the movies of Christmas
Dec. 20th, 2008 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swan_towerMeant to post about this last week, when we had our annual Christmas movie-watching party, but the Death Bug got in the way.
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kniedzw and I have started, not inherited from either side of the family. Every year we spend an afternoon and evening watching Christmas movies, and we invite other people over to join us.
But this isn't your normal Christmas movie marathon. I've got no particular patience for It's a Wonderful Life and 99% of the other usual suspects. If you want to watch those, all you have to do is turn on the TV. We? Go for other Christmas movies.
Like Die Hard.
Oh, there's one usual suspect in there: How the Grinch Stole Christmas. (The REAL one. The only one that exists. If you bring up Jim Carrey I will blink owlishly at you and ask what you're talking about.) I suspect I watch that movie primarily for the song "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch," the rest of it being icing on the cake, but it's great throughout, really. I mean, how can you beat Dr. Seuss? You can't.
You can, however, watch The Nightmare Before Christmas, which I'm never sure if I should count as a Halloween movie or a Christmas one. Either way, I love it. Also Blackadder's Christmas Carol -- much preferable to Dickens' version -- and The Lion in Winter, which is the only "dysfunctional family working out their issues when they get together for the holidays" film I can stomach, probably because their method of working out issues involves plotting palace coups. And finally, no, I wasn't kidding about Die Hard. What? It takes place at a Christmas party. It features things like "NOW I HAVE A MACHINE GUN -- HO HO HO" written on the sweatshirt of a dead German terrorist/thief. It's totally in the Christmas spirit!
It's in my Christmas spirit, anyway.
What films do you like watching at this time of year?
This is a new tradition; this is something
kniedzw and I have started, not inherited from either side of the family. Every year we spend an afternoon and evening watching Christmas movies, and we invite other people over to join us.But this isn't your normal Christmas movie marathon. I've got no particular patience for It's a Wonderful Life and 99% of the other usual suspects. If you want to watch those, all you have to do is turn on the TV. We? Go for other Christmas movies.
Like Die Hard.
Oh, there's one usual suspect in there: How the Grinch Stole Christmas. (The REAL one. The only one that exists. If you bring up Jim Carrey I will blink owlishly at you and ask what you're talking about.) I suspect I watch that movie primarily for the song "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch," the rest of it being icing on the cake, but it's great throughout, really. I mean, how can you beat Dr. Seuss? You can't.
You can, however, watch The Nightmare Before Christmas, which I'm never sure if I should count as a Halloween movie or a Christmas one. Either way, I love it. Also Blackadder's Christmas Carol -- much preferable to Dickens' version -- and The Lion in Winter, which is the only "dysfunctional family working out their issues when they get together for the holidays" film I can stomach, probably because their method of working out issues involves plotting palace coups. And finally, no, I wasn't kidding about Die Hard. What? It takes place at a Christmas party. It features things like "NOW I HAVE A MACHINE GUN -- HO HO HO" written on the sweatshirt of a dead German terrorist/thief. It's totally in the Christmas spirit!
It's in my Christmas spirit, anyway.
What films do you like watching at this time of year?
