people voting grinch on this are deranged
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 22 December 2023 19:21 (five months ago) link
My sister makes everyone watch Emmet Otter on Christmas Eve. Got me a River Bottom Nightmare Band tshirt for Xmas a few years back.
The Charlie Brown Christmas Special (like a lot of Peanuts) is so central to my core of being Ivethought about getting a tattoo of the christmas “tree” with “Christmas Tree Hugger” written around it in Schultz’s script font.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 22 December 2023 19:37 (five months ago) link
watching muppet christmas carol recently made me realize i prefer christmas fare that doesn’t have anything to do with jesus (sorry jesus, i do watch jesus christ superstar every easter to make up for it) so grinch >>>>
― ivy., Friday, 22 December 2023 19:56 (five months ago) link
we did muppet christmas carol last night. generally speaking yes I agree with you but I charlie brown is my exception.
the more recent muppets holiday special(s? I think there were two more) really suck!
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 22 December 2023 20:03 (five months ago) link
watched the Charlie Brown Christmas special from 1992 last night, and it's quite bad! the only good ones are those that look like Paul Klee paintings and have almost no discernable plot
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Friday, 22 December 2023 20:40 (five months ago) link
yeah that 92 one is terrible.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 22 December 2023 20:41 (five months ago) link
i don't think anyone has done an adequate new christmas special in many years. nothing that lasts and feels iconic. (I'm talking TV specials, not movies, though there aren't that many of those either; Elf and Bad Santa are the last great ones. There have been a succession of made-for-streaming ones in recent years and they all fucking suck. I haven't seen Klaus yet though).
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 22 December 2023 20:43 (five months ago) link
Dashing Through the Snow wasn't bad
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Friday, 22 December 2023 20:47 (five months ago) link
thanks I'll check that out! my wife loves watching christmas movies and we burn through a million terrible ones every year. WE did Four Christmases last night (reese witherspoon and vince vaughn..this movie is from 2008 and somehow looks like it's from 1995), the first 1/3 of which is legitimately funny and the rest is a chore. I'll take what I can get at this point.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 22 December 2023 20:49 (five months ago) link
The Nightmare Before Christmas is canon.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 22 December 2023 22:04 (five months ago) link
The style and tone of that promo is a million miles from how it's done today.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, December 19, 2023 1:19 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Trying to imagine a contemporary film trailer—let alone one designed for children—using the word “impudent”
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 23 December 2023 14:28 (four months ago) link
I think it's used in the trailer for Asteroid City
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Saturday, 23 December 2023 14:46 (four months ago) link
The anticonsumerist pose of Charlie Brown is fraudulent - the message ends up being that the meaning of Christmas is dependent on which consumer products you buy, the "right" or "wrong" kinds of decorations.
good grief
― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Sunday, 24 December 2023 02:14 (four months ago) link