I'm not trying to be an edgy contrarian, I just do not like this fricking movie. I know it's a "classic" but it's the most grating holiday film that I've ever seen. When I hear that voice over I just want to punch shit.
I'm not trying to be an edgy contrarian, I just do not like this fricking movie.
So don’t watch it
I don't but I still want to b***h about its existence.
Watch the sequel and b***h about that if you want more support for your whining.
I would really prefer to not do that.
>FRAGILE'
THAT IS SO FRICKING FUNNY HAHAHHAA IT'S LIKE HE'S moronic
Which sequel?
We’ll go then, cry. CRY
Listen JERK! When I say cum, you CUM!
YOU'LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT
I had a Red Ryder.
Brainrot.
Shut the frick up.
You're more than welcome to like it, I don't.
Or an over exaggeration to how I feel about the movie.
This movie is so comfy and funny even as an adult, I am truly baffled that a white person could not like it. It makes me wonder if something terrible happened to you that made you unable to enjoy the comfiest, most nostalgic film from a great period in American history...the midwest pre-Pearl Harbour.
I'm left to assume you're either not white or have some sort of internal bitterness. I don't mean this as an insult. I'm just trying to understand.
This has nothing to do with my race, weirdo.
>White
I'm baffled that a white person can hate this movie. That's why I'm struggling here.
I don't like it.
Thank-you. You've explained nothing.
Jean Shepherd not only isn't israeli, he doesn't have a nasally voice.
I don't have to explain shit, even though I did in this thread. Read.
Which posts are yours?
>pre-Pearl Harbor
Just emerging from the Depression?
Yeah. 1940.
Greatest NFL team to ever play.
was this meant for me?
and if you're referring to the Cowboys, may god help you
I'm referring to the 1940 NFL Champion Chicago Bears led by Sid Luckman who BTFO Sammy Baugh in the most lopsided victory in the history of the sport to this day. The fact that Baugh is still treated like a legend after getting KWABed like that is laughable and the Bears probably go on to win the next 10 straight if they weren't broken up by WW2.
I mean this completely unirinically OP, watch this video it explains it perfectly
>All I can say is, Yikes.
Not OP but it’s so hard to avoid this. It’s like the Mariah Carey song for Christmas movies.
i really liked that album as a kid. never listened to it, but still... really really liked it.
How? Change the channel.
I’m a cowboys fan so I keep the pregame, game, postgame report, espn highlights on all day and remove the batteries from the remote.
that sounds like an atrocious existence
When we have Christmas at your house we can watch Christmas story and die hard. At my house, we watch football. Simple as.
>I’m a cowboys fan
What does you being a homosexual have anything to do with what I said?
>cowsòys fan
Grim
What did Non Americans watch for christmas?
Still seething?
no? I'm just asking
>a major award
post hand color
I also don't like it. It has no moral value.
Sure it does... Be Sure To Drink Your Ovaltine.
it's a christmas story. a story occurs during christmas.
it's not 'a christmas lesson'
Sure it does. It portrays a nonromantic, working class Christmas season during the early 1940s. Over the course of the story everything goes wrong for everybody but they still find happiness in the end. There is an undercurrent of familial love and an understated positivity that is absent today.
It prepares you for the reality of being a married parent for the first decade of your children’s lives, well, if uou lived at a time where 9-5 was standard and only one of you had to work to afford a 2 bed, 2 bath house within walking distance of an all-white school.
If you lived in the 40's maybe.
creepy little israelite
I know what you mean. I loved it as a kid, but for some reason the nasal israelite narrator voice is the only thing that really stuck with me into adulthood.
It's really because you see and hear it every year. My parents will have that shit on loop, now do that for 33 years.
Nasal israelite? Are you ear blind?
It was a good movie, until they started playing it for 24 hours every fricking Christmas.
I take it that your folks played it nonstop.
It's not bad but it isn't some masterpiece either. It's just an okay film that got overplayed.
I didn't grow up in the 40s, but the Christmas in that movie reminds me of my Christmases as a child; experiencing the holidays with a loving family and getting a bunch of fun toys for Christmas (I even got a BB gun one year!).
I can see not liking the movie though, all that must seem alien to you younger posters here. Such a world hasn't existed in at least 30 years now.
This. It's just super comfy and reminds people of their childhood Xmases
I couldn't relate, I wasn't Gen X or a boomer. They made it look miserable, and the holidays can be but it was so far out of my reality because it was something of a bygone era.
