2008 Woodie Awards
Classic holiday movies beat new attempts
Andrew Beam
Issue date: 11/30/07 Section: FUSE
Originally published: 11/29/07 at 6:27 PM EST
Last update: 11/29/07 at 6:25 PM EST
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The temperature has dropped, there's snow on the ground and Thanksgiving is over - you know what that means?
The holiday season is in full effect and an incessant amount of Christmas movies will be playing on many of the major TV networks.
Channels like ABC Family will do their annual "25 Days of Christmas" special, showing a Christmas movie every evening, along with TBS playing "A Christmas Story" for a full 24 hours beginning on Christmas Eve.
Not only will there be old favorites like "A Charlie Brown Christmas," "It's A Wonderful Life," which NBC owns the rights to, "Rudolph the Red- Nosed Reindeer," and many others, but Lifetime will be producing a few movies of its own. "Lost Holiday," along with four other new holiday movies will be shown by Lifetime.
Blockbuster has already been hit by the holiday movie craze, especially early this year.
Store manager Donna Wyant said the rush usually happens before Thanksgiving due to traveling.
"With DVD players and TVs in the car, the rush usually happens two days before Thanksgiving," Wyant said. "This just started happening two years ago."
"The usual favorite is 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacatio,n'" Wyant said. "This year, we can't keep 'Santa Claus 3' on the shelves."
"Frosty the Snowman" and "Rudolph" surely won't be left out, soon to be selling more when Christmas is near.
"Fred Claus," the latest Christmas movie, has gotten terrible reviews across the board.
Critics like Roger Ebert reported in the Chicago Sun-Times, "Fred Claus has apparently studied 'Elf' and figured out everything that could have gone wrong with its fish-out-of-water Christmas fable."
"Favorite holiday movies would be 'Elf,' 'Polar Express,' and 'Miracle on 34th Street,'" junior Amanda Ballow said, who is an avid Christmas movie watcher.
Ballow notes that one movie was ruined for her thanks to it being overplayed.
"I strongly dislike a 'Christmas Story,'" Ballow said, "It's super annoying and TNT played it for 24 hours on Christmas."
The holiday season is in full effect and an incessant amount of Christmas movies will be playing on many of the major TV networks.
Channels like ABC Family will do their annual "25 Days of Christmas" special, showing a Christmas movie every evening, along with TBS playing "A Christmas Story" for a full 24 hours beginning on Christmas Eve.
Not only will there be old favorites like "A Charlie Brown Christmas," "It's A Wonderful Life," which NBC owns the rights to, "Rudolph the Red- Nosed Reindeer," and many others, but Lifetime will be producing a few movies of its own. "Lost Holiday," along with four other new holiday movies will be shown by Lifetime.
Blockbuster has already been hit by the holiday movie craze, especially early this year.
Store manager Donna Wyant said the rush usually happens before Thanksgiving due to traveling.
"With DVD players and TVs in the car, the rush usually happens two days before Thanksgiving," Wyant said. "This just started happening two years ago."
"The usual favorite is 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacatio,n'" Wyant said. "This year, we can't keep 'Santa Claus 3' on the shelves."
"Frosty the Snowman" and "Rudolph" surely won't be left out, soon to be selling more when Christmas is near.
"Fred Claus," the latest Christmas movie, has gotten terrible reviews across the board.
Critics like Roger Ebert reported in the Chicago Sun-Times, "Fred Claus has apparently studied 'Elf' and figured out everything that could have gone wrong with its fish-out-of-water Christmas fable."
"Favorite holiday movies would be 'Elf,' 'Polar Express,' and 'Miracle on 34th Street,'" junior Amanda Ballow said, who is an avid Christmas movie watcher.
Ballow notes that one movie was ruined for her thanks to it being overplayed.
"I strongly dislike a 'Christmas Story,'" Ballow said, "It's super annoying and TNT played it for 24 hours on Christmas."
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