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Christmas films aren’t just stories — they’re emotional traditions built over decades.
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What is it about certain Christmas movies that make them hit, and others just disappear into the Netflix shuffle
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We've all got that one movie that sort of flips the switch. The one that we don't just watch, but always return to
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We're gonna cover a bunch in this video. Merry Christmas. But, for me, that movie has always been a Christmas story
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No, no, I want an official writer to cover an ice cream. Do you want to get rid of my little ice cream
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that movie isn't just part of christmas for me it is christmas and maybe not because it's the best
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christmas movie ever made but because it's been there every single year of my life i just couldn't
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escape it the 24-hour marathons on cable my dad quoting you'll shoot your eye out kid the easily
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recognizable narrator's voice drifting in from another room it's almost like a holiday muscle
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memory. And I'm not the only A Christmas Story purist out there, it's become a
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Christmas phenomenon. But why? A Christmas Story has basically been running on a
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loop since 1983 and it's not just nostalgia, it's ritual. Even if I wasn't
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paying attention it was always on somewhere You walk into the living room and there Ralphie again fantasizing about that Red Rider BB gun like the fate of the world depends on it I could drop into that movie at any point and know exactly what happening That the weird beauty of Christmas movies They don
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just exist as stories, but they exist as markers of time in our lives. They're stitched into the
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fabric of the season itself. They play in the background while we wrap gifts and decorate trees
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We don't watch them to find out what happens, we watch them to feel what happens. It's sort of
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like comfort food a cinematic security blanket back before streaming there was a kind of unspoken
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schedule you didn't choose when christmas movies showed up they just found you it's a wonderful
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life rudolph the red-nosed reindeer home alone they'd air a few times and if you missed it you
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missed it that made watching them an event and that repetition that sense of collective timing
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is what turns certain films into tradition it wasn't just the movie itself it was the ritual
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we built around it. The commercials, the hot cocoa, the same couch
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the same people. You watched it enough years in a row that it became less of a movie
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and more of a memory trigger. And there's actually some science behind that comfort
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Our brains love patterns, especially familiar ones that make us feel safe
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When we recognize something we seen a hundred times like the opening of a Christmas story our brains release little hits of dopamine the same chemical tied to pleasure and reward it the brain way of saying oh yeah
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i know this we're good that's part of why re-watching things can feel so satisfying
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it's not just nostalgia it's biology doing its thing now this is the part that gets tricky
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because there are new christmas movies every year lots of them and i know some of them are great i
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for one loved claws, but they don't really hit the same way yet. And it's not really their fault
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The way we consume movies has changed. Instead of being stuck with whatever's on TV, we have
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endless options. There's no real anticipation, no scarcity, no yearly buildup. A new movie drops
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on a streaming platform, you watch it once, and then move on. Those older films had the advantage
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of time and repetition. They were there every year whether you wanted them or not, and that
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persistence I think made them iconic. New ones get buried under a wave of content before they can
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earn that same kind of history. So it's not necessarily that they're all missing that
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Christmas magic. Maybe they just haven't had enough Christmases yet. What makes these movies
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special isn surprise it consistency They one of the few things in life that never really change The jokes still land the same way the snow still falls the ending still makes you feel something warm and familiar And that why we need them Every year is different New challenges
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new people, maybe even new losses. But when you press play on A Christmas Story or Home Alone
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you're stepping into a space that stayed exactly the same since you were a kid. And that's a rare
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kind of comfort. It's not about reliving the past, it's about returning to something that always
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welcomes you back. It's cinematic time travel with a warm blanket and a mug of hot cocoa
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So maybe that's the real secret. Christmas movies aren't born, they're built. Built over years of
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repetition, nostalgia, and love. A Christmas story didn't become a tradition overnight. It took decades
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of reruns, families, and memories to bake itself into our collective DNA. And who knows, maybe the
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next generation's classics are being made right now. They just don't know it yet. Someday, someone's
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going to look back on one of them and say, man, it just doesn't feel like Christmas until we watch
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that. Because that's what these movies do best. They grow up with us and they stay the same. So
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we don't have to, but Hey, we'd love to hear from you. What movie isn't technically a Christmas
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movie, but feels like one to you. Let us know in the comments. And as always
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thanks for watching. And we'll see you next time on how it hits
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