December 20, 2024 • 20 mins
LET'S TALK CHRISTMAS MOVIES WITH CHRISTIAN TOTO! Everyone has their favorites and so do I.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Joining me now. One of my favorite people and longtime
guests of the show, Christian Toto. He's the man behind
Hollywood intoto dot com podcast of the same name, where
they talk about all kinds of stuff related to movies
and entertainment and all that good stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Good to see you, my friend. Good to be back.
Thanks for having me. He used to be back.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Why has it been so long?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Now I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I just what's wrong with you? Lady?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Had the studio for you know, it's a little cup in.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
My head exactly olms for the pool selling matchsticks outside
the iHeart studios. You know, it is that time of
year where there's so many movies coming out right now
for Oscar contention.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
What is that like to be a movie critic trying
to just keep up? It's annoying and it's pressure filled.
Which listen, I'm not digging ditches. I'm watching movies. There
are so many movies that all the studios and all
the pr companies want you to see.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I can't watch them all. So I'm trying. I am trying.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
But and now I used to get DVDs in the mail,
so every time the mail person came like, oh, the
DVDs are here, which was exciting. Now I just get
a screener, you get a link. Yeah, yeah, but it's
still it's it's fun. And there's some good movies this year,
including A Complete Unknown, which I really loved.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
The Bob Dylan movie.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
That comes out Christmas Day, doesn't it because I.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Already have friends who've already got their tickets. Yes, it's
really good. So there's some good films that there. I've
been very down on twenty twenty four as a film year.
I just didn't think. I was like, what am I
gonna put on my best up list? There's just nothing there.
But I think the last few weeks have gotten better.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Wicked.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I haven't seen Wicked yet. I'm gonna go see that
on my holiday break. But my daughter played Defying Gravity,
which is the final big number of the show, the
Broadway Show, and I already cried. So maybe Arianna Grande
and Cynthia Rivo are onto something with all of their
weeping on this tour. Talk about Geez Louise almost insufferable Christian.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Absolutely cringe and you know it's funny.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
It's so bad, it's so embarrassing, and yet people are
saying I don't care the movies what I want to see.
It brings exactly what you want from a movie musical,
and those two performers are excellent.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, it just on the tour, on the press tour,
they have just been a little over the tops.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Are odd, and they are very vulnerable, and they've had
very thin skins, and their emotions are on their sleeves.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
They are walking talking stereotypes of everything that women have
been fighting against since the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Can I just say that no, because dudes are the
same way. I've dealt with a lot of actors, some
behind the scenes. I've edited some of their content in
the past, and they could be. They can be challenging
as well. The artistics sens of it.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
That's all. I think.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
It's an art Okay, let me just say this about
the actors I have known in my life. They are
all wired for external validation. Yes, and when they don't
get it in the appropriate where they don't get enough
of it or they don't feel like they're getting it,
they are completely They have no idea how how to
get internal validation.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
I interviewed Liza Minelli Cus twenty or so years ago,
and she was very sweet, had a great conversation and
like a superstar.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I mean, Liza Minelli is just superstar. Everybody knows Liza Minelli,
and I didn't.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I don't know why I didn't, but she was begging
me to come see her show, go backstage, be friendly,
like like she needed that validation from this from.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
The random person.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
It's kind of interesting, kind of sad at the same time.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
You know, yeah, but I get it.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
And listen, what they do is they have a very
unique skill set and they bring a lot of joy
to the world.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And you know a lot of people say, oh.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Shut up and sing, and I understand that at the
same time, they make our lives better when when they're
bringing what they do to the screen.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Absolutely have several people on the text line that have asked,
did you review the best Christmas Pageant ever?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I really enjoyed that film. It's now streaming, I think
it is. You can see it in theaters and on streaming.
You can watch a video and demand. I've spoken to
the film's producer. I just spoke to the film's editor.
The podcast will be going up later today. It's a
charming movie. I haven't read the source materials a seventy
two books. They thinks made a TV movie in the eighties,
and it's the kind of movie that sneaks up on you.
It starts very funny, and then it gets into these
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these horrible, terrible children who take over this pageant, and
of course the pageant mom is likeking, how am I
going to direct these kids? They're terrible, right, And of
course they get the spirit of Christmas, the spirit of redemption.
It's not a spoiler. It's just sort of the arc
of the story. I was charmed by it. I got
teared up at the end, for sure.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
All right, so now we have got three different did
you bring your favorite Christmas movies list?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Well, there my head, you're in your head, Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I had to write, mind, I don't really think about this,
and I realized, year to year, my favorite Christmas movies
change except number one. Number one always remains number one.
And that is why Christmas with Bing Crossby. But we'll
get to that in a moment. A Rod has already
taken umbrage with my number ten. And it's a fair
It is a fair criticism, right, It is a fair
criticism to say that planes, trains and Automobiles starring Steve
(04:37):
Martin and John Candy, is not technically a Christmas movie.
