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Ghost (1990)
Rip Patrick Swayze, both in the movie and IRL
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I had intended to post throughout the month as I watched stuff, but holiday prep kept me busy in the lead-up and I've been busy afterward too.
December 12
They had the yearly Christmas charity raffle special of The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs on the Shudder streaming service, this year's installment being called Joe Bob's Cold, Cruel Christmas, and they had a snowy double feature of a couple movies I'd never seen before. The first movie was the 1983 Canadian horror movie Curtains from directors Richard Ciupka and Peter R. Simpson. The second movie was a 1989 movie called Iced from director Jeff Kwitny. Usually I'd go more in depth but basically I thought both were okay. I thought Curtains was serviceable and had some cool visuals, but it's not something I was too crazy for. Iced isn't good but it's not the worst of its sort of style I've ever seen, so I found it tolerable.
December 17
I decided to revisit director Henry Selick's 1993 movie The Nightmare Before Christmas for the first time since I was a child. Probably surprising considering my username, but it's just something I never really had that much interest in throughout the years since I've never been all that fond of Disney. Anywho, I found this movie to be a mixed bag, but I lean more negative than positive on the movie. The claymation style and visuals are delightful and there are a few good songs that I like. What's this? What's this? There's good points to this film? However, I found the movie overall to be half-baked and unsatisfying. The story, despite starring a skeleton, needs a bit more flesh on its bones. The romance between Jack and Sally isn't really built up in any worthwhile manner. The movie in its totality just feels anticlimactic.
December 20
I figured I'd put on the 1952 Finnish classic folk horror movie The White Reindeer. Nothing to do with Christmas other than the vague connection of featuring reindeer, the titular one being a shapeshifting vampire woman who can assume the form of a white reindeer. A bit bland for modern sensibilities, but I like it well enough.
December 21
I decided to finally watch director Frank Capra's 1946 classic It's A Wonderful Life in full for the first time. I knew the overall story beats, had seen parts of it throughout the years, and essentially knew the gist from cultural osmosis, but yeah, I'd just never put in the time to watch the whole thing in one sitting. Probably due to my Christmas prep keeping me busy, I really felt its 2 hour, 10 minute runtime and was a little annoyed by that, but that's on me since I should've checked the runtime first before putting it on. As for the movie itself, I liked it. Good message and themes for our times that more people in society would probably do well to learn if we want this world to be tolerable to live in.
December 22
I decided to watch another classic Christmas movie I never really got around to in previous years and put on director George Seaton's 1947 original Miracle on 34th Street. Good movie.
December 23
I decided to revisit the 1980 movie Christmas Evil from director Lewis Jackson.
December 24
Basically like 98% of the Christmas prep was finished and we don't really do anything special for Christmas Eve in my family, so I had a bit more time.
I decided to check out a movie set on Christmas Eve itself: the 2007 movie P2 from director Franck Khalfoun. I'd never seen or even heard of it before this but found it while looking for new things to watch. It's not really a feel-good Christmas movie considering the subject matter, but I found it to be an entertaining movie with a satisfying payoff.
Followed up with a movie I watched for the first time last year that I enjoyed: the original 1984 movie Silent Night, Deadly Night from director Charles E. Sellier Jr.
Before bed, as I was wrapping presents, I threw on the 1951 movie Scrooge from director Brian Desmond Hurst. I knew I wanted to watch some form of A Christmas Carol and this adaptation seemed well-regarded. I liked it.
December 25
Had some time in the morning before anything was going on with the family, so started with my now yearly viewing of director Satoshi Kon's 2003 classic Tokyo Godfathers.
After all the family celebrations were over and it was late, I put on the original 1974 Black Christmas from director Bob Clark since it's also a yearly Christmas movie for me.
