What's your name?
My name's buddy.
Oh,
does someone need a hug?
Oh, I love that 10, my family loves this movie. We cannot get enough of Elf.
So Elf, of course,
is a classic Christmas movie up there with Christmas
Vacation Home alone and it's a wonderful life.
Another one my family always must watch.
But if you wanna try a Christmas movie, maybe you haven't heard of.
There are some worth a watch and Brian,
let's talk about some of your favorite Christmas
movies that maybe we don't know about.
Of course.
Uh, so first up I would say is, you know, well, I love films like, you know, Elf and,
and,
uh, you know, Christmas story and, and it's a wonderful life.
But, uh, there are a few, quite a few that, um, I like that are older, um,
holiday affair, for instance, from 1949 is a great one that I love. Um,
all right, let's take a look.
Oh,
I love it.
Oh,
I love you. I'm sure glad of that.
See these two go together
and the cars light up and it's a red
Record Express and the cars too. So it's a wonderful train sweetheart.
And the doors open
and all. Oh, there's a note and a jupi
and you forgot, I can't read big words here. I said,
uh Jimmy, this whistled at me when I passed and said I wanted you for Christmas.
It signed Santa. I guess it's from Santa Claus. Santa Claus. Mom.
So sweet.
And here's another one from the forties and it stars
Jimmy Stewart that we obviously know him very well.
Ok. So we also wanna talk about the one we just saw.
What about that that you loved?
So,
you know, this stars uh Robert Mitchum,
he was kind of Hollywood's bad boy at the time and uh he was
actually a rest of the year before this came out for uh cannabis possession
and they put him in this to kind of red re figure his image for the public.
And so he uh he it's very against type for him to be in a Christmas movie.
Um So he stars opposite Janet Lee and she's a single mother who's um
kind of engaged to be engaged to Wendell Corey who's a very, you know, nice guy.
There's nothing wrong with him
but uh her son and both her just find Robert Mitchum a lot cooler.
Um And it kind of works out just as you might expect.
Uh It's got kind of an easy going attitude, it all unfolds in the days leading up to.
And um you know,
it's the kind of movie that you just wanna have on
while you're wrapping presents or making Christmas cookies or whatever.
Um You know, it's a perfect romantic comedy. Uh just,
just gives you all those warm fuzzies by the end. Awesome. Awesome. OK.
As I mentioned, we have another really good one. The shop around the corner.
Let's take a look at this one.
Imagine you dictating what I should wear. Well, for heaven's sake.
I don't care what you wear. If you want to look like a pony in the circus.
It's all right.
But I have troubles of my own without your blouse coming between Mr Moe
and me. Listen, I sold as much good yesterday as anybody else in the shop.
95 tango 50 isn't bad for a rainy Monday. Three weeks before Christmas.
Did you tell that to Mr
MOOC?
Yes, I did. And what did he say? He said, tell her not to come on that blouse anymore.
Tell him I won't, I will.
I love just listening to him talk and his like rants and everything. It's fabulous.
He's great. He's great.
Um So this, this is, you know, by uh director Ernst Lubitz, he's basically the,
the creator of what we now know as the romantic comedy.
He started back in the 19 twenties making romantic comedies.
And uh this story is pretty familiar. It's Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullivan.
They, you know,
they hate each other while they were while they're working together.
But,
uh, unbeknownst to them they're writing anonymous pen pal letters to each other,
uh, in
which they're falling in love.
It's, it's, it's, uh, the original You've Got Mail,
that was actually a remake of this.
Um, so, you know, where it's gonna end up but, uh,
it's just got that great Hollywood ending where, you know,
they come together in the end and there's all this,
as you heard, very quick dialogue and quick wit going on.
So it's one of my favorite Christmas movies. Oh, good to hear.
All right now for something a little more modern
and we should say this one is more for the adults and it is no Hallmark movie.
Christmas with the Campbells. Let's watch a clip.
I just spoke to my son breaking up with you right before Christmas.
Yeah, Sean doesn't want to come home. That's fine.
But your family just
which of us will
be.
It
feels right to be here.
Oh, ok. Vince Vaughn is the producer. That's always interesting.
What do you say about this one?
Yeah. So it's, it's actually designed to be kind of an anti,
uh, Hallmark movie. Um,
it has that kind of over lit look to it.
It's about, you know, it's a familiar sort of Hallmark story where, uh, it's,
it's, you know,
a woman going out in the country to have an old fashioned family Christmas and,
and then kind of falls in love.
Um, but that Vince Vaughn connection.
He produced it and co-wrote, it gives it a really kind of raunchy edge.
Um, it's very, you know, it's something definitely put on after the kids are asleep.
Um,
uh, it, it's constant, it's constant kind of body humor. Um,
it's not high art or anything but it makes me laugh a lot. Um,
the, the key here is Justin Long. He's, you know, normally kind of a nerdy guy.
He was the Apple spokesperson for a time
and, uh, he's playing against type as sort of a rugged mountain man.
And that really that juxtaposition between,
uh,
his nerdy persona and what he's playing as kind of this rugged
mountain man and plaid flannel all the time is just hilarious.
His dialogue is, is priceless. Oh, that is so fabulous.
Uh Justin Long was once here at care 11 Saturday for an interview. So
him very nice person in person. All right now, briefly, the great die hard debate.
All right, whether or not it is a Christmas movie.
Let's watch a clip from a reimagined trailer
from Warner Brothers that fuels the fire.
Get ready to jingle some bells
and deck the halls
with
bows.
Bruce Willis where the
coast we get together have a few laughs.
Alan Rickman. Do you really think you have a chance against us, Mr
Cowboy? You became
together
in the greatest Christmas story ever told?
Ok. Well, obviously they're going with Christmas movie. Are
there, aren't they? The actual movie? Studio, what do you say? Uh I see both sides.
I mean, it came out in July, it was uh it was a summer action movie.
Uh but at the same time it's got all this Christmas iconography in it.
There's, you know, Santa hats and mistle toes and,
and at the end there's a big explosion with, you know,
paper coming down that's like snow.
Um I think the themes are very, actually Christmasy.
There's, you know, John mclean is flying from New York
to L A to rekindle with his family on Christmas. And
you know, what's more Christmassy than coming home for the holidays? There you go.
And for the record, Bruce Willis himself has said it is not a Christmas movie.
So there we go. There's that insight
as well.
It does continue, Brian. Thank you so much. You're so great with your insights.
We really appreciate having you here as we start this long holiday stretch.
We really love it. All right.
We have a link to deep focus review on carle.com and we
are so grateful for all of those insights coming up next.