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What is the Most Christmas Christmas?

A classic Christmas film?
3
9%
Family
12
35%
Jesus & Family
4
12%
A less classic Christmas film?
0
No votes
The Food (don't lie, it's the food)
6
18%
The Presents (you've got birthdays for this)
1
3%
A "Christmas" Film
2
6%
The Shopping
1
3%
Other
5
15%
 
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Christmas! Have you Seen Die Hard Yet?

Postby Forsher » Tue Dec 24, 2019 4:09 am

Is it just me or did we forget to have a Christmas thread last year? And 2017 and 2016. Huh. Anyway, happy Christmas! (And associated, less capitalist holidays.)

Was it just me or was Christmas Eve day hot? And it's still pretty warm now!

Anyway, are you a Christmas fan? A mere enthusiast? Fun for a day, and just a day? Or, perhaps, an apologetic Scrooge? Doesn't matter, here's a place for the "Ho Ho Ho" (pls, no machine guns) and the "Bah! Humbug!"

Muppets Christmas Carol, best Christmas Carol?

Die Hard best Christmas film!?

And the real question... is Christmas with the Kranks under-rated? Dat tan, though.

Actually, it's been a while since I watched a Christmas film. We unplugged the aerial a while back and, well, I know Netflix has a bunch of 'em but the last movies I watched were Star Wars. And the surprisingly Christmasy Ghostbusters 2. It's been a looong time since I saw the Muppets Christmas Carol... we had it on VHS.

Christmas TV specials tend to be very, very cringey. Like a Christmas movie without the "holiday warmth". Saw the Mixed-ish one the other day... classic example of the genre.

So... yeah... been a very un-Christmasy Christmas on my end. Even given the summer time setting (look at the iconography). No family round this year (nor visiting them), either. Oh, yeah, no tree too! Haven't even dived into the capitalism... although we've been eyeing up the Boxing Day sales. Probably spend some of tomorrow figuring out what to look for in terms of a particular purchase. Should be nuts.

So, what say ye, NSG? Christmas Cheer? Or Yuletides Doubts? Or, maybe, what is this?

Also, your life in Christmas movies.
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Postby Albrenia » Tue Dec 24, 2019 4:34 am

I'm a leftie atheist who loves Christmas, which doesn't make sense even to me.

Muppet Christmas Carol is indeed a true classic, up there with Scrooge (with Finney) and other such Christmas gems like Die Hard.

The food is good, but spending time with loved ones is even better. Presents are nice too. :)
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Postby New haven america » Tue Dec 24, 2019 4:41 am

I am honestly slightly annoyed that channels like Cartoon Network or Nick don't play Christmas specials anymore, mainly because they either don't air the shows that had the specials anymore or because they just don't care.

And I'm not talking about the sappy and saccharine specials, no, I'm talking about the weird stuff. Like Billy and Mandy where Santa became a blood thirsty vampire and one of the vampires is played by Malcom McDowell, or when Ed, Edd, and Eddy retold the story of the 3 Wise Men, except they were trying to steal everyone's shit, etc...

Other than that, I'm poor so I don't get to celebrate Christmas.
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Postby Samadhi » Tue Dec 24, 2019 5:01 am

I'm going to watch that die hard movie when I get home.

An action Christmas movie with young Bruce Willis. Sounds tops hey.
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Postby Forsher » Tue Dec 24, 2019 5:16 am

Samadhi wrote:I'm going to watch that die hard movie when I get home.

An action Christmas movie with young Bruce Willis. Sounds tops hey.


1342...5
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Postby Samadhi » Tue Dec 24, 2019 5:21 am

Forsher wrote:
Samadhi wrote:I'm going to watch that die hard movie when I get home.

An action Christmas movie with young Bruce Willis. Sounds tops hey.


1342...5


I'm guessing I'm going to get that later?
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Postby Forsher » Tue Dec 24, 2019 5:26 am

Samadhi wrote:
Forsher wrote:
1342...5


I'm guessing I'm going to get that later?


Nah, it's a ranking. But they never made the fifth one so don't watch it.
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Postby Thermodolia » Tue Dec 24, 2019 5:27 am

For me Christmas is no different than the Fourth of July, and Halloween. It’s just another reason to decorate the house and have parties. For me there’s absolutely zero religious meaning
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Postby Samadhi » Tue Dec 24, 2019 5:29 am

Forsher wrote:
Samadhi wrote:
I'm guessing I'm going to get that later?


Nah, it's a ranking. But they never made the fifth one so don't watch it.


Now that I'm hanging around with you oldies I'm getting all sorts of hidden gems.

So like thanks!
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Postby Page » Tue Dec 24, 2019 5:43 am

Die Hard is a great Christmas movie but I might instead watch Die Hard With a Vengeance, which is not a Christmas movie but it is the best Die Hard.

