Posted on 12/24/2020 7:12:27 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Thank you, Dan in Wichita...and all the same to you and yours.
The movie, with Linda Hamilton as the German mother, was good to watch. It is one of those “tradition” movies for me now.
I also have a wonderful short story I have read every year (usually on Christmas Eve) but I read it last night: Frederick Forsythe’s “The Shepherd” about a cold war British fighter pilot who in 1957 is flying a Vampire jet fighter from his base in Denmark to a base in England late on Christmas Eve, and encounters radio and equipment malfunctions that threaten him with icy death in the English Channel, but he is guided to a deserted WWII airfield by a mysterious WWII era RAF Mosquito that appears out of the gloom to guide him.
Love it. Brings a nice element to the season for me every year, being an aviation enthusiast...it took me about an hour to read.
You are most welcome, Flick Lives, and a Merry Christmas to you!
That is an amazing and touching story!
Ahh, I knew someone would remember the exact dialogue. Sure was good to see the bad guy get what he deserved!
Thank you...I just got new glasses, and for the first time in nearly a decade, was able to read a book for more than a few minutes at a time...I read a small book cover to cover...:)
I’ll check it out...and...thank you. Merry Christmas to you and your, FRiend.
LOL! Christmas arrived our house at 10:37 last night.
With the Rifftrax cover no less:
https://www.rifftrax.com/die-hard .
Merry Christmas Freepers!
I read on another website that, after the great Christmas Truce of 1914, these kinds of things were discouraged by severe penalties for fraternization with the enemy, and never happened except in very small isolated incidents like this one.
There is something about it that fills me with hope at this time of the year. And not the disgusting, mindless, emotionally based hope that liberals feel. My hope is something along the lines that, although we don’t expect our enemies to act like us, there are times when we can be human to each other, even when events discourage it.
And here’s a hard core analytics review answering the Is it a Christmas Movie question, the best I’ve found:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UekHfQnFHe8
I found the movie “Silent Night” with Linda Hamilton on Youtube and plan on watching it very soon. I did a little watching already and it was quite riveting. Linda did a good job with her German!
I think you will like it, FRiend...
Bah humbug.
And until Holly McClane slugs the reporter.
Oh you’re no fun, anymore.
How ironic is this thread. In response to many claiming this is a Christmas classic movie, I just watched it for the first time ever last night.
Those people are nuts. Just because the date was December 24 means nothing. To even think this is a good Christmas movie is ridiculous.
It was a wonderful Christmas movie!
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You are a sick individual.
#1 all-time best Christmas movie.
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Sure it is. Only if you believe Christmas means violence and death.
I remember when L.A. was nuked in 2007.
The long ago Space Above And Beyond even had a Christmas truce episode.
A series that got cancelled just as it was going somewhere.
That would have been interesting for sure...
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