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Holiday Movie Ideas?

Topics: Holidays, Popular Media | 1 CommentBy admin | November 23, 2008

To me, the quintessential holiday films are Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and A Charlie Brown Christmas (although a friend just rabidly recommended The Hebrew Hammer, so I’ll be checking that out.) Rudolph is a fave partly because of its at times almost macabre vibe, but mostly because I’m essentially a misfit toy myself. Charlie Brown [...]

To me, the quintessential holiday films are Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and A Charlie Brown Christmas (although a friend just rabidly recommended The Hebrew Hammer, so I’ll be checking that out.) Rudolph is a fave partly because of its at times almost macabre vibe, but mostly because I’m essentially a misfit toy myself. Charlie Brown is on my list partly because I’m such a depressive git sometimes around the holidays but mostly because of the weird Vince Guaraldi music, like the catatonia-inspiring tune the kids sing when they’re skating (Christmas Time is Here, mp3). I’m sick of seeing lists of “10 Whatever” holiday films; any suggestions?

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  1. Posted by TeacherPatti on 11.23.08 1:16 pm

    I like to rent all of the old school cartoons–you know, REAL cartoons (not this computer generated crap): the one with the Heat and Freeze-meisters, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Night Before Xmas (with the mice), the Grinch. The saddest one that I ever saw was called Nestor, the Long Eared Donkey. I still can’t watch it without having a complete breakdown and sobbing.

    I don’t even celebrate Christmas religiously, but I also love the scene in Charlie Brown when Linus quotes the Christian Bible (Luke or whatever chapter it is).