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Post by cowboyz on Nov 7, 2023 10:25:26 GMT -5
I'll have to say The Christmas Shoes. The song and the movie.
It's just too sad for Christmas.
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Post by summer23 on Nov 7, 2023 12:08:44 GMT -5
I still like A Charlie Brown Christmas and The Nightmare Before Christmas.  I generally don't watch any Christmas romance movies. |
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Post by Evil Yoda on Nov 7, 2023 14:07:48 GMT -5
I believe its, woman meets man, neither kind of don't like each other, then they kind of grow on each other and in the end get together. Boiled down in the manner of maple syrup - and almost as saccharine - this is the formula.
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Post by Evil Yoda on Nov 7, 2023 14:14:18 GMT -5
I'll have to say The Christmas Shoes. The song and the movie. It's just too sad for Christmas. Oh, that song is the straight-up worst and it isn't even close. I won't go anywhere near the movie.
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Post by Evil Yoda on Nov 7, 2023 14:22:05 GMT -5
I still like A Charlie Brown Christmas and The Nightmare Before Christmas. I generally don't watch any Christmas romance movies. I enjoy "A Christmas Story" once a year. And I can't stand "The Nightmare Before Christmas".
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Post by guido2 on Nov 7, 2023 15:07:07 GMT -5
The problem with Hallmark Channel Christmas movies is they are all based on the same formula over and over again with little variation. Sorry this will be a ramble run-on. -Women/man (W/M) watches family business failing and takes over for parents or they had passed and inherits same. Equally the hero/rescuer. -W/M opposite sex appears out of nowhere.He/she either breaks-down, airport gets snowed in, is just passing through, or is there to buy said business and change it entirely for some faceless Corportation. -W/M business owner, likely is a single parent and lost their spouse. Or visitor is. -W/M owner hates W/M initially, or rates them as a loser of no value. -W/M visitor becomes enamored with the family business owner and his/her child and proves their worth with incredible effort and saves the business and somehow elevates the surrounding town along with it. -The visitor is also an incredibly gifted contractor/DIYer, has money themselves but shuns wealth, and/or has influential ties that and politician would be jealous of. Snow inevitably starts falling on Christmas eve as the new couple purchase the last charlie brown Xmas tree on the lot. Over and over and over and over again. Plot varies slightly, but after a refresher of watching it them a week. We start playing Hallmark Christmas Bingo. You predict what will happen from the above list, before it does and you win after getting 5 correct during the course of the movie. Does anyone concure?  Excellent..... absolutely EXCELLENT!!!! But that is the short list. 😄 Thanks for the vetting and validation. Not kidding here. I have some software that facilitates making and printing birthday holiday cards. I do it all the time, I sort of equate 'building' a card, like writing a letter by hand and mailing it. I think I am going to screen scape this image and put that on the front of the card I make and have inside as the sentiment. Are you over sappy Christmas movies as much as I am?"What is interesting is that...... as much as people..... including my wives' friends.....complain about the 'formula', they all watch (and I do too). 🤣
Thanks again
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Post by stevez51 on Nov 8, 2023 6:38:17 GMT -5
Want to discuss how people refer to Die Hard being a Christmas movie ..??
The time of year is the holiday.
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Post by pickle20 on Nov 8, 2023 8:54:18 GMT -5
Want to discuss how people refer to Die Hard being a Christmas movie ..?? The time of year is the holiday. Die Hard is absolutely a Christmas movie. So is Home Alone. It's not a discussion.
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Post by WKDWZD on Nov 8, 2023 9:38:29 GMT -5
Want to discuss how people refer to Die Hard being a Christmas movie ..?? The time of year is the holiday. Die Hard is absolutely a Christmas movie. So is Home Alone. It's not a discussion. I don't recall seeing a single snow globe in Die Hard, ergo. It is absolutely not a Christmas Movie. 
