Ever noticed that Christmas specials of British shows are always creepy and scary? That's because they have an old tradition of telling ghost stories around Christmas.
@rlb There are 10 kinds of people. Those who get the joke, those who don't get the joke, those who don't know when to stop telling the joke, and those who don't know about quaternary.
Must admit it took me a couple of seconds to get that. Used to do different bases at school and of course old enough to remember imperial weights and measures and the old lsd rather than decimal currency so you really had to be familiar with different bases. Not sure I ever programmed in octal but definitely used hex in the 80's when I started my career as a programmer, although a long time since I did that.
@comrade_Comrade A long time ago, before the dawning of YouTube...that was indeed the case. Nowadays the only way to scare kids is by tossing their iPhones into the grinder.
It's a story about a man trying to reunite with his family in time for the holidays.
But really, saying it's a Christmas movie is really a more polite way of saying "ugh, look, rather than watch some awful holiday special about the 'spirit of giving' that's so terrible they would never dare show them any other time of year, can we please just watch something decent?"
@Zealian It's a fairly recent thing to consider any movie that takes place at Christmas to be "a Christmas movie", and some people just want to be contrary to the sentimentality they grew up with. So, along with Die Hard, Batman Returns and Lethal Weapon are high on contemporary lists of favorite Christmas movies. *Dawot?* There are also a whole bunch of Christmas-themed horror movies, with killer elves, ax-wielding Santas, and that sort of thing, which has been playing frequently this week on the awful-movie TV channel. I think a lot of that attitude is from people my age wanting to get away from the Fifties values that most conventional Christmas movies express.
@Zealian It's set at christmas, that's a good enough excuse to watch a decent film rather than the awful "real" christmas films that get trotted out or remade
@Zealian Because it has a Santa hat, a winter setting, lots of guns and a good shootout and explosion here and there? I can't imagine Americans celebrating anything without guns and shootings. I'm still waiting for Michael Bay to make the Americanest Christmas movie ever. ;)
@DanishPride tak du for forsøg, jeg snakke ikke skandinaviske sprog men an saxon dialekt, og ken jeg der er menge saxon indflydelse i den skandinaviske sprog men jeg ken ikke hvor menge likheder der stedig er.
nu se jeg at der er nok likheder er till mig at forstå, men jeg forsøker at finde ud om det også virker omvendt.
Was that even close? I don't trust Google to do a good job so I just winged it.