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A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983) Movie Reaction *FIRST TIME WATCHING* | NEVER HELD A SMILE SO LONG BEFORE!
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A CHRISTMAS STORY Movie Description:
Based on the humorous writings of author Jean Shepherd, this beloved holiday movie follows the wintry exploits of youngster Ralphie Parker (Peter Billingsley), who spends most of his time dodging a bully (Zack Ward) and dreaming of his ideal Christmas gift, a "Red Ryder air rifle." Frequently at odds with his cranky dad (Darren McGavin) but comforted by his doting mother (Melinda Dillon), Ralphie struggles to make it to Christmas Day with his glasses and his hopes intact.
A Christmas Story is a 1983 American Christmas comedy film directed by Bob Clark and based on Jean Shepherd's semi-fictional anecdotes in his 1966 book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash, with some elements from his 1971 book Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters. It stars Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, and Peter Billingsley and is a seasonal classic in North America. It is shown numerous times on television, usually on the networks owned by WarnerMedia, and a marathon of the film has aired annually on TNT or TBS since 1997 titled "24 Hours of A Christmas Story", consisting of 12 consecutive airings of the film from the evening of Christmas Eve to the evening of Christmas Day. It is often ranked as one of the best Christmas films.
The film was released on November 18, 1983. Filmed partly in Canada, it earned two Canadian Genie Awards in 1984. In 2012, it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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I Pushed This Movie Off For Years, Never Looked Interesting To Me And I Always Thought It Was Super Long Because AMC Would Do Like 24 Hour Marathons. I Was So Wrong, I Can Definitely See Why This Is A Classic. This Has To Be One Of My Favorite Christmas Movies I've Ever Seen.
I Want To Apologize This Video Got Copyrighted By Warner Bros And Specifically Said On The Parts That's Copyrighted "DO NOT USE." LMAO 😆🤣 So That's Why Most Of The BEST Scenes All Got Cut Mostly Out. Which Is BS! Loved This Movie And Wanted You All To See The Reaction In It’s Entirety. I’m Truly Sorry
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That is probably the scariest Santa
Oh, yeah. Violence involving children is a big hotbutton issue now. They don't want to be responsible for kids fighting cos your video made it look so glamorous.
You have to go out and buy a leg lamp. Those that know, know.
@@jean-paulaudette9246 I am from a generation that grew up watching re runs of Looney Tunes,Tom & Jerry and other great cartoons. Never once crossed my mind to try anything from those shows.
Love the vid, pal, but I gotta say, I may be having nightmares about that dancing deer at the start!
“Randy lay there like a slug; it was his only defense...”
Lmao
That's one of my favorite quotes in the movie.
That line ALWAYS gets me!
🤣🤣🤣
@@Orlor for me it's that and "Aha! The Bumpass hounds, dadadadadada!"
The guy narrating the movie is the guy that wrote it. Gene Shepard. He was a storyteller and humorist back in the days of radio. Has quite a catalog of radio shows and books.
He was also the guy in line for Santa who told Ralphie to go to the back.
I've seen a couple other films by/about him, "Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven Of Bliss" and "The Best Fourth Of July Ever."
@@jean-paulaudette9246 Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss was one of my favorites as a kid when it was on the Disney Channel. It's impossible to find a copy now though
He had a lot of humor pieces published in Playboy Magazine in the 60s and 70s. You can find a lot of his radio shows on the internet. He would just talk for hours on the radio during the middle of the night, mostly stories like this about his childhood, or when he was in the military. Stuff about the news of the day as well but less often. He also did pranks like making up a fake banned book called "I, Libertine," and having people go into libraries and bookstores and ask for this non-existent naughty book.
2dashville His name is spelled Jean.
I love the Chinese restaurant scene, because they were trying so hard to give Ralph's family a good Christmas experience.
“Knot RaRARaRA, LaLALaLALA..”
I love that scene. Because of it, I've made it a point to have dinner at a top rate Chinese restaurant several towns over every December or January.
