A Christmas Story: 20th Anniversary Special Edition (1 Viewer)

[Colin Jacobson]

My wife absolutely hates this movie.

Who could HATE this movie? Or maybe it's just a guy flick?

 

[Dan Rudolph]

My mom and sister love this movie, so I don't think it's a guy flick.

 

[Dean Kousoulas]

How could you hate this movie? I'm sure i'm not the only one who watches it at least 5-6 times in the 24 hour period it's on TNT, am I?

 

[Antony James]

My girlfriend really hates it too...and yet I'm still with her. Incredible, ain't it?

 

[Tino]

I saw A Christmas Story on opening day in 1983. The theater was empty. It got horrible reviews and failed miserably at the boxoffice and disappeared very quickly. I loved it but at the time, many didn't.

Here we are 20 years later and it's considered a classic. Time can do wonderful things for a film.

Who knows, Battlefield Earth may achieve the same status in the future!

 

[Robert Crawford]

Tino,
Even before "A Christmas Story" there was "It's a Wonderful Life" which was considered a box office failure, but television showings evidently caused some revisionary changes to the general opinion about this great film. Of course, over the years there has been other films that have experienced similar circumstances.




Crawdaddy

 

[Mark-W]

I didn't think that much of this film when I first saw it a few years ago. But then, I forget which station, airs it for 24 hour straight on 12/24, and I was staying at my sister's Xmas eve, and I fell in love with it.

Now, I cannot imagine not loving it.

 

[Haden]

How could you hate this movie? I'm sure i'm not the only one who watches it at least 5-6 times in the 24 hour period it's on TNT, am I?

Nope, I've done it too. In the last 2 years I watched it several times on TNT. Last Christmas Eve I just kept the tv on that channel all evening while I did other stuff, and it played thru the movie 3-4 times. It's one of those rare movies that I never get tired of watching over and over, and that's why I got it on DVD.

 

[Dave H]

Although it's in OAR, I hear the transfer is very disappointing. Any thoughts about it?

 

[JeremySt]

An every day quote around my workplace:

"I like the Tin-Man. I like the Wizard of Oz."

Ill pick this one up.

 

[David Williams]

Even before "A Christmas Story" there was "It's a Wonderful Life" which was considered a box office failure, but television showings evidently caused some revisionary changes to the general opinion about this great film.

I absolutely loathe It's a Wonderful Life. In fact, it sits upon my list of The Worst Movies of All Time as Numero Uno. A Christmas Story really shows it up on how do a family Christmas film and not be totally sappy, syrupy and a wonderful audio-visual emetic. I was thrilled beyond all words when all the stations lost their license to show IAWL ten billion times every Christmas.

 

[Henry Gale]

Bob Clark, the director of A Christmas Story, was killed by a drunk driver today.
His son also died in the collision.

 

[Ray H]

Damn. :frowning:

 

[GlennWD]

Horrible

 

[Stephen_J_H]

Wow. These things happen so suddenly.

 

[captainjoe]

Man, that's too bad. Great filmmaker.

 

[David_B_K]

That is terrible news. Another film of Clark's I enjoy is MURDER BY DECREE from 1979. Basically the same approach to the Jack the Ripper story that FROM HELL took, but used Sherlock Holmes to solve the case. The DVD has a commentary by Clark.

HERE'S INFO ABOUT THE FATAL CRASH

 

[Greg_S_H]

I've been wanting to see that one for a while. Pity it takes his death for me to finally seek it out.

 

[Stephen_J_H]

I am also a fan of Murder by Decree, as it was one of those films that shows a director known only for comedies and horror successfully tackling a piece of historical fiction. Now, if only we could figure out who owns the rights...

If I'm not mistaken, this is also one of the first films to posit the theory that Jack the Ripper was a member of the Royal Family
.

 

[John Hodson]

A Study In Terror with John Neville as Holmes, made eight years earlier, was the first IIRC.