It is a Thanksgiving movie. But as I explained earlier,
for me, it it harkens back to when I was
a flight attendant. I was always flying on Christmas, always
and flying laying over on Christmas somewhere Columbus, Ohio, Charleston,
South Carolina, Columbus, Georgia. I got two Columbuses, you know,
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two years in a row in a different.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
State that's coming by exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
But I always was like plotting how I was going
to get home right because I was flying standby during Christmas.
You can only imagine how well that was going. So
it just and it's so freaking funny. Everything about that
movie makes me laugh out loud still to this day.
There are certain parts of it. I have seen them
fifty times and I still burst out laughing. And that's
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why for me it is number ten on my Christmas
movie list.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
To me, the scene I saw in the theater when
they're driving down the road or were going the wrong way.
I don't think I've ever laughed harder in a movie
theater than I did at that scene.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Here's my golden rule about Christmas movies.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
If you watch it at Christmas, almost every Christmas and
it gives you that feeling, it's a Christmas movie, which applies.
That's the diehard stand. Yeah, no, it's not really a
Christmas movie.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
We get there. There's some tinsel in there and the
Santahattan stuff.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
But if that is your holiday tradition and it speaks
to the holiday for you, that's it.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
If the holidays don't start until someone falls off Knoka
Tomi Towers, it's okay. You can make it a Christmas
movie for your list. Now, Anthony, what is number ten
on your Christmas movie list?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Number ten? It's going to fall in line with these animations.
It's not stop motion, so I forget what you call
this unless it is Chris. I only stop stop motions.
It's not the motion capture. But Frosty the Snowman, So
is that okay? So there's a couple on my list
in that realm. I'm not arguing they're the best, but
in the vein of the Christmas spirit and the feel
and just if I were to define Christmas, it's those
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exact collection movies.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Perfect.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
That's the worst of the bunch. That you'll hear on
my own Rudolph is on there. It's lower number ten.
Number ten is Frosty.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Do I have to throw a flag here?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I think Frosty's animation with Jimmy Duranty, if that's the one, because.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
He slides through the snow and leaves a little let
me see, uh is classic.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Frosty is with Jimmy Duranty narrative singing, and that's an
animated TV special.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
It is a clamation character. No, no, yes, Frosty claymation.
They did one.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
There are two. There's the animate and then there's the claymation.
I think I'm probably is.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
The one that I thought you were talking about.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
You know, I'm gonna have to decide right now because
I love both, and I didn't have on my original list.
I did not indicate which one. Oh Man Claymation.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
This very seriously here, Oh.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Extremely, I think I'm gonna have to go with the
clamation one.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yeah, I like the.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Clamation one better. That's the one that I always think of.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, I'm gonna go with the claimation one because it's
in that realm. All these claymation movies, there's three of
them on my list, Yes.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Three okay, all right, how about you, I'll throw in
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Okay, which is I believe stop motion?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
It is, No, that's clamation as well. I just was
on the clamation list that I that I just looked at. Yeah,
it doesn't look like clay well and felt it's like clay,
and felt it's called clamation because also stop motion though,
but it's the underlying character is claymation. It was all
done in the same studio. It was like clamation, this
division and all that stuff. It was like the motion
with inclamation the same thing. Stopation inclamation are the same thing,
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just with different stuff. Yeah, I mean, listen, pearl Ives.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
You've got great music, you've got classics characters. You know
Hermi I believe the Elpha he wants to be a dentist,
and of course the Island of Misfit Toys. And I say,
my most cherished possession around this time of the year,
I think my wife got me a set of Christmas
ornaments that are all these characters.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
You got Yukon coordinat.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Oh, yeah, you've got Rudolph, You've got all the different characters.
It's just it's magical to me. I can't. I can
have a treat without them on it.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
A lot of people are.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Pointing out the snowman sliding in the snow at the
beginning of Rudolph. I had those backwards in my mind, so, yes,
you are correct, and they are claimation, and that's we're
being like, it's claimation. Stop saying it's not kind of
them on the text line. Okay, number nine, I got
the Santa Claus with Tim Allen. I love that movie.
And now that I have seen other videos showing me
all of the little cheats in that movie that I missed,
(08:58):
like the fact that they're elves scattered throughout the beginning
of the film that you don't notice because this is
all they all knew Tim was going to be the
next Santa Claus.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
They're plotting, they were plotting for murder. They knew it
was happening.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
But I just thought it was a funny, clever premise
when it came out. And Tim Allen is just so
dang likable, and the kid in that movie is one
of the cutest kid actors at that moment in time,
and I love that movie.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
I think kid acting in general has gotten better over
the years. There have been many very horrible perform I mean,
you don't want to pick on a kid, but you
got to pick on a kid, I guess.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Don't leave the family. I mean, yeah, we've all seen
those performances where you're just like wow.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Wow, stop those kid actors? A tip uptod game?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Okay, what's number nine for you?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
A rod by the way, I just watched that. Have
you watched it recently? Oh? Yeah? It doesn't hold up
as I much that I remember, and the animation is rough. Well,
of course I know it is at ninety four. I
mean yeah, number nine is the o G version, one
of two on the list. The OG how I how
the Grinch stole Christmas? Okay, animated OG? It's nine?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
The better one is lower?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
No, the better one is lower? Okay, Christian, how about you?
