I remember seeing it back in the 70s when I was a kid. I thought it sucked even back then.
Martian kids who want to see Santa.
Posted on 12/18/2006 6:26:50 PM PST by pissant
ARNOLD Schwarzenegger's festive film Jingle All The Way has been voted the biggest Christmas turkey.
The laugh-free comedy featured Arnie desperately trying to get his hands on the latest must-have toy for his young son.
It topped a poll of 3,000 film fans by British cinema group www.pearlanddean.com.
Sixties B-movie Santa Conquers The Martians came second - it told the surreal story of Father Christmas being kidnapped and carted off to meet kids on Mars.
Comic actor Tim Allen has two films in the top 10 - Christmas With The Kranks and The Santa Clause.
There were also entries for Home Alone, starring Macaulay Culkin, slushy Richard Attenborough film Miracle On 34th Street, Dudley Moore dud Santa Claus: The Movie and Billy Bob Thornton's bad taste comedy Bad Santa.
Kathryn Jacobs of Pearl & Dean said: "Everybody loves a good family film at Christmas but they can't all be classics like It's A Wonderful Life.
"We think Arnie is a very worthy winner."
Top 10 Worst Christmas Films:
1 Jingle All The Way (1996)
2 Santa Conquers The Martians (1964)
3 Christmas With The Kranks (2004)
4 National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1987)
5 Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)
6 Miracle on 34th Street (1994)(tied)
6 Home Alone (1990)
8 Bad Santa (2003)
9 The Santa Clause (1994)
10 The Family Man (2000)
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Ann Jillian has made some real stinkers too....ugh!
I agree. I don't see how that one made the list. That's one that I'll watch every single time it's on.
You don't want him around if you're wearin' short pants...know what I mean there Clark?!?!
Oh, dude, no.
Whoever made this list clearly has a vendetta against Arnold.
"Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" is far and away, hands-down, THE worst Christmas movie ever made. I defy anyone to find one single redeeming feature to that cellu-turd.
I smell a cat fight!
My husband and I are slowly building his sister and her husband an MST3K collection.
Last year they got "Mitchell."
This year, they're getting "Eegah" and "I Accuse My Parents," and (for a bonus) "The [Non-MST3K] Lost Skeleton of Cadavra," which just might be the best movie ever made.
Isn't it nice that the four disc collections are coming out?!
Christmas Vacation is a classic....
I remember seeing it back in the 70s when I was a kid. I thought it sucked even back then.
Martian kids who want to see Santa.
Nothing like watching a slug snork down beer...bed Linda Evans.....wear horrible shirts and smoke cigarellos! And what's with the car chase scenes....it was like they were going about 40MPH but wanting us to believe they were going 120MPH.....too much Schlitz and acid? HAHAHAH!
No matter what anyone says, I like The Santa Clause. Just saw it yesterday and I still like it.
My husband got to see the original airing of the "Mitchell" episode back in 1993. He said he thought he was gonna hurt himself, he laughed so hard.
"Mitchell" is definitely Top 5 . . . and it just might be the best MST3K EVER.
And you were correct. It did suck.
'Jingle All the Way' was not laugh-free. It had exactly one laugh in it:
In one scene, Sinbad -- a postman who is in competition w/ Arnie to get the McGuffin -- ends up in a stand-off with police. As a bluff, he pulls out some random parcel from his mailbag and claims it's a bomb, threatening to set it off if they don't let him leave... sure enough, he gets away, leaving the package behind where the police gingerly approach it. Then we see Sinbad running away, only to hear a 'boom' coming from behind him & smoke coming from where the package was left. He stares in surprise, then shakes his head and says, "Man, people are sick!"
"Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" is the perfectly awful cheeseball treat.
No. Watching Cary's performance was like eating wet moldy bread, while watching Myer's performance was like eating wet moldy crap.
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