{"id":34029,"date":"2015-12-23T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34029"},"modified":"2015-12-22T21:56:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T02:56:57","slug":"really-that-good-a-christmas-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/12\/23\/really-that-good-a-christmas-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Really That Good: A CHRISTMAS STORY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lul32PVhLuY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 22 Dec 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to a NEW kind of film-criticism series, built around the radical premise that just because &#8220;everyone knows&#8221; a movie is a classic doesn&#8217;t mean it stops being worth a deeper look.<\/p>\n<p>At first, A CHRISTMAS STORY was a small 1983 movie that not a lot of people saw. But within a few years, regular Seasonal TV replays had turned it into a counter-culture staple &#8211; an All-American Christmas Movie that was *just* sly and jaded enough to be the &#8220;cool&#8221; alternative to more saccharine Holiday fare. Today, it&#8217;s celebrated as an unironic generational classic on par with CHARLIE BROWN, THE GRINCH or IT&#8217;S A WONDERFUL LIFE.<\/p>\n<p>But does it deserve to be? The word &#8220;overrated&#8221; may as well have been invented to describe seasonal family-favorites we feel duty-bound to revisit on a yearly basis. That doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean that the story of Ralphie and his Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle BB gun with a compass in the stock and a thing which tells time isn&#8217;t a good movie&#8230; but does it belong among the *great* movies?<\/p>\n<p>This Christmas, thousands of people will watch Ralphie, Randy, Mom and The Old Man&#8217;s adventures &#8211; many as part of the now-ubiquitous 24-hour marathon. But before you do, maybe pull up a chair and listen as we explore whether or not A CHRISTMAS STORY is&#8230; REALLY THAT GOOD.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to Victor for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 22 Dec 2015 Welcome to a NEW kind of film-criticism series, built around the radical premise that just because &#8220;everyone knows&#8221; a movie is a classic doesn&#8217;t mean it stops being worth a deeper look. At first, A CHRISTMAS STORY was a small 1983 movie that not a lot of people saw. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,13],"tags":[345,86,122,45],"class_list":["post-34029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-usa","tag-christmas","tag-criticism","tag-movies","tag-nostalgia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8QR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34030,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34029\/revisions\/34030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}