LISTEN TO THE PLUGGED IN SHOW, EPISODE 213
It’s ever so close to Christmas. That likely means picking up last-minute gifts, getting family-favorite recipes in the oven, perhaps a special church service and … movies.
Plenty of movies might end up on our best Christmas movie lists. In fact, we’ve done one or two of those lists ourselves here at Plugged In over the years. We’d definitely encourage you to check those out. But this year, we’ve been circling back to review some Christmas classics. And we also recently realized that I hadn’t ever seen It’s a Wonderful Life and Paul Asay hadn’t seen A Miracle on 34th Street—two holiday heavyweights that perennially top lots of folks “Best Christmas Movie” lists.
So not only have we reviewed them (as well as some other Christmas favorites, such as Home Alone and, yes, Die Hard), we decided it’d be fun to talk about what we thought about these two films.
And in our second segment, Paul tells us about the new sports biopic The Boys in the Boat. Wondering who said boys are, and why they’re in a boat? Paul will answer those questions and more.
As always, we’d love to hear from you, too, about what we talk about each week on The Plugged in Show. Do you and your family have a particular “go-to” Christmas classic movie that you always watch? We’d love to hear about it. So let us know!
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And as we approach the end of 2024, we’d also love to take this opportunity to say, “Merry Christmas!” We hope it’s a deeply meaningful one for you and yours as we celebrate Christ’s birth
So let us know what’s on your mind when it comes to movies and entertainment, pop culture and technology. We’ll look forward to connecting with you.
3 Responses
My favorite Christmas program was always the original 1966 version of “How The Grinch Stole Christmas”. There’s a line I really love from that program: “Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.” That thing that means a little bit more is Jesus Christ.
I haven’t seen it’s a wonderful life either, or the original of “Miracle…”, but I loved the remake
It actually took me a really long time to think of some big movie that I have never seen that others would be surprised about. But maybe I have one. I have never seen “Gone with the Wind” lol.
Should have had this in my other comment.
I kind of think the pacing issue depends on the movie. It’s true that there are slow films in the past, but then watch a movie like “Some Like it Hot” or “One Two Three” or “Arsenic and Old Lace” and you’ll go to the opposite end of things. Movies like that are full of back and forth sharp rapid fire dialogue, that can even sometimes be hard to keep on top of.