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, Christmastime 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, overloading 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 for web by Tawanna Bradley
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