Hunter Gilday ‘28
REPORTER
This Christmas season, high school students weighed in on their favorite Christmas movies, and the results are in. However, I have some thoughts on their choices, to say the least.
#1 Most answered - How The Grinch Stole Christmas (1993 Version):
I used to hate this Christmas movie; as a kid, I found the Grinch to be an incredibly scary character who wreaked havoc upon a small, innocent town. But now, looking at it from an older age and a more mature perspective, I still find him to be an incredibly scary character who wreaks havoc upon a small, innocent town. Everybody, this is not a Christmas movie. How the Grinch Stole Christmas is nothing more than a horror story about a green monster who eats trash and lives in a mountain, plotting and scheming about how to terrorize civilians. If you can’t see that, then you’re just refusing to see the truth about this film.
#2 Most answered - Home Alone:
Guys, when are we going to find a real Christmas movie? Home Alone tells the story of how a young boy is forgotten by the ones he considers the closest to him
and he’s forced to find ways to protect his house from two mysterious, dangerous men. Christmas is supposed to be about spreading love and joy – not this story of pain and sorrow. From the beginning to the end of this movie, the poor young man Kevin is stuck in a dysfunctional family that refuses to support or unconditionally love him. Home Alone is definitely not a Christmas movie either.
#3 Most answered - Polar Express:
All right, we just have to quit it with these answers. You’re telling me that a multitude of kids being lured by hot chocolate onto a train late at night is about Christmas? These kids were being kidnapped and taken to a foreign land, and nobody even tried to stop it or raise any red flags. I don’t even have to mention that the conductor was extremely unsafe, driving off the tracks and onto a thin layer of ice. For a lengthy part of the film, he was actually up on the roof of the train! So tell me this: who was in command of the vehicle? I know the kids definitely weren’t equipped to deal with that sort of situation. This tragedy is not a story of Christmas in any way.
