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I’ve been a good boy so far and have watched Utter Dreck, but also challenged my usual taste in movies with some straight up Christmas Feel Good Shcmaltz.
And all good boys get presents, yeah?
So it’s back to my usual fare wiiiiith….
Violent Night
Which is kind of a Santa themed Die Hard.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Also, just in general? Are we including movies you associate with Christmas? Like things that back in the olden days, would only air on telly over the festive period?
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If a movie takes place during Christmas does that count?
I watched Iron Man 3 last night... again.
I think I have some horrible mental disorder that tells me it's okay to watch movies with mechs and battlesuits over and over again.
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These are some of the usuals around our house, in no particular order:
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
A Christmas Story
Four Christmases
It's Christmas Time, Charlie Brown
It's Christmas Time Again Charlie Brown
8-Bit Christmas
Office Christmas Party (new to us last year)
Eight Crazy Nights
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Jim Carrey)
Muppet Christmas Carol
Edit: forgot Bad Mom's Christmas!
and if I can ever find it: Emmett Otter's Jugband Christmas
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Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
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I’m not familiar enough with Blues Brothers. Can’t stand John Belushi.
Tonight’s viewing is Gremlins
To my mind, one of the finest movies ever made.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Puppetry and overall effect have held up really well. I really hope they stick with practical effects for the third movie.
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Santa’s daughter, Noelle, goes on a quest to find her missing brother, Nick.
See, rather jollily Santa himself died five months before, and Nick is to take over.
Stars Anna Kendrick. So far it’s scored a negative point by naming Santa (which is a perfectly good name) Kris Kringle (which is a stupid name).
I was going to agree with you but on checking "By 1845 "Kris Kringle" (from "Christkindl(e)", German for "Christ-child") was a common variant of Santa in parts of the United States."
so since it does actually have historical gravitas rather than being a 50s hollywood invention (like originally expected) i guess Kris Kringle is fine
Sincerely, Truly Christmas There are a lot of plot points and threads in this flick, so many it is hard to summarize. The main theme revolves around a Christmas Wish where everyone must tell a woman what they want for Christmas. These wishes give her (and the viewer) insight into each character's arc. This is a Lifetime Christmas movie so all the many, many plot point get neatly tied up in a tidy run time with everyone putting in a competent and workman-like effort! The possible exception being the main love interests co-worker/friend. He was a bit wooden and almost felt dubbed.
Everyday is Christmas Hey, how about a modern day retelling of A Christmas Carol only with Toni Braxton and Michael Jai White! It is no Scrooged but I would watch Michael Jai White in just about anything, and it probably won't be good, but it will entertain me!
I think the best part for me, was a glance ito what Lifetime thinks "Black Affluence" looks like in America. These Lifetime movies go hard to sell you what a "perfect" cosumer-driven life should look like.
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Gremlins 2, the New Batch
For me, the better film of the two. The first one laid so much groundwork, and here they just ran with it leading to even more silliness, without overly changing the premise.
I love Gremlins, me. They’re basically how I imagine Grots behave when there’s no Ork around to give them an attention focussing clout. Just petty, mindless mischief and malice.
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It’s A Wonderful Knife
2023 retelling of Its a Wonderful Life with a slasher flavour.
Young woman loses some friends to a property developer turned slasher, before taking him out.
A year later nobody seems to care, and so we get to the “but if you never existed” portion, where of course she didn’t exist to stop him, and so the killer is still active.
This is a bit odd. The premise is kind of interesting, but it’s not quite coming together. The kills aren’t particularly inventive, and it feels almost hesitant in what it’s trying to do.
Overall it is enjoyable. But I think a spit and polish from a skilled producer might’ve elevated it. Certainly I’ve seen far, far worse. Just as with many Slasher type films? It’s painfully, irritatingly close to glory.
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Officially added Violent Night to the rotation this year. It's a little gory to blindly recommend, but its the second best Christmas themed Die Hard movie.
Other regulars are Christmas Vacation and a Christmas Carol of some sort (usually Muppets). Bad Santa used to be up there but kind of dropped off. Couldn't say why. Plus endless Hallmark style garbage.
On the latter, Hot Frosty is not, in any way good, but its also fully aware it's a terrible idea and rolls with it. There's probably a drinking game to vastly improve things.
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Silent Night 2012.
It’s got Malcolm McDowell in it. Otherwise? Avoid this turgid, unengaging lazy snoozefest.
Unless you’re really looking forward to Santa coming and want to get to sleep straight away, having lapsed into a boredom coma. Just be aware you might be under for a long, long time.
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Nutcracker
Ben Stiller is the high flying corporate executive suddenly guardian to his sister’s kids when they’re orphaned.
The kids are of course wild ones, quite diametrically opposed to their Uncle’s outlook on life.
Being a Christmas movie I fully expect the conflict to be resolved by the end with everyone more or less meeting in the middle and learning lessons and love from each other.
My main concern at this early juncture is that in arriving at his sister’s farm/ranch, Mr Stiller puts his foot square in a Dog Egg.
Yet…..we’ve not seen a Dog……wait. There they are. Still not entirely sure it’s a Barker’s Link though.
Automatically Appended Next Post: This is actually quite sweet. Not sickly. But the kids are genuinely pretty charming. And as their care worker says? They’re going through a lot of grief at a young age what with being orphaned and all.
Ben Stiller is also quite a sympathetic character. For better or worse, he wasn’t exactly prepared for parenthood, let alone to four boisterous kids.
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