Does anyone outside America think this is a Christmas classic?
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No
No one under 40
I'm a zoomer and most of the kids my age loved the movie.
>kids
You have to be at least 18 to post here.
"Loved" means the past. We're talking about a children's movie. I don't know if the people I went to elementary with are still watching it.
you're a zoomer. You are a child.
A 23 year old child.
it's only a classic because it was spammed on tv for like 40 fricking years
still is
Bingo.
Problem?
It's spammed because it's a classic, moron. What sense does it make to keep rerunning a film nobody likes?
>he doesnt know about timeslots
it's slightly more effective than a yule log
it actually gets worse ratings than the yule log, I checked
then maybe its cheaper to license like wizard of oz
boomers like it, everyone else just puts up with it. it's not a great film
It's a great film wtf are you talking about
Cope harder zoomer
It's good, and quotable with normies if you need to get brownie points socially. Just watch it with your family gay, there's not a gun pointed to your head over it.
>frajeelay
>the bumpusus
>you'll shoot your eye out, kid
>fuuuudge
>it's smiling at us
>be sure to drink your ovaltine
>you used up all the glue on purpose
there's all your quotes. you can thank me later. I've seen it too many times already. there's a few good narrator quotes you're gonna get out of it but that's it
you will look like the biggest fricking boomer if you try to quote anything from that film grandpa
What about it dont you like as a film? Saying shit like "it's boring" sound just as valid as when people say "it's fun"?
>Zoomers hate it, everyone else loves it. It's a great film
ftfy
Zoomers grew up watching it on tv, they don't hate it.
Maybe Gen Alpha hates it.
Is Gen Alpha even old enough to operate a keyboard?
>Gen Alpha
Fricker are already 12 years old
Wtf I hate the passage of time.
A phone keyboard at least.
ZOOM ZOOM ZOOMY ZOOM ZOOM
He's right. You're just using circular reasoning
A Christmas Story wasn't a hit and Turner bought it for cheap.
Yeah but just spamming a movie nobody likes isn't enough to get people to love it. It makes more sense that it had a cult following and more people started to watch and love it with exposure.
>a movie nobody likes
>they showed it to people and now they like it
So it IS a good movie, it just needed more exposure, which it got thanks to based Turner?
Yes
It's a classic because it's simple, christmas-themed, and ends with a happy kid that got what he wanted instead of "something even better that didn't cost any time and money"
Even relatability doesn't really matter for shit in the shadow of those three things. The nets are constantly trying to push other bullshit like Elf as "the christmas shit", and they don't take because one of those three criteria fail.
We're getting a sequel to spam for another 40 years
is it literally just the same movie again? his radio show covered a million different topics
It's an absolute classic that only white people can ever understand. It is such a white classic that there are even white people who don't understand it; that's how fricking white it is. Great. Watch it every year with my brother.
Why should anyonecare what people outside America think?
I live in the Netherlands and I love this movie, it really Subverted my expectations
Does anyone outside America matter?
This is not only my favorite Christmas movie but one of my favorite movies of all time. Unironically. Ask me anything.
Is this the one with the kid that says "I like Tin Man"?
Yes.
Based. Maybe it IS really only for an american audience but it's the true blue american child's christmas experience in a nutshell. No movie will ever encapsulate what a real life christmas is for a kid in America better than A Christmas Story. It's honestly less of a christmas movie than it is just a slice of life movie about a kid in America that just so happens to take place during the holiday season.
>Maybe it IS really only for an american audience
Not at all it's for anyone with sufficient intelligence
when I was a 10 year old kid I had a friend do this and got his tongue stuck too. I went to my house to get a cup of hot water to get him unstuck but before I got back his mom yanked him hard off and he had to go to the doctor because his tongue got fricked up. I thought his mom was weird before then, after that I figured she was moronic. I was even blamed for him doing it when it was entirely his idea to imitate the movie when he knows exactly what would happen.
Its my #1 followed by Halloween
I guess i have a thing for holiday movies
if it's such a classic, why have I never seen it?
Cause you're underage and gay.
Because your parents never loved you enough to show it to you.
>Does anyone outside America think
No and no one cares if they did.
Every year a bar in my neighborhood puts the leg lamp on display and one year a homeless guy kept getting caught jerking off to it
Based homeless coomer.
