Jamila Young – Arts & Entertainment Editor
Thanksgiving is behind us, and the holiday season continues with Christmas up ahead. Television networks are soon to start airing holiday parades, Christmas specials, and classic Christmas movies.
ABC family is currently showing Christmas movies until Christmas. It’s something they do every year called, ‘’ABC Family’s 25 days of Christmas.’’ It began on Dec. 1 with “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” which will also be playing more than once throughout the days leading up to Christmas. “The Santa Clause” trilogy is also part of the “25 days of Christmas,” as well as “The Polar Express,” “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation,” and a few new Christmas movies, and Christmas themed episodes of regular ABC Family shows.
A movie that’s not featured in the “25 Days of Christmas” is “Home Alone,” but those wishing to see it on television are in luck, the AMC network is airing the “Home Alone” series continuously throughout December. The first two “Home Alone” movies star childhood actor Macaulay Culkin, who ends up getting left by himself in both movies, while two criminals try to break into his home in the first movie, and then try to kidnap him in the second movie, when he ends up living on his own for a while in New York.
Sam Moore, a senior, loves to watch Christmas movies.
“My favorite one’s are ‘Elf’ and ‘The Grinch’ – the Jim Carrey one,” said Moore. “I also love ‘A Christmas Story;’ it’s a classic. I watch it every Christmas Eve.”
In the movie “Elf,” comedic actor WIll Ferrell plays a man who was raised by elves and leaves the North Pole in search of his father, and throughout the movie he learns how to be a regular human being in New York City.
The movie “A Christmas Story” airs all night on Christmas Eve and all day on Christmas day on the TBS network. In the movie a boy named Ralphie wants a Red Ryder B.B. gun for Christmas, but every response he gets when he mentions it, is that he’ll shoot his eye out (spoiler alert: he gets the gun). A famous scene in the movie is when one of Ralphie’s classmates gets dared to stick his tongue on a pole outside of their school, and he does it, and then gets his tongue stuck to the pole, and the fire department gets called to help. Throughout the movie you can see that the family is very traditional, so much so, that when Ralphie’s mom hears him swear she puts a bar of soap in his mouth for him to wash his mouth out. Their Christmas dinner ends up getting ruined so they end up having their dinner at a chinese restaurant.
Kiana McDavid, a freshman, prefers to watch the original animated “Grinch” instead of “The Grinch” movie with Jim Carrey.
“The original ‘Grinch’ is the best. It’s calming,” said McDavid. “It’s always been my favorite movie, and I love the ‘Mr.Grinch’ song.”
In Ron Howard’s remake of “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” actor Jim Carrey plays the Grinch who tries his hardest to stop the Who’s from celebrating Christmas in Whoville by stealing Christmas. This movie actually came out in theaters on Nov. 17, 2000. The original version of “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” was just a cartoon television special that first aired on Dec. 18,1966.
Freshman Kerby Petit looks forward to watching Christmas movies specifically on the Lifetime network.
“After Thanksgiving break I watch Lifetime because they have the dramatic Christmas movies,” said Petit.
Petit said she doesn’t usually watch the “25 Days of Christmas” on ABC Family.
“They usually always show the same thing,” said Petit. “I watch it occasionally when they have a new Christmas movie.”
