM
-A Christmas Story ("I double dog dare ya!")
-Scrooged ("...a hallucination - Russian vodka, poisoned by Chernobyl!")
-Muppet Christmas Carol (even though Disney has screwed around with it so much - you can get the original theatrical version on VHS pan-n-scan, or edited widescreen on DVD, but not the original theatrical version IN widescreen on DVD. GRRRRR!)
and the ultimate (drum roll please......)
-Ernest Saves Christmas! ("..you won'ta snake? I give wun ta m'boy last Christmas. ...Rock of Ages.... cleft fer me....")
Brad
Post by: charby on December 11, 2006, 01:38:23 PM
Something tells me the Irwin household is a Christmas with a Yule Log, Wassle, Eggnog, Chesnuts and the rest of the cheeseball Christmas crap you hear about in songs.
Stay away from Vegas.
You'd lose your shirt.
Damn I has hoping you were really some nostalgic teddy bear when your offline.
I also forgot my favorite holiday movie, Holiday Inn.
Post by: K Frame on December 11, 2006, 03:14:50 PM
I am, but I don't really have any reason to be at Christmas.