Christmas Watch-a-thon 2021 (Bring Your Own Cookies)
It's officially December and Christmas show and movie time is full swing! What's everyone planning on watching this year?
Aside from Fatman, Gremlins 2, and Die Hard (I know, I know), I don't think there's really any new Christmas movies I want to see. Is there anything new out this year?
Of course, also gonna do lots of the traditional re-watches: Last Holiday, Arthur Christmas, Elf, Krampus, and all the regular stop-motion specials.
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Hawkeye on Disney+
However, I'm not participating unless I get some Xmas cookies from some one!!!
28 in 23 (?)!!!!
63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
My Collection: https://www.thedarktower.org/palaver...ion-Merlin1958
The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????
FOOTBALL!
All that's left of what we were is what we have become.
Wait, are you saying that this is your first watch of Die Hard?Originally Posted by Ricky
It's officially December and Christmas show and movie time is full swing! What's everyone planning on watching this year?
Aside from Fatman, Gremlins 2, and Die Hard (I know, I know), I don't think there's really any new Christmas movies I want to see. Is there anything new out this year?
Of course, also gonna do lots of the traditional re-watches: Last Holiday, Arthur Christmas, Elf, Krampus, and all the regular stop-motion specials.
"Shitters Full"!!!!!
Only two must see Holiday films. "Christmas Vacation" and "It's a wonderful life". Watch both films faithfully every season. Honorable mention to "A Christmas Carol" and "Scrooged".
28 in 23 (?)!!!!
63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
My Collection: https://www.thedarktower.org/palaver...ion-Merlin1958
The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????
Yes.
No A Christmas Story?"Shitters Full"!!!!!
Only two must see Holiday films. "Christmas Vacation" and "It's a wonderful life". Watch both films faithfully every season. Honorable mention to "A Christmas Carol" and "Scrooged".
A NEW GAME BEGINS
Yes.
No A Christmas Story?"Shitters Full"!!!!!
Only two must see Holiday films. "Christmas Vacation" and "It's a wonderful life". Watch both films faithfully every season. Honorable mention to "A Christmas Carol" and "Scrooged".
28 in 23 (?)!!!!
63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
My Collection: https://www.thedarktower.org/palaver...ion-Merlin1958
The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????
Possibly the greatest single scene in motion picture history (and I'm not kidding).
It seems I'm miles above the surface of the Earth
I can see across the whole of London and beyond
À l'intérieur 2007
I watched A Clusterfunke Christmas on Comedy Central recently. It was a parody of all those Hallmark Christmas movies. Pretty enjoyable but a little light on the laughs for a comedy.
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Die Hard is not "a" Christmas movie!
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It is THE Christmas movie.
I've always loved Christmas movies, but I've been on a real kick this year. So far, I've watched:
Gemlins
Christmas Vacation
Jingle All the Way
Black Christmas
The Wolf of Snow Hollow
Mercy Christmas
Anna and the Apocalypse
Wind Chill
Scrooged
Deathcember
Sint
Die Hard
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Tales From the Crypt: "And All through the House"
Silent Night, Deadly Night 2
Still to come:
Silent Night
Home Alone
Elf
Batman Returns
Krampus
And whatever else I feel like between now and the big day. Many of the ones I've already watched are old favorites, but I've also been taking serious advantage of several trial subscriptions to check out the ones I hadn't seen before. Some have been good. Some have been fun only because they're so, so terrible (I'm looking at you, Silent Night, Deadly Night 2.)
Here are some (maybe-lesser-known?) movies I haven't re-watched yet this year but that I think are worth checking out:
Rare Exports
P2
The Lodge
Better Watch Out
...time for the candy cane girls...
It seems I'm miles above the surface of the Earth
I can see across the whole of London and beyond
Eyes Wide Shut
Maybe Female Trouble....
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I've been slacking. The only thing I've seen so far is a bunch of Hallmark Christmas movies earlier this season
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
I keep meaning to watch Silent Night, Deadly Night but never get around to it. It's free On Demand this year so maybe this will be the year!
Also, I caught P2 last year and was pleasantly surprised by it. I really enjoyed it.
