“A Christmas Story” hands down.
In case you don’t know this one, it’s the story of “Ralphie” who desperately wants a Daisy BB Gun for Christmas. The director uses fantasy sequences to very good effect but the movie is surreal enough that the fantasy sequences are hardly more bizarre than Ralphie’s own life.
What is your favorite?
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackback“It’s a Wonderful Life”. Jimmy Stewart .. ah now there is acting.
Christmas Story! It’s a great movie, but some annoying channel has decided to play it nonstop, 24 hours a day, throughout the entire week of Christmas. After the 30938th replay, it’s a little worn.
But it’s still a good movie.
I still like Home Alone. Planes, Trains and Automobiles is another good holiday themed movie. My family has made an annual tradition of watching Scrooge – a musical version of the classic Christmas Carol tale starring Albert Finney and Alec Guiness. Some of the tunes are quite fun…
Hmm… I have “A Christmas Story” on DVD and couldn’t find it on TV the other day so watched the DVD.
All of these are good movies, although I’ve never seen Scrooge, (or “Scrooged” either for that matter).
Maybe we should try for a top ten list….
Gotta go with “A Christmas Story.” “It’s a Wonderful Life” is a better movie, I think, but I much more ENJOY “A Christmas Story.”
(And, since I didn’t post it in your other thread….nice dragon! You’re getting dang good dang fast!)
Au Contraire Drax mon ami!
“It’s a Wonderful Life” is a great sentimental favorite, and who can complain about any movie with a naked Donna Reed in the bushes? But I am among those who consider “It’s A Wonderful Life” to be an over-rated movie, and dated to boot.
A Christmas Story is on a par with “The Princess Bride” in its complex simplicity (or is it simple complexity?). Scenes like the mother slapping Ralphie’s hand away as he reaches to caress the fish-stocking leg lamp are classic, and I think the wife (Melinda Dillon, who was also in Close Encounters of the Third Kind) is an underrated actress. Her frazzled acceptance of her children’s foibles, coupled with the slow burns she throws at her husband’s eccentricities demonstrate a real understanding of the complexities of suburban life that is far beyond anything Donna Reed manages to convey in “Wonderful Life”. There is a hidden subtlety in “A Christmas Story” that is masked by the campy narration and the fantasy sequences that reveal the inner thoughts of Ralphie.
(Thanks for the kind words on the dragon. It was by far the most complex thing I’ve done so far).
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