Wii wish you a Merry Christmas

[A Black Falcon]

*reads IMDB description*

Nope, never heard of it before. Sorry.

Hold on, this is NOT an old black and white movie, it's within my living memory? THAT is supposed to be a classic icon of Christmas? Oh sure, like Jingle All The Way or The Santa Claus are now "classics" right? Pfft! That's not a classic. It's a Wonderful Life, or The Grinch, or Miracle on (I can't remember numbers well) Street, THERE are your classics. That's RECENT, because I was ALIVE at the time, and so it can't ever count, EVER!

Agreed completely... :)

I mean, I remember watching that Arnold Schwarzenegger christmas movie (one or twice?), but I wouldn't exactly call it a classic...

At any rate, I don't watch "The Hallmark Channel", or even much TV at all. I've said it before but I basically just watch the Science channel, Cartoon Network, and like 3 shows on Comedy Central, so yes I could easily miss it.

I watch CNN, Cartoon Network, Boomerang, sometimes CNN Headline News or PBS, and most of the time that's about it. :) (and even that's usually just on in the backround while I use the computer)

... there are lots of things "everyone has heard" or whatever I know little or nothing about, and I don't see anything at all wrong with that...

That's hardly a fair comparison. Sure, there are probably gaming classics I've never played or heard of, but a fair comparison would have me saying "What's a Nintendo?" Even people who don't play videogames typically have at least heard of Nintendo or Playstation. It's not just a television thing, I hear it quoted on the radio, I see merchandise, people wear T-shirts (I have two!), and the movie is so fantastically over-exposed by being played literally hundreds of times every year through those all-day marathons (I've even seen them do it in the summer, under the "Christmas in July" excuse, whatever the hell that is) that I can't conceptualize any American person roughly my age never even knowing it existed, even by pure accident.

You exaggerate, I'm sure... just because you've heard of it doesn't mean everyone has!