The Shoutbox
I consider Home Alone a Christmas movie. Any argument from Die Hard "people" will be shot with their own gun in that standoff
A Christmas Story is on par with a fruitcake. You don't go out and find one, but if it's there you go "eh, maybe a little piece".
Originally Posted by doubledenim
Originally Posted by Iroquois
Anyone else think Christmas is sort of a bad movie genre?
Big Negative. There are plenty of bad genres, but the christmas ones are almost always passable at least.
Speak for yourself. Seems like every time Christmas rolls around I make a stab at going through at least a couple of the genre's staples and finding them extremely wanting, whether it be Scrooged or A Christmas Story or Bad Santa or Christmas Vacation. I've still got a few others lined up for this year because 'tis the season and all that but I've long since learned to temper my expectations.
Originally Posted by The Rodent
It's fart oo late for that...

Well, sh*t.

(good effort, though)
Rodent is the man! Good work on Xmax avatars!
So now I want to discuss the finer points of Yoda’s avatar: is he holding that box and ornament or is his mind?
my avatar is so proffesionally done
Think flashing lights on an ugly Christmas sweater. So ugly you just....can't look away!
Yoda's avatar looks like Christmas threw up on him. Just sayin'
Originally Posted by Iroquois
The topic of Christmas avatars has made me remember that there is a movie on Netflix right now that has Kurt Russell playing Santa Claus but we'll see if I bother doing anything about that (especially since the dominant criteria is "one of your trademark avatars but with something Christmas-y haphazardly shopped in").
Not ashamed to say I watched that movie already and loved it.
Originally Posted by Iroquois
Anyone else think Christmas is sort of a bad movie genre?
Big Negative. There are plenty of bad genres, but the christmas ones are almost always passable at least.