Comments on: Video: The worst Christmas movies evah

By: landlines

landlines — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:07:47 +0000

Christmas Vacation? Entertaining: YES, in a sleazy sort of way. If this movie were a magazine, you'd hide it under your bed. Good Christmas movie: NO, it is a parody which mocks good Christmas movies. Classic: NO...not in the same league as "Miracle on 34th Street" etc. Come on: you can't seriously compare Chevy Chase to any serious actor!

By: BKennedy

BKennedy — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:56:01 +0000

I do love me my classics.

Miracle on 34th Street
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
A Christmas Carol (I believe I have the 1968 version on a Beta. I should see if they have a DVD for it.)
Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer (It’s stop-action IIRC.)

Elf was good, and I liked Tim Allen in the Santa Claus. The Grinch (live-action) was on a few nights ago and Carrey overdoes it a little more than I remember, but it’s still solid and it adds a more human element to the Who’s other than static innocent background characters vs evil plotting Grinch.

I’ve seen Jingle all the way and it’s quite cool.

I’ve never seen A Christmas Vacation.

By: Tantor

Tantor — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:48:51 +0000

What about the finest Christmas movie ever made: Santa Claus Conquers The Martians Is it always up to me to introduce high culture onto this site?

By: thomashton

thomashton — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:55:48 +0000

Just got a new big screen 1080p LCD with a pumping surround system. My father-in-law loves Christmas Story. When I invited him over to watch it on the new system he told me, “Naw. I only watch it in parts while it is on during the 24 hour showing. Never sat through the whole thing.”

As for A Christmas Carol. #1 is Patrick Stewart. #2 is Mickey’s Christmas Carol. None other compare (even though I do own other versions).

Christmas Vacation is classic. Not Christmas without it. I even watched it on Christmas Day in Iraq. The lady is a moron.

Glad she did not get her talons on my precious Pee Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special. I would have had to hunt her down. Nothing beats Charro, the del Rubio Triplets, kd lang, Magic Johnson, Frankie and Annette, Little Richard, (Princess) Zsa Zsa Gabor . . . must I go on?

By: DrW

DrW — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:56:17 +0000

I always liked Trading Places as a Holiday movie. It’s not as funny as A Christmas Vacation, though.

remember Murphy on the train dressed as the guy from Cameroon, man?

Beef Jerky Time! Happy Christmas!

Uh, In this country we say, Merry Christmas.

Ooohhh, Merry Christmas then, and Merry New Year!

By: Baphomet

Baphomet — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:05:46 +0000

“Jingle All The Way” was awesome, dude…

By: Frozen Tex

Frozen Tex — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:00:15 +0000

Christmas Vacation: “Mister, if I had a rubber hose, I’d beat you with it!”
Scrooged: “That may work with the ladies pal; not with me.”
Die Hard: “It’s Christmas, Theo; ’tis a time for miracles, so be of good cheer, and call me when you get to the seventh lock!”
Lethal Weapon: “IT’S G*DD*MNED CHRISTMAS!”

‘Nuff said.

By: KCtheKat

KCtheKat — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:49:26 +0000

Don’t even get her started on the “Reason for the Season”. If she made a statement about that in her “I hate Christmas movies” review, this thread would hit 750+ posts.

By: Dork B.

Dork B. — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:18:05 +0000

I always liked Trading Places as a Holiday movie. It’s not as funny as A Christmas Vacation, though.

I’m trying to remember that line, when the grandparents arrive and they hug the kids, the grandmother offers them a shiny new quarter to rub her feet, or something? Does anyone remember?

By: Wuptdo

Wuptdo — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:16:38 +0000

National Lampons’ “Christmas Vacation” is always watched as a family tradition in my household. Find me a large extended family that is NOT dysfunctional. Geez, give me a break.

“Dad, how where you able to pull off Christmas each year?”

“Son, I had a lot of help from Jack Daniels.”

Amen, Brother. True Holiday wisdom.

By: BohicaTwentyTwo

BohicaTwentyTwo — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:17:20 +0000

This is what I have to say to the editors at Slate:
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas
Kiss my ass
Kiss your ass
Kiss his ass
Happy Hanukkah

By: conservnut

conservnut — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:25:36 +0000

A Christmas Story is the best Christmas movie evah.

Bad Candy on December 16, 2007 at 8:25 PM

Agreed, If they had listed that I would have to go postal on them.

