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What Is Your Favorite Christmas Movie?
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: moremojo on December 08, 2006, 11:19:26 am ---Scrooge was a great childhood favorite of mine as well; I saw it more than once at the theater with my family. "Happiness is Whatever You Want It to Be" is still stored in my memory bank. This is by far my favorite film adaptation of this Dickens classic.
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Yeah, I saw that movie at the theatre too, back in 1970. We were in Cincinnati and my aunt took my sister and me, along with three of my cousins to the movie in her Volkswagen Beetle! We were all packed into that little car like sardines, but we sure had a lot of fun. :)
CellarDweller:
Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol.
I love the music in it. Especially the songs "All Alone In The World", and "Winter Was Warm".
ifyoucantfixit:
Oh gads do i have to choose just one.. let me see I think The christmas story then, for so many reasons...That movie is a parody of all the things we all revere about christmas...It is right up my alley kind of
humor...Taking sacred cows and making them funny...Everyone dreams of winning something, and his dad
finally does. It is the worlds ugliest lamp and his mom hates it. But he is so proud of winning he puts the
hideous monstrosity in the window. Only a wife that has a husband with no sense of decorating can truly appreciate that part of the movie...I also loved the kid getting dressed like the babbendum man, only to need to go back inside needing to pee.........that is a great movie...sure enough
Shasta542:
Without a doubt --- "A Christmas Story". It makes me laugh till I cry every time I watch it. And the setting is just so.....Americana like.
moremojo:
--- Quote from: smellykellyjay on June 15, 2007, 01:25:13 am ---And the story of Phoebe Cates' character's dad was just horrible.
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My mother was horrified at this moment when we saw the film together upon its initial theatrical release. One man in the audience hooted with laughter at this point (and I think the moment was intended to be funny, in a black-comedy sort of way).
--- Quote from: smellykellyjay on June 15, 2007, 01:25:14 am ---It also bothered me to think that this dark movie was marketed to kids. Wasn't it one of the movies that helped to bring about the PG-13 rating?
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Not sure about that, but I do know that Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, from around the same time, was instrumental in bringing about that new rating.
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