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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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To: heterosupremacist
“a holiday classic and remains the movie people associate with Christmas more than any other.”

Not me. While I was growing up, one channel always played It's a Wonderful Life as the late movie on New Year's Eve. While the movie is mostly set at Christmas time, I now associate it with and watch it on NYE. My Christmas favorites are A Christmas Carol (with Alistair Sim), Christmas in Connecticut, Holiday Inn, and The Bells of St. Mary's. (I admit I'm fond of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, too. :)
21 posted on 11/16/2016 2:17:32 PM PST by HoneysuckleTN (Finally out of where the woodbine twineth... || President Trump! :) MAGA!)
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To: PlateOfShrimp
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!

Oh, how could I forget to add that to my list of Christmas faves! Miracle on 34th Street.
22 posted on 11/16/2016 2:22:17 PM PST by HoneysuckleTN (Finally out of where the woodbine twineth... || President Trump! :) MAGA!)
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To: HoneysuckleTN

My Favorite is “A Christmas Story”. Very funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC6Tz9xqx_M


23 posted on 11/16/2016 2:33:19 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: heterosupremacist

It’s a wonderful life had little to do with Christmas either. I like the movie. But still....not a lot about Christmas.


24 posted on 11/16/2016 2:38:41 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Brace. Brace. Brace. Heads down. Do not look up.)
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To: heterosupremacist

“You’ll shoot your eye out!”


25 posted on 11/16/2016 2:47:40 PM PST by Tareli (Vote Trump 2016!)
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To: heterosupremacist

I thought Elf was a pretty good Christmas movie.


26 posted on 11/16/2016 2:58:26 PM PST by Ticonderoga34
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To: Political Junkie Too
The Bishop's Wife.

I'll second that. Has always been my favorite Christmas movie.

27 posted on 11/16/2016 3:02:37 PM PST by LibertarianLiz
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To: heterosupremacist

The Hallmark Channel has the best holiday programs and they’re now being shown.


28 posted on 11/16/2016 3:03:52 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (If only Hillary had married OJ instead......Today the election, tomorrow a conviction)
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To: heterosupremacist
It is not just the movies, it is also television that shows the with-drawl from the common culture. In my childhood, everyone had a Christmas-themed show, from Rod Serling to Milton Berle, Jewish or not. Rod Serling's Twilight Zone broadcast the EXCELLENT "Night of the Meek" in 1960 on CBS Broadcast TV. A failed department store seasonal Santa, played by the great Art Carney, suddenly finds his bag full of real presents.

From Ed Sullivan to Jack Benny, most of the then popular variety shows had a Christmas themed shows. A great favorite of mine was a perennial re-broadcast variety show hosted by the 'deep' singer, Tennessee Ernie Ford, an obviously religious Christian who had several beautiful Christmas shows.

29 posted on 11/16/2016 3:07:49 PM PST by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
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.

Personally i love that channel this time of the year. Obviously unlike you, I have the ability to change channels and watch it whenever I choose.......

You might want to find another provider that offers you more than one channel

30 posted on 11/16/2016 3:08:06 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (If only Hillary had married OJ instead......Today the election, tomorrow a conviction)
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To: heterosupremacist
Watch it every year ...

Ringle, ringle, coins when they jingle,
Make such a lovely sound ...

31 posted on 11/16/2016 3:08:34 PM PST by BlueLancer ("If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future." Winston Churchill)
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To: heterosupremacist

“Donovan’s Reef” is our favorite Christmas movie, although the younger children favor “Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown.”


32 posted on 11/16/2016 3:10:23 PM PST by Tax-chick (Proud to be on the enemies list.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Well don’t watch Hallmark! Some of us enjoy them because they are CLEAN films.


33 posted on 11/16/2016 3:14:40 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: LibertarianLiz; Political Junkie Too
One Magic Christmas, while theologically questionable (good humans don't become angels when they die), is a very good movie.
34 posted on 11/16/2016 3:15:19 PM PST by COBOL2Java (1 Tim 2:1-3)
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To: discostu

The written form is far better as it takes somewhat of a controversial turn. You can read that into the movies and they become better.


35 posted on 11/16/2016 3:17:03 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: SES1066

I can recall surprising Christmas episodes of several programs, including “Space: Above and Beyond” and “Hercules: the Legendary Journeys.” They observed Christmas on “Downton Abbey,” too, and of course, people are murdered in Midsomer.


36 posted on 11/16/2016 3:21:56 PM PST by Tax-chick (Proud to be on the enemies list.)
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To: SES1066

I loved Perry Como’s Christmas Shows.


37 posted on 11/16/2016 3:25:05 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: discostu
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.

It is one thing to prefer not participating in an activity other enjoy. It is something else to wish to see it debased and covered with filth.

38 posted on 11/16/2016 3:25:28 PM PST by Tax-chick (Proud to be on the enemies list.)
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To: Tax-chick
I can recall surprising Christmas episodes of several programs, including “Space: Above and Beyond” ...

I got the DVDs of that wonderful series ESPECIALLY for that Christmas Episode that featured the 1968 Christmas lunar orbit by Apollo 8. It is now available on youtube so I commend it to any who are interested.

39 posted on 11/16/2016 3:34:47 PM PST by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: SES1066

We own the DVDs, too. I have a thing for Col. McQueen.


40 posted on 11/16/2016 5:50:30 PM PST by Tax-chick (Proud to be on the enemies list.)
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