In the spirit of that Christmas movie classic, 'Scrooge,' the Walt Kelly cartoon is dedicated. Doom, you ponder? Well, for the Bad Guys, of course!! Just look at the list:Band of Brothers, 'Bastogne'...the Nazis get the reply 'NUTS!!' after delivering surrender terms.
Lethal Weapon: Martin Riggs et al kick the Bejeebers out of Mr. Joshua and Company!
Die Hard 1 & 2: John McClane makes it right with wife, Holly, AND throws the German Bad Guy out the window while blowing up Nakatomi Industries...then he saves the airport next year!
Auntie Mame: The 'Crazy Aunt' whips all the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune and shelters an unwed Peggy Cass.
Scrooge: Dickens' A Christmas Carol in two versions; Alistair Simms and Albert Finney...the Bad Guy gets converted...YEEHAW!!
Scrooged: Bill Murray's similar change from Bad Guy to Good Guy...Carol Kane as the Ghost of Christmas Present is MY favorite character.
Lion In Winter: Pete O'Toole as Henry Plantagenet and Kate Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitane verbally whup the daylights out of each other, but all's well that ends well, even though "It's 1183 and we're ALL barbarians!"
1941: Insanity in California with John Belushi and a small town victorious over the 'Japanese Invasion' by one submarine.
White Christmas where Bing Crosby et al roundly spell DOOM for the conditions making their WWII General's ski lodge fail in a restorative DOUBLE Chick Flick: Bing/Rosemary Clooney (yes, George's MOM) and Danny Kaye/Vera Ellen.
Christmas Story: RALPHY GETS HIS BB GUN AND DEFEATS THE BAD GUYS!!
And, for this list...clearly not exhaustive...last and certainly not least
Jesus of Nazareth, part 1...the birth of the One who SPELLS 'DOOM' WHICH REALLY DEFEATS ALL THE BAD GUYS FOR EVER AND EVER, AMEN!!!!
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