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    Sausage Party:

    It's about what you would expect, for the dick and fart jokes. However, the stereotype jokes/etc....wow! Lewd, crude, offensive....it was awesome. And the end scene...JFC. ***.

    Definitely recommend.
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      Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
      Sausage Party:

      It's about what you would expect, for the dick and fart jokes. However, the stereotype jokes/etc....wow! Lewd, crude, offensive....it was awesome. And the end scene...JFC. ***.

      Definitely recommend.
      I was rolling through most of the movie, but didn't even know how to respond when watching that scene at the end. It's perfectly in line with the rest of the movie, but they just turned it up to 11. That's one more.
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        Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
        I was rolling through most of the movie, but didn't even know how to respond when watching that scene at the end. It's perfectly in line with the rest of the movie, but they just turned it up to 11. That's one more.
        My brother and his woman watched it, asked if I had seen it, and when I said no, their exact response was: "End scene. Dude. Just..."
        Never really developed a taste for tequila. Kind of hard to understand how you make a drink out of something that sharp, inhospitable. Now, bourbon is easy to understand.
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          Some TV show last night listed their top Christmas movies, and while I would have chosen many of the movies on the list, I definitely would have ordered them differently.

          For example, It's a Wonderful Life is not really a "Christmas" movie, it's a movie of despair and redemption that happens to be set at Christmas time. Even so, I'd have it # 6 on my list.

          # 5. Elf
          # 4. animated version of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"
          # 3. The Alistair Sim version of A Christmas Carol
          # 2. A Christmas Story
          # 1. The Edmund Gwenn / Natalie Wood version of Miracle on 34th Street





          PS At this link there is a great story about how It's a Wonderful Life helped Jimmy Stewart get back into acting again. He suffered terribly from PTSD as a result of his service during WWII, and there was some concern that he wouldn't be able to take up acting again. His scenes of despair in the movie reflected what he was going through in his life at the time, and according to the article, it was Lionel Barrymore that helped him regain his bearings during the movie's production:
          While he was making that film, he was questioning the superficiality of Hollywood and acting in general, and Lionel Barrymore (who plays Mr. Potter) said to him, "So, are you saying it's more worthwhile to drop bombs on people than to entertain them?" And that really hit Stewart and was one of the things that turned him around and made him think, "OK, I do have an important role and there are things to be done."
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            Originally posted by FreshFish View Post
            PS At this link there is a great story about how It's a Wonderful Life helped Jimmy Stewart get back into acting again. He suffered terribly from PTSD as a result of his service during WWII, and there was some concern that he wouldn't be able to take up acting again. His scenes of despair in the movie reflected what he was going through in his life at the time, and according to the article, it was Lionel Barrymore that helped him regain his bearings during the movie's production:
            I had not heard this before; thanks for posting it.
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              Favorite 5 Christmas Movies / 5 TV Animations:

              5. Frosty (though to be fair Frosty kinda sucks)
              4. Rudolph
              3. Charlie Brown
              2. Grinch
              1. Santa Claus is Coming to Town (I identified with the Winter Warlock as a child)

              5. The Ref
              4. Trading Places
              3. Black Christmas
              2. A Christmas Story
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                A Christmas Story
                Animated Grinch (if you count that as movie, not a tv special)
                National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
                A Christmas Carol (George C Scott version; technially a tv movie)
                Gremlins
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                  A Christmas Story sucks.
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                    Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                    A Christmas Story sucks.
                    You haven't seen Ferris Bueller, so your opinion doesn't count, Millennial.
                    Never really developed a taste for tequila. Kind of hard to understand how you make a drink out of something that sharp, inhospitable. Now, bourbon is easy to understand.
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                      #5 Santa Clause (watched it growing up a lot)
                      #4 Home Alone
                      #3 Scrooged
                      #2 Die Hard
                      #1 Christmas Vacation

                      Honorable Mention to the animated Grinch and Charlie Brown, both of which I thought were tv specials and thus disqualified.

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                        Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                        A Christmas Story sucks.
                        You're pure evil.

                        Rogue One. So as with Ep 7 there are some recycled themes, similar origins for the protagonist and battle sequences, etc. But it all still works together in the end for an entertaining two hours. As with 7 it started slowly for me interest wise, but as the story and characters begin to develop my engagement ratcheted up. They do a good job showcasing most of the obvious ties with Ep 4 although I was really hoping for at least one, "AHA!" moment/big reveal that would have made me think, "I really have to watch A New Hope" again but maybe that's an impossible task. My other critique is that I wasn't quite as invested in the newly introduced characters even before the ending because it's hard to knowing they're not represented in any of the subsequent films but still overall I enjoyed it. As with all of the films except 1-3 I will watch this one at least one more time in the theater, next time I'm going to see it in IMAX without the kids.

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                          Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                          A Christmas Story sucks.
                          Slowly I turned...

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                            Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
                            You haven't seen Ferris Bueller, so your opinion doesn't count, Millennial.
                            No he is right. A Christmas Story is a cancer and not having cable is my chemo!
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                              Originally posted by Handyman View Post
                              No he is right. A Christmas Story is a cancer and not having cable is my chemo!
                              There were no Saudi terrorist attacks in the United States before the release of A Christmas Story.

                              I'm only asking the question.
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                                Originally posted by Handyman View Post
                                No he is right. A Christmas Story is a cancer and not having cable is my chemo!
                                I bet you shot your eye out as a child or stuck your tongue to some frozen object, and that's why you don't like it.
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