Conference bookie::movies

    
    your gonna shoot your eye out!  :-)  I have seen this movie about
    100 times, I never miss it!  It is my all time favorite xmass movie!
    
    Lou

    My Dad loved this movie, probably for the BB scene ("You're gonna shoot
    your eye out!").  It gave him an excuse to relate his own, similiar
    BB/shoot your eye out story yet another time... :)
    
    
    For a while, this movie kept cropping up around Xmas.  It seemed
    drastically underwatched (I think, once of the years, it came out with
    the Dudley Moore vehicle "Santa Claus -- the Movie", which, as I
    understand it, was not very good.  And so "A Christmas Story" may have
    suffered from "similiar theme"-itis.  
    
    I'm not sure.  It was cute enough, and not bad.  
    
    kim

    This is my all-time favorite Christmas movie. My favorite scene: 
    Having duck for Christmas dinner in a Chinese restaurant because the
    neighborhood dogs stole the turkey. "The duck is smiling at us. 
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    Viewing is an annual event at our house. 
    
    Linda
    
    
    
    

    >This was one of those movies that knowbody went to see when it was in
    >the theatre, but when it went out on video became very popular. It is
    
    I'm a knowbody then, cuz I saw it when it came out.  It was a Summer
    release.  I think it's great and bought a copy for my collection when
    it came out on video.
    

    Based on the stories of Indiana icon Jean Sheppard (sp?), mostly from 
    "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash".  An enjoyable movie by a
    director that mostly delivers dreck - Bob Clark, responsible for
    "Porky's" and other horrors.
    
    - Dave

    I guess I shouldn't admit that I kinda like "Porky's", in a juvenille
    humor sort of way.  :)  
    
    Of course I haven't seen it since, well, since it came out.  I was
    probably much more juvenille then....
    
    
    kim

    For the first time in this conference, I'm completely stumped: I haven't 
    heard of this film at all. Would somebody add a little information
    about it, such as who's in it and when it was made?
    
    Thanks.
    
    Nick

    Is this the movie where the father wins (or something like this) a
    lamp where the base is a sexy female leg and he displays it in the
    front window of their house?
    
    Another scene, if I have the correct movie, which is pretty funny,
    is about the younger child getting dressed to go outside to play
    in the snow.  The mother bundles him up so much that when he falls
    he cannot get back up.
    
    I hope it's the same movie as I'd love to see a sequel.
    
    PChaplinsky

    Probably came out late 70's, early 80's.  Starred Darren McGavin as the
    Dad, and other people that I cannot remember.  Was basically the story
    of a boy's Christmas kinda gone wrong (hence, eating duck in a Chinese
    Restraunt for Xmas dinner).   One of those anecdotal type movies.  
    
    I don't believe it did particularly well at the box office, but for
    the next few years (before videotape really caught on), it was
    re-released around the holidays.
    
    
    kim

One of the best comedies ever filmed, imho. It's terrificly funny and
nostaligic. You'll probably enjoy it more if your middle aged or older.
Many of the references may no longer apply to childhood, although I think
most will (at least in this country). 

How about that bunny costume that Peter Billingsly had to wear because his
aunt gave it to him?


Randy

    re: .8
    
    Yes, that is the movie. 
    
    Linda

    Thanks Linda for the reply - I really enjoyed this movie.  I saw
    it on television some years back with my husband.  We laughed and
    still to this day talk about some of the scenes; especially when
    we bundle up our two and one-year old for -30C degree weather.
    
    I hope the sequel is as good!
    
    PChaplinsky

    
    Did he ever get the 'red-rider' BB gun?   I saw this years ago and
    don't remember how it ended.  I think he may have got a gun and indeed
    got shot in the eye.  I think he lied and said something else
    happended.  Just can't remember.  Must go out and rent it!  I do 
    remember laughing a lot!!!

    Well after reading all these notes I rented this over the weekend.
    
    Answer to .13 behiond spoiler
    
    
    
    
    Yup he got his pride and joy!!!!! and yes he got hurt - it looked like 
    the gun had a mean kick back and it cut him under the eye - he told
    his mom he got hit with an icicle....
    
    It was a very good movie - I'm glad I finally saw it
    
    Jt

    One of the family favorites. Don't have any idea how many times we have
    watched this. Jean Shepard is the narrator and used to have a radio
    show. He has also written a lot of short stories which were published
    in Playboy. A lot of Army stories and all funny. Actually had a chance
    to hear him speak one fraternity rush weekend at college and a lot of
    us hung around to b.s. with him after. Great guy and lots of laughs.
    Strongly recommend this one to all who have not seen it. Everyone I
    have loaned my copy to has greatly enjoyed it.
    
    Jean Shepard - Try to find a copy of his short stories. My all time
    favorite is "Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories" which is about
    his highschool junior prom. A lot of his stories mention the character
    Scut Farkas who is the mean nasty kid in Christmas Story. 
    
    My favorite scene - where Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) is helping his
    Dad (Darren McGavin) change the tire and knocks the lug nuts into the 
    snow. "Ralphie! Where did you learn such language?"
    
    Great, absolutely great. One other noter mentioned the movie with
    Dudley Moore playing an elf, think it's "Santa Claus - the movie".
    Whatever it isn't worth a rental fee and looks particulary poor
    compared to "Christmas Story".
    

    I noticed last night that it's playing this week on HBO - once this
    morning, but a couple more times during the week.
    
    I haven't seen it yet and I don't get HBO  :-(
    
    Leslie

    
    Very good movie... Always watched around Christmas..
    
    I love when the Dad wins the leg lamp and he's reading the 
    box when delivered "oh Boy, Look Fragile" But he 
    pronounces it F-R-A-J-E-E-L-A-Y.... "Must be Italian" 
    
     Pretty funny... Actually very funny movie... always 
    helps to put me in the christmas spirit. 
    
    Rp 
    

    French, I thought...

    I watched it at the theaters when it came out with my Grandma, sisters,
    aunt, and twelve year old cousin.  Everyone laughed out loud.

    (The period of the film late 40s.early 50s, made the folks very
    misty.  I guess they were very accurate with all the props)
    
    Great movie, just don't sit too close to the TeeVee, you'll put
    your eye out.

    Definitely wait until after Thanksgiving before you watch it!!!!!

    I love the sceen where one of the boys "Triple Dog Dares" another boy
    to put his tongue on the flagpole.  Of course his tongue gets stuck
    just as the recess bell rings and all of the kids leave this poor boy
    attached to the pole.
    
    My kids love it when Ralphie's mother is trying to get his little
    brother to eat.  The brother keeps refusing to put any food in his
    mouth so the mother tells him to eat his mashed potatoes like a pig. 
    The little brother burys his face in his plate snorts and gobbles down
    the food.
    
    We watch this movie probably four times each holiday season.
    Never gets dull, only funnier.
    
    lv
    

    Oh yeah!

    I love the narration during that part;  "Stinky (whatever his name was)
    made a slight breach of etiquette by foregoing the 'double dog dare and
    going directly into the triple dog dare...".

    (Or something like that)

    Great flick!

    Chip

        Funny thing hearing about this one again.  This is one
    of my all-time X-mas films ever.  It's been on one of those
    movie channels quite often recently.  I thought it was summer?
    Well I guess the Christmas spirit lives on all year long.
    
    "Not a finger!"
    

    The 'Leg Lamp' showed up in Speilberg's Flintstones - twice clearly
    visible behind a character.
    
    Jt