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Good to know, that's one that's been on my list forever too. I'll try to get to it this year.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
Agreed.
Neither are Shazam!, Gremlins, Enemy of the State, Lethal Weapon, Trading Places, Rocky IV or Iron Man 3...
Just because there are a couple of Christmas decorations in the background doesn't mean it's a Christmas movie. I will go to my grave with this argument.
Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right . . . but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
Every year - The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant
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Gosh it's been nearly 20 years since I've seen that but just reading it made the whole movie fly right back into my head.
It's a Wonderful Life is not a Christmas movie either.Agreed.
Neither are Shazam!, Gremlins, Enemy of the State, Lethal Weapon, Trading Places, Rocky IV or Iron Man 3...
Just because there are a couple of Christmas decorations in the background doesn't mean it's a Christmas movie. I will go to my grave with this argument.
Gremlins is a Christmas movie though because without Gizmo you don't have a movie and Gizmo was a Christmas Present. So without Christmas, there wouldn't be a Gremlins movie.
I've been ranting and raving about À l'intérieur 2007 since I joined this site and the one person I think I got to watch it is now banned. I NEED more people to see this Christmas horror miracle!
I remember years back when people first started classifying Gremlins as a Christmas movie and I had no idea what they were talking about. I had watched it when I was a kid and even had a Gizmo stuffed animal and one of those read-along books on tape. I had absolutely zero recollection of the Christmas parts of the movie.
I just knew Gizmo was a gift. Not necessarily a Christmas gift.
Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right . . . but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
There's a character dressed as a Christmas tree, one character tells how her father died dressed as Santa bringing the family presents. The family dog is nearly killed by Christmas lights. Mrs. Deagle's entire personality is shown through issues with Christmas from denying people loan extensions, bitching about her broken snowman and wanting a dog dead for it, threatening what she thought were carolers with water etc. Very much a Scroogish type not redeemed. The credits roll with my favorite Christmas song playing ,Baby, Please Come Home by Darlene Love with Christmas music throughout.I remember years back when people first started classifying Gremlins as a Christmas movie and I had no idea what they were talking about. I had watched it when I was a kid and even had a Gizmo stuffed animal and one of those read-along books on tape. I had absolutely zero recollection of the Christmas parts of the movie.
I just knew Gizmo was a gift. Not necessarily a Christmas gift.
Several of the characters personalities are developed through Christmas in some way.
It would not be the same movie without Christmas in it. I think that's the very basic assumption here right? If you took Christmas out, you'll still have relatively the same movie, not true with Gremlins.
Yea, I don't remember any of that. I just remember Gizmo getting water on him, all the other little Gizmos show up, and they set the clocks back to trick the kid (I don't even remember the characters name) into feeding them chicken after midnight. Then they hatch from a bunch of cocoons, wreck havoc and end up in a movie theater I think?There's a character dressed as a Christmas tree, one character tells how her father died dressed as Santa bringing the family presents. The family dog is nearly killed by Christmas lights. Mrs. Deagle's entire personality is shown through issues with Christmas from denying people loan extensions, bitching about her broken snowman and wanting a dog dead for it, threatening what she thought were carolers with water etc. Very much a Scroogish type not redeemed. The credits roll with my favorite Christmas song playing ,Baby, Please Come Home by Darlene Love with Christmas music throughout.I remember years back when people first started classifying Gremlins as a Christmas movie and I had no idea what they were talking about. I had watched it when I was a kid and even had a Gizmo stuffed animal and one of those read-along books on tape. I had absolutely zero recollection of the Christmas parts of the movie.
I just knew Gizmo was a gift. Not necessarily a Christmas gift.
Several of the characters personalities are developed through Christmas in some way.
It would not be the same movie without Christmas in it. I think that's the very basic assumption here right? If you took Christmas out, you'll still have relatively the same movie, not true with Gremlins.
A bitchy background character, a single scene with a dog and different song in the credits? I'm guessing you could take out all the Christmas stuff and have basically the exact same movie.
Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right . . . but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
Not Phoebe Bates Character development tho, Christmas is actually used to tell the story.
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