By: ScoopPC11

ScoopPC11 — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:21:34 +0000

As far as my favorite Christmas films:

Gremlins
A Christmas Story (I’m trying to talk my husband into getting the pieces for the little Christmas village that they sell at Sears based on the movie)

By: ScoopPC11

ScoopPC11 — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:16:38 +0000

Sad thing is, I saw Jack Frost. It's actually pretty funny -- I saw it thinking it was trying to be a straight horror film, and was pleasantly surprised to see that it was a horror/comedy. I have yet to see Gingerdead Man, but my vote for worst horror Christmas film would be Silent Night Deadly Night. Not only was the premise seriously flawed and the acting bad (a friend in college who I discovered had "issues" later on introduced me to this film, telling me it was a "great" film), but it was enough to scare little kids just from the advertisements.

By: Jaibones

Jaibones — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:38:08 +0000

“National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” among the worst? Seriously?

Seriously, dude. Chevy Chase is the worst comedic actor, evah. He makes Adam Sandler look like Buster Keaton.

By: Ugly

Ugly — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:54:18 +0000

Bad Santa rawks. Not exactly Christmas fare :P

By: trigon

trigon — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:58:33 +0000

What? Nobody likes ‘Bad Santa’? Or ‘Lethal Weapon’? Jeeze.

By: PrettyD_Vicious

PrettyD_Vicious — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:49:32 +0000

We watch “Christmas Vacation” every year and it remains funny every year because it shows all our Christmas Disasters, idiosyncrasies and foibles in one movie. There is not enough gravy made to eat my dads turkey. One bite and instant mummification as seen in the movie “The Mummy.” But everybody forgot to mention “Gremlins.” Phoebe Cates line “They found my dad stuck in the chimney after trying to slide down to surprise us.”

By: techno_barbarian

techno_barbarian — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 04:09:37 +0000

BZZZT! None of the above. Not even in the running.

The 1951 Sim version is far and away the best.

JimC on December 16, 2007 at 10:57 PM

Yep. That’s my favorite version of A Christmas Carol by far, but I watch ‘em all every year.

Oh, and Merry Christmas to you all!

By: jayj

jayj — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 04:08:03 +0000

How is Santa with Muscles with Hulk Hogan not on here?
http://imdb.com/title/tt0117550/
So many plot holes..

By: sonnyspats1

sonnyspats1 — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 04:01:19 +0000

Wasn’t Heidi with Shirley Temple a sort of Christmas movie. It was so…. long ago. From a childs perspective all the reviewed movies were good except mabey it’s a wonderful life.

By: Texyank

Texyank — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:59:08 +0000

What a sour puss she is. “A Christmas Story” is one
of the best ever. . .

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085334/

By: JimC

JimC — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:57:44 +0000

Nessuno on December 16, 2007 at 7:57 PM

Now, here is something I’ve actually been pondering for the Christmas season. Which version of “A Christmas Carol” is the best?

Notable contenders include the George C. Scott version, the Patrick Stewart version, the Muppet version, and of course, “Scrooged”.

BZZZT! None of the above. Not even in the running.

The 1951 Sim version is far and away the best.

Or even better, just read the book. Seriously. Illustrated copies (including the original) available for free at archive.org. Or for even more insight into the book, buy “The Annotated Christmas Carol”. Dickens made very little money on the book, in great part due to his insistence of low price and high quality. Also, it was widely pirated immediately after it appeared, and there was effectively nothing he could do about it.

But the book’s impact was enormous and continues to this day.

By: Liberty or Death

Liberty or Death — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:55:03 +0000

Now, here is something I’ve actually been pondering for the Christmas season. Which version of “A Christmas Carol” is the best?

Notable contenders include the George C. Scott version, the Patrick Stewart version, the Muppet version, and of course, “Scrooged”.

Nessuno on December 16, 2007 at 7:57 PM

For sure the one with George C Scott, it’s the best version of a Christmas Carol (IMHO) of all time and if it doesn’t bring a tear to your eye then you’re probably not human like the leftist Biach that did this craptastic Slate “lets bash Christmas” vid!

Seriously, someone must of put a hurt on her in her younger years, maybe Santa put her on the naughty list one year and she never got over it even after years of therapy!

Other fav Christmas movies of mine:

A Christmas Story
It’s a Wonderful Life

By: Nethicus

Nethicus — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:46:29 +0000

Christmas Vacation was, IMHO, the best of the Vacation movies. I liked it better than the original, probably because it was cleaner and the humor more universal.

Scrooged was awesome. I loved the “acid rain” scare promo, with Lee Majors preceeding that by saving Santa in “The Day the Reindeer Died”.

But the worst? “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians”. We showed that at a bad movie night and it was the only movie we ever turned off.