Yeah you're right, they just don't celebrate Christmas like they used to! Stupid homosexual
>the world isn’t totally different lol I’m very intelligent
Yes and yes
What?
You're wrong about that. Lonely old men who think they know what modern childhood is like are always wrong about that.
Born in '96 and the film still felt nostalgic for me despite not experiencing anything the MC does in the film. It does capture that Christmas feeling at that age though along with a lot of other childhood feelings that feel strangely authentic. Like when Ralphe was ready to get his shit rocked by his dad but his mom didn't say anything. And all the petty dream sequences.
It's fricked that boomers put in our heads that abuse was something to look back on fondly.
Your head maybe, it's pretty clear that the abuse isn't the focus. The fond memory is when your mom covers for you so you end up avoiding the beating. The headache after crying in anticipation only to be relieved nonverbally just through your moms inaction. I don't think his dad was really going to beat him though, in this film it presents soap in the mouth as abuse from Ralphes perspective.
It wasn't looked back on fondly, it was looked back on with fear. But children often blow up how bad such consequences are.
How did you get that out of the movie?
>abuse
I was under the impression he’d just go on a 10 minute stern but controlled rant about irresponsibility and impulsive behavior and how one day that decision could have gotten him killed or in jail. And after he hears the whole story he’d say “well maybe he deserved it but next time tell him to frick off and that would have sufficed”
That’s all my dad ever did unless I mouthed off to my mom.
Even kids that dont get beat are scared of the consequences of When Dad Gets Home, though. Nothing's worse than getting yelled at by someone who is already very tired and now has to deal with your bullshit the second they walk in the fricking door.
shit, I remember my parents successfully getting me to shit my pants because they said "just you wait till we get home" and when they forgot the relief was like a religious experience
This so much. I used to watch it every Christmas with my friends and family when I was a kid. I still laugh at that movie after all these years. I even own a leg lamp lol
oh fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudge
My dad has one of those leg lamps and he tries to put it up every year for a Christmas decoration but my mom never lets him. Its pretty kino.
>t. Israel
>You used up ALL the glueeee... on PURPOSE! NOTTA-FINGA!
Nah, sorry, OP, the dad just wins me back every time. That scene, and the scene with the dogs getting the turkey make me laugh like a dumbass, every year.
Fa ra ra ra ra
Hm, I wonder who is known for bragging about eating Chinese food on Christmas. Anyone know?
Who, the israelites? Sucks to be you.
In my family, christmas feast was at midday for the kids and old folks, then all the adults would go get smashed and order chinese for dinner
A lot of israelites I know celebrate Christmas any way. They get the tree and the decor they just leave out the Christian stuff and replace it with Hannukah shit.
I had some israeli neighbors and we would go over to each others houses and celebrate Christmas and Hannukah
>Yes not all israelites are muh evil lets kill duh white man people
>please touch grass
The dad is by far the best part of the movie.
If you enjoy it, that's cool. I get why people like it, but it's just been so ran into the ground over being "the" holiday film that always gets overplayed.
At least it's only a day. Freeform and AMC will be playing Elf and Home Alone every day for the next month.
Darren McGavin was always a treat. Ever seen Kolchak?
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I like how the movie distracts you from considering that his father might pull through for him in the end.
He didn't even ask him. The dad literally only got him one because he remembered how happy he was when he got one as a kid. How can someone dislike this.
I just don't like the movie dude, sometimes people don't like things.
Unfathomable. Truly.
I think it may have to do with the overplay, but it's still not something I like. I get the love for it, and I understand it but there's something about it that I find off putting.
>there's something about it that I find off putting.
It's anti-aesthetic. They have tried to make this lewd lowrent leg lamp a thing. So kids see it in stores. And on TV during the Christmas season. That lamp is like a trojan horse, it smuggles in this vaseline lensed 42nd Street sleaze into millions of homes. It is also unsettling how the movie tricks the viewer into thinking it's older than it is. It's aims don't feel sincere. And many people don't relate to it at all. It makes people uncomfortable when flipping past on TV, like some old blanket you want to throw out. It has a monotone bag of coal energy.
Meds. Now.
A lot of shit starts to make sense when you realize that a lot of people here didnt grow up with families that stayed together and actually cared about their kids.
I lived through my parents getting divorced, but they still loved me enough to get me Christmas presents. I feel sorry for some of the anons here.
This. I don't like the movie because it is too real and depressing. My parents divorced when I was a kid and every Christmas after was a depressing, stressful time full of familial strife. I don't want to be reminded of the depressing slog of Christmas, I want the happy movies about Christmas spirit n shit so I can ignore the family bullshit.
