New Thanksgiving movie tradition

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I finished making the entire meal for my parents, sister and girlfriend. Cleaned the dishes, went home, sat down and started watching Rocky. Ive loved it since i was a kid, so inspiring. The thing is I think I’ve done this a few times before after making the Thanksgiving meal, lol :rotfl: !

Do any of you have any Thanksgiving movie traditions?
 
The local rock radio station (terrestrial AM/FM) used to play “Alice’s Restaurant” in its entirety every Thanksgiving.

Movie-wise? “Plains, Trains and Automobiles” or/and “Home Alone,” of course. 🙂
 
Babes In Toyland with Laurel & Hardy. The March of the Wooden Soldiers scene still gets me every time.
 
randomuser said:
The local rock radio station (terrestrial AM/FM) used to play “Alice’s Restaurant” in its entirety every Thanksgiving.

Movie-wise? “Plains, Trains and Automobiles” or/and “Home Alone,” of course. 🙂
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Today was the 50th anniversary of the incident that inspired the song. PBS had a special on tonight with Arlo in concert singing the entire song. It was great.
 
I like watching Meet Me in St. Louis with Judy Garland. I usually will pick out a Christmas movie too. Wednesday night I watched White Christmas. A Christmas Story is another favorite.
I think Rocky is good too. I might want to see the new one that is out.
 
7_Sorrows said:
I like watching Meet Me in St. Louis with Judy Garland. I usually will pick out a Christmas movie too. Wednesday night I watched White Christmas. A Christmas Story is another favorite.
I think Rocky is good too. I might want to see the new one that is out.
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We don’t really have any movie traditions yet, but I absolutely LOVE the movie Meet Me In St Louis!!! It has some of the funniest lines:

“Everybody knows but papa?”

“Papa’s not supposed to know. It’s enough that we let him work and slave all day to support the lot of us. He can’t have everything.”

“Is there trouble at your sister’s?”

“She’s having trouble with her husband – him being a man and all.”

“Where’s my cat?”

“A little while ago she got in my way and I kicked her down the cellar stairs. I could hear her spine hit on every step.”
 
Gertabelle said:
We don’t really have any movie traditions yet, but I absolutely LOVE the movie Meet Me In St Louis!!! It has some of the funniest lines:

“Everybody knows but papa?”

“Papa’s not supposed to know. It’s enough that we let him work and slave all day to support the lot of us. He can’t have everything.”

“Is there trouble at your sister’s?”

“She’s having trouble with her husband – him being a man and all.”

“Where’s my cat?”

“A little while ago she got in my way and I kicked her down the cellar stairs. I could hear her spine hit on every step.”
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I agree and such a great cast!
 
We don’t have a Thanksgivng movie tradition. We just wing it from year to year. This year we were in the mood for the great sci-fi classic “Forbidden Planet.” Really, it’s not such a odd choice entering into the penitential season of Advent. It’s basically Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” set on a distance planet. It’s a great sci-fi film with many innovative special effects and brilliantly done, but it’s also a morality tale. The last line sums up the whole thing: “It [the memory of what occurred] will remind us that we are not God.” They’d never have the line in any modern sci-fi film, mores the pity.

We were tempted by Christmas films. We own a few, and we could watch others on Netflix, but we like to save those for the Christmas Season. 🙂
 
sticknstring73 said:
I finished making the entire meal for my parents, sister and girlfriend. Cleaned the dishes, went home, sat down and started watching Rocky. Ive loved it since i was a kid, so inspiring. The thing is I think I’ve done this a few times before after making the Thanksgiving meal, lol :rotfl: !

Do any of you have any Thanksgiving movie traditions?
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Rocky: Listen, I don’t want no turkey anyway, ya know.
Adrian: But it’s Thanksgiving.
Rocky: It’s what?
Adrian: It’s Thanksgiving.
Rocky: Yeah, to you. But to me, it’s Thursday, right?
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The fight itself was on January 1, 1976. So maybe a New Year’s tradition too?