I wonder what he'd do at a strip club
It was before it was memed into the ground. I can’t believe they are making a sequel that looks like a rejected script for Christmas vacation 3. (The uncle die spin-off is technically cannon)
it'll probably turn out like this dogshit
>Oh lawd haha he be makin that face!
Oh my god this looks hilarious!!
>sovlless plebs
it was genuinely funny though
>With Chris Helmsworth
lemme guess he plays a bit role and is in it for less than 1 minute isn't he
he seems like the kind of guy who'd enjoy making shitty straight-to-video(streaming?) christmas movies
hallmark channel coombait for middle aged women
>chef's kiss
exactly like that yeah, i watch all the D-listers' mystery movies.
He's like the rich cousin or something and (surprise surprise) almost cucks Ed Helms. It's worth it though because there's an entire scene where he's talking to them in bed and his massive 9 incher is peeking out of his underwear. Shame that the real thing's probably the size of my pinky with how many steroids he's on
They already made a bad sequel
>They already made a bad sequel
I knew it was bad before watching but I couldn't even finish it. The scene where Ralph is working in the department store was enough for me to tap out.
What's so bad about that? Do you think he'd be too traumatized to ever go back there?
vince vaughn is in the new sequel also there were 2 sequels already plus the author did some pbs movies about the characters
Certain movies REALLY should never get sequels. I can't believe such an obviously bad and creatively bankrupt idea like a sequel to A Christmas Story could ever even find funding.
There's like 8 fricking movies about Ralphie and his family.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Family_Saga
This seriously blew my mind because I don't remember seeing any of this other stuff when I was a kid. Though I don't know how much the new movies have to do with the author's original writings.
probably because you could only find these movies fallen behind the rack at a gas station bargain bin
This is a crime and the people responsible need to be brought to justice.
I only watch the two Grinch films for Christmas these days - both animated and live action. If I had kids I'd probably run the whole gambit with them but idgaf anymore as I'm a sour old man and relate to the Grinch.
I have kids. We do Rudolph and Frosty when they air on TV. Then we usually hit Home Alone 1+2, Santa Clause, and Year Without. After that it's pretty much up in the air. Live action and classic Grinch usually make it in.
It's a classic for Americans because it's a slice of Americana.
people outside america dont have classic movies, or mostly movies.
The film is kino. An all-American boy wants army toys out of a misplaced sense of how to bond with his veteran pop, but what he wants most of all his own gun. But before he can be worthy of such a gift, he needs to grow up a bit and learn to stand up for what's right. Then he gets the gun and it is dangerous, but he's alright—just like the family's dinner is ruined, but they manage just fine with their smiling Chinese duck.
Dude got old
That's not him unless he did a lot of drugs in the past several years.
>We have Daniel Craig at home.
I have vague memories of it from my childhood and saw it again last winter. It is pretty kino ngl.
I've never seen it but I can guarantee Jingle All The Way is way better
hope the new sequel with real Ralph is at least decent but not getting my hopes up
No lel but I still watch it every Christmas
Oh my god, he has the most punchable fricking face known to man
Who cares what they think
NOT A FINGER
>November
>posting about Christmas movies
What's going on?
Christmas starts November 1st. We take a short break for Thanksgiving and then it's back to Christmas until the Ball drops January 1st. Then we all get kinda depressed that we have to wait another year for the holliest jolliest time of the year to come around again.
Worst part of the year tbh
>Thirty years after the events of A Christmas Story, Ralphie returns to his former home in Hammond, Indiana with his wife and children and reunites with his old friends. His mother, now widowed after the passing of the Old Man, convinces Ralphie to give his family the kind of magical Christmas the Old Man always did; Ralphie soon realizes that the task is much more difficult than it seemed when Ralphie was a child
this sounds beyond bland. Is there any hope this sequel will be any good?
that honestly sounds like it could be okay, the adult take on a christmas story. hate kids, hate work, hate presents, hate christmas.
It's just a corny movie that became a tradition. It doesn't need to be good, gay.
adam west was the real star of the movie
I hate Christmas
I have never heard of it. For me the Christmas classic is about the elf who makes a shitty toy machine and gets kicked out of the North pole
Why would I care what anyone outside of America thinks?
