It's a Wonderful Life
A Charlie Brown Christmas
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It's a Wonderful Life
A Charlie Brown Christmas
I’ll go with Christmas Vacation and Home Alone.
Home Alone
Christmas Vacation
Home Alone
A Charlie Brown Christmas
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I think Elf got screwed on the seeding lol. Home Alone got a pass to the finals.
Home Alone
Charlie Brown
Its a Wonderful Life
Christmas Vacation
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Now the Tough ones....
I am going to go with my heart and sentimental about the true meaning of Christmas instead of Entertainment value.
Its a Wonderful Life
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A Charlie Brown Christmas
Very tough.
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35 minutes to go and it is nip and tuck, crazy close. True one possession games for both.
Last vote is in...
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Wow. Two super close games decided by a bucket each.
Home Alone narrowly defeated It's A Wonderful Life, which had an incredibly strong finish and almost pulled it out, scoring 10 of the last 12 points. Still, they avoided overtime thanks to a lead and a late tip-in.
The overall # 1 seed Home Alone's opponent will be the Cinderella team, # 7 seed A Charlie Brown Christmas. Their game was also decided by a single bucket, defeating a strong Christmas Vacation squad.
The finals are set.
Home Alone vs
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Voting is now open for the finals. Let's go ahead and close voting at midnight Friday night.
24 hours and we'll have our champion. Voting is now open.
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I see A Charlie Brown Christmas completing the Cinderella story and winning it all. That's my vote.
Home Alone!
Charlie Brown Christmas. Easy vote. (I like home alone, but can't go it over Charlie Brown and Snoopy)
I agree, the committee using that new system really seeded this tough. Sure Charlie Brown Christmas didn't have any Q1 wins, but when it was running they only had 3 networks and the only other Christmas movie in prime time was The Grinch (original), and on different networks. Just no head to head to seed them correctly.
A Charlie Brown Christmas for me. By the way, I really like/love Home alone, but when Linus explains and then exclaims “That’s what Christmas is all about!” It seals the deal for me at least. It’s a wonderful life a close second.
No question A Charlie Brown Christmas in a blowout.
I like Home Alone but it’s just a movie. A Charlie Brown Christmas became part of the zeitgeist however.
Charlie Brown.
Charlie Brown!!!
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Home Alone!
Every kid when they first stayed home alone, had a plan if someone tried to break into the house. Easy movie for anyone to relate.
Funny note about two of these final four movies. Christmas Story and Charlie Brown are part of the tradition in our neighborhood for the last 15 years. On the parkway leading into our neighborhood there are two houses with the simplest decorations. One house is completely dark except for the Nehi Cola leg lamp in the friont window.
A second home has a lone, very spindly, lodgepole pine tree in the front yard that is about 19 or 20 feet high. There can be no more than 2o branches on the tree. The owners hang one very large red sphere from a middle branch that weighs down its branch and bends the top of the tree to the side.
The great thing about both of these homes is these are the only decorations. Both crack me up.
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Charlie Brown. Lucy can’t stop make chuck fall today.
Charlie Brown. Easy.
It's not Christmas until I see this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPys...VineyardChurch
No brainer for me..
Charlie Brown
STUNNED that IAWL got beat by HA. Stunned.
But I move on and am saved from making a VERY DIFFICULT CHOICE.
A Charlie Brown Christmas for the win
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Signed
Snoopy
A side note on it’s a wonderful life. That movie and her tremendous reviews launched the fabulous career of its co-star Donna Reed.
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I need for you to drop a gold brick on a house Christmas Eve as you fly along the Green River.
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Kevin McAllister
Wilmington, NC, as some/many may know, was for a number of years the home of the largest movie studio outside of Hollywood and a very large number of movies and television series were filmed there. During my 12 years there it was not uncommon to run across something being filmed, talk to someone who had been hired as an extra (a good friend's son was a stand-in for a kid on "Dawson's Creek"), or know someone whose house was being used (another friend's house served as Jim Valvano's house in a movie made about him).Quote:
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Accordingly, UNCW created a program in "Film Studies" and one of the people affiliated with it was Frank Capra, Jr.
One year a week or so before Christmas he hosted a showing of IAWF and was part of a discussion of the movie. It was very interesting, and somewhat disheartening, to hear the movie was not filmed in some bucolic small town in upstate NY, but rather in SoCal. Lots of other really great tidbits from him about the movie.
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Congratulations to the 2024 Champion, "A Charlie Brown Christmas."
Comfortably cruising to a win, the overall # 5 seed showed its mettle and staying power defeating Jingle All the Way, Elf in a battle to the wire Elite 8 contest, Christmas Vacation with two powerhouses facing each other, before a surprisingly comfortable win over the tournaments overall # 1 seed Home Alone.
Thanks for playing this year, everyone. Next year we will have an expanded field and begin earlier. I have accumulated well over 32 movies from suggestions from the group already and we may expand to a full 64-team field next year!
I say next year have an open nomination, then vote on the list with the top 16 going to the playoffs