Tis the season for watching Christmas movies and stuffing our faces with cookies! What's everyone planning on watching this year? Christmas classics? Holiday horror? And, most importantly, IS Die Hard a Christmas movie?
Tis the season for watching Christmas movies and stuffing our faces with cookies! What's everyone planning on watching this year? Christmas classics? Holiday horror? And, most importantly, IS Die Hard a Christmas movie?
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Die Hard is ABSOLUTELY a Christmas movie.
For us also are "The Ref", "The Long Kiss Goodnight", "Christmas Vacation" and "Bad Santa".
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Die hard is a Christmas movie. So is the first Lethal Weapon movie
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James McAvoy movie Filth is always an essential Christmas watch. One of the most heartbreaking (not to mention incredibly tasteless) films I've seen set during the season. Black Christmas is another essential, too.
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Im planning on watching Gremlins for the first time ever. I'm also upgrading my sole yearly Christmas viewing of Love Actually to Blu Ray. I'd really like to finally watch Krampus or Black Christmas too.
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You've never seen Gremlins?! What are you waiting for.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
I've never seen Gremlins either, Matt! It's on my list every year but I never manage to make it. I vow this to be the year!
Also, Rudolph is on CBS tonight at 8 ET.
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Ok, this is just crazy. You both need to rectify this situation immediately.
And I missed Rudolph, hopefully they'll show it again. I already have a reminder set for when PBS is airing Charlie Brown Christmas because I can't miss that one. I'm still annoyed at Apple for taking it off tv.
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I loved Gremlins when I was a kid. I am pretty sure I even had the lunch box. Thinking about it now, I probably was too young to have watched it. I seriously doubt my wife would let me watch it with my 10-year old. What do y'all think the minimum age for it is? They definitely better not believe in Santa anymore simply because of the story the female lead tells about why she hates Christmas.
I just noticed that I put 2019 in the title when I created the thread. I guess my subconscious took over. I must really want to get out of 2020.
Thanks for the reminder about Charlie Brown. I just set my DVR as well. As I was doing it, I saw that CBS is airing Rudolph again that same night (12/13) at 8pm. So you're in luck!
And I think I'm gonna watch Christmas Chronicles 2 this weekend.
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The lunchbox with Gizmo driving the toy convertible? I had it.
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Recently had the annual view of Jim Carrey's Grinch. It's funny how, with something you watch so often, you can forget something that's there or imagine something that isn't:
- For some reason I had grown completely certain, over the years, that William H. Macy played Cindy Lou's father, but it's not him...
- I'm always surprised that the final feast is in the Grinch's lair
- I'm usually taken by surprise by at least some of the food-oriented clothing characters wear
I never forget the candy cane girls...
When they said how many dollars it would cost, I was amazed at how badly they'd overvalued it - then I realized they'd overvalued the dollars as well.
I love when Cindy Lou's family has the eggnog hats.
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I argue this every single year but there is a difference between a "Christmas movie" and a movie that happens to take place around Christmas.
Good examples of the latter are: Die Hard, Shazam, Gremlins, The Family Man, Trading Places, Batman Returns. These are *not* Christmas movies. They just happen to take place on or around Christmas. The holiday is literally just happening in the background as the movie takes place.
ACTUAL Christmas movies are the ones that deal directly with the holiday itself. The entire Santa Clause trilogy, Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story, Elf, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Ernest Saves Christmas, Christmas With the Kranks, 4 Christmases. They are all about either "saving" Christmas from being ruined somehow or they are about the characters dealing with the holiday in some way.
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Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right . . . but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
Gremlins was on TV last night. I stayed up later than I should have to watch it.
Heather, I watched Gremlins yesterday!
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