• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    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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        11 months ago

        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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      11 months ago

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

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        11 months ago

        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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        11 months ago

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

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      11 months ago

      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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        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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      11 months ago

      If you enjoy “if you _____ it means you have no personality” articles it means you have no personality.

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      11 months ago

      If you like Christmas and typical Christmas things you are an NPC without a soul.

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      Unfortunately it’s not. People are so desperate to engage with others about pop culture and not have to face the horrible truth about the world we live in, that they really lean into stupid irrelevant debates about whether or not a movie is a Christmas movie.

      It’s great that as Lemmy users, we’re above such trivial nonsense and would never waste multiple minutes debating with strangers about any of this piff.

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    11 months ago

    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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    11 months ago

    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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    11 months ago

    It really depends on whether you can stomach watching Kevin Spacey or not, but The Ref is one of the greatest Christmas movies imo

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    11 months ago

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

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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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    11 months ago

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

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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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    11 months ago

    “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.

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    There really is only a small handful of pre-approved opinions on the internet that you’re allowed to have. Some people need to virtue signal so damn hard every year that they’re a REAL die hard fan, and it’s like, okay bud, it’s a mega blockbuster hit that hundreds of millions of people have watched for 35 years. Chill.