6:27 The reason the Miracle on 34th Street poster does not in anyway look like a Christmas poster (and Santa Claus is in the BACKGROUND), is because the studio decided the best time to release the film was in JULY.
Ahem, Danes also watch "From all of us to all of you" every Christmas on the 24th of December on one of our main channels DR1. Not just a Swedish tradition :)
As a Swede I never really even thought about the possibility that other people think it's weird that we watch Donald Duck on svt1 (like BBC but Swedish) every 24th of december at 3 pm.
+9_Bucks ;--; ikr, sure i'll admit its not the best but hey, its got some great quotes and funny moments. what more can you ask from them!! i personally love all the back to the future trilogy.
It's become a tradition in Italy to play the Eddie Murphy comedy Trading Places on TV every Christmas Eve. The British often mention watching The Great Escape on Boxing Day (Dec. 26) but a check of listings going back to 1964 show it was a case of contagious misremembering.
As one of those extras in "Jingle All The Way", I can confirm that it was, indeed, miserable. After each procession of the parade, we all unzipped our heavy winter jackets and took off our knit caps and what not and waited until they reset the parade to the beginning of the route and did it again. I remember Curtis Armstrong being particularly unhappy walking back one time, but he may have just been in character. On the plus side, it was shot on the Universal backlot and that was when they were doing a big media event for the installation of Jurassic Park the ride, so we got to see a helicopter lower a giant cage with the T-Rex sticking out of it into the park from a relatively close vantage point. Glamour of Hollywood!
#26 Tokyo Godfathers - Based on John Ford’s 1948 film “Three Godfathers”, Tokyo Godfathers is full of “12-25” (Christmas) references, including: The number on the key; the cab fare; the address in the newspaper ad; the cab license plate. Also the electric alarm clock lying among the debris of Sachiko’s ruined house. Which it stopped exactly at 12:25.
You need to do a part Two to cover all the other wonderful Christmas movies you left off your list, like Shop Around The Corner and Christmas in Connecticut. Surely there is some trivia about those.
Much of ‘Jingle all the way’ was filmed in Faribault, Minnesota. I lived there and watched the filming personally. Several Faribault landmarks are visible in the film, and they shut down our downtown for more than a week.
My "traditional" movie-watching at this time of year is NOT "It's A Wonderful Life" (which is a wonderful film). I prefer to spend several days of December watching all the different film versions of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." Some versions I LOVE (Alistair Sims, George C. Scott, Patrick Stewart), some I don't (Jim Carey), but still watch for tradition's sake.... The versions from the 1930's are great for their very creative use of what "special effects" were available to them back then. I even enjoy the versions where Susan Lucci and Henry Winkler portray a more modern, slight character twists to their individual portrayals of Scrooge. I watched a British version yesterday that was very surprising to me in the portrayal of the Christmas Ghosts! Not Dickens' version, but still thought-provoking and enjoyable film. I will say Happy Holidays because I'm Celebrating Yule today; most of my Family and Friends will be celebrating Christmas soon; my Jewish friends already celebrated Hanuka, and two friends are looking forward to Kwanzaa. I Celebrate Diversity! I not only broaden my mind, I get to go to more Parties! ;-)
A Czech live action adaptation of Cinderella is shown 11PM every Christmas in Norway on our main public channel, it is also dubbed over by one single guy doing all the voices in the movie.
As a swede, i can confirm we've (my family and some relatives) been watching that Disney cartoon thing every year without failure for as long as I've been alive, and I'm pretty sure they were watching it before that as well
Re: Die Hard release date. Miracle on 34th street was released on May 2nd, 1947 and White Christmas was released January 1st 1954 (after christmas) so that may make the argument that negates the release date being the qualifier on whether or not a movie is a christmas movie based on its release date.
Here in Poland we watch Home Alone (1 and 2) every Christmas. It stared out as a joke, but when the TV station decided not to play them one year, everybody went nuts. So they played them.
You forgot to mention that TBS shows for 24 hours A Christmas Story, which, in my humble opinion, is the best Xmas movie ever for being the most realistic story about Xmas.
I never thought of the "I always wanted to do that" moment in Polar Express was a reference to BTTFIII, I just figured literally every kid wanted to do that. Interesting.
It was probably difficult for Michael Cane to play a serious character along side of Muppets. You try having a propper Scrooge look when you are staring down a green sock with a hand in it.
