Holiday Movies for 2012 - Theme-based thread - Page 2

The Family Stone
Black Christmas (which I watched during my 31 days of Halloween)
Home Alone
Polar Express
The Santa Claus..1 2 & 3

Well, I did watch SILENT NIGHT (the remake of SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT) and the Xmas episode of AMERICAN HORROR STORY the same evening!

But my standards still remain:

BLACK CHRISTMAS and

BATMAN RETURNS ("Give the Constitution a rest...it's Christmas." "Good will towards men...and women.")
Edited by cinema13 - 12/13/12 at 12:29pm

Not quite tongue in cheek as some of the Syfy movies are. But it's not trying to be blatantly scary either.

I ordered the new BD of this:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058548/

I like them both but would rank the original as number one.

The companion piece would the MST3K version.

http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/Santa_Claus_Conquers_the_Martians

Watched Polar Express in 3D. Had about 90 minutes between the 50 other things trying to get done before the holidays, so I sat down and fired it up. As soon the Express left the house near the begining, LOGANESS poked her head in, watched for a couple of minutes and said, "It's too hard watching all blurry", so I handed her my glasses and made her sit down and I grabbed the other glasses. She ended up sitting through the rest of it. I guess that says SOMETHING about it.

To anyone in the Philly/SJ/DE area: The Colonial Theater in Phoenixville PA is showing It's a Wonderful Life in 35mm this weekend. Showings on Saturday & Sunday afternoon. $8 Great theater and worth the trip!


http://thecolonialtheatre.com/

short and pretty cool:

"The Insects' Christmas" is a Russian stop-motion animated short from 1913. The film was made by entomologist/puppet maker/animator Ladislav Starevich who studied insects in such great detail that he dissected and pulled apart every appendage and reconstructed their fragile bodies into malleable stop-motion puppets. Starevich did this to photograph and study their movements. "The Insects' Christmas" is a fairly tale involving Father Christmas spreading holiday cheer to everyone, even the smallest of creatures.

Here's one that we used to watch back in the 80's. Not sure why it fell off our radar but I'll introduce my niece to it in a few years:

Silent Night arrives tomorrow from NF:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2347497/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

It will be my Christmas Eve flick (apologies to everyone for my inability to leave October behind).

At least one scene I recall from the original (Linnea Quigley's demise) is recreated for the remake.

As a man-child, I had to open my gift early....

What a surprise this is!

An excellent horror movie, definitely makes my Best Of The Year New Horror movie list.

Cleverly shot, with particular emphasis on Christmas colors...somebody was actually thinking here.
Not once do you forget what season it is.

PQ of the BD is excellent, with great shadow detail.
AQ is fine.

There is only one problem that jumped out at me: Malcom McDowell.
He is incredibly bad here....completely miscast.
Although some of his dialog isn't the greatest, he is just horrid...it really is embarrassing.

If you can look past the McDowell Mess, this movie is good fun on every level.

Well, let's see. The usual suspects with a few surprises:

"Holiday Inn" (1942)
"White Christmas" (1954)
"Die Hard" (1988)
"Elf" (2003)
"A Christmas Story" (1983)
"A Christmas Carol" (2009)
"National Lampoon Christmas Vacation" (1989)
"The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993)
"Santa Clause 2" (2002 - Simply because I think Elizabeth Mitchell is hot)
"Scrooge" (with Albert Finney) (1970)
"Scrooged!" (with Bill Murray) (1988)
and "Polar Express" (2004 - I really hated the animation when I first saw it but it has since grown on me over the years.)

Now that Christmas is over but not forgotten it's time to roll out the Toy Story movies 1, 2 and 3.

If you haven't had a chance to watch Die Hard for the Christmas season you may want to try it with these specially made cookies.