Erica Flatt, Charger Staff
When you hear the line, “you’ll shoot your eye out,” what do you immediately think? “A Christmas Story!” As the Christmas season comes into full swing, you can bet that this great holiday movie and another great, “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation," can be found on one of many television stations.
If you need a break from the serious, but good, Christmas-time movies like “Miracle on 34th Street”, “It’s a Wonderful Life”, and “A Christmas Carol”, you must see “A Christmas Story” and “Christmas Vacation”.
Set around the mischievous young Ralphie, “A Christmas Story” provides holiday entertainment. This movie tells the story of Ralphie and his family during the holidays. All he wants for Christmas is an official Red Ryder BB Gun, but he is continuously told by his mother, teacher, and even Santa Claus, “You’ll shoot your eye out!”
Every scene provides some
scenario that you’ll remember for a long time.
Who could forget the scene where Ralphie’s friend, Flick, is triple-dog-dared
to stick his tongue to a frozen light pole? Other great, memorable scenes in
the movie: the arrival of the major reward...the leg lamp, Ralphie’s visit
with Santa at a crowded shopping mall, Ralphie’s gift of the pink bunny
suit, and of course, Christmas dinner at the Chinese restaurant. You’ll
have more than enough chances to see this movie during the holiday season. TNT
always provides watchers with 24 Hours of A Christmas Story beginning on Christmas
Eve night. Look for all your “fa-rah-rahs” in “A Christmas Story”.
“Christmas Vacation”, another favorite holiday flick, also provides humor for the holidays. In this chapter of the Griswold saga, the family stays home (for the first time) for a good ol’ fashioned family Christmas. Their plans change from a small family gathering to a crowded house for the holidays. Great scenes from this movie include: a car chase, a trek through the snow for the perfect tree, over-loading the house with 25,000 Italian imported twinkle lights, the arrival of Cousin Eddie and his family, and the squirrel hunt after it leaps out of the Christmas tree. So, if you ever feel like you belong to one of the oddest families in town and that your Christmases together leave you with feelings of embarrassment, watch the Griswolds in “Christmas Vacation”. As Christmas nears and your desire to see all the Christmas movies ever made increases, make sure to put “A Christmas Story” and “Christmas Vacation” at the top of your list.
Article prepared by: Richard A. Galloway