@@beandean23 *THWACK!*
Hahaha I loved it too🤣
I love it because it can't be made in today's stupid society, who'll call it 'offensive' and 'disrespectful'. It's not disrespectful to showcase a point of time when people from a different nation moved to America. After all, anybody with a thick accent, regardless of race or origin, who accidentally goof up on words are going be very adorable people who make experiences more magical. In this case, it made a little boy's 'turkey' dinner much more charming. After all, they're not deliberately shown as morons, but people who indirectly said "Oh well, I tried!"
Love it when his little brother sweeps up his glasses during the fight. it's a small moment but I love his brother looking out for him when it counted.
"Daddy's gonna kill Ralphie!"
I know, so sweet!
And when his mom covers for him
Christmastime, 1983, my family went to the theater. I remember my dad saying "This is JUST how it was, when I was a kid!" repeatedly.
Most people I show this movie to, who didn’t grow up with it, hate it. So, it’s super nice to see someone watching it for the first time actually enjoying it. Great reaction!
Some people just need a mouth full of Lifebuoy.
I use this Christmas movie as a barometer of taste. If you like it we friends.
I think it might have more to do with the culture they grew up in, than the merits of the movie. Small-town folk, southern folk, folk with traditional two-parent families will be able to relate better.
I wonder how modern young people would react to Andy in Mayberry? I wonder if they could believe that places like that not only once existed... but were common?
I don't get that my son was born in 2002 and loves this movie. He is 18 now and still watches it every Christmas. I guess it depends on how we present it to people who have never seen it
@@CREEPYKOULWAH As someone who was also born in 2002, I also love this movie. Probably because I grew up watching a lot of classics like this one with my parents
"YOU USED UP ALL THE GLUE...... ON PURPOSE!" is one of my favorite lines ever. So mad... so petty... so sad... love it.
"Your honor, I have indisputable evidence that my malicious wife INTENTIONALLY used up ALL THE GLUE before she broke my MAJOR AWARD beyond repair!"
Old houses like that were made with only one outlet in a room. There just wasn't that many electric appliances at the time. However it quickly became not enough and you get wireing messes like the one you see in the show
I don't know what you're talking about, I have like five outlets just in this room alone and I still have like ten things plugged in over here.
When he said old soul and said he wanted to travel back to the 80's. I died inside.
What, back to when I was in high school?
Me too.
When I was a kid, Christmas Story would play on TBS for 24 hours straight. It was my personal tradition to watch this movies like 400 times on christmas day, and my parents/siblings would hate me for it; I have kept this tradition. Today I subject my wife and kids to an endless loop of this movie every christmas...I have no regrets...
Ralphie grew up and did a cameo in ELF.
This is my family’s Christmas film.
He and Favearu must be friends cause he shows up in Four Christmases for a bit at the airport. Highly underrated comedy.
Oh, yeah & the Iron Man shit.😉
I love Elf! 😀
@@richardrobbin2225 He does a lot of directing these days.
@@kitoyobeni1
Yeah, one of those rare kid actors who went on to do outstanding work.
“SANTA!!! OMG!!!!
The thing I love about this movie the most, is the fact that the ONE person you never thought would have gotten him the bb gun, got it for him. It was an awesome ending. Classic
The boy who got his tongue stuck to the pole also acted in the movie called The Toy With Richard Pryor and Jackie Gleason. It’s really funny. I saw that in the theater when it came out. You have to check it out.
This movie is set in 1940. LITERALLY, this was when WW2 just broke out in Europe and America wasn't even in the war yet. The Wizard of Oz came out just a year earlier in 1939! 😮😯😐😶
Ok I Always Thought It Came Out In 34
I thought it took place in the fifties. TIL
The war actually started in 1939.
@@turkeybeard2010 Yes, the US didn't get involved for over two years.
@@turkeybeard2010 That's what I meant. It's been a year since the war broke out. ;)
"Show mommy how the piggies eat"
LOL Movie is an amazing classic
Yes, Back in the day they used soap in the mouth for bad language. Burned like hell.
U knew Lye was the main ingredient then
In my experience Ivory was the worst. But Irish Spring at least gave you nice smelling breath after the dirty words.