I loved it when I was 8, watched it a few years ago and it's corny and not funny.
thats what christmas is all about
I hate boomers telling me that I need to watch this, Charlie Brown, It's a Wonderful Life and Honeymooners Marathons around the holidays. Frick all those movies and shows. Frick them.
All absolute kino. No wonder nobody makes christmas movies, we've already got all the perfect christmas content we'll ever need.
Seething zoomer moron. Let me guess you hate them because there are no BMWF couples.
Well that WOULD improve them
Frick you degenerate freak
don’t forget National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, yet more boomer Christmas hilarity
I don't like A Christmas Story, but Charlie Brown and It's a Wonderful Life are good.
It's soulful and captures really well what Christmas was like in the 60s.
After googling it, apparently the movie takes place in 1939.
Christmas Vacation is the true king of Christmas movies.
i hate all the vacation movies but i have come around on chevy chase more generally
Christmas Vacation is the best movie for capturing what Christmas time is like for adults and A Christmas Story is the best for capturing what it is like for children.
christmas story is like 3 generations removed from being anything relevant anymore
I'm 26 and it's absolutely what christmas was like for me as a child. Zoomers are the only ones who can't identify with having friends and playing outside and getting into fist fights and wanting toy guns as a kid
>Zoomers are the only ones who can't identify with having friends and playing outside and getting into fist fights and wanting toy guns as a kid
Pretty much.
Maybe not for modern kids that have a tablet and a cell phone by the time that they’re able to talk.
Not really. Christmas is all about remembering Christmases of the past. You basically have your classic Victorian England Christmas inspired by Christmas Carol and your classic American Christmases of the early to mid 20th century. Those will never fade away or become irrelevant.
Good interpretation. I also agree they're top two. I personally also love Jingle All the Way and the Santa Clause, but I wouldn't argue their timelessness.
I don't really like it. It's kinda miserable and boring for a Christmas film. I first saw it in 2005, and I would be fine never seeing it again.
>kinda miserable and boring
That's childhood you empty frick.
>miserable and boring
Have you missed the last scene homosexual?
>Does anyone outside America think
Who cares?
>Does anyone outside America...
Who fricking cares
At least it's not Elf
Santa Clause 1 with Tim Allen holding out in the way Jingle All the Way memes wish they could.
What did they mean by this?
totally would
She's only 800 years old, you sick frick.
You just know
The Santa Clause is legitimately one of the strangest movies ever made
can someone restream it please I want to watch this comfy movie with you guys
pls
Yes absolutely I do and I'm 25.
Remind me again why is the Christmas story 2 so hated, it's a solid movie on its own.
I have only began seeing Christmas story on TV in the past 10 years or so here in Europe but picrel and Home Alone are the real classic here as far as I know.
Still a classic for me.
I watch this every year just so I can look at the wife's breasts.
i don't think she shows her breasts in Christmas Vacation.
Well, duh, but you can admire them through the shirt.
MILF for sure.
I always forget how hawt she was
looks like brie larson
>mfw I see a non-American talking
S-Tier Christmas movies:
Home Alone
Christmas Vacation
Die Hard
It's a Wonderful Life
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Everything else is ranked below. A Christmas Story is boring boomer-tier.
>Die Hard
Stopped right there. Incel vibes went off the charts.
>Die Hard
Cinemaphile doesn't like Die Hard?
Calling it a christmas movie is peak reddit.
Why?
>"Liking good movies is for homosexuals"
Calling Die Hard a Christmas movie is for for homosexuals.
Absolutely cringe christmas movie list. Consider suicide.
No, S-tier should be this.
It’s a wonderful life
Miracle on 34th street (the original one)
Jingle on the way
Scrooged
Christmas evil
1941
It's the Christmas movie version of Forrest Gump. Literally just 90 minutes of boomer nostalgia bait that you could only appreciate if you grew up in middle America in the mid 20th century
Or you could apreaciate it if you wished thing would go back to the way they were back then.
It's A Wonderful Life is infinitely superior in that regard and actually has a good story and likable characters and isn't just one unfunny boomer joke after another
>It's A Wonderful Life is infinitely superior
You are correct, but Christmas story is still infinitely superior to almost every single movie made in the past 15 years.
