{"id":50505,"date":"2026-11-10T13:34:47","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T12:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/22-years-later-the-polar-express-best-line-is-still-one-of-the-best-christmas-movie-quotes\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T13:34:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T12:34:47","slug":"22-years-later-the-polar-express-best-line-is-still-one-of-the-best-christmas-movie-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/22-years-later-the-polar-express-best-line-is-still-one-of-the-best-christmas-movie-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"22 Years Later, The Polar Express’ Best Line Is Still One Of The Best Christmas Movie Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Published in 1985, Chris Van Allsburg’s picture book “The Polar Express” is a staple of children’s Christmas literature. Filmmaker Robert Zemeckis brought its yuletide magic to the silver screen in 2004 with an animated film. Zemeckis had once blended live-action and animation in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”<\/a> by sticking Bob Hoskins next to cartoon characters, and with “Polar Express,” he aimed to achieve an even deeper fusing of mediums with motion capture.<\/p>\n

“Polar Express” didn’t open to the smoothest ride. With an exorbitant $170 million budget, the movie was greeted by some as a failure for grossing only $286 million. The use of motion capture animation made the whole thing look uncanny (and became a “30 Rock” punchline), which is the last thing you want for what’s meant to be a heartwarming family movie. Not that this stopped Zemeckis from using the same “Polar Express” style in 2007’s “Beowulf” and 2009’s “A Christmas Carol” (featuring Jim Carrey as Scrooge).<\/a><\/p>\n

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Warner Bros. Published in 1985, Chris Van Allsburg’s picture book “The Polar Express” is a staple of children’s Christmas literature. Filmmaker Robert Zemeckis brought its yuletide magic to the silver screen in 2004 with an animated film. Zemeckis had once blended live-action and animation in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” by sticking Bob Hoskins next to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":50506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[3559,2429,36],"class_list":["post-50505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-moviestv","tag-animation-movies","tag-fantasy-movies","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}