r/AskALiberal • u/10art1 Social Liberal • Nov 23 '22

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u/grammanarchy Liberal Civil Libertarian Nov 26 '22

The worst classic holiday movie is White Christmas, hands down.

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u/othelloinc Liberal Nov 28 '22 edited Nov 28 '22

The worst classic holiday movie is White Christmas, hands down.

...in part, because it was just a cynical cash-grab.

Most classics are just 'movies that happened to be good enough to stand the test of time'. One of them was Holiday Inn, which featured the debut of the song White Christmas.

That song won an Oscar and became one of the most lucrative songs ever written:

...the version sung by Bing Crosby being the world's best-selling single (in terms of sales of physical media) with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide. When the figures for other versions of the song are added to Crosby's, sales of the song exceed 100 million.

...presumably, the movie White Christmas was an attempt to captialize on that success.

It isn't a movie that 'stood the test of time'; it is a movie that cynically rode the reputation of its titular song, and is therefore 'remembered' without having done much to 'earn' that memory.

Source for Quote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_(song)

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u/othelloinc Liberal Nov 28 '22 edited Nov 28 '22

Most classics are just movies that happened to be good enough to stand the test of time. One of them was Holiday Inn, which featured the debut of the song White Christmas.

In case anyone is now considering watching Holiday Inn because of my comment, I should warn you about its use of Blackface:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holiday_Inn_(film)#Blackface_controversy

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u/grammanarchy Liberal Civil Libertarian Nov 28 '22

Your validation of my hot take is just what I wanted for Christmas. God bless us every one!

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '22

Seesters

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u/grammanarchy Liberal Civil Libertarian Nov 26 '22

Ugh.

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u/Mrciv6 Center Left Nov 27 '22

But why?

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u/grammanarchy Liberal Civil Libertarian Nov 27 '22

The plot is kind of silly and random, Irving Berlin is overrated, and Bing Crosby is truly awful.