42 Years Ago
Posted by bronzemat@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 35 comments
Posted by bronzemat@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 35 comments
_Notebook_@reddit
It’s funny that I find this movie nostalgic but I don’t actually like the movie. 🤷♂️
fyrefly_faerie@reddit
Same. Although when I visited the house in Cleveland a few years back, I appreciated it a little more. Still not a big fan, but it was a fun visit.
Rocketime86@reddit
Same here
ProtomanI@reddit
Makes me feel old and frageelee
railmanmatt@reddit
Must be Italian.
FreddyNoodles@reddit
Look at Santa. He is like 32. Wtf
Status-Hovercraft784@reddit
Love it. Fave Xmas movie even after seeing a billion times.
But it has come to my awareness that many people, particularly millennials, actually really DON'T like this movie! Last year a gang of coworkers came forward with their disdain of this film, which I then further confirmed with other slightly younger folk. I wouldn't expect this film to mark a generational divide, but indeed it does. I still can't see how anyone wouldn't love this movie.
Twanlx2000@reddit
I've experienced this phenomenon and have tried to identify the reason. I watched it shortly after release, and this was not a heavily publicized or large budget movie like many of the Christmas "classics" to follow. I think we happened to take a loaned copy out from the library during first viewing and eventually picked it up on VHS on the discount rack a few years later.
It was another decade or so before TBS transformed A Christmas Story into a cable marathon machine, which tracks with the unwelcome overexposure to younger millennials and beyond -- particularly since it already has a vibe that resonates with a different demographic / set of values: a gruff but present father and overly doting, happy to homemake SAHM, a bully that is left for the children to resolve, and guy friends that will gladly tease or throw one another under the bus to save face. None of these are unfamiliar to my own upbringing, but they echo of a world that younger generations have been taught to reject for most of their lives.
Enge712@reddit
I feel like I missed the window to see this and like it. It’s odd to think how much it used to matter if someone did or did not get a VHS of a particular movie.
I do feel like most of the people who really loved this movie were older and I did not realize I’m older than this movie.
cmgww@reddit
Always loved that it was set in Indiana (not shot here)…. Because there aren’t a ton of films that are set in Indiana of all places. There’s also a reference or two to the Indianapolis 500, and yes I’ve seen it 1 million times but it’s still something I’ll throw on at Christmas.
graveybrains@reddit
"Tony Stark built this in a cave! With a box of scraps!"
Drygir@reddit
Hate this movie with a passion!!!!
R0botDreamz@reddit
Greatest Christmas movie of all time.
rangeo@reddit
Mom, Dad, Sister and I saw this in the Cinemas followed by dinner at the local Chinese Restaurant.
A very vivid memory....42 Years!
throwleavemealone@reddit
I know this is an unpopular opinion but I dislike this movie and have no idea how it became such a Christmas staple, much less one worth constant play like It's a Wonderful Life.
The leg lamp is cool as hell though
misterlakatos@reddit
Totally valid. I loved this movie growing up and can understand it is not for everyone.
I tried watching it in recent years and it did not have the same impact. It also has a weird, unsettling vibe to it that I have sensed from other Bob Clark films. It's hard to explain in words but makes sense when watching it.
JeffFromTheBible@reddit
I didn't see it until adulthood and it stinks. The Chinese restaurant stuff is weird.
Exciting_Agent3901@reddit
I’m with you man. I do not like it. Very over rated.
ONROSREPUS@reddit
My fav Christmas moving ever.
Ok_Breakfast5425@reddit
As a kid I thought that was an old movie, I died a little inside when I learned I'm 3 years older
misterlakatos@reddit
This film has always looked really old. I watched it all the time in the mid to late '90s and even back then it looked 20 years older.
One-Earth9294@reddit
Yup I thought it was from the 50s lol.
BobbyP27@reddit
In the same way that reddit seems to be fixated on the 1990s as some golden age right now, mainly because it was the childhood of people in their 30s and 40s today, the 1950s represented that for people in their 30s and 40s in the 1980s. Hence movies like this, or the original Back to the Future featuring that era.
Bitter-Compote-3016@reddit
Apparently it came out nearly two months before I was born.
misterlakatos@reddit
I used to love this film growing up. We played it all the time and even at family Christmas gatherings this would play in the background all day.
In current times it honestly looks like a film from 40+ years ago, so I guess the ultimate goal was achieved.
PlagueDrWily@reddit
Didn’t see it until the late 80s; my mom stumbled across it on tv and enjoyed it so much she made it an annual tradition for us to watch it at least once each Christmas.
idleat1100@reddit
Took place in the 40s. Was made roughly 40-43 years after the setting time. Now we are 42 years removed.
TheJRKoff@reddit
even the sequel "a christmas story christmas" takes place in the 70s.
its a decent continuation, and nice its mostly all the original cast.
i believe it explains what happend with skut farkus after ralphie pounded him
idleat1100@reddit
Yeah I love them both!
One-Earth9294@reddit
It was set in December of 1940, so yeah 43 years. Now we have 8 Bit Christmas which is almost the same movie but for our generation.
jambr380@reddit
We had a vhs tape as a kid with A Very Brady Christmas, A Christmas Story, and One Magic Christmas recorded off of tv in 1988.
I watched it a million times, but never really made it through One Magic Christmas very often because it wasn’t as good. I’ve had a weird crush on Darren McGavin my whole life
firstlight777@reddit
If a Christmas story was made now, the same number of years in the past setting, it would be made in 1982. Crazy
literanch@reddit
Nothing better than Christmas break from school and having this on in the background on TBS on repeat
laurenishere@reddit
Still a yearly rewatch for me since discovering it in the late 80s on cable.
The sequel movie from 2(?) years ago was surprisingly OK!
xRVAx@reddit
I guess I never really thought about when this movie was made. I figured it was like the 1970s.
We didn't really watch this movie at my house, but I remember going over to a Christmas Eve party and they had this playing and the other kids seem to know what was going on.
The only meaningful part of that movie for me is when they made the kid lick the metal pole. Kids used to dare each other to lick a pole, and I feel like they were probably doing this because of the movie.