Re: Best Christmas Movie?

by **MiamiSpartan** 2020-12-12, 11:08

DWags wrote:
Rocinante wrote:Scariest Christmas movie:
Polar Express.

Spartan writer?

The writer's parents were among my grandparents' very best friends. But I never met them. That's pretty much the extent of my knowledge about him.

by **StylesGShmooth** 2020-12-14, 14:28

Nordic wrote:Good bump. But let me remind everyone of the rules: "If anyone says Die Hard you will be banned"

Lethal Weapon

by **Nordic** 2020-12-14, 15:20

StylesGShmooth wrote:
Nordic wrote:Good bump. But let me remind everyone of the rules: "If anyone says Die Hard you will be banned"

Lethal Weapon

by **steveschneider** 2020-12-14, 18:42

Just want to say as a kid I found the ending of Frosty The Snowman when he's a melted puddle in the green house was pretty upsetting. His life ended so suddenly and you were forced to accept the loss.

by aualum06 2020-12-14, 18:47

He's going to call the cops.

From a treehouse?

by **MiamiSpartan** 2020-12-14, 21:12

steveschneider wrote:Just want to say as a kid I found the ending of Frosty The Snowman when he's a melted puddle in the green house was pretty upsetting. His life ended so suddenly and you were forced to accept the loss.

Steve has lost his innocence.

Also, a 25 minute cartoon is not a movie fergodsakes.

by AvgMSUJoe 2020-12-15, 08:48

MiamiSpartan wrote:
steveschneider wrote:Just want to say as a kid I found the ending of Frosty The Snowman when he's a melted puddle in the green house was pretty upsetting. His life ended so suddenly and you were forced to accept the loss.

Steve has lost his innocence.

Also, a 25 minute cartoon is not a movie fergodsakes.

And didn't he come back with the magic hat? I think that was the point, wasn't it?

by **steveschneider** 2020-12-15, 08:55

I watched Planes, Trains and Automobiles before Thanksgiving and this thread has me thinking about Home Alone.

John Hughes has some common themes in his films - he touches upon being apart from families and the relief of reunification on a holiday. His main characters are successful and conventional but as the stories progress the characters exhibit compassion to someone living off the grid, lost a family member and suffering from loneliness and the pain of loss. In his art there's this interaction of middle class and the poor. His middle class characters always have a family and the lower class characters have experienced a tragedy/loss/abandonment.

by **MiamiSpartan** 2020-12-15, 10:04

steve is George, and every one of us are Jerry upon reading that post.

by **steveschneider** 2020-12-15, 10:21

MiamiSpartan wrote:steve is George, and every one of us are Jerry upon reading that post.

Haha. Honestly this year Planes, Trains and Automobiles didn't give me as severe reaction as George but it's a bit heavy when he returns to find Del Griffith alone in that El Station.

by **WhiteBoyHatcher** 2020-12-15, 11:10

John Hughes also directed Christmas Vacation and none of that dumb shit takes place. Lower class character (Cousin Eddie?) suffering loss - daughter in the clinic getting cured off the Wild Turkey??

Fucking steve

by **InTenSity** 2020-12-15, 11:27

WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:John Hughes also directed Christmas Vacation and none of that dumb shit takes place. Lower class character (Cousin Eddie?) suffering loss - daughter in the clinic getting cured off the Wild Turkey??

Fucking steve

Spoiler alert?!?

by **steveschneider** 2020-12-15, 11:53

WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:John Hughes also directed Christmas Vacation and none of that dumb shit takes place. Lower class character (Cousin Eddie?) suffering loss - daughter in the clinic getting cured off the Wild Turkey??

Fucking steve

Best Christmas Movie? - Page 3 502811600

Dumb shit? I didn't write the movies I'm just pointing it out.

The other common theme is dysfunctional family dynamics with a child feeling alienated from their parents. All of his films have the similar type of young character that finds their parents completely uncool and it's the source of their unhappiness. I think he explores the human condition, our relationships can bring great frustration, can be agonizing but we are a social creature and isolation can bring about it's own sets of challenges.

by **WhiteBoyHatcher** 2020-12-15, 12:14

Ruby Sue???

by **GRR Spartan** 2020-12-15, 13:17

Classic favorite at our house is the 1984 Christmas Carol with George C Scott as Scrooge.

A Christmas Story because it is so 1950’s Midwest

Polar Express again because it’s s Midwest. The book and movie incorporate street scenes from author Van Allsburg’s EGR childhood neighborhood and a now torn down home that was behind the GR downtown YMCA.

Elf. Will Ferrell, James Caan. Pure silliness and joy.

by **Nordic** 2020-12-15, 16:18

steveschneider wrote:
WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:John Hughes also directed Christmas Vacation and none of that dumb shit takes place. Lower class character (Cousin Eddie?) suffering loss - daughter in the clinic getting cured off the Wild Turkey??

Fucking steve

Dumb shit? I didn't write the movies I'm just pointing it out.

The other common theme is dysfunctional family dynamics with a child feeling alienated from their parents. All of his films have the similar type of young character that finds their parents completely uncool and it's the source of their unhappiness. I think he explores the human condition, our relationships can bring great frustration, can be agonizing but we are a social creature and isolation can bring about it's own sets of challenges.

Hatch doesn't like it because there is not enough guns and violence for a xmas movie.

I feel ya Steve.

by **Nordic** 2020-12-15, 16:21

GRR Spartan wrote:Classic favorite at our house is the 1984 Christmas Carol with George C Scott as Scrooge.

