The All-Encompassing 2024 Holiday Thread

[Ninjablade]

@DarthSkywalker

 

[Lily Adler]

Where's Home Alone: Kevin Leaves His Kid!

 

[Kane52630]

My collection has arrived. Can't wait to finally check these out next week.

Only thing that pissed me off was finding out the theatrical cut for the first movie is apparently in 4K and the unrated cut is just the blu-ray.

 

[Ninjablade]

Last few nights:

NB's 25 Days of Christmas
1. The Princess Switch
2. The Princess Switch: Switched Again
3. The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star
4. Hot Frosty
5. Christmas Island
6. The Santa Clause
7. The Santa Clause 2
8. Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas
9. The Knight Before Christmas
10. Operation Christmas Drop
11. Haul Out the Holly
12. Christmas Inheritance
13. A California Christmas
14. Holiday Engagement

15. Christmas with a Kiss

She chose the wrong guy. You can fix a man that doesn't want kids. You can't ever fix a writer.

16. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

I love this movie so much. It's hella fun and over the top ridiculous in such an appealing way for me. People that don't like this film are boring

17. Home Alone

Going to be totally honest, as the years go by I find myself not enjoying this one as much as I used to. It's still really good and a Christmas required watch as a classic. I'm just not as charmed by it despite the fun performances. I also always forget John Candy is in this.

 

[Deck Rickard]

My collection has arrived. Can't wait to finally check these out next week.

Only thing that pissed me off was finding out the theatrical cut for the first movie is apparently in 4K and the unrated cut is just the blu-ray.

They made FIVE of those movies? I only ever saw the Garbage Day one but that sequence is one of the greatest moments in cinema history.

 

[Kane52630]

They actually made 6 but the last one came out recently so i'm not even gonna bother with it.

 

[Kane52630]

just your annual fyi that The Green Knight is a Christmas movie.

 

[DarkKnight88]

 

[Lily Adler]

Watching Queen Latifah's Last Holiday. This plot got me in the feels.

 

[Lily Adler]

@Sawyer @Primal Slayer @ComicChick @flickchick85

 

[Sawyer]

Everytime someone voices their disdain for Chevy Chase, it adds years to Dan Harmon’s life.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Without Chevy, we wouldn’t have Home Alone which was the consolation prize John Hughes wrote for Columbus cause he felt bad for what happened on Christmas Vacation.

So… we are in the correct timeline.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Hey, anyone remember the forgotten Nic Cage classic, Trapped in Paradise? That was a Christmas movie I remember liking as a kid. No idea if it’s aged well though.

 

[Drizzle]

Everytime someone voices their disdain for Chevy Chase, it adds years to Dan Harmon’s life.

Columbus really won in this because even though Christmas Vacation is still revered as a holiday classic, Home Alone was a juggernaut and he probably wouldn't have later landed huge hits like Mrs. Doubtfire and Harry Potter had he not directed that.\

Hey, anyone remember the forgotten Nic Cage classic, Trapped in Paradise? That was a Christmas movie I remember liking as a kid. No idea if it’s aged well though.

I haven't thought about this movie in forever but all I can remember was that it was one of those that was always on HBO.

 

[Kane52630]

Alright, it's finally go time.

 

[Kane52630]

Silent Night, Deadly Night

The movie is pretty mean-spirited, dark, and disturbing, but I lowkey could have watched that goofy-ass '80s toy store montage for 90 minutes along with young Billy decking tf out of Santa.

It's oddly what I expected this movie to be and not how I expected it to go in certain places. It's a pretty dark slasher with some direct nods to Texas Chainsaw, Friday the 13th, Halloween, and Black Christmas that deals with childhood trauma more head-on than your usual slashers but it also has moments of being really campy and silly. I thought the kid version and grown-up version of Billy were great and I thought the middle section of the movie was where it works the best. There are some great horror shots in this that fits in with the festive vibe and you do see where later movies like Terrifier 3 get their inspiration from. I do think the movie has some weird pacing issues where some scenes do go on for too long but it didn't really bother me as much. Overall, not perfect but definitely a really solid Christmas slasher.
3.5/5

 

[Kane52630]

Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2

The assclown at the back of the theater is basically CinemaSins and all forms of annoying online film bros, I'm glad he got his.

What a movie. The first 30 MINUTES might be the most egregious attempt at saving the movie's budget by recapping the first movie almost entirely and I've seen all the Friday the 13th films. What you really have is a movie that is roughly an hour long and is less than half of the budget of the original and it all relies heavily on Eric Freeman's gonzo "so bad it's good" performance as Ricky, the younger brother from the first one now grown up. When the movie does finish its recap of the first, it starts another recap of stuff we haven't seen before told by Ricky and that's when the movie does get so insane and wild. All of his line deliveries were something out of Troll 2 and all the scenarios he gets himself into are so bizarre and so hilariously awful that it's so entertaining to watch. The entire "Garbage Day" sequence lives up to the legend now that I saw it in context. It's a shame that it took forever to get to the second half of the film because this would have been an easy 5/5.
3.5/5

 

[Kane52630]

I just figured out what caused the confusion between Leatherface and Jason Voorhees for a lot of normies out there.

 

[Lily Adler]

I just figured out what caused the confusion between Leatherface and Jason Voorhees for a lot of normies out there.

I do wonder how the neighbors have been living next to the Griswolds and are now just experiencing their hijinks.

 

[Lily Adler]

Was the Black Christmas remake any good?

 

[Kane52630]

Was the Black Christmas remake any good?

Which one?

 

[Lily Adler]

Which one?

I guess both the 2006 one and 2019 one

 

[Kane52630]

I guess both the 2006 one and 2019 one

I don't think I ever finished the 06 one but the 2019 remake was an interesting subversive take that did not work.

You can tell it was made in reaction to the #MeToo movement but they neutered it in the final edit.

 

[Sawyer]

Never bothered with either new Black Christmas.

I just love the original too damn much. Bob Clark’s superior Christmas movie, as far as I’m concerned. Yeah, I said it.

 

[blueharvest]