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CHRISTMAS FILMS PAST AND PRESENT
http://www.catholicleague.org ^ | 11/16/2016 | Bill Donohue

Posted on 11/16/2016 1:29:21 PM PST by heterosupremacist

The corruption of American culture is evident in many ways, but few markers are more telling than the way Hollywood entertains us at Christmastime.

It was 70 years ago when “It’s a Wonderful Life” was released. NBC describes it as “a holiday classic and remains the movie people associate with Christmas more than any other. Frank Capra’s definitive film is a tearjerker that proves that, even in our darkest hours, the human spirit can and will rise triumphant.”

Today, we are being treated to obscene lyrics, raw sex, misogyny, and violence. Not one of the four Christmas-themed films released this season is worthy of being described as a family movie. There are no guardian angels directing the lead characters to consider how the world would be without them; no triumph of self-sacrifice; no statement against greed; no childhood sweetheart to marry; no inspiration of any sort. Just filth.

The first of the Christmas-themed flicks opened on November 11. “Almost Christmas” is proudly touted as another one of those “dysfunctional-family holiday movies.” Danny Glover brings the whole family together for Thanksgiving, hoping to quell the in-fighting. It doesn’t work: family members start attacking each other with fire extinguishers and shotguns.

The movie depicts a crude, hard-drinking female showing how much respect she has for children. Speaking about a young boy, she says, “I got vibrators older than that child.” Then there is the gal employee in the grocery store who pulls the back of her panties up above her pants, asking one of the male family members, “Did you find everything you need?”

There is another scene where a woman is outside the house and sticks her head in the window, only to have it close on her. Stuck, a man comes up behind her to help. He puts his hands on either side of her while trying to open the window, appearing to neighbors as if he’s having sex with her.

In another scene, Santa’s head is severed and it comes tumbling down from the roof, scaring one of the little girls. All throughout the movie, women call each other bitches. Nice lesson for teenage boys.

“Why Him?” opens December 23. It features an overprotective dad who meets his daughter’s socially retarded Silicon Valley billionaire boyfriend. It doesn’t go well. The boyfriend greets the family with a slew of “F-words.” He says of their daughter, Stephanie, “Remember when we made love in the hot tub? Steph just opened up like a flower. You should have seen it.” The mother replies, “No, I shouldn’t have seen it, but now I feel like I did.” Most parents would have upbraided him, but there is no fun in that.

Jennifer Aniston stars in “Office Christmas Party,” which opens December 9. She plays a CEO who wants to close the failing company branch run by her brother. His employees insist on a Christmas party.

In the course of the party, Jesus is mocked, and Santa yells, “Merry Christmas, bitches.” A female employee unloads with the following (poorly constructed expletive) remark, “It’s f-word Christmas b-word let’s get motherf-word drunk.” Santa is also seen sledding down the stairs in the office, crashing into the nativity scene.

This is curious. When was the last time a nativity scene was displayed—or even allowed—at an office Christmas party? Why didn’t Santa crash into a “holiday tree”?

By far the most vulgar Christmas movie this season is “Bad Santa 2.” It is a sequel to the 2003 original.

When the first “Bad Santa” appeared, I described Santa as a “chain-smoking, drunken, foul-mouthed, suicidal, sexual predator. He is shown soiling himself in Santa’s chair, vomiting in alleys, having sex with a woman bartender in a car, and performing anal sex on a huge woman in a dressing room. And commentary in front of kids is replete with the ‘F-word.'”

Who would be drawn to such a film? “The movie will be a hit with college drop-outs, toilet-humor buffs and those who think like the Weinstein brothers.” The latter was a reference to Bob and Harvey Weinstein of Miramax, a subsidiary of Disney.

Miramax is one of the production companies behind “Bad Santa 2,” though the Weinstein boys have since gone their own way. As expected, this movie is ever faithful to the original. Here’s a sample, taken from the trailer, of what’s in store; it opens November 23.

A child sits on Santa’s lap (played by Billy Bob Thornton) and asks, “Why do you have two beards?” The hard-drinking Santa replies, “That’s none of your f***ing business.” The audience is treated to a string of “F-words” and other obscenities. When Santa sees a cute redhead, he says to himself, “I bet that p**** got lips like an orangutan.” Santa, an elf, and others repeatedly shout the “F-word” at children.

