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It's the holiday season and I just read a scathing review of "It's a Wonderful Life." Said it was depressing and George Bailey was not a good man in that he yelled at his wife and kids and hired incompetent people like Uncle Billy, blah blah.

I always thought that was a good Xmas movie. When the city has his back and fixes the problem with the bank bankruptcy that's pretty touching I feel.

Anyhow ... I wondered if any of you agreed with the reviewer that that movie blows and/or is overrated?

List your top 3 Xmas movies. Mine are. ...

1.) It's a Wondy Life.

2.) Scrooge with Alastair Sim.

3.) Christmas Vacation with Chevy Chase. I think there are some other good ones. But for my money Jimmy Stewart gives a knockout performance in that old old movie and I think the reviewer was harsh. I feel there was good acting in It's a Wonderful Life.

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QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Dec 6, 2016 -> 09:59 AM)
1. Die Hard

2. Reindeer Games

3. A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas

 

 

Seriously though, in no particular order:

 

A Christmas Story

Die Hard

The Ref

It's a Wonderful Life

Scrooged

Trading Places

Holiday Inn

 

Bless you for Trading Places. God I love that movie.

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I challenge you to watch Alastair Sim as Scrooge and not be impressed with his acting. Scrooge may be an old movie but Sim's acting defines greatness.

Ditto Jimmy Stewart in Wonderful Life. Supurb acting.

 

And Chevy Chase during his Vacation Days was a comic genius. Too bad he turned into a grumpy codger in real life.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Watched Home Alone II last night and was amazed at the violence little Caulkin threw the way of the bad guys. All in good fun of course, but I was thinking hitting the one robber with brick after brick in the head might bother some folks.

Man the little kid beat the s*** out of the robbers.

I must confess I laughed at the scene where Joe Pesci had his hair on fire. I think it happened in Home Alone the original as well.

 

People that hated the Stooges' violence better be consistent and hate the Home Alone movies. Stooges forever!

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I'm already having this same discussion elsewhere but just because a movie is set on or around Christmas doesn't make it a Christmas movie. As much as people think it's clever to include them every year, movies like Die Hard, Gremlins and Rocky 4 do not count.

 

They aren't movies about the holiday itself. They are about events that just happen to take place around the holiday. It's a small albeit distinct difference IMO.

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QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Dec 20, 2016 -> 11:34 AM)
I'm already having this same discussion elsewhere but just because a movie is set on or around Christmas doesn't make it a Christmas movie. As much as people think it's clever to include them every year, movies like Die Hard, Gremlins and Rocky 4 do not count.

 

They aren't movies about the holiday itself. They are about events that just happen to take place around the holiday. It's a small albeit distinct difference IMO.

 

To each their own. Gremlins, outside of being set at christmas time, has a storyline about how everything bad happens to Kate on christmas, and the Gizmo is given to the main character as a christmas present from his dad who is never home.

 

Im not gonna argue your list and what does and does not count, and i will keep gremlins on mine lol

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I would definitely include Die Hard and Gremlins as Christmas movies. Rocky IV, not so much.

 

The best Christmas movies aren't even about Christmas. They're stories told during Christmas time.

 

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