Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Confession Wednesday: Holiday Movies

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Happy Wednesday, friends!

I hope you're all having a great week and that those of you who participated had tons of fun yesterday celebrating SITSmas. I know I did!

Anyways, today's Confession theme is holiday movies...

...and I have a confession.

I have never seen The Polar Express.

Well, let me clarify. I have never seen more than the first and last five minutes of The Polar Express.

I've tried. O how I've tried! I think at some point every Christmas for the past couple of years it ends up on my mom's TV or it's playing on some TV channel and I've tried to watch it.

I just can't get through it. I get bored quickly and turn my attention to other, more interesting pursuits.

Like sleep.

I know so many people who LOVE this movie. Love. Seriously. I know children that want this movie on 24/7 during the month of December.

(Or January. Or July.)

I'm sure it's a good movie. I've just never been able to make myself watch it. I'm usually asleep by the time the 20 different versions of Tom Hanks start singing some weird song about hot chocolate.

But throw It's a Wonderful Life into the DVD player and I'm riveted for 3+ hours.

That's kind of weird, isn't it?

So that's my confession today. I love It's a Wonderful Life and get bored stiff during The Polar Express. Sometime this week or next, I'm going to post an updated version of my Top 10 Christmas Movies. Not that there will be any surprises on that list. Just know that The Polar Express is NOT on it.

What's your holiday movie confession? You know the drill. Grab the button, link up and let's share!

(Next week's Confession Wednesday topic: Regifting Confessions!)


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24 comments:

  1. I love the Polar Express...but what is really funny, (and no one believes me) is that have NOT seen (nor do I want to) any Star Wars movies. Nope, not one. And probaly never will.
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  2. My confession is that I never seen either of these movies.

    I do however, LOVE "Elf" with Will Ferrell. Especially the burp scene.
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  3. OMG! I thought it was only me that felt that way about the Polar Express. My theory is that it has to do with the character's eyes. They just seem void of expression or something. Like robots. So, I will not be watching the Polar Express this year or any other year, but I will watch Christmas Vacation several times over. The squirrel, the hacking dog, the deaf aunt and the perfect tree . . . somehow, I can relate!
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  4. Funny enough, I can STAND It's a Wonderful Life.

    My husband loves A Christmas Story. It really does make me want to shoe my eye out.

    My favorite is Love, Actually.
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  5. You've seen more of The Polar Express than I have!
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  6. I'm surrounded by kid's Christmas movies--Veggie Tales, Charlie Brown, Grinch, Rudolph. And my confession is that I'm really tired of watching them year after year! I'm looking forward to going to see the new Christmas Carol and having something brand new to watch!
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  7. I'm with you. Can't watch it.

    I can't watch The Christmas Story, either. I don't find it the least bit funny.

    I do LOVE Christmas Vacation, but not the other Vacation movies.
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  8. We love Polar Express at our home. I read the story to my kids every Christmas Eve long before the movie ever came out. Maybe you should read the book? I really do love most Christmas movies. It's my favorite time of year to go to the movies and to watch the programs that come on TV.
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  9. I'm with you. Can't watch it.

    I can't watch The Christmas Story, either. I don't find it the least bit funny.

    I do LOVE Christmas Vacation, but not the other Vacation movies.
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  10. I've never seen It's A Wonderful Life or The Christmas Story all the way through. It's not because I can't handle them. It's because I've never tried. *gasp* I'll save my favorites for a post I have coming up.
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  11. I have never seen it either so don't feel bad at all!
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  12. I don't mind The Polar Express, but compared to the book, it was disappointing. My kids sure love it, which I guess is what matters.
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  13. The thing that I don't like about the Polar Express is the style of animation. I don't care for the "realistic" quality of it that's not quite cartoon, but not quite real. I feel like I'm going to have a seizure or something, because my brain wants the picture to either become real or move back into full animation mode. Weird, I know, but I have a really difficult watching it.
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  14. We watch the Polar Express a lot at our house. I feel very meh about it. It's neither fabulous nor awful. It's fine for what it is, I suppose.

    I've never watched It's a Wonderful Life all the way through. What I've seen I've liked, and I'm sure I've seen the whole thing in bits and pieces over the years. But I've never watched it start-to-finish.

    My confession is that I HATE A CHRISTMAS STORY! That stupid kid and his red rider BB gun. I hate the whole thing. The leg lamp. The kid who licks the flag pole. I find the whole thing boring and insipid. I also hate anything with Chevy Chase, so I can't stand Christmas Vacation, either.
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  15. I tried to watch The Polar Express as well and found it so boring. Love the book though!
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  16. I enjoyed The Polar Express, but I don't know that I'd watch it a second time.
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  17. I didn't like The Polar Express either. I don't think I've seen it all the way through. I'm a big fan of the book, I read it all the time when I was growing up. That's why I don't like the movie. It didn't even try to do justice to the book. :)
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  18. I was creeped out by the animation of the people in Polar Express. Plus I thought Tom Hanks was strange. Not my favorite, but I did watch the whole thing - takes a lot for us to turn something off around here.
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  19. I admit I find Polar Express a bit on the creepy side, too. I think it is the way the facial expressions are animated. Those eyes. Very intense. Anyway, I've never had the attraction to that movie as other people have either.

    But, two of my all time holiday faves, that we busted out and watched last Friday night back to back... A Christmas Story and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation with Chevy Chase.
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  20. I haven't seen Polar Express either. No particular reason. Just haven't felt the need to see it.
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  22. Too funny. I was making Bon bons today while watching Christmas movies. I watched 4 Christmases & yup...Polar Express.
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  23. I gasped at the 'I've never seen the polar express'!!! As long as White Christmas makes your top 10 you're forgiven!
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  24. Honestly? I think it's that kind of animation. I'd rather a movie either be fully animated or just use the real people. I don't like it...it seems to distance me from the story even more than regular animation does. I didn't like A Christmas Carol for the same reason...and it used the same type of animation.
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