Christmas is well, its about the best time of the whole year. No matter when they take place, modern era or period, Christmas Movies and Television Specials are always about someone who has lost their faith in humankind regaining it, saved by other people being kind because its christmas. Christmas is the landscape that everybody wants to paint on. Everyone who tells stories is attracted to the heightened emotions that it brings. Nostalgia plays such a huge part in christmas because it is part of so many peoples childhoods. And being able to go back and relive those feelings every year by watching Holiday Movies is just joy. A Christmas Story is one of the best movies about nostalgia, family, and christmas. Jingle bells, jingle bells. Jingle all the way. A Christmas Story. I watch it every year at least twice. Its like the script of my life. Can we go now . Can we go now . Yes. Yes, we can go now. Come on. It brings out every childhood wonder and hurt that you can imagine. Good morning
christmas is well, it s about the best time of the whole year. no matter when they take place, modern era or period, christmas movies and television specials are always about someone who has lost their faith in humankind regaining it, saved by other people being kind because it s christmas. christmas is the landscape that everybody wants to paint on. everyone who tells stories is attracted to the heightened emotions that it brings. nostalgia plays such a huge part in christmas because it is part of so many people s childhoods. and being able to go back and relive those feelings every year by watching holiday movies is just joy. a christmas story is one of the best movies about nostalgia, family, and christmas. jingle bells, jingle bells. jingle all the way. a christmas story. i watch it every year at least twice. it s like the script of my life. can we go now? can we go now? yes. yes, we can go now. come on. it brings out every childhoo
in the loneliness and the hush and isolation of christmas, he hits bottom. if you re low, you re the lowest around the christmas holidays because you see the trappings everywhere. i ve never forgotten the image of looking in the window in the christmas carol and seeing the cratchits eating christmas dinner. and i ve always felt somewhat, to my chagrin, that i was always outside the window looking in on people who knew effortlessly how to live life much better than i did. to me, danny glover is the cratchit family. come on in. come on in. having christmas inside, and the guy outside is riggs. hi, honey. danny glover offers him that gateway to something which he s been looking through the window at for so long. it s a soft kind of reminder that an unexpected redemption can be found. my favorite christmas movie? can i say die hard ? okay. so there s this perpetual question of, is die hard a christmas movie? no. is it? i don t think so. well [bleep] yes, die hard
it s as sentimental and well-intentioned as a classic christmas film. it s christmas and the kid s getting his [bleep] present. to pull off both of those simultaneously in the same movie? almost impossible. i think if you re going to say christmas and action movies, you kind of have to say shane black because he has made an entire industry around it. hallelujah. i love putting christmas in my movies. it gives you instant context. you keep cutting to bits of christmas and it orients you back in the story. and in lethal weapon, the contrast that christmas gives us offers a lot of chances for being reminded of the potential of people. riggs, the mel gibson character, he s mourning his dead wife.
the end. silent night. in the last 10, 15 years, it s been really refreshing to see tv series move toward representing different kinds of families and different ways of celebrating holidays. you know, i see this tree. i see it in my living room. i see my grandfather rising up from the grave and having another heart attack. thirtysomething was one of the first shows that was about a character who was wrestling with judaism and christianity being melded into the same family. i didn t grow up celebrating christmas. i grew up celebrating hanukkah. it s time to light the hanukkah candles. for me as a kid, christmas for jews was chinese food and movies. hanukkah s eight nights too long. and so once adam sandler came out with eight crazy nights, it made me feel not so alone. happy hanukkah. it s the story of adam sandler during hanukkah. so now when i think of hanukkah,