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The Movie Club
Day 2: Bad Christmas Movies We Secretly Love - 12 Days of Christmas
We sat down and recorded 12 episodes all about Christmas. Our favorite Christmas movies, our favorite Santas, our worst Santas, the soundtracks we love. A little insight into who we are and what we actually care about this time of year.
Every year we pretend we’re film critics. Then December hits and suddenly we’re defending movies we’d never admit to liking in public. Day 2 is all about the Christmas movies we know are bad but refuse to stop watching.
Movies in This Episode
- Unaccompanied Minors (Erica)
- Deck the Halls (Katie)
- Christmas with the Kranks (Ryan)
- Frosty the Snowman (John)
Favorite Clips / Favorite Scenes
Unaccompanied Minors – Erica
Erica loves this one because it reminds her of the kind of goofy kids’ Christmas chaos she grew up on. She’s all about the airport blizzard setup and the mismatched kids stuck together making the best of it. She fully admits it’s not a great movie, but it hits the nostalgia switch for her and that’s all she needs.
Deck the Halls – Katie
Katie’s into the corny Christmas stuff and she owns it. She likes the predictable plot, the bright lights, the “seen from space” nonsense, and the cast being way too good for the movie they’re in. She’ll tell you straight up that she doesn’t go for cheesy movies… unless it’s Christmas. Then she wants all the corniness at once.
Christmas with the Kranks – Ryan
Ryan hated this movie for years, but it grew on him and now he kind of loves it. He likes Tim Allen’s energy and the whole “grumpy guy who can’t escape Christmas” vibe. Once he rewatched it, he realized it wasn’t good, but it wasn’t supposed to be. It’s his perfect example of a movie that’s bad and lovable at the exact same time.
Frosty the Snowman – John
John picked this one because it drives him insane. He hates how stupid parts of it are, hates the hat, hates the “Happy Birthday,” hates the whole sauna death scene. But there’s something about it being so ridiculous that he can’t let it go. It’s the movie he complains about the most… which somehow makes it the perfect pick for this category.
Speaker 4 (00:00.298)
What is up everybody? This is Ryan from TMC, the Movie Club Podcast. You are listening to the 12 Days of Christmas. We sat down and recorded 12 episodes just for you, all about Christmas. We talked about our favorite Christmas movies, our favorite Santas, our worst Santas, the soundtracks that we love. You kind of get a little insight about us and what we love at the holidays. Anyhow, we hope that you enjoy it and we hope that you will share it.
This is episode two.
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Speaker 1 (00:36.942)
It's the gift that keeps on giving the whole year.
and you'll get two wings.
Speaker 3 (00:54.062)
you
Moving on to number two, Katie or Ryan, would you like to move us along?
Bad movies we love.
This was hard for me because...
kind of love all every movie I've ever seen. You've got to have a bad movie. All right, I had to look up a list of what are bad Christmas movies. Most are bad.
Speaker 3 (01:09.72)
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:13.56)
Okay, you go first.
Speaker 2 (01:19.585)
And
Speaker 4 (01:23.118)
actually are.
would most Christmas movies are bad. We just love them either for some Christmas movies, like I feel like Vacation and the one we were just talking Home Alone are good, but the other ones it's like nostalgia is sort of kicking in more than than like they're good movies. Right.
Go ahead, please. well anyhow, this movie was on the list. It's called unaccompanied miners. It reminded me, I had watched that like years ago. It is actually really good.
Jackson's in that one.
No. What? No. What are you?
Speaker 1 (01:54.222)
Oh. Now the group of kids that get like stuck in an airport because there's like this big blizzard and it's over like Christmas and they're just in the airport. that one. Yeah, I even hear of this movie.
That's a different movie.
Speaker 4 (02:06.392)
Never.
I know exactly what you're talking about, Erica. I've seen this one. I've never even It's like a lot of them have like divorced parents. They're like back and forth.
Travel.
And one guy's like, you wanna see Neverland?
Michael Jackson is not in it. I have not seen it in very long time, but I like, but I remember it. my God, you guys are sick.
Speaker 4 (02:33.011)
I'm just, he's the one.
I didn't say anything.
You said everything.
You said all the things. Kaylyn, what is the bad movie that you love? Okay.
So I picked this movie called Deck the Halls. Oh. So this has no. Go all the way. That is not a bad movie. That's a great movie.
Speaker 1 (02:48.987)
No, that's
Speaker 4 (02:58.99)
Pretty shitty
What is
So Deck the Halls came out in 2006 and it actually has a very like star-studded cast. Matthew Broderick, Kristen Davis, Danny DeVito, Kristen Chenoweth are the like main characters. So like Matthew Broderick's character is married to Kristen Davis and he's like the big Christmas guy of the town. And then Danny DeVito and Kristen Chenoweth move.
You saw me on Danny DeVito.
Speaker 3 (03:31.68)
in across the street and he really wants to be the Christmas guy. So it's kind of like this little battle and he has this thing, he has so many Christmas lights and he decides he wants his house to be seen from space. And so he just keeps going like crazy and Matthew Broderick's across the street so like the lights are on and it's just like in his house so he like hates him. Totally can.
Hold the trowel up real quick. Hang on one second.
This is busy time of year, so we have to have a game plan. must sing caroling requests to be submitted in writing.
Christmas.
Speaker 2 (04:12.845)
end the video
Speaker 2 (04:16.685)
It's got a gurgle cast, by the way.
I just read the entire cast.
I'm there to something big.
you
I'm here. think trailers are hard
Speaker 1 (04:32.362)
I know, because you can't see it except John. John really likes watching.
Tell us about the cast. Yes. It was like an amazing cast.
