🎅☃️❄️Ho-Ho-Holiday Movie Showdown🎄🤶📽

Battle #4
Home Alone
vs.
The Santa Clause
I am one of the few, and the only one in my family, that utterly hates Home Alone. Slapstick is an art, and it has to be done well. This was more Itchy & Scratchy.

And I have a soft spot for The Santa Clause. (Don't tell anyone, but I didn't hate Santa Clause 2. But not even Martin Short could save 3.)

So I vote for The Santa Clause.
 
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Home Alone, just for the fact the kid could have called the police at anytime and been safe, but he wanted to fuck with people instead
 
Your winner in Battle #5, by split (8-5) decision and a few split skulls, Home Alone! Home Alone moves on to face the winner of Battle #7 while Santa returns to the workshop to cry in his cookies and milk. To our next contest:

Battle #6

It's a Wonderful Life

vs.

Scrooge/A Christmas Carol (1951)

In the corner to my right a Frank Capra classic, the perennial choice for classic holiday movies, the people's champion, It's a Wondeful Life. In the corner to my left, a movie so nice, they named it twice (one for the UK and one of the US) a classic telling of a classic tale (that's like some Deadpool meta-classic shit), Srooge, aka A Christmas Carol. I'm not sure if an angel will get it's wings or a spirit will visit when that bell rings, but let's get ready for a soft paced, thoughtful movie.
 
Your winner in Battle #5, by split (8-5) decision and a few split skulls, Home Alone! Home Alone moves on to face the winner of Battle #7 while Santa returns to the workshop to cry in his cookies and milk. To our next contest:

Battle #6

It's a Wonderful Life

vs.

Scrooge/A Christmas Carol (1951)

In the corner to my right a Frank Capra classic, the perennial choice for classic holiday movies, the people's champion, It's a Wondeful Life. In the corner to my left, a movie so nice, they named it twice (one for the UK and one of the US) a classic telling of a classic tale (that's like some Deadpool meta-classic shit), Srooge, aka A Christmas Carol. I'm not sure if an angel will get it's wings or a spirit will visit when that bell rings, but let's get ready for a soft paced, thoughtful movie.
It's a Wonderful Life Has been a family tradition since I was a kid.
 
Battle #6
It's a Wonderful Life
vs.
Scrooge/A Christmas Carol (1951)
Not my favorite version of the story, but the 1951 version of A Christmas Carol has the wonderful Alistair Sim. But I don't care if it had stared Pauly Shore.

It's a Wonderful Life is a horrible movie with a horrible message: you can only find purpose by completely sublimating all of your hopes, dreams, desires, and ambition, then sacrificing all of it for other people's happiness. (And if you don't accept that is your purpose, there is something wrong with you). It is a toxic message. Beyond all of the rest of this fetid pile of diseased moose intestines is this poisonous message, especially harmful to someone who is a people pleaser. But even with this, George is given a fantastic job, the respect of the community, a beautiful wife who worships the ground he walks on, and a loving family. But he is so full of repressed anger and resentment, he wants to kill himself for the insurance, which probably won't pay for a suicide, you dumb asshole.

@Bry1313 said it the most poetically: George Bailey is a bitch.

The only reason this became a "Christmas Tradition" was they fucked up and didn't extend the copyright, so it went into public domain and every fucking cheapass TV station started playing it non-stop.

So l vote for A Christmas Carol. Technically.

That said, there is one good scene in the film-- the one that has Donna Reed hiding behind a bush and Jimmy Stewart at his charming best-- that is fantastic right up until Capra decides to punch George in the nuts again at the end of it by killing his father off. Donna Reed is a gem. Capra is a sadistic asshole.
 
*hides from the scary man*

I love the message of not living your life for others, but being your own person. Have a career you love and enjoy, and appreciate your family.

It's a Wonderful Life
 
Not my favorite version of the story, but the 1951 version of A Christmas Carol has the wonderful Alistair Sim. But I don't care if it had stared Pauly Shore.

