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timetowaste85 wrote: I've never seen A Christmas Story. Sounds like I'm not missing much.
It is a solid story about a kid in the 50s going through an abnormal holiday with his family. It was filmed in Cleveland (which is why it's heresy to not like it), and it's overall a good film. TBS just ruins it by running it for 24 hours straight.
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Technically, it already had 3 sequels and 2 prequels. There were 4 PBS television movies featuring the Parker family between '76 and '88.
I was just pointing out the one I did because it fit the theme of "recent sequels".
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Ma55ter_fett wrote: Wasn't this the film that only became a classic because no one bothered to copywrite it properly so the networks could show it every Christmas for free?
Ma55ter_fett wrote: Wasn't this the film that only became a classic because no one bothered to copywrite it properly so the networks could show it every Christmas for free?
Yes. It's sure as hell no A Christmas Story.
It's not even Ernest Saves Christmas.
It's a wonderfully bland movie starring a fairly famous old actor and it's in nostalgia moistening black and white - it was always going to be beloved of the middle of the road safe audience people that keep crap profitable. The rest is just icing.
Forar wrote: Which is yet another reason Die Hard remains one of the finest Christmas movies ever made.
And Lethal Weapon.
Bourne Identity was set at Christmas too, I believe.
EDIT - And I almost forgot Bad Santa.
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gorgon wrote: I'll take somewhat of a contrary opinion and say that Hollywood sometimes shows too much tolerance for risk. Disney shouldn't have given movies like John Carter and The Lone Ranger $250 million budgets, for instance.
It's kind of both. In their search for turning films in to safe investments, Hollywood have ended up thinking the only film with a safe return is a 250 million mega-budget film. Which is, ironically enough, a really risky business practice because when you make one of those movies and it sucks you lose hundreds of millions of dollars. Splash that kind of money across 6 40 million films and you're much more likely to get a steady return.
And the things is, Hollywood knows this, but it can't stop doing it anyway, because of how studio politics work.
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Bromsy wrote: I wouldn't define building off of a pre-established IP a 'risk', exactly. I would just chalk that up to poor market research/making bad movies.
Plonking 250 million dollars in to a project with a completely unknown return is more than a little risky
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Alfndrate wrote: I can't stand A Christmas Story, I realize that saying that I'm basically worse than Hitler and spitting on one of the few things that Cleveland has to be proud of, but TBS fething ruined it for me by showing nothing but that movie for 24 hours. Do you know what's on at 3 to 6 am on Christmas? That and crappy infomercials. ugh, just because a kid can't sleep on Christmas doesn't mean you have to torture him with bad tv!
Noir wrote: P.S. Did anybody really like It's a Wonderful Life, it is almost as bad as the one with Santa kicking the kid down the slide.
For shame! A Christmas Story is great! Granted, TBS running it for 24 hours is a bit much every year, but as far as holiday movies go its on my short list of not-crap movies.
The best Christmas movies are Die Hard and Christmas Vacation.
Alfndrate wrote: I can't stand A Christmas Story, I realize that saying that I'm basically worse than Hitler and spitting on one of the few things that Cleveland has to be proud of, but TBS fething ruined it for me by showing nothing but that movie for 24 hours. Do you know what's on at 3 to 6 am on Christmas? That and crappy infomercials. ugh, just because a kid can't sleep on Christmas doesn't mean you have to torture him with bad tv!
Is the other thing the Drew Carrey show?
Entertainment wise? Yes, yes it is. I still want to try Buzz Beer
d-usa wrote:It's certainly not the Browns...
We're proud of pre-Super Bowl era Browns, and the Kardiac Kids (1980s Browns Team), the 1948 Cleveland Indians, the mid to late 90s Indians, and the 2007 Cavs
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Paramount Studios have threatened to take legal action over a proposed sequel to the 1946 film It's A Wonderful Life.
The forthcoming film, starring Karolyn Grimes - who starred in the original movie - was announced by Hummingbird Productions earlier this week.
But Paramount said no project could proceed without the "necessary rights", which are owned by the film studio.
"We will take to take all appropriate steps to protect those rights."
The original film, directed by Frank Capra, saw James Stewart playing George Bailey, a family man in the depths of despair who is assigned an angel to show him what life would have been like if he never existed.
Set on Christmas Eve, the film has gone on to become a festive classic, despite being poorly received on its release.
Public domain
Tennessee-based Hummingbird Productions announced on Monday that it had teamed up with Star Partners for a follow-up film based on Bailey's grandson.
It said Grimes, who played Bailey's daughter Zuzu in the original movie, would star in the sequel as an angel.
Hummingbird's Bob Farnsworth previously told The Hollywood Reporter that the rights to It's a Wonderful Life were in the public domain.
"It's a Wonderful Life is about showing a good guy can win," Farnsworth told the industry paper.
He said he had written a screenplay with Martha Bolton entitled It's a Wonderful Life: The Rest of the Story, and was hoping it would be released in December 2015.
A lapsed copyright saw the film repeatedly broadcast on TV at Christmastime during the 1970s and '80s.
However, Paramount is understood to have controlled the rights for the past 14 years, after the studio acquired Republic Pictures as part of its acquisition of Spelling Entertainment in 1999.
Frank Capra's son, Tom, told the Associated Press that if his father was still alive, he would have deemed the sequel "ludicrous".
"Why would you even attempt to make a sequel to such a classic film?"
A Christmas Story, Die Hard, and Christmas Vacation. Those are the only films I'll watch at Christmas. Every year, I think, "Maybe this is the year where they'll finally show the girl getting all the way out of the pool in Vacation," and every year, I'm disappointed.
I've never seen It's A Wonderful Life or Miracle on 34th Street. Never will.
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