In this special edition of Movies with Mikey, Mikey joins forces with Dan Olson from Folding Ideas to establish the ultimate Christmas movie scoring system. How Christmas is YOUR favorite movie?
Score your favorites with these handy versions!
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Hi everyone, thanks for watching! We had a list of about 80 movies to watch and only one week to watch as many as possible so we didn't have time to watch a lot of great Christmas films. We've posted the C.H.R.I.S.T.M.A.S. score card in the description so you can watch all the movies we missed and score them at home!
Two years later, I can finally express what I don't like about the C.H.R.I.S.T.M.A.S. scoring. It gives a lot of weight to family drama. Speaking for myself and hopefully others, that kind of drama is something I don't find entertaining, and is not something I look for in a comdort film. This is not a criticism, I think your scoring is quite valid (and as regularly repeated, it's subjective). I'm just happy that I finally figured out why my favorite Christmas movies (Muppet Christmas Carol, A Christmas Story, and It's a Winderful Life) fell so short in this scale.
What about Edward Scissorhands? Or Miracle on 34th Street? Those are 2 pretty common ones.
That section at about 8:00 felt a little seizure-warning-worthy, there.
From a future perspective I would have loved to see how Violent Night places in this Ranking. I'd say at least #2. Full Scores on the lower categories, practically every frame has Christmas stuff in it and the plot could only happen on Christmas Eve. Depending on how much you score for family drama, this movie easily reaches into the 90s. Also, it's fucking awesome.
Imo regaining belief in Jesus/Santa had a large affect on the results while being a fairly weak metric. It’s more scoring movies on their adherence to a specific plot formula. “Regaining belief in the meaning of Christmas and/or christmas figures” feels more accurate
I know I'm 2 years late, but I'm oddly sad Krampus wasn't on here when it probably hits every mark.
Santa's Slay starting Bill Goldberg would rate high on both the system and the body count 🤣
Hawkeye : 60 Christmas Points
To be historically accurate, remember to picture 1 in 4 people in Victorian England as an amputee. I hope this enhances your viewing of A Muppet's Christmas Carol.
This will be my third year playing Hallmark Christmas Movie Bingo. You've inspired me. Merry Christmas, Mikey!
The idea Scrooge doesn't face hardship in his haunting is absolutely not true. He is fully traumatised by his actions.
Classic "Tower Man".
I adored this video the first time I watched it and I keep coming back to it. Your video essays make my day, make me think, and are the absolute best part of YouTube (and something I point to when people say the internet is full of sludge and pain because your videos are the bright spot.)
Okay, the hardship question in the case of a Christmas Carol is really the question of whether reliving hard memories and having a crisis about the terrible future awaiting you is a hardship. It's not an unusual experience, but it is very difficult.
Me, having just gotten to the first entry & having been made to watch Brazil in English class to compare & contrast with 1984 & Brave New World (my school was permissive to teachers who gave kids a lot of credit on what they could grasp): "Brazil! %$^@ are you- Brazil!? … recut or original ending?" my question was not answered, but that's pretty on brand with the movie, the answers do not matter
Back to watch again, merry xmas everyone 🎄
What Christmas movies do people regain a belief in Jesus?
Of all movies possibly appearing in the first place I would never have expected fucking BRAZIL to be there. WHAT?!
The Ref should be a Christmas movie. I don't understand why it isn't. The next the Bad Santa.
I think there should be a special bonus for "I/my friends/my family watch this movie every year". Objectivity is fake and for schmucks anyway
Hook…HOOK!
Where is HOOK!?!?!
By this Elf is the perfect Christmas movie and I am in full agreement. That movie has so much heart, laughs, and happy tears.
100% agreement on which Christmas Carol film is the best Christmas Carol film.
Everything else aside counting Tony as learning his Christmas lesson but not counting George from Its a Wonderful life just rings as untrue, I mean I get you did it and I understand why, just wish you would of separated them a bit. I mean you could argue the lesson they learned isnt all that different, the value the bring to the world, just seemed like an odd place to draw the line.
I: Christmas Aesthetics: 20
II: Plot Necessity: 20
III: Family Drama: 20
IV: At least one
character gains or regains their belief in Christmas figures: 10
V: The climax of the
film is DIRECTLY on Christmas Eve or Christmas day: 10
VI: At least one
character overcomes UNNATURAL HARDSHIP to accomplish their goals: 10
VII: At least one
character learns THE TRUE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS: 10
100 points… Krampus is the perfect Christmas movie.
I love the fact that The Nativity Story (2006) does not score very high, despite being one of the most Biblically accurate film ever mad. LOLZ
Funny to see elf won
I never watched it at release or knew about it, but one day we watched it (me and the family) and now every year we watch it…
It is our Christmas movie, and apparently it fits the C H R I S T M A S scale
Please review the animated grinch!
how do you leave out Miracle on 34th st.? on a christmas movie list
"Charlie Brown came to play" made my morning.
Also, ALL HAIL MURDER SANTA.
Batman Returns, 65 Christmas points.
5 for aesthetic because it only pops up in certain key scenes and plot points.
20 for plot relevance because the Penguins plans and Catwoman/Batman interactions are primarily centered around Christmas events or trimmings “A mistletoe is deadly if you eat it…”
10 for family drama, although this might be me being generous. Oswalds parents in the opening scene, Alfred pushing Bruce to do less Batmanning, and Selinas boyfriend cancelling their plans aren’t really extended family and they never interact with each other, but still inform the characters and a lot of the plot.
Zero points for regaining belief in Christmas figures. Selina wanting to kiss “Santa Claus” with a taser in her mouth doesn’t count.
10 for the climax of the film taking place on Christmas Eve or Christmas, because it takes place on Christmas Eve.
10 for unnatural hardship. The Penguin is raised by penguins and a murder circus to become a mayoral candidate, and Selena is pushed out a window and brought back to life by cats eating her fingers, and goes on to DIY a vinyl catsuit, decapitate mannequins and explode a department store in a solid critique of the capitalist take over of the holiday.
10 for the learning the true meaning of Christmas. The final line of the film is “Merry Christmas Alfred. Good will toward men… and women.”
Some of these points may be debatable, but overall a solid showing I think.
Cinematic Holiday Rating Index Score That Maked Actual Sense
C.H.R.I.S.T.M.A.S. System
What about Mixed Nuts? Lol
So… why is Spring Breakers a Christmas film?
I'm so glad you watched Klaus! I like that one a lot.
Yeah you've a very strange idea of Christmas guy
Inception gets a shaky 15 from me
Great video! I think I would really enjoy seeing this same format of video (scoring/ranking movies to a themed set of criteria) for halloween movies too.
The Family Stone would have been a big contender on this list
Christmas with the Kranks would be super high on the scale you created
Objection on Christmas Carol: I always interpreted Scrooge as being threatened with death if he didn't repent right then and there, making the "Unnatural hardship" more of a thing.
You should add Hostile hostages (The Ref)
Objection, your honor. I move that family conflict is neither more Christmas nor less Christmas than family cooperation and support. I hereby suggest that Christmas movies should be judged in the family category by the amount and intensity of family interaction without regard to polarity.
If there's one thing that gets me through another "Last Christmas," It's knowing that at least I'm not in 19th century english pre-decinsian Christmas restoration
cannot believe how much work went into this. legendary stuff.