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The original tagline to the film that winds up atop our Retarded Christmas Top Ten is “A Tribute to the Original, Traditional, One-Hundred-Percent, Red-Blooded, Two-Fisted, All-American Christmas”…
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Most people, when recalling Christmas movies, tend to rattle off IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE as the one that immediately springs to mind. Not that there’s any problem with that…
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They say that in the world of “Star Trek”, there’s a rule of thumb when it comes to the movies: The even-numbered ones are way better than the odd-numbered ones. It looks like there’s a similar vibe going on with the “Vacation” franchise of films, except in the reverse…
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There’s an old adage that we are all meant to learn from our mistakes. If this is indeed the truth, then thank God for “The Star Wars Holiday Special”. But “Wait!”, you say. “I’ve never heard of a Star Wars Holiday Special.” Well, friend, you’d be not the only one. You see, in today’s world, we are meant not to know that such a thing ever existed. But yet, if we set the wayback machine to November 17, 1978, homes across America were preparing to witness the follow-up to last summer’s blockbuster hit STAR WARS, this time right on their own television sets at home. The initial reaction to this special was so terrible that George Lucas ordered that the special never air again, and that all master copies be destroyed…
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When judging the criteria for what qualifies in the top holiday movies of all time, some folks might question just exactly which holiday THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS best fits under. Is it a Halloween movie, or a Christmas movie…
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Suprise! Bet you didn’t think you’d be seeing this fine piece of cinematic goodness on this list, and quite so high either. But yes, the subgenre of yuletide slasher flicks has contributed one such film to our Retarded Christmas Top Ten, this one being one of the first to come down to the pike…
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Denis Leary, star of our #10 Retarded Xmas movie THE REF, once said in his stand-up special No Cure for Cancer: “We all love the Muppets. They’re so cuuuuute!” And you know something? He’s right…
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In choosing the #7 Christmas movie of all time, I decided again to go for something that isn’t always associated with the holiday season: 1988’s action movie extraordinnaire, DIE HARD…
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Some people might immediately jump up and question the validity of some of the movies that I choose for “Christmas Movies”, but one you certainly can’t question is GREMLINS…
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Well, Michael Moore has gone off and done it. He’s made a film that has the world talking, has Oscar Buzz written all over it, and is becoming one of the most successful documentaries of all time…