@@StealthDonut1. Agreed, though Palm Olive had a rather earthy bouquet.
Once had my mouth washed out with Dove soap for saying "penis"...after mom beat my ass HARD.
Mom did that to me after I called a kid an MF at headstart.
Don't think I ever uttered that again.
-Seat belt laws didn't exist until 1968. While front driver and front passenger seat belts eventually became standard, rear seat belts were a factory option and weren't mandatory to have until 1968. It wasn't until 1984 when states began to institute laws requiring drivers and passengers to wear seat belts.
-Soap in the mouth was a real thing. My grandparents got that treatment when they were kids.
-The guy at 24:54 is the same guy who is narrating as Ralphie.
BammerD My brother got his mouth washed out with soap at the babysitters once, for saying hell.’ My mom was PISSED..
I remember my dad buying seat belts and installing them in the back seat.
Most sedans & coupes would fit 6 people in a car (no consoles/no floorshift) but there were only seatbelts for FOUR people. I guess passenger 5 & 6 were expendable.
The narrator is actually the guy who wrote the book that the movie is based on
...and he based them on his actual memories from childhood.
@@NeuroticNomadic yep... He also has a cameo as the guy who tells Ralphie where the end of the line is
@@michaeltabor4176 TIL
@@DawkinsPlays No Porky's was not written by Jean Sheperd but that movie and this one were both directed by the same director, Bob Clark.
@@themoviedealers Occasionally I’ll do a Bob Clark Marathon: Black Christmas, Porky’s, A Christmas Story, and Rhinestone.
Oh, man, I love Rhinestone. It’s awful.
"This takes me back to my childhood" - Now you know why the movie is so popular. The movie was a flop when it first released but thanks to home video and TV, it quickly became a holiday favorite. Bob Clark the director was only previously known for his movie "Porky's" which was a HUGE success at the time but seems to be sadly forgotten now-a-days. That's one you should check out.
And Peter Billingsley (Ralphie) went on to do many other films and shows (though no starring roles) including Elf and Iron Man. Prior to this movie, he had starred in a Hershey chocolate commercial and was known as "Messy Marvin".
"Three blocks away, Schwartz was getting his."... Ralphie bears false witness against his friend, just to get the bar of soap out of his mouth for a minute. What a great friend he is!
I saw this movie for the first time in 1984 and have watched it every year since. It brings back so many memories of being a young kid in the 70s.
Loved your review of this film.
This is my favorite Christmas film. I actually got to see this in the theater on its opening weekend way back in 1983. My grandfather worked for a factory that would always rent out the local movie theater the Saturday morning before Christmas and throw a Christmas party for the employee's children.
Each year they would go all out. They would hire a Santa who would greet you in the lobby on the way in, and he would give out a wrapped gift to each child, (like a baby doll or an action figure) plus you would get a movie ticket and a 5 dollar gift certificate for the concession stand. This happened to be the film they showed that year.
I do agree with you on how engaging the old days seemed to be. Makes me nostalgic for a time I never lived in (was born in '65), but heard many a warm-hearted story about from my uncles, aunts, & grandparents. 💞😊🎄
19:40 Little Orphan Annie was a popular comic strip which was still running until about ten years ago. Besides being a radio show, it was the inspiration for the Broadway musical Annie which has been thrice adapted to film, the most recent movie being the unsuccessful version with Jamie Fox and Cameron Diaz.
“Cmon I don’t need all that Jazz about smugglers n pirates...”
Now you know why they do 24 hours of a Christmas Story every year! It's a funny, nostalgic, heartwarming movie. So many little funny moments and lines. My brothers and I sometimes use some of the dad's funny swears (howfisicklefifer! mungdang-noodle!) and I now read the word as Fra-jee-lay anytime I see it 🤣
You can actually get that leg lamp, you know. My brother has one!😂
Lol same 🤣🤣
Congratulations on your find. This movie is a classic and your reaction was first rate. By the way, the flagpole is made of painted PVC pipe with a small hole and a vacuum
inside. The actor placed his tongue on the hole and the vacuum held it there.
