This is probably not as unpopular opinion as I think it is, but I can’t stand Christmas movies. I do enjoy and celebrate Christmas, but the commercial aspect of it is too shoved down our throats like some kind of Foie Gras nightmare.
Anyway, instead I watch through James Bond movies substituting misogyny and violence for hokey sentimental commercialism.
I think it just makes for an easy sell to say that it’s full of good will and a kind story because it’s about Christmas but then you watch any of those Hallmark movies and it’s about calling men dumb and women who work terrible women who should be mothers…
Like as if the good fun of the holiday will even put whatever else they want to do or say in making a terrible piece of media to a more palatable state.
It’s like smothering a bad meal in gravy and saying well at least all you can taste is salt but here it’s Santa Claus. Definitely mostly not worth consumption.
Rare Exports
Christmas Vacation is on repeat in my house this time of year.
- Scrooged
- Bad Santa
- A Christmas Story
- Elf
Emmett Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas has been a favourite of mine since it came out. Another Jim Henson classic.
