13th December 2006, 6:02 PM
A Black Falcon Wrote:*reads IMDB description*
Nope, never heard of it before. Sorry.
Agreed completely... :)
I mean, I remember watching that Arnold Schwarzenegger christmas movie (one or twice?), but I wouldn't exactly call it a classic...
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...
You exaggerate, I'm sure... just because you've heard of it doesn't mean everyone has!
Though clearly in this case a lot of people have. I've also been totally ignorant of the existence of the band "Queen" up until a couple years ago. Not that into music so I never really hung around music stores or anything of the sort. It's just not this "very definition of Christmas" that it's being portrayed as. Maybe if I had never heard of Scrooge you'd have something there. At any rate, the hallmark of something being just THAT well known is how many parodies one sees of it. I can't remember a single parody of the plot you're describing, and in holiday "lineups" they sometimes do in shows I don't see anyone resembling Ralphie there. I see Frosty, Rudolph, Santa, the Grinch, Scrooge (always shown as being grumpy, no one ever bothers remembering him at the END of the movie, why don't they ever use "Scrooge" as slang for "insanely obsessed with giving") and various others but anyone like that smiling chap? Nope. Juuust not popular enough to be "definition of the holidays" material, at least not yet.
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