"You'll Shoot Your Eye Out, Kid!" A Classic Line from this Classic Christmas film
Pretty much what my mom said to me when asked for one in the 70s.
A classic line from any responsible adult when a kid wanted a gun.
This is what my mom said to my brother before he got a bb gun.
As a kid I actually had an original 1949 red rider bb gun that my gpa had bought new and handed down to me.. sadly it burned in a house fire we had in my teens
Great reaction to a classic. The narrator Jean Shepherd is the guy that wrote the story, it is supposed to be events from his actual childhood in Indiana. He was a writer, humorist and radio personality. He makes a cameo as the guy in the front of the line for Santa. Such a funny and heartwarming story because it is from the kids point of view.
i was born in 85 and "washing your mouth out with soap" was a looming threat in my childhood. i don't think it ever happened to me but it was definitely a thing outside of this movie.
Mello, you are a riot. i laughed through this video and it reminded me of how funny the movie is. i have really enjoyed your videos and video choices so far. i'm sure someone has already recommended it but i think you would love the Big Lebowski and it is another iconic movie. thank you for the time and effort you put into these videos!
Oh, it happened to me, lol. Mom used to hit us with a wooden spoon instead of spanking too, had at least one broken on me. Had to occasionally follow through to keep the threat of punishment real, lol.
I was born the year after you and had a bar of soap in my mouth multiple times. To be fair, I was a little shit back then ;)
Yeah, washing your mouth out with soap was real. Had it done to me *once*.
Cured me of the swearing until I was older.
@@kitoyobeni1 my mom took that paddle ball toy, ripped off the ball and broke it right on my ass too.
This is based on the actual lived experience of growing up in the Midwest in the '50's in a middle class family. Some of the humor may not transfer over if your upbringing differed from this, which is most people. Nevertheless, the honesty and the love that permeates the movie is more than enough to make up for it.
The 30's, not the 50's. :)
1940 in Cleveland Ohio.
WTF you on about? 🤣
"which is most people born after 1980"
FIFY.
It's from the book In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash.
When the Chinese guy chopped off the ducks head it was a real reaction for the mom (actress) to shriek
20:25 you nailed it. They don't say exactly when it happens, but with Mickey and the Wizard of Oz being prominent everywhere, it strongly suggests this is Christmas 1940.
There's a deeper theme to that as well: this seems like Ralphie's last innocent year of being a kid before he kind of grows up and isn't really about bb guns and decoder pins any more. 1940 was also America's last innocent Christmas before Pearl Harbor made us grow up a little bit.
in the 70's and 80's we didn't have internet, and where I lived you couldn't even get cable tv. we had 3 channels and had to go outside and turn the antenna every time we changed the channel. summer time we were outside playing all day long.
Jean Shepherd ( the Narrator/Adult Ralphie) wrote the movie, wrote the short story the movie was based on, and wrote a short story and movie screenplay for the sequel. He was a famous radio announcer and several movie characters were inspired by him. He wrote 25 Christmas themed short stories in Playboy magazine, including Red Ryder Nails the Hammon Kid, the basis for A Christmas Story. He was cool.
I worked at a high-end restaurant in New Orleans and the mother of this movie came in one day with friends. I called my mother because it was her favorite movie. She said that she thinks her name was Blythe Danner(Gwyneth Paltrow's mother). She went to smoke and I said yes Miss Danner." She smiled and said, "close."
"These little kids not gonna put their seatbelts on?"
The car might not even have had seatbelts.
As a kid, my place was on the bench front seat between my parents, and nobody wore seatbelts because A) people knew how to drive and B) the cars could actually survive a collision.
remember riding in the pick up bed in the 70 80's
@@matt88876 or in the back of the station wagon
I mean, modern cars are far better at surviving collisions than older cars are
We had a car from '52 with no seatbelts.
@@jean-paulaudette9246 My 67 Mustang only had lap belts. Seat belts were a slowly evolving tech, lol.
Yes the 80's was awesome. Great reaction.
