Christmas Ornaments II: The Deckoning [moviegique]

It's Christmastime again, which of course means It's A Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street, "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and the Grinch, Die Hard and all the Shane Black movies, but last year I compiled a list of Christmas-themed filmed entertainment that were lesser known or at least lesser exposed. That list is here, and included: The Shop Around The Corner, Holiday Inn, The Bishop's Wife, The Holly and the Ivy, White Christmas, the MST3K episode "Santa Claus Conquers The Martians", the Rifftrax Live! episode "Santa Claus", "The Tick Loves Santa", Joyeux Noel, In Bruges, Rare Exports and Krampus. A little something for everyone in that list.

But can I come up with another quality list this year? I think I can, especially after stealing all your ideas from the last movie thread. Before getting to the lesser known items, I wanted to take a little time to re-appreciate some of the classics which grinchier hearts in the past may have dismissed:

A Miracle On 34th Street (1947, Comedy, Drama): It's easy to misremember this as treacly plum pudding, but its every major plot point and the behavior of most of its characters is shockingly cynical. The underlying premise is that due to the self-serving interests of everyone involved, a crazy man is going to be authenticated as Santa Claus.

Elf (2003, Comedy): Yeah, I know, and I agree. The man-child schtick gets old fast and Will Ferrell is the King-Prince of Man-Children but under the sure hand of Jon Favreau and a relentlessly good-hearted core—well, if you're ever gonna like anything Will Ferrell, this is probably it. Terrific holiday soundtrack. Pre-saturation Deschanel.

Christmas in Connecticut (1945, Romantic Comedy): Some of us like our Christmas movies to start with U-boat attacks, is all I'm saying. Peak Barbara Stanwyck with great support from Sydney Greenstreet and S.K. Sazall in this screwball comedy that would form the basis of about 9,000 sitcom plots in the TV age. Remade in 1992 by director Arnold Schwarzenegger and starring Dyan Cannon, Kris Kristofferson and Tony Curtis. ISYN.

"Hello, yes, I'll be needing a shed. No, not too comfortable."

Now, on to the lesser known gems.

The Three Godfathers (1936/1948, Western): This came up a lot in last year's thread. There are half-a-dozen versions of this tale (including 2003's Tokyo Godfathers) about three desperados who find themselves in charge of a baby on Christmas, basically having to decide how bad of a badman each wants to be. The 1936 Boleslawski version features Chester Morris, Lewis Stone and Walter Brennan, and is largely superior to the version that John Ford made in 1948 to honor Harey Carey, which boasts John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz, Harey Carey, Jr. and Ward Bond, but lacks the edge of the earlier film perhaps due to Wayne not being convincingly "bad" enough to provide the tension.

La grande illusion (1937, War, France): It's just not Christmas for me without a WWI story, and this (the greatest of Jean Renoir films) is the story of French soldiers escaping from a German POW camp. A big Christmas party is involved. The title is a wry reference to a 1909 book The Great Illusion, which argued that war made no economic or social sense, and which was used by the experts to "prove" that there would be no World War I. The author then won a Nobel Peace Prize for his book...in 1933.

Remember The Night (1940, Romantic Comedy): Before Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray teamed up for murder and love in Double Indemnity they teamed up for laughs and love in this Preston Sturges penned offering from Mitchell Leisen, director of "the dregs of 1939" classic Midnight, the most excellent 1924 Thief of Baghdad, and that episode of "The Twilight Zone" where Roddy MacDowell crashes on Mars.

Susan Slept Here (1954, Comedy): In Who The Devil Made It, Peter Bogdanovich interviews the great Hollywood directors and also Frank Tashlin, a brilliant cartoon director who moved on to live features like Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? and The Girl Can't Help It, and this. As a premise, "35-year old screenwriter takes in a 17-year-old runaway in the days leading up to Christmas" is a sketchy one, but the movie has some charm if you can get past the fact that 22-year-old Debbie Reynolds plays 17 way more convincingly than 50-year-old Dick Powell plays a 35 year-old for whom the 24-year-old Anne Francis is aging out. Actually, Reynolds is so good...I don't know, maybe fast-forward past the Powell parts.

Old maid Anne Francis (shown here with AARP spokesman Powell) was only two years away from playing jail bait herself in 1956's "Forbidden Planet".

Blood Beat (1983, Horror): I'm a sucker for Vinegar Syndrome's archaeological expeditions into lost '80s horror, and this year they made quite a splash with New York Ninja—an unfinished film they edited together and ADRed with era-appropriate actors like Don "The Dragon" Wilson and Linnea Quigley. A few months ago I "discovered" this very odd VS offering from rural Wisconsin, about a guy who brings his girlfriend home for Christmas only to discover she has a psychic link with the samurai ghost that's murdering the neighbors. Apparently, Jay of Red Letter Media watches this every Christmas, and he and Josh did a "re:View" of it this past week.

The Lemon Drop Kid (1951, Comedy): Based on the title of a Damon Runyon story, Bob Hope plays a swindler who needs to raise $10 Gs or a gangster will axe him on Christmas. Bob Hope in movies mostly irritates me but if you don't suffer from that limitation, this one is not bad. Partly directed by Frank Tashlin.

I'm not a big TV watcher as you may or may not know, but last year I managed to come up with some TV show episodes, and you guys brought up some forgotten classics:

"A Muppet Family Christmas" (1987, Children): Of course none of us nearly 29-year olds can appreciate it, but our parents might enjoy this crossover of Muppets, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock and Muppet Babies. The story involves the Muppets going to Fozzie's mom's house for Christmas where they encounter their Sesame Street ancestors and Fraggle Rock offshoots, with Jim Henson doing a cameo as a dishwasher. The Swedish Chef plots to cook Big Bird for dinner while Kermit frets over Miss Piggy fighting a snowstorm. Features third-act mega-Christmas Carol medley. Available all over YouTube but completely unobtainable legally due to licensing. (My youngest recommended this one.)

"The Homecoming: A Walton's Christmas" (1971, Drama): Did I say parents? Our grandparents might enjoy this pilot for "The Waltons". Loaded with charm, if somewhat hampered by pedestrian editing (a consequence, I believe, of a show meant to be frequently interrupted by commercials), featuring Patricia Neal and Edgar Bergen in a rustic Great Depression story. Directed by Fielder Cook whose film Patterns (teleplay by Rod Serling) was mentioned back in the February movie thread, and who was kind of a TV movie titan, managing to pull off well-respected TV versions of Brigadoon and Harvey, as well as a less respected Miracle on 34th Street.

All the kids from the movie would come back for the show, but none of the adults would except "Esther".

"The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas" (1973, Children): Based and red-pilled worker bear (Tommy Smothers) is canceled when he challenges the Cathedral bear-narrative by searching for the conspiracy known as "Christmas", said to happen when all blue-pilled bears are hibernating. He ends up living in the alien world of New York City away from all he ever knew and loved. Complete with organic foods, mini-dresses and astrology, this actually made me laugh-out-loud with some remarkably au courant observations.

"Santa and the Three Bears" (1970, Children): Similarly themed but not as woke, this concerns a ranger and bears in Yellowstone, totally not meant to be confused with Jellystone, with the kiddie bears wanting to stay awake to experience Christmas and a mother wanting them to sleep. Tubi has an unending stream of Christmas cartoons from this era which I think are short enough to avoid being interrupted by commercials.

"Mr. Monk and the Miracle" (2008, Mystery): I like this episode not for the (frankly absurd) plot but for putting Monk's correctness against his complete inability to comprehend faith and consequent misery and neuroses.

"Joe Bob Ruins Christmas" (2021, Horror): Every year people bitch about the movies shown (for EVERY holiday) on "The Last Drive-In" so this year, Joe Bob and Darcy ruin Christmas by exchanging movies as gifts, each picking one that the other has been wanting to host for years. One of them gets his wish and the other gets the cinematic equivalent of a pair of argyle socks. Opening with a dissertation on the 90-mile journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem that winds up as a screed against cancel culture, the interstitials are used to auction off various odd memorabilia to raise money for four separate charities that relate (very roughly) to the Nativity story. (The auction and merch selling for charity runs until Tuesday here.)

Last year's auction included the classic Vincent Price Shrunken Head Apple Sculpture Kit, which doubtless appeared on many a nearly-29-year-old's list to Santa.

You guys mentioned a ton of other things, and I actually ended up finding a ton of stuff in building this post up, so I'm already good for next year. Keep the recommendations coming and maybe we'll do Christmas in July!

Posted by: Open Blogger at 07:38 PM

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1 Popcorn time

Posted by: Skip at December 18, 2021 08:00 PM (2JoB8)

2 First?

Posted by: a.moron at December 18, 2021 08:00 PM (F6Xpw)

3 And no diamonds. It's a Christmas miracle! (And so are you.)

Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 08:00 PM (asXVI)

4 Cuddles Sawzall

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 18, 2021 08:01 PM (63Dwl)

5 I actually enjoyed Klaus on Netflix. I felt it should have been the animated Oscar winner that year...

Posted by: Nova local at December 18, 2021 08:02 PM (exHjb)

6 Could you make the font a bit smaller? I can still read it.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 18, 2021 08:03 PM (eA1RV)

7 My wife prefers the newer* "Miracle on 34th Street" over the classic original with Natalie Wood, but she's wrong.

(*"Newer" meaning the one made in the 1980's or '90's)

Posted by: a.moron at December 18, 2021 08:03 PM (F6Xpw)

8 Whoa

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 18, 2021 08:03 PM (Do5/p)

9 ZOD IMPERIAL.

Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 08:03 PM (M3Z2J)

10 Fatman

Posted by: Sharkman at December 18, 2021 08:03 PM (/7aTk)

11 Damn, The Waltons? I'm having flashbacks to youth (though I don't think I ever saw what is beign referenced here).

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 18, 2021 08:04 PM (CdZ4i)

12 I adore Rare Exports. Dark humor, brave kids, EXTRA CREEPY "santa's helpers", and guns. And explosives. Every Christmas needs explosives. And safety briefings for enraged santas.

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at December 18, 2021 08:04 PM (CUULq)

13 The Lion In Winter is a great movie that never gets mentioned in Christmas movie discussions.

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 18, 2021 08:05 PM (xPl2J)

14 I was listening to a podcast that turned It's a Wonderful Life into a screed against fractional banking.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 18, 2021 08:05 PM (ZMraq)

15 . . . and I agree about "Elf". Will Ferrrell's one note act got old a long time ago, but "Elf" is decent entertainment/

Posted by: a.moron at December 18, 2021 08:05 PM (F6Xpw)

16 I liked more than a few Bob Hope movies when I was a kid. Him and Don Knotts's three movies.

Paleface
Call Me Bwana
Boy Did I Get the Wrong Number

Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 08:05 PM (U9Qbt)

17 You forgot Diehard and Battleground for Christmas movies

Posted by: Skip at December 18, 2021 08:05 PM (2JoB8)

18 I always liked watching "Mickey's Christmas Carol" as a kid.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085936/

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 18, 2021 08:05 PM (Do5/p)

19 turned It's a Wonderful Life into a screed against fractional RESERVE banking, sorry

Posted by: Kindltot at December 18, 2021 08:05 PM (ZMraq)

20 And of course there is Die Hard, the ultimate feel-good Christmas movie.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 18, 2021 08:05 PM (CdZ4i)

21 I really need to check out Krampus and Rare Exports. Every year I think about watching them both and then swerve off into . . . not.

Will fix that this year.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 18, 2021 08:06 PM (/7aTk)

22 I just can't stand Will Ferrell

Posted by: Skip at December 18, 2021 08:07 PM (2JoB8)

23 Rudolph. Norelco.

The technology was not aces then. Perhaps it has improved.

Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 08:07 PM (M3Z2J)

24 I like Elf. I understand the loathing many have for Will Farrell. But he was perfect in that role. Elf and A Christmas Story are our go-to Christmas movies. We still play Christmas Vacation, but we're pretty much just laughing and joking by the time we get to that one. I do pay a lot of attention to Beverly Di'Angelo, though.

do not like It's a Wonderful Life.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 18, 2021 08:07 PM (x8Wzq)

25 ||Could you make the font a bit smaller? I can still read it.

Did I do something to the font?

||(*"Newer" meaning the one made in the 1980's or '90's)

There are no fewer than three TV movie versions and on '94 remake (with Greg Kinnear?) and yes, she is very wrong.

||Damn, The Waltons? I'm having flashbacks to youth (though I don't think I ever saw what is beign referenced here).

That was mentioned on the thread three weeks ago and is available on YouTube. It's a little weird seeing something from 50 years ago that itself is referencing something from 40 years ago...

Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 08:07 PM (asXVI)

26 Ghostbusters II is also a Christmas movie. People forget that one.

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 18, 2021 08:07 PM (xPl2J)

27 I didn't see a nic attached to this post. Mind you, I've been drinking.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 18, 2021 08:07 PM (eGTCV)

28 Battleground is a fantastic movie.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 18, 2021 08:07 PM (/7aTk)

29 The rebooted animated Grinch is pretty good. I actually liked it more than the original in spite of the deep feeling nostalgia for me of the original .

Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 08:09 PM (U9Qbt)

30 Elf, take out Bob Newhart and it's less than nothing. NOTHING!

Posted by: Some Rat at December 18, 2021 08:09 PM (r1z5A)

31 I didn't see a nic attached to this post. Mind you, I've been drinking.
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 18, 2021 08:07 PM (eGTCV)

Oh. so it ain't just me. Bourbon is a helluva drug.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 18, 2021 08:09 PM (x8Wzq)

32 Battleground is a fantastic movie.
Posted by: Sharkman at December 18, 2021 08:07 PM (/7aTk)

The last scene tears me up every time. Not even going to pretend it's allergies.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 08:10 PM (U9Qbt)

33 do not like It's a Wonderful Life.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 18, 2021 08:07 PM (x8Wzq)

Good take - I don't either.

Of course, I don't like The Christmas Story, either. Just give me George C Scott's The Christmas Carol for the annual tv marathon (which I already watched this year - if you're gonna introduce someone to Christmas, it's this movie, the Grinch, and Charlie Brown to make the culturally and Christmas-y literate...although the spouse also showed our "never watched anything Christmas guest" The Christmas Story)...

Posted by: Nova local at December 18, 2021 08:10 PM (exHjb)

34 Margins are blown, can tell on my tablet comments block

Posted by: Skip at December 18, 2021 08:10 PM (2JoB8)

35 Bottom picture is my guess

Posted by: Skip at December 18, 2021 08:10 PM (2JoB8)

36 Could you make the font a bit smaller? I can still read it.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

I think the "width=700" tag on the last pic is giving the margins a good time.

Posted by: mikeski at December 18, 2021 08:10 PM (P1f+c)

37 ||I didn't see a nic attached to this post. Mind you, I've been drinking.

||Oh. so it ain't just me. Bourbon is a helluva drug.

I don't know what you two are talking about. *kaff*

Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 08:10 PM (asXVI)

38

It Happened On Fifth Avenue
The Man Who Came to Dinner

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 18, 2021 08:11 PM (63Dwl)

39 do not like It's a Wonderful Life.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 18, 2021 08:07 PM (x8Wzq)

What don't you like about it?

Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 08:11 PM (U9Qbt)

40 Like, hellooooo?

Die Hard.

Posted by: Occasional Reader at December 18, 2021 08:11 PM (EGATy)

41 "Married With Children" did a couple of good Christmas episodes.

Posted by: a.moron at December 18, 2021 08:11 PM (F6Xpw)

42 I mean, Will Farrell getting into a tickle fight with James Caan. Gold, Jerry. Gold!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 18, 2021 08:11 PM (x8Wzq)

43 Thanks for the thread. I'm so pissed at the dump that Anti-Pope Frankie the Commie Pedophile took on the Latin Rite today that I beed to be reminded of something good so I don't scream.

And movies are good.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 18, 2021 08:11 PM (/7aTk)

44 You're right that the 1936 "Three Godfathers" is far superior to the later John Wayne version. In the earlier version, all three sacrifice their lives to save the infant, and by doing this they earn some kind of redemption for their previous, terrible crimes. But John Wayne was too big a star to allow him to die, so they changed the script to reflect that (and threw away a lot of its depth in the process)

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2021 08:12 PM (evAgx)

45 Mentioned, The Man Who Invented Christmas, the other day here. The story of Charles Dickens writing his book, A Christmas Carol.

Posted by: Beartooth at December 18, 2021 08:12 PM (J0Lsu)

46 >>Of course, I don't like The Christmas Story, either.
Posted by: Nova local at December 18, 2021 08:10 PM (exHjb)

Not a fan; I'd give it a 3 on a ten-point scale. Mrs. despises it.

Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 08:12 PM (M3Z2J)

47 I always say about "Elf", if you hate Will Ferrell, you at least get to see Peter Dinklage beat the crap out of him.

Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 08:12 PM (asXVI)

48
what about Santa Claus Fucks With The Martians??