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Post by ishmael on Nov 8, 2023 10:48:02 GMT -5
I still like A Charlie Brown Christmas and The Nightmare Before Christmas. I generally don't watch any Christmas romance movies. I enjoy "A Christmas Story" once a year. And I can't stand "The Nightmare Before Christmas". Mrs and I went to see "The Nightmare...". Fell asleep within the first ten minutes and woke up at the end! Never saw the movie!
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Post by pickle20 on Nov 8, 2023 11:14:34 GMT -5
Die Hard is absolutely a Christmas movie. So is Home Alone. It's not a discussion. I don't recall seeing a single snow globe in Die Hard, ergo. It is absolutely not a Christmas Movie. Any movie that features the line "Now I have a machine gun, ho ho ho" is absolutely a Christmas movie.
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Post by cowboyz on Nov 8, 2023 14:12:14 GMT -5
Want to discuss how people refer to Die Hard being a Christmas movie ..?? The time of year is the holiday. I agree with Bruce Willis!! Bruce Will responds....
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Post by cowboyz on Nov 8, 2023 14:12:50 GMT -5
I'll have to say The Christmas Shoes. The song and the movie. It's just too sad for Christmas. Oh, that song is the straight-up worst and it isn't even close. I won't go anywhere near the movie. That song makes my ears bleed. 
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Post by summer23 on Nov 8, 2023 17:19:29 GMT -5
I enjoy "A Christmas Story" once a year. And I can't stand "The Nightmare Before Christmas". Mrs and I went to see "The Nightmare...". Fell asleep within the first ten minutes and woke up at the end! Never saw the movie! I watched it again over the weekend. I am a Tim Burton fan.
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Post by summer23 on Nov 8, 2023 17:22:59 GMT -5
Want to discuss how people refer to Die Hard being a Christmas movie ..?? The time of year is the holiday. I agree with Bruce Willis!! Bruce Will responds.... Tough one. It's not a move about Christmas per se, but it is a movie that takes place over the Christmas holiday so . . .
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Post by stevez51 on Nov 8, 2023 18:03:22 GMT -5
Want to discuss how people refer to Die Hard being a Christmas movie ..?? The time of year is the holiday. Die Hard is absolutely a Christmas movie. So is Home Alone. It's not a discussion. It does take place during a holiday office party' Have you bought a, Its not Christmas until Hans Gruber falls from Nakatomi Plaza shirt ..........
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Post by pickle20 on Nov 8, 2023 18:50:14 GMT -5
I do have a “now I have a machine gun Ho Ho Ho” shirt
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Post by Evil Yoda on Nov 9, 2023 17:48:37 GMT -5
I tend to favor the "not a Christmas movie" argument. My test is a simple one: can the story be lifted out of his time period and placed in another time period without making substantial changes? I believe that answer to be yes, and a "yes" answer means the film does not depend on Christmas, and is therefore not a Christmas film.
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Post by WKDWZD on Nov 9, 2023 17:56:21 GMT -5
Any movie can be a Christmas Movie if you use enough fake snow, bobbly hats and snow globes.
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Post by Jimmy Jazz on Nov 14, 2023 19:34:17 GMT -5
The third Tim Allen Santa Clause movie isn’t very good. I saw one where Vince Vaughn was Santa’s disgruntled brother which was pretty bad too.
On the Hallmark tip, some of those are hilarious. I saw one with Sabrina The Teenage Witch and AC Slater that was too much.
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Post by ivanbalt on Nov 15, 2023 8:25:49 GMT -5
Gremlins is a great Christmas movie.
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Post by WKDWZD on Nov 15, 2023 8:54:33 GMT -5
Gremlins is a great Christmas movie. Has it got any snow globes in it? 
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Post by ivanbalt on Nov 15, 2023 9:22:03 GMT -5
Gremlins is a great Christmas movie. Has it got any snow globes in it? There's a snow plow (American made). And a Christmas tree.
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Post by WKDWZD on Nov 15, 2023 10:04:43 GMT -5
Has it got any snow globes in it? There's a snow plow (American made). And a Christmas tree. But no snow globes, eh? I saw a billion Christmas trees in Oregon, bleeding great big ones.
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I generally don't watch any Christmas romance movies. 
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