Number nine?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
What do you got? I've got mister mcgoo's Christmas Carol.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
That is so good it almost made this list, but
I went Muppets instead. Yeah, that is a good one.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
What's yours?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Now?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Well, this is my list, not yours.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Great music, and just mister McGoo, what what an odd
character he was, wasn't he?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Mister McGoo is basically us making fun.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Of blind people.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I mean, the whole the whole entire series is us
making fun of a blind man. I mean, when you
really get right down to it.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
But in a charming way in which Gilligan's Island character portrayed.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
That would be Lovey who is first? And Howell who
Jim what ah Jim Beckus Damn. I knew that, all right,
I'm gonna go number eight. That's where the Muppet Christmas
Carol comes into me. And here's why, Michael Caine he
could have handed it up. He could have just you know,
been a silly. He nailed Scrooge perfectly. And then you
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have the Muppets and it's just so good. And that
version of that show is the first one that I
ever think made it accessible for kids, right because Christmas
Carol's kind of boring when you're a kid. Like my
parents dragged me to it and we had to go.
But when I saw them up it's Christmas Carol.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I got it. I understood what we were doing. I
agree also that Christmas.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Carol has been told so many yeah times, my gosh,
we need to break moratorium on all Christmas Carol productions.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I got a bunch of two ones yeah, we're fine. Tight,
just stick around for that, Ay, Rod, what do you
have at eight?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
My number eight? I did this list ten days ago,
so I must stay true to it. But if I
reranked these after just recently we rewatched this, it'd be
my number three.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
It is one of the best Christmas movies ever. It
is somewhat new in the last five years. It's the
only Christmas movie that normally on a normal basis, can
make me cry. And that is the beautiful animated Klaus.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
I haven't seen it, unreal, I haven't seen it yet.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Christian, I haven't seen it. You will cry. You will cry.
It is one of the best Christmas movies ever. It
is heartfelt. It has the most of any Christmas movie,
the most Christmas spirit.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Okay, I will watch it this weekend. It's on Netflix.
I know Klaus is on Netflix. What about number eight
for you?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I'd say Santa Claus is coming to Town.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
And that's a good one classic.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
It's so good and for me, it's put one step
in front of the other, which is a musical number
that is so deep entrenched at my heart. I actually,
you know the great thing about YouTube nowgic, I can
watch it anytime.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yes, And how often do you go watch that musical
number just.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
A few year long, A few times already. It's amazing
and Fred Astaire. I love how they brought back these
older character actors who probably maybe their careers were waning
and they still had some magic left in their tank,
and how it explains.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
The mythology of Santa See.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I didn't even think about that. I mean, because when
I was a kid, here's Fred Astaire, and I knew
who he was, you know, but it didn't occur to
me that he was an aging actor at that point
and that he was not as famous as he once was.
And that's kind of an interesting way to look at
that particular.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Movie that I had not considered. There you go, it's
it's so much. The music is wonderful, by the way. Yeah,
the songs are just memorable and catchy.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
And Mickey Rooney as Santa Claus, the voice of Santa Claus.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
It's perfection for me.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Number seven is a Charlie Brown Christmas I mean, uh, yeah,
it's a It was just a classic holiday tradition in
the house after Thanksgiving, you knew it was going to
come on, and everybody sat around and watched it together
and everybody's had a Charlie Brown Christmas tree at some point,
and you know, it's just the ultimate spirit builder for
the holiday season for me.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
And also there's a great behind the scenes story about
how that was made, the kerfuffle behind the scenes as
far as it's a very spiritual story. I mean, Linus
the speech really explaining what the Christmas story is that
was not well received at the time.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
This is the sixties.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Yeah today, but yeah, so the fact that it came
out as it is is a miracle.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Okay, aerd what do you got at number seven?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Number seven? Sticking with the nostalgia and thecclaimation, Rudolph.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Is where it goes here for me at seven, Okay,
nobody's gonna argue with that, because again it's a fan
favorite about bullying until Santa finds out that you are
useful and then all of a sudden you're popular again.
It's it's a classic tale. We can't really tell that
one enough, but it is a great movie. How about
you seven?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
If I said Frosty, I love original Frosty watching me
Duranty with that haggard voice singing it. You know, the
the fact that he melts toward the end, or there's
a thread of melt.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
It's I know.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
It's kind of bittersweet in the way.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
It is a little bit, but also very very good
for me. Number six Home Alone, this Christmas classic about
child neglect, never gets old. It still holds up. It's
still funny. It's still ridiculous and over the top, and
I love it and we'll watch it every time it's on.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I'm a late convert to Home Alone.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
I really resisted that, resisted the call for a while,
but I've seen it recently in like, yeah, until kevin'sank.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
It is so good, you know it is? How about you?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Number six Holiday Road pulls in with the Griswolds. Gotta
go with all the crazy that goes on with Christmas vacation.
It's the best vacation movie of all of them, by
the way. I love the Vegas one, the oh G's good,
but this one's the best.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
As I agree with you on that.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah, A Little drummer Boy, which was a stop motion creation.