That thing about Sweden is true. It airs 3 o'clock every year and parents tell there children that it would be great if they watched Donald Duck with the adults. also it's in all christmas songs and things that have with Christmas to do. I have understood that the tradition as you didn't see good cartoons for almost all of the year except for on Christmas eve(which is the day when you celebrate christmas in Sweden, instead of on christmas day).
John, please tell me Meredith MADE YOU say that about Back to the Future III. You protested at first but then she threatened to quit and you couldn't do that to her family (especially during the holidays).
I've heard of different countries having different movies as traditions for the holidays much like the ones John mentioned for Sweden and the US. I've heard of 'The Great Escape' being regularly shown in the UK, and 'Der 90. Geburtstag' for Germany. Are there other country specific one?
+DanishVlog -- same here in Austria ... except it's called "Dinner for One" It airs so that it finishes exactly at 23:55 so that people can get ready for champagne and the "Donauwalzer". www.imdb.com/title/tt1804510/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Just an FYI, the Disney Christmas Special is aired on Denmark's main channel as well every Christmas Eve at 6pm, I think it is. Not sure if it's a tradition anywhere else.
I think that James Stewart's character sweating was more authentic in my opinion. It was here that George Bailey was at the end of his rope. The money was missing and he was facing serious jail time.
Hi Jhon, Did you know that the spanish title of the movie "Home Alone" is actually "Mi pobre angelito"?. It translate something like ... Happy Holidays, and keep making videos, talk about Nobel prizes or other prizes, please!
wow, I never thought John Green would ever do a video where I felt insulted and offended. But I guess it was bound to happen eventually. Law of averages and all
BttF was a solid last film for the trilogy. It wasn't perfect but it was fun and sent out the series on a hokey yet still positive note of riding into the sunset. That's why they ended the first film the way did so they followed suit.
No Swedish Yule without Kalle Anka (That's what we call Donald Duck btw). Of course at least in our family no-one actually watches it but it has to be on in the background somewhere! =D
Interesting that he say's Jack Nicholson wanted the part of the dad in A Christmas Story, but they couldn't afford him. In other words, he really didn't want it that bad. Because if he did, he'd have taken a pay cut to do the film.
+Harris Bhatti I live in England and watched much children's television with my grandchildren in the run-up to Christmas. Every program showed snow at Christmas. I have lived here (in Southern England) I can only remember seeing snow twice on Christmas day in the last 50 years, and one of those did not give enough snow to make a snowman. My six year old autistic grandson was confused when it didn't snow - but he enjoyed lunch and presents anyway!
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Back to the future 3 is a masterpiece sir a MASTERPIECE!
Not only the Swedes, here in Norway we enjoy those cartoons on Christmas as well :)
I live in Denmark, and we also have the From All of Us to All of You special.
On our MAIN channel.
EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR.
Followed by dinner for one on New Year's Eve!
Iggy Emmins
:D
YOU'RE THE WHATCULTURE WWE GUY WOAH
JBW Backyard
*adam blampied comes out from the fridge disguise*
Happy Holidays to all the awesome people who make these videos!
6:27
The reason the Miracle on 34th Street poster does not in anyway look like a Christmas poster (and Santa Claus is in the BACKGROUND), is because the studio decided the best time to release the film was in JULY.
7:05 Jontron has a video of all of them
Ahem, Danes also watch "From all of us to all of you" every Christmas on the 24th of December on one of our main channels DR1. Not just a Swedish tradition :)
+DanishVlog yes Danes are pretty racist
As a Swede I never really even thought about the possibility that other people think it's weird that we watch Donald Duck on svt1 (like BBC but Swedish) every 24th of december at 3 pm.
We do that in denmark aswell.
I think it might be a Scandinavian thing.. We watch it on DR1 at 4 pm in Denmark and the Norwegians has the same tradition :)
+breakevenize what's STV like
+Mathieu Leader SVT. It stands for Sveriges Television. It's pretty good, besides the annual eurovision contests.
home alone is considered a christmas classic in poland. when channels don't air it, they get tons of complaint calls lol
+Spooky Mulder as they should
+Spooky Mulder Same in Denmark
Happy Holidays John Green and all the other Mental Flossers
Loved the holiday look, John. ;D
All the best to you and your family.
Anyone who has ever shopped at Costco knows that they start selling Xmas decorations next to Halloween as early as October first.
3:17 I love those Sherlock figurines!
