Epic Win: A Christmas Story
How much do I love A Christmas Story? Enough to have seriously considered buying a replica of the Leg Lamp.
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Christmas is unbearable without it!
I agree! My Christmas isn’t complete without it!
Definitely, I’ve seen this more than any other movie, I guess you don’t get sick of it when it’s once a year.
Absolutely! I grew up in the midwest and a lot of it is so very familiar. My brothers and I quote the movie back and forth at each other constantly during the holidays.
My favorite line is “I can’t put my arms down!!!”
One of my brothers loves “Daddy’s gonna kill Ralphie!”
My other brother, of course, goes with the “You’ll shoot your eye out, kid…” (ala Santa)
We actually have a leg lamp at my house!
I do too, CtVS. It’s a mini-one, about a foot tall. My wife, bless her heart, got me one for Christmas a few years ago, and this monument to electric sex stands proudly on my night stand.
I guess I’m from the wrong era, because when I watched the movie, I don’t get it at all.
I agree with you. I also found this movie to be unpleasant instead of funny.
Blast from the ass
My English teacher has that lamp in the class room. . . I knew I recognized it from somewhere!
My husband and I were driving somewhere a few weeks ago and I saw one of those leg lamps in someone’s picture window. I almost made him go back to get a picture of it.
“Deck the harrs with boughs of horry
Fa ra ra ra ra… ra ra ra ra!”
A couple of years ago, when I was driving with my mom to do some Christmas shopping, we saw a scrolling marquee on a Japanese restaurant that said “fa rah rah rah rah….” I just about drove off the road laughing.
LOL I would of too….that is my favorite part
Man, TBS or TNT or one of those shows used to play this movie continuously all day christmas eve/day. I would watch this movie over and over and NEVER get sick of it.
“My beebee gun mania knew no bounds…”
TBS still does, 24 hours from about 7pm on Christmas Eve all through Christmas day. I watch most of the night.
We have it on while we’re finishing putting gifts under the tree and getting ready to call it a night. I love it. It’s as much a Christmas tradition in our family as “everyone going to grandma’s”.
Here as well. It goes on about 7pm on the 24th and stays on until the early hours of the morning, then gets put right back on when we wake up. My holiday isn’t complete until I hear “SONSABITCHES! BUMPASSES!” at least twenty times.
We leave it on all day and stop and watch whatever part is on at any given point. It makes for great background noise.
In High School, my English teacher was really named Mrs. Shields. I remember one year before christmas, (I think my Jr. Year) we got to watch this. Had a good bit of fun afterward, even though she made us write an essay. Of course it was the “What I want for Christmas” essay.
OHH Fuuuuuuudddddgeeeee….
Best movie EVER!
haa. my mom bought my dad a replica leg lamp for xmas one year. It’s the one decoration that stays out for ALL holidays and has never been put away.
Oddly, this movie and “Full Metal Jacket” are two films we watch every Christmas. Always. If we started them early enough, we follow them up with “The Exorcist” and “Exorcist: The Beginning”. Added this year, “The Exorcism of Emily Rose”.
We have weird Christmas traditions.
Well, at least FMJ does have a Christmas scene…
I used to live in Cleveland; in fact I lived on the street where the outside shots of the house were taken. The house is a “Christmas Story” museum now.
Awesooooome!!!!!
I got the special edition DVD for Christmas a couple years ago because my dad was sick of me watching it all day Christmas. Now I watch it year round. It never loses its charm.
Heck, listen to the writer read the prime story from the movie:
http://shepcast.blogspot.com/
(the movie is a collection and condensation of several of his short stories)
Grew up listening to Shep on the radio- when the movie came out, none of his fans were too surprised to see all his cast of characters.
Probably made it an even deeper experience. His radio show is too an Epic Win.
A dysfunctional family with a child’s greed for a specific present as the main plot point. FAIL, not win.
First off, show me ONE example of familial dysfunction in this movie. (Having a tiff over a tacky lamp is not dysfunction!) This is one of the most loving families I’ve ever seen in a film.
Second, don’t you remember what it was like growing up, when you just had to have that one special gift, to the point where that was all you could think about? I do. I’ll bet most of you out there do.
What planet are you from?
Bah humbug you grinch =P
“Frah-gee-lay… must be Italian” I’m a Clevelander, born & raised and even though this movie is set in Indiana, we claim it as our own. I love this movie! Dad took us downtown to watch the filming one day (years later when they were filming the sequel, I got to see part of that, too). Just a terrific little movie!
We used to go downtown and walk around the Square looking at the Christmas displays in Higbee’s and Macy’s.
My step-grandfather was a life-long Clevelander – we helped him clear out a lot of stuff from his basement one summer, and every single time we found something with an old Higbee’s price tag (happened *a lot*) much roffling ensued.
Of course, I’m a vintage geek and all of the sets and props are pure awesome to look at, too.
BEST MOVIE EVER!!!!!!!
“Show me how the little piggies eat!”
The dad gagging at Randy’s mashed-potato face is the best!
I have a septagenarian friend who adores this movie, and my husband (a product of the ’60s) and my sisters and I (children of the ’70s and ’80s) all do too. It isn’t the holiday without a showing. (And it helps me endure Christmas at the in-laws for as long as they leave it on before switching to “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” too.)
Oh I feel so old! This was a normal movie to watch and now you ask have you seen the christmas story they go “whhaawt?”
One of the best movies. I adored everything! My whole family loves this movie. As a CA girl, I confess that I was a bit jealous of Ralphie and his family. People who don’t understand were never exposed to the ‘mid- American’ culture of the mid-20th century.
This is truly a Christmas classic. We watch it every year, and roar with laughter. The best seasonal movie ever made !!
“Flick? Flick who?”
I love this movie. I am so excited this year. Actors Theater of Louisville has it as a play this season. I can’t wait to see. Even bought extra tickets for my brother and sister-in-law since this is her favorite movie ever. It’s going to be so much fun.!
Before there was A Christmas Story there was an earlier (and in some ways better and funnier) version that aired on PBS in the 70’s called The Phantom of the Open Hearth. You can find a couple clips on youtube from it.
I seem to recall a couple of sequels on PBS, involving a family fishing trip (Ollie Hoopnagle’s Haven of Bliss), and an adolescent Ralphie obsessing about dating Polish girls.
You know, you can visit that house. some lucky people even over Christmas.
http://www.achristmasstoryhouse.com/
Pure classic. I watch it every Christmas, without fail.
There’s a little known film that’s great and just came out about the director of that movie.. it’s called clarkworld. Every ACS fan must see it.
I love this movie… One of my sister’s old roommates actually have a leg lamp…