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[HotBrand]

Does anyone have a holidays/Christmas movie that they traditionally watch?

I don't normally take part in these festivities (I have some really antiquated customs to keep up with) but I want to give it a go this year.

Suggestions desired, please!

 

[seela]

Does anyone have a holidays/Christmas movie that they traditionally watch?

I don't normally take part in these festivities (I have some really antiquated customs to keep up with) but I want to give it a go this year.

Suggestions desired, please!

Home Alone and Die Hard.

Fanny and Alexander is a Christmas classic in my nook of the world as well.

 

[sallycee]

A Christmas Story is a tradition in my house.

 

[Chewbacca79]

Does anyone have a holidays/Christmas movie that they traditionally watch?

I don't normally take part in these festivities (I have some really antiquated customs to keep up with) but I want to give it a go this year.

Suggestions desired, please!

Die Hard, Muppets Christmas Carol, National Lampoon.
Those are the three go-to films. On any given year the following may get an airing...

Iron Man 3 (yes, it is an Xmas film)
Scrooged
Arthur Christmas
Trading Places
It's a Wonderful Life

I'm also a big fan of Christmas specials of certain TV shows.
West Wing
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Gavin and Stacey (Brit sitcom)
Only Fools and Horses (Brit sitcom)
The Office (UK)

 

[midwestyankee]

Does anyone have a holidays/Christmas movie that they traditionally watch?

I don't normally take part in these festivities (I have some really antiquated customs to keep up with) but I want to give it a go this year.

Suggestions desired, please!

I have a few that I always watch and a few that I might watch in a given year depending on my sense of my capacity for sentimentality.

Must Watch:
Christmas in Connecticut
Muppet Christmas Carol
Charlie Brown Christmas
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (animated version with Boris Karloff)

Will Watch:
It's a Wonderful Life
White Christmas
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
The Family Stone
The Shop Around the Corner
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (stop-action)

I am ambivalent on whether to count Die Hard as a true Christmas movie, but it gets regular viewing around here each year about this time regardless.

 

[Lydia_Deetz]

Does anyone have a holidays/Christmas movie that they traditionally watch?

I don't normally take part in these festivities (I have some really antiquated customs to keep up with) but I want to give it a go this year.

Suggestions desired, please!

White Christmas
Home Alone 1 & 2
Christmas Vacation
I also discovered a new gem that I enjoyed last year called Pottersville that I'll watch again.

 

[midwestyankee]

White Christmas
Home Alone 1 & 2
Christmas Vacation
I also discovered a new gem that I enjoyed last year called Pottersville that I'll watch again.

I know I could look it up, but please tell us about Potterville. I'm guessing by the title that it's related to the story of It's a Wonderful Life. Is it?

 

[FurryFury]

Didn't feel a need to watch any x'mas movies this year nor listen to x'mas music.

Did re-watch The Good Place and then started on izombie

The new wonder woman movie didn't do much for me. I'm sad to say.

 

[midwestyankee]

Didn't feel a need to watch any x'mas movies this year nor listen to x'mas music.

Did re-watch The Good Place and then started on izombie

The new wonder woman movie didn't do much for me. I'm sad to say.

Why sad? Had you had higher hopes for it? I thought the first one was pretty good and I was happy that the cast and production crew included so many skilled women. But it wasn't great.

 

[seela]

What are some of your go-to New Year's movies, please?

 

[Saintdragonslayer]

The wicker Man (1973). Not a new year movie, as such but It happened to be on a local tv channel after the bells about ten years ago. I enjoyed it so much that I bought the directors cut DVD and now watch it every year, on the same night. It has a cast of very fine actors, for such a low budget film. Christopher Lee, who had been given a part in it, offered to work on the film for no fee, after learning that the project was floundering due to lack of finance and indeed sunk some of his own funds into it, just to see the film completed.

He always maintained, in later years that he considered this to be his best work in a long and distinguished career.

New year wouldn't be the same for me without a bottle of malt and a bit of witchcraft on the screen now!

 

[seela]

I've done the reading challenge my library sets every year, but this year I think I'll do the movie version instead. It looks interesting, a wide range of categories, 50 of them. I hope it'll be a fun year.

 

[HotBrand]

I've done the reading challenge my library sets every year, but this year I think I'll do the movie version instead. It looks interesting, a wide range of categories, 50 of them. I hope it'll be a fun year.

Have you got a favoured genre, seela, or do the movies have to be themed in a "Happy New Year!" way?

 

[seela]

Have you got a favoured genre, seela, or do the movies have to be themed in a "Happy New Year!" way?

I don't have a specific favorite genre. I watch all sorts of movies, and the categories are for the most part broad and allow you to find a movie to fit the category in many genres.

Some examples:

A movie that takes place within 24 hours
A movie with a character called Frank
A movie featuring karaoke

There are some more specific ones too, like a zombie movie, a kitchen sink movie, a giallo movie etc. But in most categories you're allowed to choose the genre yourself.

 

[HotBrand]

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[HotBrand]

Ahem.

