Jingle All The Way: A Christmas Battle Royale
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Published 2022-12-19
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Wanted to end the year on a whimsical Christmas tale. Moonfall next.
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I like how surprisingly diverse Schwarzenegger was in his movie lineup. Like, in one moment, he could play an uncaring, unfeeling being attempting to be human, and in the next he could be the T800.
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Fun Fact: The story is based on the 1980s shopping frenzy over the Cabbage Patch dolls. However, it ended up perfectly mimicking the Tickle Me Elmo craze of Christmas 1996.
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"I work at the Post Office, so you know I'm not stable." -Sinbad That line is pure gold.
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This movie is the epitome of the cast being so good that we ignore the cliche plot and bad writing and effects
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“We see that they(retail employees) take avid enjoyment in the suffering of their customers.” I always knew Jingle All The Way was a documentary.
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We have entered an interesting point of history where the Nostalgia Critic is an important cultural touch stone critics have to reference when reviewing media.
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My favorite part about this movie was that sinbad's backstory was that when he was a kid, he wanted a gun for christmas, and someone else got the gun and they grew up successful, while sinbad got stuck being the mailman, so he doesn't want that to happen to his kid. Truly the greatest villain origin story of any christmas movie
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Honestly, Arnold was perfectly cast here. He knows his way around a character can't be bargained with, can't be reasoned with, doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear and absolutely will not stop, ever, until he fulfills his duty - no matter how much physical harm and collateral damage he leaves in his wake!
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This movie features what is surely one of Arnold's most impressive on-screen feats. His car runs out of gas on the Hennepin Avenue bridge, and he's able to push it all the way to Mickey's Diner in downtown Saint Paul twelve miles away. The movie implies that this did not take him very much time at all - perhaps 15 or 20 minutes. We cannot rule out the possibility that Arnie's character is another Terminator sent back in time to either protect or kill young Anakin Skywalker.
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Weird how this movie keeps getting more appreciated as time goes on. Might be because it's from the age of movies where a movie could take itself 100% seriously without having to be meta about how ridiculous it is.
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The fact there’s a Christmas film where a character arguably committed an act of domestic terrorism is kind of hilarious.
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There is actually a post credit scene where the wife asks, “if you went through all that hell for Jaime, I wonder what you got me”
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The comedic timing of this film is surprisingly timeless and never fails to make me laugh to this day. A true Christmas classic at it's finest.
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That final ending clip really is my favorite part of the movie; the switcharoo of Sinbad bluffing that he's carrying around mail bombs that he mysteriously knows how to identify and hold on to, only to himself be disgusted when he discovers that someone actually sent a bomb through the mail. That and the Turboman theme is pretty dang great.
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5:00 - “This is a Christmas movie where everyone is an antagonist” - best ever summary of this mean-spirited movie.
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Rest in piece John Capitalism he surely was one of the humans of all time
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I watch this movie even off of the Christmas season as a part of my "pre-9/11" nostalgia movie collection Also apparently Arnold Schwarzenegger really enjoyed filming this movie and hanging out at the Mall of America
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I repeatedly quote “He got two!!!!” throughout the year. Best Arnold line ever
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This and the live action Grinch movie are about the only Christmas movies that truly capture that raw, unfiltered feeling of chaos. Which makes them the only Christmas movies I can sit through and unironically enjoy.
