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You Can Get Paid To Watch 25 Christmas Movies In 25 Days

Author Dave & Chuck the Freak and Cort Freeman
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You can get paid to watch 25 Christmas movies in 25 days! Does this sound like a dream job or a nightmare?

Not everyone loves Christmas movies! Some people can be quite a Grinch about them. On the other hand, there are some people out there (we all know one) who would watch nothing but Christmas movies year round if they could. Now, there’s a way that you can get paid to watch 25 Christmas movies in 25 days! Unless, of course, this is something you’d rather do for free?

How To Get Paid To Watch 25 Christmas Movies In 25 Days

CableTV.com is partnering with DIRECTV to host its third Holiday Dream Job event which is open to anyone who loves Christmas movies. Does this sound like you? It could end up being the opportunity of a lifetime!

According to Mental Floss, CableTV.com will select one candidate who applies to become the Chief Of Cheer and they will be tasked with watching 25 holiday movies of their choosing in 25 days. A cool perk is that they don’t even have to buy the movies they pick! CableTV.com will supply the streaming subscriptions! Then, after the marathon the Chief Of Cheer will write reviews of the movies and the streaming services. At the end, they’ll have to pick the best platform. However, that’s not all. We did mention they get paid to do this, right? According to Mental Floss, they will be paid $2,500 and will receive a blanket from Minky Couture! That means you’ll be oh so comfy while watching the movies. Additionally, they’ll receive a year’s worth of ad-free streaming services including DIRECTV STREAM, Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Prime Video, Max, Apple TV+, and Hallmark+. Seriously, think about it. That really adds up! A year’s worth of all of those services is not cheap and not having to pay for them is incredibly valuable and will save you a lot of money (not to mention will keep you endlessly entertained).

You can visit the Holiday Dream Job page here. Applicants must be 18+ and legal residents in the United States. The deadline is today so act fast! Then, the winner will be announced on December 5th! Does this sound like something you’d like? Do you know what 25 movies you’d pick? That’s a lot of movies and I’m not sure if I would end up going with 25 of my favorites or a mix of my favorites and ones I haven’t seen yet. This has my mind racing so I now have to list out the 25 movies I would pick below. How does the list look?

  1. How The Grinch Stole Christmas
  2. Elf
  3. The Santa Clause
  4. The Santa Clause 2
  5. The Santa Clause 3
  6. A Christmas Story
  7. A Christmas Story 2
  8. The Night Before
  9. A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
  10. Jingle All The Way
  11. Four Christmases
  12. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
  13. Eight Crazy Nights
  14. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
  15. A Charlie Brown Christmas
  16. A Christmas Carol
  17. Santa Clause Is Comin’ To Town
  18. Last Christmas
  19. Hot Frosty
  20. Spirited
  21. Home Alone
  22. The Christmas Chronicles
  23. Love Actually
  24. Bad Santa
  25. Christmas With The Kranks

As you can tell, I prefer a comedy Christmas movie. I left Die Hard off because I didn’t want to start a debate or start any drama. What movies would you pick?

Cort Freeman was born and raised in Metro Detroit. He was named Clarkston High School 2009 Class Clown 13 years after graduating. Totally normal thing to happen. That’s thanks to his time spent as an Intern at Comedy Central and Social Media Correspondent for The Colbert Report. Cort has done comedy across the country, both standing up and sitting down. When he’s not trying to make you laugh on-air and online, he’s probably at home enjoying his favorite shows like Seinfeld, South Park, and The Office. He’s also totally uncomfortable writing about himself in the third person. Cort enjoys writing about comedy, food, sports, and entertainment. So, basically anything and everything.

"Die Hard" And 5 Other Debatable Christmas Movies

‘Tis the season for Christmas movies, but what makes a Christmas movie a “Christmas movie?” Does it have to take place on Christmas? Must Christmas be the primary theme? Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?

It’s a question that seems to be as old as the holiday itself. Everyone has an opinion, and we could be closer to an answer than ever before.

In determining what makes a Christmas movie a “Christmas movie,” Yahoo! UK came up with a two-question litmus test. To try to determine if a movie is indeed a Christmas movie, they say you have to first ask “does watching the film at any other time of year feel weird? If no, then it’s not a Christmas movie.”

Then, they suggest you ask, “if you take Christmas out of the movie, does it still make sense? If yes, then it’s not a Christmas movie.”

Die Hard & Other Debatable Christmas Movies

I think those are fair criteria. It’s not a Christmas movie if you can watch it during the summer and have no issue. If it has the same feel in August as it does on Christmas, it shouldn’t be a Christmas movie.

Likewise, I feel like Christmas has to be the primary theme of the movie. If you can remove Christmas from the plot and it still makes sense it shouldn’t be considered a Christmas movie.

So, given these characteristics I feel like Die Hard would not be considered a Christmas movie. Despite the movie taking place on Christmas, you can watch the movie all year long. It doesn’t have to be exclusively tied to Christmas. To me, it doesn’t pass the litmus test.

In a new poll, 26% of people said that Die Hard is a Christmas movie. 50% of people surveyed said it is not. Then, 23% say they “aren’t sure.”

Die Hard isn’t the only movie that we question if it’s a Christmas movie or not. Some of the best movies of all-time could fall into this vague area. Here are five other movies that are debatable Christmas movies, just like Die Hard.

  • Mean Girls

    You can’t think about Mean Girls without thinking of the Jingle Bell Rock performance. They’re all in their Santa outfits. However, Christmas isn’t a big enough theme in the movie.

  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

    Harry Potter works great year round. It’s a Christmas movie, it’s a Halloween movie, due to all the feasts it’s even a Thanksgiving movie. However, because of all these factors I don’t think it’s really a Christmas movie. Still great, though.

  • Catch Me If You Can

    A lot of the movie happens on Christmas Eve. It’s a big part of the movie. However, no way can we consider it a Christmas movie.

  • Gremlins

    It was originally marketed as a Christmas movie for kids. However, because it’s so different from the others it’s hard to call it a Christmas movie. Does it pass the test in your opinion?

  • Batman Returns

    Pretty much the entire movie takes place during the Christmas season. It’s tied very closely to Christmas. It could actually be a Christmas movie, if you think about it.

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