“Two dads, one toy, zero prisoners.” “Where is your Christmas spirit?” “He got two! He got two!” “Put that cookie down! Now!” “Shouldn’t wear fur.”
Sinbad and Schwarzenegger are awesome! We also had Phil Hartman! (RIP)
I love it as a Christmas movie, because it is very realistic (cynical). I heard some people do not like it? They must gotten too much eggnog!
Batman Returns
Very good point! But it is a licensed movie! Jingle All the Way is the legendary original Intellectual Property!
I’m still on the Die Hard bus
Die Hard kicks ass, but I really do not like that the cop who shot a kid found redemption by shooting a terrorist!
A terrorist loosely based on a leader of the Baader-Meinhof Group, AKA Red Army Faction, who were extremely based West German Marxist-Leninist dissidents. In the novel, Gruber and his associates are attempting to steal documents from an oil company to expose them for funneling money to Pinochet’s military junta. I guess the filmmakers decided that was a little too sympathetic.
Die Hard is copaganda in general with the whole “everyman hero cop saves the day” shit
Critical support for showing the rich people as out of touch unlikeable losers, I guess.
Unironically I love Jingle All The Way. Like you said it was a super cynical movie that tried to push a non consumer message just at the VERY end but not really. It had some good bits in it and anytime I mention it people have either never heard of it or thought it was bad. Out of all the “modern” Christmas movies it’s this or Elf and Elf has been beaten to death.
Cobra is the best Christmas movie
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is also good, although some of the bits have aged very badly like old comedy usually does.