From 8 p.m. on christmas eve to 8 p.m. christmas day it's on TBS
7 times in a row isn’t good enough
Only time I hate not having Cable🤦🏾♂️
I've definitely fallen asleep watching it and woken up in the morning at basically the same place 😆
Try putting the "benny hill music" on while movie plays. Never gets old.
I wish I got TBS.....
I love seeing first timers' reaction to the "Fararara" scene. Yours in particular was priceless.
One of my favorite scenes is the mom and dad sitting next to the tree watching the snow fall. It’s a small moment but, beautifully shot and, it shows how much they love each other.
“This Wine Isn’t Bad, Not great either want a sip?”
-“YAAA!!!
The Dad is Darren McGavin. My favorite role he played was Kolchak the Night Stalker in two TV movies and about 2 seasons as a series. It was a kinda a horror detective show. The writing was absolutely fantastic.
Great show!
Theres a few scenes in this movie that make it stand out so much as a classic and amazing movie to me.
The scene where Ralphie's mom tells the father that he got into a fight with Scut Farkiss. You see them speaking through their expressions alone in that moment, which is really amazing acting. The way he looks at her and it seems like he's asking with his expression if he needs to get involved and then she moves the conversation on to sports from the newspaper, showing that no, she already handled it.
The daydreams are amazing and so real from a kids perspective.
The one person Ralphie DIDN'T ask for the bb gun from was his dad and his dad got it because he had nostalgic feelings about his own from when he was a kid.
That neurotic mom gets more relatable with every passing year. And I don't even have kids.
Ralphie's mom was a real mom; the dynamic of her and his dad running their household was key to the movie for me. I can remember my mom trying everything to get me to eat... and when she finally succeeded, my eldest brother would sit across from me pantomiming throwing up to put me off eating again...
But that's what real moms were like. Notice how when Ralphie violated every rule in the most egregious way... fighting, cussing far worse than he did when dad was fixing the flat... and mom covered for him. Mom's first concern was calming him down and caring for him. Unlike many modern females, she had sense and an understanding of priorities. She created a home. That's what moms do.
I've been having a rough week. This helped. A lot.
Wow, I remember seeing this in the theater back in 83, and was laughing all the way through. Glad you had a chance to watch and how they felt fairly real at times, and then how they got to go above and beyond with the wackiness, as well as all the background stuff, like the Mom laughing in the background lol.
Yup. I just got my driver's license (I was 16) and me and my pal borrowed my dad's car to see it in the discount theater in Jan/Feb of 84.
I always thought it was a television film and that’s why the movie looks older than it actually is like I was surprised when I found it it came out in 83 i used to think it was from the early 70s or something
@@orionvitale5020 it had a budget of around 3 million when it came out, but I always wondered if they tried to make it look older for the nostalgia factor or if they had to use older film stock or something else?
This movie is my favorite Christmas movie of all time
I'm So Happy I Finally Watched It
I don't know it they still do, but TBS used to show this movie for 24 hours straight on Christmas Day.
My family watched this every Christmas...such a classic, one of my favorite Christmas movies growing up
This is THE Christmas movie to watch every year! As an older person, this is both hilarious and familiar! 5 ******* !!!
You can buy smaller versions of that lamp today. Last year for Christmas my Nephew bought his father one of them as a joke. Unknown to him is father bought him one for Christmas too. LOL
Lmao 🤣😆
I have one, and I love it!
There’s so much I love about this movie. My dad was the one introduced it to me. Being from Indiana, this movie really has a special place in my heart. It’s just a great movie all around. Now I show it to my kids, and it makes me remember my dad.
I grew up in the 70’s, and early 80’s. It was on par for the people in the small town I grew up in. Yes with the bullies and everything and fights. It’s almost a documentary of my early childhood. Adults had grown up in the 50/60s so this movie struck a chord with me.
Just an incredible movie, beginning to end. It absolutely takes you back to childhood, no matter how old you are. I smiled through your whole reaction!
This is your best commentary. I enjoyed the film along with you.
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I love this movie. I watched it as a kid and loved it then, because that's how children view Christmas. The entire year revolved around what you'd get for Christmas! So wonderful!
