The Nightmare Before Christmas is a Halloween movie, not a Christmas movie.
“MY favorite Christmas movie is DIE Ha-” SHUT UP. The joke is old and was never that funny.
Neither is the one about the moral of Rudolph and late-stage capitalism. Dude, it’s a 1960s Claymation movie based on a song.
I still have no idea why the doll on the Island of Misfit Toys is a misfit toy.
“The Love Is Gone” DOES belong in Muppet Christmas Carol. If you’re going to watch it, watch it on DVD and choose that option.
Muppet Christmas Carol is also by FAR the best of the approximately 85 billion versions of A Christmas Carol. Does any other version have Michael Caine playing Scrooge completely straight when 90% of his costars are made of foam? Not one but TWO Marleys? Lines like, “This is Fozziwig’s old rubber chicken factory!” and “No cheeses for us meeses” and “It is the American way…oh. It is the BRITISH way!”? And still, amazingly, stay pretty close to the original Dickins story? I THINK NOT!
No, Pottersville was not more “fun” than Bedford Falls. It was as sketchy and sleazy as the Hays Code would allow them to imply.
While we’re on that topic, can you cut it out with holding 1940s movies to modern standards? “OMG, they think being a SINGLE LIBRARIAN is the worst thing that can happen to a woman!” Maybe…or maybe her job is irrelevant and the point is that she doesn’t have George and never found that type of love with anyone else?
IF YOU DON’T LIKE LOVE ACTUALLY, KINDLY STFU. It’s over twenty years old at this point and every. single. year. the people who hate it act like they’re the first ones to point out the thing they don’t like about it. Whatever you’re about to say about it, WE KNOW. Just let the rest of us watch it in peace!
The Garfield Christmas special is very underrated and I’m bummed they never show it on TV anymore. But it is on Youtube.
You can skip Frosty, though.
Oh, and as classic as A Charlie Brown Christmas is, don’t sleep on It’s Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown! Not as iconic, but still fun.
Just to clear this up: Kevin is the youngest of five, and his siblings are Buzz, Jeff, Megan, and Linnie. Uncle Frank and Aunt Leslie have four kids (including “Fuller! Go easy on the Pepsi!” who will eventually grow up to be Roman Roy on Succession), and two other cousins, Heather (the one who messes up the headcount) and Rod (the one Buzz is showing the tarantula to at the beginning), are the kids of the uncle they’re visiting in Paris.
Somehow the thing that makes the least sense in that movie is Kevin ordering pizza when the phone lines are down.
You can take or leave Hallmark Christmas movies (or their equivalents on Lifetime or Netflix or Prime), you can turn them into drinking games (Small town! Dead parent(s)! Annoying kid! Script-y opening credits font!), but judgment about watching them from the Die Hard crowd should be a crime.
And this isn’t an argument so much as an observation, but every single year, I hope that THIS TIME, Uncle Billy won’t put the money in the newspaper and Laura Linney won’t answer the phone.