A Christmas Story because it is so 1950’s Midwest

Polar Express again because it’s s Midwest. The book and movie incorporate street scenes from author Van Allsburg’s EGR childhood neighborhood and a now torn down home that was behind the GR downtown YMCA.

Elf. Will Ferrell, James Caan. Pure silliness and joy.

All solid choices. Christmas Story and Elf are in my top 5. The Grinch (Jim Carrey version) is in there as well.

by **DWags** 2020-12-15, 16:33

Nordic wrote:

Hatch doesn't like it because there is not enough guns and violence for a xmas movie.

I feel ya Steve.

Don’t know why this wasn’t locked on the first page when I named Die Hard as the greatest Christmas movie ever. It has guns blood explosions boobs cocaine Christmas carols, kissing, twinkies football games, Roy Rogers.

WTF do you people want?

by **steveschneider** 2020-12-15, 16:53

WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:Ruby Sue???

Yeah, you are right Eddie's family is together. There really isn't the loner character like there was in the Home Alone or Planes Trains and Automobiles.

Class is definitely a part of the film though.

by **The Pantry** 2020-12-15, 17:39

White Christmas. Not a big fan of musicals but a late Christmas Eve staple. Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Danny Kaye, and Vera Ellen. Not certain many, if any, dancers of today could keep up with Vera.

by AvgMSUJoe 2020-12-15, 17:52

Watched Holiday Inn on Pbs a couple weeks ago thinking it was White Christmas, but it only has the song White Christmas and it's a different story. Still pretty good.

by **WhiteBoyHatcher** 2020-12-15, 23:13

New entry - War for the Planet of the Apes. Lots of snow.

by **Rocinante** 2020-12-16, 13:28

Come out to the coast
We’ll get together
Have a few laughs

by **Watch Out Pylon!** 2020-12-16, 14:05

This. Pretty sure this is supposed to take place in Mount Pleasant, so bonus!

by aualum06 2020-12-16, 16:21

Watch Out Pylon! wrote:

This. Pretty sure this is supposed to take place in Mount Pleasant, so bonus!

That doesn't look like mt pleasant

by **MiamiSpartan** 2020-12-16, 17:00

Watch Out Pylon! wrote:

This. Pretty sure this is supposed to take place in Mount Pleasant, so bonus!

I saw it way back when it first came out, but I was thinking it took place in the UP? Or maybe was filmed there? I thought there was some connection around Munising.

by **WhiteBoyHatcher** 2020-12-16, 22:18

Step Brothers

by **Watch Out Pylon!** 2020-12-16, 22:46

MiamiSpartan wrote:
Watch Out Pylon! wrote:

This. Pretty sure this is supposed to take place in Mount Pleasant, so bonus!

I saw it way back when it first came out, but I was thinking it took place in the UP? Or maybe was filmed there? I thought there was some connection around Munising.

Well it's somewhere in Michigan. Come on. A young Affleck, Charlise Theron. Gary Sinese. Based somewhere in Michigan!

by **Nordic** 2020-12-16, 22:57

WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:Step Brothers

by **WhiteBoyHatcher** 2020-12-16, 23:02

Hey man. If you've never wanted to go drink by yourself at The Cheesecake Factory on Christmas Eve because your kids were driving you nuts, that's your problem not mine.

by **WhiteBoyHatcher** 2020-12-16, 23:10

Nordic seems to have lost his 🦖

by **Other Teams Pursuing That** 2020-12-17, 01:09

by **MiamiSpartan** 2020-12-17, 06:47

Watch Out Pylon! wrote:
MiamiSpartan wrote:

I saw it way back when it first came out, but I was thinking it took place in the UP? Or maybe was filmed there? I thought there was some connection around Munising.

Well it's somewhere in Michigan. Come on. A young Affleck, Charlise Theron. Gary Sinese. Based somewhere in Michigan!

Looked it up. Set in the UP of Michigan, but filmed in Vancouver.

by **DWags** 2020-12-17, 08:44

WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:Hey man. If you've never wanted to go drink by yourself at The Cheesecake Factory on Christmas Eve because your kids were driving you nuts, that's your problem not mine.

I have a promise for you. When they hit their 20’s that flip flops. Hang in there.

by **Nordic** 2020-12-17, 15:23

AvgMSUJoe wrote:Watched Holiday Inn on Pbs a couple weeks ago thinking it was White Christmas, but it only has the song White Christmas and it's a different story. Still pretty good.

How many murders? If under 2, GTFO

Signed,
WBH

by **CORNER BLITZ** 2020-12-17, 16:38

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by **CORNER BLITZ** 2020-12-17, 16:43

Or the snapchat Photoshop version

by **WhiteBoyHatcher** 2020-12-17, 17:05

Nordic wrote:
AvgMSUJoe wrote:Watched Holiday Inn on Pbs a couple weeks ago thinking it was White Christmas, but it only has the song White Christmas and it's a different story. Still pretty good.

How many murders? If under 2, GTFO

Signed,
WBH

Wait why do I need murders in my Christmas movies? Step Brothers didn't have any murders.

Here is an underrated not very popular Christmas movie that I like. It's hokey but kind of funny. Trapped in Paradise.

by **Wally Fairway** 2020-12-18, 09:56

1 (still) - Scrooged (don't miss the opening sequence)
2 - Surviving Christmas
3 - Family Man
4 - Fred Claus, 4 Christmases, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Trading Places

by **The Pantry** 2020-12-18, 10:04

Forgot about Trading Places...good one.

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