What’s the big deal about a BB gun, anyway?

I may as well start with the bad news. I have never watched A Christmas Story or It’s a Wonderful Life. I don’t know what’s wrong with me, and please don’t think less of me.

I’m not sure how I’ve escaped these classics in my 30 long years, but it’s true. I have. Feel free to discuss that amongst yourselves.

While you wonder how I’ve managed to live such a deprived life, I’m going to make a list of movies that are not necessarily Christmas-themed movies, but do include a Christmas scene. I feel like it’s such a movie cliché to have a holiday scene, but I’m actually not thinking of many on my own. Specifically, I feel like I’ve seen a lot of movies about Christmas in New York, but I’m not really coming up with much. So, can you help? Here’s what I have so far:

• The Family Man
• While You Were Sleeping
• The Holiday
• Bridget Jones’ Diary
• Serendipity
• Smart People
• The Family Stone

And while I’m at it, just for good measure (and to assure that yes, I have seen some Christmas movies), here are my favorite traditional Christmas movies:

• How the Grinch Stole Christmas (animated, not Jim Carrey, for crying out loud)
• The Santa Clause
• Holiday Inn
• National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
• Elf
• Miracle on 34th Street
• A Charlie Brown Christmas
• A Claymation Christmas Celebration
• Frosty the Snowman
• Home for the Holidays (actually about Thanksgiving, but still one of my favorites)

Okay, now, help me out with that non-Christmas Christmas movie list! (Please?)