Those older Xmas lights have a glow all to themselves...must be the lead paint...or the radioactive paint.
This is my all time favorite Christmas movie. I watch it multiple times every Christmas season.
Favorite Christmas movie!! Reminds me of growing up in my grandma’s house...even the furnace. Lol. Thank you for reacting to this!
I so remember this….. each year the worry that the lights wouldn’t work and my mom and dad arguing…… i was born in the 50’s, sooo many memories this movie brings back.🥰
One of the most iconic Christmas movies ever made! The first time I watched it was probably 89 or 90. Total classic!
"when is the first time you saw this movie?" Uhh... When it originally came out lol. I'm old.
Great job! You liked Elf, well Ralphie’s in it...he’s the head “toy maker elf”
Missed this at Christmas!! Slipped past me!
I was born in 1980 and growing up this movie was played every Christmas in my house, it wasn't Christmas until we saw A Christmas Story. My parents LOVE this movie. Even now I still try to watch it every year but it's bitter sweet. Makes me miss that time when I was a kid and how exciting Christmas was.
It's my favourite holiday but nothing can compare to hire it was when you were little. Makes me think of how old I've gotten. 😅 then the laughs get me and it's all good.
About washing a kids mouth out with soap. It happened. I dissed my grandma once.....once. She held my head over the kitchen sink as she did the deed with Palmolive and a scrub brush.
National Lapoons Christmas Vacation is a good one too!
And Scrooged!
It is but not as good as a Christmas story
I love seeing someone watch this film for the first time 😊 Your reaction was great.
14:17 that look on the dad's face with his kids screaming Jingle Bells at the top of their lungs? I have five boys, and I am feeling every piece of that face he's making.
One thing to make note of. The bully, he is still acting. He was in Resident Evil 2, he was one of the SWAT team members that survived and met with the rest of the group. He says he met Snoop Dog at a party who looked at him funny and said, "wait, your the bully that beat up Ralphi."
Zack Ward, he was also in Freddy vs. Jason. He supports some anti-bullying campaigns as he was bullied himself as a kid. Met him at a horror convention in Germany a few years ago and he was the nicest guy one can imagine.
To my reactors: Thank you for helping me through a very isolating 2020. Your videos have been invaluable in getting through this year.
Wow Thank You And I Feel The Sameway And Me Connecting My Passion With You All Has Got Me Through This Tough Time
This is my top 10 favorite Christmas movie of all time. There is a reason why this movie is played 24 hours from Christmas Eve at 8PM till 8PM Christmas Day on 3 channels. Your reaction was wholesome, and I absolutely enjoyed it. Thank you, and Merry Christmas!
Easily the best "recent" classic Christmas movie ever made. Never gets old. Beautifully written.
That intro was beautiful!
Regarding the horror movie "feel" of some scenes: the director Bob Clark cut his teeth on horror (and a Christmas-themed horror no less, "Black Christmas") and raunchy comedy ("Porky's") before he made this. The narrator is Gene Shepard, who wrote the stories this movie is based upon (I recommend "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash" book over the "Christmas Story" book, as the former contains many more stories). There's an official sequel, "A Summer Story", which... is not as good. Tellingly, nobody's doing all-day marathons of it on July 4 or something. But there are lots of spiritual sequels and similar movies and shows like "Stand by Me", "The Sandlot", "Wonder Years" and "Ollie Hoopnodle" which are much more fun. And I'm old enough to be one of the very few kids who got to see this in a theater! If you're wondering, the Chinese restaurant scene had already aged like milk in 1984, but most of the rest of the jokes landed well.
As for what Ralphie got up to later? Well, take a closer look at the elf with the beard in "Elf"...
The actor who plays Ralphie eventually became executive producer for the film Iron Man. He also played scientist William Ginter Riva in the film.
So he must have been in Spiderman far from home because they brought ginter riva back...
@@PV1230 Yes.
