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11-01-2017, 10:03 AM
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Fox's "A Christmas Story Live" was a Major Flop
The most beloved Christmas movie of all-time, becomes the season's biggest television event.
Don't miss A Christmas Story: Live, Dec. 17th at 7/6c on FOX! |
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11-01-2017, 11:13 AM
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More "Live" garbage being churned out by Hollywood.
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11-02-2017, 01:51 AM
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sorry i can't stand an christmas story!! that movie gets on my nerves!! especially that they show it like 24 hours on chrsitmas!!
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11-02-2017, 07:40 AM
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Is that the 1983 movie called "christmas story"??
Not very good in my opinion..... |
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11-02-2017, 08:27 AM
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11-02-2017, 08:42 AM
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The original was perfect. No point in tampering with it.
Hollywood no longer has talent so it's either copy something that's been done or spread their propaganda. Often they do both together. I'm surprised they didn't make Ralphie black, a girl, or transgender and change the gun to an inclusive doll. Then again, I haven't seen it. |
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11-02-2017, 08:54 AM
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Hollywood is just nothing but rehashes, reboots, remakes, and sequels. There is just simply no originality anymore.
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11-03-2017, 02:28 AM
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They have all been re-programmed to be this way.....
Its sad isnt it? |
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11-03-2017, 05:57 PM
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Stop ruining the classics.
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11-03-2017, 06:32 PM
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Not saying the live version is a good idea, but...technically A Christmas Story itself is a reboot, even the leg lamp scene was already used in 1976 for Jean Shepherd's The Phantom Of The Open Hearth, so though A Christmas Story is the most known, it wasn't the first to feature Ralph, The Old Man, and the rest of the family, it was the third. In 1982 a year before A Christmas Story was released, Matt Dillon played Ralph in The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters.
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11-04-2017, 12:21 AM
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A Christmas Story (the original, and the book) take place about a half hour from me. In the movie (can't remember if it's in the book) the town is called Hohman but it's really Hammond Indiana and Hohman is a street there. They have a setup of the movie at the tourist center right when you enter Indiana from the toll road.
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12-18-2017, 02:04 PM
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Fox's A Christmas Story Live Trails All Live Musicals Before It
by Matt Webb Mitovich December 18, 2017 The ratings for Fox’s A Christmas Story Live were more “lump of coal” than Red Ryder Carbine-Action 200-Shot Range Model Air Rifle. Opening opposite the tail end of one of the biggest NFL games of the fall over on CBS, the three-hour broadcast averaged 4.5 million total viewers and a 1.5 demo rating, thereby placing last among all live TV musicals of the past four years. The Sound of Music Live (NBC, Dec. 2013): 18.6 mil/4.6 Grease Live (Fox, Jan. 2016): 12.2 mil/4.3 The Wiz Live (NBC, Dec. 2015): 11.5 mil/3.4 Peter Pan Live (NBC, Dec. 2014): 9.2 mil/2.4 Hairspray Live (NBC, Jan. 2017): 9.1 mil/2.3 The Passion (Fox, March 2016): 6.6 mil/1.6 A Christmas Story Live (Fox, Dec. 2017): 4.5 mil/1.5 Next up is NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar Live (airing Easter Sunday), followed by the Peacock’s take on Bye Bye Birdie (sometime in 2018) and then Fox’s Rent Live (January 2019). http://tvline.com/2017/12/18/christm...sical-special/ |
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12-18-2017, 03:42 PM
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This "Live" stuff just looks and sounds plain terrible.
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12-18-2017, 04:43 PM
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12-18-2017, 05:00 PM
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