Happy New Year!

Well, I guess the Christmas season is officially over, but I'm going to write about a Christmas movie anyway. Or am I? No I'm not. Because in my opinion White Christmas is not a Christmas movie at all. I saw this old classic for the first time all the way through just a couple weeks ago. I was sorely disappointed with the lack of Christmas cheer in it. Sure, it's a good movie. The acting and singing is good. In fact, I think Danny Kaye is always great. He's so funny. But for a movie with Christmas in the title, I think they needed more than just one Christmas song. There's only one at the very end!

Now most musicals are cheesy and lame, it's just in their nature, but some of the songs in this show were a little too cheesy and lame. The one they sing at the beginning and also at the end about how much they love the general was just dumb. Now I've never been in the military, but it doesn't seem normal to love your commanding officer so much that you will actually join in song singing, "because we love him, we love him."

Big Bird Believes

I debated whether or not I should write about a movie most people won't know, and I decided it doesn't matter. There is a wonderful movie called Christmas Eve On Sesame Street. It was made in the 70s I think, back when Sesame Street was good. My family has always watched this movie on Christmas Eve, and I think we always will. It's tradition, and its a pretty good show.

However, there is one thing about the movie that bugs me. Oscar asks Big Bird how Santa gets down all the small chimneys. Big Bird doesn't know. Then Oscar tells him he better find out or Santa won't be able to come down the chimney and bring presents. The rest of the show follows Big Bird's quest to figure out how he does it. The thing that bothers me is that they keep saying, "if we don't figure out how he comes down the chimney, nobody will get any presents." That's not even logical! Why would their lack of knowledge keep Santa from coming and leaving presents? They don't need to know how he does it in order for him to do it. I don't know how a toilet works, but it still does. Ok, actually I do know. A toilet isn't that complicated. I was just trying to think of something similar to a fat man going down a small chimney. :)

I have to keep reminding myself throughout the show that they are just kids, even Big Bird, and kids don't always use common sense. I hate to give away the ending, but if you haven't seen it yet that's your own problem. Big Bird never figures out how Santa does it, but he still comes and leaves presents. Then Gordon, bless his soul, explains to Big Bird why he didn't need to know, and the important thing is that they had found him, because he was lost, not Gordon, but Big Bird, because he was on the roof waiting for Santa. Anyway, it's a good show, even though it bugs me a little.

On a future posting I will share what I hate about present day Sesame Street, compared to Sesame Street when I was a kid. Be excited!

Merry Christmas!

Hello everybody. This is my first blog post ever. I have never had a blog before. In fact I've always thought they were kind of lame. But recently I've been thinking a lot about starting up a website. I came up with some good ideas, but they wont be ready for a while. So in the meantime I thought it would be fun to do a blog.

Coming up with a theme for this thing was hard. Do blogs even need themes? I asked myself. Then I asked the internet, and it said no, but it's better if they do. Anyway, this blog is about things in movies that bug me. It's not necessarily about bad movies, just things that make you think, "why did they do that?" or "that doesn't make sense," or "that's stupid."

Since today is Christmas, I'm going to share with you an anoyance I have had forever with Christmas movies. Here's the thing... In almost all Christmas movies Santa is real, but nobody believes he is except for the kids, of course. If Santa is real, wouldn't the parents know? Where do they think the presents come from each year? There are so many examples. In Miracle On 34th Street nobody believes in Santa. Not even the little girl at first! They even have a trial to determine if the guy really is Santa. So does Santa go to the houses and if the parents already left stuff out he doesn't leave anything. That has to be the case, because if he left stuff the parents should know that Santa is real.

In The Santa Clause he is actually on the roof ready to go down the chimney when he falls and dies. Tim Allen goes out and ends up becomming Santa Claus and even taking a trip to the North Pole. He gets back from the North Pole and still doesn't believe until he starts getting fat and growing a white beard. What would have happened if the other Santa hadn't fallen and died? The next day there would have been presents under the tree, just like there was the year before, and Tim would have realized that Santa was real. Or would he? No. That's just the way it is.

In conclusion I have to say I'm not really sure how they could fix the problem, or if they even need to. Most Christmas movies wouldn't work if the parents believed. So, whatever, it still bugs me though.


p.s. why did none of the elves even aknowledge the death of the old Santa? They weren't sad or anything. They didn't even seem to notice there was a new Santa. Did he beat them?