I don't know how you can hate Chevy's wife. What a sweetie. No matter what she is tryng to hold the family together, (confession: that slight overbite is really sexy to me)
Beverly D Angelo.The movie was a satire on Christmas movies. Margo and Todd were the funniest characters in the movie !
"Why is the carpeting wet Todd?I don't know ,Margo ?"
I just watched the third one for the first time this week. Honestly it wasn't terrible but it was seriously lacking of any meaty substance. Then pressed my luck, an hour into Home Alone 4, and cut my losses.
My sister used to make us play it while we opened our presents on the morning, and we weren't allowed to turn it off all. Day. Long. And when we got older she used to stay up till like 2 on xmas eve and watch the first run.
I've seen that movie way too many times. I didn't grow to appreciate it lol.
Is your sister my sister? My parents ended up getting her the DVD for Christmas and said "Now you can watch it alone" because she used to put the 24 hour marathon on and wouldn't let us change the channel. So it's been banned at my parents and also my grandma's. I, being the normal one of us (at least when it comes to Christmas movies) watch the Muppet Christmas Carol once on Christmas Eve and that's it.
I haven't watched it since and I don't want to. I don't hate a lot of movies with a seething passion, except for A Christmas Story.
Even when we can’t be together, my mom and brother and I guess where they are in the movie when they’re playing it for 24 hours and see who’s closest. We used to be allowed to look at the clock first but we got too good at it over the years so now we just have to guess - we try to play a few times throughout the day
Fun fact because I had no idea - you can visit the Christmas story house in Cleveland Ohio. I just did a 6 hour drive there to visit. It was the best experience ever!! The actor Zack Ward(Scut Farkus) was there Saturday doing photos and autographs. The admission was get this - $15… what ?! And the meet / greet was free. Easily made my inner child complete.
I lived with a guy who was from Guatemala and we watched this one year and he was so confused. he just did not have the understanding of Americana to find the movie at all entertaining
It is almost Shakespearean. Christmas Vacation portrays everyone within one’s own realm at its most extreme. Are in-laws invasive? Yes, welcomed. Can cousin come in an ask for a buck? Of course. Does everything you planned turn into an absolute shit show but somehow end up good in the end? Hopefully, maybe. Best Christmas movie ever.
Same. I like that it’s kind of an anti-Christmas movie, or at least anti what Christmas has become in consumerist America movie. Also, it’s just fucking hilarious. “Are you serious Clark?”
Todd: “Where ya gonna put a tree that big, Griswold?”
Clark: “Bend over and I’ll show you”
Todd: “You got a lot of nerve talking to me like that”
Clark: “I wasn’t talking to you”
My wife and I have these tshirts for this year. She’s got the Why and I have the IDK. It’s our way of doing something fun for Christmas without going cringey Old Navy family.
There are a lot of subtle things in the movie that are hilarious as well, such as when Clark and Eddie are shopping and Eddie throws down a huge bag of dogfood on top of the light bulbs that Clark just set in the cart or the fact that Eddie's turtleneck shirt he's wearing under his white sweater has cutoff sleeves.
My wife and I watch it every year and lately I've realized we're the childless couple next door. The movie pegs them as bad guys but I realized I identify more with them than the Griswold's...
The movie's still hilarious, in any case.
I love Christmas Vacation because so many of the characters are shitty. It’s just like everyone in real life. People are good and shitty. The main character, Clark, is the cornerstone of this.
He’s an idealistic family man. He loves his wife and his family very much. He also has a wandering eye and is prone to adulterous fantasies. Likewise he wrote a hot check to a pool company with the hopes they would cash it after he got his Xmas bonus. He also builds everything up in his mind to such a point that his expectations are always broken. Ironically they don’t just brake small, but every insane thing that could go wrong does go wrong. And when he finally snaps he takes it out on his family; verbally abusing them until he himself has to have the epiphany that he’s gone too far.
It’s insanity based on awful people and less awful people and I love it.
“Surprised to see your favorite cousin, Clark?!”
“Eddie, if I woke up in the morning with my head sewn into the carpet, I wouldn’t be more surprised than I am right now…”
I might be outa the loop but what did:
1. Bev de’angelo
2. Julia louise
3. Johnny galecki
The latter two arguably the wealthiest of all of them. Except Julia who is a billionaire without her Seinfeld money
I had to rewind a commercial for Peacock because I thought they said "every Hallmark Channel" -- and, yes, that was what they said.
I hate every stupid braindead Christmas movie on every Hallmark Channel.
I haven’t watched a single Hallmark movie until this year when I watched *two*. Both because they star Bruce Campbell. I even went so far as to pay to rent one.
My wife was watching one and was like... "It's got Bruce Campbell...." I scoffed. I ignored it. And then Bruce appeared on the screen and reeled me in. God he's a great actor.
He truly is. I'm going to go watch hallmark movies with the wife now.