Oh the mittens made me smile so much
I always liked Back to the Future 3. ;__;
+9_Bucks ;--; ikr, sure i'll admit its not the best but hey, its got some great quotes and funny moments. what more can you ask from them!! i personally love all the back to the future trilogy.
Alex Samuel Same. If I ranked it in order from favorite to least it'd be 1 2 3 back to back but I still love 3.
+9_Bucks You'll have to excuse the crudeness of BTTF3. There wasn't time to build it to scale, or to paint it.
haha, That's fine Doc.
+9_Bucks I liked them all.
I guess the Dustin Hoffman cameo was life-like accurate. Which makes is WAAAAY funnier!!! hahaha
It's become a tradition in Italy to play the Eddie Murphy comedy Trading Places on TV every Christmas Eve. The British often mention watching The Great Escape on Boxing Day (Dec. 26) but a check of listings going back to 1964 show it was a case of contagious misremembering.
I still don't acknowledge Die Hard as a Christmas film.
Haha, no.24. As a Swede I can say that 15:00 every christmas eve is booked for every person I know!
The home alone games were amazing! They were super hard and it was hard to get far in the game but it was worth trying to beat!
As one of those extras in "Jingle All The Way", I can confirm that it was, indeed, miserable. After each procession of the parade, we all unzipped our heavy winter jackets and took off our knit caps and what not and waited until they reset the parade to the beginning of the route and did it again. I remember Curtis Armstrong being particularly unhappy walking back one time, but he may have just been in character. On the plus side, it was shot on the Universal backlot and that was when they were doing a big media event for the installation of Jurassic Park the ride, so we got to see a helicopter lower a giant cage with the T-Rex sticking out of it into the park from a relatively close vantage point. Glamour of Hollywood!
#26 Tokyo Godfathers - Based on John Ford’s 1948 film “Three Godfathers”, Tokyo Godfathers is full of “12-25” (Christmas) references, including: The number on the key; the cab fare; the address in the newspaper ad; the cab license plate. Also the electric alarm clock lying among the debris of Sachiko’s ruined house. Which it stopped exactly at 12:25.
Christmas!
I loved Back to the Future Part 3. Far far far superior to part 2. There...I said it. So sue me!
+Paul Figueiredo People hate 3 because they think they are supposed to, but in reality it is a fine film.
+vlogerhood Nope, is wasn't as good because of the setting. I never liked the western theme it had.
shinmusashi44 You not liking the setting =! it wasn't good.
vlogerhood
Well, yes. I don't like westerns, so I didn't like it as much as the other 2. And I would think that's why a lot of people didn't like it.
I sue you for a staggering 2 whole cents.
Red Green - your wearing you dog! LOVE this epi - makes me feel better about the whole Christmas thing this year. DFTBA
You need to do a part Two to cover all the other wonderful Christmas movies you left off your list, like Shop Around The Corner and Christmas in Connecticut. Surely there is some trivia about those.
Best Xmas movie of all time - "The Bishop's Wife". The original, not the remake. Thank you.
1:55 Now hold on there cowboy. Them be fightin' words.
Much of ‘Jingle all the way’ was filmed in Faribault, Minnesota. I lived there and watched the filming personally. Several Faribault landmarks are visible in the film, and they shut down our downtown for more than a week.
My "traditional" movie-watching at this time of year is NOT "It's A Wonderful Life" (which is a wonderful film). I prefer to spend several days of December watching all the different film versions of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol."
Some versions I LOVE (Alistair Sims, George C. Scott, Patrick Stewart), some I don't (Jim Carey), but still watch for tradition's sake.... The versions from the 1930's are great for their very creative use of what "special effects" were available to them back then.
I even enjoy the versions where Susan Lucci and Henry Winkler portray a more modern, slight character twists to their individual portrayals of Scrooge. I watched a British version yesterday that was very surprising to me in the portrayal of the Christmas Ghosts! Not Dickens' version, but still thought-provoking and enjoyable film.
I will say Happy Holidays because I'm Celebrating Yule today; most of my Family and Friends will be celebrating Christmas soon; my Jewish friends already celebrated Hanuka, and two friends are looking forward to Kwanzaa.
I Celebrate Diversity! I not only broaden my mind, I get to go to more Parties! ;-)
Back to the Future 3 is my favourite!
My friends and I (from germany) watch National Lampoons Christmas every year before christmas :)
A Czech live action adaptation of Cinderella is shown 11PM every Christmas in Norway on our main public channel, it is also dubbed over by one single guy doing all the voices in the movie.
