 All right, Christmas movies. Let's do that. And then we'll go back to super chat So I always, you know, I always forget movies. I don't remember names. I don't remember the My lists. I don't have a list of favorite Christmas movies. So what I did was I Went online and I searched for 40 best Christmas movies of all time And 40 I've got a one the one is 63. Where did they get 63 from? 63 best Christmas movies of all time the 63 one is from rotten tomato So, um And I've got one from the chair. I've got rotten tomato I've got the muse five. That was a weird list. I've got one from the independent I figured I'd get a British one just to see if if there was any American slant to this um, I I tried Stacker stacker was yeah stacker was very strange Yeah, I yeah, I done about stacker and then I got one from imbd from 2018 all right so You guys I'm curious to know what you think your favorite Christmas movie is But what I want to do is Uh go over some of these lists. So I'm gonna go over 63 the 63 movies From imbd and I'm just gonna run down and quickly give you like a two word My interpretation of them and I will tell you what my favorite of all of these is but So we're gonna start with number 63. We're gonna do 63 movies and like really really fast. Okay 62 is miracle on 34th street the 1994 version It's good. It's not great. The original was a lot better Preacher's wife with denser washington. I love denser washington as an actor. It's cute overly religious movie, but it's it's not bad 1996 the grinch um, the grinch the dr. Seuss grinch 28 2018 yeah Yeah, this was good It's 2018. Isn't there isn't it older than that? Anyway, the grinch is good. I really think the grinch is a fun Fun movie the animation is good It was you know, and the the the sound is good Really, uh, what am I one of my um, one of my favorites christmas chronicles don't know it Christmas chronicles two don't know it love actually that was a fun movie Hugh Grant 19 2003 um Liam Neeson Hugh Grant Emma Thompson Romantic comedy not sure what it why it's christmasy, but good movie I enjoyed it Anytime I say good. I mean I enjoyed it. I'm not making an aesthetic evaluation Uh, crampus don't know that one national lampoon christmas vacation Fun a very how old and kuma christmas. I don't like anything how old and kuma Mickey's christmas carol sounds bad the night before Haven't seen home alone home alone is number 52 here Other lists I've seen it's number two or number three or number four Home alone is considered one of the great christmas classics. I think it's a really Fun christmas movie. It's about the ingenuity of a of a young boy and his ability to thwart These these idiots were trying to rob the house after he was left in the house over christmas So yeah, home alone is funny. It's fun. It's entertaining. It's enjoyable It's got some great performances my my colleague hulkin and jo pesky And uh, yeah, that that makes my top 10 christmas movies sure frosty the snowman Don't really know it the best man holiday. Don't know it. Scrooge. Scrooge was fun Scrooge with bill molly where he plays a horribly greedy awful You know executive. I let me say something about scrooge for a minute I mean the number of movies based on the story of scrooge But I think scrooge is a good guy. I like scrooge You know It's sad because the problem with scrooge is he has no pride The problem with scrooge is he doesn't take what he does seriously enough So here's scrooge building a business Making the best of of a difficult situation Running a store making some money You know trying to do well But he has no appreciation for that So he feels and he's made to feel guilty for all of that and is therefore instead of being admired And for the job creator that he is instead of his workers appreciating him for the fact that he's paying market wages And that they have a job and they have some way to go and and to feed themselves He is portrayed as a cheap miserable pathetic horrible human being But why he's productive He's passionate about his work Um, he hasn't taken his life seriously enough. He hasn't pursued pride seriously enough He's he's he's bought into this altruism too much So all the movies based on the scrooge story Have this underlying negative premise about business underlying negative premise about About being a go getter about being ambitious about having a career all of them scrooge and all the all the christmas movies that have this premise so I I dislike the premise the movie's fun, but the premise is terrible and uh Remember scrooge is the good guy He makes christmas possible by creating jobs And by selling stuff to people so they can have gifts to give The santa claus don't know that with tim allen don't know that one black christmas don't know that one the ref don't know that one Juno el Juno el is a war movie About uh during world war one. I think it was the first christmas in during world war one Where there was a ceasefire and the germans and the french got together and they kind of celebrated christmas together To and then they go back to slaughter each other the next day It's it's a good anti-war Very insightful movie. Definitely worth watching. Happy christmas. Don't know that one the muppet christmas carol The muppets are always fun a christmas horror story. Don't know that let it snow. Don't know that white christmas white christmas Is a classic with bin crossby and danny k That's a fun, uh benevolent Uh wonderful movie from 1954 kind of my era of movies And so uh certainly one of my favorites And an apocalyptic never heard of that while you were sleeping another one of these sandro bullock romantic comedies Okay, don't remember why it's a christmas movie, but fine bad santa All right Not not my thing the man who invented christmas um That's another another Spin on ebony's accrued scooch not a fan Batman returns i've no idea why batman movie is a christmas movie The bishops wife This is a kerry grand loretta young david nevin love the actors Love