re: Is A Christmas Story the worst Christmas movie?

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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.

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It was off the radar when I was a child...not much peep about it...but by word of mouth watched it in the late 80's. Sort of like Shawshank, took about 5 years to catch on. A Christmas Story became a VHS hit.

Shite the classics were still Miracle on 34th Street and It's a Wonderful Life in the 80's.

So A Christmas Story was a nice respite from the usual suspects...and it gained traction through the 90's and then started being on TV for 24hrs. (no shame in that) It's a Wonderful Life only became popular 30 years after it was released into free domain.

It's weird to dislike this movie...but often it comes from over-saturation. So contrary view becomes avante-garde.