I will also put on the Bojack Horseman Christmas episode, the Festivus episode of Seinfeld, the South Park one with all the songs (It's Christmastime in hell!), and the Family Guy Road to the North Pole.

Probably A Christmas Story and Christmas Vacation too.
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Postby Aclion » Tue Dec 24, 2019 6:48 am

Page wrote:Die Hard is a great Christmas movie but I might instead watch Die Hard With a Vengeance, which is not a Christmas movie but it is the best Die Hard.

I will also put on the Bojack Horseman Christmas episode, the Festivus episode of Seinfeld, the South Park one with all the songs (It's Christmastime in hell!), and the Family Guy Road to the North Pole.

Probably A Christmas Story and Christmas Vacation too.

have you seen the new south park Christmas episode?
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Postby Luziyca » Tue Dec 24, 2019 6:49 am

I never saw Die Hard, honestly.
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Postby Forsher » Tue Dec 24, 2019 6:49 am

Thermodolia wrote:For me Christmas is no different than the Fourth of July, and Halloween. It’s just another reason to decorate the house and have parties. For me there’s absolutely zero religious meaning


Honestly I'm surprised the Jesus option is winning (although, 3 votes out of 8 is... yeah).

Christmas is almost the perfect capitalist holiday. The only problem is that you're not meant to work on it! Think about it. The whole thing is about consumption, the major iconography comes from advertising, there's a whole genre of films about Christmas messaging (which usually have 0 religious references or, alternatively, Home Alone it and the film itself isn't religious but a character or two might be), people associate Christmas with watching those films (and any affiliated ads or product placement, of course) and the whole modern Christmas industry is meant to have been kick started by a book, i.e. something one buys!

(Hmm... Dickens may have just been reading the trend. Whatever. That's even more capitalist!)

Easter? You buy only one type of thing. Valentine's Day? Excludes too much of the population. Thanksgiving? Too few countries. Halloween? More countries, but still not as many. Guy Fawkes? Everyone tries to ban the essential product... or already has. And so on...
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Postby Forsher » Tue Dec 24, 2019 6:53 am

Luziyca wrote:I never saw Die Hard, honestly.


Add to Foe's List...

Seriously, watch it... it's good. Page may be right that the third one is better, though (today, I prefer the first, tomorrow? who knows?). But it's only the first one that is a Christmas film (the second one is merely set at the same time).

Ignoring all the action movie stuff, it's a pretty classic idea... see the Christmas trailer edit linked in the OP. That is not a misrepresentation of the film's themes... although it glosses over the plot a bit.
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Postby Samadhi » Tue Dec 24, 2019 6:59 am

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Postby Nuroblav » Tue Dec 24, 2019 8:09 am

Congratulations guys! WORLD'S BEST CUP OF COFFEE! I'm so proud of you!

But yeah, Merry Christmas! :D

I'm also a leftie that loves Christmas (but agnostic not athiest) and for me family is what brings it all together. As you can tell, Elf is my favourite Christmas film along with The Muppet's Christmas Carol and Home Alone.
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Postby -Ocelot- » Tue Dec 24, 2019 9:00 am

Albrenia wrote:I'm a leftie atheist who loves Christmas, which doesn't make sense even to me.


I'm an atheist who also celebrates Christmas. It's a Christianized pagan holiday. Not that nonsensical for an atheist to celebrate it lol
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Postby The Huskar Social Union » Tue Dec 24, 2019 9:27 am

Presents, drinks, food, family.

Thats what its all about for me.


Also Diehard as it is the superior christmas movie.
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2nd top comment gets it right - ''There are Christmas decorations. There's a Christmas party. Some guy gets thrown off a building... Sounds like Christmas to me.''
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Postby Farnhamia » Tue Dec 24, 2019 9:58 am

Die Hard is merely Christmas-adjacent. Much of The Godfather takes place around Christmas but it's hardly a Christmas movie. Now, Love Actually ...
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Postby San Lumen » Tue Dec 24, 2019 10:13 am

Farnhamia wrote:Die Hard is merely Christmas-adjacent. Much of The Godfather takes place around Christmas but it's hardly a Christmas movie. Now, Love Actually ...

love actually is my all time favorite Christmas Film. I also really like Ms. Scrooge with Cicely Tyson. Its modern day reimagining of Dickens classic set in in Providence, Rhode Island. Muppet Christmas Carol is great too
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Postby Czechostan » Tue Dec 24, 2019 11:40 am

The most Christmas Christmas for me is waking up and seeing snow. Coming from the Midwestern US, there's usually a 50-50 chance of snow, but it's been so warm this past week, we won't get any this time.

if there's anything my family would watch for the holiday, it's A Charlie Brown Christmas. Or maybe Frosty the Snowman, which was my favorite Christmas film as a kid.
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