I don't know what.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
I don't want to label it wrong so i'd be
yelled at, but I enjoyed that. It's it's pretty. It
has a different vibe, and I like that about it.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Yeah, that's kind of for me. It has like the
Polar Express vibe. I don't love, Okay, Like I never
wanted to watch that one as much.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Number five, that's where I have Christmas vacation.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
What do you got?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Five?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I've got the year with that of Santa Claus. Oh,
that's that's a good one.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
More ornaments on my tree again, Mickey Rooney as the
as Santa taking a year off, not feeling too well,
got a bit of a cold, and jingle and jangle
the elves.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
It's just absolute gold.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Just speaking of Rod's language.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
That was your number five flower on my last five
for me is the superior mister Jim Carey himself. How
the Green stole Christmas? The better one by far.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
We've already had this conversation, so I'm just gonna move on.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Number four.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
A Christmas story and a Christmas story I love because
Jean Shepherd is one of my favorite humorist writers. And
I was in plays that he wrote when I was
like in sixth grade, so I have a huge gene
Shepherd thing. And then my mom is from Cleveland, Ohio,
so for her it is exactly like her childhood in Cleveland,
Ohio in terms of the department store, Santa and all
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that stuff. So we share a great deal of affection
for that particular movie, and it's just really pitch perfect and.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
So well done.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Yeah, the official book was called in God, we trust
all those all others pay cash.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yep, that's Jane Shepherd.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
How about you a rod?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Where are you at?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Number five? Excuse me?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Number four? Number four seconds?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Only Klaus in the feeling of the Christmas spirits, Tom
Hanks and all his wonder with all the characters. I
don't care what you think about the animation. I'm taking
my ticket on the Polar Express. Baby dead eyes, dead Eye,
don't care, don't care how good the Christmas spirit is
of this movie.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I hate the animation in that movie.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Love the animation. Where's my hot Chocolate? Because you two
don't get anything.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I don't need any from that weird, dead eyed cast
of characters.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
You don't get refreshment. All right?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
What is number four for you? Christian?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
It's Grinch Sporis Karloff and narrating the story.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
It's just it's just it really does capture my childhood,
you know, And it's darker it's a little bit twisted,
a little bit wicked, and the animation is wonderful and
not ornate, but it really does capture the spirit of
Doctor Seuss.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I agree number three. I've Got Elf because it's just
such a great movie and it just is so fun.
And Will Ferrell is the most likable he has ever
been in any movie as Buddy the Elf.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
It's perfection and I watched it every year. I'll get
to that soon, but watch his performance the slapstick, the
naive presentation. It's brilliant, and listen, we don't honor comedians
like we should. I don't know if that's an Oscar
worthy performance, but we give it too little attention.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I agree that the whole scene where they're on the
street and he's just ac costing people, he was just
a costing people on the street.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Recently they did that at the end of filming the
last things that fills.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Exactly, and he's just running up to strangers.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
On the street.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
John's a cameraman. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I mean that, it's just it's so good.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Where you got three?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Three real quick? I know we're speeding up here at
home alone, Like you said, all the reasons. It's just
it feels so good and it's awesoree Christmas story.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
It's falling a little bit because that two other films
have moved up in my mind.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
That's a good reason. Number two, I've got Arthur Christmas.
Not the most commonly known show. It is an animated
film came out of I think in twenty eleven, and
it's about Arthur, who is the second son of Santa Steve,
is actually going to take over as Santa Steve, and
Santa Steve, in his first year of this high tech
Christmas delivery system, misses a child and Arthur spends the
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whole rest of the film trying to get this present
to this one last child and Grandpa grand Santa is
worth watching. The whole thing is all the great one liners,
all the dry humor. Not necessarily a kids movie. It's
got a lot of really great humor. But the end
is super heartwarming and I love it. Number two an
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I don't have it too.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
I have a one, A one B. I'll never ever
break this tie for me for all the reason you
guys said for Elf, it's up there with one A
Peter Dinklish, one of his first acting credits. By the way,
say Elf, one more time and one be I was
called myser. My brother was heat miser every single year.
You want to talk about tradition. A year without a
Santa Claus warms my heart. Not as warm as a
heat miser, though, because I'm the gold meser all right.
Number two Christmas vacation.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
When you become a when you become a dad, you
really yawn with Chevy Chase's character all the more, and
his frustration and his meltdown moment is priceless.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
It is number one for me, will always be White
Christmas being crosby Danny kay Vera Allen and Rosemary Cloty
and what I think is a perfect Christmas movie. And
I cry when they sing wherever the Old Man goes.
I want to go wherever. Oh it's so good, so good,
White Christmas for me.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Number one for you, elf, Elf, Yeah, magical gets better
every time I see it. I laugh every time. So
many wonderful little nuggets to enjoy. Look at Santa Christian
name has escaped me the community already, lang, Yes, how
did you like to be dead?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
All right?
