Is A Christmas Story the worst Christmas movie?

Jack Frost gets my vote, unless we can nominate sequels; then, I would pick Jack Frost 2.

I've never understood the Christmas Story thing.

It didn't exist when I was a kid and then people my age just pretended at some random point that it was a classic.

How can it be the worst when Elf exists?

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I say yes.

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I only opened this thread so I could downvote this.

I also say yes.

I saw it in the movies when it came out and thought it was hilarious. You have to be a certain age because most of what happens in that movie was real in the past. Parents literally would say "don't shoot your eye out". And a tree without large multicolored lights on it was not a real tree. Even today I hate trees with just white lights. Boring.

Same guy made Porky’s. Went to my high school. Dad was the county sheriff. Director was a child of the 50’s in the South, but set the film in the North in the 1940’s. I think it’s a wonderful film. However, I do have a bit of bias when it comes to genuinely funny, well-made, intelligent movies. (And, “you’ll put your eye out” was really a thing back then.)

Is it a “not well made movie”? Yes, but it’s the nostalgia that goes with it that makes it great.
15-20 years ago, I didn’t mind the 24hr running of it, because that was the only time it would play all year. It was like waiting for a Charlie Brown special that only aired once a year.
Back when my daughters were little, I would lock myself in the bedroom, put the TV on TBS, and start putting toys together for 2-3 hours. (fricking Barbie Dream House).

In the last 5-10 years, TBS started playing it nearly every weekend during the holiday season. They killed the nostalgia of the movie.

The reason “Christmas Story Christmas” did so well this year, is because it ignited the nostalgia again.

P.S. - who ever said “Elf” is the worst Christmas movie ever, can suck my balls!!!

Movies, like music, are a matter of personal opinion. Something that is the "worst" to one person may be loved by others. Like what you like, hate what you hate. It doesn't really matter.