Actually, it’s TBS, TNT’s sister network. And yes, they will be doing their annual 24 hour marathon of “A Christmas Story” beginning on the evening of the 24th.
actually the 24 hour showing started on TNT and then moved to TBS.
I’ve always liked the movie, but I think it’s a bit over-exposed (especially with the stupid 24 hour marathon.) I like to see it every couple of year, but certainly don’t want to see it multiple times a day or have it quoted and referenced ad infinitum. (Come to think of it, the same could honestly be said for most movies I like.)
I liked the stories better.
“Leopold Doppler and the Great Orpheum Gravy Boat Riot.” Once read aloud that to my dad and several other old guys in the same hospital ward as him. It’s dangerous to make old people laugh that much.
I hate it. There is something about 50s nostalgia that grates on me. I hate the show Happy Days for similar reasons, although the kid in the Christmas movie annoys me a lot more than little opie cunningham ever did.
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Love it. Great story, great lines (“Only I didn’t say ‘fudge’”), and best of all, it was filmed (though not set) in my native Cleveland. The opening scene is Public Square, and the department store where Ralphie sees his Object of Desire, and meets Santa, is Higbee’s, a northern Ohio institution. (Alas, sadly gone).
My Mom loves it because she grew up in Western Cleveland, and while she went to Catholic school, she knew kids who went to Warren G. Harding.
Yes, the move was part of a programming decision that TBS should focus on comedy (very funny) and TNT should focus on drama (we know drama), how TBS still occasionally airing baseball figures into this, I dunno.
Hate it, Spending Christmas with that family would be a hundred times worse than the worst Christmas of my life. Why would I want to do that?
It used to really suck to be a kid. This movie illustrates that quite nicely. I don’t know if it’s good or bad that people can’t relate to that so much these days.
Most of my family likes it but I’m in the middle. It’s just too long. Or maybe it feels that way after 24 hours. I’d admit, I’m snarky and I’d much rather watch 24 hours of “Christmas Vacation”