I was looking after you
So why is this movie so bad? Because I think it sounds great.
So it's like one of those like Christmas things. Like it's like the stereotypical like plot line. Like it's kind of corny. You know exactly what's going to happen in the end. But I liked it. Like I just like it was fun. I like all those actors. Kristin Chenoweth is the most amazing singer. She actually was the original Glinda on Broadway. 100%.
Speaker 3 (05:14.99)
So, like, it's just, I don't know, for Christmas, it's like, I don't usually like corny, but Christmas, I do all the corny.
And this is like full on corny for you.
It's
She's all about Hallmark.
I do like a good Hallmark movie.
Speaker 1 (05:30.83)
Oh, then we got a couple for you. Just stay tuned.
By the way, I want to watch this one. You look at this movie and it's so predictable. Like it's just, you know what's going to happen the entire time, but I still love watching it.
I can tell you you're not gonna like mine.
Cause I'm going to be like, that's Is it jingle all the way?
No,
Speaker 4 (05:54.348)
You wanna hit the
Speaker 3 (06:00.598)
I'm so offended right
Why'd you pick
Botox injection today. Botox. Take a big needle.
bad about this movie.
Apparently there is this right
Speaker 1 (06:16.002)
Did it on purpose.
Speaker 4 (06:21.474)
So I never liked this movie. I've seen Bits and Pieces as usual. And I didn't like it. But I watched it last year, right? this is Christmas with the Crank.
Say what it is. I know. Which was my favorite movie that I picked for our...
This is what you picked. was.
This was your movie. So here.
Weird pick that he did basically trying to antagonize you
Speaker 3 (06:46.222)
You're directly at
Hang on a second. Let me tell you the bad movie I love and then he turned to look directly in your eyes and he's like John Do want to play the clip?
I had to explain to Katie. No, it just was an annoying movie. It was cheesy to me. However, I like Tim Allen. I like.
That is not where I thought you were going with it.
I like him and it grew on me. I like his he was on it was so I showed you the other night. He was on Jimmy Fallon the other night and they were doing their like that. From home improvement. And it made me think I was like, yes, I hated that movie, but I liked him in the movie because he's got that like that grunt like.
Speaker 3 (07:22.509)
from harm in
I'm well impressed
Speaker 2 (07:33.486)
Hey that dude from Home Improvement, one those little kids, got in a lot trouble the other day. I saw some bad news on him. think so.
First one, Jonathan Taylor Thomas. He's the most famous of them.
most famous troublemaker.
Of the three kids.
Okay, well got in trouble.
Speaker 4 (07:49.942)
Anyhow, was my reasoning. Because it grew on me and I actually like the movie now. I do, I still think it's a bad movie.
But you thought it was bad.
Speaker 2 (08:02.05)
think that's a very fair point to make. Okay. You think it's a bad movie, but you like it. Yeah. And the category is bad movie we love. Yeah. So I think you nailed the category because you think it's a bad movie, but you love it.
Thank you for your attention.
Does it make him right?
But he loves it. But it's bad.
It's a tough category because if we love it as part
Speaker 4 (08:27.622)
I couldn't do Miracle on 34th Street or anything because I just hate it. I don't think they're good movie.
All right, I'll take that.
Because you probably never even seen it.
I have it and I probably will never.
Fucking bullshit to say that, you hate it and never seen it.
Speaker 4 (08:42.894)
Tell us your bad movie that you love.
My bad movie that I love and this is the hardest one that I had the most trouble with this because I don't I just don't I don't know I had a hard I had a very very hard time with this but this is what I picked let me play a little clip see if you guys can figure out what it is
Speaker 1 (09:03.879)
It's Frosty the Snowman!
How did you get it there?
Frosty sucks There's no one there's no that's your favorite movie
Can I get to the least the scene that I hate so much? This stupid hat on this guy's head and what does he say?
That is the worst movie ever.
Speaker 3 (09:29.038)
One, two, three. Happy birthday!
Speaker 1 (09:35.672)
Happy-
Do you guys remember last year? of the trivia questions was about that and Erica and I said it at the exact same time.
I don't honestly know that I love this movie anymore because I haven't watched it very long Have to tell you there's parts of this movie. I think are so stupid actually most of it Hey, hey fella happy birthday
Nothing about this.
Speaker 1 (09:57.144)
Like the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (10:02.094)
He's like walking in the street and...
Then all of sudden they trap him in a sauna and he melts to death in 12.
Did you ever see there's one where he has a wife named Crystal and they have kids? I really like that one
Hey Crystal!
Hey!
Speaker 2 (10:18.675)
How about we go into this sauna together? That was a bad idea. Thank God I have a
You really brought the impressions tonight. Yeah, that is really good. It doesn't sound at all like Norman.
Hey, that's good one, isn't it? Thank you, I've been working on that.
Because if it was played by Norman he'd be like Chris look at son of a bitch Getting this sauna with me. I don't hear any long wounds. What are you talking about stupid? I'm just trying to dry hump you on the patio here
you
Speaker 4 (10:48.939)
god, Erica, what's your bad movie?
You did?
Well, don't remember what was it.
you
It was so bad, didn't even remember it.
Speaker 3 (11:00.195)
Yes.
I'm
She went first! totally forgot.
Tell us. Let me get rid of this. We would. I wish I had a clip of this.
Play it clip-ish,
Speaker 1 (11:19.918)
What? Frosty? All right. We don't need a clip.
So the next one here. real quick. wait, you got a clip of this?
Speaker 3 (11:36.642)
What are you?
He's playing Michael Jackson!
Speaker 1 (11:48.622)
With a corn-cop pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal Frosty the snowman is a fairy tale they say he was made of snow but the children know how he came to life one day