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Post by Scumhunter on Dec 17, 2019 10:18:34 GMT -5
I figure as a break from the serious subjects and this is the off-topic section, I'd make a thread for our forum members to discuss their favorite Christmas and/or holiday movie now that it's the holiday season.
"A Christmas Story" is nostalgic for me having watched it every year in my childhood as are Home Alones 1 and 2. Also, Die Hard, which I think went from debatable to everyone accepting it is in fact a Christmas movie.
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Post by 912thamwuser on Dec 17, 2019 17:44:07 GMT -5
I have to concur with a few of those. A Christmas Story has a place of honor as #4 on the Retro Top 40 Movies of '983, just behind Scarface [remake], Gandhi, and Return of the Jedi. Die Hard has special honor as #1 on the Retro Top 40 Movies of '988. I seem to recall putting National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation at #40 on the Retro Top 40 Movies of '989, which is still impressive against more than 200 movies that played for a week in Los Angeles and/or NYC on top of at least 4 other theatres each year (by the late 00-Agents' decade, it was expanding beyond 200, to the 1000 per year that'll be the norm by '020). I also put The Santa Clause around #37 on the Retro Top 40 Movies of '994, but by the New Millennium, there were only a few good Christmas films left in the world, such as #35 on the Top 40 Films of '006, Joyeux Noel, and somewhere around #34 on the Top 40 Films of '008, Un Conte De Noel. Unfortunately, by about '004, most Christmas films, like #5 on the Bottom 40 Films of '004, Surviving Christmas, and #30, #7, and #6 on the Bottom 40 Films of '006, Black Christmas [remake], The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, and Deck The Halls, have been panned by critics. It's not looking like any Christmas films will make it to the Top or Bottom 40 Films of '019, but an adaptation of an inferior toy franchise will land on the Bottom 40, and toys are a recurring motif around Christmas, which is the closest thing the Bottom 40 Films of '019 will have.
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