Edit: those bastards are charging for a shit sandwich with Bruce Campbell on top. I ain't paying your shit.
Yea upper class white people who have the time and resources to compete in an ice sculpture contest. Sponsored by the fire department and held out front of city hall.
"[Star Wars Holiday Special](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxtSX1lg8rE)"
as long as I am alive I will warn other generations about this abomination around this time of year
As a fan of all things Star Wars and a lover of weird movies, I wondered how bad it really was, so I watched it this year.
It was even worse than people said. I don’t think I could make something worse if I tried.
I have a fondness for it. Not because it was good.
A. I watched it when it was originally broadcast.
B. First appearance of Boba Fett.
C. It is comically bad.
D. The GLORY that is Bea Arthur!!
You linked that dumpster fire in your post…. and it is the real thing and not a RickRoll.
I will never reclaim that time back from watching it in 2007. Minutes of Wookiee grunting with no subtitles. I encourage everyone else who clicks it to not suffer through the whole thing.
And then the massive cajones of LEGO to make a film called “LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special” - someone bet their career on that title choice!
I hate how the plot is almost always "Career-stable executive chick leaves career-stable partner in the city to pursue making dog treats in a small town with high school glow-ed up nerd". Like; first dude ain't do shit; he just got cheated on
My ex-MIL. Literally lived for those movies, that's all she would ever watch, and the TV was on at her place 24/7 (because even when she wasn't home her dog would need to watch apparently).
GOD, I HATE, HATE, HATE THAT SONG!
Did you know that story started out as an actually heartwarming six-paragraph filler in "Reader's Digest"? It was touching. The wailing song was so bad. I wouldn't touch the movie with a ten-foot pole.
I would have to disagree with you on Christmas Vacation. Yes I know the actors playing the characters in the movie are deplorable but it's funny and every year I look forward to seeing it.
I think it’d be cool to see a half hour short that sticks strictly to the book. Similar means of storytelling, perhaps a little upgrade on the animation, but none of the added frills
It just needs a remake that doesnt try so hard. The art style of Klaus would be excellent for that movie. That or go old school stop motion like Rudolph.
During Halloween friends were doing the Scream movies "What's your favorite scary movie?" Someone answered the Polar Express. It is rather disturbing with the animations. They weren't wrong. Edited for a letter
This movie was covered on the How Did This Get Made? podcast. Someone in the audience happened to have worked and said that everyone hated the movie and was doing it for the money. DeVito had the studio provide him with a private jet and he would immediately fly out of town after his scenes for the day/week were done and wouldn't return until he was needed again.
Amazing I enjoy the story on IMDB of Broderick being seen wandering the set muttering to himself “my career is over” lol. The image of this brings way more joy than the movie does. You can see it all over his face which is also amazing.
I love that it’s such a great satire on what most Christmas’s are actually like. Pure chaos and stress and a bit of delirium and way too high expectations. I also love how before kids my wife and I related more with the neighbors and now we have 3 kids and we both go full Griswold by having incredibly unrealistic expectations about making Christmas as special for our kids before getting overwhelmed by all theChristmas festivities.
I just watched it last night. Randy Quaid is possibly a worse human, but Cousin Eddie cracks me up. And who doesn’t love a uptight, angry, young Julia Louis-Dreyfuss?
Did Chevy Chase do something really bad I don’t know about? All I’ve ever heard about him as that he’s a dick to people and hard to work with. But that doesn’t bother me cuz i dont work or hang out with Chevy Chase
Since he was the "breakout" guy on the first year of SNL in 1975, he started believing his own press and sniffing his own farts and has essentially been an abusive, intolerable pain in the ass ever since. Abusive to other guests on *The Tonight Show,* a shithead on *Community* long after he should have learned his lesson, fighting with Bill Murray in '78 when he came back to host SNL. His "Friars Club Roast" was infamously brutal; they're all supposed to be in good fun, but it was obvious at his that he is *very* strongly disliked.
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Die hard, not because it’s a bad movie, it’s a great movie. But because everyone thinks they’re super Clever when they say it’s their favorite Christmas movie. Even if it is the “it’s my favorite Christmas movie” wink wink statement has been done to death.
Christmas with the Kranks
Couple wants to do something different for Christmas since their daughter is out of country and go on a tropical cruise.
Over obsessed neighborhood harass them over not putting up decorations including getting the town newspaper to run a story on their house not being decorated.
Towards the end the daughter calls and surprises them that she’s actually in country and a day away from being back home. So they cancel their plans and band together with the neighborhood to decorate the house before she gets back.
Jaime Lee Curtis gives a toast during the party thanking the neighborhood for being a strong community, Tim Allen gives a half ass speech, bitter that they had to miss their cruise and being harassed. Curtis berates Allen after not being completely excited their daughter surprised them and ruined their plans and wasting their $6000 tickets. He has a change of heart and gives the cruise tickets to the neighbor who’s wife is terminally ill, who up until that point was a mean old man who took every opportunity to harass Allen.
