The Nightmare Before Christmas

PostThe Nightmare Before Christmas by **melatonin** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 7:31 pm

Halloween movie or Christmas movie?

Discuss.

Where's the option for "Bad movie"?

PostThe Nightmare Before Christmas by **Dual** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 7:33 pm

Christmas I can't vote I'm on phone someone vote for me

Something Fishy

Either or both for me.

So that's two answers that aren't an option and one Dual.

Good start.

PostRe: The Nightmare Before Christmas by **Wedgie** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 7:50 pm

It's about wanting the spirit of Christmas to replace Halloween so Christmas it is. I've never wanted to watch it on Halloween or anytime apart from the Christmas season.

Something Fishy

melatonin wrote:So that's two answers that aren't an option and one Dual.

Good start.

it's what we do

Well mine is an opinion of sorts, my opinion being that I have no preference. I enjoy this at both times.

PostRe: The Nightmare Before Christmas by **Cosmo** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 8:09 pm

Christmas. It's almost never shown on TV at Halloween.

EDIT: First voter. \o/

PostRe: The Nightmare Before Christmas by **Rax** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 8:40 pm

Its a Christmas movie.

PostRe: The Nightmare Before Christmas by **Errkal** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 8:51 pm

Its a Christmas film anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot

PostRe: The Nightmare Before Christmas by **Frank** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 8:56 pm

It's a Christmas movie. It's also not a very good movie.

I'm not convinced. I mean, the first four minutes of the film are dedicated to a musical number called "This is Halloween".

Doesn't seem very Christmassy to me.

PostRe: The Nightmare Before Christmas by **tomvek** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 9:02 pm

Always thought of it as a Christmas movie.

Something Fishy

I first saw it in the pictures at Halloween when it first came out over here a year after the USA, so if I have to commit then it's a halloween film to me.

YouTube

Really? I remember it coming out in the cinemas in the UK at the end of November for the Christmas season.
It's a Christmas film.

PostRe: The Nightmare Before Christmas by **Floex** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 10:34 pm

The clue is in the title

strawberry floating emos ruined liking this film. :evil:

Christmas film :wub:

I agree it did get annoying 10 years after it came out seeing annoying emo kids walk around with Jack bags

The one time I tried to watch this film, I fell asleep. It was only about 4PM as well.

PostRe: The Nightmare Before Christmas by **Uppa** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 12:21 am

As a child who started looking forward to Christmas immediately after the festivities ended on Halloween night, I always treated this film as a bridge between the two events. I usually watched it almost immediately after Halloween in anticipation of Christmas, which seemed so tantalisingly close once Halloween--the only other major event I considered even before the latter celebration rolled around--was over. When I was younger, the jovialities of pumpkins, witches and ghouls lasted longer in my heart than the 31st of October, bleeding into the days preceding Halloween and further into first week of November--so this film prolonged the excitement I got from the terrors of Halloween and transmuted them into excitement for presents and the gravitas of Christmas.

I've mulled over this question in the past. For my own purposes, I treat this as a Halloween film, one that gives you your Halloween thrills for the 31st and subsequent days--until the decorations of Halloween start clogging up your house and start to seem stale or out of place, as Jack seems to feel in the film--and then prepares you for the fresh seasonal thrills that are yet to come.

I think I always wished that there were more films that bridged the gap like this one.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

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