@jump scrooged, elf both make my honorable mentions list. Especially scrooged.
I actually started watching its a wonderful knife, but I didn't finish it. I'll have to check it out again. I thoroughly enjoy Christmas horror movies..black Christmas, silent night, better watch out, all good ones.
If you're a fan of 80s Americana, nintendo, and being a kid around then, you'll more than likely enjoy 8bit christmas. Funnily enough, I grew up just outside Chicago in the 80s/90s, and was all things nintendo/sega, so this movie hits home for me. It's set in Batavia, IL. Which is just about 20 minutes from where I live now. And 30 minutes from where I grew up. One of the few films that actually has me trickling a few tears out at the end of it.
Christmas vacation is a national lampoon film, so it's your typical Chevy chase/silly comedy about his crazy family on Christmas. Does a good job expressing the feelings of hosting a Christmas with yours, and your spouses family coming over.
A Christmas story is simply a classic. A must watch on Christmas as it's become a tradition for me to watch at least once per year. I'm surprised you haven't heard of this one, and there's such an overused phrase people say all the time that came from the movie, "you'll shoot your eye out, kid." All the kid wants is a beebee gun for Christmas, so it's hit struggle to get one throughout the film. It's made in the 80s, but set in the 1950s.
@NintendoByNature This isn't a family movie, but Black Christmas from 1974. What a classic. I didn't expect anything from it when I watched it. Boy, was I wrong.
The Harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.
@MsJubilee yep, it's great. I usually watch that and the remake from 2006(ish?) Every year. I completely forgot about Santa's Slay. Another good one with Golderg being Santa.
@NintendoByNature yeah, understandable as I wouldn’t call It’s A Wonderful Knife a good film. The horror and Christmas stuff is mediocre but I did find myself really getting into the romantic subplot and rooting for those two kids to get together in the end.
Yeah I’ve heard of them but just not seen them.
A Christmas Story wasn’t big in the UK, I imagine nostalgia for the 50s wasn’t big in the UK so it didn’t translate as well, like we were still on rations because of WW2 messed up our food supplies. It’s only because Americans rave about it so much I’m aware of it, the average Brit hasn’t got a clue. It would be like asking a yank about The Snowman, an annoying British symphonic cartoon with choir music that gets played every bloody year.
I might have seen Christmas Vacation as a kid, I remember they use to show it around Xmas time but if I did see it then it didn’t leave an impression on me to remember it.
I will probably see 8bit Christmas at some point, but there’s only 3/4 days a year I’m willing to watch Xmas films and there’s a few above it in my list like Treevenge, a movie about Xmas trees taking their revenge against the evil hu-mans who cut them down.
Saw Migration today. Pleasantly surprised. The movie looked cute and fun in its trailers, but some of the stuff in the movie caught me off guard, in a good way too. Had some good family and adventure moments too. Overall, loved it.
Also, there was a Despicable Me/Minions short before the movie, which was pretty funny.
The resident Trolls superfan! Saw Trolls Band Together via early access and absolutely loved it!
@Sunsy Yeah, I had a goal back in 2020 to see one movie at my theater each week for a whole year, which would be 52 movies. Unfortunately, I only managed to get to 10 before the pandemic hit and forced our theater to close down for a year.
After a few years of on-off again because of variants and not enough vaccinated people, I finally managed to start going last January, and I even had some weeks where either I saw a movie 3 times in one week, or two movies in one day (like with "Elemental" and "The Little Mermaid", and "Super Mario Bros. Movie" and "TMNT Mutant Mayhem" for World Cinema Day).
So in conclusion, I got to see 53 movies (with "Wonka" being the newest one), and I'll go back to my usual schedule, I'll definitely be attending Ghibli Fest 2024 once details are posted on GKIDS. In the meantime, my next movies in January include "Migration" and "Soul". (Yes, the Pixar film, they're finally putting the three skipped movies (Soul, Turning Red and Luca) in theaters during the next three months, which means my personal "Pixar Streak", where I've see every Pixar movie in theaters since "Toy Story" will be fixed)
Apologies for late response. Glad you made your goal this year. Enjoy Migration and Soul when you see them as well as Turning Red and Luca. I'm hoping to go see Turning Red and Luca at my local theater too. It's so nice they're getting a proper theatrical showing.
The Grinch going absolutely ballistic during the Whobilation, in hindsight, was incredibly cathartic (even though the Whos had a spare tree and they went back to celebrating despite him calling them out for their materialism).
Watched The Adventures Baron Munchausen last night with my sis, a mutual friend of ours got her a blu-ray copy for Christmas. It is one of our all time favourite childhood films, even though the depiction of the grim reaper scared the hell out of me, haha. Anyway, it was amazing to watch such a high quality version, having only ever seen it on vhs in the past. I was picking up all kinds of little details I never noticed before. Gilliam is truly the master of creating textured, lived in worlds.
Watched Fatso on Blu-Ray last night. This movie was a Christmas gift to my mother, whose been looking for a DVD copy of this movie for a very long time, awesomely I found it as a Blu-Ray. We watched it together. Old Dom DeLuise movie from 1980, enjoyed it more than I anticipated. Growing up in an Italian family, I can see why mom loves this movie, and even I got some of it.
Also, had a really good featurette with Stuart Cornfield (movie's producer) and Mel Brooks talking about the film. It's not a Mel Brooks movie, but his wife Anne Bancroft wrote and directed it.
The resident Trolls superfan! Saw Trolls Band Together via early access and absolutely loved it!
Watched Steamboat Willie for the very first time in celebration of it finally landing in the public domain and I've got to say: for Disney's first proper animated short, it's still very enjoyable nearly a century after it's creation. The trademark charm that Disney was known for back during the days of it's Mickey shorts is present and accounted for and the animation on display here still looks absolutely ace today, both in terms of it's creativity and technical prowess. Overall, it's a lovely start to what'd eventually become the House of Mouse and one I'd highly recommend you give a watch now that it's freely available to watch (preferably before it inevitably suffers the same fate of Winnie the Pooh and gets turned into generic horror slop).
@Fizza just being pedantic but Mickey wasn’t the first Disney cartoon. There was Oswald Rabbit and Alice & Julius before Mickey.
Walt lost the rights to them to Universal so he created Mickey to replace them and was backed as the mascot, they have rewritten history/leave at the part there was stuff before Mickey. Their fierce defence of copyright claims is often argued it was because Walt lost his original creations which is why they do it, there might be an element of truth to that but it’s mostly to keep hold of it forever and ever.
Watched Across the Spider-verse and it was a good movie. I read that people praise it like a 10/10 but for me it is 8/10. Probably because I do not like or sympathize with Miles
Forums
Topic: Movie thread.
Posts 5,761 to 5,780 of 6,921
Please login or sign up to reply to this topic