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at December 18, 2021 08:12 PM (2PSuu)

49 I think It's a Wonderful Life is a great Christmas movie, haven't turned on TV all week so probably missing lots I would like to watch.

Posted by: Skip at December 18, 2021 08:13 PM (2JoB8)

50 Never cared much for Barbara Stanwyck.

Until I got older. Something about that lady...

Posted by: golfman at December 18, 2021 08:13 PM (hOMhY)

51 do not like It's a Wonderful Life.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 18, 2021 08:07 PM (x8Wzq)

What don't you like about it?
Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 08:11 PM (U9Qbt)

I could write an essay. Bleak, loud, depressing. Long.

Reminds me, I need to write my ese.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 18, 2021 08:13 PM (x8Wzq)

52 >>Mind you, I've been drinking.
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 18, 2021 08:07 PM (eGTCV)

(Cues chorus)

So Say We All.

Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 08:13 PM (M3Z2J)

53 We need It's a Wonderful Life II. Angel goes back and convinces Joe Biden to kill himself before he ruins the country and the world.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 18, 2021 08:14 PM (FVME7)

54 Beartooth,

Yeah, a lot more suggestions were made than I could get to in the past three weeks. Also I went down a rabbit-hole of silent/early-talky Christmas-y themed films. Next year!

Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 08:14 PM (asXVI)

55 Margins are better

Posted by: Skip at December 18, 2021 08:14 PM (2JoB8)

56 46 >>Of course, I don't like The Christmas Story, either.
Posted by: Nova local at December 18, 2021 08:10 PM (exHjb)

Not a fan; I'd give it a 3 on a ten-point scale. Mrs. despises it.
Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 08:12 PM (M3Z2J)

She shows great taste

...
That said, we recreate the dinner every year so I get one day off from cooking b/c takeout Peking Duck with Chinese fixings is no work and within my allergy bounds and dang tasty...the one redeeming part of this movie.
My spouse LOVES the movie, so he was very down with recreating the dinner as our tradition, so win/win there...

Posted by: Nova local at December 18, 2021 08:14 PM (exHjb)

57 AW I like it, get a agent

Posted by: Skip at December 18, 2021 08:14 PM (2JoB8)

58 Yeah I don't get the love for The Christmas Story.

Is there a Venn Diagram of people who like The Christmas Story and hate It's a Wonderful Life and Vice versa ?

Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 08:15 PM (U9Qbt)

59 Yeah, thanks everyone who caught it. I managed a diamond-free post but forgot to put my own nic in and forgot to size the last pic.

Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 08:15 PM (asXVI)

60 I always say about "Elf", if you hate Will Ferrell, you at least get to see Peter Dinklage beat the crap out of him.
Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 08:12 PM (asXVI)

Hah! My favorite moment. For the record, I think Dinklage could kick my ass as well.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 18, 2021 08:15 PM (x8Wzq)

61 I think It's a Wonderful Life is a great Christmas movie, haven't turned on TV all week so probably missing lots I would like to watch.
Posted by: Skip at December 18, 2021 08:13 PM (2Jo

I love it.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 08:16 PM (U9Qbt)

62 I never saw the fuss behind A Christmas Story. I suppose for some it is nostalgic. Not for me. When I finally saw it I wasn't impressed.

Give me "Christmas Vacation" instead.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 18, 2021 08:16 PM (CdZ4i)

63 "The Man Who Came to Dinner"

Love that movie. It's a character actors showpiece.

Posted by: Tuna at December 18, 2021 08:16 PM (gLRfa)

64 51 do not like It's a Wonderful Life.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 18, 2021 08:07 PM (x8Wzq)

What don't you like about it?
Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 08:11 PM (U9Qbt)

I could write an essay. Bleak, loud, depressing. Long.

Reminds me, I need to write my ese.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 18, 2021 08:13 PM (x8Wzq)

Amen...I could also go on, especially about how his wonderful wife is treated like garbage by him for 1/2 the movie...

Posted by: Nova local at December 18, 2021 08:16 PM (exHjb)

65 I think the best two Christmas claymations, by far are:

Raging Rudolph:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_RH44K0x_4
Raging Rudolph II: The Reinfather
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4w73vH-IgQ

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2021 08:17 PM (evAgx)

66 Personally I'm a fan of Muppets Christmas Carol and The Nightmare Before Christmas. Always fun to watch...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 18, 2021 08:17 PM (K5n5d)

67 The shower scene in Elf could have used a bit more exposition.

Posted by: davidt at December 18, 2021 08:17 PM (JH1/x)

68 ALL!! Of the Rankin/Bass Christmas presentations are great, you may all carry on now.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 18, 2021 08:17 PM (r1z5A)

69 #66 - Oh yeah, especially The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 18, 2021 08:18 PM (CdZ4i)

70
What about the Twilight Zone Christmas episode?

Shirley that is a classic, yes?

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at December 18, 2021 08:18 PM (2PSuu)

71 Amen...I could also go on, especially about how his wonderful wife is treated like garbage by him for 1/2 the movie...
Posted by: Nova local at December 18, 2021 08:16 PM (exHjb)

right? Donna Reed. Donna. Reed.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 18, 2021 08:18 PM (x8Wzq)

72 Now I love "Christmas Story", always have. It reminds me of the America I grew up in, which is not the America I live in now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2021 08:19 PM (evAgx)

73 >>Based and red-pilled worker bear (Tommy Smothers) is canceled when he challenges the Cathedral bear-narrative by searching for the conspiracy known as "Christmas", said to happen when all blue-pilled bears are hibernating. He ends up living in the alien world of New York City away from all he ever knew and loved. Complete with organic foods, mini-dresses and astrology, this actually made me laugh-out-loud with some remarkably au courant observations.

Love that this describes a 1980's movie -- can you imagine reading that synopsis 20 years ago and having any clue what it means?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 18, 2021 08:19 PM (URNdm)

74 This year I have seen a ton of Buddy the Elf stuff. Stickers on cars, decorations on lawns, t shirts, you name it.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 18, 2021 08:19 PM (zsgTF)

75 L.A. Confidential is a good Christmas movie.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 18, 2021 08:19 PM (FVME7)

76 The Battle of the Bulge is a Christmas movie.

sort of.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 18, 2021 08:19 PM (BFigT)

77 Christmas in Connecticut is one of my favs.

Posted by: Infidel at December 18, 2021 08:20 PM (qpolg)

78 ||Love that this describes a 1980's movie -- can you imagine reading that synopsis 20 years ago and having any clue what it means?

1973!

Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 08:20 PM (asXVI)

79 >>I don't like The Christmas Story, either.
Posted by: Nova local at December 18, 2021 08:10 PM (exHjb)

It's a sort of dog's-breakfast of Archie Bunker, It's a Wonderful Life, 1980s-jammed-into-1950s somethingsomething Christmas smartass kid cute retro-dumb annoying narrator Peter and the Wolf and the worn-out too-cute-by-half somethingsomethiung.

Easy to dislike.

Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 08:20 PM (M3Z2J)

80
What about the Twilight Zone Christmas episode?

Shirley that is a classic, yes?
Posted by: Soothsayer

The Art Carney Santa?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 18, 2021 08:20 PM (63Dwl)

81 Trailer Park Boys Christmas special was great.

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 18, 2021 08:21 PM (xPl2J)

82 The technology was not aces then. Perhaps it has improved.

Posted by: ZOD

I watch that movie every year just for Yukon Cornelius and the Abombinable Snowman. Those two stole that movie.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 18, 2021 08:21 PM (/7aTk)

83 Rare Exports is a dark comedy/horror/adventure Christmas movie from Finland. Santa Claus has been dug up from a mountain in Lapland and he's not the type to bring you presents. Quirky and enjoyable. In Finnish and English with subtitles.

Posted by: Grainger at December 18, 2021 08:21 PM (BXZmL)

84 Netflix has a movie called A Boy named Christmas. Its a kids movie but one that adults will like too. Saw it with the fam on Thanksgiving weekend and was a good one.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 18, 2021 08:22 PM (zsgTF)

85 Amen...I could also go on, especially about how his wonderful wife is treated like garbage by him for 1/2 the movie...
Posted by: Nova local at December 18, 2021 08:16 PM (exHjb)

right? Donna Reed. Donna. Reed.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 18, 2021 08:18 PM (x8Wzq)

Amazing how people perceive things so different from each other. Neither is wrong of course as it's just opinion.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 08:22 PM (U9Qbt)

86 S.K. Sazall should be S.Z. Sakall

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 18, 2021 08:22 PM (63Dwl)

87 Now I love "Christmas Story", always have. It reminds me of the America I grew up in, which is not the America I live in now.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2021 08:19 PM (evAgx)

Maybe a little before my time, but I get it. I had my Scut Farkus, and my Dad was kind of gruff. But there is a reason it's such an enduring hit. Post WWII Americana.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 18, 2021 08:22 PM (x8Wzq)

88

We're No Angels with Humphrey Bogart is the definitive Christmas movie.

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at December 18, 2021 08:23 PM (hCp26)

89 Trading Places .

Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 08:23 PM (U9Qbt)

90 Maybe I need to watch more movies, especially Christmas movies...

Nah, that way lies madness!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at December 18, 2021 08:23 PM (hOUT3)

91 And if we want nontraditional great Christmas movies, Gremlins does need to make the list...

Posted by: Nova local at December 18, 2021 08:24 PM (exHjb)

92 "The Nightmare Before Christmas", of course. Appropriate for Halloween and Christmas.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 18, 2021 08:24 PM (Dc2NZ)

93 Its a Wonderful Life is waaaay too long. The buildup to the good stuff with the angel could be 1/2 as long and the story would still be the same.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 18, 2021 08:24 PM (zsgTF)

94 Trading Places .
Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 08:23 PM (U9Qbt)

Whoa! Right?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 18, 2021 08:24 PM (x8Wzq)

95 I've never liked A Christmas Story. Bad Santa (the unrated version) is more to my taste. A French film called Deadly Games is an excellent Christmas horror movie from the 80s. Found that one via Joe Bob Briggs.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 18, 2021 08:24 PM (QU5/8)

96 I Am Santa Claus...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRW2poUfJ34

Posted by: Bob Rivers at December 18, 2021 08:24 PM (JH1/x)

97 Post WWII Americana.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 18, 2021 08:22 PM

Funny, but NOW that seems like an idyllic time...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at December 18, 2021 08:25 PM (hOUT3)

98 >>I watch that movie every year just for Yukon Cornelius and the Abombinable Snowman. Those two stole that movie.Posted by: Sharkman at December 18, 2021 08:21 PM (/7aTk)

Absolutely. Also the reindeer coach as Rumsfeld/Gunny Hartmann/Lombardi amalgamation.

Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 08:25 PM (M3Z2J)

99 You could reduce IAWL to the concept that George's vision for his life (not his purpose, but his vision) is completely opposed to Mary's, but Mary wins and George therefore ends up believing he is a failure. It is only the miraculous vision given by Clarence that allows him to see that just because his life was different than he imagined it doesn't make him a failure.

The drama comes from the tension, not from the essentially good times around the most dramatic moments. Remember, up until Potter steals the money, George is doing pretty well.

George's real issue is that he thinks he has to solve everyone else's problems and he therefore can't accept help from others.

Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 08:26 PM (asXVI)

100 "Remember the Night" is my favorite. Just Love it. Stanwyck was just lovely.

Posted by: Tuna at December 18, 2021 08:26 PM (gLRfa)

101 75 L.A. Confidential is a good Christmas movie.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 18, 2021 08:19 PM (FVME7)
76 The Battle of the Bulge is a Christmas movie.

sort of.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 18, 2021 08:19 PM (BFigT)

What makes a movie a "Christmas movie"? I think it requires more than just taking place in late December, it needs to actually be about Christmas, or at least a Christmas-like theme. By that measure, neither of these are Christmas movies.

Nor is "Die Hard".

Posted by: a.moron at December 18, 2021 08:27 PM (F6Xpw)

102 53 We need It's a Wonderful Life II. Angel goes back and convinces Joe Biden to kill himself before he ruins the country and the world.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks No

Sounds brilliant!

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 08:28 PM (ONvIw)

103 A Christmas Story is on TNT right now to be followed by the original How the Grinch Stole Christmas and then A Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 08:28 PM (U9Qbt)

104 Reindeer Games is one of those movies that is hated by most. I liked it a lot and qualified as. Christmas Movie.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 18, 2021 08:28 PM (zsgTF)

105 >>92 Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 18, 2021 08:24 PM (Dc2NZ)

Gamely trying The Expanse, but starting to root for an as-yet-concealed galactic no-nonsense Manson Family.

Please to advise.

Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 08:28 PM (M3Z2J)

106 What ??? The Sea is not included ? I am disappoint...

Posted by: runner at December 18, 2021 08:29 PM (V13WU)

107 103 A Christmas Story is on TNT right now to be followed by the original How the Grinch Stole Christmas and then A Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart.
Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 08:28 PM (U9Qbt)

I like George C Scott much better as Scrooge.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 08:29 PM (ONvIw)

108 97 Post WWII Americana.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 18, 2021 08:22 PM

Funny, but NOW that seems like an idyllic time...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at December 18, 2021 08:25 PM (hOUT3)

Peak America. by far.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2021 08:29 PM (evAgx)

109 99

Yep.And could be told in half the time.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 18, 2021 08:29 PM (zsgTF)

110 I like George C Scott much better as Scrooge.
Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 08:29 PM (ONvIw)

Another great take - see my post above.

His version is the "must see" perfect version...there does not need to be any other, and all the other remakes are lesser...he IS Scrooge...

Posted by: Nova local at December 18, 2021 08:30 PM (exHjb)

111 "White Christmas"

Sisters, sisters, blahblahblahblahblahblah sisters.

Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 08:30 PM (M3Z2J)

112 I Am Santa Claus...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRW2poUfJ34

Posted by: Bob Rivers at December 18, 2021 08:24 PM (JH1/x)

And you're walking round in women's underwear.
https://youtu.be/r9URPvejWHk

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 18, 2021 08:30 PM (xPl2J)

113 Hey, The Lemon Drop Kid has Tor Johnson in it. That should always be mentioned.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 18, 2021 08:30 PM (m0zqP)

114 Actually, I prefer Mr. Magoo to Patrick Stewart

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 08:31 PM (ONvIw)

115 Also, I'm surprised no one has brought up Fatman. Not perfect, but a damn sight better than the usual Hallmark-style Christmas fare.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 18, 2021 08:32 PM (QU5/8)

116 Kinda nice that two of the actors from Casablanca (another wartime movie you all might have heard of...) made it into Christmas in Connecticut.

Posted by: runner at December 18, 2021 08:32 PM (V13WU)

117 Cant believe nobody has said Christmas Vacation yet. Come on people!!

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 18, 2021 08:32 PM (zsgTF)

118 Oh omicrhron, oh omichron,
thy masks are so unchanging.....

Posted by: Eromero at December 18, 2021 08:32 PM (0OP+5)

119 Richard Thomas is a terrible actor and ruined every episode of The Waltons and All Quiet on the Western Front remake.

Ugh.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 18, 2021 08:32 PM (/7aTk)

120 Actually, I prefer Mr. Magoo to Patrick Stewart
Posted by: CN...FJB

Yes.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 18, 2021 08:32 PM (r1z5A)

121 I watched a Christmas movie last year involving an airforce base somewhere around the Solomon Islands that drops presents to the islanders. An attractive black women is commissioned by a white Congress person to gather evidence to shut the base down.
People fall in love. There's kissing. Hearts are softened. The world becomes a better place.
I have no idea what the name of the movie is but I swear I watched it.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at December 18, 2021 08:32 PM (eGTCV)

122 103 A Christmas Story is on TNT right now to be followed by the original How the Grinch Stole Christmas and then A Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 08:28 PM (U9Qbt)

The Patrick Stewart version is my third favorite version of "A Christmas Carol". First is the George C Scott version, with "Scrooged" in second place.

Posted by: a.moron at December 18, 2021 08:32 PM (F6Xpw)

123 110 I like George C Scott much better as Scrooge.
Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 08:29 PM (ONvIw)

Another great take - see my post above.

His version is the "must see" perfect version...there does not need to be any other, and all the other remakes are lesser...he IS Scrooge...

Posted by: Nova local at December 18, 2021 08:30 PM (exHjb)

Hear, hear!

Posted by: Javems at December 18, 2021 08:33 PM (AmoqO)

124 Georg C Scott rulez
no matter what the role!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at December 18, 2021 08:33 PM (hOUT3)

125 Taylor Momsen was Cindy-Lou Who in the Jim Carrey Grinch movie. She's the singer in The pretty Reckless. The band is mostly okay, but her vocals are sexy AF (AF being "As Foretold").

