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A Christmas Story
1983 · Film · 93 min
Directed by Bob Clark
The comic mishaps and adventures of a young boy named Ralph, trying to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect Christmas gift for the 1940s.
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I think as time goes on the emotional hooks of media outside of universal themes fade away. My son will never know the time where “It’s a Wonderful Life” impacted my parents, or how the endless repeating of of “A Christmas Story” was a part of my siblings holiday. But the stories that are important to us or capture a moment of time will endure.
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>It can be a hard choice with young children. I grew up watching Christmas Story every year. My son is two and I'm very hesitant to continue that tradition when he's a bit older. I don't want him to think that mocking people for their accents is something to be encouraged. It'd be nice to have a version of the movie where that scene is modified or redubbed because the movie is a creative treasure.
I can understand what you are saying however I STRONGLY disagree on your conclusion. If those things bother you and don't express the values you want your options should be either to A) watch them and then have a discussion with your children to explain what wasn't acceptable or B) find new movies that display the values you want to pass on.
Changing the past to reflect the present or ideal future is a TERRIBLE idea. I don't know exactly when it was that we all decided that we can't ever tell new stories or create new things instead of rehashing creative works of the past but I'll be glad when that trend ends.
It can be a hard choice with young children. I grew up watching Christmas Story every year. My son is two and I'm very hesitant to continue that tradition when he's a bit older. I don't want him to think that mocking people for their accents is something to be encouraged. It'd be nice to have a version of the movie where that scene is modified or redubbed because the movie is a creative treasure.
Of course, once he reaches an age where he's old enough to better understand explanations of racism in media, etc, that's a different story. All cultural history has attitudes that may have changed or that we may even view as repugnant. It's important that people learn about the past and what people were like in the past (or still today).
Maybe this type of thing would go off much better if parents were given a choice, and have the opportunity to confront these things with their children when they think they are ready.
Even for Christmas movies, A Christmas Story managed to take that title from It's a Wonderful Life in my circles. Those TBS all-day repeats are great for something to have on in a chaotic house where nobody is sitting still long enough to just watch through a movie.
For anybody wondering, this is a reference from the cult classic movie A Christmas Story. Very funny, brings back memories
A perfect "be sure to drink your Ovaltine" moment! If anyone is unfamiliar, it refers to the movie "A Christmas Story". The moment here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdA__2tKoIU
I first saw that movie a only a couple years ago and quickly realized how many pop culture references come from it. It does such a good job of capturing a period of time in North America. Even before I saw the movie, eating out at a Chinese restaurant was a thing for me and my family. I had no idea it may have been related! Also... one day I'll own that lamp.
Christmas Story 24 hours on TBS. Though there are plenty of other Christmas staples such as the stop motion Frosty and Rudolph films, It's a Wonderful Life, and Charlie Browns Christmas.
And in millions of other American households.
In just a few hours, TNT will begin its annual "24 Hours of A Christmas Story" marathon.
In 2013, each airing had between three and five million viewers: http://www.achristmasstoryhouse.com/a-christmas-story-movie-facts/viewership/
FYI. This response references an awesome holiday movie. If you haven't seen "A Christmas Story", it's well worth a watch come Winter.
In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash is the name of a novel that the movie A Christmas Story was based on. I don't believe that the novel invented that phrase though.
For those who aren't aware, "Drink more Ovaltine" is a reference to the movie A Christmas Story [1]. The boy in the story is excited to decode a message from the Ovaltine fan club using his decoder ring and is let down when the message is just "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine." [2]
[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085334/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_decoder_ring#Messages
> i barely even understood your response to be honest
- IMDB & TMDB are collections of movie data.
- XBMC (aka XBox Media Center) is a piece of software that plays videos and will grab information about those videos from IMDB or TMDB to display to the user (e.g. when you're watching a movie, it will show you a synopsis of the movie, boxart, etc grabbed from the web).
- This post is just about a program that will allow you to say "I want information about a movie called A Christmas Story " and it will fetch that information from the web, and display it. The only real benefit of this, is being able to do the query/view the response from a text terminal, instead of just going to the website.
> It has the only recommendation engine that actually works.
I wish it let you split out recommendations based on users, with the option of "recommended for the whole account." I like Sci-Fi, and I've watched a fair amount of it on my Netflix account, including 10/11 Star Trek movies, but the last time I went into the Sci-Fi section, it was recommending me random kids shows and things I'd clearly not like.
This is because my girlfriend uses it a lot and has watched a lot of older, especially teen (nostalgia), shows. To quote from A Christmas Story, Netflix "labor[s] under the delusion that I [am] not only perpetually 4 years old, but also a girl."
Not knocking their engine, just a random anecdote.
Didn't Netflix run a competition once for people to come up with a better recommendation engine a while ago? Maybe that's why it's so good. Crowdsourcing.
"A Christmas Story" is pretty great christmas movie. One of the greatest scenes is when Ralphie decodes the secret orphan annie message. I changed it a bit so that someone wouldn't just guess it.
it seemed fitting as it is the only encoded message in any holiday movie I could think of! :)
Ya might want to learn yerself a little history about that song, son...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_Named_Sue
"The core story of the song was inspired by humorist Jean Shepherd, a close friend of Shel Silverstein, who was often taunted as a child because of his feminine-sounding name."
You might recognize Jean Shepherd as the author of the stories that were turned into the holiday movie A Christmas Story (he also served as narrator in that movie)
Extra Credit: Watch the Scut Farkus beatdown scene again.