I have always liked this movie, but I’ve seen it so much that I really can’t stand sitting down to watch it. In the off chance I ever wind up with kids, they’ll learn to enjoy it too.
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A Christmas Story is one of my top five favorite movies of all time. It is such a quotable movie. Lines from it are so ingrained in my vocabulary that I sometimes don’t even realize I’m quoting it:
I can’t see the word “Fragile” on anything without responding, “It must be Italian!”
My best friend from college and I would go around with a dazed happy-face look saying, “I like the Wizard of Oz. I like the Tin Man.”
“I can’t put my arms down!” followed by “You can put them down when you get to school.”
“Do you know where he heard it?” followed by “Probably from his father.”
“Daddy’s gonna kill Ralphie.”
This is truly a classic. And now that I have it on DVD, I will never spend another Christmas season without seeing it.
Jean Shepherd himself did the narration and yes, did a cameo as the bearded man telling Ralphie where the line really ended.
On Christmas Day…they played this movie continuously all day long…nothing else…I watched it 6 times…my previous record had been 4 times during the Christmas season…but not 6 times in one day…I hold a new record…
“Do or do not, there is no try” - Yoda
“Don’t you touch that turkey, it’s still got an hour to go! You’ll get worms!”
I like the lack of sentimentality, the genuine feel for motherhood, fatherhood, husband- and wifehood and kidhood that the actors all bring to their roles. And some of the lines are classics. Darren McGavin’s faux curse words are hysterical. “Mudane noodle!”
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“since my daughter’s only half-Jewish, can she go in up to her knees?” J.H. Marx