the benevolence It's fine not a great movie Happiest season don't know that one elf elf is fun uh fun Yeah You know not a not a particularly serious movie not a great movie But just just fun christmas in canadian, uh barba stanwick anything with barba stanwick is worth watching Again fun movie benevolent movie christmas cowl Again charles dickens story. This is ebony's scooch. This is the 1951 version It's sad to see businessmen portrayed this way White reindeer don't know that one Un con de noel don't know that one Gremlins gremlins don't know why that's a christmas movie not a fan of gremlins steven sprobo's No, it's jo dante not steven sprobo jo dantas trading places i'm i i like trading places. It's got real problems um, it's got real problems uh primarily the ease at which You can take a homeless person and teach them how to how to do finance And it's got a very bad attitude again towards business and finance more broadly But it's funny. You got to give it that it's funny and it shows You know that you can be self-made that you can you can change your own destiny Better better watch out Didn't see that and tokyo godfathers didn't see that kiss kiss bang bang was fun. I enjoyed that with robidownie jr And val kilmer quite violent uh action movie Uh rarex christmas tale don't know that a christmas story, right? um 1883 Yeah That that's a fun movie. I know a lot of you think that's the best movie. That's the best christmas movie ever It's a fun movie to watch Uh christmas story to me. It's not one of my tops Little women little women has made many of these lists. It usually is in the top five top 10. Here's number 20 um great lineup. We're not a writer susan sarandon um Yeah, it's uh louisa mary alcott's story again Benevolent good. We'll get to a die hard. Don't worry. We're getting to die hard babes in toyland. Don't know that one edwards scissorhands Not particularly a favorite of mine claus I think i've seen claus, but i don't remember anything about it Jingle jangle a christmas journey I don't think i've seen that one remember the night remember the night with barbra stanwork again again Barbra stanwork Is worth seeing. Uh, she is uh, she is amazing. Um That was a 1940 remember the night Romantic comedy with fred mcquarrie. It's um I love these movies. Oh, it's presto sturgis. No, it's not presto sturgis He wrote it. He didn't direct it, but anything by presto sturgis is going to be funny. It's going to be smart Uh and remember the night is a good movie definitely worth definitely worth Uh any of those movies from 1940s and 50s with barbra stanwork written or directed by presto sturgis There were a lot of fun. All right wrote off the windows near india 1964 I don't remember author christmas night 2011. Don't remember here at number 12 Is die hard now. I don't know why die hard the christmas movie doesn't have a christmas theme But it's set in christmas because the whole thing is during a christmas party I think die hard is one of the better action movies. Maybe one of the best action movies. It's fun It's exciting. I think the first time I saw it. It's it's edge of your seat It's one guy taking on a whole Array of And doing it smartly and cleverly and picking them off and destroying them and It's it's amazing. It's it's an amazing, uh, amazing Um action movie if you like if you like action movie um Somebody says the the lady eve. Yeah, the lady eve Is presto sturgis. The lady eve is maybe my favorite presto sturgis movie. It's fabulous It's so benevolent so much fun so funny And hard warming it's really good. It's one of my I don't know certainly in my top 50 movies is the lady eve So die hard at number 12 here Charlie brown christmas. I'm not a big fan of charlie brown Tangerine, I haven't seen tangerine. It made a lot of top five lists cowl Also from 2015 both of these movies in 2015 also made a lot of top five lists Not on mine. I've never I haven't seen either one of these movies. I guess I need to go and watch these Meet me in st. Louis another one of these classics 1944 judy garland margherita brian um merriestore Benevolent fun You know good movie little women for 2019 Oh, wow, it's it's rare to see a 2019 movie in a list like this. Okay The nightmare before christmas I'm not a big fan of this but it makes all the lists How the grinch stole christmas 1967 I think actually yeah, this one's good I don't know how it compares to 2018 one, but I like the story of the grinch stole christmas. I like the grinch story All right, number that was number five number five Anybody know what number one is number one in almost every list out there number one all right number four and my number one Number four according to imbd Critics rating it a no no no midi. This is rotten tomatoes This is a number four according to rotten tomatoes with a critics rating of a hundred percent My favorite christmas movie. It has both a christmas feel to it. It has the benevolence. It has the romance It has the comedy It has all of that number four and my number one is not going to be it's a wonderful life There's no way my number one movie for anything is it's a wonderful life We're gonna talk about it's a wonderful life in a minute, but number one in my view Best christmas movie ever and I did this last christmas saying some of you should know what this is Is another jimmy stewart movie Another movie with jimmy stewart, but not it's a wonderful life now. It's a wonderful life Well, actually I'll talk about that. It will actually be my Worst christmas movie. It's gonna be the movie the christmas movie. I hate the most No, my favorite is a movie called the shop around the corner. I know Many of you don't even know the movie Uh, but I see that osca 6793 got it, right? Uh, but absolutely a shop The shop around the corner the shop around the corner by In my view the greatest comedy director in history And that is Ernst Lubitsch Ernst Lubitsch um Shop around the corner with jimmy stewart margaret o'sullivan Frank mogan