Speaker 3 (20:08):
My friends?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Christian Toto a joy as always. Thank you for stopping
by to go through our Christmas list. We'll have you
back on after the first of the year and we'll
start talking oscars and awards season. I know it's kind of sad,
I keep trying not to make eye contact.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Merry Christmas, Christian
Joining me now. One of my favorite people and longtime
guests of the show, Christian Toto. He's the man behind
Hollywood intoto dot com podcast of the same name, where
they talk about all kinds of stuff related to movies
and entertainment and all that good stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Good to see you, my friend. Good to be back.
Thanks for having me. He used to be back.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Why has it been so long?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Now I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I just what's wrong with you? Lady?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Had the studio for you know, it's a little cup in.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
My head exactly olms for the pool selling matchsticks outside
the iHeart studios. You know, it is that time of
year where there's so many movies coming out right now
for Oscar contention.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
What is that like to be a movie critic trying
to just keep up? It's annoying and it's pressure filled.
Which listen, I'm not digging ditches. I'm watching movies. There
are so many movies that all the studios and all
the pr companies want you to see.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I can't watch them all. So I'm trying. I am trying.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
But and now I used to get DVDs in the mail,
so every time the mail person came like, oh, the
DVDs are here, which was exciting. Now I just get
a screener, you get a link. Yeah, yeah, but it's
still it's it's fun. And there's some good movies this year,
including A Complete Unknown, which I really loved.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
The Bob Dylan movie.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
That comes out Christmas Day, doesn't it because I.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Already have friends who've already got their tickets. Yes, it's
really good. So there's some good films that there. I've
been very down on twenty twenty four as a film year.
I just didn't think. I was like, what am I
gonna put on my best up list? There's just nothing there.
But I think the last few weeks have gotten better.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Wicked.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I haven't seen Wicked yet. I'm gonna go see that
on my holiday break. But my daughter played Defying Gravity,
which is the final big number of the show, the
Broadway Show, and I already cried. So maybe Arianna Grande
and Cynthia Rivo are onto something with all of their
weeping on this tour. Talk about Geez Louise almost insufferable Christian.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Absolutely cringe and you know it's funny.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
It's so bad, it's so embarrassing, and yet people are
saying I don't care the movies what I want to see.
It brings exactly what you want from a movie musical,
and those two performers are excellent.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, it just on the tour, on the press tour,
they have just been a little over the tops.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Are odd, and they are very vulnerable, and they've had
very thin skins, and their emotions are on their sleeves.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
They are walking talking stereotypes of everything that women have
been fighting against since the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Can I just say that no, because dudes are the
same way. I've dealt with a lot of actors, some
behind the scenes. I've edited some of their content in
the past, and they could be. They can be challenging
as well. The artistics sens of it.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
That's all. I think.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
It's an art Okay, let me just say this about
the actors I have known in my life. They are
all wired for external validation. Yes, and when they don't
get it in the appropriate where they don't get enough
of it or they don't feel like they're getting it,
they are completely They have no idea how how to
get internal validation.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
I interviewed Liza Minelli Cus twenty or so years ago,
and she was very sweet, had a great conversation and
like a superstar.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I mean, Liza Minelli is just superstar. Everybody knows Liza Minelli,
and I didn't.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I don't know why I didn't, but she was begging
me to come see her show, go backstage, be friendly,
like like she needed that validation from this from.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
The random person.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
It's kind of interesting, kind of sad at the same time.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
You know, yeah, but I get it.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
And listen, what they do is they have a very
unique skill set and they bring a lot of joy
to the world.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And you know a lot of people say, oh.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Shut up and sing, and I understand that at the
same time, they make our lives better when when they're
bringing what they do to the screen.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Absolutely have several people on the text line that have asked,
did you review the best Christmas Pageant ever?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I really enjoyed that film. It's now streaming, I think
it is. You can see it in theaters and on streaming.
You can watch a video and demand. I've spoken to
the film's producer. I just spoke to the film's editor.
The podcast will be going up later today. It's a
charming movie. I haven't read the source materials a seventy
two books. They thinks made a TV movie in the eighties,
and it's the kind of movie that sneaks up on you.
It starts very funny, and then it gets into these
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these horrible, terrible children who take over this pageant, and
of course the pageant mom is likeking, how am I
going to direct these kids? They're terrible, right, And of
course they get the spirit of Christmas, the spirit of redemption.
It's not a spoiler. It's just sort of the arc
of the story. I was charmed by it. I got
teared up at the end, for sure.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
All right, so now we have got three different did
you bring your favorite Christmas movies list?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Well, there my head, you're in your head, Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I had to write, mind, I don't really think about this,
and I realized, year to year, my favorite Christmas movies
change except number one. Number one always remains number one.
And that is why Christmas with Bing Crossby. But we'll
get to that in a moment. A Rod has already
taken umbrage with my number ten. And it's a fair
It is a fair criticism, right, It is a fair
criticism to say that planes, trains and Automobiles starring Steve
(04:37):
Martin and John Candy, is not technically a Christmas movie.
It is a Thanksgiving movie. But as I explained earlier,
for me, it it harkens back to when I was
a flight attendant. I was always flying on Christmas, always
and flying laying over on Christmas somewhere Columbus, Ohio, Charleston,
South Carolina, Columbus, Georgia. I got two Columbuses, you know,
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two years in a row in a different.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
State that's coming by exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
But I always was like plotting how I was going
to get home right because I was flying standby during Christmas.
