I adore Christmas. I always have. I decorate the house, put
Christmas music on, cook a crazy in this hemisphere it’s so hot turkey, ham
and all the roasted trimmings.
At this time of year our movie favourites come out. National
Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Scrooged, A Muppet Christmas Carol… all quality
stuff on high rotation around here when it’s time to get your Yule on.
These are all standard Christmas movies. About Christmas.
Set at Christmas time.
I have another collection of Christmas movies that are a bit
different. These are the ANTI-Christmas movies. These are the ones set at
Christmas time, but not about Christmas.
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| Trading Places. This came out in 1983 - WHEN I WAS 15 PEOPLE JAYZUZ I’M OLD – and is one of my all-time favourite movies regardless of genre. YEAH. See the movie, then you’ll get the joke. YEAH. Hilarious image from here. |
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| Gremlins - 1984. Don't get him wet, or feed him after midnight. Image from here. |
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| Die Hard - 1988. Bruce Willis and HELLO, ALAN RICKMAN*. Way to crash a Christmas party, John McClane. Image from here. |
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| Ghostbusters 2 – 1989. A sorry follow-up to the original but a worthy ANTI-Christmas movie just the same. Image from here. |
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| Lethal Weapon 2 – 1989. No pics of Mel thanks. Image from here. |
Hmmm**. People losing all their money, forging unlikely allegiances,
children disobeying instructions, people trying to kill each other, houses
being wrecked, spirits rising from the dead and HELLO, ALAN RICKMAN.****
Maybe they were about Christmas after all…
Have a cool Yule y’all and be kind to each other.
Can you name any other ANTI-Christmas movies?
* HELLO, ALAN RICKMAN.
** The 1980s was the decade of anti-Christmas movies. Or am I
just showing my age.***
*** Don’t answer that.
**** OK so Alan Rickman isn’t directly related to Christmas
but HELLO, ALAN RICKMAN.
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| HELLO, ALAN RICKMAN. Hans Gruber taken from here. |