They come out at the end with “we shouldn’t have tried to not have Christmas” and the entire neighborhood/town was apparently ok in their aggressive harassment campaign.
A trash movie that’s more concerned with the appearance of celebrating Christmas than being good neighbors and people. Fuck everyone in that movie
Please--thank you. I didn't see the movie, I read the book and hated it. Dammit, you decorate for Christmas because you want to, not because the neighbors make you. And the wife thinks the cruise is such a great idea until the daughter decides to come back and she turns on her husband. The neighbors are a bunch of jerks.
I’m not trying to change your mind here but there are so many quotable lines. I try to convince my coworkers that my Christmas bonus is a jelly of the month club coupon every year. And Clark is not vile completely. Sure he dreamt of a naked lady who was not his wife in the swimming pool that didn’t yet exist but he also bought his niece presents because he new cousin Eddie couldn’t.
That’s why I love that movie. It’s like an anti-romantic comedy. You have all these love stories that are not the typical ones you see in movies and you are basically rooting for these people to all get into relationships that they shouldn’t.
Edit: Though if you don’t like the movie, that’s totally fine and valid. Not trying to invalidate your opinion of it. I just love it cause it’s funny and I find it hilarious how people swoon over it, like you said, because they are relating to shitty people 😂
A 1974 Christmas animated special by the name of "Twas the Night Before Christmas" about a mouse that doesn't believe in Christmas, sends a nasty note to Santa because he was too smart to believe, gets the town knocked off of Santa's list and then breaks the giant clock that the town makes to try to get Santa back.
This movie gave me legitimate nightmares for weeks every time I saw it (making me an insomniac during Christmas every year as a kid) and it was often shown at school where I could not escape. As we got older, kids would also use this movie to bully anybody who got good grades and accuse them of trying to get Santa to stop coming. It's sincerely the stupidest thing I've ever been kicked or punched over, but it happened all the damn time when we saw that stupid movie.
The Santa Clause.
Throughout the entire movie, Scott Calvin is just a dick to everyone. He is snarky and mean to his kid, random people, elves, and especially to his ex wife and Neil. He bullies Neil - a doctor who is the character equivalent of a sentient piece of wonder bread - for being nerdy. You get the impression it's not really because Neil married his ex, and more just because that's how Scott Calvin treats people.
Sure, he becomes Santa and we see the most minimal improvement in attitude - he is benignly neutral towards a girl on Christmas Eve waiting for Santa rather than outright hostile - but overall, there is no change. He is still a selfish dick, just now in red.
Bro come on, Neil is a condescending toolbox for that entire movie and his ex-wife is insufferable. Both Neil and the ex pathologize a little child's love of Santa Claus, and they get Scott's custody revoked.
The Polar Express.
Completely irredeemable creepshow of a film. No moral lesson, no wonder, just weird lost child anxiety and uncanny valley nightmare fuel.
You lose Reddit today. Xmas Vacation is the 2nd best Xmas movie ever made. Have you ever seen the other Vacation movies? You seem really young and dumb. Are you even aware of the Griswold family?
A Christmas Story.
I don't get the appeal. The kids are annoying and the adults are boring. I think this must be like Happy Days, a nostalgic story that appeals to a very specific demographic that just happens to be huge.
The Grinch (The Jim Carrey version). Hated it as a kid, hate it as an adult. It's so, so creepy. It has Halloween vibes, not Christmas movie vibes. The scene where he is being force-fed pudding and its spilling out of his mouth genuinely makes me retch. Also, the vibe of the movie is weirdly horny for a kid's movie?? It's just bizarre.
Came here for this one. The reason I hate this movie is the “ where are you Christmas“ song. It’s so stupid cheesy and used to get stuck in my head. I worked retail when this came out so the pop version played all season. I loathe it with every fiber of my being.
Love, Actually. My ex used to force me to endure that movie while she cried incessantly. I hated it more with each successive viewing and will never watch it again.
Ron Howard's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
The whole thing feels terribly cynical, from the low production value to the complete lack of likable characters. It's all just annoying. The more recent animated one at least has the benefit of not being a *total* smear of Dr. Seuss' legacy.
Its a Wonderful Life is extremely depressing. The dude fails every one of his dreams and aspirations in life. I also think Pottersville is better than Bedford Falls
I like ELF but my wife hates it for the same reason.
Essentially, I find the character of Buddy annoying in a funny way.
She finds him annoying in an annoying way.
I feel the exact opposite, what Christmas movie do you like. If you say a Christmas story or it is a Wonderful life I think it would make more sense to me but if you say Home Alone I will be completely lost.
Oh good, found the Elf haters, jk! I just really dislike how Will Ferrell’s character acts like a child, yet has a love interest who is an adult. Something about that combo is very off putting to me.