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 18, 2021 08:33 PM (x8Wzq)

126
Also, I'm surprised no one has brought up Fatman.

Didn't like it.

Posted by: Nagasaki at December 18, 2021 08:34 PM (63Dwl)

127 Absolutely. Also the reindeer coach as Rumsfeld/Gunny Hartmann/Lombardi amalgamation.

Posted by: ZOD

Yep. Perfect.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 18, 2021 08:34 PM (/7aTk)

128 I finally saw a new movie I actually liked! (well, it was released in 2020 - new to me, at least)
"15 Things you Didn't Know about Bigfoot (No. 1 will blow your mind!)"

I watched it without any great expectations, and was surprised that it ended up being a lot funnier than I thoght it would be. First hour is pretty slow, lot of dry humor - then after they get kidnapped by the cartel, it starts to go nuts and they up the ante on the crazy every scene.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2021 08:34 PM (evAgx)

129 >>118 Oh omicrhron, oh omichron, thy masks are so unchanging.....Posted by: Eromero at December 18, 2021 08:32 PM (0OP+5)

Yeah. Why are we posting about Christmas movies when we could be posting about COVID?

Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 08:34 PM (M3Z2J)

130 When we had our Christmas Eve buffet for family and friends we had Nightmare before Christmas on TV in the game room before A Christmas Story came on, for the kids. But we always has Its A Wonderful Life on the large screen tv in the family room. People want comfort at Christmas. The other rooms in the house had traditional Christmas carols on. I love Christmas movies, except Elf and Christmas Vacation.

Posted by: Megthered at December 18, 2021 08:34 PM (sfWd9)

131
Yes.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 18, 2021 08:32 PM (r1z5A

And Jack Cassidy as Cratchit was a joy to hear. I loved that version as a kid.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 08:34 PM (ONvIw)

132 121 I watched a Christmas movie last year involving an airforce base somewhere around the Solomon Islands that drops presents to the islanders. An attractive black women is commissioned by a white Congress person to gather evidence to shut the base down.
People fall in love. There's kissing. Hearts are softened. The world becomes a better place.
I have no idea what the name of the movie is but I swear I watched it.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at December 18, 2021 08:32 PM (eGTCV)

Operation Christmas Drop on Netflix?

Posted by: Nova local at December 18, 2021 08:34 PM (exHjb)

133 "His version is the "must see" perfect version...there does not need to be any other, and all the other remakes are lesser...he IS Scrooge..."

Alastair Sim will always be my number one Scrooge. Scott comes damn close though.

Posted by: Tuna at December 18, 2021 08:34 PM (gLRfa)

134 Richard Thomas is a terrible actor and ruined every episode of The Waltons and All Quiet on the Western Front remake.

Ugh.
Posted by: Sharkman at December 18, 2021 08:32 PM (/7aTk)

I always do the Mike Myers focusing on the mole thing.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 18, 2021 08:35 PM (x8Wzq)

135 There's kissing. Hearts are softened. The world becomes a better place.
I have no idea what the name of the movie is but I swear I watched it.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at December 18, 2021 08:32 PM (eGTCV)

Wouldn't by any chance be "Donovan's ReeF" withJohn Wayne, would it? I remember it as a fun movie.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2021 08:35 PM (P3gRi)

136 I'm working the wedding reception for a Jehovah's Witness couple tonight.

I feel a bit like Charlie Murphy telling the Prince story, but y'all ain't gonna believe this, but Jehovah's Witnesses get down!

I've worked probably 100 weddings this year, and I bet this is the most smiles and dancing I've seen all year.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 18, 2021 08:35 PM (e0e6e)

137 I submit that The Godfather is a Christmas movie

Posted by: DB at December 18, 2021 08:35 PM (0KxNW)

138 Also, I'm surprised no one has brought up Fatman. Not perfect, but a damn sight better than the usual Hallmark-style Christmas fare.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

Comment number 10. I love that movie entirely too much.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 18, 2021 08:36 PM (/7aTk)

139 Santa Inc. gonna get no love?

Posted by: Some Rat at December 18, 2021 08:36 PM (r1z5A)

140 I submit that The Godfather is a Christmas movie
Posted by: DB at December 18, 2021 08:35 PM (0KxNW

The Godfather's birthday was December 7th .

Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 08:36 PM (U9Qbt)

141 "Waltons, The Homecoming" Is on you tube. I see someone made a remake for this year, looks like it will be terrible compared to the first one.

Posted by: Jimmy James at December 18, 2021 08:37 PM (4thlk)

142 I always do the Mike Myers focusing on the mole thing.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus

Indeed.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 18, 2021 08:37 PM (/7aTk)

143 Oh omicrhron, oh omichron,
thy masks are so unchanging.....
Posted by: Eromero

The NYT has gone there. Two masks good; three masks better.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 18, 2021 08:37 PM (FVME7)

144 I did not like the latest version where someone pisses on Scrooge's grave because he forced forced Mrs. Cracthit to .....never mind.

Posted by: Javems at December 18, 2021 08:37 PM (AmoqO)

145 Here is impersonator Rich Little's version of A Christmas Story.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-AdkFdOs-Vs

Tinyurl didn't work.

Posted by: Beartooth at December 18, 2021 08:38 PM (J0Lsu)

146 Off Jimmy James

Posted by: lowandslow at December 18, 2021 08:38 PM (4thlk)

147 La grande illusion (1937, War, France): It's just not Christmas for me without a WWI story, and this (the greatest of Jean Renoir films) is the story of French soldiers escaping from a German POW camp.

I had to watch this one twice to fully understand it and catch the nuances. It is a great film, a story of perseverance and comradeship. However, to me it is very sad overall.

Posted by: Gref at December 18, 2021 08:38 PM (AMIL/)

148 Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 18, 2021 08:35 PM (e0e6e)

Because this is the closest they will have to a Christmas party.

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 18, 2021 08:38 PM (xPl2J)

149 ||What ??? The Sea is not included ? I am disappoint...

Sorry, runner! I didn't have time to get to it--it's definitely on my must-see list.

||The Lemon Drop Kid has Tor Johnson in it. That should always be mentioned.

Beckoning, you're right. I am shamed.

Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 08:39 PM (asXVI)

150 I tend to forget The Santa Clause. I do like that one. Tim Allen is likable. And the kid is adorable. And Judge Reinhold gets his weenie whistle.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 18, 2021 08:39 PM (x8Wzq)

151 Richard Thomas is a terrible actor and ruined every episode of The Waltons and All Quiet on the Western Front remake.

-
I thought AQotWF was good.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 18, 2021 08:39 PM (FVME7)

152 Best Version of Christmas Carol - BlackAdder's Christmas Carol, with Mrs. Scratchit, and tiny Tim weighing 16 stone and always having his mouth stuffed full of food.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2021 08:39 PM (evAgx)

153 I also watch Smila's Sense of Snow ("Froken Smillas fornemmelse for sne") 'round this time of year...has intriguing start, features every star possible - Julia Ormond, Jim Broadbent, Gabriel Byrne, Tom Wilkinson, Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Peter Capaldi (!) , yet they are all in cameo/minor character roles and absolutely do not overwhelm. Plot kinda fizzles out a little at the end, but still, the movie is made beautifully. In Copenhagen, maybe Barents sea.

Posted by: runner at December 18, 2021 08:40 PM (V13WU)

154
remember The Brady Bunch Christmas movie?

Was there an earthquake??
And Mike Brady got stuck in an abandoned mine shaft??

And Jan was divorced but didn't tell anyone?
And Bobby got killed while driving race cars?

Posted by: Soothsayer -- "fuck around and find out" at December 18, 2021 08:40 PM (2PSuu)

155 I always liked the TV Rudolph the Red nosed reindeer special. Perhaps because I always mildly felt like a misfit myself so all the misfits becoming the heroes resonated. I like Miracle on 34th street but don't seek it out every year or anything. Just love the scene with the USPS guys bringing in all the letters to Santa Clause during the trial.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 18, 2021 08:40 PM (3cGpq)

156 The NYT has gone there. Two masks good; three masks better.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice!

Why not? One shot, ok, two shots, good, three shots better, yearly shots their goal.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 18, 2021 08:40 PM (r1z5A)

157 Not a Christmas movie, but it seems this time of year I always watch Goodbye Mr. Chips.

Posted by: Infidel at December 18, 2021 08:40 PM (qpolg)

158 Stalag 17

Great movie to me except the Christmas 'party' scene.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 08:40 PM (U9Qbt)

159 Here's a couple of underseen movies that occur at Christmas but aren't really "Christmas movies:

1) "Inside" - insanely violent, insanely great French thriller/horror movie wherein a widow who's pregnant with her dead husband's baby is attacked by a crazy woman who wants...her baby!
Don't let the gore scare you away this is a seriously great thriller/horror movie. Once it gets going it doesn't let up.

2) The Day of the Beast - oddball, black Spanish comedy wherein an ineffectual priest must try and stop the Anti-Christ from being born on Christmas Eve. Weird euro-style comedy that's a lot of fun.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 18, 2021 08:40 PM (5NkmN)

160 it has shopping in NYC, snow, Christmas lights at the hospital where The Don is recuperating, Sonny tells Connie to show Carlo the tree, and Solozzo talks to Tom in a shack next to a Christmas tree stand

Posted by: DB at December 18, 2021 08:41 PM (0KxNW)

161 -it's definitely on my must-see list.

===

You are going to love.it. I promise !

Posted by: runner at December 18, 2021 08:41 PM (V13WU)

162 140 I submit that The Godfather is a Christmas movie
Posted by: DB at December 18, 2021 08:35 PM (0KxNW

The Godfather's birthday was December 7th .

Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 08:36 PM (U9Qbt)

Can you believe those dirty Japs had the nerve to bomb Pearl Harbor on Pop's birthday?

Posted by: Sonny at December 18, 2021 08:41 PM (F6Xpw)

163 December 7th.

Posted by: Just a side note

Pearl Harbor is kind of a Christmas movie, now that I think about it.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 18, 2021 08:41 PM (/7aTk)

164 drama/Mystery

Posted by: runner at December 18, 2021 08:41 PM (V13WU)

165 134 Richard Thomas is a terrible actor and ruined every episode of The Waltons and All Quiet on the Western Front remake.

That version of All Quiet On The Western Front was still, regardless, easily one of the most depressing movies I have ever seen.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 18, 2021 08:41 PM (CdZ4i)

166
The tv series WINGS had two Christmas episodes, both good.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- "fuck around and find out" at December 18, 2021 08:42 PM (2PSuu)

167 A movie that starts on Christmas Eve but is not a Christmas movie is Bell, Book, and Candle. Has some nice moments

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 08:42 PM (ONvIw)

168 I think Die Hard is the onliest movie I've seen on this list.

Is that wrong?

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 18, 2021 08:42 PM (F0YaR)

169 Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer is the best Christmas special, slightly edging out Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas.

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 18, 2021 08:42 PM (xPl2J)

170 129 >>118 Oh omicrhron, oh omichron, thy masks are so unchanging.....Posted by: Eromero at December 18, 2021 08:32 PM (0OP+5)

Yeah. Why are we posting about Christmas movies when we could be posting about COVID?

Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 08:34 PM
Well sir, old omichron ain't given nobody the gift of death as far as I know. That makes old omichron a big pussy, flu-wise. The chinese musta swept that bug up off the floor after it fell off a bat's dick.

Posted by: Eromero at December 18, 2021 08:42 PM (0OP+5)

171 >138 Also, I'm surprised no one has brought up Fatman. Not perfect, but a damn sight better than the usual Hallmark-style Christmas fare.

Santa's got a gun.

Posted by: chris+opher at December 18, 2021 08:42 PM (ckPhE)

172 o/~You have put on your feetie pajamas
It's time for a long winter's nap
There's a knock on the door
A stranger is there
He wants you to sit on his lap

He takes your watch and he gives you a hairbrush
Your wife gets a wig on a chain
He says he can't stay
'Cause he's got a long way to go
And it's starting to rain

Christmas is interesting...~\o

Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 08:42 PM (asXVI)

173 Mr Magoo's Christmas

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 18, 2021 08:42 PM (bzrNB)

174 150 I tend to forget The Santa Clause. I do like that one. Tim Allen is likable. And the kid is adorable. And Judge Reinhold gets his weenie whistle.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 18, 2021 08:39 PM (x8Wzq)

The 1st is a very good movie...it tends to get forgotten b/c the sequels did not live up to the original...

Posted by: Nova local at December 18, 2021 08:43 PM (exHjb)

175 173 Mr Magoo's Christmas
Posted by: Pete Bog at December 18, 2021 08:42 PM (bzrNB)

Love it.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 08:43 PM (ONvIw)

176
The NYT has gone there. Two masks good; three masks better.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

NYT: Stop breathing altogether, best.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at December 18, 2021 08:43 PM (2PSuu)

177 I thought AQotWF was good.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice!

The ending, yeah.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 18, 2021 08:43 PM (/7aTk)

178 I meant all except Julia Ormond and Byrne - she is Froken Smilla, so title character. Byrne is ...well, no spoilers !

Posted by: runner at December 18, 2021 08:43 PM (V13WU)

179 Oh wait, I've seen a couple of Married With Children Christmas themed shows -- Do they count?

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 18, 2021 08:44 PM (F0YaR)

180 I also watch Smila's Sense of Snow

-
I could see a sequel, Hunter's Sense of Snow and Hos.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 18, 2021 08:44 PM (FVME7)

181 George C Scott then original 1938 I think it is

Posted by: Skip at December 18, 2021 08:44 PM (2JoB8)

182 176
The NYT has gone there. Two masks good; three masks better.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

NYT: Stop breathing altogether, best.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- at December 18, 2021 08:43 PM (2PSuu)

So nobody must ever catch a cold again!

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 08:44 PM (ONvIw)

183 I like It's a Wonderful Life. Always find something new upon rewatch.

Posted by: runner at December 18, 2021 08:44 PM (V13WU)

184 Earnest Saves Christmas.

Never saw it.

Posted by: klaftern at December 18, 2021 08:45 PM (taPSh)

185 >>Bell, Book, and Candle. Has some nice moments
Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 08:42 PM (ONvIw)

Contains witchcraft (shuffles through codex) which means that Satan somethingsomething not wholesome something where is the AoS knitting scold when you need them do not be tempted Kim Novak is a harlot somethingorother

Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 08:45 PM (M3Z2J)

186 147 La grande illusion (1937, War, France): It's just not Christmas for me without a WWI story, and this (the greatest of Jean Renoir films) is the story of French soldiers escaping from a German POW camp.

I had to watch this one twice to fully understand it and catch the nuances. It is a great film, a story of perseverance and comradeship. However, to me it is very sad overall.
Posted by: Gref at December 18, 2021 08:38 PM (AMIL/)

Trivia: It almost didn't survive; Hitler personally hated this movie and put a lot of effort into destroying every copy he could find in France after the Nazi's took over. But prints had been sent to London and LA, so he failed. Why did he hate it? Because not only is one of the key characters a Jew, but he is a brave fighting man with a great deal of honor, just like the other French prisoners, and that enraged Hitler.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2021 08:45 PM (evAgx)

187 Every sitcom / TV show has a Christmas episode every year. I just watched a marathon of Bob Burger's Christmas episodes. Love that show.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 08:46 PM (U9Qbt)

188 169 Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer is the best Christmas special, slightly edging out Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas.
Posted by: Mark1971

*perks up*
Otters?

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 18, 2021 08:46 PM (U2p+3)

189 ||The Day of the Beast

Naturalfake--that's a great one. If I'd thought of it as a Christmas movie, I'd have definitely put it in.

||Bell, Book and Candle

CN--I love that one, too, Kim Novak and Jimmy Stewart and they don't end up dead or insane like "Vertigo"...

Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 08:46 PM (asXVI)

190
Contains witchcraft (shuffles through codex) which means that Satan somethingsomething not wholesome something where is the AoS knitting scold when you need them do not be tempted Kim Novak is a harlot somethingorother
Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 08:45 PM (M3Z2J)

But she throws it away for the aging Jimmy Stewart.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 08:47 PM (ONvIw)

191 "Bell Book and Candle" was the direct inspiration for "Bewitched".

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2021 08:47 PM (evAgx)

192 Pfizer says 6 MONTH OLD BABIES may need 3 covid jabs. Any parent that does that should not be allowed to have children.

Posted by: Megthered at December 18, 2021 08:48 PM (sfWd9)

193 That version of All Quiet On The Western Front was still, regardless, easily one of the most depressing movies I have ever seen.

Posted by: Cow Demon

It's definitely a story that stays with you. Too much reading and watching about WWI can really bring you down. Complete waste for no reason that we are still dealing with the consequences of.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 18, 2021 08:48 PM (/7aTk)

194 >>But she throws it away for the aging Jimmy Stewart. Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 08:47 PM (ONvIw)

(Trumpet fanfare)

Sanity is restored.

Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 08:48 PM (M3Z2J)

195
Bob Newhart Show had several Christmas episodes.
Newhart had a Christmas episode.

You can find a lot of these eps on Youtube.

Here's a Mary Tyler Moore's Christmas ep:

https://youtu.be/zN5lcAcev0A

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at December 18, 2021 08:48 PM (2PSuu)

196 Geez, No mention of Meet Me in St. Louis? where Judy sings Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas?

Personally, I wish they had made a full movie of the trailer you see in Scrooged--The Night The Reindeer Died with Lee Majors.

Posted by: whig at December 18, 2021 08:48 PM (9hXN1)

197 Operation Christmas Drop on Netflix?
Posted by: Nova local at December 18, 2021 08:34 PM (exHjb)

That's it.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at December 18, 2021 08:48 PM (eGTCV)

198 Pfizer says 6 MONTH OLD BABIES may need 3 covid jabs. Any parent that does that should not be allowed to have children.
Posted by: Megthered at December 18, 2021 08:48 PM (sfWd9)

Sadly, CPS will not get involved!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at December 18, 2021 08:48 PM (hOUT3)

199 192 Pfizer says 6 MONTH OLD BABIES may need 3 covid jabs. Any parent that does that should not be allowed to have children.
Posted by: Megthered at December 18, 2021 08:48 PM (sfWd9)

Great grandma's health should not be compromised, so what if the kids have heart disease!/s

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 08:49 PM (ONvIw)

200 ||George C Scott then original 1938 I think it is

If the blog weren't literally running on software from 2003, we could have an interesting poll or showdown of "Christmas Carol". The 1938 is the second feature length film, although there are a good ten previous shorts.

It's up there with "Turn of the Screw" for versions. Well over 50.

Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 08:49 PM (asXVI)

201 Gnubreed if you haven't see some of these Christmas movies, no matter of religion they are worth it.

Posted by: Skip at December 18, 2021 08:49 PM (2JoB8)

202 I always liked The Year Without a Santa Claus more than the others. Heat Miser and Snow Miser.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 18, 2021 08:49 PM (x8Wzq)

203 With Lena Wertmuller's death, I rewatched her best movie "Seven Beauties".

She was a 70s style, Italian socialist but this is a brilliant black comedy involving an Italian neerdowell who blunders until he winds up in a German death camp. He is willing to do anything to live, including attempting to seduce the piggish Nazi woman who runs the camp.

The movie begins with what you might call a 70's leftist Sermon on the Mount and gets better and better from there. Mainly, because this Wertmuller movie has minimal socialist drivel and is mostly about personal responsibility for your life and how you live.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 18, 2021 08:49 PM (5NkmN)

204 That version of All Quiet On The Western Front was still, regardless, easily one of the most depressing movies I have ever seen.

Posted by: Cow Demon

Paths of Glory might be worse.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 08:50 PM (U9Qbt)

205 I don't mind sentimental Christmas movies.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at December 18, 2021 08:50 PM (eGTCV)

206 Otters?

Posted by: nurse ratched

D'ja see that the Beavs are playing in the "Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl"?

*FacePalm*

Posted by: Sharkman at December 18, 2021 08:50 PM (/7aTk)

207 Posted by: naturalfake at December 18, 2021 08:49 PM (5NkmN)

One of my very favorite films.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 08:50 PM (ONvIw)

208 nti-Pope Frankie the Commie Pedophile took on the Latin Rite today

What did Frankie do? Revoke the insult for TLM? Got upset that most bishops continued to allow existing TLM parishes to continue? What's he going to do about the English practice personal prelature when he realizes it exists?

Posted by: Fox2! at December 18, 2021 08:50 PM (qyH+l)

209 >If the blog weren't literally running on software from 2003

it's actually steam-powered

Posted by: DB at December 18, 2021 08:50 PM (0KxNW)

210 Pfizer says 6 MONTH OLD BABIES may need 3 covid jabs. Any parent that does that should not be allowed to have children.
Posted by: Megthered

Ahh, the Moloch protocol.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 18, 2021 08:50 PM (FVME7)

211 152 Best Version of Christmas Carol - BlackAdder's Christmas Carol, with Mrs. Scratchit, and tiny Tim weighing 16 stone and always having his mouth stuffed full of food.

Posted by: Tom Servo

Forgot that one. You have to like Black Adder series though.

The Mr. Bean's Christmas is also pretty funny episode.

Posted by: whig at December 18, 2021 08:51 PM (9hXN1)

212 The Human Stain is the most depressing movie I've ever watched to the end.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 08:51 PM (U9Qbt)

213 It's definitely a story that stays with you. Too much reading and watching about WWI can really bring you down. Complete waste for no reason that we are still dealing with the consequences of.
Posted by: Sharkman at December 18, 2021 08:48 PM (/7aTk)

Because muz, there is absolutely no redeeming Christmas theme, but try Afghanistan -
if you are looking for depression...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at December 18, 2021 08:51 PM (hOUT3)

214
Bewitched Christmas ep:

https://youtu.be/fnjQsu8OiF8

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at December 18, 2021 08:51 PM (2PSuu)

215 Paths of Glory might be worse.
Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 08:50 PM (U9Qbt)

That I need to see just because it's a Kubrick movie. The first one, IIRC.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 18, 2021 08:51 PM (CdZ4i)

216 **perks up**
Jug band?

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 18, 2021 08:51 PM (4I/2K)

217 Sharkman.
It's on. Not really paying attention.

Missing my boy in Japanland.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 18, 2021 08:52 PM (U2p+3)

218 Even when I would watch The Waltons I didn't like Richard Thomas.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at December 18, 2021 08:52 PM (eGTCV)

219 For old Christmas movies, The Bishop's Wife is pretty good.

Posted by: lowandslow at December 18, 2021 08:52 PM (4thlk)

220 The Homecoming is my favorite Christmas movie. The homeliest bunch of children ever assembled for a television show, but such a nice story. And Cleavon Little as the Reverend was a gem. You can feel the cold and the poverty watching that movie.

Posted by: windbag at December 18, 2021 08:52 PM (Y+KHr)

221 Pfizer says 6 MONTH OLD BABIES may need 3 covid jabs. Any parent that does that should not be allowed to have children.
Posted by: Megthered

The very definition of "crimes against humanity."

Posted by: Some Rat at December 18, 2021 08:52 PM (r1z5A)

222 I'm working Christmas day so Mrs. E and I already done gifts, will celebrate on Sunday, maybe watch Metropolis.

Posted by: Eromero at December 18, 2021 08:52 PM (0OP+5)

223 Alastair Sim will always be my number one Scrooge. Scott comes damn close though.

Posted by: Tuna at December 18, 2021 08:34 PM (gLRfa)

Over the years, I have collected (and watched) most of the Christmas Carol movies. Alastair Sim is my favorite Scrooge, even though his movie departed a lot from the original story. Patrick Stewart has the closest physical resemblance, and his movie followed the story pretty closely, if I remember correctly. I guess I'll have to re-watch them all this year.

Posted by: HTL at December 18, 2021 08:53 PM (81EcS)

224
Pfizer will soon recommend that all pets be "vaccinated."

Why not? Who's going to tell them no?

Posted by: Soothsayer -- "fuck around and find out" at December 18, 2021 08:53 PM (2PSuu)

225 Man, "Barracuda" came on the radio, and my 2yo started going crazy, waving her arms, and then climbed up in my lap and started clapping and squealing.

Heart's not really my thing, but maybe I need to buy an album.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 18, 2021 08:53 PM (2ABQr)

226 Notice that no one mentioned Love Actually. In parts it is brilliant but uneven. Bill Nighy steals the show.

Posted by: whig at December 18, 2021 08:53 PM (9hXN1)

227 >>199 192 Pfizer says 6 MONTH OLD BABIES may need 3 covid jabs. Posted by: Megthered at December 18, 2021 08:48 PM (sfWd9)

[ ] "It's poison, Mr. Gower, I tell ya, it's poison!"
[ ] "And no gin, son, not one drop."
[x] "Every time a child gets an injection of robonucleic acid, an angel gets its wings."

Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 08:53 PM (M3Z2J)

228 saw A Holiday Affair" on tCM with Robert MItchum and Janet Leigh. Made in 1949 and quite good. Christmas is somewhat incidental to the plot, which centers around a WW2 widow and her young son. She's got a job as a comparison shopper and a beau, until Mitchum comes into her life.
Interesting how frankly it referred to her extended mourning and reluctance to move on. She was incredibly appealing, Mitchum is very likeable and the young boy actor was remarkable. plus set in NYC in 1949.

Posted by: vivi at December 18, 2021 08:53 PM (USW1s)

229 Good list. Add Die Hard as an inter-course sorbet.

Posted by: mot at December 18, 2021 08:54 PM (FmeBQ)

230 Top 5 Omicron Infection Symptoms in the UK (so far):
1. Runny nose
2. Headache
3. Fatigue
4. Sneezing
5. Sore Throat
https://youtu.be/y1nqQOn6Rbc

It's the worst thing imaginable! Make your peace with your Maker.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 18, 2021 08:54 PM (4I/2K)

231 ||"Bell Book and Candle" was the direct inspiration for "Bewitched".

As was the 1940 Veronica Lake/Fred March "I Married A Witch" (based on the incomplete story left by Thorne Smith, who wrote "Topper").

||Geez, No mention of Meet Me in St. Louis? where Judy sings Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas?

One of my favorites, but not really forgotten. Eh, can't get 'em all in one post.

Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 08:54 PM (asXVI)

232 Ahh, the Moloch protocol.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 18, 2021 08:50 PM (FVME7)

Oh, Moloch has been resting, but he has always been with us, and now he is back ready to recreate his former glory!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at December 18, 2021 08:55 PM (hOUT3)

233 It's the worst thing imaginable! Make your peace with your Maker.
Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 18, 2021 08:54 PM (4I/2K)

It sounds like a fucking cold

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 08:55 PM (ONvIw)

234 Pfizer will soon recommend that all pets be "vaccinated."

Why not? Who's going to tell them no?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- "fuck around and find out"

Hell, paid per dose, your vegetables will be ordered to get the jab.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 18, 2021 08:55 PM (r1z5A)

235 Beautiful Girls is a Christmas movie.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 08:55 PM (U9Qbt)

236 I don't remember ever seeing a Liberace Christmas special.

RIP Lee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 18, 2021 08:55 PM (R/m4+)

237 >Top 5 Omicron Infection Symptoms in the UK (so far):
1. Runny nose
2. Headache
3. Fatigue
4. Sneezing
5. Sore Throat

so, a cold, basically

Posted by: DB at December 18, 2021 08:56 PM (0KxNW)

238 There was a legitimate WWI Christmas movie about the unauthorized 1914 Christmas truce, Joyeux Noel.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 18, 2021 08:56 PM (FVME7)

239 Wow, no Mention of 'White Christmas" Really?

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 18, 2021 08:56 PM (oHd/0)

240 Pfizer will soon recommend that all pets be "vaccinated."

Why not? Who's going to tell them no?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- "fuck around and find out"

My Bogle is staying with ivermectin, sorry you bastard CEO of Pfizer ESAD

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 08:56 PM (ONvIw)

241 237 >Top 5 Omicron Infection Symptoms in the UK (so far):
1. Runny nose
2. Headache
3. Fatigue
4. Sneezing
5. Sore Throat

so, a cold, basically
Posted by: DB at December 18, 2021 08:56 PM (0KxNW)

Covid IS a Rhino Virus, just like the Common Cold.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 18, 2021 08:57 PM (oHd/0)

242 Why not? Who's going to tell them no?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- "fuck around and find out" at December 18, 2021 08:53 PM (2PSuu)

Well, for two, Conor and I just might have a contrarian attitude!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at December 18, 2021 08:57 PM (hOUT3)

243 212 The Human Stain is the most depressing movie I've ever watched to the end.
Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 08:51 PM (U9Qbt)

Should be subtitled "The Brian Stelter Story".

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2021 08:58 PM (evAgx)

244 There was a legitimate WWI Christmas movie about the unauthorized 1914 Christmas truce, Joyeux Noel.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 18, 2021 08:56 PM (FVME7)

This is a good movie.

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 18, 2021 08:58 PM (xPl2J)

245 230 Top 5 Omicron Infection Symptoms in the UK (so far):
1. Runny nose
2. Headache
3. Fatigue
4. Sneezing
5. Sore Throat
https://youtu.be/y1nqQOn6Rbc

It's the worst thing imaginable! Make your peace with your Maker.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 18, 2021 08:54 PM
Ha! They left out farting. This whole thing is fake.

Posted by: Eromero at December 18, 2021 08:58 PM (0OP+5)

246 Vaxxed in utero

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 18, 2021 08:58 PM (63Dwl)

247 Notice that no one mentioned Love Actually. In parts it is brilliant but uneven. Bill Nighy steals the show.

My wife really likes it, so I see it once a year. I can don't hate it. As chick flicks go, it's watchable.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 18, 2021 08:58 PM (QU5/8)

248 Top 5 Omicron Infection Symptoms in the UK (so far):
1. Runny nose
2. Headache
3. Fatigue
4. Sneezing
5. Sore Throat

My gawd! I've had covid my whole life!

Posted by: Some Rat at December 18, 2021 08:58 PM (r1z5A)

249 Top 5 Omicron Infection Symptoms in the UK (so far):
1. Runny nose
2. Headache
3. Fatigue
4. Sneezing
5. Sore Throat

-
I call that "Waking Up In the Morning."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 18, 2021 08:58 PM (FVME7)

250 There was a legitimate WWI Christmas movie about the unauthorized 1914 Christmas truce, Joyeux Noel.

Looks intriguing. subtitles ? I think "yes".

Posted by: runner at December 18, 2021 08:59 PM (V13WU)

251 I had the wuflu and it was a bad cold with a congestion that just would not move for a few days, then it did and resolved. I lost a little smell, but not much, and had some palpitations toward the end and was tired. I'm 64 and survived quite nicely. Pfuck Pfizer

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 08:59 PM (ONvIw)

252 Covid IS a Rhino Virus, just like the Common Cold.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 18, 2021 08:57 PM (oHd/0)

It's a Corona virus but is responsible for colds along with rhino viruses.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 08:59 PM (U9Qbt)

253 "We're No Angels"
Aldo Ray, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov

Christmas on Devils Island with the above, nothing better!

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at December 18, 2021 09:00 PM (BgMrQ)

254 Watching A Christmas Story, my kids would not go see Santa, which made my mom crazy. They refused to go near him so she never got the ridiculous pictures with Santa.

Posted by: Megthered at December 18, 2021 09:00 PM (sfWd9)

255 Apollo 8, the best Christmas movie ever.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 18, 2021 09:00 PM (DO6+w)

256 I feel like some of you guys are trolling me with this.

||Wow, no Mention of 'White Christmas" Really?

Not only did I mention it last year, I mentioned at the top of the post THIS year.

Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 09:00 PM (asXVI)

257 Hey Nurse,,

Snap out of it. Be proud of your son and his service. Beats being blue.

Then get drunk and yell at the beavers and the refs.

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 18, 2021 09:00 PM (bzrNB)

258
Someone should parody the The Twelve Days of Christmas song with the...

Twelve Hundred Days of the Pandemic

...and Five Vaccine Jabs!
...four karens calling the manager
...three face masks
...two...

oh fuckit

Posted by: Soothsayer -- "fuck around and find out" at December 18, 2021 09:00 PM (2PSuu)

259 There was a legitimate WWI Christmas movie about the unauthorized 1914 Christmas truce, Joyeux Noel.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 18, 2021 08:56 PM (FVME7)

This is a good movie.
Posted by: Mark1971 at December 18, 2021 08:58 PM (xPl2J)

As is Christmas Bells
https://youtu.be/sh-J4GSPgAM

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 18, 2021 09:00 PM (4I/2K)

260 looking though list of top 100 xmas movies , Batman Returns is on it. It was one of the better Batman movies. Directed by Tim Burton. So, yeah...

Posted by: runner at December 18, 2021 09:01 PM (V13WU)

261 Pfizer says 6 MONTH OLD BABIES may need 3 covid jabs. Any parent that does that should not be allowed to have children.

Effectively that is what happens. If a jabbed woman can miraculously carry the child to term, then the survivor gets jabbed three times, the infant will likely vapor lock from the toxin.

This is how they are going to get around any possible ending of Roe v Wade. They just abort your children shortly within any of the three shots.

Remember, they can flat out murder you and there is no criminal or civil repercussion !

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 18, 2021 09:02 PM (+LCoQ)

262 geez, I was going to ask why anybody needs to watch any movie more than 1 time.

then the covid fairies wandered in to yammer about the same thing they do every day, every thread.

