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re: Is A Christmas Story the worst Christmas movie?
Posted on 12/12/22 at 6:55 am to Roaad
Posted on 12/12/22 at 6:55 am to Roaad
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What a lazy hipster elitist prick
I mean, ffs
I have defended a TON of your stupid takes and retarded opinions. . .but this is straight douchebaggery
No douchebaggery is parents stealing Christmas from children because they value nostalgia and selfishness more than their kids' joy.
And I have been critical of all the bullshite around modern Christmas before hipsters existed. It gets worse every year, just as the starting date gets pushed up every year.
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Posted on 12/12/22 at 6:57 am to GruntbyAssociation
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.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 7:03 am to Freauxzen
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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.
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Aren't you liek 39-42 somewhere in that range? That was when it hit cult status. I remember watching it a bunch as a kid. And it being on TV. Not the 24-hour TBS thing, but enough to make an impression.
Sup Freaux. I’m 45 and I feel the same as SFP. It’s not a bad movie but I just don’t get the infatuation. I think the poster mentioning the over saturation nailed it.
Again, not the worst Christmas movie imo but not in my top ten for sure.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 7:08 am to SlowFlowPro
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parents stealing Christmas from children because they value nostalgia and selfishness more than their kids' joy.
This is the second time that you’ve mentioned this. Do you even have kids? What are some examples of Christmas being stolen from kids? Is this really about some inner feelings of disappointment that you have about your childhood?
Posted on 12/12/22 at 7:10 am to BobABooey
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How can it be worst when Elf exists?
It took me a couple tries to finally get in to Elf. Fun fact: the kid from A Christmas Story plays one of the head elves.
As far as A Christmas Story goes I've never seen it all the way through. I've gotten bits and pieces during the 24 hour marathon over the years. I don't have a desire to watch it all the way through, but I can appreciate why others love it so much.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 7:15 am to BobABooey
Posted on 12/12/22 at 7:16 am to Blaeke
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The 24 hour marathon has turned hating it into the "contrarian" shtick for the usual tryhards who act as if they dislike everything that is marginally popular.
I haven't had cable for about 8 years, and the last few years I did have cable I didn't watch TBS or TNT, so I have no clue if that marathon is still going on.
The movie is not the worst ever (you can look to Hallmark or Mormon outlets for much worse movies), but it's a forced phenomenon.
This movie is just an oddity. A network tried to create a new "classic' by creating a meme that it was a classic, and then using over-saturation and marketing to do it. They basically forced a neo-It's a Wonderful Life.
Now that people think this is an actual part of their childhood, that nostalgia that young Genx through Millenials values so highly has taken it into a higher gear.
Like I missed the Elf pain train too, but that movie at least tries something and executes it at a higher level than ACS.
There are just so many better Christmas movies of that era to watch, and then a really good set of modern ones, too.
Then you have your alternative/tangential Christmas movies like Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Gremlins, Trading Places, Love Actually, etc.
A hipster/tryhard argument would be trying to argue Carol or Tangerine, not Ernest Saves Christmas. Y'all need to work on your arguments.
Definitive Christmas movie rankings for sure start with:
1. Bad Santa
2. Scrooged
The late 80s/90s also CRUSHED Christmas movies, which is why this allegiance to a bad-mediocre one like ACS always didn't make sense to me. The 90s were when most of this generation were kids consuming Christmas content.
Jingle All the Way is 10x the Christmas movie that ACS movie is, and I don't even rate it that highly.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 7:20 am to Mo Jeaux
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Do you even have kids? What are some examples of Christmas being stolen from kids?
I gave a big one. How many trees are completely curated by the parents for social media?
Hell, pretty much everything around social media has (and I know this isn't a shock), ruined Christmas. Kids are just tokens for posts.
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Is this really about some inner feelings of disappointment that you have about your childhood?
I'm pushing for a traditional Christmas experience
If I wanted to reject the Christmas I experienced as a kid, I'd be the one promoting this neo-modern version of it.
Christmas season starting the Friday after Thanksgiving, being the most important aspect of that traditionalism.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 7:21 am to slusaint13
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, but I can appreciate why others love it so much.
I would understand it if the people who pushed the movie lived during the time this one was set, but it's people who were born decades later.
*ETA: I just looked and we're only a couple years away from being further removed from the release date of ACS than from the setting of ACS and the release date
This post was edited on 12/12/22 at 7:23 am
Posted on 12/12/22 at 7:23 am to SlowFlowPro
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Now that people think this is an actual part of their childhood,
It was an actual part of mine and I'm sure many others'. Believe it or not some of us actually grew up watching it before it became the event that is now just like we did Rudolph, Frosty, Garfield Christmas, and the one night of year the Nicktoons Christmas specials would come on television.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 7:24 am to Zap Rowsdower
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Believe it or not some of us actually grew up watching it before it became the event that is now
Posted on 12/12/22 at 7:31 am to SlowFlowPro
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I gave a big one. How many trees are completely curated by the parents for social media? Hell, pretty much everything around social media has (and I know this isn't a shock), ruined Christmas. Kids are just tokens for posts.
I don’t think you know many Gen Xers, or maybe it’s those lawyers with kids you hang around with?
I’ll grant you that Gen Xers are nostalgic, but that doesn’t equate into stealing Christmas from kids.
Todays kids are mostly spoiled beyond all recognition. Is that what you call stealing Christmas from them? If so, you might be right, but your details are muddled and don’t match your premise.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 7:31 am to SlowFlowPro
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I would understand it if the people who pushed the movie lived during the time this one was set, but it's people who were born decades later.
How are people "pushing" this movie?
Posted on 12/12/22 at 7:34 am to Jimbeaux
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Todays kids are mostly spoiled beyond all recognition. Is that what you call stealing Christmas from them? I
Buying the kids off with more sterile materialism, so that the nostalgic parents can enjoy and hoard the real parts of Christmas for themselves, sounds like the beginning of Christmas movie...but in real life, the villains don't learn a lesson about the real spirit of Christmas like they do in the movies, leading them to do it worse the following year.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 7:34 am to SlowFlowPro
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The late 80s/90s also CRUSHED Christmas movies, which is why this allegiance to a bad-mediocre one like ACS always didn't make sense to me. The 90s were when most of this generation were kids consuming Christmas content.
So we can only appreciate and enjoy Christmas movies from the time period we were born and raised?
Posted on 12/12/22 at 7:37 am to GruntbyAssociation
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Is A Christmas Story the worst Christmas movie?
False.
I submit Santa Claus. 1985
For FREE??
Posted on 12/12/22 at 7:37 am to YNWA
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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.
And this pretty much sums it up perfectly.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 7:39 am to SlowFlowPro
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Buying the kids off with more sterile materialism, so that the nostalgic parents can enjoy and hoard the real parts of Christmas for themselves
What is your social circle like? Posted on 12/12/22 at 7:40 am to SlowFlowPro
I don’t live in the same world as you.
We had our kids praying with the Advent wreath and lighting the candles every year. They loved A Christmas Story and laugh at “FRAGILE” every year when they hang the leg lamp ornament on our tree.
The materialism, vapid secular culture, and family destroying wokism come from outside of our house, not from watching nostalgic Christmas movies.
We had our kids praying with the Advent wreath and lighting the candles every year. They loved A Christmas Story and laugh at “FRAGILE” every year when they hang the leg lamp ornament on our tree.
The materialism, vapid secular culture, and family destroying wokism come from outside of our house, not from watching nostalgic Christmas movies.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 7:43 am to Mo Jeaux
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What is your social circle like?
I have been called the Grinch for a long time by my friends
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