The Red Ryder BB Gun was the most asked about toy by every boy for many years during the 30s and 40s. My father had one and so did a lot of his friends in his neighborhood. Red Ryder was a popular comic strip and radio show back then. By the time I was born that gun was longer in production. The guy who told Ralph and Randy that the end of the line is all the way in another direction is INDEED Jean Shepherd the writer of the stories this movie is based on. The scene at the Chinese Restaurant when the roast duck comes out and how the father complains about how the head was smiling back. Well, everyone, except Melinda Dillon who played the mother, knew what was to happen because it was originally not in the script. Her horrific reaction was authentic. I'm glad you enjoyed this movie. It was fun watching you. If you have anyone in your family who was born during the early years of the Great Depression who have never seen this movie they'll get a kick out of it. My parents first saw it when it came out on VHS. I bought it for them as a pre-Christmas present and they laughed their asses off. We watched it for 3 nights before Christmas. It was a memory lane type movie for them because they pointed out every detail as something they had or used. My father did have a Little Orphan Annie decoder pin and he still had it tucked away in his desk downstairs and he showed it to me. BTW: Little Orphan Annie was a comic strip and a radio show during the 30s and 40s. Hope you had a great Christmas and here's to a great New Year ahead.
11:54 Darren McGavin as the dad is just sublime. I love love LOVE his character.
This is my favorite movie and I watch it every year with my family :) We've read a lot of trivia about it, as well. The narrator, who also wrote the story, is IN the movie, as the guy at the mall who tells them to get to the back of the line. Also, that weird kid in line wasn't even an actor. He was just some strange child in the mall who they kept in the movie. Peter Billingsley (Ralphie) was just giving his real reactions to the kid lol. The actors also didn't expect the singing guys at the Chinese restaurant. That's why the mom and the kids are all laughing; they were breaking character. I love how you highlight one of my favorite things about this movie: it perfectly shows a realistic childhood, including things like Ralphie being so overdramatic about simple things.
That reindeer dancing will haunt my nightmares forever now. Fortunately you have awesome taste in Christmas movies so that slightly helps. Great video!
The role of Scott Farkas was played by Zach Ward, and while he was the same age as the other kids he had his growth spurt early in his life and didn't get much taller than that. Secondly that look on the mom's face when she went to water the plants, she know damn well she was going to break that lamp.
I have to watch this every year. The parents dynamic with the kids are very similarly replicated in Malcolm in the Middle.
Also,, someone may have already mentioned this, but the boy that plays little Ralphie, was on Elf. He was the elf supervisor. Great reaction! 🥰🎄☃️
This is my favorite Christmas movie of all time. Its sooooo perfectly captures childhood, all of the fantasies, imagination, energy...
I love that TBS plays it for 24 hours every year. I will turn to the channel and just let the movie play again and again for the entire day.
I think that you were referring to "Polar Express" . . . As, opposed to "Pineapple Express" which isn't really 🤣 a Christmas movie. 😉
Loved your reaction, and this is one of my favorite movies, a classic that even my family would all gather around to watch, annually. A classic, indeed.
It's so great to see you loving this movie after seeing it for the first time. I've watched this movie for decades during television 24 hour marathons. It's such a slice of Americana. Plus, they cast the perfect "Ralph". What is wonderful is the house has been preserved and turned into a tourist spot with a gift store and museum across the street. You can also win an overnight stay at the house Christmas Eve to Christmas Day. The odd thing is the director of this movie made three horror movies (including "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things" and the original "Black Christmas") and later made the first two Porky comedies. Somehow, this innocent Christmas classic happened. My favorite heartwarming scene is the Mom and Old Man sitting in the dark room arm in arm looking at the snow fall outside. And that's what makes this movie so wonderful; it has those crazy moments and those sweet moments as well.
The house is in Cleveland, Ohio while the school and the Chinese Restaurant was filmed in Canada. In fact, the Chinese Restaurant is now a gourmet restaurant.
Your laughs are so contagious so every time you laugh. I am right with you! thanks for the fun, laughter, and great spirit! 😁
"looks like he's about to have a stroke." I laughed out loud. Had to comment.
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No matter how many times I watch this movie, I still laugh. It's a classic!😁
I'm glad you reacted to this movie Mellverse. I know this a year old but it's still a good reaction. I first watched this movie long ago as a kid or a teenager I forgot but regardless this movie is still one of my favorites around Christmas time for sure. I love some Christmas movies but a Christmas story is Definitly in my top 10 Christmas movies of all time hands down. I'm glad the dad got him what he actually wanted was a red rider bb rifle gun. I still own a few bb guns but I rarely use them anymore.
That house is now a museum dedicated to the making of the film. One of my favorite movies. It's based on the book "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash", by Jean Shepard (the narrator of the film). The Wizard of Oz came out in 1939, so that's when the story takes place. Some of the things in this story lasted a while; I was a kid in the 60's and I remember that tree lights had only one color per strand, so we had to plug in three or four of them. (I think multicolored strands appeared in the early 70's.) And yeah, the parents were perfect. :)
They turned that house into A Christmas Story museum. It's in Cleveland. I'd love to get there sometime
A Christmas Story is a OG classic and is amazing and anyone who doesn’t think so doesn’t have a heart. Merry Christmas! Great reaction
Watching your reaction to this just made me smile, laugh, and was heartwarming. Great review. Keep 'em coming, I'll be watching.
Merry Christmas. 💜
1.) The Old Man's car wouldn't have even HAD seatbelts. This movie takes place in 1940. (You can tell because Ralphie's decoder pin says 1940, and it can't just be last year's pin or the year before's because America would get into WWII the next year and there wouldn't be so much decadence in the department stores during the war.)
I'm still really impressed with how a movie that's so cynical about past Christmases can also feel so nostalgic. It was based on a book called In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash. Just in case anyone thought South Park invented "The true meaning of Christmas is presents." Actually, this movie is very much a South Park prototype.
Also! The kid who played Ralphie (Peter Billingsly) grew up to do a lot of work as an actor, producer, etc, but the only movies I think you would recognize him in are Iron Man and Spider-Man: Far From Home.
The movies set in the 40's but was filmed in the 80's. My dad loves this movie so much I bought him a small version o the leg lamp and it use to come out once a year at Christmas..... Now its out full time. What you have to understand is the majority of homes probably had 2 plugs per room so you had maybe 10 plugs in the whole house so all plugs was over loaded BEFORE Christmas.
I always liked A Christmas Story, but watching it as a young kid, parts of it used to feel a bit too intense for me, especially the scenes with the bullies, Flick getting his tongue stuck and the mean Santa & elves. However, I can appreciate it way more as an adult and now it's up there alongside It's a Wonderful Life as one of my favorite Xmas movies.
Yeah, Ralphie shamed me... I never stood up to my bullies. Of course, if I had, I'd have been killed.
OMFG he DOES sound like the dude from Forensic Files! lol
I love this movie so much. My family would watch it every Christmas there's so many great quotes in this movie.❤
Your reaction was hilarious and so genuine! I was giggling throughout, even though I've seen the movie and these moments so many times!
Dude, you're hilarious. Really enjoyed that.
I'm So Happy To Hear You Enjoyed It
Funny u said you lived in Indiana, this was set in Terre Haute there in the later 40’s; fun fact, Peter Billingsly, Ralphy, was an en executive producer/actor on the first Iron Man movie with Robert Downey Jr.
Maybe the movie was set there but the author grew up in the Hessville neighborhood in Hammond, IN close to East Chicago. Jean graduated from Hammond High School.
@@frankiesilverman gotcha i swear i thought he said was in around Terra Haute in his narration but real cold Indiana at least
Fun fact: Field Marshall Von Kluck destroyed Terre Haute with a cheese bomb just as they were about to get a public library.
(If you love old movies and haven't seen "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid"... that's just sad... )
This was 1939 same year as the Wizard of Oz just before WW2. Radio was the tv back then. People sat around the radio and stared at it. There really was a cartoon strip called Little Orphan Annie and a radio show. Also the Bb gun whatever it was called was real too. My dad was the same age as Ralphie in that year. He also loved O Latina.
Your reaction had me smiling from ear to ear 😭❤️ such a nostalgic movie. The soundtrack alone made me tear up lol