Great at Christmas
Love wacthing this on Christmas eve.
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It's shown on every Christmas eve on TV here in Finland as long as I can remember. And every time I have watched it and probably always will. There is no Christmas without The Snowman.
shareWatching it now. I taped it from ABCFamily 2 yrs ago. Won't play this yr :( PBS used to play it when I was younger.
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Damn it, just to let all me fellow Anglo-saxons (britons), know that C4 will not be airing the snow man today, but tommorrow instead, THAT'S JUST WRONG!
I saw it today again after 16 years...
The Snowman kicks ass, im like 24 (1980) and used to watch it as a kid. Though im older and harder now, it made me cry
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I saw the movie many years ago on Public television, and could never get it off my mind around the holidays, but kept missing it on TV. Luckily I kept my eyes open, and was lucky enough to find the video tape several years ago. I watch it at least two or three times every year around Christmas. Then it gets put away to keep it special. As soon as the flying sequence starts and the song "Walking In The Air" starts, I choke up. You are older and harder at 24??? Try 53. The feeling hasn't gone away, and I hope that it never does.
shareChristmas just couldn't be Christmas without the Snowman.
"Just gimme the godamn page!!!"
I remember Christmas Eve 2003:
I had a sad christmas at that time.
By a coincidence i found out that The Snowman was rolling on a Norwegian TV-channel. I ran up and started the VCR and got the last ten minutes of it.
The most beautiful part of the film. After stopping the VCR in the finish, I`ve started it to listen to piano theme in the credits, and I started humming the theme. I went down to the others, and things were getting worse. Then
I went out for a walk. I was thinking of this music, walking down the street where I live, watching through the housewindows, and I see happy people eating dinner and christmas trees, and I was feeling miserable. 10 minutes later I passed the Catholic Church in my hometown with a lot of people outside.
Across the street I was watching this tall christmas tree, thinking:
"Now...Christmas is here. We go four weeks of waiting and preparations, and suddenly....we`re here. Seems like the world stands still for a few hours so we can let it happen". I walked to a place where there was a christmas party for the lonely and old people with no ties. When I came in, I sat down and started to cry. Having a breakdown. A lovely young girl came and started to talk to me. We had a long talk.
Since then, I always gets a lump in my throat while listening to The Snowman music by Howard Blake, and I always enjoys it anyway!
I was 30 years old at that time, and it all happened in Lillestrøm, Norway.
"fellow Anglo-saxons (britons),"
An anglo-saxon is an english person not a british person!!!
in case you havent noticed british includes scotish,english,northern irish and welsh NOT just english.
that is like me saying yankys (as in all americans!)
sorry just wanted to let yas know!
"You may take our lives, but you will never take our FREEDOM!" -William Walace
I have watched it every Christmas for the last twenty something years
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