Happy Holidays, Avocado! Deck the halls, jingle your bells, and let the flood of Christmas movies wash over you.
And never forget that once upon a time Ilya Salkind (one of the producers behind Superman: The Movie) decided it would be a good idea to give Santa Claus a Superman-style origin story with Santa Claus: The Movie. Santa has a villain in John Lithgow, a CEO who is selling defective and highly flammable toys.
Santa must also find wayward elf, Patch, played by Dudley Moore, who threatens to sell Santa’s trade secrets to the rival company.
This is the most 80’s plot for a Santa movie ever.
The movie would air every Christmas when I was a kid. I knew it was terrible, but I regard it with the same fuzzy nostalgia that some people have for A Christmas Story, It’s a Wonderful Life, and Elf.
The movie was directed by Jeannot Szwarc. Szwarc had previously directed Jaws 2 and Supergirl, so… you kinda get what you pay for. He also directed something called Hercule et Sherlock, which got me excited until I discovered that they’re the names of two money-sniffing dogs.
Today’s merry prompt: What movie do you watch around this time of year? Is there any yuletide tradition?
Also, happy 25th anniversary, Miracle on 34th Street! … the remake.
As usual, talk about any movie you’ve seen lately! Classics, movies you’re catching up on, the latest Star Wars, that one with the anthropomorphic cats, that movie that Michael Bay directed for Netflix, or that one movie about the tiny women.
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