But the movie is about family and the Christmas spirit. It's just down to Earth about it. Why would that depress you more than a movie that shows something that you not only never had but which nobody ever had?
Because anon is a fricking pussy
At this point it's not a movie you actively pay attention to. It's just the thing that's on the television in the background for passive noise except when the few key scenes come on and everyone gets a chuckle out of the flag pole or broken lamp bits before going back to their drinks and discussion. And I fully support its current role.
Fair.
its a "classic" because they used to show it on repeat on cable the entire month.
It's a forced classic, but I still like it. When I finally saw the release date I was shocked. I assumed it was an old ass movie and that's why everyone loved it so much
it flopped hard in the box office hence why basic cable channels could pick it up to show on repeat
>It's a forced classic,
That's actually a good way to explain it.
Any holiday classic that isn't? When youre making your name on a niche part of the year it kinda has to be forced at that time.
yeah but this is forced because of cable and kids having nothing else to watch.
Could just change the channel. Like I said though, every holiday classic is forced. Nobody watches that shit until the season comes around even if they do happen to like it.
I feel it was forced, but wasn't. I think there was nastolgia from boomers and there being a movement to make it a classic.
"Ultimately, A Christmas Story collected about $19 million at the box office. It was a good showing, but not great. At the same time, however, home video and cable television were just beginning to grow in popularity, and A Christmas Story crept into the mainstream through videotape and cable broadcasts."
So that's true.
>Chinese food on Christmas trope
There are a lot of hostile elements in the production that aren't anything like the book. It's subtle, but it's there nonetheless.
>nostalgia from boomers
Enough Greatest & Silent Generation were still around to have appeal for them as well.
Having to settle for Chinese food on Christmas is a specific part of the plot because of what happened to their dinner. They're trying to make the most of a bad situation, and the Chinese are the only people open on Christmas.
>hostile elements
>Could just change the channel
it was 1983, cable wouldn't have more than ten channels for years.
So change it to one of the other 10.
the choice was either endlessly changing channels or just picking something.
its okay if you don't understand this, it sucked, and caused a lot of stocholm symdrome viewership.
I understand it. It was the least worst thing on tv by your account. Acting like it's forced when you have other options is disingenuous thoughever.
let me put it in terms you might understand, saw is from your generation, right?
its basically a saw trap.
I don't see how, TV was always the secondary option for entertainment besides playing outside. I had a ton of channels but still only watched a few and if there was nothing on I'd play with my toys. The only way it's comparable to a Saw trap is if this current screen addicted generation only had 2 options to watch.
>TV was always the secondary option for entertainment besides playing outside.
its raining, now what.
>he didn't play outside in the rain
Yikes, so you were that friend? Just letting you know we all thought you were a quivering pussy. Again though, there were toys and games Id still play and I had pretty limited options. There's no way youre trying to act like a kid in the 80s couldn't find something to do aside from watching tv. It's like you're a zoomer larping as gen x.
You realize you're dancing around the types of people who like the movie, right? and talking to someone calling it a forced classic due to stockholm syndrome level conditioning?
Yes I'm aware I'm talking to a schizo autist. But even the weirdos weren't just sat in front of the TV all day. Thats some post 2000s shit.
I established why the movie is a forced classic. you're spewing insults.
>They kept showing it on TV in an era where TV was the 2nd or 3rd option for entertainment at best
>No I couldn't change the channel because...JUST BECAUSE
You didn't establish shit, pussy. Get fricked.
Games, books.
>reading for fun as a preteen
So games it is.
I guess you’ll have to do something with all those new toys you just got you fricking tard.
>he was never "bored" "with nothing to do" despite having tons of toys, video games, friends, etc
its always interesting how there are so many people on Cinemaphile who were never children.
>when he felt like this the only thing that could cull him was 24 hour Christmas Story marathons
... again, that was before it was "a classic."
>you were abducted and strapped to a chair on Christmas Day with your eyes glued open
>you had a remote in front of you
>you could change the channel any time to attempt to find something good on
>or watch a 24 hour marathon of a Christmas special
>and no, you can’t just play a board game or something.
Yeah, man that’s fricked. How is that perfectly legal?
Home Alone was a monster success. Christmas Vacation was traded on VHS and DVD and a truly organic path to classic status, even ESL minorities know all the lines. A Christmas Story's status is a complete fabrication, almost like the media and others got together to hype up the ugliest chinztiest classic possible. Compare its "heart" to The Wonder Years.
