You'll shoot your eye out......
 

A Christmas Story looks pretty decent on TBS HD....obviously not as good as other HD programming, but not bad considering how old the source material is.

We usually just leave it on TV all day

I fucking hate that movie. With a deep and burning passion.

You hate it? Are you just tired of it or have you always hated it?

ditto

You'll shoot your eye kid. Merry Christmas. Ho Ho Ho.

Both me and my mom did variations of the "What that's over there? Santa must have left it" this year. My mom with my PS3 and me with the engagement ring. God I love that movie!

You can't give your mom an engagement ring, that's just wrong.

sick Kentuckian

Your mom?

:eek:

I'm in the can't stand that movie camp. Don't hate it, but I don't see the great appeal for it either.

Well, it's only 25 years old. Plenty of older movies from the 70s look pretty decent on HD as well.

"Naddafinger"

I love it.

BUT, this retarded Peachtree TV crap doesn't show it!!!

TBS does... do you not have cable?

I have a mixed opinion. On one hand, I have always enjoyed it and laughed at it. On the other hand, the freakin' kid looks just like me when I was a kid. We even both had glasses. Big time family joke.

So, good holiday movie, but on some level, I hate it. :)

Yeah I do, but they switched to Peachtree here for whatever reason a few months ago. :(

i've always hated it to be honest. when I was younger it just seemed SOOO long and pointless, and as an adult it just feels so dated.

I felt/feel the exact same way. Well almost, I wouldn't say I "hate" it. I just didn't/don't care for it.

Have always enjoyed Christmas Vacation and Scrooged as 80s Christmas movies much moreso than Christmas Story.

true nuff. I guess I don't "hate" the movie, as "hate" is a pretty strong word. I'd just rather...watch paint dry.

Never sat down and watched the whole thing until the first year my wife and I were dating and we over at her house on Christmas Eve when it came on. Har family has always been fans, so I watched it with them. Ever since, I've been hooked!

I watch it all day long, love the movie.

24 hours of X-mas joy. This movie is definately a classic!

-Cork

Yeah, but they moved TBS to channel 39 or something. I assume you are in Atlanta if you are getting Peachtree.

Atlanta, Ontario?

I know a Kidd who wants an Official Red Ranger triple shot longbow.

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who hasn't seen that movie. I remember when I worked at Suncoast around Christmas time, people would come in and ask for "that movie with the kid who wants a BB gun" and I'd point them to it, but that's all I really know about it.

i've seen bits and pieces but i dislike it so much I never sit through the whole thing...really never see it for more than...2-3 minutes anytime it's on (channel surfing).

so it's a mark of how much it's on that i've probably seen about...20 minutes total of it in my life

It's supposed to be dated!

Exactly! I mean the whole point was to make it seem dated... so that you still have people who think it was made in the 60s, even though it came out in 1983!

http://www.medialifemagazine.com/art...to_top_all.asp

2007 was undoubtedly the year of the Christmas special. It started with huge ratings for ABC’s “Shrek the Halls” and “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas,” and it continued with CBS’s “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”

Last week it wrapped up with TBS’s “24 Hours of ‘A Christmas Story,’” the comedy network’s annual marathon, which drew the best ratings in its 11-year existence as a Christmas eve and Christmas day event.

The classic two-hour 1983 movie is played in a constant loop starting at 8 p.m. on Dec. 24 and lasting until 8 p.m. Dec. 25.

For those 24 hours, TBS averaged 775,000 adults 18-34, 1.56 million 18-49s and 1.51 million adults 25-54, all bests for “24 Hours.” It also drew an average 2.8 million total viewers and placed first among all cable networks for the 24-hour period across all demographics.

The 8 p.m. telecast on Christmas eve drew the most total viewers, 4.4 million, though the 10 a.m. telecast on Christmas morning was tops in households, drawing 2.18 million.

Surely part of “24 Hours’” big ratings can be attributed to the generally large appetite for Christmas specials this year. Excitement over new ones like “Shrek” and ABC’s “Sesame Street” certainly helped fuel huge ratings for veterans like “Grinch” and “Rudolph.” ... “24 Hours’” big numbers also speak to the marathon’s growing reputation as a holiday tradition of its own. The 10 p.m. airing of the movie on Christmas Eve outdrew everything on television that night among adults 18-34, including broadcast networks’ local newscasts and NBC’s reairing of “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

Somewhat unrelated note- any idea what happened to A Charlie Brown Christmas? I didn't see it at all this year.

SI

I love A Christmas Story, and the TBS broadcast has become a tradition in our home as well.

On an unrelated note, I can't stand any of the Charlie Brown holiday specials.

It was on once at the end of November and then a week later. I missed them both too, but good thing I have it on DVD. It is my favorite.

My two year old discovered the Charlie Brown specials this year. I think I've seen the Halloween and Christmas ones about a million times, thanks to the DVR. I've layed down the law now though, we watched both one last time today, and they are put up til October or so now.

looks like it will be making it's holiday debut in just under an hour on TNT.

I love this movie. Can watch it all day, and it's a family tradition to have it on every Christmas.

:eek:

Seriously, I'm going to start calling Chubby Oedipus now.