Christmas Movies
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I was mostly trying to use one of the most famous quotes from CV. The most famous quote from IAWL has to be, "Every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings." That's just a different sort of experience.
It's not to say that I don't like funny Christmas movies. Like I said earlier, I think Scrooged is likely my favorite. There are some others that are comedies that are way up there. I just think they're more memorable/funnier, and have better stories.
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I voted for A Christmas Story, but that's mainly for Jean Shephard's voice. I'm not especially tied to it.
Honestly, in my family, the traditional Christmas movie we watch is actually another movie with Chevy Chase in it. We watch the Three Amigos when we get together. It was a tradition, growing up, when you opened up each one of your gifts, to loudly announce "IT'S A SWEATER!!" in a Mexican accent, ala El Guapo. That one's all about nostalgia for me.
And that's really my point. Nostalgia can make a movie into an all time great. That's what I think Christmas Vacation has going for it. If you don't have the nostalgia, you're left with a ho-hum, it's been done, comedy. There's nothing necessarily wrong with that, though.
I'm going to say it probably wouldn't be your favorite. It does have a lot of good scenes and I really liked it. Do NOT watch it with your kids until they are older. It definitely promotes drug and alcohol use. Belushi jumping the ladder along the sorority house, removing the horse from the Dean's office, going to the bar are all funny scenes though.
I think some of it is when a person grows up and what is funny/popular at that time, I was working with some people a bit younger than me when Jim Carrey was popular with the Pet detective movies and I never did appreciate them even though they thought they were hilarious.
Way way overrated. There really is nothing special about that movie. Way overplayed too. Also a bit racist at the end
. I like how you copped out too by not really backing your choice.I know that my dad, for example, LOVES Animal House, Blues Brothers, all of it. I never saw BB until I was at least 23 or so, so it wasn't a nostalgia thing for me, either. I'll have to give it a try either when the kids are asleep sometime, or later on.
Yeah, the Pet Detective movies were huge when I was in junior high/high school, but I was never a big fan of them because I just didn't feel like there was a whole lot clever there. On the other hand, I feel like Dumb & Dumber had a lot of clever moments in its very dumbness, so I like it much better than the other Carrey stuff.
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Way way overrated. There really is nothing special about that movie. Way overplayed too. Also a bit racist at the end
Absolutely it's overrated and overplayed. Yep. No argument here. Of the given choices, it's the one I enjoy the best, but I'm under no illusion that it's a great movie. It isn't. The acting is pretty patchy. That's my point. Nostalgia works wonders.
I surprised no one has mentioned Miracle on 34th Street (the original) yet. Classic Christmas movie with the awesome court scene where the dump all of the Christmas letters on the judges desk to prove that Chris is Santa. Good stuff and needed to be on the list IMO.
Way way overrated. There really is nothing special about that movie. Way overplayed too. Also a bit racist at the end
The racist thing is the 3 Amigos part. Just ask Matt Campbell
I just got done watching this on Netflix. Solid movie, and the dysfunctional family aspect was pretty entertaining especially during the holidays with Kevin Spacey and Denis Leary leading the way.
When you have an amp that goes to 11, you win.
You need to watch Animal House, if for no other reason, this:
You must view it soon.
"Blues Brothers" is fine, but I'm highly confident you'll like AH much more (based on general comments about Airplane and Spinal Tap, even though Animal House isn't directly in that mode).
For whatever reason I've never thought of Home Alone as a Christmas movie, either. I've never gone out of my way to watch it at Christmas (or any other time, in fact) in the last 20 years, which, come to think of it, is probably the last time I've actually watched it.
I don't think it was, was it? It's the reason the PG13 rating was created though. They didn't think it was bad enough for R, so by default, it was marked the next lowest, which was PG.