Same here, I thought it really was like a 50s movie. And refused to watch it for years because of the forced status.
It's alright, funny at times but not something that I really care about seeing every year.
"Forced classic" should be on the poster. Whole movie is sus.
i like it because it's my father's favorite christmas movie and we used to watch it every year
i'm pretty much sick of all christmas movies at this point and don't feel bad about it at all
>Ralphie mentions or outright asks damn near every adult in the movie about the gun, except his dad
>In the end it's his dad that gets it for him
eat shit it's kino
He tells his dad "jokingly" at the breakfast table, before saying he'd actually rather have Tinker Toys. But yes, it is high kino
Wasn't the old man just reading the paper? I remember the mom swoops in like a hawk to refuse him in that scene
He was privy to the conversation, so I imagine he understood what Ralphie wanted
>it's a "didn't get what I wanted but not ungrateful enough to pout about it" Christmas
>turns into a "got literally everything I ever wanted and I'll never forget this day" Christmas when dad says to look behind the cupboard
Words can never describe this feel. If I have a kid I'll have to pull this b8 and switch at least once.
My dad used to do that, kino
it's a good movie, i especially love when he beats the shit out of the bully and he starts crying
Same. Though I was the kid that ran and cried and snitched on the bully to get him to stop.
That part always triggered something deep down inside me. It reminds me of how miserable I was when I was a child.
The best Christmas movie will always be Christmas Vacation
This. I'm not a fan of the racism and sexism, it really hasn't aged well
I know this is bait, but I can't remember anything in the movie that any tumblrtroon would consider sexist
Um, how about the dismembered woman's leg that's treated as a "major award" and put on display to the neighborhood.
that's sexy, not sexist
I am a fan of those things, but I’ve never seen this movie.
The film is fricking shit
Shit story
Shit actors
Shit narration
Yanks only like it because its >le ebin classicorino!!! HOly epic leg lamp batman!!
>Ralphie finds a porn mag and copies some article word for word imagining himself getting some award from his teacher or some shit
It's only a "classic" to godless yankees, fact.
I like the wizard of oz
This is probably my dad's favorite quote from the whole movie lmao
...Yeah
I like the Tin Man
If I recall correctly, that character is called "Autistic Kid" in the credits.
Man everyone dressed so dapper back then, could you imagine putting a fricking tie on an 8 year old? everyday?
I hate the gym shorts + Minecraft Tshirt + Crocs combo kids are forced to wear up til the age of 14. It's fricking weird.
Flick had that boys code of honor not snitching after the ice pole incident
Shame Ralphie fricked him twice after lying about saying "Frick" and leaving him with Scut Farkus
Flick? Flick who?
It was the other kid he blamed frick on. The little loud mouth shwartz.
Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss chads WYA? It's a shame they didn't get Darren McGavin back as the dad but it's still a good time.
No one considers this a classic. This is the black sheep that everyone tolerates but no one knows why. This gets in the way of all the ACTUAL classics.
someone in this thread is telling you why
I don't feel like reading all of the schizo babble ramblings of people who consider this a classic. QRD?
Never mentioned people who like it. I said people tolerate it by not labelling it as shit and forgetting about it. It's held in high regard with no protests.
I'm pretty sure everyone who enjoys it can specifically say why.
>No one considers this a classic
Sometimes I forget just how far removed Cinemaphile is from the real world. The fact that you can say this without a hint of irony is baffling. It's like talking to a space alien. Whether or not it is good is irrelevant, but it is one of the most celebrated holiday films by orders of magnitude. It's this and It's a Wonderful Life, and nobody actually likes It's a Wonderful Life.
Out of all the holiday "classics", this is the only one I can be sure most people have actually seen more than that one time in school when the teacher showed the Charlie Brown Christmas special.
>nobody actually likes It's a Wonderful Life.
Sometimes I forget just how far removed Cinemaphile is from the real world. The fact that you can say this without a hint of irony is baffling. It's like talking to a space alien.
It's a boring ass movie. Nobody actually likes black and white films that aren't the Twilight Zone. Any time someone tells me their favorite movie is something in black and white, unless it's Clerks or something, I know that they're lying and trying to sound sophisticated.
its "a holiday classic" the same way "die hard is a christmas movie" aging millennials.
same people insist reality must have been altered on the molecular level, affecting literally everything except their memories, when they find they misremembered something.
>No one considers this a classic.
