Day 7: A Christmas Story (1983)
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Day 7: A Christmas Story (1983)

Day 7 of IJA 12 Days of Christmas brings us A Christmas Story. For many of you the first exposure to this movie was from the 24 hour marathon on TBS every Christmas (do they still do that?). Growing up this movie was synonymous with Christmas although I don't think I saw the full film until I was older. The list of quotes and memorable moments though are ingrained in our pop culture. You'll shoot your eye out! Remember kids - drink more Ovalteen Look it’s Italian!  Frageelé Oh fuuuuuudge! The interesting thing about each of the moments though are…
Day 6: A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
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Day 6: A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)

For day 6 of our 12 Days of Christmas, we'll be looking at A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965).  Now I know this is not technically a movie but in my household we can not go a holiday season without this gracing our screens!  As Charles gets the feels about "Miracle on 34th Street", I too get all the feels when this film comes to mind. The ever-down-trotten Charlie Brown is searching for the meaning of Christmas through all the commercialism and production that surrounds him.  His best "frenemy" Lucy suggests he direct the Christmas play.  Through all his efforts and…
Day 4: Santa Claus (1959)
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Day 4: Santa Claus (1959)

Hello and welcome back for Day 4 of our 12 Days of Christmas review series! Days 1 through 3 have brought warm fuzzies to all of us here at ItsJustAwesome.com so far, as we've happily strolled down memory lane to talk about some of the most well-loved Christmas classics of all time. Today, I'm sorry to inform you, a dramatic shift is taking place. To say that today's movie is NOT a classic is perhaps the greatest understatement in the history of recorded speech--it's a movie that is so awful, there's no way to even begin to describe what's so awful about it. Santa Claus (1959),…