This is my entry into this month’s PHC Top 3 contest.

This months topic is Holiday Movies

My Nominations are:

Nomination Number One

A Christmas Carol (1938) Directed by Edwin L. Marin

My Reasons for the Nomination

I chose this 1938 movie version of Charles Dickens’ novella, originally titled, "A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas." not because it was the first film adaptation, (it was the second actually, with the first one in 1935), but because in my opinion, it is the best and there will never be a better one.

Everything about this movie is just so right with the costumes and the sets; it’s always made me feel as though I am there, experiencing that period of time.

Another thing about this film is that YouTube recognizes that it is still pretty popular, by having a price to watch the full movie there. The link I’m providing might be okay if you have a big screen TV, but it’s one of those where they have the movie in a smaller picture-in-picture format. It looks good and clear, just small. Check it out if you get a chance, it’s a real classic!

Nomination Number Two

Home Alone (1990)

My Reasons for the Nomination

Seriously, anyone who has seen this movie needs no references to what makes it one of the funniest movies of all time, and some would argue it’s absolutely the funniest movie ever. It’s the movie that gave Macaulay Culkin, (a legend to this day), not 15 minutes of fame, but a lifetime.

How could it not be great, with Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern playing the bumbling idiots trying to break into a house with a little kid that was mistakenly forgotten about when the family left for Christmas vacation in Paris, and without anyone noticing he was not with them? A kid that would absolutely make the crooks regret it, and how!

What he does to them is just brutal, but it’s so hilarious since it’s such a little kid that’s outfoxing them and making them pay dearly for their attempts. And since they refuse to give up, and since they’re criminals, it’s one round of laughing after another. It’s the kind of comedy that makes me feel tired from laughing so much!

Nomination Number Three

Christmas Vacation (1989)

My Reasons for the Nomination

The National Lampoon movies are some of the funniest moves ever made, and by now I would think at least some of them are considered classics. The “Vacation” films were so funny, with a great cast headed by Chevy Chase that can make me laugh just thinking about it. Seeing the film is always funnier though.

Like Home Alone, this movie has lots of scenes that will keep me laughing for nearly the whole film, and can make me feel tired after watching also.

I would have to say that the squirrel and the dog chasing it was the most memorable and funniest part of the movie as it tried to escape by running everywhere, with the dog following and destroying everything in its wake.

Of course there is probably some numbskull in Hollywood trying to make a new version of this movie because apparently they don’t have a lot of writing talent today, and they just make crummy remakes of once great movies and end up with not only a bad remake but it sullies the original as well sometimes. I wish they’d get creative and stop ruining great, fairly recent films.

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