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| The Holiday Lineup; 2014 | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 19 2014, 03:58 PM (159 Views) | |
| panzer the great & terrible | Dec 19 2014, 03:58 PM Post #1 |
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This year's ho-ho-hos: GREMLINS CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY MURDER AT THE VANITIES (don't ask) THREE GODFATHERS LOVE, ACTUALLY PIANO PLAYERS RARELY PLAY TOGETHER (it's a holiday but we can still have fun) A CHRISTMAS CAROL (the Alistair Sim one of course) DOCTOR MABUSE, THE GAMBLER (a sugar-remover for Xmas day) ...and I may sneak a Les Blank movie in somewhere. One of the greatest boxes ever. What are yours? Edited by panzer the great & terrible, Dec 19 2014, 04:03 PM.
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| Life is just a bowl of cherries, it's too mysterious, don't take it serious... | |
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| The Batman | Dec 19 2014, 04:16 PM Post #2 |
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Every year, I watch IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE and A CHRISTMAS CAROL (aka...SCROOGE, the Sim one, of course). Besides that, I rotate other holiday favourites, such as: How the Grinch Stole Christmas A Charlie Brown Christmas Scrooged Die Hard And I've recently (last year) watched some (new to me) holiday classics that will be added to the rotation: Christmas in Connecticut The Shop Around the Corner It Happened on 5th Avenue Beyond Tomorrow I'm sure there are others that escape me right now. |
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| mort bakaprevski | Dec 19 2014, 05:08 PM Post #3 |
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Balcony Gang, Foist Class
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Well, since I woke up VERY early this morning, I now have 2 of my 3 must see Holiday movies under my belt: 1. LADY ON A TRAIN 2. HOLIDAY INN Can't seem to find THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER. Hmmmm, musta left it at my son's house. |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Dec 19 2014, 07:06 PM Post #4 |
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We did THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER last week. I loved Jimmy Durante more than ever, and for once Bette Davis was well-cast and fairly restrained. Monte Wooley was excellent too. I wonder why he didn't make more movies: he could have been a splendid villain. |
| Life is just a bowl of cherries, it's too mysterious, don't take it serious... | |
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| Laughing Gravy | Dec 20 2014, 09:16 AM Post #5 |
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Last night was our FNF Christmas party. The schedule, in order: 1. Batman, ch. 11: A Nipponese Trap. ("Ah, so, Melly Chlismas, number five. Now we shall turn Professor Warren into a zombie!" - Daka) 2. Mice Meeting You, with Katnip disguising himself as Santa to eat Herman. 3. Howdy Doody's Christmas; Howdy, Buffalo Bob and Clarabelle rescue Santa from a nut. 4. Special Delivery, the Canadian cartoon about the mailman who breaks his neck when he slips on the ice. 5. Christmas Comes But Once a Year, which we see every Christmas. Max Fleischer, Grampy, orphan waifs. You know. 6. The Santa Claus appearance from I Love Lucy, with Vernon Dent as Santa(!); the cast sings Jingle Bells. 7. A selection of Holiday-themed sketches from the long history of Saturday Night Live. 8. Bad Santa, the unrated cut. |
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| Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer | Dec 20 2014, 09:26 AM Post #6 |
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I don't have anything I watch every year, but I do try to read A Christmas Carol every year (it's a short story, ya know). The wife and I will treat the entire family to a movie at the theater every year, but we only spring for the tickets, no munchies. |
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| Laughing Gravy | Dec 20 2014, 09:28 AM Post #7 |
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I used to take my sons to the movies every Christmas, too. :-) I would say A Christmas Carol is more a novella than a short story, but I read it every year as well. Well, most years. |
| "I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley | |
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| CliffClaven | Dec 23 2014, 11:45 PM Post #8 |
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Personal media traditions, which I try to inflict on friends and relatives with varying degrees of success: -- "Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol" -- Some version of the Sherlock story "The Blue Carbunkle" (Original, BBC radio, or Jeremy Brett TV) -- Mystery Science Theater ("Santa Claus" or "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians") -- Rifftrax (several holiday discs, but "Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny" tends to win) -- "One Hour in Wonderland" (1950 Disney TV special, a bonus feature on animated "Alice in Wonderland") |
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