Urgent quick poll

[conuly]

Poll #20602

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 63

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Is The Nightmare Before Christmas a Christmas movie or a Halloween movie?

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Christmas
24 (38.1%)

Halloween
39 (61.9%)

Comments

[flikkeren]

Real answer: It depends on the date on which you watch it... :]

[conuly]

Yeah, but my niece and I are discussing the matter, and you have to pick the answer I agree with.

[melannen]

I put it on the Christmas Movies display at work last year (along with Die Hard and Gremlins and Hamlet and Iron Man 3) so it must be Christmas.

[flikkeren]

I chose Halloween though because the ending really doesn't have that Christmas-movie-feeling to me.

[flikkeren]

Plus the aesthetics are so undeniably Halloweenish.

[wpadmirer]

Both.

[archangelbeth]

I like both/either, yeah.

[rebelsheart]

I'm with them

[rebeccmeister]

Yeah, I refuse to vote in this rigged poll because it's obviously both and there's nothing wrong with watching it more than once in a year.

[conuly]

Listen, Eva dumped a Nightmare Before Halloween dog stocking on my bed and declared it the doggies' Halloween present and there are DOG TOYS all over my BED... more than there were before, I mean.

[merridia]

IT'S RIGHT THERE IN THE TITLE. A movie about Santa figuring out how fun and awesome Halloween is and learning the true spooky meaning of the holiday would be a Halloween movie!

[spikethemuffin]

But Halloween IS before Christmas. The theme is Jack re-discovering how fun and awesome Halloween is.

But really, it's a "whenever I get the songs stuck in my head" movie.

[conuly]

Not if you celebrate Little Christmas instead?

[spikethemuffin]

Well, my family does, but that's because it's cheaper and more convenient and people pay you doubletime to work on the birthday of a god whose squad doesn't want us at the party. But Halloween is still chronologically closer to "before" Epiphany, that pesky intervening year-turn notwithstanding.

Now, I could definitely see TNBC as being more thematically appropriate to Halloween, but better for the soul when watched on Christmas...

[conuly]

Well, my family does, but that's because it's cheaper and more convenient and people pay you doubletime to work on the birthday of a god whose squad doesn't want us at the party.

Isn't that why everybody does?

[conuly]

Thank you!

[nostalgia]

It has Christmas in the title!

[conuly]

inorite!?

[moem]

Yes. It is.

[gingicat]

Both.

[thewayne]

The correct answer is Yes, and today I'm taking my wife to a performance by the Phoenix Symphony, where they're showing the movie and the symphony is playing the score! Her 50th birthday was yesterday and we had planned on being in Phoenix and I found this happening. Tickets were not cheap, and our best friend screwed up her schedule and is not joining us, but we're still looking forward to a good time.

[conuly]

Sweet!

[agoodwinsmith]

Yes.

[gwydion]

There is no slot for both at once.

[conuly]

Yes, that's intentional.

[pauamma]

I have no idea. I don't believe I've seen that movie. But I'm not into either Halloween or Christmas.

[conuly]

You are missing out, movie-wise. Even if you don't like the holidays at all.

Well ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Both. As it relies entirely on the confluence of the two, it fits both categories and may be watched in October and/or December as viewers prefer.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

It's neither; it's a Day After Halloween movie.

[conuly]

Pretty sure you're thinking of Coco. Have you seen that yet?

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Nope, haven't even heard of it, but we've watched The Nightmare Before Christmas on the day after Halloween for more than twenty years now.

[conuly]

It came out this year. Pretty good movie.