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Random Christmas Post #5
(I have some catching up to do!)
There are a bunch of Christmas things I haven't seen, but know the basic plot of. "It's a Wonderful Life", for example, has been ripped of by just about everything, so I understand the concept. At this point I haven't seen it because I assume it will be depressing.
I've also never seen "The Nutcracker", which I think involves a Nutcracker being turned into a dude for a night? Or a girl being shrunk to nutcracker size? And then in the morning someone's uncle breaks the spell? All I know for sure is that there are rats, which TERRIFIES ME, and that when my friend Kristin went to see it, one of the rats fell into the orchestra pit, which I think is weird because ballerinas are supposed to be all coordinated and stuff. Maybe the poor dude was having a bad night or caught a spotlight in his eye or something.
Anyway, I found out today that I had NO IDEA what "White Christmas" was EVEN ABOUT. I had, for some reason, decided that it was set in California and was about how there was no snow, and then that was somehow parlayed into a disillusioned white dude finding the True Meaning of Christmas at the eleventh hour, probably through song and dance, which was the style at the time. Image my surprise when I found out it's actually about a couple of WWII veterans and a ski lodge in Vermont.
(I still haven't seen it, btw. I just know what it's about now.)
I have seen Miracle on 34th Street (in black and white), both versions of Little Women (what? It's totally a Christmas movie!), The Muppet Christmas Carol, The Muppet Christmas Special, and the Grinch. And Elf and The Santa Clause, both of which crack me up more than I expect them to every time I re-watch them.
(SPEAKING OF THE GRINCH: The Miami Project has memorized the WHOLE thing! With all the songs! And the voices! And I had to share a room with him last weekend, so I got to hear the WHOLE THING, and when he got to the part where it was his Cindy Lou Who voice, his Grinch voice and his Narrator voice, I NEARLY HAD A SEIZURE FROM LAUGHING. God, he's cute. Which is fortunate for him, as I only got about five hours of sleep that night and then had to stay awake for 26 hours.)
And that is my rambling thing about Christmas things to watch. What do you like? Hate? Feel ambivalent about?
There are a bunch of Christmas things I haven't seen, but know the basic plot of. "It's a Wonderful Life", for example, has been ripped of by just about everything, so I understand the concept. At this point I haven't seen it because I assume it will be depressing.
I've also never seen "The Nutcracker", which I think involves a Nutcracker being turned into a dude for a night? Or a girl being shrunk to nutcracker size? And then in the morning someone's uncle breaks the spell? All I know for sure is that there are rats, which TERRIFIES ME, and that when my friend Kristin went to see it, one of the rats fell into the orchestra pit, which I think is weird because ballerinas are supposed to be all coordinated and stuff. Maybe the poor dude was having a bad night or caught a spotlight in his eye or something.
Anyway, I found out today that I had NO IDEA what "White Christmas" was EVEN ABOUT. I had, for some reason, decided that it was set in California and was about how there was no snow, and then that was somehow parlayed into a disillusioned white dude finding the True Meaning of Christmas at the eleventh hour, probably through song and dance, which was the style at the time. Image my surprise when I found out it's actually about a couple of WWII veterans and a ski lodge in Vermont.
(I still haven't seen it, btw. I just know what it's about now.)
I have seen Miracle on 34th Street (in black and white), both versions of Little Women (what? It's totally a Christmas movie!), The Muppet Christmas Carol, The Muppet Christmas Special, and the Grinch. And Elf and The Santa Clause, both of which crack me up more than I expect them to every time I re-watch them.
(SPEAKING OF THE GRINCH: The Miami Project has memorized the WHOLE thing! With all the songs! And the voices! And I had to share a room with him last weekend, so I got to hear the WHOLE THING, and when he got to the part where it was his Cindy Lou Who voice, his Grinch voice and his Narrator voice, I NEARLY HAD A SEIZURE FROM LAUGHING. God, he's cute. Which is fortunate for him, as I only got about five hours of sleep that night and then had to stay awake for 26 hours.)
And that is my rambling thing about Christmas things to watch. What do you like? Hate? Feel ambivalent about?
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As to other holiday films that I enjoy, "The Bishop's Wife" with Cary Grant, "It's a Wonderful Life", "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever", and the original version of "Miracle on 34th Street".
Little children make the holidays so much more fun. I would have loved to hear 'The Miami Project' do the Grinch voice.
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The older version of Miracle on 34th Street is my mom's favorite Christmas movie, so we always watch that. :p
One Christmas in San Fransico, White Christmas was on repeat on some cable channel, and I (who had never seen it before) watched it like, five times. It was pretty good. And I still think that, despite having watched it so much. :p
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation is me and my dad's favorite Christmas movie. So many quotable lines in that. Almost as many as in Elf, which I also love. Also, Christmas Eve on Sesame Street.
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Sorry I ruined your lives and shoved 14 cookies into the VCR.
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I'm not one for Christmas movies really.
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We used to go to the Nutcracker every few years when I was little. It's probably what's responsible for the 10 years of ballet. And then I learned that point hurt.
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I love Elf, Muppets Christmas Carol, the 1951 version of Christmas Carol starring Alastair Sim, both the old and the new(er) version of Miracle on 34th Street, White Christmas, Holiday Inn, Little Women (which is totally a Christmas movie!), and goodness knows how many others.
I will also admit to getting sucked in to some of those movies that they show on the Hallmark channel. Some of them are just weird or plain silly, but some of them... *sniff* get me every time.
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(I have to do that tonight. Or maybe Christmas Eve...)
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I kind of like "It's a Wonderful Life," but it takes a really long time to get to the interesting part (that being the part where George is dead). My favorites are Muppet Christmas Carol and the Grinch, I think, although Rudolph is always fun.
I always found Frosty the Snowman kind of creepy. It's been so long since I've watched it that I can't really remember why, though.
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Have you ever read "How Mrs. Claus Saved Christmas"? It involves a moose.
Heat Miser/Snow Miser is my favourite song on our playlist at work. I sing and dance every time it comes on, and everyone laughs at me.
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My other Christmas "must-watch" movies are (in no particular order): A Christmas Story (lovelovelove), Little Women (1994), Holiday Inn, White Christmas, A Muppet Christmas Carol, A Muppet Family Christmas, and Going My Way. Also, Home Alone (honorable mention, but not a must-watch).