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What's the best Christmas movie

  • Christmas Vacation

  • A Christmas Story

  • Comedy Option


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Sho'Nuff

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I was just reminded of one of my all-time favorite Christmas movies:

The original 1955 "We're No Angels", with the incomparable trio of Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov and Aldo Ray.

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Was there ever a trio of actors that was comparable to another?
 

Fritzo

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They're both great. Can't we just agree?

Ralphie's dad cursing at the furnace and the leg lamp incident.
Clark's lighting the Christmas lights and the sled scene.

Either still makes be laugh out loud to this day.
 

purbeast0

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xmas vacation by a fucking mile. christmas story is played out and boring as shit for the most part when watching repeated viewings. i do think it's a generational thing as well though, but i did grow up watching it. but my brother is 3 years older than me and likes it more than i do.

i also add elf and home alone 1 and 2 to my annual viewings.
 

Fritzo

Lifer
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xmas vacation by a fucking mile. christmas story is played out and boring as shit for the most part.

i also add elf and home alone 1 and 2 to my annual viewings.

You have to be a certain age for Christmas Story to click. If you were born after 1980 you're not going to get Christmas Story. Before that and you're going to be watching your life during Christmas.
 

ControlD

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You have to be a certain age for Christmas Story to click. If you were born after 1980 you're not going to get Christmas Story. Before that and you're going to be watching your life during Christmas.

This.

Maybe similarly if you were born before 1980 Home Alone just doesn't seem that great. I know people love it but I can't stand it. Went to see it in the theater and would have walked out if I wasn't on a date.
 

Smoblikat

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A christmas story, ive seen it at least 35 times, and ive only seen lampoons vacation maybe 10 or 15?
 

purbeast0

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You have to be a certain age for Christmas Story to click. If you were born after 1980 you're not going to get Christmas Story. Before that and you're going to be watching your life during Christmas.


Hah funny you say that. My brother was born in 78 and I was born in 81.
 

Carson Dyle

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You have to be a certain age for Christmas Story to click. If you were born after 1980 you're not going to get Christmas Story. Before that and you're going to be watching your life during Christmas.

That makes absolutely no sense for a story that is set in the late 1930s.
 

Carson Dyle

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You're joking, right?

I cancelled cable just so that I wouldn't have a chance of seeing A Christmas Story ever again.

So the reference was actually about being bombarded with replays of the movie? Not actually whether or not you find the movie funny?

Figures. I forget sometimes about the community in which these discussions take place.
 

TwiceOver

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That makes absolutely no sense for a story that is set in the late 1930s.

So the reference was actually about being bombarded with replays of the movie? Not actually whether or not you find the movie funny?

Figures. I forget sometimes about the community in which these discussions take place.

I thought it was late 40s?

EDIT: Guess not. Apparently 1939 or 1940.

Huh, my bad I guess. I thought it was set in the '70s. Shows how much I dislike the movie I guess. I hate movies and TV shows that are set in that '20s-'50s era. Boardwalk Empire, ugh, 1 episode and I couldn't stand it.
 

Anubis

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Huh, my bad I guess. I thought it was set in the '70s. Shows how much I dislike the movie I guess. I hate movies and TV shows that are set in that '20s-'50s era. Boardwalk Empire, ugh, 1 episode and I couldn't stand it.

I always thought it was 50s/60s
not long after WW2

but whatever, still crap
 

IronWing

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Jul 20, 2001
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How can it be that Miracle on 34th Street (1947) is not in the poll? Or the musical A Christmas Carol (1970)?
 
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alzan

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Given the choices I'll say Scrooged; Christmas Story has never held my interest. Vacation, meh.
 

skipsneeky2

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This line about sums up my vote:Merry Christmas,shitter was full.

My wife and me looked up some christmas movies on Netflix last night,i ask what she wants to watch and all she says to me is"shitter is full". She forgot the name of the movie for whatever reason but remembered that line.I nearly died laughing.
 

Fritzo

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Hah funny you say that. My brother was born in 78 and I was born in 81.

Yeah, something happened at the turn of the decade in 1980 that changed kids from simple, toy loving "cops and robbers" and "dolls" kids to the beginning of how you see kids today. I think the Atari started it- video games in the home began a trend of electronics being accepted and desirable. When the Atari took hold, kids started dropping toys and focusing on TV screens and things with buttons and lights.

All of that evolved into what we have today: kids walking around with their eyes glued to their phones with no interest in toys and a demand for instant gratification.
 

Fritzo

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Given the choices I'll say Scrooged; Christmas Story has never held my interest. Vacation, meh.

I was just talking about Scrooged the other day. I could TOTALLY see the behind the scenes at NBC's production of Peter Pan Live being like the production of Christmas Carol in Scrooged :p