December 28
With Christmas now behind us but still in that nice little span of days where it still feels nice, relaxing and Christmasy, I decided to finally watch that cult-classic Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 from director Lee Harry. Probably most well-known for the line "Garbage Day!" that's a bit of a meme. As the first 40 minutes are largely a recap of the greatest hits and general overview of the events of the first movie which eventually ties in to how our main character is currently being interviewed in a psychiatric hospital, some say that this movie sort of makes the original movie unnecessary to watch. I'm not sure how I feel on that matter yet, I might still watch both in future years. Only time will tell.
In any case, once the recap is over and we get to the original content of this movie, this is good, dumb fun. It's very goofy. Lead actor Eric Freeman's performance is really entertaining and there are silly and memorable quotes and kills.
December 12
They had the yearly Christmas charity raffle special of The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs on the Shudder streaming service, this year's installment being called Joe Bob's Cold, Cruel Christmas, and they had a snowy double feature of a couple movies I'd never seen before. The first movie was the 1983 Canadian horror movie Curtains from directors Richard Ciupka and Peter R. Simpson. The second movie was a 1989 movie called Iced from director Jeff Kwitny. Usually I'd go more in depth but basically I thought both were okay. I thought Curtains was serviceable and had some cool visuals, but it's not something I was too crazy for. Iced isn't good but it's not the worst of its sort of style I've ever seen, so I found it tolerable.
December 17
I decided to revisit director Henry Selick's 1993 movie The Nightmare Before Christmas for the first time since I was a child. Probably surprising considering my username, but it's just something I never really had that much interest in throughout the years since I've never been all that fond of Disney. Anywho, I found this movie to be a mixed bag, but I lean more negative than positive on the movie. The claymation style and visuals are delightful and there are a few good songs that I like. What's this? What's this? There's good points to this film? However, I found the movie overall to be half-baked and unsatisfying. The story, despite starring a skeleton, needs a bit more flesh on its bones. The romance between Jack and Sally isn't really built up in any worthwhile manner. The movie in its totality just feels anticlimactic.
December 20
I figured I'd put on the 1952 Finnish classic folk horror movie The White Reindeer. Nothing to do with Christmas other than the vague connection of featuring reindeer, the titular one being a shapeshifting vampire woman who can assume the form of a white reindeer. A bit bland for modern sensibilities, but I like it well enough.
December 21
I decided to finally watch director Frank Capra's 1946 classic It's A Wonderful Life in full for the first time. I knew the overall story beats, had seen parts of it throughout the years, and essentially knew the gist from cultural osmosis, but yeah, I'd just never put in the time to watch the whole thing in one sitting. Probably due to my Christmas prep keeping me busy, I really felt its 2 hour, 10 minute runtime and was a little annoyed by that, but that's on me since I should've checked the runtime first before putting it on. As for the movie itself, I liked it. Good message and themes for our times that more people in society would probably do well to learn if we want this world to be tolerable to live in.
December 22
I decided to watch another classic Christmas movie I never really got around to in previous years and put on director George Seaton's 1947 original Miracle on 34th Street. Good movie.
December 23
I decided to revisit the 1980 movie Christmas Evil from director Lewis Jackson.
December 24
Basically like 98% of the Christmas prep was finished and we don't really do anything special for Christmas Eve in my family, so I had a bit more time.
I decided to check out a movie set on Christmas Eve itself: the 2007 movie P2 from director Franck Khalfoun. I'd never seen or even heard of it before this but found it while looking for new things to watch. It's not really a feel-good Christmas movie considering the subject matter, but I found it to be an entertaining movie with a satisfying payoff.
Followed up with a movie I watched for the first time last year that I enjoyed: the original 1984 movie Silent Night, Deadly Night from director Charles E. Sellier Jr.
Before bed, as I was wrapping presents, I threw on the 1951 movie Scrooge from director Brian Desmond Hurst. I knew I wanted to watch some form of A Christmas Carol and this adaptation seemed well-regarded. I liked it.
December 25
Had some time in the morning before anything was going on with the family, so started with my now yearly viewing of director Satoshi Kon's 2003 classic Tokyo Godfathers.
After all the family celebrations were over and it was late, I put on the original 1974 Black Christmas from director Bob Clark since it's also a yearly Christmas movie for me.