Posted by: confederatefifth at December 18, 2021 09:02 PM (xj4N4)

263 The ending of Flesh and the Devil (Garbo and Gilbert) was sort of Christmassy with a lovely snowy winter ending. The best friends about to fight over the devil herself throw down their guns and hug, while Greta dies like Frankenstein's monster falling through the ice. Beautiful.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 09:02 PM (ONvIw)

264 I submit that The Apartment is a Christmas movie.

Posted by: runner at December 18, 2021 09:02 PM (V13WU)

265 255 Apollo 8, the best Christmas movie ever.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 18, 2021 09:00 PM (
Sadly, the mohamadan version of today's NASA would never let that happen.

Posted by: Eromero at December 18, 2021 09:02 PM (0OP+5)

266 Pope frankie is an embarrassment.

Posted by: Infidel at December 18, 2021 09:02 PM (qpolg)

267 Looks intriguing. subtitles ? I think "yes".
Posted by: runner

Yes.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 18, 2021 09:03 PM (FVME7)

268 holiday inn > white christmas

but, both are good

Christmas in ct is not bad

Posted by: confederatefifth at December 18, 2021 09:03 PM (xj4N4)

269 256 I feel like some of you guys are trolling me with this. ||Wow, no Mention of 'White Christmas" Really?
Not only did I mention it last year, I mentioned at the top of the post THIS year. Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 09:00 PM (asXVI)

"White Christmas" was succinctly addressed at 111.

Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 09:03 PM (M3Z2J)

270 253- agree. Loved it. Ustinov was awesome. Aldo Ray, Awesome. Bogart, awesome.

also Mr Magoo was the best Scrooge. Why don't they show it anymore? It had great songs! "ringle, tingle, coins when they jingle make such a lovely sound..."

and Nutcracker Suite is a Christmas....thing.

Posted by: vivi at December 18, 2021 09:03 PM (USW1s)

271 Watching A Christmas Story, my kids would not go see Santa, which made my mom crazy. They refused to go near him so she never got the ridiculous pictures with Santa.
Posted by: Megthered at December 18, 2021 09:00 PM (sfWd9)

Saw a picture of a toddler kid sitting with Santa and the caption below said, "We taught our baby to sign, and here she is signing 'help'. You are welcome."

Posted by: Kindltot at December 18, 2021 09:04 PM (ZMraq)

272 then the covid fairies wandered in to yammer about the same thing they do every day, every thread.
Posted by: confederatefifth

It's the new "boobies".

Posted by: Some Rat at December 18, 2021 09:04 PM (r1z5A)

273 ||Flesh and the Devil (Garbo and Gilbert)

I'll finish up my silent series in 2022. This one is in the next installment.

Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 09:04 PM (asXVI)

274
I was going to ask why anybody needs to watch any movie more than 1 time.

My Dad used to say that. I asked him if he ever listened to a song more than once.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 18, 2021 09:04 PM (63Dwl)

275 also Mr Magoo was the best Scrooge. Why don't they show it anymore? It had great songs! "ringle, tingle, coins when they jingle make such a lovely sound..."

and Nutcracker Suite is a Christmas....thing.
Posted by: vivi at December 18, 2021 09:03 PM (USW1s)

Magoo was easily findable on Youtube. Also they should have given Magoo the Streisand song "People", and saved us from babs

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 09:04 PM (ONvIw)

276 Personally, I wish they had made a full movie of the trailer you see in Scrooged--The Night The Reindeer Died with Lee Majors.
Posted by: whig

"You've been an awfully good boy this year, Lee," Santa Claus

"Uh, thanks, Santa," Lee Majors, grimaces...

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at December 18, 2021 09:05 PM (tjZg/)

277 it is funny that there is so much bitching about holiday inn, with the black maid and the black face routine.

nobody ever mentins that the black maid was getting paid the same as everybody at the inn, with a share of the profits, the same way movie stars are paid today.

Posted by: confederatefifth at December 18, 2021 09:05 PM (xj4N4)

278 "Not only did I mention it last year, I mentioned at the top of the post THIS year."
Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 09:00 PM (asXVI)

You must know us by now.

Posted by: lowandslow at December 18, 2021 09:05 PM (4thlk)

279 "I was going to ask why anybody needs to watch any movie more than 1 time. "

Nostalgia. Most of the older movies I saw as a child and they strike that nostalgic chord. Happy carefree times

Posted by: Tuna at December 18, 2021 09:06 PM (gLRfa)

280 Richard Thomas did a campy outer space version of The Magnificent Seven.

Posted by: davidt at December 18, 2021 09:06 PM (JH1/x)

281
I'll finish up my silent series in 2022. This one is in the next installment.
Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 09:04 PM (asXVI)

The ending was great, how the veil is lifted and they don't even know the bitch is dead

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 09:06 PM (ONvIw)

282 Gamely trying The Expanse, but starting to root for an as-yet-concealed galactic no-nonsense Manson Family.

Please to advise.

Posted by: ZOD

Reading the 9 book series that just ended with the last novel dropping two weeks ago, or watching the 6 season series?

The books are magnificent though the final one was a bit of a let down, but I suppose I should have expected that as much as I enjoyed them these last 10 years.

The series is a far better adaptation than I ever expected and they are just ending the story after book 6.

Both well worth the effort. And I was kinda rooting for the "tween the molecules mass murderers" a little, too. The humans are so fucking stubborn they never learn a single lesson from all their tragedy.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 18, 2021 09:06 PM (/7aTk)

283 My Dad used to say that. I asked him if he ever listened to a song more than once.
Posted by: B

in fairness, were it not for the radio I never would have

Posted by: confederatefifth at December 18, 2021 09:06 PM (xj4N4)

284 Looks intriguing. subtitles ? I think "yes".

Posted by: runner at December 18, 2021 08:59 PM (V13WU)

Mostly. All the soldiers speak in their native tongue. No subtitles needed for the Scottish.

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 18, 2021 09:06 PM (xPl2J)

285 then the covid fairies wandered in to yammer about the same thing they do every day, every thread.
Posted by: confederatefifth at December 18, 2021 09:02 PM (xj4N4)

-----------

Your scroll wheel broken?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 18, 2021 09:07 PM (eA1RV)

286 I would make the argument the more you watch it the better you like it.
OK, except Battle of the Bulge is so bad it can't be missed

Posted by: Skip at December 18, 2021 09:07 PM (2JoB8)

287 The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas was a childhood favorite. The bear was named Theodore Edward Bear (Ted E. Bear, for those on their 20th drink of the day).

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 18, 2021 09:07 PM (CAJOC)

288 Gamely trying The Expanse, but starting to root for an as-yet-concealed galactic no-nonsense Manson Family.

Please to advise.

Posted by: Z

it is shit

it has enjoyed some viewership because everything is shittier

if you were thinking you would watch it and be glad you did, you will not

Posted by: confederatefifth at December 18, 2021 09:07 PM (xj4N4)

289 Long shot - I remember a movie, made in the late 80s I expect, a comedy, but I don't remember the plot too much.

What was really clever, and I don't know how they did it, they would lead you into thinking it was about the military, or they were in the Army, something like that.

They'd break the third wall, then two of the actors would say "Yeah, but we're not in the Army". My jaw dropped. Then resume the movie.

And then suck you right in again. "Yeah, but we're not in the military". They did this a few times. It was really clever, or at least I thought at the time. Ring a bell with anybody?

Posted by: Common Tater at December 18, 2021 09:08 PM (uzvcg)

290 Lovely and Talented Mrs. is off to watch the Nutcracker Sweet at the opera house with a couple of her friends I'm taking advantage of this quiet time alone to watch football and make trenchant social commentary while periodically dozing.

What a great evening.

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 18, 2021 09:08 PM (bzrNB)

291 Apollo 8, the best Christmas movie ever.
Posted by: Anna Puma

I slept on the couch everyday after the launch, and was watching during the night broadcasts on the networks.
People today can't imagine the excitement that surrounded that.

Reading from Genesis on Christmas Eve, 1968, as they orbited the Moon. Yeah, that was maybe the best Christmas of my life.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at December 18, 2021 09:08 PM (tjZg/)

292 "Remember the Night" is my favorite. Just Love it. Stanwyck was just lovely.

Posted by: Tuna at December 18, 2021 08:26 PM (gLRfa)

It's a great film. Starts with a silly setup, then goes about being a quite mature and ultimately hopeful film about love and redemption.

Particularly jarring is when Stanwyck goes back to see her mom, and we get a glimpse of how she turned out the way she did. Then McMurray rather naively asks about her father, and she gets a look on her face, and says something to the effect of "don't go there."

Yes, they knew about this stuff back then. Maybe better than we do today.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 18, 2021 09:08 PM (riNnz)

293 Your scroll wheel broken?
Posted by: D

is it that nobody outside the hq wants to hear your thoughts?

Posted by: confederatefifth at December 18, 2021 09:08 PM (xj4N4)

294 Yammer on!

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 18, 2021 09:08 PM (4I/2K)

295 You left out We're No Angels? Please please go watch it. Humprey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov. "After you, lout."

Posted by: Nancy at 7000 ft at December 18, 2021 09:09 PM (0tmoY)

296 268 holiday inn > white christmas

but, both are good

Posted by: confederatefifth at December 18, 2021 09:03 PM (xj4N4)

"Holiday Inn" didn't have Bing Crosby tap dancing with Danny Fucking Kay.

Posted by: a.moron at December 18, 2021 09:09 PM (F6Xpw)

297 Watched Die Hard w/ the GF today. It's just as good today as when it came out.

Posted by: redchief at December 18, 2021 09:10 PM (Kab4E)

298 A Midnight Clear is set during the Battle of the Bulge and concerns a burns out and demoralized reconaissance and intelligence squad. Early out for several up and coming actors, Gary Sinise, John C. McGinley, Ethan Hawke.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 18, 2021 09:10 PM (FVME7)

299 >OK, except Battle of the Bulge is so bad it can't be missed

it is so bad

Posted by: DB at December 18, 2021 09:10 PM (0KxNW)

300 It's the new "boobies".
Posted by: S

boobies are nothing but joy and warmth

the vikings told stories of valhalla where the warriors were surrounded by nakd winsome viking women with hube boobs, holding puppies

Posted by: confederatefifth at December 18, 2021 09:10 PM (xj4N4)

301 Pope frankie is an embarrassment.

Posted by: Infidel

He's also not the pope. B16 did not validly resign the office under canon law. F has no authority to bind the Church and he needs to be sent back to Satan from whence he spewed.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 18, 2021 09:11 PM (/7aTk)

302 is it that nobody outside the hq wants to hear your thoughts?
Posted by: confederatefifth at December 18, 2021 09:08 PM (xj4N4)

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If you don't like some commenters, simply scroll past them. It's so easy even you can do it.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 18, 2021 09:11 PM (eA1RV)

303 "Holiday Inn" didn't have Bing Crosby tap dancing with Danny Fucking Kay.

is an argument for or against holiday inn?

Posted by: confederatefifth at December 18, 2021 09:11 PM (xj4N4)

304 Have a non Christmas movie I watched on YouTube
April 9, A Danish film of day Nazis invaded Denmark
https://youtu.be/Q9xHq7NmWUs
Somehow they have Pzkw Mk1 and IIs, how did they do it?
CGI or real?
Good movie

Posted by: Skip at December 18, 2021 09:11 PM (2JoB8)

305 Yammer On!

Wasn't that a Led Zeppelin song?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 18, 2021 09:12 PM (DO6+w)

306 I slept on the couch everyday after the launch, and was watching during the night broadcasts on the networks.
People today can't imagine the excitement that surrounded that.

Reading from Genesis on Christmas Eve, 1968, as they orbited the Moon. Yeah, that was maybe the best Christmas of my life.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative

It was a great time to grow up! I remember the teacher rolled a tv in the class room to watch a launch. Had never seen an old B & W tv in a classroom before.

Posted by: Infidel at December 18, 2021 09:12 PM (qpolg)

307 ||You must know us by now.

Yeah, you guys are my little stocking stuffers. Every year, I get an orange, and I say, "Ma! What's the deal with the orange? Am I Tiny Tim now? Make with the PS5, Ma!"

Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 09:12 PM (asXVI)

308 If you don't like some commenters, simply scroll past them. It's so easy even you can do it.
Posted by: D

thanks! if I need any more advice about anything it is good to know you are here.

Posted by: confederatefifth at December 18, 2021 09:12 PM (xj4N4)

309 >>watching the 6 season series? Posted by: Sharkman at December 18, 2021 09:06 PM (/7aTk)

Yes. Also re-watching 'Dexter' and wondering why he wasn't mounting his maximum cute girlfriend, Rita, like every five minutes (until she gets bled out in the tub).

"Dexter: New Blood" is not very good. Too many young people babbling.

Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 09:13 PM (M3Z2J)

310 Another lesser known Christmas special was The Tiny Tree. A sentient tree, and a bunch of woodland creatures, go all out to help a sick young girl.

There is a weird scene, though, where a vegetarian hawk is starving due to lack of berries, and starts hallucinating that one of the woodland creatures is a giant berry.

There's also a musical ode to the clarinet.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 18, 2021 09:14 PM (CAJOC)

311 have I mentined that somebody ate our linzer tortes?

Posted by: confederatefifth at December 18, 2021 09:14 PM (xj4N4)

312 You can always count on me.

Posted by: Turbo Man at December 18, 2021 09:14 PM (4I/2K)

313 Robert Mitchum was the original proposed lead of "Susan Slept Here". That would've been different.

Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 09:14 PM (asXVI)

314 262 geez, I was going to ask why anybody needs to watch any movie more than 1 time."

I usually only watch a movie once - the few that I can see over and over have got to have a fantastic soundtrack, pieces like Ben Hur or Oh Brother Where Art Thou. I've seen both of those at least 20 times, but watching them is like listening to a favorite music album.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2021 09:14 PM (evAgx)

315 Frankie is not my pope.

Posted by: vivi at December 18, 2021 09:14 PM (USW1s)

316
It was a great time to grow up! I remember the teacher rolled a tv in the class room to watch a launch. Had never seen an old B & W tv in a classroom before.
Posted by: Infidel

We had a TV on a cart to watch the JFK funeral.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 18, 2021 09:15 PM (63Dwl)

317 Both well worth the effort. And I was kinda rooting for the "tween the molecules mass murderers" a little, too. The humans are so fucking stubborn they never learn a single lesson from all their tragedy.
Posted by: Sharkman at December 18, 2021 09:06 PM (/7aTk)
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Yes. Mainly the antifa rock-jumpers. I am at the point where I want to vaporize the entire lot of them.

Zod, you are starting with the first season, right?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 18, 2021 09:15 PM (Dc2NZ)

318 There's also a musical ode to the clarinet.
Posted by: No One of Consequence

You took the brown acid, didn't you?

Posted by: Infidel at December 18, 2021 09:15 PM (qpolg)

319 Robert Mitchum was the original proposed lead of "Susan Slept Here". That would've been different.
Posted by: m

it is hard to see him being referrrd to as sue

Posted by: confederatefifth at December 18, 2021 09:15 PM (xj4N4)

320 >>314 262 geez, I was going to ask why anybody needs to watch any movie more than 1 time."

Why do birds suddenly appear.

Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 09:15 PM (M3Z2J)

321 Snap out of it. Be proud of your son and his service. Beats being blue.

Then get drunk and yell at the beavers and the refs.
Posted by: Pete Bog

Thank you for the reminder.
Oorah!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 18, 2021 09:16 PM (U2p+3)

322 Just like me,
They long to be

Close to youuuuuhhh

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 18, 2021 09:16 PM (U2p+3)

323 318 There's also a musical ode to the clarinet.
Posted by: No One of Consequence

You took the brown acid, didn't you?
Posted by: Infidel at December 18, 2021 09:15 PM (qpolg)

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Honestly, that might have helped.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 18, 2021 09:16 PM (CAJOC)

324 I hate A Christmas Story, I probably couldn't write an essay on it, I've never seen it. Clips and snippets and quotes here and there have crept into my knowledge through the cultural miasma and have given me a sampling (accurate or inaccurate I don't know) of what seems to me its basic moral and aesthetic worldview, and I reject and despise that view. So watching it never seemed needed or desirable.

Anyone else ever had that experience/make a judgement like that?

(Also, I love It's a Wonderful Life. I probably could write an essay on why)

Posted by: .87c at December 18, 2021 09:17 PM (SuEpf)

325 Ooh Rah Nurse! Marine son is driving from LeJuene to here on Tuesday.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 18, 2021 09:17 PM (eA1RV)

326
Close to youuuuuhhh
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 18, 2021 09:16 PM (U2p+3)

Poor old Karen Carpenter

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 09:17 PM (ONvIw)

327 "The Tiny Tree"--yeah, I was just queueing that up when I had to finalize the post.

Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 09:17 PM (asXVI)

328 If you don't like some commenters, simply scroll past them. It's so easy even you can do it.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 18, 2021 09:11 PM (eA1RV)

Duke, You make it sound so easy...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at December 18, 2021 09:17 PM (hOUT3)

329 Honestly, that might have helped.
Posted by: No One of Consequence

Heh, I laughed out loud.

Posted by: Infidel at December 18, 2021 09:18 PM (qpolg)

330 Eris, nuclear scourge of the space ways?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 18, 2021 09:18 PM (DO6+w)

331 Poor old Karen Carpenter
Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 09:17 PM (ONvIw)

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Always thought her voice was a bit thin.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 18, 2021 09:18 PM (eA1RV)

332 >>Zod, you are starting with the first season, right?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 18, 2021 09:15 PM (Dc2NZ)

Yep. So, there's militant Mars, UN-occupied Earth (WTF), and "the Belt." Those alignments are fine, but getting past the...nevermind. I'll lean in on it for a season.

I wasn't a Game of Thrones fan. Maybe that's a benchmark...

Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 09:18 PM (M3Z2J)

333 So what color are all the big monopoly players? Weaponizing low bandwidth brains into a deadly drones.

Reminds me of that insane man that drove over people. He likes hitler.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at December 18, 2021 09:19 PM (66yNo)

334 I hate A Christmas Story, I probably couldn't write an essay on it, I've never seen it. Clips and snippets and quotes here and there have crept into my knowledge through the cultural miasma and have given me a sampling (accurate or inaccurate I don't know) of what seems to me its basic moral and aesthetic worldview, and I reject and despise that view. So watching it never seemed needed or desirable.

Anyone else ever had that experience/make a judgement like that?

I was just thinking it was not a good movie

it is the same as cilantro, I know it is disgusting, I do not need to think the why

Posted by: confederatefifth at December 18, 2021 09:19 PM (xj4N4)

335 331- you guys!!!!!

Posted by: vivi at December 18, 2021 09:19 PM (USW1s)

336 Always thought her voice was a bit thin.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 18, 2021 09:18 PM (eA1RV)

Never my favorite, that's for sure. I always though the deep voice was exaggerated.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 09:19 PM (ONvIw)

337 ||319 Robert Mitchum was the original proposed lead of "Susan Slept Here". That would've been different.
Posted by: m

it is hard to see him being referrrd to as sue||

Damn wokies. Whites can't play asians! Straights can't play gays! Middle-aged tough guys can't play innocent teenage girls!

It's called ACTING.

Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 09:19 PM (asXVI)

338 Wow, 1977 was a pretty sweet year for music.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 18, 2021 09:19 PM (2ABQr)

339 Wow, a shrunken apple head Vincent Price doll? I want.

Joe Bob Briggs says, "Check it out!" indeed.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 18, 2021 09:19 PM (ZSK0i)

340 Over the years, I have collected (and watched) most of the Christmas Carol movies. Alastair Sim is my favorite Scrooge, even though his movie departed a lot from the original story.

Have you see the 1971 animated 'A Christmas Carol' where Alastair Sim repeated his portrayal of Scrooge, but as the voice actor? It's only half an hour, so the story is quite abbreviated, but the animation is very imaginative, and creepy as hell. Marley's Ghost was this staring horror with his mouth hanging wide open and not moving as his voice came out! It's almost too scary for little kids; I saw it on TV when it came out and I must have been 12 or so, and it scared me. It's on YouTube, I'm pretty sure.

Posted by: Dr. Mabusette at December 18, 2021 09:19 PM (SiLro)

341 What the fuck?

Just when I was about to cut you an amazing amount of slack for "La Grande Illusion" (top 50 greatest movies of all time), I saw that you didn't choose "Love Actually" as a solid, sweet, well acted Christmas movie!

Ignoring the treacly story, those Brits can act.

What? Yes...you are correct. By far the worst actor in the entire cast is...wait for it...AN AMERICAN!

Laura Linney was awful. But everyone else was excellent.

Go to your room.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 18, 2021 09:19 PM (Q9lwr)

342 is it that nobody outside the hq wants to hear your thoughts?
Posted by: confederatefifth at December 18, 2021 09:08 PM (xj4N4)

Have you tried wrapping tinfoil around your head? That is supposed to keep people from hearing your thoughts.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 18, 2021 09:19 PM (ZMraq)

343 >>Always thought her voice was a bit thin.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 18, 2021 09:18 PM (eA1RV)

Clever.

Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 09:20 PM (M3Z2J)

344 Why do birds suddenly appear.
Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 09:15 PM (M3Z2J)

Why do turds

Suddenly appear,

In my drawers,

When I am here?

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 18, 2021 09:20 PM (P3gRi)

345 So basically Belters, Goldskins, and Flatlanders

Just need a Pak Protector

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 18, 2021 09:20 PM (DO6+w)

346 Wow, 1977 was a pretty sweet year for music.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 18, 2021 09:19 PM (2ABQr)

It was the death of disco, and the first shimmers of something new.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 18, 2021 09:20 PM (ZMraq)

347 Clever.
Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 09:20 PM (M3Z2J)

I missed that, because her voice wasn't much.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 09:21 PM (ONvIw)

348 320 >>314 262 geez, I was going to ask why anybody needs to watch any movie more than 1 time."

Why do birds suddenly appear.

Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 09:15 PM
I was overseas and my child bride (before current Mrs. E) sent me a list of top songs Carpenters Close To You was one and another was ABC by something called Jackson Five. Oddly enough, both outfits had a starving person out front.

Posted by: Eromero at December 18, 2021 09:21 PM (0OP+5)

349 Notice that no one mentioned Love Actually. In parts it is brilliant but uneven. Bill Nighy steals the show.

Posted by: whig at December 18, 2021 08:53 PM (9hXN1)

Pay to the order of: Whig.

One "Get Out Of Jail Free" card.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 18, 2021 09:21 PM (Q9lwr)

350 Have you tried wrapping tinfoil around your head? That is supposed to keep people from hearing your thoughts.
Posted by: Kindltot

reading is fundamental, what I wrote and what you understood, not the same

misquoting is the hallmark of the dishonest

Posted by: confederatefifth at December 18, 2021 09:21 PM (xj4N4)

351 Always thought her voice was a bit thin.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 18, 2021 09:18 PM (eA1RV)

Oh, that's cold. LOL.

My wife loves her. She can sing all her songs.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 18, 2021 09:21 PM (2ABQr)

352 I don't get the hate for "A Christmas Story".

It's a very well observed Christmas movie about kids who act like kids and parents who act like parents. Though the shenanigans are exaggerated for comedic effect, the characters are dead on.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 18, 2021 09:21 PM (5NkmN)

353 I'm just the opposite. I probably have 20 movies that I've watched over a dozen times.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 09:22 PM (U9Qbt)

354 Yeah, Apollo 8 is arguably the pinnacle for US. After that, the actual moon landing was a foregone conclusion.

Apollo 8 was the first time humans had left the earth. Huge ballsy move by NASA, they hadn't planned to do it, but the Lunar Module was experiencing delays in delivery. So they decided "F It", so to speak, and decided earth orbit was wasting time, and get a headstart on the Soviets who were rumored by CIA to be getting a manned moon mission going.

And they did it on Christmas Eve. I vaguely remember watching it, they had a primetime or bit later TV Broadcast. I do recall my Grandfather crying, and I couldn't figure out why. Now I know why. The reading from Genesis still gives me chills every frigging time I hear that.

Bormann just wanted to Beat the Soviets, he didn't care about landing on the Moon. Lovell got robbed on 13, not sure about Anders. Think he retired after that. Pretty sure he took the "Earthrise" picture, one of the most iconic photographs ever. Lotta guys didn't want to push their luck. Mike Collins was "one and done" too, and could have commanded a mission probably.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 18, 2021 09:22 PM (uzvcg)

355 What a great evening.

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 18, 2021 09:08 PM (bzrNB)

What are you drinking?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 18, 2021 09:22 PM (Q9lwr)

356 Have you see the 1971 animated 'A Christmas Carol' where Alastair Sim repeated his portrayal of Scrooge, but as the voice actor? It's only half an hour, so the story is quite abbreviated, but the animation is very imaginative, and creepy as hell. Marley's Ghost was this staring horror with his mouth hanging wide open and not moving as his voice came out! It's almost too scary for little kids; I saw it on TV when it came out and I must have been 12 or so, and it scared me. It's on YouTube, I'm pretty sure.
Posted by: Dr. Mabusette at December 18, 2021 09:19 PM (SiLro)
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That's one of my favorites, and hell yeah it's creepy. When Father Christmas lifts his hem and underneath are the starving orphans Ignorance and Want...yeesh.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 18, 2021 09:22 PM (Dc2NZ)

357 "Always thought her voice was a bit thin."

She's an acquired taste.

Posted by: lowandslow at December 18, 2021 09:22 PM (4thlk)

358 I like A Christmas Story for the nostalgia, but I can only watch it once a year.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 18, 2021 09:23 PM (eA1RV)

359 Early out for several up and coming actors, Gary Sinise, John C. McGinley, Ethan Hawke.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With
Pumpkin Spice!

Good flick.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 18, 2021 09:23 PM (/7aTk)

360 one thing I liked the most about "Christmas Story" was that the writer was one of the few people who actually remembered what it was like to be a kid - not how we tell ourselves it was after we grow up. All of the little stories are told from Ralphies POV, and he's got a kind of cracked, almost insane way of looking at things most of the time. But I remember, that was exactly how I thought at that stage of my life; insane things made perfect sense to me.

And also, adults, especially parents, were the people who and your friends worked really hard to fool every waking minute of your life. That's how I remember it!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2021 09:23 PM (evAgx)

361 325 Ooh Rah Nurse! Marine son is driving from LeJuene to here on Tuesday.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

That's so cool!
Son #1 and I went to San Diego last Christmas to be with our Marine.

Hug yours for me. And hug him for all the parents who can't hug theirs.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 18, 2021 09:24 PM (U2p+3)

362 People today can't imagine the excitement that surrounded that.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at December 18, 2021 09:08 PM (tjZg/)

AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 18, 2021 09:24 PM (Q9lwr)

363 Also, the Expanse Seasons 1-3 are great. +1

Anyone seen any French New Wave? I watched Alphaville this week because the poster had Anna Karina--and her eyes!--on it. It wasn't nearly as weird as I've heard about Frog Film or Nuwave. Not sure if it's worth looking further into this type, maybe others with Anna Karina...

Sorry I'm off Christmas Movie Topic, I can't think of many more at present)

Posted by: .87c at December 18, 2021 09:24 PM (SuEpf)

364 There appears to be a slight divergence of opinion on The Expanse.

*Inserts [YMMV] to rectify*

Posted by: Sharkman at December 18, 2021 09:24 PM (/7aTk)

365 Hug yours for me. And hug him for all the parents who can't hug theirs.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 18, 2021 09:24 PM (U2p+3)

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Will do! Looks like I'll have all five children under one roof this weekend. That'll likely never happen again.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 18, 2021 09:25 PM (eA1RV)

366 Is Return To Me a Christmas movie?

Posted by: Eromero at December 18, 2021 09:25 PM (0OP+5)

367 Anyone else ever had that experience/make a judgement like that?
(Also, I love It's a Wonderful Life. I probably could write an essay on why)
Posted by: .87c at December 18, 2021 09:17 PM (SuEpf)

Everyone here who hates libertarians.

Also, It's a Wonderful Life is an indictment against fractional reserve banking.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 18, 2021 09:25 PM (ZMraq)

368 AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 18, 2021 09:24 PM (Q9lwr)

But I have been told by well-paid government experts that all cultures are equal...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at December 18, 2021 09:25 PM (hOUT3)

369 >>352 I don't get the hate for "A Christmas Story".
Posted by: naturalfake at December 18, 2021 09:21 PM (5NkmN)

Likewise, I don't get the hate for "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer."

There are similarities between the movie that the discerning cineaste can tease out.

Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 09:26 PM (M3Z2J)

370 This is pretty great night. I'm jamming out to 70s hits with my daughter, and I'm about to make shrimp alfredo. My Christmas shopping is done. G-d bless you all.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 18, 2021 09:26 PM (2ABQr)

371 This is pretty great night. I'm jamming out to 70s hits with my daughter, and I'm about to make shrimp alfredo. My Christmas shopping is done. G-d bless you all.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 18, 2021 09:26 PM (2ABQr)

372 Richard Thomas did a campy outer space version of The Magnificent Seven.
Posted by: davidt at December 18, 2021 09:06 PM (JH1/x)

One of the Seven was a chick with huge tracts of land (Sybil Danning?). And then there was Robert Vaughn (again). George Peppard. Battle Beyond The Stars

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 18, 2021 09:27 PM (4I/2K)

373 reading is fundamental, what I wrote and what you understood, not the same
misquoting is the hallmark of the dishonest
Posted by: confederatefifth at December 18, 2021 09:21 PM (xj4N4)

YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH ABOUT THE HALLMARK CHANNEL!!!

They do good movies about Christmas

Posted by: Kindltot at December 18, 2021 09:27 PM (ZMraq)

374 358 I like A Christmas Story for the nostalgia, but I can only watch it once a year.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 18, 2021 09:23 PM (eA1RV)

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I couldn't sit and watch it more than once, but I'd sometimes put on whatever channel is doing the 24 hour marathon, and just let it run in the background.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 18, 2021 09:27 PM (CAJOC)

375
Christmas should've been today because it would be a white Christmas.

We got a couple of inches of snow today.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at December 18, 2021 09:27 PM (2PSuu)

376 Anders, at being the CM pilot, was a bit put off by the mission because he could see there would be no chance for him on a later mission but then he devoted himself to being the best photographer he could. What resulted was the famous Earth rise photo.

Anders was right, he never never flew again in space.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 18, 2021 09:28 PM (DO6+w)

377 Hug yours for me. And hug him for all the parents who can't hug theirs.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 18, 2021 09:24 PM (U2p+3)

This!
If you have them close hug them for yourself AND for all those that do not have theirs close!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at December 18, 2021 09:28 PM (hOUT3)

378 I translate French movies and make fansubs for fun, and I've found my interest in French cinema pretty much ends right where the New Wave begins. French film in the 1950s was drop dead beautiful - writing, cinematography, acting, set design were at the top of their game. Then these little commie snots came in began ridiculing those movies, claiming they were too artificial and polished, and *their* movies were all gritty realism. Everything just got ugly after that. And I hated looking at the women in French films of the New Wave - they all wore dresses that looked itchy.

Posted by: Dr. Mabusette at December 18, 2021 09:28 PM (SiLro)

379 Yes, I have and watch The Homecoming every Christmas. What can I say. I grew up watching the Waltons.

On a similar note, I just finished The Nativity Story (2006), which I also watch every Christmas. I highly recommend it. It's deeply moving. To me, at least.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 18, 2021 09:28 PM (sVtYq)

380 371 This is pretty great night. I'm jamming out to 70s hits with my daughter, and I'm about to make shrimp alfredo. My Christmas shopping is done. G-d bless you all.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 18, 2021 09:26 PM
'Say it once, why say it again?'
T. Heads

Posted by: Eromero at December 18, 2021 09:28 PM (0OP+5)

381 then the covid fairies wandered in to yammer about the same thing they do every day, every thread.

Lets see... what is in the news:
* CoVid, Lockdowns, athletes with CoViD, Russia backing out of Free Skies Treaty, CNN MD recommending wearing masks after Christmas gatherings, China accused of making brain altering technology, Senators with CoViD, hospitals with CoViD, CDC Vaxx Database corrupt, Ghislaine Maxwell

Whaat?... Or there is a news blackout on Ghislaine... OK more headlines: New Lockdowns, 6th Circuit allows businesses to extort employees over Vaxx, Florida's Growth Rate x 6 over the rest of the nation, Omicron surges through SNL staff, Facebook censoring, celebrity gossip, Staffer shutting down interview when Kamala is offended...

The world cares about only one thing.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 18, 2021 09:28 PM (+LCoQ)

382 "Directed by Fielder Cook whose film Patterns (teleplay by Rod Serling) was mentioned back in the February movie thread..."

I think that was me. Great movie, made before Twilight Zone. We thought it was a Twilight Zone episode until well over an hour into it. Kept wondering when the twist would come. It did, but not the way we expected.

Will Ferrell, like Chevy Chase, is the dumb white guy. That's all he's used for, to make white men look stupid. IMO. Although I still think Ricky Bobby was a great movie, so I can forgive him for everything else.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 18, 2021 09:28 PM (OssQ4)

383 How many lunar rovers are on the moon?

Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 09:28 PM (I5hoQ)

384 after you've seen a few Hallmark movies, you can pretty much write a Hallmark movie yourself

Posted by: DB at December 18, 2021 09:29 PM (0KxNW)

385 YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH ABOUT THE HALLMARK CHANNEL!!!

They do good movies about Christmas

that was fucking funny, nearly wasted good scotch

Posted by: confederatefifth at December 18, 2021 09:29 PM (xj4N4)

386 Top 5 Omicron Infection Symptoms in the UK (so far)

I had all of those.