Rocky’s bah humbug is a little Scrooge-like re: Thanksgiving. But at least HE didn’t toss “the bird” out the back door and into the alley.

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PAULIE

The Twilight Zone Marathon can catch and hold me. JUST as one ends … another begins and I’m like … " oh yeeeaah … THIS one …" and another half hour is invested. ;)😃

Maybe Rocky is a family tradition for us on Thanksgiving come to think of it. After dinner yesterday afternoon, three of us went to see “Creed” < don’t call me Rocky VII. 😉 It was good. Stallone poignant, and funny - as usual with that character.
 
I have a number of movies I choose from for the holiday season. Usually just choose the one I want to see and am not too sick of, that I haven’t seen too recently. I have The Apartment for tonight - a standby. Also am thinking of doing The Thin Man for New’s Years Eve. A couple of them probably. I watch them so much I have to lay off for a few years - which I have done now. They should be fresh enough. W.C. Fields maybe. Fellini - La Dolce Vita, Le notti di Cabiria, La Strada - or Blow Up, Rear Window, etc. etc. Might do Seven Year Itch this year at some point. I just rotate 10-20 classic films. 🙂 If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it…(Fanny and Alexander is a great movie for Christmas - am sick of it right now though.)
 
Not a movie, but a program. Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. Toast and popcorn, anyone?
 
We like to start the Christmas season on Thanksgiving night by watching White Christmas; we’ve seen it so much we know much of the dialogue, can spot all the little mistakes, etc. We especially love the fabulous dancing. Never get tired of it.
 
FollowChrist34 said:
I have a number of movies I choose from for the holiday season. Usually just choose the one I want to see and am not too sick of, that I haven’t seen too recently. I have The Apartment for tonight - a standby. Also am thinking of doing The Thin Man for New’s Years Eve. A couple of them probably. I watch them so much I have to lay off for a few years - which I have done now. They should be fresh enough. W.C. Fields maybe. Fellini - La Dolce Vita, Le notti di Cabiria, La Strada - or Blow Up, Rear Window, etc. etc. Might do Seven Year Itch this year at some point. I just rotate 10-20 classic films. 🙂 If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it…(Fanny and Alexander is a great movie for Christmas - am sick of it right now though.)
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I love The Thin Man series!
 
dixieagle said:
We like to start the Christmas season on Thanksgiving night by watching White Christmas; we’ve seen it so much we know much of the dialogue, can spot all the little mistakes, etc. We especially love the fabulous dancing. Never get tired of it.
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“The Best Things Happen While You’re Dancing” is one of my favorites!
 
In Australia we don’t celebrate thanksgiving, but on Australia Day(our most nearest equivalent) I always watch some Aussie Comedy Classics including:

The Castle - Michael Caton, Bud Tingwell and in his first big screen role Eric Bana. A movie about an “average Joe Aussie”(Caton) that faces the compulsory acquisition of his home(The Castle of the film’s title) and decides to take the fight up to those people trying to evict him from the house he himself actually owns. This probably the best Australian comedy and family movie ever made. Probably my favourite homegrown film full stop, made on a shoestring budget, probably shot on videotape… Yet still kicked off Eric Bana’s career, Bud Tingwell in one of his last great roles, and became a “local classic”.

Crocodile Dundee - A mixed American-Australian production about Paul Hogan’s titular character going from the outback to New York City. Worth every moment.

Red Dog - The ‘mostly’ true story of the dog that also became known as The Pilbara Wanderer. A very funny, yet very emotional and a truthful family film. Kinda like Lassie, but a uniquely Australian film about a real Australian dog.