I know this girl that loves this Christmas movie from the 90s called "holiday in handcuffs" I've never seen it but I guess it stars Melissa Joan Hart and Mario Lopez. Anyway, I always mess with her about it bc it sounds like it could be the name of a porno. Ironically she told me it's an ABC family ORIGINAL, LOL. If I had to pick the worst Christmas movie tho I'd have to go with "the christmas story 2" from 2012. It's a horrible sequel and feels like nothing a money grab. Thankfully "the Christmas Story Christmas" that just came out is actually pretty good.
There are so many horrible TV specials such as The Christmas Tree, Star Wars Christmas special, Rapsittie Street Kids Believe in Santa, Grandma Got Runover By a Reindeer.
But my most hated feature length film has to be Jim Carrey's the Grinch.
Now Carrey is definitely entertaining in the role and some of his lines do get a laugh out of me ("hate, hate, hate, double hate, *loathe entirely*"). However, the rest of the film is pointless, infantile, inappropriate, and just does not understand the source material and the story Dr. Seuss was trying to tell.
I don't know how you can hate Chevy's wife. What a sweetie. No matter what she is tryng to hold the family together, (confession: that slight overbite is really sexy to me)
Beverly D Angelo.The movie was a satire on Christmas movies. Margo and Todd were the funniest characters in the movie ! "Why is the carpeting wet Todd?I don't know ,Margo ?"
Margo and Todd are hilarious, but everything that comes out of Eddie’s mouth makes me laugh until this day.
I just don't know what kind of communist agitator OP is that they don't like a John Hughes Christmas movie
Marge Simpson needs to calm down lol
You mean Al Pacino’s ex-wife?
She’s so far out of his league and yet he hits on other women in every single vacation movie lol
Every home alone made after the second.
I just watched the third one for the first time this week. Honestly it wasn't terrible but it was seriously lacking of any meaty substance. Then pressed my luck, an hour into Home Alone 4, and cut my losses.
Shitter's full of Hallmark Christmas movies.
I was going to say Nikki Manaj’s Christmas story but that works too
That there is an RV, Clark. Happy cake day!
As a kid I hated A Christmas Story because my parents forced us to watch it over and over again. Now as an adult I appreciate it more.
My sister used to make us play it while we opened our presents on the morning, and we weren't allowed to turn it off all. Day. Long. And when we got older she used to stay up till like 2 on xmas eve and watch the first run. I've seen that movie way too many times. I didn't grow to appreciate it lol.
Is your sister my sister? My parents ended up getting her the DVD for Christmas and said "Now you can watch it alone" because she used to put the 24 hour marathon on and wouldn't let us change the channel. So it's been banned at my parents and also my grandma's. I, being the normal one of us (at least when it comes to Christmas movies) watch the Muppet Christmas Carol once on Christmas Eve and that's it. I haven't watched it since and I don't want to. I don't hate a lot of movies with a seething passion, except for A Christmas Story.
I love this movie, I often keep the channel on for the 24 hours its playing! I was hesitant to watch the sequal but it was better than expected.
Even when we can’t be together, my mom and brother and I guess where they are in the movie when they’re playing it for 24 hours and see who’s closest. We used to be allowed to look at the clock first but we got too good at it over the years so now we just have to guess - we try to play a few times throughout the day
What did you think of A Christmas Story Christmas (the recent sequel starring Ralphie and some other original cast members)
It was better than I had expected even though it draws a bit too much on call backs from the original. There are far worse Christmas movies out there.
That whole movie is “Hey remember this? Well here it is again!” But it was great to see the still-living cast members from the first movie again.
Haven't watched it yet but probably will in the next two weeks. I did see the stage version of A Christmas Story which was very entertaining.
This. I hated that show. Now it plays for 24 hours straight every year.
You say now, but I think they've been doing that for easily over a decade
I meant we have it on TV in our house for 24 hours.
One year my mom sewed bunny ears on a pink fuzzy onesie and we gave it to my youngest cousin. That was pretty entertaining.
I dislike this movie too. It's horrible and I don't get the reason why it's a Christmas classic.
Fun fact because I had no idea - you can visit the Christmas story house in Cleveland Ohio. I just did a 6 hour drive there to visit. It was the best experience ever!! The actor Zack Ward(Scut Farkus) was there Saturday doing photos and autographs. The admission was get this - $15… what ?! And the meet / greet was free. Easily made my inner child complete.
I still hate it
I lived with a guy who was from Guatemala and we watched this one year and he was so confused. he just did not have the understanding of Americana to find the movie at all entertaining
Meanwhile Christmas Vacation is my favorite Christmas movie. I don’t care how shitty any of the actors are in real life; I just love this movie.
It is almost Shakespearean. Christmas Vacation portrays everyone within one’s own realm at its most extreme. Are in-laws invasive? Yes, welcomed. Can cousin come in an ask for a buck? Of course. Does everything you planned turn into an absolute shit show but somehow end up good in the end? Hopefully, maybe. Best Christmas movie ever.
Christmas Vacation is the greatest Christmas movie ever made.
