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Best Christmas Movies [Chat]

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    BurnageBurnage Registered User regular
    Die Hard
    emnmnme wrote: »
    So It Goes wrote: »
    If you ain't vote Die Hard I'm mad at you

    Die Hard takes place during Christmas but it isn't a Christmas movie.
    I'm very tired of the Die Hard is a Christmas movie talk

    it was clever like 5 years ago

    How can two posters be so wrong in such a short space of time?

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    PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    The Ice Harvest
    Chanus wrote: »
    i agree that die hard is a christmas movie and a great movie but i am so tired of DIE HARD IS A CHRISTMAS MOVIE that it is now the worst one and i hate it

    Yeah its like when someone kept talking about how much they love sweden...

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
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    SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    Die Hard
    I've still never seen Elf

    I can't actually think of many great christmas movies now that I think about it.

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    BethrynBethryn Unhappiness is Mandatory Registered User regular
    Nightmare Before Christmas
    "You'll shoot your eye out" is starkly absent from the poll.

    ...and of course, as always, Kill Hitler.
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    BrodyBrody The Watch The First ShoreRegistered User regular
    Nightmare Before Christmas
    Also, the Netflix christmas movie is bad, and you should not watch it.

    "I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."

    The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson

    Steam: Korvalain
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    wazillawazilla Having a late dinner Registered User regular
    Umm Actually Christmas is a capitalist expansion of Christian Dogma
    Chanus wrote: »
    i agree that die hard is a christmas movie and a great movie but i am so tired of DIE HARD IS A CHRISTMAS MOVIE that it is now the worst one and i hate it

    I'm tired of DIE HARD ISN'T A CHRISTMAS MOVIE that it is now the best one and I love it

    Psn:wazukki
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    BSoBBSoB Registered User regular
    Die Hard
    Brody wrote: »
    Why does everyone list Die Hard as a christmas movie, but no one lists Lethal Weapon?

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    AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    Bad Santa
    Bad Santa always

    life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
    fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
    that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
    bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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    tyrannustyrannus i am not fat Registered User regular
    Die Hard
    wazilla wrote: »
    Chanus wrote: »
    i agree that die hard is a christmas movie and a great movie but i am so tired of DIE HARD IS A CHRISTMAS MOVIE that it is now the worst one and i hate it

    I'm tired of DIE HARD ISN'T A CHRISTMAS MOVIE that it is now the best one and I love it

    oh look a race to the bottom to see who can be the most meta

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    nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    Christmas Vacation (the Joke option)
    See Preacher

    chanus supports me

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    AuralynxAuralynx Darkness is a perspective Watching the ego workRegistered User regular
    Umm Actually Christmas is a capitalist expansion of Christian Dogma
    Burnage wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    Die Hard is probably the legit best one up there on that poll.

    Nightmare Before Christmas is v good but I have no idea whether to watch it at Halloween or Christmas

    Spencer's / general fatigue from seeing it in pop-culture talismanic objects has pretty well killed that movie for me.

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    nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    Christmas Vacation (the Joke option)
    Aioua wrote: »
    Bad Santa always

    I do love bad santa

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    wanderingwandering Russia state-affiliated media Registered User regular
    Its A wonderful Life
    If the poll also included Miracle on 34th St this would have been a harder choice

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    KruiteKruite Registered User regular
    Nightmare Before Christmas
    Auralynx wrote: »
    Burnage wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    Die Hard is probably the legit best one up there on that poll.

    Nightmare Before Christmas is v good but I have no idea whether to watch it at Halloween or Christmas

    Spencer's / general fatigue from seeing it in pop-culture talismanic objects has pretty well killed that movie for me.

    No regrets

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    VishNubVishNub Registered User regular
    edited December 2018
    Nightmare Before Christmas
    why would anyone ever buy jarred garlic i don't understand

    dried parsley is the worst dried herb. It's just green flecks of paper.

    VishNub on
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    PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    The Ice Harvest
    Bethryn wrote: »
    "You'll shoot your eye out" is starkly absent from the poll.

    I legitimately dislike Christmas Story. Like I'd for real support Die hard as a more important christmas story over Christmas Story.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
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    emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    Die Hard
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    I picked the schmaltzy option, but I think my current favorite classic is The Muppet Family Xmas:
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ojtGHXsTXmU

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlRpGj7LWS4

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    matt has a problemmatt has a problem Points to 'off' Points to 'on'Registered User regular
    Die Hard 6 should be an actual Christmas movie just to mess with people.

    Die Hard 6: Better to Give Than Die Hard

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    PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    The Ice Harvest
    See Preacher

    chanus supports me

    Its like a poopie flavored lollipop with you two.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
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    ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    Christmas Vacation (the Joke option)
    i don't know if i've ever actually watched bad santa

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
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    PowerpuppiesPowerpuppies drinking coffee in the mountain cabinRegistered User regular
    Die Hard
    Winky wrote: »
    That's the thing, "disruption" is an ideology about rapid change with little preparation. That's the explicit motto, right--move fast and break stuff.

    I agree that institutions should be audited and constantly pushed to reform and improve, but that's a process that demands rigour, research, expertise, familiarity, cost/benefit analysis, etc. It's a lengthy, neverending process, and trying to shortcut it has nasty long-term consequences

    The problem is that institutions necessarily have to exist in an environment where they're competing with these forces of rapid change regardless. I think a major issue with our existing apparatus for putting our foot on the breaks is that it just can't keep up the pace and it's failing us for this reason. The pace has changed, we need people with more knowledge of these fields regulating faster.