When a child makes a Christmas donation, Mrs. Santa comments, “Cheap little f*****.” Scatological commentary is commonplace, and Santa is shown having anal sex with the redhead, laughing how “pretty f***ing dirty” it is. When a man complains about the foul language used in front of children, Santa turns to him and says, you can “suck my f***ing d***.”

Only a Christian holiday would be trashed this way by the Hollywood moguls. Islam and Judaism are out of bounds, but Christianity never is. None of this is by accident. If anyone thinks I exaggerate, read what those responsible for these movies have admitted.

Bob Weinstein recently commented on why he accepted the script for the original “Bad Santa.” He did so after Universal Studios decided not to pick it up. “I asked a Universal executive,” Weinstein said, “Why’d you guys pass on it?” The executive replied, “It was the most foul, disgusting, misogynistic, anti-Christmas, anti-children thing we could imagine.” To which Weinstein said, “That’s exactly why I bought it.”

Weinstein, as I have pointed out many times, has a history of making anti-Catholic movies, so his reply is simply an honest account.

Billy Bob Thornton was attracted to doing “Bad Santa 2” precisely because the original was so vulgar. “I think part of it was that there hadn’t been a movie that profane and unapologetic about itself. I think it’s the alternative to the real syrupy Christmas movies.”

In other words, Christmas films are entirely too wholesome, so much so that they are considered offensive by these people. No wonder that even Variety notes that since the 1980s, “there’s been a how low can you go? quality to the annual rite of the megaplex Christmas flick.” (Italics in the original.)

But it’s not just Hollywood executives who feel it is their cultural duty to degrade Christmas, it’s some movie reviewers as well.

One prominent website lists “Bad Santa 2” as among the “Best Christmas Movies 2016 for Kids & Family.” It must upset them to no end that the film is rated R.

Even more revealing is what amc.com has to say about the original. It listed it as one of the “Top 20 Christmas Movies” of all time. Why? “Full of expletives and sexual innuendos, Bad Santa upends the feel-good tradition of holiday movies—and it was about time.”

They like dirt. They like Christian bashing. And they especially like to attack the sensibilities of children at Christmastime. It’s who they are. They are the heart and soul of Hollywood.


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KEYWORDS: hollywood; merrychristmas
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1 posted on 11/16/2016 1:29:21 PM PST by heterosupremacist
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To: heterosupremacist

NUKE Hollywood! Make America Great Again!


2 posted on 11/16/2016 1:29:59 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: heterosupremacist

Yours: “NUKE Hollywood”

Mine: We may not have long to wait. LA is on the Iranian IslamoNazi’s Top Targets Hit List for all those nice new shiney nuclear bombs Obama’s made sure they’re getting


3 posted on 11/16/2016 1:33:18 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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To: heterosupremacist
A moment to savor.

.....the Center for Responsive Politics reports Clinton pocketed $22 million in contributions from the wealthy/liberal Hollyweird entertainment industry, compared to a mere $290,000 for Trump...

Take a look at the map of what Clinton won....the top 10 populations centers where most of the wealth, commerce and power is located.....and a couple of SW states that have a huge influx of Mexican immigrants.

Hillary lost the bulk of America.

Just goes to prove....the liberal rich talk only amongst themselves and their hired Mexican help.

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SANCTUARY CITIES


4 posted on 11/16/2016 1:34:56 PM PST by Liz (Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: heterosupremacist

The Hallmark Channel, with their 89 days of Christmas movies that do not have a blessed thing to do with Christmas, drives me straight up the wall.


5 posted on 11/16/2016 1:35:24 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: heterosupremacist

Honestly, “It’s a Wonderful Life” is a film I’ve never been able to finish watching. It’s just awful. I don’t understand why it’s considered a classic. Bad theology and bad politics.

That said the deification of Santa Clause that goes on in a lot more recent films is just as bad


6 posted on 11/16/2016 1:35:33 PM PST by Fai Mao (PIAPS for Prison 2016)
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To: heterosupremacist

Yeah......about as far out as I get is Mickey Mouse playing Bob Cratchett, or Chip and Dale driving poor Pluto crazy.

I quit watching most Hollyweird fair long ago. I go for reruns....classics from my youth


7 posted on 11/16/2016 1:37:36 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: heterosupremacist

in and amongst all sorts of Christmas films....
ranging from the comedic to the profane

you’d think some studio somewhere would make
just one Christmas film that’s decent for family viewing!?

if only because there’s a big market for it!?