You can only imagine how well that was going. So
it just and it's so freaking funny. Everything about that
movie makes me laugh out loud still to this day.
There are certain parts of it. I have seen them
fifty times and I still burst out laughing. And that's
(05:22):
why for me it is number ten on my Christmas
movie list.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
To me, the scene I saw in the theater when
they're driving down the road or were going the wrong way.
I don't think I've ever laughed harder in a movie
theater than I did at that scene.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Here's my golden rule about Christmas movies.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
If you watch it at Christmas, almost every Christmas and
it gives you that feeling, it's a Christmas movie, which applies.
That's the diehard stand. Yeah, no, it's not really a
Christmas movie.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
We get there. There's some tinsel in there and the
Santahattan stuff.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
But if that is your holiday tradition and it speaks
to the holiday for you, that's it.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
If the holidays don't start until someone falls off Knoka
Tomi Towers, it's okay. You can make it a Christmas
movie for your list. Now, Anthony, what is number ten
on your Christmas movie list?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Number ten? It's going to fall in line with these animations.
It's not stop motion, so I forget what you call
this unless it is Chris. I only stop stop motions.
It's not the motion capture. But Frosty the Snowman, So
is that okay? So there's a couple on my list
in that realm. I'm not arguing they're the best, but
in the vein of the Christmas spirit and the feel
and just if I were to define Christmas, it's those
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exact collection movies.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Perfect.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
That's the worst of the bunch. That you'll hear on
my own Rudolph is on there. It's lower number ten.
Number ten is Frosty.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Do I have to throw a flag here?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I think Frosty's animation with Jimmy Duranty, if that's the one, because.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
He slides through the snow and leaves a little let
me see, uh is classic.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Frosty is with Jimmy Duranty narrative singing, and that's an
animated TV special.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
It is a clamation character. No, no, yes, Frosty claymation.
They did one.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
There are two. There's the animate and then there's the claymation.
I think I'm probably is.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
The one that I thought you were talking about.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
You know, I'm gonna have to decide right now because
I love both, and I didn't have on my original list.
I did not indicate which one. Oh Man Claymation.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
This very seriously here, Oh.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Extremely, I think I'm gonna have to go with the
clamation one.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yeah, I like the.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Clamation one better. That's the one that I always think of.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, I'm gonna go with the claimation one because it's
in that realm. All these claymation movies, there's three of
them on my list, Yes.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Three okay, all right, how about you, I'll throw in
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Okay, which is I believe stop motion?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
It is, No, that's clamation as well. I just was
on the clamation list that I that I just looked at. Yeah,
it doesn't look like clay well and felt it's like clay,
and felt it's called clamation because also stop motion though,
but it's the underlying character is claymation. It was all
done in the same studio. It was like clamation, this
division and all that stuff. It was like the motion
with inclamation the same thing. Stopation inclamation are the same thing,
(08:09):
just with different stuff. Yeah, I mean, listen, pearl Ives.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
You've got great music, you've got classics characters. You know
Hermi I believe the Elpha he wants to be a dentist,
and of course the Island of Misfit Toys. And I say,
my most cherished possession around this time of the year,
I think my wife got me a set of Christmas
ornaments that are all these characters.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
You got Yukon coordinat.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Oh, yeah, you've got Rudolph, You've got all the different characters.
It's just it's magical to me. I can't. I can
have a treat without them on it.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
A lot of people are.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Pointing out the snowman sliding in the snow at the
beginning of Rudolph. I had those backwards in my mind, so, yes,
you are correct, and they are claimation, and that's we're
being like, it's claimation. Stop saying it's not kind of
them on the text line. Okay, number nine, I got
the Santa Claus with Tim Allen. I love that movie.
And now that I have seen other videos showing me
all of the little cheats in that movie that I missed,
(08:58):
like the fact that they're elves scattered throughout the beginning
of the film that you don't notice because this is
all they all knew Tim was going to be the
next Santa Claus.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
They're plotting, they were plotting for murder. They knew it
was happening.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
But I just thought it was a funny, clever premise
when it came out. And Tim Allen is just so
dang likable, and the kid in that movie is one
of the cutest kid actors at that moment in time,
and I love that movie.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
I think kid acting in general has gotten better over
the years. There have been many very horrible perform I mean,
you don't want to pick on a kid, but you
got to pick on a kid, I guess.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Don't leave the family. I mean, yeah, we've all seen
those performances where you're just like wow.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Wow, stop those kid actors? A tip uptod game?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Okay, what's number nine for you?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
A rod by the way, I just watched that. Have
you watched it recently? Oh? Yeah? It doesn't hold up
as I much that I remember, and the animation is rough. Well,
of course I know it is at ninety four. I
mean yeah, number nine is the o G version, one
of two on the list. The OG how I how
the Grinch stole Christmas? Okay, animated OG? It's nine?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
The better one is lower?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
No, the better one is lower? Okay, Christian, how about you?
