Random Christmas Post #5
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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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Date: 2011-12-23 02:12 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2011-12-23 04:48 pm (UTC)(I have to do that tonight. Or maybe Christmas Eve...)