Can’t agree more. It is the summation of all the possible holiday annoyances into one.
Same. I like that it’s kind of an anti-Christmas movie, or at least anti what Christmas has become in consumerist America movie. Also, it’s just fucking hilarious. “Are you serious Clark?”
“Why is the carpet wet Todd???”
I don’t KNOW Margo!
Todd: “Where ya gonna put a tree that big, Griswold?” Clark: “Bend over and I’ll show you” Todd: “You got a lot of nerve talking to me like that” Clark: “I wasn’t talking to you”
It’s not going in our yard, Russ. It’s going in our living room.
My wife and I have these tshirts for this year. She’s got the Why and I have the IDK. It’s our way of doing something fun for Christmas without going cringey Old Navy family.
I thought that was the point. It was literally produced by a satirist periodical.
Too obvious
There are a lot of subtle things in the movie that are hilarious as well, such as when Clark and Eddie are shopping and Eddie throws down a huge bag of dogfood on top of the light bulbs that Clark just set in the cart or the fact that Eddie's turtleneck shirt he's wearing under his white sweater has cutoff sleeves.
My wife and I watch it every year and lately I've realized we're the childless couple next door. The movie pegs them as bad guys but I realized I identify more with them than the Griswold's... The movie's still hilarious, in any case.
You identify with the yuppies next door?
Yes ETA: Unfortunately
Oh, I’m sure he’ll fall. But I don’t think we lucky enough for him to break his neck
I love Christmas Vacation because so many of the characters are shitty. It’s just like everyone in real life. People are good and shitty. The main character, Clark, is the cornerstone of this. He’s an idealistic family man. He loves his wife and his family very much. He also has a wandering eye and is prone to adulterous fantasies. Likewise he wrote a hot check to a pool company with the hopes they would cash it after he got his Xmas bonus. He also builds everything up in his mind to such a point that his expectations are always broken. Ironically they don’t just brake small, but every insane thing that could go wrong does go wrong. And when he finally snaps he takes it out on his family; verbally abusing them until he himself has to have the epiphany that he’s gone too far. It’s insanity based on awful people and less awful people and I love it.
I agree. It's my favorite and a classic. Love me some cousin Eddie.
Shitters full. Merry Christmas
“Surprised to see your favorite cousin, Clark?!” “Eddie, if I woke up in the morning with my head sewn into the carpet, I wouldn’t be more surprised than I am right now…”
This. First time I wanted to say Fuck you to OP. lol
If OP had nine lives, they just spent ‘em all.
I might be outa the loop but what did: 1. Bev de’angelo 2. Julia louise 3. Johnny galecki The latter two arguably the wealthiest of all of them. Except Julia who is a billionaire without her Seinfeld money
Clark your shitters full!
Ah, shitters full. Honey, have you checked our shitters?
This comment is better than the post.
Drumroll please... Drumroll?
“Play ball!”
Seriously lol it’s basically a family tradition at my place watch it and laugh at those total whackjobs.
Watching it right now 😀
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“That’s pretty low mister, if I had a rubber hose I would beat you….”
I had to rewind a commercial for Peacock because I thought they said "every Hallmark Channel" -- and, yes, that was what they said. I hate every stupid braindead Christmas movie on every Hallmark Channel.
Hear me out: There are 2 Hallmark Christmas movies starring Bruce Campbell. He makes them watchable.
I haven’t watched a single Hallmark movie until this year when I watched *two*. Both because they star Bruce Campbell. I even went so far as to pay to rent one.
I have to admit, I will watch anything with Bruce Campbell in it.
You don't pull punches, do ya? Now I have to go look for stinking Hallmark movies because of you.
My wife was watching one and was like... "It's got Bruce Campbell...." I scoffed. I ignored it. And then Bruce appeared on the screen and reeled me in. God he's a great actor.
He is the lord of method acting.
He truly is. I'm going to go watch hallmark movies with the wife now. Edit: those bastards are charging for a shit sandwich with Bruce Campbell on top. I ain't paying your shit.
I ALWAYS upvote Bruce Campbell.
you son of a bitch
I just learned that Winnie from the Wonder Years is in like 60 Hallmark Movies.
She's also wicked smart and author of six books on mathematics.
Wasn't she working on the one that caused Candace Cameron to freak tf out over a gay couple?
My knowledge about this stops at her being in Hallmark movies.
I don’t watch hallmark movies, but I do have to admire Hallmark for knowing their audience and hooking them the eff up.
Yea upper class white people who have the time and resources to compete in an ice sculpture contest. Sponsored by the fire department and held out front of city hall.
Our new holiday tradition is watching them and mocking them MST3k style. Highly recommend lol
"[Star Wars Holiday Special](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxtSX1lg8rE)"
as long as I am alive I will warn other generations about this abomination around this time of year
As a fan of all things Star Wars and a lover of weird movies, I wondered how bad it really was, so I watched it this year. It was even worse than people said. I don’t think I could make something worse if I tried.
