The Ghey thread about Christmas movies

[malice]

Yeah I know,

This should be in Kenny's forum. I don't know for you, but This season makes me wanna bunker in my house, start a good fire, cook ginger cookies and watch some ghey movie like

- White christmas
- It's a wonderful life (Frank Capra)
- Scroodge ( the one with Bill Murray and David johansen as the loco cab driver)
- Any Tim Burton taking place in winter



How about you, gimme your list before the videoshop closes

malice

[Goes211]

White Christmas is top of my list too.
"Let's just say we did it for an old pal in the army..." :Coolio:

Planes, Trains and Automobiles (Steve Martin, John Candy) is a must as well. Although now you got me doubting if it's about x-mas or thanksgiving... it's great anyway.

...and, for those truly in the know... "Le père noël est une ordure" is going to be on re-run here tonight.
I'm thinking Malice and me could pretty much recite ALL the dialogue of that movie from the top of our head.

"Joyeux Noël Felix !"
:lol:

[malice]

Le père noël est une ordure
I'm thinking Malice and me could pretty much recite ALL the dialogue of that movie from the top of our head.

"Joyeux Noël Felix !"
:lol:


I directed this play in college. I played Pierre. Yes I can still remember every line.

malice

[Johnny]

Why not make your own?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2006/12/21/GR2006122100070.html

[magicchord]

Me and the girls watched A Christmas Story the other day. Enjoyed it immensely.

[MudCat]

- White christmas
- It's a wonderful life (Frank Capra)
- Scroodge ( the one with Bill Murray and David johansen as the loco cab driver)
- Any Tim Burton taking place in winter



How about you, gimme your list before the videoshop closes

malice

We watch 'It's a Wonderful Life' every Christmas Eve here, knowing full well that it's kind of a corny tradition. But corny is cool sometimes. And I mean....can't go trick or treating, so why not?...:Coolio:

Merry Christmas to you all...:Wink:

Roy/mudcat

[Fulcrum]

In my household it's not really Christmas till we've seen these three holiday staples:

A Charlie Brown Christmas (lights and display contest?!?!)
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (the Rankin/Bass stop-motion one with Burl Ives)
How The Grinch Stole Christmas (the Chuck Jones animated version, not the Jim Carrey one)

and on the day itself it's nice to have our disc of Yule Be Boppin' playing in the background-- Blue Note jazz artists wailing over Christmas standards.

[st robert]

"the life of brian"

gets me every time.

rob

[Cosmic Pig]

A very Brady Christmas. I always cry when they sing and Mr. Brady comes out of the collapsed building.

Buncha fags.

Cos.

[volthause]

The original Home Alone always means X-mas to me...

[jerryskid]

Me and the girls watched A Christmas Story the other day. Enjoyed it immensely.

What a great movie!!! "Kid, you'll shoot your eye out"

[volthause]

FRA-JILL-LAAAY!!

[bunnerabb]

"All of life's best sentiments are corny." - Bennett Cerf

[mousdrvr]

"All of life's best sentiments are corny." - Bennett Cerf

Yup it's all one set of buttons.

Gets you there but the pushes are obvious = corny
Wouldn't get you there if not for pushes = manipulative
Gets you there and you don't notice the pushes = poignant

We usually go for "A Christmas Carol" the Lionel Barrymore radio show version is probably our fave, but many of the
movie adaptations are cool too.

[eagan]

Hey. I like "It's a Wonderful Life", shmaltzy as it might seem 60 years later.

A Charlie Brown Christmas is still darned cute 40 years later (although I start feeling really old when I realize this was a new thing when I first saw it as a kid, and now it's, well, rather old). And the music is fun. If that doesn't make you smile, there's something wrong with you.

Same with the cheesy stop-animation of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, which still makes me smile decades later.

Some of the other stuff, not so much. Although I think "Scrooged" was a great movie. Not exactly an old fashioned Christmas tradition, but it was a riot, and got some real points across.

Now, on the other hand, I had the TV on for a bit and caught some promo spot for some bizzare ABC "Christmas at Disney" special scheduled for sometime on Christmas Day, which is just grotesque. Fucking vile.

But never mind that kind of crap. Ignore it.


JLE

[Kenny Gioia]

Christmas Story - "Be sure to drink your ovaltene"?

The Ref - Denis Leary & Kevin Spacey

Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a great movie but it is Thanksgiving. "Here's an idea. When you're telling one of your stories. Have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener".

[mousdrvr]

A Charlie Brown Christmas is still darned cute 40 years later (although I start feeling really old when I realize this was a new thing when I first saw it as a kid, and now it's, well, rather old). And the music is fun. If that doesn't make you smile, there's something wrong with you.

JLE


Word! Vince Guaraldi was a full on god. It makes me sad that so few people realize he did some amazing shit outside the Peanuts
Stuff, which is great as it is.

[st robert]

The Ref - Denis Leary & Kevin Spacey



and a brilliant judy davis.

great movie!

rob

[MacGregor]

"the life of brian"

gets me every time.

rob

Hey, that's my Christmas movie as well.
Come over to my location, we'll have a beer or three while watching it.

[omikl]

"the life of brian"

gets me every time.

rob

Chrsitmas '97 here in KL. It took us about thrre hours to watch that movie, 'cos out of all those present only about three of us were nominally Christians, so we kept having to pause it to explain the jokes to the collection of Taoists, Buddists & Moslems there with us ;)

[CurtZHP]

Christmas Story, definitely!

The look on Ralphie's face when Santa says "You'll shoot your eye out, kid!" Priceless!!

And one of the other best lines in the movie.....

"OOoooooohhhh FFUUUUUUUUUDDGGEEE........"

:lol:

[FajitaTone]

Funny Farm & Christmas Vacation are staples in my house.


:Coolio: