{"id":11036,"date":"2025-02-10T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=11036"},"modified":"2026-03-15T18:32:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T22:32:31","slug":"holidays-in-the-movies-the-big-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2025\/02\/10\/holidays-in-the-movies-the-big-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Holidays in the Movies &#8211; The Big Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/e\/e4\/Absurdposter.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:136px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=22190737\">Theatrical poster.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>One more addendum to our Holidays in the Movies:  the Big Game!  My house isn&#8217;t really sports oriented, but we know what&#8217;s going down when the deli section at our grocery store fills up with wing varieties, chips pop from every end cap, and the beer isle (also where the ginger beer is) is crushingly full of bodies and carts.  This year we celebrate!  The Schmidt way:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Replacements_(film)\">The Replacements <\/a>(2000) : there&#8217;s something about bittersweet sports movies, especially when they are based on bittersweet reality.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cheerleader_Camp\">Cheerleader Camp<\/a> (1988) :  okay, we stole this one from <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2021\/06\/16\/holidays-in-the-movies-summer-solstice\/\">summer solstice<\/a>, but the summer solstice has plenty of movies and what&#8217;s a Big Game without cheerleaders?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Absurd_(film)\">Absurd<\/a> (1981) : a killer terrorizing a community, a police man hunt, and hospital shenanigans all while a bunch of parents are partying is a pretty good way to sum up a lot of slashers.  But is that party a 10pm Big Game watching party where men clad in three piece suits eat spaghetti in front of the TV?  Not usually!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/You%27re_in_the_Super_Bowl,_Charlie_Brown\">You&#8217;re in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown<\/a> (1994): I&#8217;ve said it before and I&#8217;ll say it again, Charlie Brown makes the holidays.  Are we surprised that there is a big game special?  No.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One more addendum to our Holidays in the Movies: the Big Game! My house isn&#8217;t really sports oriented, but we know what&#8217;s going down when the deli section at our grocery store fills up with wing varieties, chips pop from every end cap, and the beer isle (also where the ginger beer is) is crushingly&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2025\/02\/10\/holidays-in-the-movies-the-big-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Holidays in the Movies &#8211; The Big Game<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[290],"class_list":["post-11036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-holidays-in-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10450,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2024\/09\/25\/holidays-in-the-movies-calendar-summary\/","url_meta":{"origin":11036,"position":0},"title":"Holidays in the Movies:  calendar summary","author":"leems","date":"September 25, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the past few years we have been cultivating holiday themed watching to get us in the right frame of mind for every holiday. 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