Christmas stuff 2k20! - Merry Christmas!

Unpopular opinion alert, but I was never all the fond of the movie to begin with. For me it just never rose above a few scenes that are mildly amusing. Like, there's the whole Christmas morning thing, and the mean Santa and elves at the top of the slide, and the electric sex, but that's pretty much it for me. The over exposure (that came about because, like It's a Wonderful Life, it was a cheap Christmas movie channels could air and aired frequently years ahead of the 24 hour marathons) has definitely made it worse though. Like, why do we need town sets of a movie with three or four locations? Or lazy popcorn tins?

My sister and especially my dad love the movie though (but mom's on my side and doesn't really like it either), and several years ago she actually got something Christmas Story for my dad one year: a leg lamp nightlight. My dad quoted the entire leg lamp scene by himself when he opened it. Thing is they use it all year long.
 
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MysticMisty said:
Unpopular opinion alert, but I was never all the fond of the movie to begin with. For me it just never rose above a few scenes that are mildly amusing. Like, there's the whole Christmas morning thing, and the mean Santa and elves at the top of the slide, and the electric sex, but that's pretty much it for me. The over exposure (that came about because, like It's a Wonderful Life, it was a cheap Christmas movie channels could air and aired frequently years ahead of the 24 hour marathons) has definitely made it worse though. Like, why do we need town sets of a movie with three or four locations? Or lazy popcorn tins?

My sister and especially my dad love the movie though (but mom's on my side and doesn't really like it either), and several years ago she actually got something Christmas Story for my dad one year: a leg lamp nightlight. My dad quoted the entire leg lamp scene by himself when he opened it. Thing is they use it all year long.
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Yeah I sorta liked it as a kid but it's more a thing my dad likes than I do.

Ernest Saves Christmas!
a sincerely fucking stupid comedy about Ernest and Santa and The Meaning Of Christmas (tl note this means the things other than the birth of Jesus)
mostly noteworthy for being, afaik, the only Christmas movie set in (and mostly filmed in) the Orlando area
if you're a Floridian it offers extra appeal, like Flight Of The Navigator being the only movie to have the courage to show the true horror of the "I-95 vs The Turnpike" debate
 
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I just watched Klaus tonight and was amazed at how good 2D (assisted by 3D) animation is getting. You have the best of both worlds here - the expressiveness, organic movement, and heart of 2D combined with the atmospheric lighting and spatial awareness of 3D. The story definitely had a late 90s/early 2000s vibe to it. It reminded me a lot of Emperor's New Groove with a David Spade-like main character starting out rich and spoiled, then getting kicked out into Peasantland to learn the virtues of the Simple Life. There was no Wokeness. No token blacks. No token gays. No asskicking warrior women who start out strong and awesome without training, no weak male characters who are only there to make the woman warrior look awesome, no subverting of expectations. We don't find out that Santa was the bad guy all along because he was a fucking White Male, we don't see Santa taken down by a multi-cultural team of Dangerhairs who take over his toymaking operation and use it to make body-positive dolls to send to all of the good tranny children of the world.

What we do get is a good kids story that hits all of the beats that you'd expect a family movie to hit. But it does so with beautiful animation and a lot of heart. And it has a good message: don't be a selfish prick. Also, don't let your community leaders push a centuries old conspiracy to keep society divided and hating each other for the benefit of a small elite. (Hmmm. Wonder why this movie didn't have a mainstream release and was pushed under the Netflix Rug so deeply?)
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I am hoping that this film becomes a cult classic with time. It's at least proof that non soc-jus entertainment can be made in the Current Year. And that movie studios don't have to shit all over white males if they don't want to.
 
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I'm the type to continue watching Christmas movies until New Years, continuing the old traditions of doing so well after December 25.
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Twas The Night Before Christmas!
Rankin/Bass with another holiday special and another exercise in dickitry.
Some twerp nerd atheist mouse writes how Santa isn't real so Santa forsakes the enitre town.
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ALBERT IS SANTA DENIER.

My mother loves this movie and I remember it well. I like the song.

Speaking of New Year's, here is...Rudolph's Shiny New Year. Rankin/Bass did in fact make a New Year's movie.
 
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Here's a nice Russian New Year's fairytale film.


There is also a Japanese remake done by Toei in the 80s, out there if you look.
 
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Pokemonquistador2 said:
I just watched Klaus tonight and was amazed at how good 2D (assisted by 3D) animation is getting. You have the best of both worlds here - the expressiveness, organic movement, and heart of 2D combined with the atmospheric lighting and spatial awareness of 3D. The story definitely had a late 90s/early 2000s vibe to it. It reminded me a lot of Emperor's New Groove with a David Spade-like main character starting out rich and spoiled, then getting kicked out into Peasantland to learn the virtues of the Simple Life. There was no Wokeness. No token blacks. No token gays. No asskicking warrior women who start out strong and awesome without training, no weak male characters who are only there to make the woman warrior look awesome, no subverting of expectations. We don't find out that Santa was the bad guy all along because he was a fucking White Male, we don't see Santa taken down by a multi-cultural team of Dangerhairs who take over his toymaking operation and use it to make body-positive dolls to send to all of the good tranny children of the world.

What we do get is a good kids story that hits all of the beats that you'd expect a family movie to hit. But it does so with beautiful animation and a lot of heart. And it has a good message: don't be a selfish prick. Also, don't let your community leaders push a centuries old conspiracy to keep society divided and hating each other for the benefit of a small elite. (Hmmm. Wonder why this movie didn't have a mainstream release and was pushed under the Netflix Rug so deeply?)
:thinking:
I am hoping that this film becomes a cult classic with time. It's at least proof that non soc-jus entertainment can be made in the Current Year. And that movie studios don't have to shit all over white males if they don't want to.
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Klaus is a wonderful movie.

Probably my favorite Christmas movie to come out in the past 10 years or so.
 
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