The Christmas Holidays Movies Thread
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A thread to keep us all up to date with movies for the christmas holidays on free to air channels. By that i mean terrestrial and the freeview /basic sky channels not sky movies.
So many movies on, you end up missing stuff. A daily thread could be useful. Dont have to be xmas themed just good movies or funny movies.
Tonight:
10pm Rocky ITV4
10pm Bad Santa 2 5STAR Channel
11pm Daddys Home Channel Four -
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Useful thread for those of us that will end up at family places with archaic media setups.
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I don't think I've seen a terrestrial channel for over ten years. Even my mother doesn't have them anymore.
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Used to love getting the Xmas edition of Radio Times when I was a kid. Would read through and plan everything I was going to watch over the break.
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I remember watching a great movie in Xmas 98 on BBC2 or something. I didn’t know what it was called cos I caught it a few minutes in. I went out and bought a Radio times to check what it was.
Farewell My Concubine. What a film.
That was the same year that they had Godfather and Seven Samurai and To Live/Ikiru and other great films on TV. Best year.I am a FREE. I am not MAN. A NUMBER. -
weadre wrote:Used to love getting the Xmas edition of Radio Times when I was a kid. Would read through and plan everything I was going to watch over the break.
I still get that and read it and then miss everything.
BBC2 usually has something splendid hidden away you wouldn't think of.Holding the wrong end of the stick since 2009. -
No chance of watching anything, we’ll be around family and neither mine nor my wife’s family ever shut the fuck up long enough to even make it through an advertNot everything is The Best or Shit. Theres many levels between that, lets just enjoy stuff.
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DIE HARD IS NOT A CHRISTMAS MOVIE.Come with g if you want to live... -
Neither is Rocky.
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g.man wrote:DIE HARD IS NOT A CHRISTMAS MOVIE.
Whoa there G. Now let’s just have a conversation.
It has Christmas music
A Christmas tree
Christmas party
Christmas lights
Christmas machine gun.
Explain how it’s NOT a Christmas movie!
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g.man wrote:DIE HARD IS NOT A CHRISTMAS MOVIE.
Yup. I’m pretty sure I argued that it was when I was in my twenties, because it’s exactly the kind of thing a twenty-something internet nerd would argue. Being set at Christmas time doesn’t make something a Christmas movie. -
Wish I was a twenty something nerd.
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b0r1s wrote:Christmas machine gun.
Clearly, case closed right there.
I'm facing the quite lovely prospect of near 2 weeks off for the first time since I left primary school. I'm actually going to get a telly guide and plan a few movies. I have Netflix and prime etc. But there is something nice about the TV station sort of doing the choosing for me. Also, as said, there are some gems on that I never would deliberately go looking for. I fondly remember one year rte 2 had a noir season. All stuff I never would have gone for but I enjoyed all of it.
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It's funny how it's always Die Hard that comes up when Gremlins, Batman Returns, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Lethal Weapon among others are just as much xmas movies or not depending on your viewpoint.
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Other movies set at xmas but it are easily forgotten.
LA Confidential, Hook, Eyes Wide Shut. -
They’re not. Nor is Iron Man 3.
Although I may undermine my own argument when I try to argue that Stardust is... -
b0r1s wrote:g.man wrote:DIE HARD IS NOT A CHRISTMAS MOVIE.
Whoa there G. Now let’s just have a conversation.
It has Christmas music
A Christmas tree
Christmas party
Christmas lights
Christmas machine gun.
Explain how it’s NOT a Christmas movie!
I saw it in my local cinema recently (as part of their three film Christmas line-up consisting of Die Hard, Elf and The Nightmare Before Christmas). I'd never clocked Holly's exclamation of "Jesus!" as a bashed up John hobbles out to save her at the end. -
The easiest distinction is, is it a film about Christmas or is it just set at Christmas?
About Christmas: Love Actually, Elf, Santa Claus The Movie, National Lampoons Christmas Vacation etc.
Set at Christmas: Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Long Kiss Goodnight etc.
Hard to define films will still exist - Its a wonderful life isn't really about Christmas is it? Gremlins is also the anti-wonderful life but its really just set at Christmas.SFV - reddave360 -
Could argue Love Actually is just set at Xmas no?
My Xmas triple bill would probably be Home Alone, Jingle All The Way and Gremlins. -
Planes, Trains and Automobiles is the best Christmas movie that is not about Christmas or set at Christmas."Given how long it's taken for me to reconcile my nature, I can't figure I'd forgo it on your account."
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That ending is my favourite feel good/feel sad moment in any film. Agree with Home Alone for sure. John Hughes knew how to walk the line between emotion and sentimentality."Given how long it's taken for me to reconcile my nature, I can't figure I'd forgo it on your account."
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Maybe it's just a Christmas movie if you like watching it at Christmas.
I mean the 'only set at Christmas' can take out a lot of films if you go far enough. Home alone is about bad parenting and repelling burglars, just set at Christmas...jingle all the way is about rampant commercialism and the pressure it puts on parents set at Christmas..."Like i said, context is missing."
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Groundhog day is the best movie that should have been a Christmas movie but isn't. -
I’d argue that Home Alone has enough in it about the Christmas spirit to definitely justify it as a Christmas film. Likewise, while It’s A Wonderful Life flashes back to events that take place at various times of year, the seat of the story is in Christmas and is also very much about goodwill to all men.
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Yeah I'd definitely say Home Alone is a Christmas movie for the reasons Andy states above and the fact that it's about family and the emphasis on wishing and getting what you want and discovering it's not what you need. Planes, Trains and Automobiles is definitely a Christmas movie in spirit - Thanksgiving is so similar that it's not a big deal that it's not set on Christmas. And yep, yep on Groundhog Day. Almost a retelling of A Christmas Carol in a way!"Given how long it's taken for me to reconcile my nature, I can't figure I'd forgo it on your account."
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Love actually is a bit on the tricky side I admit. Maybe that's one just set at Christmas.
RamSteelwood wrote:Maybe it's just a Christmas movie if you like watching it at Christmas.
Overall, that's probably the best thing. There's a Christmas feel to me for many of what we're probably summer movies - early bond, Indy, back to the future. There is nothing Christmas about them but watching them takes me back... .
*** eyes gaze upward and to the back ***
It was Christmas Eve babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me, won't see another one
And then he sang a song
The Rare Old Mountain Dew
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My Christmas films are
Elf
Scrooge (Alistair Sim version)
Miracle on 34th street
Fanny & Alexander (even though the first 90mins is the only Christmas bit)
The Snowman is also required viewing.
Trading Places is another one set at Christmas - is anything but a Christmas film.Holding the wrong end of the stick since 2009.
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