Even the movie critics laughed.
Posted on 12/11/2009 1:16:01 PM PST by US Navy Vet
Place your "A Christmas Story" thoughts here
Two kids ... one and five. We’re more in the “Muppet Christmas Carol” stage.
SnakeDoc
I must admit, i never think rocky horror when watching christmas story.
more like pee wee’s big adventure!
One of the coldest most depressing Christmas movies I have ever had the misfortune to see. Those who insisted that I watch this “funny” movie cackled like hens throughout. I didn’t and don’t understand the movies appeal. I also don’t like “It’s a Wonderful Life”. It’s not that I’m a “bah!, humbug”. Just can’t stand those movies.
Even the movie critics laughed.
The DVDs are at every Wal-Mart we’ve been to.
My 1st Copy of “In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash” was a signed copy that I stupidly lent to a friend to read and it never came back....Fuuuuuddggge.
“fraaaaaaaa geeeeeeeeeeeelllll layyyyyyyyy”
As Christmas movies go, Christmas Vacation is the one we latch on to (Does Die Hard qualify as a Christmas movie?).
SnakeDoc
We have it on TBS every year in the background during our xmas celebration. Wouldn’t be the same without them.
Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Charlie Brown Christmas, The Nutcracker Suite, Renee’ Fleming singing ANYTHING Christmas, the black and white “A Christmas Carol” starring Alistair Sim” The Christmas selection from “The Messiah”.
I’ll add what my dad said about the mother every time we watched the movie: “No woman in the 1940s had a hairdo like that. It’s too messy.”
My kids loved it when we first discovered it in 1987 or so. We all have seen it dozens of times, but it's just so well done that I always seem to find something to chuckle about. I fell in love with Jean Shepherd's voice and humor decades ago when Pacifica Radio played tapes of his old radio program, so maybe that is part of the charm.
“Santa’s warm moist breath poured down over me as though from some cosmic steam radiator. Santa smoked Camels, like my Uncle Charles.”
“Does Die Hard qualify as a Christmas movie?”
To me and my 15 year-old boy it does!
Another Christmas movie that we like is “OPUS - A wish for Wings that Work”. By Berkley Breathed of Bloom County fame. So far my kids haven’t been too warped by seeing it every year. It has a great basic story (you can do great things BECAUSE you aren’t like everyone else), along with some really goofy parts, (Bill the Cat, Singing Elvis’s, and a cross-dressing cockroach in crisis.)
Wow, I love A CHRISTMAS STORY. I think what makes the movie work is its heart. Underneath all the laughs (and tears) there is a real heart. Look at the scene where “the old man” asks what the gift is in the corner. He’s just as excited as Ralphie. He doesn’t often show it but you can see the love for his son. It’s little moments like that that make the movie truly special.
While there are numerous joys to be had, one of my favorite scenes is near the end, when “the old man” is sitting in the chair, watching the snow fall. His wife sits next to him and he hugs her. I’ve hugged my wife like that on Christmas night.
Shepherd's oral narrative style was a precursor to that used by Spalding Gray and Garrison Keillor. Marshall McLuhan in Understanding Media wrote that Shepherd "regards radio as a new medium for a new kind of novel that he writes nightly." In the "Seinfeld Season 6" DVD set, commenting on the episode titled "The Gymnast" Jerry Seinfeld says "He really formed my entire comedic sensibility—I learned how to do comedy from Jean Shepherd." Furthermore, the first name of Seinfeld's third child is "Shepherd."
My family and I see "A Christmas Carol" at least once each season, and have done so ever since moving here 15 years ago. I will not see "A Christmas Story" and I detest Eric Rosen for destroying what for many people is a Christmas season tradition.
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