>Sometimes I forget just how far removed Cinemaphile is from the real world
>The fact that you can say this without a hint of irony is baffling
>It's like talking to a space alien
well stated... TBS runs it 24h on christmas going on like 20 years now
Ralphie is definitely the one who broke that lamp probably in a furious fit of prepubescent masturbation.
I can't enjoy it anymore because every leftist woman now looks like the main character kid in that movie. They all give themselves ugly short boy haircuts and wear those ugly thick rim glasses. I expect the kid to start lecturing me about capitalism now whenever I see him. Why do leftist women want to look like the christmas story kid?
I agree. I've always hated A Christmas Story.
This movie is israeli propaganda, and not even the kind you can just ignore and enjoy anyways. It is top to bottom one of the most Semitic films ever made, which makes it all the more worse how it portrays a suburban Christian family.
Kek the schizoposting is gonna be out in full force this year isn't?
Explain
I unironically love this movie wacky chuckle. Holy shite I'm watching it when I don't wage slave
Love this scene
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Santa and the elves had every right to be upset to be working on Christmas Eve
>Don't bother me I'm thinking
lmao based
I love where they just lay dead and defeated at the bottom of the slide till the parents come to get them
Top anime betrayals
I always thought meeting santa was forced and scary. I knew it was just some guy in a suit. I felt like I had to act otherwise I felt bad about the santa guy.
This is a natural response. The percentage of mall Santas that are child predators is roughly 100%. Seriously think about it. Who on Earth would want that job? You have to wear an uncomfortable costume and sit around with a bunch of frustrated parents and frightened children in a cramped little space for hours and hours at a time, and they picked you because you're a giant fat frick. I can't think of a more degrading "job" than that one. And the pay is ass, if you get paid at all. The ONLY way I could see someone wanting that job is if they got something else out of it.
I remember listening to morning talk radio show when I was in high school where a Mall Santa called in and asked how he could stop unwanted erections when kids sat in his lap. He said it wasn't sexual, that his body was simply responding to the physical stimulation and that it had nothing to do with kids. He said he'd probably get hard if a puppy sat in his lap. I doubted his sincerity in the last statement.
Then you remember that mall Santas are usually 50+ and overweight, and so erections aren't likely a problem, even if they are aroused.
>When I hear that voice over I just want to punch shit.
are you autistic?
It's not a great movie, it just has a handful of funny scenes.
Motherfricker just put on the god damn pink bunny suit you gay
jim carrey's grinch is the best christmas movie of all time
That movie always makes me feel sick whenever it airs. Must be the set designs.
>I know it's a "classic"
Everyone knows that it's only a classing because they play it all day on Christmas. It'd have a cult following at best otherwise.
how would you feel if you did/didn't have breakfast this morning?
They started doing that after it became "a classic."
I don't understand, I had breakfast this morning.
Asshurt asiatic
i want that kid publicly flayed
My boomer parents love this movie and say it’s what their Christmas was like growing up. They say they relate perfectly to all those different characters in their life
It’s a slice of life time piece, but also relatable to older generations. I think that’s why people like it. If you don’t like it, you probably just have nothing in common with it - too young, too urban, too religious or w/e
>too urban
Black person no one in the deep south watches this movie
WRONG
>black people do not relate to 1940s """ironic""" nostalgia and family movies
huh
BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE
OP shot his eye out.
The Red Ryder isn't powerful enough to do that anyway. But the movie did cause a lot of sales, eventually.
A kid got shot in the head with a different Daisy air-rifle in '99 and spent the next four years in a coma before dying.
I wouldn't underestimate the Red Rider.
Probably a higher powered one, the red ryder is for kids. 300+ fps, enough to leave a welt.
the pump versions can have as much air pressure as you're strong enough to pump.
This is a mandela effect movie. No one ever watched this in the 90s. It was just Grinch, Scrooged maybe, Griswolds Christmas Vacation. Ask yourself why parents would embrace a "Christmas" movie from the director who made Porky's? They wouldn't.
The leg lamp was never a meme. Whenever it's on TV, every adult always says "what is this?"
What?
My mom's acthually
>Scrooged
Nobody watched it. I have pushed so hard for scrooge’d every year but I finally realized it’s a bad movie.