I took a couple of days off while I felt bad and then went back to work serving hundreds of people because I never had a test because I thought it was a cold.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 18, 2021 09:29 PM (OG2f7)

387 || Battle Beyond The Stars

IMO, one of Corman's worst movies. Not for the usual reasons (cheap production values) but because it's so timid. Corman is best when he says "F--- it! We're making the movie about the man-eating plant. And we're doing it this weekend before the set gets pulled down."

|| Love, Actually

Now THERE is a quagmire I will not be sucked into.

Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 09:29 PM (asXVI)

388 >How many lunar rovers are on the moon?

all of them

Posted by: DB at December 18, 2021 09:29 PM (0KxNW)

389 That was weird.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 18, 2021 09:29 PM (2ABQr)

390 It's a testament to Karen Carpenter's talent how she could make her voice sound so full at times.

Posted by: davidt at December 18, 2021 09:30 PM (JH1/x)

391 My brother reminded me that The Thin Man is a Christmas movie. I do enjoy the scene where William Powell is shooting balloons from the Christmas tree.

As far as TV shows, we ALWAYS put in the Sherlock Holmes The Blue Carbuncle episode.

Posted by: Nancy at 7000 ft at December 18, 2021 09:30 PM (0tmoY)

392 >>The world cares about only one thing.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 18, 2021 09:28 PM (+LCoQ)

Yes: Why, in fact, does Old Man Gower keep fucking poison in his pharmacy?

Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 09:30 PM (M3Z2J)

393 378 Dr. Mabusette
Any recommendations from earlier French Work? I think Alphaville was the first french movie I watched that wasn't written by Luc Besson

Posted by: .87c at December 18, 2021 09:31 PM (SuEpf)

394 The world cares about only one thing.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 18, 2021 09:28 PM (+LCoQ)

Yep. And Heaven forbid that we get a respite from it in any thread.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 18, 2021 09:31 PM (ZSK0i)

395 The world cares about only one thing.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 18, 2021 09:28 PM (+LCoQ)

One of the Cleveland Indians players just up and croaked. Age 20. No cause of death given. Hmmmm.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2021 09:31 PM (P3gRi)

396 314 262 geez, I was going to ask why anybody needs to watch any movie more than 1 time."

I usually only watch a movie once - the few that I can see over and over have got to have a fantastic soundtrack, pieces like Ben Hur or Oh Brother Where Art Thou. I've seen both of those at least 20 times, but watching them is like listening to a favorite music album.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2021 09:14 PM (evAgx)

Christmas is the time of year for nostalgia...so I do rewatch, but I do try to watch one new thing/year, too...thus, why I saw The Christmas Chronicles last year, Klaus in 2019, and The Star the year before...not sure what the "new" item will be this year...new and old makes for great Christmas viewing...

Posted by: Nova local at December 18, 2021 09:32 PM (exHjb)

397 Kindltot
Lol

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 18, 2021 09:32 PM (U2p+3)

398 How many lunar rovers are on the moon?

all of them
Posted by: DB at December 18, 2021 09:29 PM (0KxNW

No we have one here on earth.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 09:32 PM (I5hoQ)

399 My brother reminded me that The Thin Man is a Christmas movie. I do enjoy the scene where William Powell is shooting balloons from the Christmas tree.

That's true! And the sequel, 'After the Thin Man', takes place just 1 week later, on New Year's Eve.

Posted by: Dr. Mabusette at December 18, 2021 09:32 PM (SiLro)

400 ||I translate French movies and make fansubs for fun, and I've found my interest in French cinema pretty much ends right where the New Wave begins.

THANK YOU! I saw "Breathless" and I'm just thinking, "WTF?"

Just in the 15 years between "Rififi" and "La Cercle Rouge", things got so ugly.

Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 09:32 PM (asXVI)

401 Lunar rovers, three.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 18, 2021 09:32 PM (DO6+w)

402 >>390 It's a testament to Karen Carpenter's talent how she could make her voice sound so full at times.
Posted by: davidt at December 18, 2021 09:30 PM (JH1/x)

Men who had intercourse with her reported that (not unlike later accounts by men who slept with Ann Coulter) that "fucking her was like having sex with a bag of antlers."

Whirling and hurling and jangling

Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 09:32 PM (M3Z2J)

403 It's a testament to Karen Carpenter's talent how she could make her voice sound so full at times.
Posted by: davidt at December 18, 2021 09:30 PM (JH1/x)

The empty belly adds a resonant quality.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2021 09:33 PM (P3gRi)

404 I have always thought that eventually the husbands that have been forced to watch hm movies for years were eventually going to lose it and start murder suiciding.

I have rethought that, now at some time the women that have been watching these movies for years are going to understand that they have been watching the same movie over and over and over and over and over for years and then they are going to murder suicide their husbands for not noting they were the same movie with different hair colors.

Posted by: confederatefifth at December 18, 2021 09:33 PM (xj4N4)

405 >>401 Lunar rovers, three. Posted by: Anna Puma at December 18, 2021 09:32 PM (DO6+w)

Ahem. "Earth-deposited" lunar rovers.

Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 09:33 PM (M3Z2J)

406 Ah yes The Thin Man

"Darling, why is there is there a cop in my drawers?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 18, 2021 09:34 PM (DO6+w)

407 Just in the 15 years between "Rififi" and "La Cercle Rouge", things got so ugly.

We just watched 'Rififi' two nights ago! Such style. 'Bob le flambeur' is even more sophisticated, and a bit lighter in touch.

Posted by: Dr. Mabusette at December 18, 2021 09:34 PM (SiLro)

408 The world cares about only one thing.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 18, 2021 09:28 PM (+LCoQ)

And today, it's Spiderman - have you seen how much his movie is making this weekend? That's why there's no news - everyone finally found a movie to go see...

Posted by: Nova local at December 18, 2021 09:34 PM (exHjb)

409
Smoky Mountain Christmas playlist:

https://is.gd/4vFCfx

Posted by: Soothsayer -- at December 18, 2021 09:34 PM (2PSuu)

410 My Christmas shopping is done. G-d bless you all.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 18, 2021 09:26 PM

I thought you were a Yid?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 18, 2021 09:34 PM (Q9lwr)

411 The world cares about only one thing.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 18, 2021 09:28 PM (+LCoQ)

One of the Cleveland Indians players just up and croaked. Age 20. No cause of death given. Hmmmm.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2021 09:31 PM (P3gRi)

Just up and died? That's so sad.

Posted by: Mr. Bojangles at December 18, 2021 09:35 PM (4I/2K)

412 My Christmas shopping is done. G-d bless you all.

Posted by: Y

7.62 x 39 for everybody!

Posted by: confederatefifth at December 18, 2021 09:35 PM (xj4N4)

413 314 262 geez, I was going to ask why anybody needs to watch any movie more than 1 time."

I usually only watch a movie once - the few that I can see over and over have got to have a fantastic soundtrack, pieces like Ben Hur or Oh Brother Where Art Thou. I've seen both of those at least 20 times, but watching them is like listening to a favorite music album.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 18, 2021 09:14 PM (evAgx)

I watched "The 13th Warrior" for the first time this last week...(I know, I know).

I was captivated enough by certain scenes that I wanted to re-watch the movie, and I did...a number of times.

No shame in re-watching films.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at December 18, 2021 09:35 PM (BgMrQ)

414 White Christmas is my go to every year. I could watch Vera Ellen dance forever.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 18, 2021 09:35 PM (nxdel)

415 It's not American, but it's a lovely film about Christmas and had become a tradition in our house: A Child's Christmas in Wales which is based on the poem by Dylan Thomas and which features the actor Denholm Elliot as the grandfather/narrator. It's a BBC thing from 1987.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 18, 2021 09:36 PM (mNGar)

416 Merry Christmas, Darling is not a favorite Christmas song of mine.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 09:37 PM (I5hoQ)

417 they all wore dresses that looked itchy.

Posted by: Dr. Mabusette at December 18, 2021 09:28 PM (SiLro)

Crabs.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 18, 2021 09:37 PM (Q9lwr)

418 384 after you've seen a few Hallmark movies, you can pretty much write a Hallmark movie yourself
Posted by: DB at December 18, 2021 09:29 PM (0KxNW)

--------------------------

The wife and I watched a Hallmark-style Christmas movie a few weeks ago - A Castle for Christmas. It was awful, but followed the usual formula. It did have some nice settings, and the townsfolk were delightful, but everything else was awful. At one point, towards the end of the movie, they introduce two new characters in such a way that you'd think they're going to be involved in the plot resolution, but no. You never hear about them again. And there is a hilariously bad edit at one point. I'm guessing it's because Cary Elwes was dismounting a horse while wearing a kilt. Probably flashed the goods.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 18, 2021 09:37 PM (CAJOC)

419 No urge to see the producers ret-con Doc Ock.

"I refuse to be a monster." One of the best lines and exits in a movie ever. So we got Doc Ock back in this one all because Spidey did an Ash and didn't get the pronunciation of a spell right.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 18, 2021 09:37 PM (DO6+w)

420 ||'Bob le flambeur' is even more sophisticated, and a bit lighter in touch.

Noted! And "lighter" is a good word. The movies get heavier and heavier...

||I could watch Vera Ellen dance forever.
Oh, yeah.

Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 09:37 PM (asXVI)

421 YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH ABOUT THE HALLMARK CHANNEL!!!

They do good movies about Christmas
Posted by: Kindltot

Have Hallmark Drama on. Little House marathon. Easy listening for chores, cooking and wrapping.

Posted by: Infidel at December 18, 2021 09:38 PM (qpolg)

422 CBD,

Costco had lots of Not expensive French wines. I opened a 2016 Bordeaux from Chateau Never Erd of It.

If I were a wine snob I'd be able to describe its well structured fruit with appropriate integrated tannins and notes of graphite, cedar and a hint of leather.

But I'm not one so I'd say it's nice and perfect for a winter evening with my internet friends and my sleeping old Setter.

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 18, 2021 09:38 PM (bzrNB)

423 in fairness, I am not much for watching movies more than 1 time, however, if I had to choose between being trapped in holiday in or white Christmas, as Bing's character, I would go with holiday inn.

then I would be banging that hottie blonde every day.

the new year's eve scene where she and fred astaire are swing around the floor is funny.

and she is hot

Posted by: confederatefifth at December 18, 2021 09:38 PM (xj4N4)

424 So I get back from our Church's Christmas Banquet. They served food at 5:30PM.... just outside my eating window.

I'm doing 18:6 Intermittent Fast (with a few 20:4s during the week). To pull that off I stop at 3PMish, and skip breakfast altogether if I want to do the 20:4.

I didn't break the fast even though there was a great heap of delicious looking food. So for my reward, I was given an iodine mouthwash because its the **shall not be named** prophylactic, and I was among a significant crowd in proximity for hours, singing, talking, living life like God intended.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 18, 2021 09:38 PM (+LCoQ)

425 I don't get the hate for "A Christmas Story".
Posted by: naturalfake at December 18, 2021 09:21 PM (5NkmN)

Likewise, I don't get the hate for "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer."

There are similarities between the movie that the discerning cineaste can tease out.
Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 09:26 PM (M3Z2J)

Hmmmmm.

*slaps ZOD around with a kryptonite glove*

*dumps him into the Phantom Zone*

Posted by: naturalfake at December 18, 2021 09:38 PM (5NkmN)

426 391 My brother reminded me that The Thin Man is a Christmas movie. I do enjoy the scene where William Powell is shooting balloons from the Christmas tree.

As far as TV shows, we ALWAYS put in the Sherlock Holmes The Blue Carbuncle episode.
Posted by: Nancy at 7000 ft at December 18, 2021 09:30 PM (0tmoY)

-----------------------

Which Holmes?

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 18, 2021 09:38 PM (CAJOC)

427 One of the Cleveland Indians players just up and croaked. Age 20. No cause of death given. Hmmmm.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

No mug shot means...No cause of death means....

Posted by: Some Rat at December 18, 2021 09:39 PM (r1z5A)

428 || Love, Actually

Now THERE is a quagmire I will not be sucked into.
Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 09:29 PM (asXVI)
---

*tosses anchor at MovieGique so he'll never have to see "Love, Actually" again*

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 18, 2021 09:39 PM (Dc2NZ)

429 Love your take on "Miracle on 34th Street." Exactly the way I feel about it.

The Alastair Sim "Christmas Carol" is worth considering. He plays Scrooge as being depressed, which is an interesting interpretation.

Posted by: Caliban at December 18, 2021 09:39 PM (HgGBT)

430 I thought you were a Yid?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 18, 2021 09:34 PM (Q9lwr)

Yeah, but not the wife and 2 of the 3 kids. They do Christmas.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 18, 2021 09:40 PM (2ABQr)

431 And today, it's Spiderman - have you seen how much his movie is making this weekend? That's why there's no news - everyone finally found a movie to go see...

Are they doing to Spiderman what they did to Batman and every few years do a reboot Origins story and a couple follow up capers with the usual opponents?

Different directors, different actors playing Batman/Spiderman?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 18, 2021 09:41 PM (+LCoQ)

432 >>I could watch Vera Ellen dance forever.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 18, 2021 09:35 PM (nxdel)

1. Heat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Blend Frank's Red Hot, melted butter, and baking soda.
3. Using pastry brush, apply sauce to Vera Ellen wingettes.
4. Bake on parchment-covered baking sheet for 20 minutes, turning once midway.

Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 09:41 PM (M3Z2J)

433 the thing is is I should buy these movies before they are burned or redone by the nazis

then someday my ancestors get to go to anqique roadshow with dozens or unopened movies for betammax

Posted by: confederatefifth at December 18, 2021 09:42 PM (xj4N4)

434 I like George C Scott as Scrooge

"Please tell Mr Cratchit that I do not care to drink with him, or any other Cockney sonofabitch."

Posted by: DB at December 18, 2021 09:42 PM (0KxNW)

435 >>> I watched "The 13th Warrior" for the first time this last week...(I know, I know).

I was captivated enough by certain scenes that I wanted to re-watch the movie, and I did...a number of times.

No shame in re-watching films.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at December 18, 2021 09:35 PM (BgMrQ)

I've watched big trouble in little china a number of times and always enjoy it.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 18, 2021 09:42 PM (h/pNJ)

436 >OK, except Battle of the Bulge is so bad it can't be missed

it is so bad
Posted by: DB at December 18, 2021 09:10 PM (0KxNW)

Das Panzer Leid, jedermann?

Posted by: Fox2! at December 18, 2021 09:43 PM (qyH+l)

437 My Dad loves Meet John Doe, speaking of Barbara Stanwyck, climaxing on Christmas Eve. Not as good as the other classics iMHO but a decent film.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 18, 2021 09:43 PM (nDrPh)

438 Are they doing to Spiderman what they did to Batman and every few years do a reboot Origins story and a couple follow up capers with the usual opponents?

Different directors, different actors playing Batman/Spiderman?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 18, 2021 09:41 PM (+LCoQ)

Nope, no different ones...all of the previous ones are in it...so, it's both a new caper and an enormous heaping of nostalgia at Christmas all rolled into one...

Posted by: Nova local at December 18, 2021 09:44 PM (exHjb)

439 Can we have one thread that does not bring up the Wuhan?

So tired of this.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 18, 2021 09:44 PM (x8Wzq)

440 But I have been told by well-paid government experts that all cultures are equal...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at December 18, 2021 09:25 PM (hOUT3)

I have a large martini and several glasses of a pleasant cotes du rhones in my belly.

I can tell you with a high degree of confidence that American culture is the best culture.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 18, 2021 09:44 PM (Q9lwr)

441 If "Love Actually" was made to showcase British smugness, they succeeded.

Posted by: lowandslow at December 18, 2021 09:44 PM (4thlk)

442 an we have one thread that does not bring up the Wuhan?

So tired of this.
Posted by: Pug

no!

we have been instructed to just scroll past it every time somebody shits the thread with that.

Posted by: confederatefifth at December 18, 2021 09:45 PM (xj4N4)

443 390 It's a testament to Karen Carpenter's talent how she could make her voice sound so full at times.
Posted by: davidt at December 18, 2021 09:30 PM (JH1/x)

I liked her as a teen, but watching a video of her singing with Ella Fitzgerald made me realize that she didn't have the instrument that the greats possessed. She had a better voice than Carole King, or Carly Simon or any of that group, but what does that say?

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 09:45 PM (ONvIw)

444 13th Warrior.