    I think there's something to be said for the need for more drastic interventions. Sometimes institutions hit dead ends and need to be ripped up and re-planted. Revolutions can become necessary, particularly when we're stuck in these configurations where what ought to be a normalizing process is shredding us in half. Acknowledging that there is significant cost involved in this is vital, but iterating isn't always an option.

    do you have an example where iterating isn't an option

    i agree it's not an option for like NYC and Boston cabbies, but Uber is also very very bad

    it seems like you're excited about technology and so want to accelerate things and are thus tempted to decide things are failing us when in fact it just kind of always sucks you can't improve results by going faster

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    AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    Thomemalas wrote:
    Also in my absence, I discovered that one of the largest furry conventions in the midwest was taking place at the convention center next door and many attendees were staying at my hotel. There was a bit of a double take when I came home from dinner and discovered this.

    *finger kiss of perfection*

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    nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    Christmas Vacation (the Joke option)
    Preacher wrote: »
    See Preacher

    chanus supports me

    Its like a poopie flavored lollipop with you two.

    2 posts 1 cup

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    tyrannustyrannus i am not fat Registered User regular
    Die Hard
    VishNub wrote: »
    why would anyone ever buy jarred garlic i don't understand

    dried parsley is the worst dried herb. It's just green flecks of paper.

    the green paper flecks make food look fancier

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    RedTideRedTide Registered User regular
    Die Hard
    See Preacher

    chanus supports me

    There's a trendsetting bicycle built for two.

    RedTide#1907 on Battle.net
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    AuralynxAuralynx Darkness is a perspective Watching the ego workRegistered User regular
    Umm Actually Christmas is a capitalist expansion of Christian Dogma
    Chanus wrote: »
    i don't know if i've ever actually watched bad santa

    It's surprisingly good! Would've been my vote if I couldn't vote against capitalism and organized religion all in one slacktivism-powered blow.

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    VishNubVishNub Registered User regular
    Nightmare Before Christmas
    Honestly I just buy a parsley, a cilantro, and a green onion every week. Most weeks I use them, occasionally I end up with liquid parsley in the drawer. Still worth it.

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    firewaterwordfirewaterword Satchitananda Pais Vasco to San FranciscoRegistered User regular
    dreadful lack of A Christmas Story here.

    FRAH-GEE-LAY!

    Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu
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    21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
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    AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    The best Christmas movie is Batman Returns

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    AuralynxAuralynx Darkness is a perspective Watching the ego workRegistered User regular
    Umm Actually Christmas is a capitalist expansion of Christian Dogma
    Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation and Elf have really strong "ugly christmas sweater," presence this year, fwiw. Die Hard less so.

    My wife is being forced to buy one to conform during the school she now works at's holiday party.

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    ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    Umm Actually Christmas is a capitalist expansion of Christian Dogma
    I'm very tired of the Die Hard is a Christmas movie talk

    it was clever like 5 years ago

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    emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    Die Hard
    Chanus wrote: »
    i don't know if i've ever actually watched bad santa

    It's meh. It was a 90s movie that came out in the 2000s and probably made even more meh by 2018's aversion to edgy humor.

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    Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User regular
    Its A wonderful Life
    tyrannus wrote: »
    wazilla wrote: »
    Chanus wrote: »
    i agree that die hard is a christmas movie and a great movie but i am so tired of DIE HARD IS A CHRISTMAS MOVIE that it is now the worst one and i hate it

    I'm tired of DIE HARD ISN'T A CHRISTMAS MOVIE that it is now the best one and I love it

    oh look a race to the bottom to see who can be the most meta
    [chat] knows its lane.

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    PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    The Ice Harvest
    wandering wrote: »
    If the poll also included Miracle on 34th St this would have been a harder choice

    I had included it at one point but couldn't remember if it was 34th st and didn't want to look it up and so my lazyness robbed you wandering and I'm sorry.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
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    BrodyBrody The Watch The First ShoreRegistered User regular
    Nightmare Before Christmas
    Scrooged was also pretty good.

    "I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."

    The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson

    Steam: Korvalain
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    matt has a problemmatt has a problem Points to 'off' Points to 'on'Registered User regular
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    tyrannus wrote: »
    wazilla wrote: »
    Chanus wrote: »
    i agree that die hard is a christmas movie and a great movie but i am so tired of DIE HARD IS A CHRISTMAS MOVIE that it is now the worst one and i hate it

    I'm tired of DIE HARD ISN'T A CHRISTMAS MOVIE that it is now the best one and I love it

    oh look a race to the bottom to see who can be the most meta
    [chat] knows its lane.

    Yep, the breakdown lane doing 80 with three spike-stripped tires spraying sparks and the top down

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    emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    Die Hard
    Atomika wrote: »
    The best Christmas movie is Batman Returns

    The best Christmas movie is Die Hard Batman Returns Gremlins.

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    PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    I think I watched Bad Santa with the white supremacist part of my family.

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    Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User regular
    Its A wonderful Life
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    I picked the schmaltzy option, but I think my current favorite classic is The Muppet Family Xmas:
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ojtGHXsTXmU

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlRpGj7LWS4


    I actually enjoy A Muppet Family Xmas far more than the Muppet Xmas Carol (both are good!). It has an amazing duet of A Christmas Song (chestnuts roasting etc.) with Big Bird and The Swedish Chef.

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