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Jingle All the Way
1996 · Film · 89 min
Directed by Brian Levant
Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is constantly kept busy at his job, disappointing his son. After he misses his son's karate exposition, Howard vows to make it up to him by buying an action figure of his son's favorite television hero for Christmas. Unfortunately for Howard, it is Christmas Eve, and every store is sold out of Turbo Man. Now, Howard must travel all over town and compete with everybody else to find a Turbo Man action figure.
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As much as I can't stand censorship / Amazon / etc., has anyone actually taken the time to vet this story before voicing their outrage?
A cursory search online reveals only a single source [1]. Additionally searching on Amazon Prime for Bond movies shows PLENTY of poster/cover art with Bond holding his quintessential Walther PPK including Dr. No [2] which was mentioned in the article.
So unless this was leaked by an intern or maybe its being AB tested in various regions, this seems like a big fat nothing. I mean why single out James Bond? Why not Terminator, Predator... basically every Schwarzenegger movie in existence with the exception of Jingle All the Way.
[1] https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/amazon-prime-2025-remove-guns-from-james-bond-key-art
[2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009GEPRZE
He was consistently the best part of everything he was in. Even in pretty crap-tastic films like Jingle All the Way, he was still somewhat entertaining.
We watched Jingle All The Way yesterday, and even the kids noticed it was shorter than most of today’s films. It’s not even 90 minutes.
It is possible that will change when Disney starts selling their subscription service in Sweden.
Disney will likely use its huge archive to sell subscriptions.
That likely is the reason Home Alone isn’t on public tv in the Netherlands, as tinus_hn says in https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21871486
If they play it hard, a lot of traditional Christmas movies will move behind a paywall. For example, Die Hard and Jingle all the Way, commented on this page, all are from 20th Century Fox, which is Disney owned, as is The Sound of Music)
There are several films that are probably streamed throughout the world during christmas.
One that I used to watch every year on cable TV here in Brazil when I was a child (you can guess I'm not that old) is "Jingle all the Way"[1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_All_the_Way
Best Sinbad movie was by far was First Kid http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0116311/
Edit: Sorry forgot about Jingle All the Way, after that
Edit2: Oh man, and he was great in Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia