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Holiday Reaction Poll!

  • Some Mothers Do 'Ave' Em Christmas Special 16
  • Peep Show "Seasonal Beatings" 8
  • Johnathan Creek "Black Canary" 18
  • The Vicar of Dibley "The Christmas Lunch Incident" 30
  • Scrooge (1970) 14
  • Ted Lasso "Carol of the Bells" 11
  • The Holdovers 6
  • The Ref (1994) 7
  • Still Game "Hogmanay" 7
  • A Christmas Carol (1984) 15
  • The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972) 3
  • Peter Pan Goes Wrong 11
  • Eastenders 5835/5836 (25th December 2018) 4
  • Klaus 12
  • Little Women (1994) 11
  • Rise of the Guardians 16
  • Arthur Christmas 12
  • Batman Returns 40
  • Inside No. 9 "The Devil of Christmas" 18
  • Violent Night 11
  • Krampus 9
  • 2024-11-03
  • —2024-11-10
  • 279 votes
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Content

Please let me know what you would like me to react to this holiday season!

I gathered up some of your suggestions for the holiday reaction! You can vote for as many as you would like!

There were a couple of suggestions for "The Box of Delights". This as a whole is a bit too long for the holiday reaction but I did make a note of it for a possible future reaction.

Comments

Thomas Corp

Batman Returns would be a hell of a reaction. There’s just one small problem. That, as I recall, you’ve not seen the 1989 Batman film to which Batman Returns is the sequel. Mind you, the film itself is relatively self-contained, so it really shouldn’t be too much of a problem if any. And if Batman Returns were to win, I’d live for the reaction.

Sadbnnuy

What a crazy bunch of suggestions

Ryan

I watched Returns first, due to having been a bit too young for the first one. I'm sure my parents regretted taking 8 year old me once they saw what the movie was actually like, but I was enthralled though the whole thing and never felt like I was missing anything.

Geordie Joe

Had a feeling it probably wouldn't win but Still Game has already got more votes than I expected it to get so I'll take that. 😅

Thomas Corp

No, yeah, again, the film is relatively self-contained, hence Jess will not be strictly speaking lost on anything. Sort of guess I just wish that if this is going to win, that Jess would have seen the first one first, but if it plays out this way, that’s just the way it crumbles, cookie-wise. I would not doubt that your parents had some regret taking you to see Batman Returns when you’re eight. That film is an R rated film masquerading as PG-13. I was a year old when it came out. Caught it and its predecessor in increments on tv over the years as a kid. Never did get freaked out or traumatized by any of it, as I loved all of it, which really should have given me more pause than it did. Finally sat down and caught both of them start-to-finish in the closing months of my senior year of high school.

Ryan

Bruce makes a couple references to Vicki Vale and why Kim Basinger's not in the movie, but they just washed right over me until I finally did see the first movie.

Josef Schiltz

I have to admit that I am really off these superhero films. I liked some of the earlier ones, with Christopher Reeves for example, and watched those and Batman as cinema releases at the time and even some of the TV series, and I have the box sets, but, to be honest, the superhero genre is really tired. I am afraid that my opinion is the same as Ricky Gervais. The various versions of a Christmas Carol, they were on practically every ruddy Christmas in the UK. Maybe I'm turning into Scrooge. SMDAE? Oh yikes! Eastenders? Let me outta here! Little Women? Read the book. Never seen the film. I am glad that Jess has seen the request for The Box Of Delights though. That's promising.

Aimee Lynn

Delightfully surprised that Peter Pan Goes A Wrong is on the list 😁 I saw it live 4 times when it was in LA, and still laughed every time.

Thomas Corp

The genre has gotten oversaturated. Still gems every now and then, still, the genre is oversaturated. They never can beat the first two Richard Donner directed Superman films with Christopher Reeve, nor the two Tim Burton Batman films starring Michael Keaton. Likewise, the themes by John Williams and Danny Elfman, they cannot be topped. Do love the Adam West series, and I grew up with the animated Batman and Superman of the nineties, which still holds up so well. I was already halfway to Scrooge and/or Grinch by high school. Eleven years of retail REALLY cements the feeling. Sidenote, younger coworkers once asked which version of the Grinch was my favorite, the old one or the new. I asked which old one as technically the Jim Carrey one is now considered old. They never heard of the Boris Karloff one which hurt my soul, as that is THE version to see. Oddly enough, A Christmas Carol does actually help my heart feel a bit festive, preferably the Patrick Stewart starring one, with strong love for the George C. Scott and Alastair Sim versions as well. Don’t necessarily watch Little Women for the Christmas of it all. Love the book, and the version on the poll here is probably my favorite of the adaptations. Of what’s on here, The Holdovers is a wonderful new Christmas film. Of course, my favorite Christmas film is Stalag 17, so people tell me my tastes are too dreary. Maybe they are. Comes with being a Scrooge/Grinch, I guess.

Mark McKeown

Of all the Christmas choices, frigging Batman is going to come out top. 🫡☠️

Josef Schiltz

I do prefer Patrick Stewart's and possibly because the others feel like being force fed joviality when I least feel like it. I get a bit Capaldi's Doctor at this time of year. Don't give me holographic antlers! Contrary to that present day position, my favourite memory is reading the Doctor Who Annual by the light of the Christmas tree - specifically the 1973 one. My favourite Boris Karloff film is the whimsical The Boogie Man Will Get You and would love to persuade Jess to take a look at that one. Boris is known chiefly as a horror meister and many may not be aware of this comedy. His sister, Julia - who was married to our vicar, the Rev. Arthur Donkin, at the time - shared that Boris' favourite past time between takes was resuming his passion for knitting. I am always disappointed that film never enters watch lists.

Josef Schiltz

He's got a point. Definitely got a point! A bit of Muppetry added to the tale definitely helps.

Thomas Corp

The Muppet one is also one of the better ones. I hear you on not wanting to be force fed the jocularity. Those damn Hallmark movies they put on that my mom seems to enjoy are particularly insistent on said force feeding until you’re threatened with a diabetic coma. I’m definitely like the Twelfth Doctor resisting the holographic antlers and putting up the sign saying that the carol singers will be criticized. The Boogie Man Will Get You is an underappreciated Boris gem that it would be nice if more people saw it.

Josef Schiltz

Referencing a "diabetic coma" is a default Capaldi line. The sort of line that might have been in Last Christmas. I am definitely Capaldi when it comes to Christmas. "Say Merry Christmas and Ho ho ho! once more and I'll hit you with my shoe!"

James Fish

Lol, I feel so uncultured. I've watched heardly any of the films / series on that list, so I had to resort to voting for the choices I'm vaguely familiar with. May the best thing win as I always say!

Geordie Joe

Yeah I'm not really into the superhero genre so I'll probably give the Batman reaction a miss. Shame because everything else on that list other than Batman I probably would've watched.