It's a Wonderful Life is a horrible movie with a horrible message: you can only find purpose by completely sublimating all of your hopes, dreams, desires, and ambition, then sacrificing all of it for other people's happiness. (And if you don't accept that is your purpose, there is something wrong with you). It is a toxic message. Beyond all of the rest of this fetid pile of diseased moose intestines is this poisonous message, especially harmful to someone who is a people pleaser. But even with this, George is given a fantastic job, the respect of the community, a beautiful wife who worships the ground he walks on, and a loving family. But he is so full of repressed anger and resentment, he wants to kill himself for the insurance, which probably won't pay for a suicide, you dumb asshole.

@Bry1313 said it the most poetically: George Bailey is a bitch.

The only reason this became a "Christmas Tradition" was they fucked up and didn't extend the copyright, so it went into public domain and every fucking cheapass TV station started playing it non-stop.

So l vote for A Christmas Carol. Technically.

That said, there is one good scene in the film-- the one that has Donna Reed hiding behind a bush and Jimmy Stewart at his charming best-- that is fantastic right up until Capra decides to punch George in the nuts again at the end of it by killing his father off. Donna Reed is a gem. Capra is a sadistic asshole.

Don’t hold back, Dreamy… how do you really feel about it?

*giggling away as I sneak out before he throws something at me*
 
Your winner in Battle #5, by split (8-5) decision and a few split skulls, Home Alone! Home Alone moves on to face the winner of Battle #7 while Santa returns to the workshop to cry in his cookies and milk. To our next contest:

Battle #6

It's a Wonderful Life

vs.

Scrooge/A Christmas Carol (1951)

In the corner to my right a Frank Capra classic, the perennial choice for classic holiday movies, the people's champion, It's a Wondeful Life. In the corner to my left, a movie so nice, they named it twice (one for the UK and one of the US) a classic telling of a classic tale (that's like some Deadpool meta-classic shit), Srooge, aka A Christmas Carol. I'm not sure if an angel will get it's wings or a spirit will visit when that bell rings, but let's get ready for a soft paced, thoughtful movie.
Absolutely the 1951 version of A Christmas Carol … it is a highly underrated version.
 
Not my favorite version of the story, but the 1951 version of A Christmas Carol has the wonderful Alistair Sim. But I don't care if it had stared Pauly Shore.

It's a Wonderful Life is a horrible movie with a horrible message: you can only find purpose by completely sublimating all of your hopes, dreams, desires, and ambition, then sacrificing all of it for other people's happiness. (And if you don't accept that is your purpose, there is something wrong with you). It is a toxic message. Beyond all of the rest of this fetid pile of diseased moose intestines is this poisonous message, especially harmful to someone who is a people pleaser. But even with this, George is given a fantastic job, the respect of the community, a beautiful wife who worships the ground he walks on, and a loving family. But he is so full of repressed anger and resentment, he wants to kill himself for the insurance, which probably won't pay for a suicide, you dumb asshole.

@Bry1313 said it the most poetically: George Bailey is a bitch.

The only reason this became a "Christmas Tradition" was they fucked up and didn't extend the copyright, so it went into public domain and every fucking cheapass TV station started playing it non-stop.

So l vote for A Christmas Carol. Technically.

That said, there is one good scene in the film-- the one that has Donna Reed hiding behind a bush and Jimmy Stewart at his charming best-- that is fantastic right up until Capra decides to punch George in the nuts again at the end of it by killing his father off. Donna Reed is a gem. Capra is a sadistic asshole.
You couldn’t have said it better than if I’d said it myself. I hate George Bailey’s whiny ass with the power of 1,000 suns. I’m sorry you are only only the President of a bank, with the love of a city, an amazing wife, kids who adore you and the best house in town even if it needs a little refurbishing. I’m not here for his pity party, give me Ebeneezer’s redemption every day of the week. Christmas Carol needs to win the day, even if my favorite was the Albert Finney version.
 
As the meme sort of states
The rich need to be terrified into being nice human beings

Scrooge/A Christmas Carol
 
*hides from the scary man*

I love the message of not living your life for others, but being your own person. Have a career you love and enjoy, and appreciate your family.

It's a Wonderful Life
I would have loved that movie too. Instead, with got a martyrdom fetish film.

Okay, okay, I'll stop. Unless it wins. Keep that in mind when you cast your vote!
 
I would have loved that movie too. Instead, with got a martyrdom fetish film.
You have a problem with fetishes?

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