December 28
With Christmas now behind us but still in that nice little span of days where it still feels nice, relaxing and Christmasy, I decided to finally watch that cult-classic Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 from director Lee Harry. Probably most well-known for the line "Garbage Day!" that's a bit of a meme. As the first 40 minutes are largely a recap of the greatest hits and general overview of the events of the first movie which eventually ties in to how our main character is currently being interviewed in a psychiatric hospital, some say that this movie sort of makes the original movie unnecessary to watch. I'm not sure how I feel on that matter yet, I might still watch both in future years. Only time will tell.
In any case, once the recap is over and we get to the original content of this movie, this is good, dumb fun. It's very goofy. Lead actor Eric Freeman's performance is really entertaining and there are silly and memorable quotes and kills.
LittleMissPanda
💜 wooly wonderful 💗
King Kong (2005)
It's a good movie, but all it does is make me feel bad for monke
he just wanted to have fun.
It's a good movie, but all it does is make me feel bad for monke
he just wanted to have fun.
!Redd-Alert!
Genuine Work of Art
I love that movie, monke so misunderstood. Although that scene with the giant bugs always gets to me. Cool but grossKing Kong (2005)
It's a good movie, but all it does is make me feel bad for monke
lasagne_of_death
intangible.
Been on a 2010s animated movie binge for the past month lol, so here's a few I can remember offhand
Tangled. Not really my thing as I'm not a big fan of musicals (at all) but if I block out all the spontaneous singing then it's a pretty funny movie
Rise of the Guardians. This has always been a favourite, but watching it again recently was nice to refresh why I liked it
Croods. Lol I love this movie
Kung Fu Panda. Watched the three movies over Christmas again with my siblings and the script is so funny, I forgot why I loved the movies so much until I saw it this year (and subsequently watched them several times)
Shrek. No words needed, literally perfection
Tangled. Not really my thing as I'm not a big fan of musicals (at all) but if I block out all the spontaneous singing then it's a pretty funny movie
Rise of the Guardians. This has always been a favourite, but watching it again recently was nice to refresh why I liked it
Croods. Lol I love this movie
Kung Fu Panda. Watched the three movies over Christmas again with my siblings and the script is so funny, I forgot why I loved the movies so much until I saw it this year (and subsequently watched them several times)
Shrek. No words needed, literally perfection
falloutlevi
certified hood classic
in theater: beetlejuice 2
at home: the red one
at home: the red one
lasagne_of_death
intangible.
Stargate (1994). It's such a good movie, definitely one of my favourites, and the series is so good, too. But it was actually crazy to notice the changes they made to canon in the series Stargate SG-1! The weirdest difference would be that they changed the name of Jack's dead son from Tyler O'Neil in the movie to Charlie O'Neill. They literally make a point of Jack's surname having two Ls in the series, but in the original movie there's only one. The most glaring difference is that the bad guy's species completely changes. In the movie it's some weird alien thing that possesses people, but in the series it's snakes. And the Jaffa are completely different too. Still absolutely love the series despite all of this (I've watched the ten seasons 3/4 times in the past three years), but it's kind of shocking to see everything they changed - some of it redundantly (because seriously, why do you need to change the dead kid's name?)
Tbf though, Michael Shanks actually has a pretty good likeness to James Spader, so he was a good choice to cast in the series. I just really don't like his character; he's so horrible in SG-1! He was a really likeable and enjoyable character in the movie, but in the series he's so ass to everyone.
It was really weird to see Lucius Lavin from Stargate Atlantis actually had a role (albeit small and as a completely different character) in the og movie! Honestly that was so peak to discover
Tbf though, Michael Shanks actually has a pretty good likeness to James Spader, so he was a good choice to cast in the series. I just really don't like his character; he's so horrible in SG-1! He was a really likeable and enjoyable character in the movie, but in the series he's so ass to everyone.
It was really weird to see Lucius Lavin from Stargate Atlantis actually had a role (albeit small and as a completely different character) in the og movie! Honestly that was so peak to discover
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