Number nine?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
What do you got? I've got mister mcgoo's Christmas Carol.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
That is so good it almost made this list, but
I went Muppets instead. Yeah, that is a good one.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
What's yours?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Now?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Well, this is my list, not yours.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Great music, and just mister McGoo, what what an odd
character he was, wasn't he?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Mister McGoo is basically us making fun.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Of blind people.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I mean, the whole the whole entire series is us
making fun of a blind man. I mean, when you
really get right down to it.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
But in a charming way in which Gilligan's Island character portrayed.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
That would be Lovey who is first? And Howell who
Jim what ah Jim Beckus Damn. I knew that, all right,
I'm gonna go number eight. That's where the Muppet Christmas
Carol comes into me. And here's why, Michael Caine he
could have handed it up. He could have just you know,
been a silly. He nailed Scrooge perfectly. And then you
(10:58):
have the Muppets and it's just so good. And that
version of that show is the first one that I
ever think made it accessible for kids, right because Christmas
Carol's kind of boring when you're a kid. Like my
parents dragged me to it and we had to go.
But when I saw them up it's Christmas Carol.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I got it. I understood what we were doing. I
agree also that Christmas.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Carol has been told so many yeah times, my gosh,
we need to break moratorium on all Christmas Carol productions.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I got a bunch of two ones yeah, we're fine. Tight,
just stick around for that, Ay, Rod, what do you
have at eight?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
My number eight? I did this list ten days ago,
so I must stay true to it. But if I
reranked these after just recently we rewatched this, it'd be
my number three.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
It is one of the best Christmas movies ever. It
is somewhat new in the last five years. It's the
only Christmas movie that normally on a normal basis, can
make me cry. And that is the beautiful animated Klaus.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
I haven't seen it, unreal, I haven't seen it yet.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Christian, I haven't seen it. You will cry. You will cry.
It is one of the best Christmas movies ever. It
is heartfelt. It has the most of any Christmas movie,
the most Christmas spirit.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Okay, I will watch it this weekend. It's on Netflix.
I know Klaus is on Netflix. What about number eight
for you?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I'd say Santa Claus is coming to Town.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
And that's a good one classic.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
It's so good and for me, it's put one step
in front of the other, which is a musical number
that is so deep entrenched at my heart. I actually,
you know the great thing about YouTube nowgic, I can
watch it anytime.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yes, And how often do you go watch that musical
number just.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
A few year long, A few times already. It's amazing
and Fred Astaire. I love how they brought back these
older character actors who probably maybe their careers were waning
and they still had some magic left in their tank,
and how it explains.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
The mythology of Santa See.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I didn't even think about that. I mean, because when
I was a kid, here's Fred Astaire, and I knew
who he was, you know, but it didn't occur to
me that he was an aging actor at that point
and that he was not as famous as he once was.
And that's kind of an interesting way to look at
that particular.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Movie that I had not considered. There you go, it's
it's so much. The music is wonderful, by the way. Yeah,
the songs are just memorable and catchy.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
And Mickey Rooney as Santa Claus, the voice of Santa Claus.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
It's perfection for me.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Number seven is a Charlie Brown Christmas I mean, uh, yeah,
it's a It was just a classic holiday tradition in
the house after Thanksgiving, you knew it was going to
come on, and everybody sat around and watched it together
and everybody's had a Charlie Brown Christmas tree at some point,
and you know, it's just the ultimate spirit builder for
the holiday season for me.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
And also there's a great behind the scenes story about
how that was made, the kerfuffle behind the scenes as
far as it's a very spiritual story. I mean, Linus
the speech really explaining what the Christmas story is that
was not well received at the time.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
This is the sixties.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Yeah today, but yeah, so the fact that it came
out as it is is a miracle.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Okay, aerd what do you got at number seven?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Number seven? Sticking with the nostalgia and thecclaimation, Rudolph.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Is where it goes here for me at seven, Okay,
nobody's gonna argue with that, because again it's a fan
favorite about bullying until Santa finds out that you are
useful and then all of a sudden you're popular again.
It's it's a classic tale. We can't really tell that
one enough, but it is a great movie. How about
you seven?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
If I said Frosty, I love original Frosty watching me
Duranty with that haggard voice singing it. You know, the
the fact that he melts toward the end, or there's
a thread of melt.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
It's I know.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
It's kind of bittersweet in the way.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
It is a little bit, but also very very good
for me. Number six Home Alone, this Christmas classic about
child neglect, never gets old. It still holds up. It's
still funny. It's still ridiculous and over the top, and
I love it and we'll watch it every time it's on.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I'm a late convert to Home Alone.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
I really resisted that, resisted the call for a while,
but I've seen it recently in like, yeah, until kevin'sank.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
It is so good, you know it is? How about you?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Number six Holiday Road pulls in with the Griswolds. Gotta
go with all the crazy that goes on with Christmas vacation.
It's the best vacation movie of all of them, by
the way. I love the Vegas one, the oh G's good,
but this one's the best.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
As I agree with you on that.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah, A Little drummer Boy, which was a stop motion creation.
