• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    I watch Lord Of The Rings at Christmas.

    • it has elves

    • the fellowship set out from Rivendell on the 25th of December

    • Gandalf has a santa-like beard

    I rest my case

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    People say Die Hard is Christmas movie because people are so fucking tired of the same rehashed Christmas movies that get played in repeat every year. I like Elf but I’ve seen it enough.

    Same with Christmas music. I’m tired of this boomer era shit starting in October.

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        So my husband also loves this movie. I try every year to like it, but I simply cannot. I wonder if it’s one of those that you find and love as a kid or else it’s hard to get into, haha.

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          I watched this again a few years ago, and Sinbad has some of the worst delivery of all time, even among people who flexed into an “acting” career. That’s to go among with Arnie’s “unique” delivery of predictable dialogues and bad puns.

          Phil Hartman was hilarious, or course.

          It’s a terrible movie.

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            Honestly Phil Hartman being in it is one of the best parts for me. He was a treasure. RIP

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            It’s a terrible movie, but us Minnesotans overlook that for the unbridled joy of pointing at the screen and saying “I’ve been there!” or “Nancy knows the family that used to live in that house.” (she doesn’t)

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          You have to buy into the premise of its fantastical, half real/half cartoon reality. If you’re watching it through a serious lens or even as a comedy that takes place in a real world Minneapolis, you’ll never be able to appreciate it.

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            Idk man, I’ve seen some pretty dope cartoons. I’ve tried looking at it from a million different angles over the years (as I said, husbando loves it, so I do really try and enjoy it as well), and it just doesn’t do it for me. But it’s cool, not everything has to be for everyone, and sometimes you see something at the right time in your life and it just elevates to become something super special to you. I guess I just didn’t have that experience, ah well

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              Unfortunate, but you’re right. Different strokes for different folks. It’s a staple in my house due to the great one liners I can throw back and forth with the mrs.

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      Violent Night is going to be a Christmas tradition of ours. I also checked out Fatman this year.

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        My girlfriend said the same thing. Not a masterpiece but a fun lil movie to break the monotony of regular holiday movies.

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        Just got that movie recently 🏴‍☠️ and you reminded me of it. Thanks stranger!

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        Ooooor when I was a kid I’d always put it on during christmas time because it was both A) Not claymation Rudolph again for the third time this month, and B) it DOES take place at a cristmas party so I could count it. Also Gremlins and Nightmare Before Christmas both got halloween time plays and christmas time plays, sue me.

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      Fuck christmas I do my best to ignore it until some annoying person comes along and invites you to some Christmas markets or whatever.

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    american psycho should be one if them, the main character even says “have a holly jolly christmas”

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    Okay but why aren’t some of these Christmas season movies? I think narnia really isn’t that big of a stretch

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    I saw some clickbait article the other day “movies you didn’t realize were Christmas movies” and it was full of obvious Christmas movies. #1 was Its a Wonderful Life………

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    🤷‍♀️ I don’t enjoy traditional Christmas movies that much and I think it’s fun to do something different.

    There are 8 billion of us, it’s pretty tough to say something original all the time.

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    Die hard should have been on one and not lethal weapon. Other than that I think those are excellent choices.

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    Sorry, Onion, some of these literally have Christmas in their titles. That’s a stretch, even for you. XD

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    “get a personality” and “that’s your whole personality” is just lazy writing. it’s a generic insult deployed against anyone who likes a thing that says nothing about the person or the thing. it’s the satire equivalent to “vegan bad”. why should I read an article written by someone who makes parroting bland criticisms from the internet their whole personality?

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    “No, the only Christmas movies are movies I SAY are Christmas movies!” ~ Dan Rice / Chat GPT

    Imagine caring what other people consider a holiday movie? Dan sounds like a miserable person who will go through your movie collection and call them all horse shit and demand you and your group watch a 4 hour movie about a woman brushing a horse and proclaiming It to be true art.

    I stopped reading at his banal prologue. Don’t invite Dan over for movie night, for he is armed with a Chat Bot and a thesaurus.