A Charlie Brown Christmas vs. How the Grinch Stole Christmas

yeah that 92 one is terrible.

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).

Dashing Through the Snow wasn't bad

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.

The Nightmare Before Christmas is canon.

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”

I think it's used in the trailer for Asteroid City

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