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Post by RiP, IMDb on Dec 26, 2017 1:33:20 GMT
Didn't like it when it came out and NEVER cared for it.
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Post by politicidal on Dec 26, 2017 2:25:05 GMT
I still like it.
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Post by outrider127 on Dec 26, 2017 3:24:56 GMT
Its annoying in parts, the bullies, the dumb gift, the dumb fantasy shoot-out, when he shoots the gun etc--the kid is cute but the movie is only charming in parts
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Post by President Ackbar™ on Dec 26, 2017 3:27:45 GMT
Never seen it.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 26, 2017 3:32:26 GMT
Liked it.
Like it.
Planning to continue doing so on an annual basis.
Avoid the sequel.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Dec 26, 2017 13:09:52 GMT
Love it, so much so that I've driven my millennial coworker insane and forced her into seeing it for the first time this year. Honestly, how she went this long without seeing it seems incredulous to me, it's everywhere, it runs continuously this time of year!
I even loved the recent TV musical version (see my thread in TV General).
The sequel seemed like a dire prospect, but it seemed to honor the original and even provided some laughs, even though they were mostly provided by retreads of jokes from the original.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Dec 26, 2017 15:57:30 GMT
Didn't like it when it came out and NEVER cared for it. I have to admit I never really cared for it either, always thought it was overrated. However, I enjoyed Darren McGavin's performance. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 26, 2017 16:00:25 GMT
Remedy that deplorable situation ASAP ! |
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Dec 26, 2017 21:24:14 GMT
Didn't like it when it came out and NEVER cared for it.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Dec 27, 2017 14:48:55 GMT
The actor who played "Flick" (a.k.a. "The Kid Who Gets Stuck to the Flagpole"), Scott Schwartz, was a very popular child actor for a brief moment in time. He starred in The Toy with Richard Pryor and Kidco. But after such early success, he wound up making (yikes!) pornos! With such unsavory titles as The Wrong Snatch and Booby Trap!   |
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Post by glenesq on Jan 1, 2018 9:42:00 GMT
The movie is set about 1940. The mothers hair though...  |
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Post by deembastille on Jan 1, 2018 16:00:41 GMT
The movie is set about 1940. The mothers hair though... what's wrong with it? is it good or bad? |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 1, 2018 16:26:56 GMT
There is a debate about when the film takes place. Evidence seems to point to 1939 because of The Wizard of Oz (1939) references. However, if you look at the calendar on the wall (during the first dinner sequence), you can clearly see the first of December falls on a Friday. December 1st fell on a Friday in 1939, not 1940 as was previously accepted. But Bing Crosby's Version of Santa Claus Is Coming To Town wasn't released until 1943. It was also suggested that The film could have been set in 1941, according to the reference made by Mrs Parker to Mr Parker about an upcoming game between the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears. These two teams met in a playoff game on December 14, 1941, a Sunday. It was their only playoff game against each other until January 23, 2011. The only previous time these two teams met during a regular season game in December was December 10, 1933. Throughout the 1940's the second game of the regular season between these two teams all occurred in November, the two latest being mid-November in 1942 and 1948. To add to the debate of what year the story is supposed to take place in. In the scene in which the family is opening their presents, Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters can be heard on the record player or radio singing "Santa Claus is Coming to Town", which was recorded on September 27, 1943. Further evidence as to the year of the film's setting comes from the decoder ring which has the year 1940 imprinted on its side. This can be seen when Ralphie is decoding the message in the bathroom.
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Post by deembastille on Jan 1, 2018 18:12:39 GMT
T here is a debate about when the film takes place. Evidence seems to point to 1939 because of The Wizard of Oz (1939) references. However, if you look at the calendar on the wall (during the first dinner sequence), you can clearly see the first of December falls on a Friday. December 1st fell on a Friday in 1939, not 1940 as was previously accepted. But Bing Crosby's Version of Santa Claus Is Coming To Town wasn't released until 1943. It was also suggested that The film could have been set in 1941, according to the reference made by Mrs Parker to Mr Parker about an upcoming game between the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears. These two teams met in a playoff game on December 14, 1941, a Sunday. It was their only playoff game against each other until January 23, 2011. The only previous time these two teams met during a regular season game in December was December 10, 1933. Throughout the 1940's the second game of the regular season between these two teams all occurred in November, the two latest being mid-November in 1942 and 1948. To add to the debate of what year the story is supposed to take place in. In the scene in which the family is opening their presents, Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters can be heard on the record player or radio singing "Santa Claus is Coming to Town", which was recorded on September 27, 1943. Further evidence as to the year of the film's setting comes from the decoder ring which has the year 1940 imprinted on its side. This can be seen when Ralphie is decoding the message in the bathroom. well, judging from this [apart from santa claus is coming to town as being just a movie goof] doesn't mean much. often times, big movies are still raking in business through merchandise sales even a couple of years after the movie came out. frozen is still making a killing in my nieces' house to the point of my three and a half year old niece took words from love is an open door and intermixed them with let it go [take a look at my signature]. [and this is the niece who likes Cinderella better than elsa!] and unfortunately, google didn't exist in 1983 so there was no easy way to look up intricate details such as the packers/bears game. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 1, 2018 21:47:21 GMT
deembastilleThat trivia was from the IMDb page ... I neither know nor care about picky details other than they are rather interesting after the fact. I am not distracted by calendar dates or plates on cars while watching a movie.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jan 4, 2018 6:57:09 GMT
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