No wonder zoomers are all gay and depressed, your lives truly suck.
For me its these two.
Extremely based. These two and pic related are the greatest christmas villains ever.
Rankin/Bass Christmas movies have so much soul. Impossible to recreate.
Here's the newest Christmas movie classic!
I've never seen the appeal of this movie. Its a sad, boring, slog to watch, how the frick is this shit story with a bummer ending supposed to get me in the holiday spirit
welcome to christmas, the chinese food place is fantastic though
>welcome to christmas
I will give this movie credit, it does show how miserable and awful Christmas as a kid can be. Its a fine slice of life story. It doesn't help that we gotta beat this dead horse every year. when I watch a 'Christmas Movie' I'd rather not be reminded how much the holidays actually suck.
How the frick is it sad? Because the Bumpus hounds ate their turkey? They went to a chinese restaurant and ate a duck and watched funny chinamen cut its head off in front of them and sing christmas carols in terrible chinese accents, they all had a good time anyway and now they have a funny story to tell everyone for the rest of their lives.
The whole atmosphere of the movie is gloomy. I dont want to watch an irritated mall Santa kick a kid down the slide - not in a Christmas movie at least
i absolutely hate it and the annoying child protagonist
Found the israelite
>hates based average american christmas boy
>bugposter
Yeah, we've got ourselves a homosexual on our hands.
My favorite Christmas film, and probably the best Muppets film. Michael Cain is a boss.
Wow someone with some actual taste.
You'll be pleased to know the original VHS extended cut with When Love Is Gone included is being released in HD this December.
love this one
>we can't get the antlers to stick to this little guy's head
>have you tried staples?
>WOULD YOU STOP WITH THE DAMN HAMMERING, PLEASE??
>The b***h hit me with a toaster!
carol kane has given me confused boners my whole life
Same, something about that voice and tiny body.
>yfw there is no sequel with a dying old man going back to his lovely home town
FRAGEELAY
Chilean here. Canal/channel 13 shows this movie every year. Yes, is a classic.
This movie is pure kino and soul
Nice family movie following the struggles of a kid growing up in a nice comfy time. I legit cannot imagine hating this movie, if this were made today Ralphie would be asking for HRT
>I legit cannot imagine hating this movie, if this were made today Ralphie would be asking for HRT
That's probably why the people in this thread hate it, Ralphie is a normal kid and not a sexual assault victim trying to overcome muh traumas by battling a CGI monster while referencing pop culture every 90 seconds.
they dress him up in a pink bunny onesie and his aunt is convinced he is a girl. one of the gags in the film. his parents make him dress in the pink suit all morning
And it's shown as being an embarrassing thing, it's not praised
Lol that you really tried to make that argument
it's offensive to my culture
Good
The culture of being a homosexual?
pwned
The fact that you typed this out is proof of your mental illness. It's not a sexual thing in any way, it's just funny to see him in a ridiculous costume that his out of touch aunt got him. Seek god, or at least professional help.
it's a joke that his aunt thinks he's a girl. it's not a joke to confuse children about their gender and make them dress up like little girls
No where in the movie is it stated or even implied that Ralphie is confused about his gender for any reason at all. This costume doesn't even look feminine, it just looks stupid, which is the joke. This wasn't even a conversation until mentally ill trannies started hypersexualizing everything around them. In fact, this probably wasn't even a conversation at all anywhere until you made it up just now. Seek god.
maybe it's time for us to have that conversation. the movie has not aged poorly. the plot revolves around a little boy who yearns to own a gun. there is a lot of toxic masculinity in it displayed by not only the boys in the film, but also their fathers. the emasculation of ralphie on christmas shouldn't be the butt of a joke
not aged well. frick
Nice bait
I had a similar bunny costume as a small kid
Holy shit a PINK Bunny costume!!! What a fricking riot Ahahahahahahahahaahahaha
Sure was.
It's an exaggerated joke about the relatable experience of having that one relative who insists on sending you a token Christmas gift every year, despite seeming to have at best a vague idea of your age and interests. You're a boy in elementary school who likes Mighty Max and videogames? Sorry, you're getting a waterproof wallet this year because that's what was offered on the endcap at the drugstore checkout line when your great aunt remembered she's supposed to buy you a Christmas gift.