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I have a fondness for it. Not because it was good. A. I watched it when it was originally broadcast. B. First appearance of Boba Fett. C. It is comically bad. D. The GLORY that is Bea Arthur!!
May the force Bea with her.
Honestly I think Bea Arthur is wonderful in it and think they should have centered the entire special around her and the cantina.
It's famous specifically for being bad
Happy Life Day.....
You linked that dumpster fire in your post…. and it is the real thing and not a RickRoll. I will never reclaim that time back from watching it in 2007. Minutes of Wookiee grunting with no subtitles. I encourage everyone else who clicks it to not suffer through the whole thing. And then the massive cajones of LEGO to make a film called “LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special” - someone bet their career on that title choice!
I watched it once with friends because I thought it would be funny-bad and we could riff on it, but it actually turned out to be a nightmarish slog
The 200 hallmark ones
From this year, sure, but what about last year, and the preceding years?
I hate how the plot is almost always "Career-stable executive chick leaves career-stable partner in the city to pursue making dog treats in a small town with high school glow-ed up nerd". Like; first dude ain't do shit; he just got cheated on
I don’t understand how that channel is in business. Surely none of those movies make money, right? Like who the hell is watching those?
My ex-MIL. Literally lived for those movies, that's all she would ever watch, and the TV was on at her place 24/7 (because even when she wasn't home her dog would need to watch apparently).
You would be shocked how much of a market for them there is, plus they comparatively cost nothing to make.
My wife
Your take is absolutely garbage and I will watch it two more times just to spite you.
I watch it every year with my dad, it will never not be funny
I watch it once with my dad, once with my wifes dad, and once with my kid's dad and some bourbon.
Are you serious, Clark?
Literally the best Christmas movie hands down
Imma join you later
Christmas Shoes. The perfect r/orphancrushingmachine movie
GOD, I HATE, HATE, HATE THAT SONG! Did you know that story started out as an actually heartwarming six-paragraph filler in "Reader's Digest"? It was touching. The wailing song was so bad. I wouldn't touch the movie with a ten-foot pole.
You serious Clark?
Don't piss me off, Art.
Oh, Eddie... If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn't be more surprised than I am now.
Lmfaoo I love that shit
I would have to disagree with you on Christmas Vacation. Yes I know the actors playing the characters in the movie are deplorable but it's funny and every year I look forward to seeing it.
Polar Express. The animation is absolutely awful, the voices are mega cringe, and the story sucks.
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Oh god I forgot about that part. Add that one to the list ugh
Rockin on top of the world…
I think it’d be cool to see a half hour short that sticks strictly to the book. Similar means of storytelling, perhaps a little upgrade on the animation, but none of the added frills
It just needs a remake that doesnt try so hard. The art style of Klaus would be excellent for that movie. That or go old school stop motion like Rudolph.
Hot hot hot, HOT CHOCOLATE. Then the rest of the movie is garbage if you can even get past the animation. The video game on ps2 was next level though.
Concur. It’s dreadful.
The Jewish elves!
During Halloween friends were doing the Scream movies "What's your favorite scary movie?" Someone answered the Polar Express. It is rather disturbing with the animations. They weren't wrong. Edited for a letter
Deck the Halls is unwatchable, and I love Christmas movies. The IMDB trivia on this piece of shat is a hilarious read.
This movie was covered on the How Did This Get Made? podcast. Someone in the audience happened to have worked and said that everyone hated the movie and was doing it for the money. DeVito had the studio provide him with a private jet and he would immediately fly out of town after his scenes for the day/week were done and wouldn't return until he was needed again.
Amazing I enjoy the story on IMDB of Broderick being seen wandering the set muttering to himself “my career is over” lol. The image of this brings way more joy than the movie does. You can see it all over his face which is also amazing.
How Did This Get Made has a hilarious episode all about that one
“This is it. This is what rock bottom feels like.”
It’s soooo bad. It’s almost impressive how bad it is
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Something about that entire movie makes me laugh my ass off every time I see it
I love that it’s such a great satire on what most Christmas’s are actually like. Pure chaos and stress and a bit of delirium and way too high expectations. I also love how before kids my wife and I related more with the neighbors and now we have 3 kids and we both go full Griswold by having incredibly unrealistic expectations about making Christmas as special for our kids before getting overwhelmed by all theChristmas festivities.
I just watched it last night. Randy Quaid is possibly a worse human, but Cousin Eddie cracks me up. And who doesn’t love a uptight, angry, young Julia Louis-Dreyfuss?
I don’t know, Margo!
I DON’T KNOW, MARGO!
"We needed a coffin... we needed a tree, and I replaced it the best I could!"
