what is your favorite Christmas movie?
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Christmas Vacation.
Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo...
I love her overbite...it rocks.
Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo...
I love her overbite...it rocks.
A Christmas Story. Ralphie and his BB gun. An innocent Schwartz getting his mouth washed out with soap.
Oldies:
The Shop around the Corner (Judy Garland One)
Miracle on 34th street (not the Natalie Wood one, heard she was raped daily by the producer)
Christmas in Connecticut
Newer:
Home Alone
The Shop around the Corner (Judy Garland One)
Miracle on 34th street (not the Natalie Wood one, heard she was raped daily by the producer)
Christmas in Connecticut
Newer:
Home Alone
'It's a wonderful life' was OK...once.
I didn't care to see it again after that though. Color me shallow.
I didn't care to see it again after that though. Color me shallow.
I know, that Nicolette Scorsese, the gal in the dept. store that showed Clark she had no panty lines...oh my.
That was a hot number back in the day.
Daughter or wife of Martin Scorsese?
Just a guess.
It's a bit nipply out there.
Looks good, doesn't it Russ? Russ?!
working off of memory, so forgive me if those aren't verbatim.
Looks good, doesn't it Russ? Russ?!
working off of memory, so forgive me if those aren't verbatim.
And again in his dream when she's on the diving board and his niece walks in and asks him if he's watching for Santa Claus. Oh my that's classic.
Christmas Story finale in the Chinese restaurant when the duck is served and the wife starts laughing/crying hysterically...
Dad - "It's staring at us!"
Que butcher knife and decapitation in front of the family.
A lot of movies are great and have terrible endings. Classic movies are great and have great endings.
Dad - "It's staring at us!"
Que butcher knife and decapitation in front of the family.
A lot of movies are great and have terrible endings. Classic movies are great and have great endings.
I can take 24 hours of the Griswold's, imo it's the BEST vacation movie of all.
24 hours of Ralphie...NO !
24 hours of Ralphie...NO !
I know, that Nicolette Scorsese, the gal in the dept. store that showed Clark she had no panty lines...oh my.
That was a hot number back in the day.
Daughter or wife of Martin Scorsese?
Just a guess.
Well, research says it's just a coincidence.... Can you believe she's 61 these days???? Ruins my thought that beauty stands still. She was 35 when filming that movie and in the pic below.
(She did date Antonio Sabatas Jr which is apparently her biggest claim to fame.)
Yep, and if you all are truthful, most, if not all of us have a character like 'Eddie' in the family.
I shudder to admit I have more than one.
It's brutal...I practice saying it all the time...'I'm not loaning you anymore money...ever!'
Freeloaders...
Well, research says it's just a coincidence.... Can you believe she's 61 these days???? Ruins my thought that beauty stands still. She was 35 when filming that movie and in the pic below.
(She did date Antonio Sabatas Jr which is apparently her biggest claim to fame.)
61?
Damn father time...the bastard...he sucks.
Well, research says it's just a coincidence.... Can you believe she's 61 these days???? Ruins my thought that beauty stands still. She was 35 when filming that movie and in the pic below.
(She did date Antonio Sabatas Jr which is apparently her biggest claim to fame.)
Why is it so Hot in here ? Tis the season to be merry...
Yep, and if you all are truthful, most, if not all of us have a character like 'Eddie' in the family.
I shudder to admit I have more than one.
It's brutal...I practice saying it all the time...'I'm not loaning you anymore money...ever!'
Freeloaders...
Hey! I have been to Vegas, and I carried a 6-pack on my belt in his honor. Gotta love a land where they don't judge as long as you're not making an *** out of yourself.
My motivation was only 20% wanting to mimic Eddie and 80% not wanting to wait on the lounge waitresses to bring back a beer an hour later.
Christmas Vacation is FULL of gags from beginning to end: starting with Clark dragging the monster tree out of the ground to Eddie saying his dog, Snot is part TN leg hound to Uncle so & so blowing up Santa's sleigh in the closing credits...
Yep.. The tree scene... after walking miles in the tundra and his kids getting frostbite -
"Did you bring the shovel?"
The next scene - tree on hood with ALL of the roots. LoL
I'm personally a cat lover, but the scene where Cousin Eddie says, "Hehe! If that cat had nine lives, he just spent them all!!! Whew!!!" that right there is gold.... add to all of that him sipping egg nog out of a freaking moose head mug.
"Did you bring the shovel?"
The next scene - tree on hood with ALL of the roots. LoL
I'm personally a cat lover, but the scene where Cousin Eddie says, "Hehe! If that cat had nine lives, he just spent them all!!! Whew!!!" that right there is gold.... add to all of that him sipping egg nog out of a freaking moose head mug.
Yep, that was John Hughes...sheer genius. (the writer)
RIP dude.
He was contemporary, yet edgy, without getting disgusting and gross. A fine line indeed.
A gifted fellow.
I discovered It's a Wonderful Life long before most people had ever heard of it, late in 1973. It was on an all night movie weekend when a channel in Dallas first experimented with keeping their broadcast signal on all night for the first time. In the mid 70s, I'd tell friends it was my favorite movie, and they'd tell me they'd never heard of it. It wasn't until Jimmy Stewart went on the Tonight Show late in the decade and told Johnny Carson it was his favorite movie he'd ever made, and within a year, the whole country knew about it. It's still my favorite, though I've probably seen it literally close to 100 times.
I really don't consider it a Christmas movie, but it's when it shows up every year now. It is surely one of my favorite Christmas traditions.
I really don't consider it a Christmas movie, but it's when it shows up every year now. It is surely one of my favorite Christmas traditions.
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RASooner
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Scrooge = Albert Finney, Albert Guiness (1970)
A Christmas Carol = George C.Scott (1984).
This dates me I am sure.
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A Christmas Carol = George C.Scott (1984).
This dates me I am sure.
RAS
Yeah that Dickens dude could write timeless works of art.
Even Bill Murray got in on that in Scrooged
Even Bill Murray got in on that in Scrooged
Oh, Dickens was well, forget about it...no words to describe that guy, he was out there.
You know his old man did time in debtors prison? Just whack.
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SoonerTulsan
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I'm an old softie at Christmas. "It's A Wonderful Life" and the original "Christmas Carol".
Not a movie, but Rudolph has been a must see for me for 50 years. Now that I have Grandkids, I get to watch it through a child's eye again. Not much better.
A Christmas Carol, 1951 version with Alistair Sim playing Scrooge.
To me, there is no other Christmas movie like it and no other version of A Christmas Carol nearly as good.
It gets the true meaning of Christmas conveyed....to live EVERYDAY in the spirit of Christmas by being a good, kind and generous person....instead of being so only at Christmas time.
There's no profanity or humor or high tech special effects.
It's a Wonderful Life is good to as it presents a revelation of how a person's life can cause so many ripple effects to the lives of others....how his/her absence could impact the lives of others. When I think of the film's concept, it's pretty powerful.
That is a great, old movie. I have not seen that movie in a long time. I need that movie on DVD.
You can buy that on DVD and it includes both a black and white version plus a colorized version. Either way, it projects a strong message even for the not-so-religious among us.
Godfather. When Tom is buying those toys for his kids, I just couldn't control the tears. And the Christmas lights adorning the hospital where Vito is treated are magnificant!!
Scrroge (the musical) was good.
Also .... i really like Christmas In Connecticut with Barbara Stanwick (1941)
Also .... i really like Christmas In Connecticut with Barbara Stanwick (1941)
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RASooner
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Also "Meet John Doe" = Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyk (1941) is a Christmas movie = directed by the same director of "It's a Wonderful Life" (Frank Capra).
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