>zero reason for Karen Allen to lust dreamily after Bill Murray when he constantly acts like the planet’s number one butthole to everyone around him and not in a charming way
>Murray phoning in half the movie and generally coming off as insincere and drunk even when he’s supposed to be softening up
>the weirdly pervasive anti-apartheid messaging in the background of every other shot
>the painfully awkward and surely improvised “Christmas party” at the end of the movie where it feels like they ran out of ideas and told Murray to Wing it while the entire cast stands around looking for direction.
>the cartoon slapstick that starts out fine then descends into cornball antics by the ghost of Christmas present
It really is an afterthought of a film. Strong concept with no follow through on execution.
It's overplayed. Used to be it was just your dad's favorite Christmas movie you'd all watch around Christmas but now it's everyone's
I liked it as a child but it has seemed to overstay it's welcome. Christmas vacation will always be the classic Xmas movie it's perfect
My favorite Xmas flick? Die Hard!
I concur.
Real homies watch It's A Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street, A Christmas story is just baby boomer nostalgia.
Actually, Silent Generation.
Shit, you're right. Just realized Ralphie was born two years after my grandpa and two years before my grandma.
>I'm not trying to be an edgy contrarian
You're not a contrarian, you're just a no-taste-homosexual.
contrarianism isn't real and the only reason people like the movie is because it was broadcast so much is because TBS got the broadcast rights for nothing due to it completely flopping in the box office.
I don't like it, cope.
only brown people dislike this kino
I'm white.
I'm brown and I love it. Even feel nostalgic towards it. The only people I see who hate it are edgy whites.
this is one of those movies where you either grew up in a midwest christian household and its the most apt movie ever made, or you didnt and its a series of vaguely uninteresting holiday skits
i also imagine a lot of this movie is just too outdated for anyone under like 25-30 to really connect with
I'm 33, so that's part of it. Nothing to relate to, and by 1990 it was already pretty outdated.
A lot of the shit that's relatable in this has nothing to do with location, time period, or race. It's just kid shit.
The secret oveiltine thing is so fricking relatable to me. There was this toy called Johnny Apple Bot I wanted so god damn bad and when I finally got it it was the biggest piece of shit on the planet. All that fricking hype destroyed me so fricking bad. It was a real eye opener on commercials and hype.
we really need to raise the minimum posting age to 25
Johnny Apple bot came out in like 2004
and?
And yet we have schizos accusing it of being a israeli movie.
Watched it for the first time a couple of years ago. I've never heard of it in the UK and it was pretty low budget and shit tbh.
Of course it's nothing to do with Christmas and everything to do with some little homosexual getting the particular toy they wanted for "Xmas".
It's fine. I'll go so far as to say that it's actually quite good, but I've probably seen it more times than any other movie and that annoys me. I've definitely seen it more times than my favorite movie (Space Jam 1997), and that wasn't my choice so I feel mildly indignant toward the world for forcing it on me.
Same. I never got the hype. Maybe it's an American thing? But I like other American Christmas classics like It's a Wonderful Life.
I think it's because the kid is an insufferable c**t who gets what he wants and the hardship he goes through doesn't teach him any lessons other than how to be more of an insufferable c**t.
The movie is just a non-white filter in its purest form.
Yeah, this is nothing about anyone's race or religion. Frick out of here.
That's all you, buddy.
How old are you?
I didn't like it until my 30s.
33, didn't like it as a kid either.
Spoke to a girl earlier this morning who told me this is her favorite christmas movie. I'm assuming its just nostalgia, never heard of it but I might watch it soon just to see for myself
Is this your first time having an independent thought?
For my generation, it was insight into how your parents grew up. For Zoomers, it's their grandparents, which is less cathartic. It's a product of its time and I dont blame you for not liking it, bit it reminds me of my mom and dad as kids in the 50s/60s and I miss them.
But what do you guys think about It's A Wonderful Life?
The mom has wonderful breasts...she showed them in "Slap Shot" while in bed with Paul Newman. I would have sucked on Ovaltine all night long...
>I know it's a "classic" but it's the most grating holiday film that I've ever seen.
What are your problems with it my guy
lamp
>lamp
Do you really hate lamp or are you just saying that because it's in front of you?
it's unfocused and unfunny with a meaningless plot and characters that only peripherally give a frick about their own shitty lives.
This is what happens when you try to make auto-bio 'fun' and 'nostalgic'. Works on some mouthbreathers like Forrest Gump and a dozen or so other stories of this type.
You don't like this movie because it speaks to you deep inside and that scares the frick outta you and you're deathly afraid of having simple human emotions untainted by anime or some shit that hack George Lucas dreamed up. FRAH GEEE LAY motherfricker. And oh fudge, too.