I don't know what.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
I don't want to label it wrong so i'd be
yelled at, but I enjoyed that. It's it's pretty. It
has a different vibe, and I like that about it.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Yeah, that's kind of for me. It has like the
Polar Express vibe. I don't love, Okay, Like I never
wanted to watch that one as much.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Number five, that's where I have Christmas vacation.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
What do you got?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Five?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I've got the year with that of Santa Claus. Oh,
that's that's a good one.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
More ornaments on my tree again, Mickey Rooney as the
as Santa taking a year off, not feeling too well,
got a bit of a cold, and jingle and jangle
the elves.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
It's just absolute gold.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Just speaking of Rod's language.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
That was your number five flower on my last five
for me is the superior mister Jim Carey himself. How
the Green stole Christmas? The better one by far.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
We've already had this conversation, so I'm just gonna move on.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Number four.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
A Christmas story and a Christmas story I love because
Jean Shepherd is one of my favorite humorist writers. And
I was in plays that he wrote when I was
like in sixth grade, so I have a huge gene
Shepherd thing. And then my mom is from Cleveland, Ohio,
so for her it is exactly like her childhood in Cleveland,
Ohio in terms of the department store, Santa and all
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that stuff. So we share a great deal of affection
for that particular movie, and it's just really pitch perfect and.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
So well done.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Yeah, the official book was called in God, we trust
all those all others pay cash.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yep, that's Jane Shepherd.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
How about you a rod?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Where are you at?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Number five? Excuse me?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Number four? Number four seconds?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Only Klaus in the feeling of the Christmas spirits, Tom
Hanks and all his wonder with all the characters. I
don't care what you think about the animation. I'm taking
my ticket on the Polar Express. Baby dead eyes, dead Eye,
don't care, don't care how good the Christmas spirit is
of this movie.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I hate the animation in that movie.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Love the animation. Where's my hot Chocolate? Because you two
don't get anything.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I don't need any from that weird, dead eyed cast
of characters.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
You don't get refreshment. All right?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
What is number four for you? Christian?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
It's Grinch Sporis Karloff and narrating the story.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
It's just it's just it really does capture my childhood,
you know, And it's darker it's a little bit twisted,
a little bit wicked, and the animation is wonderful and
not ornate, but it really does capture the spirit of
Doctor Seuss.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I agree number three. I've Got Elf because it's just
such a great movie and it just is so fun.
And Will Ferrell is the most likable he has ever
been in any movie as Buddy the Elf.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
It's perfection and I watched it every year. I'll get
to that soon, but watch his performance the slapstick, the
naive presentation. It's brilliant, and listen, we don't honor comedians
like we should. I don't know if that's an Oscar
worthy performance, but we give it too little attention.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I agree that the whole scene where they're on the
street and he's just ac costing people, he was just
a costing people on the street.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Recently they did that at the end of filming the
last things that fills.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Exactly, and he's just running up to strangers.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
On the street.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
John's a cameraman. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I mean that, it's just it's so good.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Where you got three?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Three real quick? I know we're speeding up here at
home alone, Like you said, all the reasons. It's just
it feels so good and it's awesoree Christmas story.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
It's falling a little bit because that two other films
have moved up in my mind.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
That's a good reason. Number two, I've got Arthur Christmas.
Not the most commonly known show. It is an animated
film came out of I think in twenty eleven, and
it's about Arthur, who is the second son of Santa Steve,
is actually going to take over as Santa Steve, and
Santa Steve, in his first year of this high tech
Christmas delivery system, misses a child and Arthur spends the
(18:41):
whole rest of the film trying to get this present
to this one last child and Grandpa grand Santa is
worth watching. The whole thing is all the great one liners,
all the dry humor. Not necessarily a kids movie. It's
got a lot of really great humor. But the end
is super heartwarming and I love it. Number two an
(19:02):
I don't have it too.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
I have a one, A one B. I'll never ever
break this tie for me for all the reason you
guys said for Elf, it's up there with one A
Peter Dinklish, one of his first acting credits. By the way,
say Elf, one more time and one be I was
called myser. My brother was heat miser every single year.
You want to talk about tradition. A year without a
Santa Claus warms my heart. Not as warm as a
heat miser, though, because I'm the gold meser all right.
Number two Christmas vacation.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
When you become a when you become a dad, you
really yawn with Chevy Chase's character all the more, and
his frustration and his meltdown moment is priceless.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
It is number one for me, will always be White
Christmas being crosby Danny kay Vera Allen and Rosemary Cloty
and what I think is a perfect Christmas movie. And
I cry when they sing wherever the Old Man goes.
I want to go wherever. Oh it's so good, so good,
White Christmas for me.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Number one for you, elf, Elf, Yeah, magical gets better
every time I see it. I laugh every time. So
many wonderful little nuggets to enjoy. Look at Santa Christian
name has escaped me the community already, lang, Yes, how
did you like to be dead?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
All right?
Speaker 3 (20:08):
My friends?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Christian Toto a joy as always. Thank you for stopping
by to go through our Christmas list. We'll have you
back on after the first of the year and we'll
start talking oscars and awards season. I know it's kind of sad,
I keep trying not to make eye contact.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Merry Christmas, Christian
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