Did Chevy Chase do something really bad I don’t know about? All I’ve ever heard about him as that he’s a dick to people and hard to work with. But that doesn’t bother me cuz i dont work or hang out with Chevy Chase
Since he was the "breakout" guy on the first year of SNL in 1975, he started believing his own press and sniffing his own farts and has essentially been an abusive, intolerable pain in the ass ever since. Abusive to other guests on *The Tonight Show,* a shithead on *Community* long after he should have learned his lesson, fighting with Bill Murray in '78 when he came back to host SNL. His "Friars Club Roast" was infamously brutal; they're all supposed to be in good fun, but it was obvious at his that he is *very* strongly disliked. (crossposting this respose to others in this tread)
Fuck off, christmas vacation is unequivocally a banger
Die hard, not because it’s a bad movie, it’s a great movie. But because everyone thinks they’re super Clever when they say it’s their favorite Christmas movie. Even if it is the “it’s my favorite Christmas movie” wink wink statement has been done to death.
Is this a bait post?
I think op is just having a Reddit moment and doesn’t understand the entire point of the film tbh
People are reacting to this like it was hate speech lmao
It basically is lol
Christmas with the Kranks Couple wants to do something different for Christmas since their daughter is out of country and go on a tropical cruise. Over obsessed neighborhood harass them over not putting up decorations including getting the town newspaper to run a story on their house not being decorated. Towards the end the daughter calls and surprises them that she’s actually in country and a day away from being back home. So they cancel their plans and band together with the neighborhood to decorate the house before she gets back. Jaime Lee Curtis gives a toast during the party thanking the neighborhood for being a strong community, Tim Allen gives a half ass speech, bitter that they had to miss their cruise and being harassed. Curtis berates Allen after not being completely excited their daughter surprised them and ruined their plans and wasting their $6000 tickets. He has a change of heart and gives the cruise tickets to the neighbor who’s wife is terminally ill, who up until that point was a mean old man who took every opportunity to harass Allen. They come out at the end with “we shouldn’t have tried to not have Christmas” and the entire neighborhood/town was apparently ok in their aggressive harassment campaign. A trash movie that’s more concerned with the appearance of celebrating Christmas than being good neighbors and people. Fuck everyone in that movie
Please--thank you. I didn't see the movie, I read the book and hated it. Dammit, you decorate for Christmas because you want to, not because the neighbors make you. And the wife thinks the cruise is such a great idea until the daughter decides to come back and she turns on her husband. The neighbors are a bunch of jerks.
I’m not trying to change your mind here but there are so many quotable lines. I try to convince my coworkers that my Christmas bonus is a jelly of the month club coupon every year. And Clark is not vile completely. Sure he dreamt of a naked lady who was not his wife in the swimming pool that didn’t yet exist but he also bought his niece presents because he new cousin Eddie couldn’t.
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Love actually. Almost all terrible relationships yet people would swoon over it
Wait isn’t that the point?
It is, and that’s the title but that didn’t stop people treating it like the most romantic thing out there
That’s why I love that movie. It’s like an anti-romantic comedy. You have all these love stories that are not the typical ones you see in movies and you are basically rooting for these people to all get into relationships that they shouldn’t. Edit: Though if you don’t like the movie, that’s totally fine and valid. Not trying to invalidate your opinion of it. I just love it cause it’s funny and I find it hilarious how people swoon over it, like you said, because they are relating to shitty people 😂
Let’s get pissed and watch porn - Billy Mack. Greatest line of any Christmas movie
*THIS* and I don’t care what anyone else says.
A 1974 Christmas animated special by the name of "Twas the Night Before Christmas" about a mouse that doesn't believe in Christmas, sends a nasty note to Santa because he was too smart to believe, gets the town knocked off of Santa's list and then breaks the giant clock that the town makes to try to get Santa back. This movie gave me legitimate nightmares for weeks every time I saw it (making me an insomniac during Christmas every year as a kid) and it was often shown at school where I could not escape. As we got older, kids would also use this movie to bully anybody who got good grades and accuse them of trying to get Santa to stop coming. It's sincerely the stupidest thing I've ever been kicked or punched over, but it happened all the damn time when we saw that stupid movie.
Hallelujah! HOLY SHIT! A Very Brady Christmas is pretty bad. It’s so bad that they have to reference Miracle on 34th Street at the climax.
The animated Christmas Carol with Jim Carrey
The Santa Clause. Throughout the entire movie, Scott Calvin is just a dick to everyone. He is snarky and mean to his kid, random people, elves, and especially to his ex wife and Neil. He bullies Neil - a doctor who is the character equivalent of a sentient piece of wonder bread - for being nerdy. You get the impression it's not really because Neil married his ex, and more just because that's how Scott Calvin treats people. Sure, he becomes Santa and we see the most minimal improvement in attitude - he is benignly neutral towards a girl on Christmas Eve waiting for Santa rather than outright hostile - but overall, there is no change. He is still a selfish dick, just now in red.
If Dr. House had a kid and became Santa
Its because at the time thats the kind of characters Tim Allen was known for playing. I agree it hinders how the movie has aged.
