This is how I feel about it.

Don't like it? Faw-ra Faw-ra Faw-ra Faw-ra -Fuck you.

Well, I do say.

Christmas Vacation and Home Alone are the two that I don't understand.

I've seen select scenes from A Christmas Story on TV, but never from beginning to end - what I have seen though hasn't really wowed me.

Growing up, I'd always avoided A Christmas Story becuase I assumed it was typical happy family holiday fare. But eventually in my 20's a friend sat me down and demanded I finalled see it, and I was surprised to find it being a much darker movie that focused more on the awkwardness and pain of growing up in a satirical fasion. It's hardly a Norman Rockwell painting, it slaps that convention right in the face.

And yeah, any movie given that kinds of overexposure will face some sort of backlash. I'm happy that honor goes to a more underhanded movie like this one, rather than something more traditional.

Does it really matter that it's on a 24-hour marathon anymore? Cable companies are being replaced by streaming services. If anything be offended that yule log is on a 24-hour loop. Do they still do that?

Well Im sure its better then a Christmas story 2

I don't hate the movie, but I am tired of it. I've retired it from holiday viewing.

It could be worse, TBS could play Ron Howard's The Grinch on a 24 hour loop. You want that?! Huh?!!

Oh god, The Grinch is a total crap-fest. "Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny" is "Citizen Kane" compared to that!

The thing I hate about "A Christmas Story" is the overenthusiastic narration. And yes, I know it's by the guy who actually wrote the damn thing, but it still annoys me. And I think turkey is highly overrated- I'd let the dogs eat it and have Chinese food instead!

Ditto on everything you said. Esp. the last line.

Wow, people actually justify not liking a film because they disagree with the food preferences of the characters. That's some serious reaching there.

His name is actually Scut. I, too, called him Scott for many years until someone pointed that out to me. A name like Scut makes him even more rednecky.

In our world, you were either a bully, a toady, or one of the nameless rabble of victims!http://www.achristmasstoryhouse.com/...he-real-bully/



I think the director made the right call.

I love the movie and make it a point turn the channel to TBS during the 24 hr event just to have it on in the background.

*reads comment above*......wha.....fuck....*eye twitches*

I love a Christmas Story. It's a classic 80s comedy. And like so many of the best comedies of the 80s, it has pitch perfect timing. Compare that to today with it either be heavy scatology or really drawn improv-fests (thank you Judd Apatow)

I think this is pretty much how I feel. I can recognize it's a good movie, but I don't love it like the rest of the world because it was on TV for years before I somehow managed to see it. By then, it had been hyped up by everyone I've ever met so I was somewhat disappointed.

I prefer Bob Clark's other family film I got to see when it first became an 80s phenomenon - Porky's.

Have you seen Deathdream?

See, this is what I don't get. You do realize that the naration is intended to be sarcastic, right?

This movie has grown on me over the years. I used to simply tolerate it, but now I wholeheartedly love it. There are very few movies that make me smile as much as this one. It's honest and innocent, and the comedy hits consistently (at least for me). I think the narration is absolutely perfect.

I'm the same way.

It's that fucking time of the year, guys. This shitty movie is coming back. *hyperventilating*

Still hate it

Did not like A Christmas Story as a kid and I hate it even more as an adult.
If I'm watching something by Bob Clark it's Black Christmas.