still nothin'
The Christmas spirit has yet to move me. Polar bears on Coke cans implorng me to GIVE LIVE LOVE haven't pushed any buttons. Twinkle lights strung around desks at work haven't done it. I gave Love Actually a whirl this afternoon before work and while it hit all the emotional notes, but I'm still not feeling the season.
So I turned to the web. The guys at ALOTT5MA are discussing the greatest Christmas movies ever after linking to a list compiled by someone who didn't work the Christmas 2000 season in a Suncoast. This guy ranks Three Days of the Condor at number three and Die Hard fails to chart. What kind of madness is that?
Since I did manage to spend five weeks in the fourth quarter of 2000 working at the Cottonwood Suncoast and was subjected to every Christmas movie and special (minus the Star Wars Holiday Special) cranked out since 1940, I feel compelled to compile my own list of holiday must watch flicks. Maybe this will be the kick in the pants I need to get a jump on my holiday shopping.
10. It's a Wonderful Life George Bailey's just going to off himself without telling his wife and children why? That's not a wonderful life, that's thirty years in therapy. Still, not putting Capra on the list puts me on a government watch list, so there ya go.
9. Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas An update (sort of) of an O. Henry story (guess which one!), the flick has Muppets playing in a jug band. You just don't get that these days.
8. A Wish for Wings that Work I only saw this the one time it aired in 1991, but it was sweet and irreverent.
7. The Ref Denis Leary. Kevin Spacey. Christmas. Yuppies. Love it.
6. The Santa Clause I saw this a few days after Christmas when I was 16. I was jaded, I was sullen, I was dragged to the theater by my aunt who didn't know what else to do with me. I laughed straight through, and eleven years later, it still has a soft spot in my heart. Plus it features H!ITG! David Krumholtz, whom I've loved since "Addams Family Values." Shut up, we're the same age.
5. Love Actually I love this movie. My love for this movie is well documented, but it hasn't been around long enough to rate higher. Give it a few years, and it'll probably crack the top three.
4. Die Hard. "All right, listen up guys. 'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, except for the four assholes coming in the rear in standard two-by-two cover formation. "
3. A Christmas Story My parents didn't see this movie until the Christmas before the decamped Ruidoso for Albuquerque. I remember we caught a showing on TNT Christmas Eve. My parents sitting on the old couch in our tiny apartment, hanging off each other in laughter will forever be my snapshot memory of Christmas 2001.
2. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! What Ron Howard movie?
1. A Charlie Brown Christmas Adam can do the whole thing from memory.
So I turned to the web. The guys at ALOTT5MA are discussing the greatest Christmas movies ever after linking to a list compiled by someone who didn't work the Christmas 2000 season in a Suncoast. This guy ranks Three Days of the Condor at number three and Die Hard fails to chart. What kind of madness is that?
Since I did manage to spend five weeks in the fourth quarter of 2000 working at the Cottonwood Suncoast and was subjected to every Christmas movie and special (minus the Star Wars Holiday Special) cranked out since 1940, I feel compelled to compile my own list of holiday must watch flicks. Maybe this will be the kick in the pants I need to get a jump on my holiday shopping.
10. It's a Wonderful Life George Bailey's just going to off himself without telling his wife and children why? That's not a wonderful life, that's thirty years in therapy. Still, not putting Capra on the list puts me on a government watch list, so there ya go.
9. Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas An update (sort of) of an O. Henry story (guess which one!), the flick has Muppets playing in a jug band. You just don't get that these days.
8. A Wish for Wings that Work I only saw this the one time it aired in 1991, but it was sweet and irreverent.
7. The Ref Denis Leary. Kevin Spacey. Christmas. Yuppies. Love it.
6. The Santa Clause I saw this a few days after Christmas when I was 16. I was jaded, I was sullen, I was dragged to the theater by my aunt who didn't know what else to do with me. I laughed straight through, and eleven years later, it still has a soft spot in my heart. Plus it features H!ITG! David Krumholtz, whom I've loved since "Addams Family Values." Shut up, we're the same age.
5. Love Actually I love this movie. My love for this movie is well documented, but it hasn't been around long enough to rate higher. Give it a few years, and it'll probably crack the top three.
4. Die Hard. "All right, listen up guys. 'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, except for the four assholes coming in the rear in standard two-by-two cover formation. "
3. A Christmas Story My parents didn't see this movie until the Christmas before the decamped Ruidoso for Albuquerque. I remember we caught a showing on TNT Christmas Eve. My parents sitting on the old couch in our tiny apartment, hanging off each other in laughter will forever be my snapshot memory of Christmas 2001.
2. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! What Ron Howard movie?
1. A Charlie Brown Christmas Adam can do the whole thing from memory.
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