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Ahah yeah sorry, I just wanted to tell this anecdote. Well, let me think I will find something for sure ! But I was about to tell the both Burton movies… But already told :-X
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Hhaha jk. But if you think of something, tell me!
I can recommand you too French movies then :
- The City of Lost Children, by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (the director of Amelie) and Marc Caro, one of my fav directors in France (probably my fav even). Cause there’s an occurence of Christmas, ahah but not what you expect. Watch it definitively !
- A French comedy, one of the best ever, Le Père Noël est une Ordure ! DOn’t know if you know about it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084555/
Christmas Vacation
Clark Griswald: “Where do you think you’re going? Nobody’s leaving. Nobody’s walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas. No, no. We’re all in this together. This is a full-blown, four-alarm holiday emergency here. We’re gonna press on, and we’re gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny fucking Kaye. And when Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that chimney tonight, he’s gonna find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse”
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Christmas Vacation
Clark Griswald: “Where do you think you’re going? Nobody’s leaving. Nobody’s walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas. No, no. We’re all in this together. This is a full-blown, four-alarm holiday emergency here. We’re gonna press on, and we’re gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny fucking Kaye. And when Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that chimney tonight, he’s gonna find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse”
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Best mini monologue in christmas movie history right there.
Christmas Vaction
Trading Places
Home Alone
The Santa Clause
Jingle all the way
Die Hard
I’ll be home for christmas
Surviving Christmas
Dutch(Thanksgiving Movie but still good)
Christmas Vaction will ALWAYS be #1 for a Christmas movie.
Others include:
Die Hard
Jingle All the Way
Bad Santa
Elf
and of course
Home Alone 1 & 2
Christmas Vacation is the only good christmas movie.
First of all Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone. As for Christmas movies don’t forget the great ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ and if you want something a bit grindhousey there’s always Bob Clark’s ‘Black Christmas’. And don’t forget Chuck Jones’s animation of ‘The Grinch Who Stole Christmas’. There is always a neverending plethora of Christmas Carols but I gather that ‘Scrooge’ starring Alistair Sims is the best one.
This article http://www.bluejam20.freeserve.co.uk/hudsucker.htm makes a case for viewing ‘The Hudsucker Proxy’ as a Christmas film.
In my country there is also a tradition of certain types of films being around Christmas. ‘Mary Poppins’, Sean Connery/Roger Moore era Bond pictures, ‘The Sound of Music’ and let’s not forget the (untrue) joke about ‘The Great Escape’ always being on Christmas day. I would imagine that Tarantino’s upcoming war movie will become a classic Boxing Day movie on British television in years to come. My dad would certainly be in his apple cart.
Some Christmas telly traditions concerning film in my country have sadly died out. Extremely late night showings of Marx Brothers movies and restored versions of silent classics for example
Of course there is always the big film on Christmas Day:
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The big film events on Christmas day on the BBC are ‘Wallace and Gromit The Curse of The Were Rabbit’ and the thirty minute short ‘Wallace and Gromit A Matter of Loaf and Death’. Corkers!
Last but not least I would like to add ‘Letter To Brezhnev’ as a post Christmas movie. In one argument scene you can see a tree in the living room but there is no feeling of being Christmassy. Clearly the days of Christmas and New Years are past and the decorations are still up until the twelve days are over.
The black and white ‘Miracle On 34th Street’ is meant to be a nice one but ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ is worth watching. You think it will be sugary, sentimental and saccharine but what you see is a man going through dark depression and a mental breakdown.
Merry Christmas folks!
Nightmare Before Christmas is the best Christmas movie. I watch it every year since I was a kid. In Greece it is shown on TV every Christmas but they are so retarded that they have it translated because they think that it is only for children. It must be the only translated film on Greek TV but it is the only one that nobody should ever translate.
This is Halloween by Marilyn Manson (I hope this is the right video, cause I’m at work and my pc has no sound)
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I watched “You Better Watch Out”. It’s a really bad film but watching a bunch of Santas at the police station is kinda fan! http://www.badmovies.org/othermovies/christmasevil/
[quote=“cyber-lili”]2. A French comedy, one of the best ever, Le Père Noël est une Ordure ! DOn’t know if you know about it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084555/
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My brother and I watched it hundreds of times when we were younger, especially during christmas hollidays. It’s on my top 5 french comedies list, top 3 even!
It’s amazing how many times you can watch the same movie over and over again when you’re a child haha, and you never get bored !
Yeah but Le père noël est une ordure and Les bronzés/Les bronzés font du ski are among the best French comedies. You can never be sick of them. Though I totally avoid the new bronzés, didn’t want to be disappointed.
I made the mistake of watching it only to be able to warn people about how bad it is, and yeah, it is very bad…
I guess I should have sticked to reading the plot. Definitely one of the worst movies I ever saw. It’s a shame because Les Bronzés 1 & 2 are classics