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I watch Lord Of The Rings at Christmas.
it has elves
the fellowship set out from Rivendell on the 25th of December
Gandalf has a santa-like beard
I rest my case
Don't forget they all came out in December! That's the only thing that matters.
Aww never knew they were LGBT 🥰
All of them were originally released around the holidays back in the early 00s as well, so there's baked in Christmas association with those movies.
In a parallel universe multiplex somewhere, Christopher Lee smashed it as Krampus.
I'm pretty sure that Krampus is actually based on his activities during the second world war.
What bad little nazis got for Christmas.
And there ain't no good little nazis.
american psycho should be one if them, the main character even says "have a holly jolly christmas"
I like when he ODs the two elves on MDMA then walks around with the elf head on his dick.
Such metaphor.
There are more nonchalant Christmas references in American Psycho than in a Shane Black movie.
Okay but why aren’t some of these Christmas season movies? I think narnia really isn’t that big of a stretch
Snow ≠ Christmas
It was only wintery because of the witch. If anything, it's Easter themed, since it's literally a crucifixion allegory.
Edit: I'm a big dumb wrong person.
What’s your case for Home Alone then?
That’s a Christmas movie to the core.
Wait is anyone debating this?!
I saw some clickbait article the other day “movies you didn’t realize were Christmas movies” and it was full of obvious Christmas movies. #1 was Its a Wonderful Life………
It really depends on whether you can stomach watching Kevin Spacey or not, but The Ref is one of the greatest Christmas movies imo
Dennis Leary at his zenith.
EXCUSE ME EXCUSE ME EXCUSE ME. The corpse still has the floor!
Die hard should have been on one and not lethal weapon. Other than that I think those are excellent choices.
Lethal Weapon was written by Shane Black, so by default it's a Christmas movie.
'The Ref' is a glaring omission. Burn the website down.
🤷♀️ I don't enjoy traditional Christmas movies that much and I think it's fun to do something different.
There are 8 billion of us, it's pretty tough to say something original all the time.
"get a personality" and "that's your whole personality" is just lazy writing. it's a generic insult deployed against anyone who likes a thing that says nothing about the person or the thing. it's the satire equivalent to "vegan bad". why should I read an article written by someone who makes parroting bland criticisms from the internet their whole personality?
Not the Onion's best work, if I'm honest. Feels like C-grade Cracked.com material.
Probably because it's from The Hard Times, not The Onion.
"No, the only Christmas movies are movies I SAY are Christmas movies!" ~ Dan Rice / Chat GPT
Imagine caring what other people consider a holiday movie? Dan sounds like a miserable person who will go through your movie collection and call them all horse shit and demand you and your group watch a 4 hour movie about a woman brushing a horse and proclaiming It to be true art.
I stopped reading at his banal prologue. Don't invite Dan over for movie night, for he is armed with a Chat Bot and a thesaurus.
There really is only a small handful of pre-approved opinions on the internet that you're allowed to have. Some people need to virtue signal so damn hard every year that they're a REAL die hard fan, and it's like, okay bud, it's a mega blockbuster hit that hundreds of millions of people have watched for 35 years. Chill.