I just feel like sharing these “Australia Day” films with you on your slightly similar holiday.
 
colliric said:
In Australia we don’t celebrate thanksgiving, but on Australia Day(our most nearest equivalent) I always watch some Aussie Comedy Classics including:

The Castle - Michael Caton, Bud Tingwell and in his first big screen role Eric Bana. A movie about an “average Joe Aussie”(Caton) that faces the compulsory acquisition of his home(The Castle of the film’s title) and decides to take the fight up to those people trying to evict him from the house he himself actually owns. This probably the best Australian comedy and family movie ever made. Probably my favourite homegrown film full stop, made on a shoestring budget, probably shot on videotape… Yet still kicked off Eric Bana’s career, Bud Tingwell in one of his last great roles, and became a “local classic”.

Crocodile Dundee - A mixed American-Australian production about Paul Hogan’s titular character going from the outback to New York City. Worth every moment.

Red Dog - The ‘mostly’ true story of the dog that also became known as The Pilbara Wanderer. A very funny, yet very emotional and a truthful family film. Kinda like Lassie, but a uniquely Australian film about a real Australian dog.

I just feel like sharing these “Australia Day” films with you on your slightly similar holiday.
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whatever happened to the actor who plays CD?
 
7_Sorrows said:
whatever happened to the actor who plays CD?
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Paul Hogan is first and foremost a standup and sketch Comedian(for which he was always popular in Australia), and his acting onscreen has always been in comedy. He basically returned to the mic after Crocodile Dundee 3(in Los Angeles) failed at the box office. He did make “Strange Bedfellows”, but that was remade as an Adam Sandler film which in a roundabout way shows you it wasn’t exactly a critical or commercial success. His last live stand up comedy show was just this week broadcast on Channel 9. Though Crocodile Dundee was his breakthrough in America, he’d been a regular comical fixture on Channel 9 for about a decade prior and was already a celebrity in his home country.

He did have tax trouble for several years, but I believe he was exonerated.
 
colliric said:
Paul Hogan is first and foremost a standup and sketch Comedian(for which he was always popular in Australia), and his acting onscreen has always been in comedy. He basically returned to the mic after Crocodile Dundee 3(in Los Angeles) failed at the box office. He did make “Strange Bedfellows”, but that was remade as an Adam Sandler film which in a roundabout way shows you it wasn’t exactly a critical or commercial success. His last live stand up comedy show was just this week broadcast on Channel 9. Though Crocodile Dundee was his breakthrough in America, he’d been a regular comical fixture on Channel 9 for about a decade prior and was already a celebrity in his home country.

He did have tax trouble for several years, but I believe he was exonerated.
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thanks! he was hugely popular for awhile here.
 
colliric said:
In Australia we don’t celebrate thanksgiving, but on Australia Day(our most nearest equivalent) I always watch some Aussie Comedy Classics including:

The Castle - Michael Caton, Bud Tingwell and in his first big screen role Eric Bana. A movie about an “average Joe Aussie”(Caton) that faces the compulsory acquisition of his home(The Castle of the film’s title) and decides to take the fight up to those people trying to evict him from the house he himself actually owns. This probably the best Australian comedy and family movie ever made. Probably my favourite homegrown film full stop, made on a shoestring budget, probably shot on videotape… Yet still kicked off Eric Bana’s career, Bud Tingwell in one of his last great roles, and became a “local classic”.

Crocodile Dundee - A mixed American-Australian production about Paul Hogan’s titular character going from the outback to New York City. Worth every moment.

Red Dog - The ‘mostly’ true story of the dog that also became known as The Pilbara Wanderer. A very funny, yet very emotional and a truthful family film. Kinda like Lassie, but a uniquely Australian film about a real Australian dog.

I just feel like sharing these “Australia Day” films with you on your slightly similar holiday.
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A thug pulls a knife on Dundee … who seems puzzled, then amused…
**Dundee: **
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THAT’S not a knife … (withdrawing his concealed… MUCH bigger one …)

**THIS **… is a ***KNIFE! ***

(Thug quietly exits) 👋

 
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