Christmas Movies

I haven’t seen any movies recently. It’s really a shame. I just haven’t had the time with basketball and homework that teachers decided to load up on before Christmas break. But I plan on watching plenty on my 5 days off from basketball and the rest of the break. My mom will want to watch the old classics that have become a “tradition” in our house. Which brings up the topic of holiday movies.

Good holiday movies are becoming more rare as years pass. They are becoming clichéd with ideas being repeated. I have not seen a holiday movie in the last two or three years that has been decent. The most recent movie that I enjoyed a lot was Elf. Will Ferrell was great in this movie. This idea was original and very creative. Any time somebody is raised by elves and thinks that he is in elf even though he is 6 foot 6, turns out to be interesting. This was a funny movie, but had its sincere moments too. If you have not seen this film, I would highly recommend it during the holiday season that everybody in the family will enjoy.

When I talk about classic Christmas movies, I am talking about two in particular: It’s a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Story. These are the two best Christmas films ever made and I do not think that there will be any more like them. I have grown up in an era of bad movies and even worse morals, but I realize how good of a film It’s a Wonderful Life is. Even though it is black and white (that was the beginning of my protest before the first time my parents showed this to me), it still is a, I hate to say it, wonderful film. Jimmy Stewart plays a man who never does a thing for himself and ends up breaking down, but a guardian angle, Clarence, comes down and shows him how the world could have been different without him. This opens up his eyes and he comes to realize that he loves his life. (That might have been the worst explanation of any movie, ever, so just watch it and you will realize that it really is a good movie.)

A Christmas Story is my personal favorite. It is funny and interesting and is an overall good movie. Ralphy really wants a BB gun (its more than just a plain old BB gun though) for Christmas but everybody tells him, “You’ll shoot your eye out, kid.” This movie is the trials that he and his family face leading up to Christmas, and the struggles he goes through in order to get this gun. Once again, you will have to take my word that this is a horrible explanation and, once again, have to take my word that the movie is actually good.