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Hey, don't get me wrong -

I'm looking forward to getting 'The Lion King' but I'm am just as excited to get the double disc set of 'A Christmas Story'!

Look at these features:

--Feature-length audio commentary by Peter Billingsley, Melinda Dillon and director/co-writer Bob Clark
--Original readings by Jean Shepherd, voice narrator of A Christmas Story --Another Christmas Story documentary with cast members and director Bob Clark, narrated by Peter Billingsley
--Get a Leg Up and A History of the Daisy Red Ryder featurettes
--Triple Dog Dare interactive trivia
--Decoder match challenge
--Hidden Easter eggs
--Original theatrical trailer


Two movies I love, both released on the same day!

Hmmm - which one to watch first? Good thing I have Wednesday off!

I can't wait for the Christmas Story too! It is such a classic and it always puts me in the mood for Christmas.

I like A Christmas Story enough to watch it for some time on Christmas Day when it's running back-to-back ad nauseaum. If I were to buy the DVD, that would be no fun. Then again, widescreen and with special features...sounds good. Two more widescreen Vacation re-releases are coming Tuesday as well - Vegas and Christmas.

A Christmas Story is one of my favorite Christmas movies. However, I will be very stupid if I don't pick up the Lion King in stores on Tuesday. my bank account is low at the moment since the move.

What? There are actually other release on 10/07?






I'm w/ you, GSC. Love this movie (a childhood favorite and it's set in a small Indiana town...you folks have no idea just how dead-on that setting is) and held off on the current release in hopes of the SE someday.

And Luke, you know you're getting this one. I, too, watch it all the time durin the "24 Hours of Christmas Marathon" but having access to the widescreen version of the film, extras and Billingsley's commentary is way too much to pass up.

The dvd I'm most looking forward to on Oct. 7 is of course the Lion King but a strong second goes to the Ultimate Vacation Box Set. From the jungle to Wally World.

I guess you could call me indifferent or maybe even a Grinch (being that I used to watch Home Alone and Home Alone 2 repeatedly as a kid and didn't watch "A Christmas Story" till I was 15), but I always found "A Christmas Story" to be a bit hypocritical, especially in today's times.

Leonia wrote:I guess you could call me indifferent or maybe even a Grinch (being that I used to watch Home Alone and Home Alone 2 repeatedly as a kid and didn't watch "A Christmas Story" till I was 15), but I always found "A Christmas Story" to be a bit hypocritical, especially in today's times.

How so? I don't recall the theme preaching one stance but then delivering and welcoming another...but I could be wrong.

indianajdp wrote:

Leonia wrote:I guess you could call me indifferent or maybe even a Grinch (being that I used to watch Home Alone and Home Alone 2 repeatedly as a kid and didn't watch "A Christmas Story" till I was 15), but I always found "A Christmas Story" to be a bit hypocritical, especially in today's times.

How so? I don't recall the theme preaching one stance but then delivering and welcoming another...but I could be wrong.

A few points to make:
--kids and guns in the 1940s vs. kids and guns today
--adults' attitudes regarding kids having toy guns in 1940s vs. adults' attitudes regarding kids having access to real guns today

That's all I'm gonna say. I value my priviledge to post here greatly. (besides, I'm pretty sure I can't convince anyone to see my POV...)

yeah, but a christmas story was made in 1982!(i think that's right.. that was the first year that came to mind) before some of you posters were born. times are much different now than they were then.

i love a christmas story.. that's a movie i don't mind watching on the Fourth of July!! it is sooo funny. i do wish they didn't show it back to back to back etc. etc. etc, i remember the days when they used to do that to it's a wonderful life, and everyone got sick of it, and now they only show it's a wonderful life maybe once or twice during the christmas season. overplay can ruin a wonderful movie...

Leonia wrote:
A few points to make:
--kids and guns in the 1940s vs. kids and guns today
--adults' attitudes regarding kids having toy guns in 1940s vs. adults' attitudes regarding kids having access to real guns today

That's all I'm gonna say. I value my priviledge to post here greatly. (besides, I'm pretty sure I can't convince anyone to see my POV...)

I see your points, but (...and I do hate that word sometimes) ...
IMO it's not fair to hold a film responsible for reflecting values held in the past vs values held today. It was a much different world in the 40s in so many ways, including what people thought about guns.

My father-in-law told me it was very common for boys his age to have toy guns and then real BB and hunting guns from early ages on through teenage years. That was just the way it was back then...can't really judge a film depicting a part of american culture for that can you?

Anyway, I'm not trying to change your mind because you obviously have very strong feelings about the topic. I guess my point is you can look at a lot of films negatively today that do the very same thing with very different topics.

this makes me think of disney not releasing song of the south

Luke wrote:Two more widescreen Vacation re-releases are coming Tuesday as well - Vegas and Christmas.

I'm looking forward to X-mas vacation! I would also like SE's of Home Alone 1 and 2!

To be fare I've not actually seen A Dhristmas story all the way through but while I was working at Sincoast last holiday season, it was playing a couple times and it just never sparked an interest with me, though now that I've been hired again, to work this holiday season, I can always give it another chance....

I hate Christmas Story the nerdy kid in the cover pisses me off! I feel like punching him! I better stay away!

The kid is scary looking,but one more you are forgeting is Willard!

You also forgot:

-Down with Love
-Italian Job
-Hollywood Homicide

All grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat movies! I highly recommend them! This should be on your must rent list! MMBoy guarantee!

Thanks,Mick.But haven't seen Down With Love.The Italian Job was good,but the opening is very boring.

It was NOT boring!

I, too thought the opening of The Italian Job was boring. The rest of the movie was great though.

Satoshi wrote:I, too thought the opening of The Italian Job was boring. The rest of the movie was great though.

<~~do you see my face? i'm angry now! not just about sequels and Lion King and other changes in other classics!