joseph shield quote uh, just fantastic movie benevolent movie Romantic comedy if you've seen you've got mail I'm sure you've seen you've got mail Anyway, you've got mail. This is the original you've got mail It was done in, uh, 1940 1940 The shop around the corner if you've never seen it It's just a it's just a wonderful wonderful movie. I think I saw it last time was last christmas It's a perfect christmas movie It jimmy stewart is young and wonderful Uh Mogadro Sullivan is charming And it's just a clever premise and a a movie that's been made over and over again over the years You've got mail is one version of it, but there are many versions of it um That is my favorite christmas movie Number three according to rod and tomatoes is holiday in another wonderful one bean crossby fedeste This is 1942 musical Just fantastic. By the way, all the top four christmas movies Top four christmas movies according to rod and tomato were all made in the 1940s Great great great decade A great decade um Great decade for movies. Maybe the best decade for movies ever number two Mary calling 34th street the 1947 version another wonderful movie with marino harrow again She's in a lot of these lists Because it's the 1940s and she dominated um And finally By almost all the counts No, but almost all lists The number one movie christmas movie of all time And my most hated movie A christmas movie is it's a wonderful life Now why do I don't like Why don't I like it's a wonderful life? So I warn you This will have spoilers Why don't I like it's a wonderful life? Where does one begin? My primary objection to it's a wonderful life Is it tries to have its cake and eat it too? It creates a character Who is fundamentally altruistic He is the epitome of altruism He is the epitome of somebody who does not Pursue his values Who does not Rashley conceive of what will lead him to be happy And go out and achieve it Instead It is about a man who gives up on his values wanted to go to paris. Nope Wanted to go on uh to university. Nope Married his high school sweetheart, even though he wanted to travel he wanted to see the world first Took over the family business bank in this case Even though he never wanted to go into the family business he wanted to escape the family Ran a bank in an altruistic way Didn't foreclose when people couldn't pay their debts Basically ran the bank into the ground So a man who is an altruist through and through Because he has not Clearly identified his values and therefore has not pursued them And yet In spite of that And in spite of the consequence of that and the consequence of that are let's be clear that he's ready to commit suicide He's ready to jump off a bridge In spite of that the movie suggests That he's lived an amazing life And the movie ends with Everybody coming together Saving his butt Everybody loves him. He is wonderful. He is going to live happily ever after. No, he's not. He just tried to commit suicide for a really good reason Because he has no values and the values you used to have He gave up He didn't plan His life he didn't shape his soul. He didn't shape his future It just happened And the movie tries to suggest that if you do that If you live the perfect altruistic life, you will be happy You will be successful, but in a spiritual sense No, you won't You'll be miserable Now if the movie had ended with him jumping off the bridge I would have rated it as a great movie But he doesn't jump off the bridge and everybody bails him out and you you you have the pretense of that He's going to live happily ever after. No, there's no way that can happen He is an empty, soulless, valueless person His values are second hand. His values are just the values that the Society provided him that if family enforced on him His values as a his as an individual a zilch nothing nonexistence It was made by Frank Capra Who very much had this sense of America This sense of altruism now He bailed people out so Yeah, he's very much a peter kidding, but a peter kidding with a happy ending and that pisses me off completely, so I dislike It's a wonderful life If you think about the banker who's the bad guy Well, he's the one who's actually for closing and people can't bathe the loans. I mean, what else is he supposed to do? But he's made out to be a thief In order to nail him Right, so everything about this movie. I don't like Other than it's well acted. It's to be stupid. He's a good actor. It's it's it's well made The lighting is beautiful there. The scene, you know, the the the direction is excellent. Frank Capra is an exceptional director And it's it's a story, but it's a bad story It's a bad story George Bailey has no soul He has no soul because it's not his soul It's a soul created from fragments of other people He has no Values that are his values He helps people why because that's what you're supposed to do he George Bailey when he was young he wanted to be somebody he wanted to be something And everything he wanted he gave up Everything he desired he gave up What kind of soul do you have when you give up all the things that are valuable to you? That's not how you build a soul. It's not how you create a soul So this is where I am not A conservative Conservatives love this movie because they want to have their altruism And a happy ending and their capitalism And you can't This is why you're losing This is what you have to lose All right, that's my Christmas movies What we need today what I call the new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason By the intellect not by feelings wishes wins or mystic revelations Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's Cult of the spare cynicism and impedance and does not intend to give up the world To the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist roads All right before we go on reminder, please like the show we've got 163 live listeners right now 30 likes That should be at least a hundred. 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