I read Eaters of the Dead. it was good. the movie was good as well. Pretty chilling look at just how creepy human beings can be.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 18, 2021 09:45 PM (x8Wzq)

445 No mug shot means...No cause of death means....
Posted by: Some Rat at December 18, 2021 09:39 PM (r1z5A)

Andres Melendez. Played in Cleveland's farm system. A clean-cut looking white Hispanic. from Venezuela.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2021 09:45 PM (P3gRi)

446 ||*tosses anchor at MovieGique so he'll never have to see "Love, Actually" again*

Friends know when to put you out of your misery.

||Different directors, different actors playing Batman/Spiderman?

Tom Holland is still playing Spider-Man. I've heard very good things about this one. Things I almost believe.

Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 09:46 PM (asXVI)

447
I can tell you with a high degree of confidence that American culture is the best culture.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 18, 2021 09:44 PM (Q9lwr)

Most other cultures are shit, to be honest

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 09:46 PM (ONvIw)

448 Nice sideboob of the lovely Laura Linney in Love Actually.

The judge in Miracle cracks me up in every scene. William Frawley's take is hilarious.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 18, 2021 09:46 PM (nDrPh)

449 Spiderman gets with Doctor Strange to cast a spell so people forget his real identity except he doesn't get the spell right. So Spiderman kinda vanishes from reality so all the bad guys the various Spidermen have fought come back to his world to mess things up.

So its an onslaught of Green Goblin, Doc Ock, and a few others.

Ret-con-a-poluzza...

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 18, 2021 09:46 PM (DO6+w)

450 the thing is is, Love Actually, is the chitlins of movies

and why are the birtish smug about anything?

Posted by: confederatefifth at December 18, 2021 09:46 PM (xj4N4)

451 46 >>Of course, I don't like The Christmas Story, either.
Posted by: Nova local at December 18, 2021 08:10 PM (exHjb)

Not a fan; I'd give it a 3 on a ten-point scale. Mrs. despises it.
Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 08:12 PM (M3Z2J)

^^ The horde are people of refinement. Nods sagey. My SIL loves a Christmas Story. We borrowed the CD and watched it once in disbelief. Just unbelievable distasteful and boring.

Posted by: Iris at December 18, 2021 09:46 PM (6lKe4)

452 434 I like George C Scott as Scrooge

"Please tell Mr Cratchit that I do not care to drink with him, or any other Cockney sonofabitch."
Posted by: DB at December 18, 2021 09:42 PM (0KxNW)

----------------------------

George C Scott is one of my favorite Scrooges. When he's arguing with his nephew, he actually seems to be enjoying himself.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 18, 2021 09:46 PM (CAJOC)

453 Heh, I Meet John Doe dvr'd. I just love Barbara Stanwyk.

Posted by: Infidel at December 18, 2021 09:46 PM (qpolg)

454 Ok, C5 has been designated thread cop. Y'all have fun. See you around.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 18, 2021 09:46 PM (eA1RV)

455 >>I352 I don't get the hate for "A Christmas Story". It's a very well observed Christmas movie about kids who act like kids and parents who act like parents.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 18, 2021 09:21 PM

It's arguably an anti-Christmas movie, which is why a lot of people may not care for it.

Posted by: Caliban at December 18, 2021 09:46 PM (HgGBT)

456 Hispanic. from Venezuela.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

So, he starved to death?

Posted by: Some Rat at December 18, 2021 09:47 PM (r1z5A)

457 we have been instructed to just scroll past it every time somebody shits the thread with that.

That is a quick and easy way to go over several hundred comments per hour.

Hey, I tried presenting a theological argument as to why angels don't sing, but they threw rocks at me.

Maybe if the angels wore masks and kept 4 cubits apart.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 18, 2021 09:47 PM (+LCoQ)

458 Scene from Battleground, that reminds us this is a Christmas movie.

The message is still on point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrnB1OMhETI

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at December 18, 2021 09:47 PM (tjZg/)

459 Tom Holland is still playing Spider-Man. I've heard very good things about this one. Things I almost believe.
Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 09:46 PM (asXVI)

If current Cinescores and Rotten Tomatoes ratings are to be believed (over and above the revnue turnout), general audience loves it. I love Tom Holland as Spidey, so we'll be seeing it Tuesday...

Posted by: Nova local at December 18, 2021 09:48 PM (exHjb)

460 So, he starved to death?
Posted by: Some Rat at December 18, 2021 09:47 PM (r1z5A)

Heh. But he died in Miami.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2021 09:48 PM (P3gRi)

461 Yeah, but not the wife and 2 of the 3 kids. They do Christmas.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 18, 2021 09:40 PM (2ABQr)

It's a wonderful holiday. The Christians got at least one thing right!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 18, 2021 09:48 PM (Q9lwr)

462 Ok, C5 has been designated thread cop. Y'all have fun. See you around.
Posted by: D

now that is some fucking funny right there

Posted by: confederatefifth at December 18, 2021 09:48 PM (xj4N4)

463 It will be the happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby danced with Danny fuckin Kay!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 18, 2021 09:48 PM (yrol0)

464 ||Ret-con-a-poluzza...

In fairness, comic books (and soap operas) were ret-conning long before there was even a word for it.

Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 09:48 PM (asXVI)

465 I really hate those Nationwide commercials with the finger-snapping singer.

Just thought I'd share

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at December 18, 2021 09:49 PM (sJHOI)

466 Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 18, 2021 09:46 PM (eA1RV)

Later, sunshine.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 18, 2021 09:49 PM (ZSK0i)

467 448 Nice sideboob of the lovely Laura Linney in Love Actually.

The judge in Miracle cracks me up in every scene. William Frawley's take is hilarious.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 18, 2021 09:46 PM (nDrPh)

----------------------------

I seem to recall we get more than just sideboob from Laura Linney

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 18, 2021 09:49 PM (CAJOC)

468 I can tell you with a high degree of confidence that American culture is the best culture.

Does America have a predominant culture?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 18, 2021 09:49 PM (+LCoQ)

469 A Hint of Leather was a great Christmas movie.

Posted by: klaftern at December 18, 2021 09:49 PM (taPSh)

470 Back To School taught me to love Dylan Thomas' poetry. I don't take shit from no one.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 18, 2021 09:49 PM (nDrPh)

471 I can tell you with a high degree of confidence that American culture is the best culture.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 18, 2021 09:44 PM (Q9lwr)

Most other cultures are shit, to be honest
Posted by: CN...FJB

When one culturally appropriates the best parts and shit cans the rest, ya end up with a pretty good amalgam.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 18, 2021 09:50 PM (r1z5A)

472
Does America have a predominant culture?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 18, 2021 09:49 PM (+LCoQ)

We appropriate the best aspects from all cultures, and toss the bullshit.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 09:50 PM (ONvIw)

473 I know comics tend to reinvent their characters.

Just look at Diana Prince in the '70s with all that '70s attire.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 18, 2021 09:50 PM (DO6+w)

474 We never did get a ruling on whether dancing with Danny Fucking Kay was a positive or a negative.

Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 09:50 PM (asXVI)

475
When one culturally appropriates the best parts and shit cans the rest, ya end up with a pretty good amalgam.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 18, 2021 09:50 PM (r1z5A)

Yeah

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 09:51 PM (ONvIw)

476 It's a wonderful holiday. The Christians got at least one thing right!

Christians also gave the world Easter, and the former United States Thanksgiving.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 18, 2021 09:51 PM (+LCoQ)

477 449 Spiderman gets with Doctor Strange to cast a spell so people forget his real identity except he doesn't get the spell right. So Spiderman kinda vanishes from reality so all the bad guys the various Spidermen have fought come back to his world to mess things up.

So its an onslaught of Green Goblin, Doc Ock, and a few others.

Ret-con-a-poluzza...
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 18, 2021 09:46 PM (DO6+w)

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I think they saw how much fans loved bringing JK Simmons into the MCU (but really, who else could play Jameson?), and figured, what the hell, let's bring 'em all!

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 18, 2021 09:51 PM (CAJOC)

478 457 Reuben Hick
Do angels not sing because there is no mention of them ever singing (in either the first Jewish release, or the comprehensive Christian edition?)?

And possibly that angels don't make art because (via Tolstoy) art is a creation sharing our subjective experience and our enlightened subjective experience of reality and creation is what makes us unique in the material universe, and so it is likely that angels don't experience life the same way, hence can't make art?

Or something else?

Posted by: .87c at December 18, 2021 09:51 PM (SuEpf)

479 Can we have one thread that does not bring up the Wuhan?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 18, 2021 09:44 PM (x8Wzq)

Second look at The Art Thread's 100 comment rule?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 18, 2021 09:52 PM (Q9lwr)

480

L'ONT est NOOD!

Posted by: Zettai at December 18, 2021 09:53 PM (y0otA)

481 Oh kami, let us hope and pray they never make a movie about a certain Ottoman...

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 18, 2021 09:53 PM (DO6+w)

482 and why are the birtish smug about anything?

Posted by: confederatefifth

Quebec, 1759

Waterloo, 1815

Rorke's Drift, 1879

That's about it.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 18, 2021 09:53 PM (/7aTk)

483 Most other cultures are shit, to be honest

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 09:46 PM (ONvIw)

Ya think?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 18, 2021 09:53 PM (Q9lwr)

484 Just finished researching Julie Benz, now I've got to do Laura Linney?

Not watching much TV and hardly any movies has left me woefully ignorant of mainstream pulchritude.

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 18, 2021 09:53 PM (bzrNB)

485 I really hate those Nationwide commercials with the finger-snapping singer.

Just thought I'd share
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah

I hate all ins. commercials. Couldn't tell you who is sponsoring.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 18, 2021 09:53 PM (r1z5A)

486 I can tell you with a high degree of confidence that American culture is the best culture.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 18, 2021 09:44 PM (Q9lwr)

Not sure you really understand the concept of "past tense"!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at December 18, 2021 09:53 PM (hOUT3)

487 Does America have a predominant culture?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 18, 2021 09:49 PM (+LCoQ)

We appropriate the best aspects from all cultures, and toss the bullshit.

That is funny. I have been asking people for years to tell me what are distinguishing characteristics of American culture.

This is actually the only answer I have received, mostly people stare in to space, start to say something and then stop to reconsider since they see the US as a land of minority cultures.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 18, 2021 09:54 PM (+LCoQ)

488 "When one culturally appropriates the best parts and shit cans the rest, ya end up with a pretty good amalgam."

Conserve the best. Toss the rest.

Posted by: Tuna at December 18, 2021 09:54 PM (gLRfa)

489 I like watching Hallmark and Lifetime movies with the Mrs. The deal is I will watch but I am allowed to make comments. and we both have fun.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 18, 2021 09:54 PM (Hisyu)

490 Well, another good job moviegique, thanks and have a Merry Christmas.

Posted by: lowandslow at December 18, 2021 09:55 PM (4thlk)

491 >>>
This is actually the only answer I have received, mostly people stare in to space, start to say something and then stop to reconsider since they see the US as a land of minority cultures.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 18, 2021 09:54 PM (+LCoQ)

It was was rugged individualism but you'd have a hard time finding that now. We are a nation adrift.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 18, 2021 09:56 PM (h/pNJ)

492 >>what are distinguishing characteristics of American culture. Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 18, 2021 09:54 PM (+LCoQ)

Corned beef sauerkraut Thousand Island dressing Swiss cheese. Toasted.

Beautiful.

Posted by: ZOD at December 18, 2021 09:56 PM (M3Z2J)

493 Thanks, lowandslow. You, too!

In fact, God Bless Us, Everyone!

Posted by: moviegique at December 18, 2021 09:56 PM (asXVI)

494 I had the "all cultures are equal" discussion with a gay psychiatrist colleague and asked him if throwing gays off rooftops was as valid as the rights they enjoyed here?
It's an easy argument to win if you tell the truth

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 09:56 PM (ONvIw)

495 That is funny. I have been asking people for years to tell me what are distinguishing characteristics of American culture.

This is actually the only answer I have received, mostly people stare in to space, start to say something and then stop to reconsider since they see the US as a land of minority cultures.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 18, 2021 09:54 PM (+LCoQ)

And you didn't go with food, faith, family, and football (the Thanksgiving bingo card) combined with fast food and that we stand on no ceremony (damn, lost my F alliteration)...

Posted by: Nova local at December 18, 2021 09:57 PM (exHjb)

496 One of the Cleveland Indians players just up and croaked. Age 20. No cause of death given. Hmmmm.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2021 09:31 PM (P3gRi)

I'll bet you a taco at Cocina Madrigal that it was drugs.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 18, 2021 09:57 PM (Q9lwr)

497 Well, another good job moviegique, thanks and have a Merry Christmas.
Posted by: lowandslow

Ditto! And I love the way it sometimes drifts off topic. (smiley face icon here)

Posted by: Some Rat at December 18, 2021 09:58 PM (r1z5A)

498 See at OM's Library

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 18, 2021 09:58 PM (ONvIw)

499 Not sure you really understand the concept of "past tense"!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at December 18, 2021 09:53 PM (hOUT3)

I am sadly aware of your point, but the decay in other countries and cultures has been at least as fast.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 18, 2021 09:58 PM (Q9lwr)

500 I am sadly aware of your point, but the decay in other countries and cultures has been at least as fast.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 18, 2021 09:58 PM (Q9lwr)

True dat!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at December 18, 2021 10:01 PM (hOUT3)

501 Us is (was) bout success. Each generation being better off than the last. Little guy inventing a better mousetrap.

Now it is which group gets the most govt bennies.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 18, 2021 10:06 PM (Hisyu)

502 Not a Christmas movie but by one here are Killing Zoe? Ima yuuuge fan of it but the critics hated it. It is in the 30s on Rotten Tomatoes. Julie Delpy, Paris, bank heist, what the fuck more do you critics want?

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 18, 2021 10:09 PM (Hisyu)

503 No mention of Bad Santa. WTF?

Posted by: Head puddi at December 18, 2021 10:12 PM (xMh1R)

504 Alexis de Tocqueville kind of explained 'American' culture quite well.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 10:22 PM (I5hoQ)

505 Us is (was) bout success. Each generation being better off than the last. Little guy inventing a better mousetrap.

Now it is which group gets the most govt bennies.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 18, 2021 10:06 PM (Hisyu)

I don't think we are all the way there yet. I think we are currently at a point where those two are passing by each other in opposite directions.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 18, 2021 10:25 PM (I5hoQ)

506
"Bums make their own gravy," was a running gag line in the Monk episode.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 18, 2021 11:08 PM (3l5Yq)

507 That shrunken head made me lots of money.

That shrunken head made me lots of money.

Posted by: Vincent Twice Vincent Twice at December 19, 2021 12:32 AM (fPFtn)

508 A Christmas classic movie that is criminally underrated: Silent Night, Deadly Night 2. Part 1 was a forgettable slasher flick, but the sequel.....two thumbs up. If I had more thumbs, they would be up as well. It features bottom-level terrible acting and a script to match. It's one of those movies that is so over-the-top bad that it's hilarious. Don't believe me? Just look up the "Garbage Day-full killing spree" scene on YouTube. I tried to link it, but no luck. NSFW, for cartoonish violence and a couple of profanities.

Posted by: Midnight Rambler at December 19, 2021 01:18 AM (8E8Am)

509 1. A Sunburnt Christmas

2. Hector

You can thank me later.

Posted by: SnakePlizzken at December 19, 2021 01:46 AM (yklvU)

510 202 I always liked The Year Without a Santa Claus more than the others. Heat Miser and Snow Miser.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 18, 2021 08:49 PM (x8Wzq)

I love the songs in that one.

Posted by: Where are my ping pong balls? at December 19, 2021 01:49 AM (m3XFr)

511 True story. We were house hunting and found a fixer-upper that had potential. We loved the property, but the house was a nightmare. I opened the master bedroom closet door and a brown wooden cane was propped up in the corner.

We bought it. I mean, come on man. A cane. Upstairs.

Best decision we ever made.

Posted by: Shanks for the memory at December 19, 2021 02:01 AM (TdCQk)

512 You forgot Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas, which is utterly charming (you gotta love the Riverbottom Gang).

Posted by: Dagny Taggart at December 19, 2021 02:18 AM (4OXRw)

513 What? No Love for John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together?

I still have that on vinyl. There seriously needs to be a DVD/BluRay release with video restoration.

Posted by: TB24601 at December 19, 2021 10:40 AM (7QA+2)

514 53 Agree, but not Biden. Make it Soros and have him die before he can reproduce. Every bit of crooked legislation in the last 70 years disappears. Now that would be a merry Christmas!

258 Two squirts of Hand Sanitizer. The song has promise.

482 You left out the Charge of the Light Brigade, 1837. Of which the British are actually proud. Go figure.

-- My fave is still Mel Brooks' Silent Movie. "There are two esses in Christmas, and they're BOTH - dollar signs!"

Posted by: jdgalt1 at December 19, 2021 02:43 PM (3SFo/)

515 Another vote for We're No Angels.

Peter Ustinov was awesome!

Posted by: jojo2b at December 19, 2021 04:01 PM (A0Mvq)

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