I always hated this stupid fricking movie
explains a lot of why boomers are so moronic though
no. it's highly insular to the american "culture".
I want to show this movie to my Japanese girlfriend but there is no copy of this movie with Japanese subtitles or a dub. I bet no one in Japan knows about this film. So I guess I'll show her A Christmas Carol instead.
>Japanese subtitles or a dub
Does she not like understand english?
fyi there's misappropriated racism toward the japanese being applied to chinese characters in the movie
Didnt this kid get denied by the 30 year old looking chick for prom
The real Christmas kino is the Rankin and Bass stop motion specials.
meh, rankinbass is for hobbits not stop motion.
We had this movie on either VHS or Dvd I dont remember, but I refused to watch it because I hated the glasses kid's face on the cover kek
ahhh, fra-gee-lay, must be Italian!
Do snobby euroshits consider anything a "Christmas Classic" other than maybe some obscure BEE BEE SHEE production of A Christmas Carol or some kind of Mary Poppins shit?
Yes, German here. My uncle loved it and watched it every season while the British film
>Little Lord Fauntleroy
is THE Christmas movie in Germany airing every year on multiple channels yet Britbongs do not know it even though it has
>Sir Alec Guinness
in it.
So yeh weird how a british thing is super big in Germany but Anglos have never even heard of it.
I fricking hate this movie, I'm serious. I've had to hear it every Christmas for 32 years of my life on repeat.
A better ending would have been the bully beating him to death, or the ricochet from the bb gun getting him in the throat. Now that's what I call an ending.
>32 years
If you don't like it so much just stop watching it already.
Parents put in on at Christmas, every Christmas morning into the afternoon. So it's multiple hours of that
Christmas Vacation is proto-Reddit a la snarky above-it-all Joss Whedon humour
>Not just jerking off Boomers who miss the 50's
>White family with 5 kids and tons of cousins shown as normal/cool
>Theme of growing up and learning life-skills and self-defence
>Christian values, the hero finds an ally in a church
>Loved around the world, people still go to the Chicago suburbs to look at the house 30 years later
but on the other hand there's the good son which makes it all extremely creepy
>miss the 50s
It's set before the 50s.
There is no real snow in this movie. Its all soap. If you see something you think is snow, its fake (usually soap)
thats how movies work, can't have 200F lighting and snow
what do you think they used in this scene? snow?
>Snow.. poisoning!
>OOOOOOOOOOHHHHH!
i hate it
This is one of those things that is kinda shit and people only like it because it's a tradition.Honestly pretty much all holiday media is that way
I live in Canada and they never play it on TV here. No one even seems to know about it. I only know about it because I used to live in the United States
Bullshit. They play it on CBC
I’ve never noticed it. They must not play it very often.
Who gives a frick what anyone outside America thinks?
it was horrible to realize how, most people don't get annoyed/bored/frustrated by having to watch the same shitty thing over and over, and, instead, start liking that same shitty thing.
No.
Literally only heard about it from reading the TVTropes page for Fallout
I've never see it, it's not shown at Christmas here in Australia, even when I was a kid. Maybe before Port Arthur it might have been but I don't remember it ever being on tv here despite virtually every Christmas movie getting played on tv at Christmas.
No its dogshit
I watched this one Christmas night while eating Turkey
Next day I threw up
It's never on here in Sweden. And we love american christmas movies, National lampoons Christmas vacation and Home Alone airs every year on some channel.
Having watched this anyway recently I can understand why it never airs here. It's a movie without any real warmth and Christmas joy. It's such a cold and materialistic movie. it literally ends with the kid getting the toy gun he really wanted. Then he shoots himself with it! There's no moral being taught, no cold hearts being melted by the spirit of the season, etc...
No heart, no warmth and no Christmas spirit. This movie isn't very good. It almost feel cruel.
>There is no moral
Ralphie got the toy he wanted because he was not only persistent but didn't let people get him down when they told him it was a dumb idea.
Just watched it for the first time this week. Classic or not, it's as wholesome a film I've seen, other than some slightly bawdy moments like the fishnet leg lamp.
Made today, the cast would be wildly different, as would the themes, the setting, and the dialogue. It would be the trash Disney+ churns out. Gets the noggin joggin as they say.