To be sure, I love the movie dearly, but I understand how other people could have felt differently about it.
I was reading a Wikipedia article the other day about Brian Levant that I thought was interesting and made me think he's a really underappreciated director. That's not because his movies are good, they're widely considered to be bad, but rather because he managed to carve a niche for himself and find more success in it than almost anyone else. He pretty much exclusively directs cheesy family/holiday movies that get poor critical reception but are replayed to death on TV for decades. His two most notable ones are probably Beethoven and Jingle All The Way. Someone even asked what he thought about the poor critical reception and he said "To read those reviews is an act of self-flagellation, but reviews be damned when you're at Blockbuster, and you're seeing family after family grab one of your Movies off the shelf off a Friday night. I can't tell you how many times I've seen that.".
Even if you don't like his movies, his quote is undeniably true. The guy really managed to perfect that exact type of movie when it comes to making long-term success.
Christmas fixes continue. Nothing says Christmas like commercialism so why not make a movie to sell toys? Jingle All The Way tried to be that movie, how would you fix it?
Directed by Brian Levant
Written by Randy Kornfield
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Phil Hartman, Rita Wilson, and Jake Lloyd
A father vows to get his son a Turbo Man action figure for Christmas. However, every store is sold out of them, and he must travel all over town and compete with everybody else in order to find one.
So how would you fix Jingle All The Way? Share your ideas and help expand on others.
Please DM me any future requests or challenges.
Next week: Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas (2014)
Having a "favorite archaeological artefact" is kind of tacky, but were I a tacky man, mine might be the so-called Shigir Idol, a nine foot tall wooden statue discovered in the central Urals in Russia that just keeps getting its date of creation pushed back, now at about twelve thousand years before the present. It is a beautifully evocative piece, I would never say something embodies the sublimity of primitive art, but I must say that it certainly does that. Unfortunately I know basically nothing about it or its broader cultural context--I assume this information is either published in Russian or just generally in the thicket of Mesolithic studies I am not very experienced in getting through.
So imagine my joy when during one of my random Googlings of it I find that the New York Times, the Paper of Record, the Grey Lady herself had published an article on it! Hopefully this will be an informative read! And it was! Because I learned just how bad an article on this topic could be! It was very instructive on the results of what happens when an author who knows nothing about which they are writing and is not so inclined to find out! Let’s get into it!
The trouble starts, as it so often does, with the lede:
>At 12,500 years old, the Shigir Idol is by far the earliest known work of ritual art. Only decay has kept others from being found.
“Only decay has kept others from being found” is kind of a clumsy way to express the point that wood usually decays before archaeologists can find it, but fine. The real focus here is that first claim, that it is “by far the earliest known work of ritual art”. What exactly is “ritual art” you might be wondering? Well, keep wondering because he never defines it. Which then makes it difficult to assess whether it is the “earliest”. But let us say that he means art created for the purpose of ritual, but then why is it ritual art but the Venus of Hohle Fels, which was older to the creators of the Shigir Idol than the Shigir Idol is to use, is not? Maybe he is defining it as something that marks out a ritual space, which I can agree the diminutive Venus figures are a bad candidate for, but then what about the paintings at Lascaux? The thing that, if you say “prehistoric art” 90% of people will think of first, that is the first result for “prehistoric art” on Google? Those predate the Shigir Idol
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
The nurse asked the rabbit, “what is your blood type?”
“I am probably a type O” said the rabbit.
The doctor says it terminal.
Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB
Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"
I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual
So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes
r/unclejokes for dirty jokes
r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC
r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes
Punchline !
Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub
Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat
Do your worst!
How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?
We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.
Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.
But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
He lost May
Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.
Said if she ever hosts a gender reveal party, when it comes time to pop the balloon she'll spray everyone with water.
Gender is fluid.
Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"
Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
But let me give it a shot.
He’s the new temp.
And now I’m cannelloni
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
But that’s comparing apples to oranges
And boy are my arms legs.
Amy
Put it on my bill
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