As a swede, i can confirm we've (my family and some relatives) been watching that Disney cartoon thing every year without failure for as long as I've been alive, and I'm pretty sure they were watching it before that as well
I've never seen It's A Wonderful Life. All I know is that when Elmo wishes for Christmas every year it's the only thing on.
But you missed referencing the greatest Christmas movie of all time: Gremlins.
;-)
Re: Die Hard release date. Miracle on 34th street was released on May 2nd, 1947 and White Christmas was released January 1st 1954 (after christmas) so that may make the argument that negates the release date being the qualifier on whether or not a movie is a christmas movie based on its release date.
Here in Poland we watch Home Alone (1 and 2) every Christmas. It stared out as a joke, but when the TV station decided not to play them one year, everybody went nuts. So they played them.
How could you possibly improve on Back to the Future 3?
You forgot to mention that TBS shows for 24 hours A Christmas Story, which, in my humble opinion, is the best Xmas movie ever for being the most realistic story about Xmas.
0:20
Well, I think his problem he had to act all serious while surrounded by THE MUPPETS.
What are dimples and what causes them????
I never thought of the "I always wanted to do that" moment in Polar Express was a reference to BTTFIII, I just figured literally every kid wanted to do that. Interesting.
2:21 "Helped him come up for the idea with the movie"
It was probably difficult for Michael Cane to play a serious character along side of Muppets. You try having a propper Scrooge look when you are staring down a green sock with a hand in it.
1.back to the future three was great
2. they should try making a home alone video game now with our modern technology
3. Merry Christmas
Snart är det dags för Kalle Anka igen.
Charlie Clumsy spongebob squarepants
They also show 'From all of us to all of you' here in Denmark each year on christmas eve :-)
Referencing "Back To the Future" and "The Polar Express" while Wilson (from Robert Zemeckis' "Cast Away" is over your shoulder. Clever.
Jesus that jacket is hideous :o
+wlfbck20 By flying spaghetti monster, your right !
+wlfbck20 I don't think Jesus really cares about what John's jacket looks like.
+ReallyisRobby pp
On vacation?! I never should have taken this job at FedEx.
Omg you did it!!!!!!
That thing about Sweden is true. It airs 3 o'clock every year and parents tell there children that it would be great if they watched Donald Duck with the adults. also it's in all christmas songs and things that have with Christmas to do. I have understood that the tradition as you didn't see good cartoons for almost all of the year except for on Christmas eve(which is the day when you celebrate christmas in Sweden, instead of on christmas day).
Being in Ireland this year, it will be the second time I can remember having missed the Donald Duck special on TV 1. I am 30 years old.
Towards the end I was like "where's home alo.." Oh there it is
3:18 WAKKO! :D
My uncle is Steve Wiebe, the main character of King of Kong: a Fistful of Quarters! We aren't supposed to mention the movie at family gatherings...
If you want to get technical, there were actually 5 games based on the first Home Alone movie. One each from NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, GameBoy, and PS2
John Green Jacket is back!
INVADER ZIM ON FRIDAY ON NICKTOONS (126 if you have Comcast) AT 2:30pm
2:30pm PST
The part about Sweden is true, it is a tradition over here to watch it on Christmas Eve (yes, we celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve).. xD
John, please tell me Meredith MADE YOU say that about Back to the Future III. You protested at first but then she threatened to quit and you couldn't do that to her family (especially during the holidays).
I've heard of different countries having different movies as traditions for the holidays much like the ones John mentioned for Sweden and the US. I've heard of 'The Great Escape' being regularly shown in the UK, and 'Der 90. Geburtstag' for Germany. Are there other country specific one?
+99thTuesday for me it's Sound Of Music and I'm from the Netherlands
+ThatOneJustMe That's a pretty popular movie around Christmastime here in the US, too. Airs on ABC every year.
+99thTuesday home alone in poland
Funny... The 90th birthday is aired every New Year's Eve in Denmark...
+DanishVlog -- same here in Austria ... except it's called "Dinner for One"
It airs so that it finishes exactly at 23:55 so that people can get ready for champagne and the "Donauwalzer".
www.imdb.com/title/tt1804510/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Thank you for including a single token non-Christmas movie. I sure feel represented. [/s]
With the addition of mittens in the opening, it now looks like Adam and God are fist bumping.
