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Day 24: A holiday movie with a feel good message

I am going with a TV show for this one, one of the longest runnig, most beloved TV shows ever, Doctor Who. Christmas episodes became a tradition starting in 2005, and they have run from the very blah to the sublime. 2014's "Last Christmas," has my favorite of the reboot Doctors, Peter Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor. The previous episode had The Doctor and his companion Clara lying to each other to allow the other to move on without them, sacrificing for the other. It was also supposed to be the last episode with Clara (Jenna Coleman). It was a solid, but downbeat ending. But Christmas changes things, doesn't it?

The "Last Christmas" is a wonderful, funny, serious, frightening ode to Alien (which gets named dropped, and has one of my favorite Doctor Who lines ever: "There’s a horror movie called Alien? That’s really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you."), The Thing (takes place mostly in a polar science exploration base), and Inception (dreams and dreams and dreams), but also Santa Claus (played by Nick Frost.) Who may or may not be real.


Only the Twelfth Doctor would argue with Saint Nick. But beyond all the trappings, there is a story about confronting and choosing to accept grief and moving forward while carrying it with you, or choosing a comfortable but terminal lie for yourself. It is about second chances. It is about restoration of relationships. And it earns all of that. "Last Christmas" is complex, and clever, and engaging, and moving, and everything Doctor Who can do well.

"Last Christmas," Doctor Who.

As a post script, as I said, Jenna Coleman had planned to leave after this. But she was so enraptured with this episode, she decided after the table read to stay. Steven Moffat, the writer and show runner, already had an alternate ending written for just that occurrence. And that is a feel good ending as well.
 
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UnquietDreams said:
Best.
Decades.
Week.
Prize.
Ever.
On.
Lit.

*Dancing around my living room singing "Our Christmas Monkey."*
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I didn't choose a song but I agree regardless. The best!
BreukelenAnima said:
Day 25: A holiday movie with a religious theme
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I just watched this one about a week ago. It elicited the same unexpected thought from this pagan as does the TV show Grantchester, "that hot vicar better not lose his faith."
 
Day 25: A holiday movie with a religious theme

There aren't that many religious Christmas movies in my personal canon. Part of that is most movies with a religious message are "Christian message" films, and most of them suck. So I am going back a ways, to 1945.

Bing Crosby is once again Father Chuck O'Malley, a role that had won him an Academy Award for Best Actor the previous year, in this film sent to a failing school run by Sister Mary Benedict, the always radiant Ingrid Bergman. Music, growth, and a Christmas pageant happen on the way to a happy ending. Merry Christmas, everyone.

The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)

 
UnquietDreams said:
Day 25: A holiday movie with a religious theme

There aren't that many religious Christmas movies in my personal canon. Part of that is most movies with a religious message are "Christian message" films, and most of them suck. So I am going back a ways, to 1945.

Bing Crosby is once again Father Chuck O'Malley, a role that had won him an Academy Award for Best Actor the previous year, in this film sent to a failing school run by Sister Mary Benedict, the always radiant Ingrid Bergman. Music, growth, and a Christmas pageant happen on the way to a happy ending. Merry Christmas, everyone.

The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)

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this is probably the one i would have picked. ive only ever even seen it because my father likes it and put it on once.
 
Day 25: A holiday movie with a religious theme

A allegory of the nativity story, it's not overtly religious in its presentation, but the story can't be mistaken

 
Day 26: A movie that takes place in December but is not a Christmas movie
First Blood was mostly overshadowed by its sequels, which is a fucking shame. It is an action movie, yes, but it is very much a film about a broken man and the systems that broke him, turning him into a machine so adept at violence that it frightens him. He only kills one person, and that was self-defense, as the deputy was trying to murder him at the time. It is, at its heart, a sober look at the cost of using human beings, trained to do little more than kill, as tools of statecraft. The ending is heartbreaking, and the whole of it is very anti-war, anti-military. The rest of the series looked at that, and said "fuck that, lets go have one man fight and win Vietnam, then beat the Soviet Union! Fuck yeah!"

Though it never references Christmas, there is a lit Christmas tree in the police station.

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First Blood (1982)

 
Day 26: A movie that takes place in December but is not a Christmas movie

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets takes place throughout the school year so December is part of that. Idk who cast Shirley Henderson as a 14 year old ghost but somehow it works.

 
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