For the last fucking time, why didn’t they follow his bloody footprints after they shot out the glass?
[puzzled look]
Schieß dem Fenster!
It’s one of *my *christmas movies!
The real question is,…is “When Harry Met Sally” a Christmas movie?
My favorite Christmas movie.
No.
Christmas movies are about Christmas, not just set at Christmas.
Wait a damned minute. I thought “Great Escape” was an Independence Day (US) movie.
Word.
Shoot the glass!
So It’s A Wonderful Life is also not a Christmas movie then? Millions would disagree and yet it is not about Christmas.
Correct, it is not a Christmas movie. It could be set at any time, virtually unchanged.
What a crock!
Your argument is made weak by the overwhelming consensus that It’s A Wonderful Life is not only a Christmas movie, but one of the top ones.
It’s a Wonderful Life takes place over an entire lifetime. However, the climax is when an angle gives George his life back and he goes running through town yelling Merry Christmas to everyone. And it was released right before Christmas. If someone said the message of the movie is that Christmas is a stressful time of the year but people are generous and forgiving I wouldn’t disagree. But I like to take it more literally. Angels can get you out of a jam but they like to screw with you first, so just roll with it.
You can watch it whenever you want. I am not arguing against your family traditions. But it’s not “a Christmas movie”. Neither is Home Alone, or Gremlins. All great movies qithout question, and all set at Christmas time, with some symbols of Christmas prominently featured, but that’s just their backdrop, it’s not what they’re about.
Whereas The Santa Clause, or Elf, or Miracle on 34th Street, or The Grinch, or Christmas Vacation, or Raymond Briggs’s The Snowman, are all genuine Christmas movies.
I hope you can at least recognize that yours is a minority opinion.
Was Clarence an acute angle, or just a cute angel?
Where’s that paperclip guy when you need him?
I need to start slurring my words so we can get that word changed to “anzhels” since we’ll never get every instance of the other one replaced with “bends.”
In Eyes Wide Shut, Tom Cruises character struggles to find the meaning of Christmas. Ultimately he discovers that it is found right where it was all along with his family! Not in some creepy costume shot owner pimping out his underage daughter, an HIV infected prostitute or a weird upper crust masquerade sex party upstate.
Gives me a warm, fuzzy Christmas feeling every time.