We can't even say "Christmas Movie" now. Thats pretty crazy especially with movies called, The Santa Clause and A Christmas Carol.
"Holiday Film Facts", or to give it its proper name: Christmas Film facts.
+ohthepeppers one of the films is about Hannukah.... I'll shut up now, Merry Christmas
Sorry but "25 Holiday Film Facts" is a better title than "24 Christmas Film Facts and a Hanukkah Film Fact."
1.Caine. Santa Claus 2. 3. Holiday.4. Grumpy cat.5. Dustin IAWL. Jongle Parade. 12. Audrey13 Geisel. 14Scrooge. 158 Crazy Night. 16.Donald Swede
I celebrate Christmas.
Wow.
+Charlie Clumsy Let's all give this man a round of applause
Norwegian tv also shows from all of us to all off you on Christmas eve
What about "A Christmas Story"!! Wouldn't be the season without Ralphy!
Just an FYI, the Disney Christmas Special is aired on Denmark's main channel as well every Christmas Eve at 6pm, I think it is. Not sure if it's a tradition anywhere else.
Jon Favreau was also the doctor in Elf!
I think that James Stewart's character sweating was more authentic in my opinion. It was here that George Bailey was at the end of his rope. The money was missing and he was facing serious jail time.
Hi Jhon, Did you know that the spanish title of the movie "Home Alone" is actually "Mi pobre angelito"?. It translate something like ... Happy Holidays, and keep making videos, talk about Nobel prizes or other prizes, please!
Point 24 also goes for Denmark. Personally its not really Christmas before i have watched that show
merry christmas
kalle anka at 3 p.m. on christmas eve!
I doubt the elf actors believed Tim Allen was the real Santa. Maybe the other kids in the movie did, though.
wow, I never thought John Green would ever do a video where I felt insulted and offended. But I guess it was bound to happen eventually. Law of averages and all
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+whomee2 Yeah, those Home Alone videogames were average at worst.
+whomee2 What he said about Back to the Future III was horrible indeed.
And you did not mention the greatest holiday special: Star Wars Holiday Special.
John Green, meet JonTron, someone well versed in all of the Home Alone video games.
BttF was a solid last film for the trilogy. It wasn't perfect but it was fun and sent out the series on a hokey yet still positive note of riding into the sunset. That's why they ended the first film the way did so they followed suit.
What are skin tags and what causes them?
HEY BACK TO THE FUTURE III WAS A WORTHY CONCUSLION TO THE SAGA
Wait, Die Hard is a Christmas movie? To who? And why?
+iamedge452 In Denmark it would be almost outrageous not to show it sometime in December. I have no idea why
What?
I thought BTTF3 was the best one in my opinion.
*talks about Home Alone games* *has violent flashbacks to the JonTron episode and the Home Alone game for the PlayStation*
No Swedish Yule without Kalle Anka (That's what we call Donald Duck btw). Of course at least in our family no-one actually watches it but it has to be on in the background somewhere! =D
JonTron did a video on the Home Alone games. You should see how bad they are.
Interesting that he say's Jack Nicholson wanted the part of the dad in A Christmas Story, but they couldn't afford him. In other words, he really didn't want it that bad. Because if he did, he'd have taken a pay cut to do the film.
For the last time: DIE HARD IS NOT A CHRISTMAS MOVIE!
Yay! No Craig this Monday.
7:00 Yes they were all terrible
Uhhh, BTTF 3 is awesome...
I spent more than half of the video waiting anxiously to see if you would mention Die Hard.
Only if it would snow where I'm at...
+Harris Bhatti I heard that a whopping 60% of the world has never even seen snow. So don't worry...you are not alone.
+Brandon Buchner I've seen snow but I want that Christmas mood.
Right. It's 60 where I'm at. We usually have had 5 good snowfalls by now
+Harris Bhatti I live in England and watched much children's television with my grandchildren in the run-up to Christmas. Every program showed snow at Christmas. I have lived here (in Southern England) I can only remember seeing snow twice on Christmas day in the last 50 years, and one of those did not give enough snow to make a snowman. My six year old autistic grandson was confused when it didn't snow - but he enjoyed lunch and presents anyway!
I agree. Where I live, if so much as a foot of snow falls, everyone loses their minds.
My traditional xmas movie is Bad Santa
You played the Home Alone games, too?
... I'm so sorry.
3 The Razor's Edge