In the spirit of finding new movies, and one of my favourite genres ...

CAN ANYONE RECOMMEND A GOOD ZOMBIE MOVIE?

Seriously. I'm really struggling these days and I will write a poem in their honour.

Not a good poem ... but still, when has anyone written you a poem?

Exactly.

Recommendations, please!

 

[FurryFury]

I love Sean of the Dead!

Zombieland!

Fido!

Night of the Comet!

and

REC!

Ahem.

In the spirit of finding new movies, and one of my favourite genres ...

CAN ANYONE RECOMMEND A GOOD ZOMBIE MOVIE?

Seriously. I'm really struggling these days and I will write a poem in their honour.

Not a good poem ... but still, when has anyone written you a poem?

Exactly.

Recommendations, please!

 

[FurryFury]

Yes. I had higher hopes. Woman writer and director. You bet. I had higher hopes.

Why sad? Had you had higher hopes for it? I thought the first one was pretty good and I was happy that the cast and production crew included so many skilled women. But it wasn't great.

 

[FurryFury]

Sounds fun! Want to hear more on this as you go through it!

I've done the reading challenge my library sets every year, but this year I think I'll do the movie version instead. It looks interesting, a wide range of categories, 50 of them. I hope it'll be a fun year.

 

[ToPleaseHim]

Ahem.

In the spirit of finding new movies, and one of my favourite genres ...

CAN ANYONE RECOMMEND A GOOD ZOMBIE MOVIE?

Seriously. I'm really struggling these days and I will write a poem in their honour.

Not a good poem ... but still, when has anyone written you a poem?

Exactly.

Recommendations, please!

My two recent faves: Little Monsters (zombie comedy) and The Girl with all the Gifts.

 

[HotBrand]

I love Sean of the Dead!
Love it! Instant classic!

Zombieland!
Favourite zomcom!

Fido!
Ooo ... I've heard of this but not seen it. Is ... this the one with ... Billy Connolly? Is that right?

Night of the Comet!
... I swear I've seen this but, for the life of me, I can't remember it. Something about a meteorite landing near a US village? I'll have to watch again. Thank you!

and

REC!

Of course! I've been told there's ... 3-4 of them, plus the American counterpart, Quarantine

My two recent faves: Little Monsters (zombie comedy) and The Girl with all the Gifts.

I definitely haven't seen Little Monsters. A friend tells me that I have seen The Girl with all the Gifts but ... pfft, I can't remember.

I am LOVING the suggestions. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

 

[seela]

Sounds fun! Want to hear more on this as you go through it!

Well I finished the first movie in the challenge. A movie with Nicholas Cage in it.

I watched Con Air.

There's a scene near the end where people are grasping for money floating down the sky - while standing on bills already on the ground. Why wouldn't they just pick up the money from the ground? Really broke the suspension of disbelief for me. Yup.

 

[seela]

Ex Libris. A documentary about The New York Public Library. Wow!

I watched this as part of my movie challenge (A movie about the US society or politics) and this was perfect for it. Not only was it an interesting look into how the library functions and everything it has to offer, it also showed me very revealing glimpses of the US society and culture that an American viewer maybe wouldn't pay attention to. Fascinating! On par with Monrovia, Indiana that I saw some years back.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Ahem.

In the spirit of finding new movies, and one of my favourite genres ...

CAN ANYONE RECOMMEND A GOOD ZOMBIE MOVIE?

If you watch "The Dead Don't Die", any zombie movie you watch afterwards will look good by comparison :-/

(I enjoyed "Only Lovers Left Alive", so I was eager to see TDDD, especially with some of the names in it. But it just felt deliberately bad, self-indulgent fourth-wall-breaking that didn't come off. Even Tom Waits couldn't save it.)

I want to catch "Dead Snow" one of these days - I've seen chunks of it and it looked fun, but not the whole film.

Peter Jackson's "Braindead"/"Dead Alive" if you enjoy splatter comedy.

 

[HotBrand]

If you watch "The Dead Don't Die", any zombie movie you watch afterwards will look good by comparison :-/

(I enjoyed "Only Lovers Left Alive", so I was eager to see TDDD, especially with some of the names in it. But it just felt deliberately bad, self-indulgent fourth-wall-breaking that didn't come off. Even Tom Waits couldn't save it.)

I want to catch "Dead Snow" one of these days - I've seen chunks of it and it looked fun, but not the whole film.

Peter Jackson's "Braindead"/"Dead Alive" if you enjoy splatter comedy.

Oh, oh! Good shouts!! I am all over this!

Dead Snow I *have* seen. Quite gory with a comedy edge. It's a good watch albeit I think it's a slightly acquired taste.

Honestly, I haven't seen Peter Jackson's early stuff so maybe I should give that a watch ... that is a very good topic you have raised. Thank you!

As for The Dead Don't Lie, I can *probably* win the WORST ZOMBIE FILM contest:

Thaw of the Dead.

That garbage was so bad that I had to invite friends around just to keep me seated. It was AWFUL. Worst movie that I have ever seen.

Seriously. Try it and hate me.