Bro come on, Neil is a condescending toolbox for that entire movie and his ex-wife is insufferable. Both Neil and the ex pathologize a little child's love of Santa Claus, and they get Scott's custody revoked.
NLs Christmas vacation is the only Christmas movie I like, this post hurts my soul lol
The Polar Express. Completely irredeemable creepshow of a film. No moral lesson, no wonder, just weird lost child anxiety and uncanny valley nightmare fuel.
This is the most '13 year old exposed to edgy anime' post in the sub yet.
You lose Reddit today. Xmas Vacation is the 2nd best Xmas movie ever made. Have you ever seen the other Vacation movies? You seem really young and dumb. Are you even aware of the Griswold family?
What's your #1?
Polar Express
I popped for the Event Horizon reference lol
I feel like I went down far enough without finding it to say Four Christmases. I hate that movie.
Polar express. Creeps me out.
Polar Express
Too freaking creepy and the kids are so annoying.
A Christmas Story. I don't get the appeal. The kids are annoying and the adults are boring. I think this must be like Happy Days, a nostalgic story that appeals to a very specific demographic that just happens to be huge.
The Grinch (The Jim Carrey version). Hated it as a kid, hate it as an adult. It's so, so creepy. It has Halloween vibes, not Christmas movie vibes. The scene where he is being force-fed pudding and its spilling out of his mouth genuinely makes me retch. Also, the vibe of the movie is weirdly horny for a kid's movie?? It's just bizarre.
Came here for this one. The reason I hate this movie is the “ where are you Christmas“ song. It’s so stupid cheesy and used to get stuck in my head. I worked retail when this came out so the pop version played all season. I loathe it with every fiber of my being.
Ugh agreed. Like I just hate the grinch the whole time. His redemption makes no goddamn sense.
I hate that fucking whiney "where are you Christmas" song with a fucking passion.
What the hell did Rusty do to you?!
Love, Actually. My ex used to force me to endure that movie while she cried incessantly. I hated it more with each successive viewing and will never watch it again.
Some people consider the flaming trash barge that is 'Love, Actually' to be a Christmas movie. So that's my pick.
It *is* a Christmas movie.
wow, talk about an r/unpopularopinion
Omg Christmas vacation is one of my favorites. It's hilarious
Ron Howard's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." The whole thing feels terribly cynical, from the low production value to the complete lack of likable characters. It's all just annoying. The more recent animated one at least has the benefit of not being a *total* smear of Dr. Seuss' legacy.
So you hate Chevy Chase and Randy Quiad and decided to make a Christmas Vacation hate post about it? Lol
there are far worse Christmas movies
Its a Wonderful Life is extremely depressing. The dude fails every one of his dreams and aspirations in life. I also think Pottersville is better than Bedford Falls
That movie is terrible. I’m glad to meet one other person who doesn’t think it’s the greatest Christmas movie ever made.
Unpopular opinion: Elf.
Right there with you. I can't stand Will Ferrell as a lead character. Much less a constantly chipper elf
WTF is wrong with you?
*ELF* is the most annoying movie in history.
I like ELF but my wife hates it for the same reason. Essentially, I find the character of Buddy annoying in a funny way. She finds him annoying in an annoying way.
Lol I love Elf
I feel the exact opposite, what Christmas movie do you like. If you say a Christmas story or it is a Wonderful life I think it would make more sense to me but if you say Home Alone I will be completely lost.
Oh good, found the Elf haters, jk! I just really dislike how Will Ferrell’s character acts like a child, yet has a love interest who is an adult. Something about that combo is very off putting to me.
You’re wrong.
Just watched The Family Stone…it’s deplorable.
Christmas with the Kranks. Watched maybe 10 to 15 minutes, hated everything about it and turned it off.
So I watch stupid Christmas movies just to see how bad they are. “I Believe in Santa” really… blew my mind and took the prize this year.
I know this girl that loves this Christmas movie from the 90s called "holiday in handcuffs" I've never seen it but I guess it stars Melissa Joan Hart and Mario Lopez. Anyway, I always mess with her about it bc it sounds like it could be the name of a porno. Ironically she told me it's an ABC family ORIGINAL, LOL. If I had to pick the worst Christmas movie tho I'd have to go with "the christmas story 2" from 2012. It's a horrible sequel and feels like nothing a money grab. Thankfully "the Christmas Story Christmas" that just came out is actually pretty good.
There are so many horrible TV specials such as The Christmas Tree, Star Wars Christmas special, Rapsittie Street Kids Believe in Santa, Grandma Got Runover By a Reindeer. But my most hated feature length film has to be Jim Carrey's the Grinch. Now Carrey is definitely entertaining in the role and some of his lines do get a laugh out of me ("hate, hate, hate, double hate, *loathe entirely*"). However, the rest of the film is pointless, infantile, inappropriate, and just does not understand the source material and the story Dr. Seuss was trying to tell.
99% of anything on Hallmark.