8 posted on 11/16/2016 1:43:47 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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To: heterosupremacist

And the left had faux outrage over Trump’s comments. His words are a mirror of hollywierd.


9 posted on 11/16/2016 1:44:40 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: heterosupremacist

Remember It’s A Wonderful Life tanked miserably at the box office. It only became a “Christmas classic” because somebody forgot to renew the copyright and it became available to TV for cheap.

Guy shouldn’t make stuff up. That whole paragraph that starts with the kid making a donation didn’t happen in Bad Santa, there is no Mrs Santa, there’s Mrs Santa’s Sister but that’s different entirely. And the rest that paragraph is also not in the movie. The writer has a pretty vivid imagination.

And finally keep in mind, not everybody likes the holidays. They lack family, they lack nice family, or they just hate all the saccharine entertainment that infects this time of year. My Christmas movie list is almost entirely made of up “anti” Christmas movies. From Die Hard, through Gremlins, Trading Spaces, with a stop over at Rare Imports and landing on Christmas with the Dead. And yeah I love Bad Santa (I’ve got a weak spot for any Christmas movie that lacks snow, because I live in the sunbelt they speak to me) and we’re going to see Bad Santa 2 on Thanksgiving Day.

Meanwhile there’s still more sappy happy Christmas movies to go around. Just check the Halmark network they show a ton of them, not all because there’s just not that much time, but many.


10 posted on 11/16/2016 1:45:34 PM PST by discostu (If you need to load or unload go to the white zone, you'll love it, it's a way of life)
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To: discostu

You can’t go wrong with any of the “Christmas Carols”.


11 posted on 11/16/2016 1:49:50 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
okay, I think the Hallmark movies are okay, but not great...they're entertaining...they're mostly about romance...

however, at least they don't offend me...

one move I like which has some Christmas in it is "The Note"....its a chick film no doubt....but really good, and better than most...

12 posted on 11/16/2016 1:51:05 PM PST by cherry
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To: AppyPappy

The only version of that I didn’t hate (understanding that I generally avoid it) is the one with George C Scott. It’s an irritatingly sappy story, and most versions crank up the sap even higher.


13 posted on 11/16/2016 1:57:28 PM PST by discostu (If you need to load or unload go to the white zone, you'll love it, it's a way of life)
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To: heterosupremacist

Seven minutes from the best Christmas film of all. It’s a British film, made in 1951. Dickens’ “Christmas Carol”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayW4c9aZXyw


14 posted on 11/16/2016 1:59:08 PM PST by Deo volente ("Our Independence Day is at hand, and it arrives finally on November 8th." Donald Trump)
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To: heterosupremacist

As an old Regular Army enlistee, I’ve been partial to White Christmas for decades.

“We’ll follow the Old Man, wherever he wants to......”


15 posted on 11/16/2016 2:01:28 PM PST by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in theolog and politics.)
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To: Fai Mao

If you haven’t seen the end then you haven’t seen where the entire community comes out and GIVES out of LOVE to help one of their own. It’s about recognizing the joy of life with the good and the bad.

The best scene in my mind is when he comes back and recognizes the blood on his face and yells something like “Ain’t that great! Hallealujah!”

The only thing I don’t like about the movie is that Potter doesn’t get his in the end.


16 posted on 11/16/2016 2:03:00 PM PST by reed13k
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To: heterosupremacist

I saw a disgusting Christmas movie once. It opened to a single mom coming home, only to find that her daughter, who attended a “progressive school,” had wandered, unsupervised, into an apartment occupied by an unmarried adult male, and even worse, he was smoking a pipe!


17 posted on 11/16/2016 2:04:46 PM PST by PlateOfShrimp
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To: heterosupremacist

Click the Pic

Hollywood HATES Christians! Hollywood HATES JesusChrist! HOLLYWOOD HATES The BIBLE!

18 posted on 11/16/2016 2:07:56 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: heterosupremacist
The Bishop's Wife.

Christmas In Connecticut.

-PJ

19 posted on 11/16/2016 2:09:49 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Fai Mao
I agree with you about “It's a Wonderful Life”, like oatmeal without raisins or brown sugar. My favorite is “We're No Angels” with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov and Aldo Ray.
20 posted on 11/16/2016 2:12:50 PM PST by ops33 (SMSgt, USAF, Retired)
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