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The future's so bright, I've gotta wear... shades.
Only if you give him a 10 minute break
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Also these 3 are classics too:
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I've seen White Christmas a ton of times. Not sure why, I don't even really like it but when it's on I just leave it going in the background.
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Opening scene, cocaine suicide girl... "Jingle Bell Rock" plays in the background. Gibson makes a drug bust among a bunch of Christmas trees for sale. Gary Busy shoots the TV at Danny Glover's house answering the question, "what day is it" (from Miracle on 34th Street, I think) with "It's the day of Christmas" etc.
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Tried, again, to watch Scrooged earlier this year. Couldn't get past the early scene of the promo with the plane blowing up. Stopped finding it, overall, to be enjoyable years ago. There's some cute stuff in it--always liked Carol Kane's feisty little Ghost. But, really can't find the humor in Goldthwait showing up at work with a loaded shotgun. Not a big ha-ha to me when far too many people have had that experience for real.
I've always had a thing for Dickens--probably have about a dozen variations of Christmas Carol--everything from the early film versions to Mr. Magoo's (I think it actually has a pretty good score for a cartoon), Muppets, radio recordings of Orson Welles' & Barrymore's broadcasts, Finney's Scrooge, and the aforementioned Patrick Stewart version. Stewart is the only take I've ever seen of Scrooge where he could be described as virile, which I find interesting--think it's a nearly-perfect version of the story.
There are some old '40's-50's films I like quite a lot--especially a couple that have traditional tough guys doing light comedy. Holiday Affair with Bob Mitchum romancing Janet Leigh (although, nit-picky being that I am, it always pisses me off that a mother wouldn't know her six-year-old would rather have a train set than a damn suit for a Christmas gift. I mean, seriously?) And, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov and Humphrey Bogart in We're No Angels. If you've never seen this one, it's worth checking out. Some dark humor involving three escaped convicts, a pet viper, and the improbable Christmas setting of steamy hot Devil's Island. I don't know of any other film where Bogart is doing this kind of comedy, and I find it rather fascinating.
Not generally a fan of slapstick and broad humor, but Christmas Vacation raised it to an art form. Don't think there's an off note in there.
And, of course, Christmas Story--just a perfect little film.
On the whole Die Hard issue, I've never gotten it. All kinds of things happen at Christmas, but it doesn't necessarily make them Christmas-y events just because they coincide with a calendar date. It may actually be closer to representing the real world, but real is something I'd often prefer to block out given what the holiday is traditionally supposed to represent--not a lot of joy to be found in murder and mayhem, in my imho. But, then again it's Christmas, so everyone is welcome to enjoy whatever floats their sleigh as far as entertainment goes.
Merry Christmas! Hope tomorrow finds you all on the Nice list.
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Actually, many "Christmas" songs don't have anything to do with Christmas. "Baby it's cold out there", "Winter Wonderland", hell even "Jingle Bells" are all about winter/snow and not about Christmas.
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From my time in Boston I recall Jingle Bells is about sleigh races there, and has nothing to do with Christmas, and is not treated as a Christmas song there.
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